Mike Tyson On Preparing To Fight Floyd Mayweather & His Plan To Save The Sport Of Boxing

What's up guys, Mr. Exact here. Welcome back to episode 16 of Double Coverage. Today I joined

by the Manor Needs No Introduction, the youngest heavyweight champion, the most ferocious

to ever do it. Mr. Iron Mike Tyson.

Why didn't I'm an introduction? I wasn't prepared for it. It comes out your facts.

Doing great. It's a big switch. We're here at the first annual Mike Tyson Invitational

in Las Vegas. How did this come together?

I went to listen. This is the truth. I never said this is the truth. I went through it

to Stilbs, Jim, and Vegas. For some reason I had the gold age to ask me to come see

you. I don't know why I was there, but I was there. I saw the enthusiasm of the children

and how I went through there. Then I watched some of them, but I played it as part of

some of the local people. They didn't know what they were doing. They started, and some

of them were good fighters. I was saying, why? These guys have a lot of determination

and will. I said, the world has to see this. This is where I come from. I come from a

police listen. I come from Brownville, Brooklyn. It's the kind of place where you open up

your fridge and you see an apple. One of those places, you know, it's just the worst place

you could possibly think of for a kid. When I went upstate New York from the detention

center, I got in trouble, and I started getting involved with boxing. Then we used to go

from upstate New York, which is 150 miles to New York City, the Bronx. We were boxing

with other kids. Then we would go to Rhode Island and boxing kids did. They'd go on the

Boston Box Kids did. We were constantly boxing, constantly busy after school, the weekends

would go boxing and everything. The guys would have, you go to a tournament. I got to have

200 fights. I got to have 75 fights. Now you go to a tournament. You guys have no fights.

You guys are not fighting in a tournament. They're not one in 12 feet of medals. They're just

not doing good. I think they'd be trying to even throw boxing out of the Olympics, they're

trying to kick it out. To do that is just to send to the art of boxing, to the history of

boxing, just to send. If they're kicking it out to Olympics, how bad can we get? We can't

get any worse. Boxing needs some money. For me coming up with this idea, and I'm not

trying to run amateur boxing. I'm an idiot. That's the last thing I want to do is run amateur

boxing. If anybody thinks American boxing, I want to run amateur boxing. No, I don't want

to do that. I just want kids to come back and be better asses and make a better boxing

establishment in America. That's all I want to do. I don't want money. This is just what

we deserve. Like the English people say, this is America's birthright boxing. The reason

that we're not in the Olympics and we're not competing as well, it's just pathetic. You

think about it from a boxing person. I'm a boxing man. To anybody to understand what a

boxing man in understands what I'm talking about, understands my vernacular and everything.

Absolutely. You want to see constant fighting. We want to be like, hey, this week we're going

to the box. We want to know we're going to a boxing match for the kid this Saturday, this

Monday. I mean, I stay at home doing nothing or watching TV or going to the movie or watching

young kids and proving stuff to make them feel better and that should make us happy.

I share with you my grandfather and great grandfather are both from Brownsville.

And when I spoke to fighters like Zap, Judy and Shannon Briggs, they tell me that

growing up in Brownsville, the fights were tougher than any other pro fights because there was

no rules and no weight classes. And then again, the fights not over. They see you again,

we fighting again. It's not over because you had just four lessons. Hey, let's watch this piece

with friends. If they have your fighting and they have to be stopped by somebody else,

I'll see you tomorrow morning. If fighting again, somebody unconsciously bow down.

You know, you've got, you know, the box fighting is weird at Brownsville. Sometimes people get,

you know, sometimes on the KG man, some of my friends with 12, we're 11 years old. We go on

from this deal to Brownsville. He started being like a bunch of little, I don't know,

his Wolverines. And sometimes we might get, when somebody get hit by a car,

when my friends are trying to rob this guy with it, the guy has my friends still trying to

rob him and the guy, and the guy didn't want to shine. We have to say, hey, the guy gave him the money.

The guy gave him money. He still wanted to detect the, and well, I don't even talk about

the stuff like that. You see stuff like that. I don't want, oh, I don't want my kids to see that.

No, no, definitely not. So happy to be here. I'm going to be there Saturday night to tune in,

front row, watch the amateur boxing. And I'm excited that we can bring some enthusiasm back

to amateur boxing. When they see how hard these kids fight for these medals and trophies, they're

going to mad be crying. They're going to have so much to do the, do the active moments just

rooting for the kids and seeing the kids. Especially when they see the kids are sophisticated

boxers and they're educated in IQ and boxing. They're going to be so impressed. I'm going to listen.

This is, um, sometimes, um, I have to realize this right here. Let me know that I was an

officer because at first, when I first started and other, this other place, I guess the lead is open

up a boxing man that somebody else was saying they had a best and we should have, we can,

I got met, but it's not about me. I thought it was about me. I want to question my, my,

I mean, no, it's not about me. It's about us, how we working together, helping the kids.

Absolutely. You know, just helping somebody else, don't have nothing to do with me. Well,

man, what a boxer does. You know, we can do it together. Together, we can run it. You know what I mean?

Help the kids. 100, but that's what it's all about. Please. That's what you're about.

Absolutely. I believe 100%. I believe.

There's a big difference between you as a young professional and the guys coming up today.

In 1985, you fought 15 times. Today, guys fight maybe twice a year.

Do you think that helped you coming up in the professional ranks fighting that often?

Listen, all right. For 15 fights one year, then the next year, I was championed 20 years old.

You know, the more you do it, the better you are. You do it, the better you are. That's why when I

always go to parties, put a weekend kit, they fight all day every day. They fight their brothers

and sisters and they're constantly fighting, but that's experienced. Then that kicking their brother

last, they're fighting for real though. And that's experienced. They get a more experienced.

Now they're learning this one. I don't care who's in that room. My brother, my mother,

they ain't by day going down. Those become the better fighters. You know, there's all about doing

and developing discipline. I'm not going to go robbing today. I'm going to run six miles

of six blocks, something like that. You know, it gives you pride and dignity. When I first started

boxing, I came around. I had too much pride to go out there and work. But once I became, once I

started winning and fighting, being in the amateurs and being proud of people knew my name,

I had too much pride to steal. Absolutely. That's crazy. That is crazy. I would never want to

steal. I have too much pride, even though I think I'm some bad, but I have too much pride to steal.

Watch out, because that's what boxing gave me, gave me day because people knew my name now. I don't

want to disappoint them and let them down. I'm a little kid now. I made my mistake, but that's a

little kid. I thought about that. I was somebody after being coming from nothing and somebody.

An identity? Exactly. Yeah. I was going to go to all the amateur countries. The countries in the

Russians know your name. You know what I mean? The Japanese know your name. You fight

all the country, the people know your name. You get the amateurs. And they know you want better than

the other professionals, people than other countries. They're not big and professional boxing.

They're going to get, they're going to get the experience of a lifetime because they're going to go

all over the world. Fight. Roberto Rana called me because you heard about what I was doing. And he

said, Mike, I have a team that you like to box my team. I said, I, I said, I haven't developed a

team yet. But once I did, you'll be the first one. So Panama could be the first Mike Tyson

invitation competition. Once I developed a team, it's enough to fight. Yes. I love it. I love it.

When I go back and watch you as a young man, a lot of people talk about the first,

Rana causa, ferocious finishes. But what impresses me most is a fight historian. Someone

that goes back and watches film is your performances against the rough experience larger guys like

James Quick Tillis, Mitch blood green, Jose Nino, Robalta, your ability to close distance, your speed,

your angles to really take away their advantages and get inside at such a young age. How did it feel

being an 18 year old, 214 pound guy battling giants like that? Listen, have nothing to do with

side fight. Fighting has to do with spirit. Nothing to do with side. Nothing to do with it.

That's the guy who's too big and he has overpowered you. But for the determination of will,

side really has very little to do with it when it comes to fighting. You know, I never looked at

that as a disadvantage. I always look at that as a, all my disadvantages were in my advantage.

I was small. I was lower. It couldn't hit me. And I was fast. And when I hit like a little

hard one, I hit them there kind of dizzy and I could take advantage of them. Yeah, I'd rather fight

the bigger guys, the little guys than the fast guys. Yeah, fast guys harder to catch.

You're set to fight a pretty fast guy next month in the Congo again. That's going to be cool.

I'm just looking forward to that. That's going to be something that the crowd will be enjoying that

thing. And how cool is it? It's going to be the same place as the Rumble and the Jungle. That's

history. Listen, I went over the, it would be so difficult for me to explain them through the

ass women. It was just something, man. It was, it was something I never, oh, I can't say I had

another experience there, but it was something wonderful to experience. Absolutely. And if being the

place where Ali was and in the history there, it's really special. It absolutely makes it special.

That's the only thing that they really know is Ali and Noel's. I have, I looked at my,

what's that stuff they do again? For your, have it to for your,

you take what stuff they do? 21 and me, 33 and you know, the ancestry. Yeah, my ancestry is in the

Congo. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah, that's great. So my ancestors don't watch me kick some mad. All right,

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The hands all good. When you're training for a fight, those things happen.

All the time. When you walked into the fight with Jake Paul, you had had some pretty serious

health issues, but you still made the wall. I make the wall.

Yeah, absolutely. Today, guys, pull out whatever you still got out there 58 years old and went

against a young guy. I make that like the wall. The wall is up there. Yeah. Something that really,

really bothered me about kind of the reactions after the fight is the fans or fighters

when sinewate at a champion in a warrior like you would in any way fix a fight or not give

you best performance. I want to fix a fight. Well, I don't want to do that. It doesn't make any

sense to me. I look at your legacy. I'm not going to make more money. I'm not going to make

any more money. Then I'm going to pay me when I'm getting the total fight, right? No.

You're not going to give me when I'm getting the total fight. I'm going to think about it.

So give me one man off me left the one I'm getting. What's the idiot? They can't compete. That's not

them. I'm not going to say anything. I've just training for this fight against Floyd Feele. I mean,

compared to some of your past ones and throughout your career. Well, it's all about my type of

limitation right now, Floyd, you know? Yeah. This is what it's about. The kids. Yeah, giving back.

Is you see yourself in them? This is what this is the future. I'm in the past. Yeah.

Well, absolutely. And I'm so excited to be here. And it was a shot in the arm that we all

needed, especially the Olympics news. I agree. I'm just can you imagine that? No.

Oh, is that a sport with that legacy in that history? Everybody, even every hotel you open

up from our amateur club for a week or prepare the ballad battle the world. Yeah. Not just to see

every club he hotels you have one. You know, we have fighters. It's supposed to be the strongest

people in the world. That's what that's what boxing everywhere in champion. Even in UFC,

that's what it stands for. The best in the world. And we have nothing to prove it.

Absolutely. Just reputation. Speaking of the UFC, Dana White and Nick Conn,

they're entering the world of boxing. It turned up Zufa boxing. You held the WBA, the WBC,

the IBS belt and the ring belt as well. It seems like some of the procedures coming back to

the ring belt. They're going to choose another belt in the boxing, the Zufa boxing belt.

What are your thoughts on that? Do you think boxing is another belt? Listen, man, I'm talking about

amateur boxing right now. Stop talking about these other outfits as people. They're not involved

in our situation, okay? I've talked about, tell me, actually, some of my amateurs to help these

kids and I'll answer that question. I don't know nothing about these guys, but they're doing

with their life. It's about children right now. Bigger than nothing. Bigger than those clowns.

Bigger than me. I'm a bow down to them over this. I'm going to give you a compliment about them

over this film. Please ask me questions about these kids. Yeah, absolutely. We're excited to see

this weekend and you want to stand down. Listen, I want to see a little Sean Haney fight. He's

then ready to fight. Ryan got to his cousin. How great is that? The rivalry goes into

the amateurs and their family and everything. Absolutely. Anyway, it's going to see Devin Haney.

There's a real story about the fight again. Yeah, that's what there's about me. Not about who

this guy is. Yeah. And it's the next generation. Yeah, this children his life. This is about

our future. And extend that and have the young people fight and then they'll come up and

that's all our kids are watching. This is all our grandkids and everyone. This is all my

thing with this. This is one of my babies. I want to accomplish. Yeah, then have those kids that

have no money. They open their fridge. They see an apple. They have no money. They come here to

eat in the hotel. They can't look. You never experience living in a hotel or anything.

You imagine they want them to make them want to improve themselves and come better and

better and better. That's all this stuff. That's what the whole situation is. We want to make

them feel better. Boxing is not all about becoming a world champion. Boxing is about what you

learned in boxing. You become a world champion in life. Not necessarily in the real

belt. This is about making your champion in life. Anyway, it's going to be champion in the world.

Particularly champion in life. You know, and that's what this boxing prepared them for.

We spoke out the woman as well. How important is it to help these young women in amateur boxing and

help them help grow them as well? Well, Chris the Shield is the baddest monster on the planet.

She's a good person to look up to. Yeah. Make everyone respect women boxing. I know there's

other good fighters out there. I don't know. I respect them too, but they're not Chris the Shield.

That's the real thing. And they, and listen, I'm going to say all those other women boxers out there,

they can, they contribute to. I'm not, you know, I'm not saying they're bombed, they ain't worth

anything. I respect them. And I look up to them as just as much as the character shield is just

the goat, the wolf right now, whatever she calls herself. And I give her that respect.

Oh, she's done an all-way class. Yes. She's helping women boxing women boxes. She

want to kick her ass, but still respect her for that. Hopefully one of these, you know, young

ladies fighting can be the next course of shield. They will. Yeah, it'd be better one day. Yeah,

it's like they're surpassing me one day. And that's what I'm, and I want to be a part of that.

I want to be part of the guy that's my type of who look what I did. I want to be, I want to be

part of helping him be that person. I want to be part of that. Because once I'm part of that,

then that's what makes me part of him. Absolutely. Yeah, especially if we can

revitalize boxing because it's in a bad spot. If I could inspire somebody to be from the

perspectives of the world better than me, you know, ask something I look at in my head. I put

a feather in my head. I don't look at him. He's the rest of wild. I helped him become that.

That's how I look at life. They ran and all he helped me become this guy. I am now so important.

And that that's what's fulfilling you now. Well, that's what bugs me out. I can't believe I saw

this guy and I said, I want to be like him. But I became like Tyson. Can you imagine that? I see this

I don't know why I don't want to be like him. I'll see the random slow Latino guys as pig.

I want to be like him. And I became like the moment pig. You know, I'm telling people to suck

this and do that. And by learning all that going to prison that made me the person I am now

the care about the kids that I'm working with now. You can imagine that all that stuff,

all that disgusting, negative stuff sometimes, but prison, all that's all made me this person.

And that's why I'm grateful. That's why I'm grateful. I love the prayers. I'm not so sorry for myself

but we came death. I beat all the odds. And now I'm going to give something to the world.

God willing. God is great. God is God is God is God is good even when it looks bad.

Even when he looks bad, he's good. Sean Haney versus Ryan Garcia. I mean, how great is that?

Hey, listen, that's a headline now. You know what I mean, imagine that alone. That's

that's professional stuff. Yeah. Listen, it's legacy, man. It's legacy.

And the families and everything, especially in Las Vegas, getting that type of main event in

your first invitation. That's incredible. Now listen, God is great. You know, man, you know,

I'm really close friends with the Haney's and stuff. And God is great. Yeah. That's great.

Yes, I saw Bill earlier. They're excited. And I saw Ryan and Devon talking about it too.

They're almost more excited talking about their families and they're talking about themselves.

Listen, we talk about this even me because I'm a boxer. I talk about they don't fight,

but they're different than they could pay, they pay more time more attention to their family

than we did. We were fighting too long too much to pay attention to. That's another thing.

That's why you didn't go right. I'm fighting too long to really acknowledge my family.

You know, and you go out there a little bit about literally getting poisoned by the world

and you're distancing yourself from your pants. So I can't say, you know, but I didn't know the best

fighters came to the guy with the photo. That's why I know. Guys with the most experienced

or the better fighter. Look at the person now. He got like six landed fighters. Where did he go?

What do you do with guys like that? What do you do with the many ankle? He got like a thousand

amps. What do you do with guys? I can't. But he went to fight with two M with two pro fights.

He had a thousand pro amateur fights out. So that equates to like 60 pro fights. Literally.

Though I have you, especially you're coming up in your pro career, a few fights in,

you got to fight a guy with a thousand amateur fights who lives, breeds boxing all day,

every day, the other day, unless you run into my situation when you trained by a master,

that didn't that might be different. Yeah. There's not too many of those guys out there.

No, it wasn't. I found the last one. He said he summoned me.

I was telling him, I can't believe I came in my life from Brooklyn, so bad. I really

preach it. He said, no, I summoned you. There's no going through it.

He told me that he said, I summoned you. There's no going through it. He was into that mystic, you know.

No, there's nothing greater than that. And the fulfillment he got, you know, seeing you come

through your amateur career and become the man. I love young man. I can't see it till I got older.

Imagine, imagine me, even my type now, seeing some young kids, like from one of these little kids

cousins or something, become a vicious side of the channel. Let me make hundreds of millions of

dollars and stuff. He said, I saw Mike Tyson. Let's fight and do this. I wanted to be like that.

Wow. You know, he's the kind of guy like, listen, he turns into a big guy doing commercial,

super bows, taking out with the president anytime he wants. He's doing, you know,

that's some guy that comes from SILS, comes from SCUM. You know what I mean? Open up to

free, you see a soldier, an apple, and you know what time it is. And you could go to the president,

see him anytime. You know, I mean, you're very grateful to be hanging out with the president.

You know, I mean, he's a good man. I've, you know, before he was president, he's a great man.

Now, there he is, president. He's just never changed. I just love my life.

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Price fix, it's good to be right. If there any advice you would give these amateur fighters fighting

in the mic. I think it's give them the experience I had. I don't know if there is, you know,

get out of fights, get experienced fight. In fact, you can't because this will prepare you what

you're going to do. I listen to my training custom model, right? Everything in a manual box,

you got to do row work. Custody, you're not doing row work at the way of the time.

I read you go upstairs and clean your room and room is a mess. You should clean your room

the row work as a no way. I'm in love with the romanticist of boxing, the role work, the bag work,

the training, the sit-up, all that stuff. That's the romanticist side of boxing. I love that.

I'm in love with that, so that's why I do it. That's the only reason I do it, not because

you know, because my trainer said it's bullshit. I just love boxing. I love everything about it

and the bag. I just love everything. I don't want that run. So yeah, that's that's the kind of

where I come from. So you're looking for young fighters, amateurs who have that same passion for

boxing. I'm looking for somebody. I'm looking for a nobody that wants to be somebody. That's why I'm

looking for. It's powerful. There's only greater than that. Those are the best stories and if we can

help kids, you know, get out of situations and really uplift them and give them a new identity

and change lives, that's what boxing's done for over a hundred years. I weigh 100 percent and

it's not about anybody, it's about your soul, your heart, you want to help these people.

You can not, you can hate my guts when I help these kids and help these kids.

You know, like I said, I don't have, I don't have the answer. You know, the kids, the kids

give me the answer. You know, they give me the answer. The determination they will, they give me

the answer. That's beautiful. We got, we got a war for it just still, the world still was.

And that's because we're just still, you know, he always used to buy these kids in his job.

So hard for, for them and everything, with this will of still. And that's probably going to,

I want to have with that. I love that. A little word showing. Yes. Yeah. And the honor of

doing something like that. I always look for, listen, I went out with a young box. I don't know if

there's any young boxes in the damages. We get the trophy of the year award, the trophy of the

night award. I'll stand and fight it. All the fighters, all the fighters, well, look, if you walk

by the arrogance, I'm winning that tonight. To let me know, you know, the guy's fighting right next,

I'm winning that tonight. We got to know you now. I'm winning it. I mean, I know you know, I'm

winning. Guys are coming. I'm winning it tonight. I'm winning. I'm beating them knocking everybody.

Everybody's talking about the outstanding trophy. I'm winning it. No, I'm winning it tonight.

That's why I just, I don't know. I hope they said that's what we did. You know, like sometimes

I look at the fights, right? Like we're averages, but sometimes we have chance to make a go to some

amateur fight, some international fight, to maybe go some professional fights. And we'll go like this.

We see some professional fights. Might be a little bit heavy. It's all I'm going to see. I'm going to

get ripped man. I'm going to get ripped. I'm going to be ripped. I'm going to have my clothes up.

They don't do that. No more do that. They don't see a constant. Oh, I'm going to be ripped when

I go there. I'm going to go to consider be ripped. I don't think like that. No, no, you know, you

always thought about rip working out hard. I'm ripped. Look at me. I'm ripped. I'm going to be

ripped in the rim. I'm going to look rip and scale. We're weighing it. I'm just a clown. That's

what I think about when I think about boxing. I'm going to look, you know, so to be the best

boss in the world, you have to, I don't know. They call it, you have to love yourself the most.

The best fight in the world. Love himself the most. He may not have acted in stuff, but he loves

himself the most over the greatest fighters of all time. And the other awards besides that one

that we're going to give to the kids. Well, you know, that was the main one. Yeah, that they're going

to look for it. Hopefully, they're all kind of, you know, competing to get that award and they're

arguing with each other who's going to win it. No, they don't. They're really arguing. Some of them

are not friendly. Some of them want them to never talking. They talk disrespect. I'm not

talking everybody out. I can not not get it. I love it. Yeah. I talked a lot of crap too.

That's the energy we need. Yeah, really. Determine. I think when the tennis plates come,

I think they should play the music they want. You know, I don't think you should always be the king's

a queen's English or anything. We should all play. They make for us play better. That made them

play better. She come out with them music with the fight through stuff and tennis. Yeah, your

daughter Malam. She's a great tennis player. Not the only champ in your family. Well, one day

she should be a tennis player. She has to watch me to, you know, to understand how the

champs are conducting themselves. Yeah, yeah. But she will be a champ one day. Yeah.

So you're passionate about young tennis players too, right? We want to see them be the best of them.

This is why I realized I'm 60 years old. I'm not going to be here much more. I have to get

something back for the month after you're something back. You don't think it's something bad.

You know, I think it's something bad. Something something something bad.

You teach children to be valuable, you know what I mean? They become, they become

wealthy because they're valuable, not because they're rich, you know. That's, and that's

what values. And then we have to teach them value, self-value. Once they have self-value,

they have self-independent. They don't need me anymore.

If we can give some kids some self-value, this will be great weekend. This will give them

self-value. Yeah, that's an amazing cause. This is something that they could do without anybody

helping them. You know, I only need somebody to help them from a school bully or anything.

That's something that they can have themselves if they do it over and over again.

They know the pros and the cons. That's not gonna be in that person because they take your

home life because it's very difficult for a person to understand. This is the beginning.

I learned to be independent. It's just the beginning. One day it's cool to go to be sick.

He can't come. For he might die, he can't come. But he still has to go to make that walk,

like you said. Because I go to that toilet and win that medal or that trophy.

That's what this teaches them. Discipline. And imagine how proud they're gonna be to win a trophy.

You won't forget that. Especially when they're in the Boxer World,

we're all a friend and they could gym together. They're talking so much stuff.

Oh, on social media, everything. Oh, forgot that. Look at the trophy. I'm standing in

fighting social media. Everybody else is a punk. You know, oh, I forgot about this stuff.

I'm still back in the 80s. Right now. Especially with Hany and Garcy. I mean,

they're gonna be going out of it. And the streaming. The zone has it.

From other people's stream. Oh, it's gonna be like the bigger some amateur competition since

the Olympics. Probably surpassed Olympic. Yeah, that would be great. Yeah, surpassed Olympic.

They could kick us out the Olympics, but we still have this, you know, my type of

We're all the young kids watching. Yeah. And then they'll become boxing. I think I think

I think guys like we're burdened around. We take our teams and fight all over the world. I

would take us. Anybody that would take us all over the world. They get their team to fight their

team. It's key team after team team team team. I love it. Maybe it's doing that for all the time.

This this week, we go over there. Maybe next week, we go ahead. We do it weekly.

Every two weeks, monthly, but we get it down. Let's figure it out. You know,

I mean, it's got to be a travel world. Team Tyson versus the world. Team Tyson versus

Robert Panama. We're burdened around. Team Tyson versus Russia. Team Tyson versus Scotland.

Stuff like that. And how proud of these young kids can be to represent their country.

And listen, how proud are they going to be to be able to travel and see the world at the young age?

You know, I know guys don't need travel to the world when they were in the team.

They never did it with their parents and nothing. They've had money only with their team. That's

only thing. You know, only with their team, but then it went home and it became something

that was going to be still never traveled the plane system with my kids. You know, it's just

and they've seen the world and being some of them gets married. It's just it's just changed

that. It's just changed them under seven. They see the world for a new life experiences.

This is exactly what the young kids need, especially if the Olympics are on the way out.

Now we have a way to represent their country and travel the world.

And 100% listen, if you don't want to put our kids in the Olympics, we'll fight all the kids.

We'll fight all the kids that want to. We have our little junior Olympics and we have it.

We have it. Like you say in different countries in different years. We have it in different

months, whatever. You're going to make our own terms. You just fight everybody in the world.

And everybody could be with us too. We're not looking to house nobody.

You know, if anybody wants to be USA Bosnia, they write us and be whatever we can give them.

I want everybody to be involved, but this is going to be the biggest stuff in the world.

You've got your arms open. Do you ever want to help kids?

I'm trying to take anything from them. I'm trying to kick anybody out.

We got to do this together. This is for the kid.

They have nothing to do with us. I put my ego out through Mike Python.

MIT is nothing. Nothing without everybody's help.

It's all about the greater good. So many of them can help you.

They can't do the greater good for kids. They're not living their life.

They're not doing this for children. They must be fighting for themselves.

That's just the truth. They must want to sell things.

But some distance for the kids, I don't think I know money.

I'm not afraid to come out of my pocket.

You know, if they don't want to do that stuff, they don't care about the kids.

This is for the kids. There's not about no ego and no organization.

I want no business. I don't need that business. I need this for kids.

If they don't want to support it, you can make a bigger event and work with

the zone and all these great people and streamers and social media.

And just make it bigger than it's ever been.

Covered. You know, go with it.

Anybody, I don't know with you.

Covered. That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah, God willing. All hands are on deck and we're open.

No, it all has our own deck.

Yeah, hands are on deck.

No, it's amazing. I'm proud to be here.

I can't lose. I'm proud to be here too. What you love. Thank you.

Thank you. It was an honor to interview you.

And I'm really excited to watch these fights this weekend.

Thank you. Thank you.

45 years ago, legendary trainer Cuzz Demado summoned a young kid from Brownsville,

Brooklyn. Previously, Cuzz had trained Floyd Patterson to be the youngest

heavyweight champion in the history of the sport.

At that time, after this, he taught, trained, and willed Mike Tyson to be the youngest

heavyweight champion in the history of the sport when in 1986 he defeated Trevor Burbank.

Two years later, Tyson would defeat Michael Spenck,

staking his claim to be the undisputed champ.

Now it's 2026 and we're here at the inaugural Mike Tyson Invitational.

And to me, this is Mike's greatest achievement,

embodying the spirit of his legendary trainer Cuzz Demado.

He's passing down the same gift that he had gotten as a kid.

And I know firsthand from growing up in a boxing gym,

how important it is to get into the sport of boxing.

It teaches you confidence, discipline, and respect that nothing else can replicate.

Please, if you can, support the Mike Tyson Invitational and any other amateur boxing clubs

in your area. This episode is dedicated to the legends Cuzz Demado and my first boxing trainer,

Carlos Panama Lewis. Rest some peace to two legends.

Two teams, one cup. The primetime stage is set for the TGL presented by SoFi finals,

Los Angeles Golf Club versus Tiger's Jupiter links. Keep up, it's playoffs.

Tune in Monday, March 23rd, 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN 2,

and Tuesday, March 24th, 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN and on the ESPN app.