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

What's up guys, Mrs. Exact here. Welcome back to episode 16 of Double Coverage. Today, I am joined by the man who needs no introduction, the youngest heavyweight champion, the most ferocious to ever do it, Mr. Iron Mike Tyson. Why, I didn't, I'm an introduction, I wasn't prepared for it. It comes at your facts. It's doing great. It's a big switch on. We're here at the first annual Mike Tyson Invitational in Las Vegas. How do you, how do this come together? I was just, I went to listen, this is the truth. I never said this is the truth. I went to Richard Steele, Jim and Vegas. For some reason, I had to go over there. He asked me to come see the kids. I don't know why I was there, but I was there. And I saw the enthusiasm of the children and how enthusiasm, and then I watched them. I thought, I think it's probably some local, they don't know what they're doing. They just start, and some of them were good fighters. And I was saying, why? These guys have a lot of determination and will. I said, the world has to see this. And this is where I come from. I come from a place, listen, I come from Brownville, Brooklyn. It's the kind of place we open up your fridge, ready to see an apple. One of those places, the worst place you could possibly think of for a kid. And then when I went upstate New York from the detention center that got in trouble and I started getting involved with boxing. And then we used to go from upstate New York, which is 150 miles to New York City, the Bronx, and we would box with other kids. Then we would go to Rhode Island and box with kids there, then go on. The Boston box kids there. And we would constantly box and constantly busy after school, the weekends, we would go boxing and everything. And guys, you go to the tournament, I got to have 200 fights, the other guys have 75 fights. Now you go to the tournament, the guys have no fight. These guys are not fighting in the tournament. They're not winning trophies, medals. And they just, they've been just not doing good. I think they're trying to even throw boxing out of the Olympics. They're trying to kick it out. To do that is just a sin to the to the auto boxing, to the history of boxing. It's just a sin. And if they're kicking it out of the Olympics, how bad can we get? Yeah, you can't get any work for boxing needs. So me coming up with this idea and I'm not trying to run amateur boxing. That's the problem. An idiot. That's the last thing I want to do is run amateur boxing. So if anybody thinks American about you as I want to run an amateur boxer. No, I don't want to do that. I just want kids to come back and be better athletes and make a better boxing establishment in America. That's all I want to do. I don't want to money. I don't want to. This is just what we deserve. Like, like the English people say, this is America's birthright boxing. And the reason we're not in the Olympics and we're not competing as well is just it's just pathetic really. You think about it from a from a boxing person. I'm a boxing man. Anybody that understands what a boxer man and understands what I'm talking about, understands my 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 kids this Saturday, this Sunday, this Monday. We're not staying home doing nothing or watching TV or going to the movie. Watching young kids improve themselves and making me show better. And that should make us happy. I share with you my grandfather and great grandfather, both from Brownsville and when I spoke when I speak to fighters like Zab, Jude 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're just for let's just say, let's watch this piece. My friend, if you're fighting and it has to be stopped by somebody else, I'll see you tomorrow. You're fighting again. Somebody gets somebody unconsciously bow down. Yeah, you've got to, you know, box fighting is weird at Brownsville. Sometimes people get sometimes on occasion, me and some of my friends with 12 or 11 years old would go on and steal it. Rough six. And he sounds like a bunch of little, I don't know, his Wolverine. And sometimes we might get hit by a car or my friends got trying to rob this guy with it. The guy had my friend still trying to and the guy. 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 want to take the. And well, I don't even talk about the stuff like that happened. You see stuff like that. I don't want. Oh, I don't want my kids to see that. No, no, definitely not. Yeah, 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 your boxing when they see how hard these kids fight for these medals and trophies, they're going to 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. But especially when they see the kids are sophisticated boxers and they're educated and I cube and box, they're going to be so impressed. I mean, listen, this is. Sometimes. I have to realize this right here. Let me know that I was an officer to speak because at first, when I first started and other other places, I guess, the deed is open up a box and that somebody else was saying they're the best and we should have. We can. I got mad, but it's not about me. I thought it was about me. They want to crush my mind. I mean, no, it's not about me. It's about us helping working together, helping the kids. Absolutely. You know, just helping somebody else. Don't have nothing to do with me. If you have nothing to do with me, well, I went around boxing. Do you know, we can do it together together. We can run it. You know what I mean? Help the kids. 100 percent. That's what it's all about. Please. The youth. Absolutely. I believe 100 percent. I believe there's a big difference between you as a young professional and the guys coming up today and 1985. You fought 15 times today. Guys fight maybe twice a year. Do you think that helped you coming up in the fresh mornings, fighting that often? Listen, all right. For 15 fights one year. Then the next year, I was champion 20 years ago. 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, Puerto Rican kids, they fight all day every day. They fight their brothers and sisters in the ring. They're constantly fighting, but that's experience. Then they're kicking their brother's ass. They're fighting for real, though. And that's experience. They're getting more experience. Now they're learning this one. I don't care who's in that ring. My brother, my mother, anybody, they're going down. Those become the better fighters. You know, it's all about doing it and developing discipline. I'm not going to go robbing today. I'm going to run six miles and six blocks, something like that. You know, it gives you pride and dignity. When I first started boxing, I came from Brownsville. I had too much pride to go out there and work. But once I started winning fights and being in the amateurs and being proud of people know my name, I had too much pride to steal. Absolutely. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. I would never want to steal. I have too much pride. Even though I think I'm some bad man, I have too much pride to steal. Because that's what boxing gave me. And he did because people know my name now. I don't want to disappoint them and let them down. When I'm a little kid now, I make my mistake. But that's a little kid I thought about that. I was somebody after being coming from nothing. I'm somebody. And identity. Exactly, yeah. Because when you go to all the amateur country, the countries and the Russians know your name. You know what I mean? The Japanese know your name. You fight in all the country. Any people know your name. You're the amateurs. And they know you're better than any other professionals. People in other countries, they're not big in professional boxing. They're going to get the experience of a lifetime because they're going to go all over the world. Roberto Rahn had called me because he heard about what I was doing. And he said, Mike, I have a team. Would you like to box my team? And I said, I haven't developed a team yet. But once I did, you would be the first one. So Panama would be the first Mike Tyson invitation to the competition. Once I'm a developer team. Amazing. Because there's enough to fight. 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 one knockout, so the ferocious finishes. But what impresses me most as a fight historian, someone who goes back and watches film, is your performances against the rough, experienced, larger guys like James Quick-Tillis, Mitch Blood Green, Jose Nino-Ribalta, 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, I have nothing to do with size. Fight, fighting has to do with spirit. Nothing to do with size. Nothing to do with size. Unless the guy is too big and he or something will pounce you. But for determination of will, size really has very little to do with it when it comes to fighting. I never looked at that as a disadvantage. I always look at that as all my disadvantages. When my advantage, I was small, I was lower. They couldn't hit me. And I was fast. And when I hit, I could hit a little hard. When I hit them, they're 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 are hard to catch. You're set to fight a pretty fast guy next month in the Congo against Floyd. 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, I think. And how cool is it going to be the same place as the rumble in the jungle? That's history. When I went over there, it would be so difficult for me to explain them through the ass women. It was just something, man. It was something. Well, I can't say I've never experienced that, but it was something wonderful to experience. Absolutely. And being the place where Ali was and the history there, it's really special. Well, that's what makes it special. That's the only thing that they really know, that Ali and Noel have. I looked at my, what's that stuff they do again? For your heritage, for your, what's that stuff they do? 21 and me, 33 and me. Oh, the ancestry. Yeah, my ancestry is in the Congo. Oh, wow. I'm from the Congo. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's great. So my ancestors don't watch me kick some ass. All right, you're ready to kick some ass. They're going to feel me. Download the Prize Fix app today. Use code double to get $50 in line-ups after you play your first $5 lineup. Shoot your shot on Prize Fix and get $50 instantly when you play your first $5. That's right. Prize Fix is now giving you $50 when you sign up and play your first $5 in line-ups. Prize Fix makes every dunk, every dime, and every board that much more exciting. So don't miss your chance to download America's number one app for Sports Fix. The NBA has been crazy lately. Bam out of Bioscored 83 points and broke Kobe's record. How nice would it have been to put more on his points that game? But my favorite thing about Prize Fix is the injury reboots. The player that I pick to go more or less on a certain stat gets injured in the first half and doesn't come back. I'm good. Prize Fix has the injury reboot. I've been loving it. Go set your line-ups on Prize Fix right now. Prize Fix is simple to play. Just pick more or less on two to six player projections and you can cash in. Prize Fix has everything, from tennis, to golf, to basketball, to the UFC. If you can play it, Prize Fix has it. Prize Fix now has early payouts. If your player gets off to a hot star, you can cash out those early winnings before the game even finishes. Download the Prize Fix app today. Use code double to get $50 in line-ups after you play your first $5 line-up. That's code double to get $50 in line-ups after you play your first $5 line-up. Prize Fix, it's good to be right. The hand's all good. Yeah, everything's good. Yeah, yeah. But when you're training for a fight, those things happen. All the time. Yeah. When you walked into the fight with Jake Paul, you had had some pretty serious health issues. But you still made the walk. Because you can't even make the walk. Yeah, absolutely. Today, guys, pull out whatever. You still got out there 58 years old and went against a young guy. Yeah, I like the walk. The walk is something. Yeah. Something that really, really bothered me about the reactions after the fight is the fans or fighters, when sinewate, that a champion or a warrior like you would in any way fix a fight or not give your best performance. Don't want to fix a fight. Well, I don't want to do that. It doesn't make any sense to me. Look at your legacy. I'm not going to make more money. I'm not going to make any more money. You get the check regardless. Yeah. They're not going to pay me what I'm getting to throw the fight, right? No. You're not going to give me what I'm getting to throw the fight. I'm not going to think about it. So give me one man off me left than what I'm getting. What the idiot thought it. They can't compete. That's not what I'm going to say. How does training for this fight against Floyd feel, 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, the youth, giving back. Is you see yourself in them? This is what this is the future. I'm 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. And it was can you imagine that? No. How is that? A sport with that legacy in that history. Everybody, even every hotel, you opened up some amateur clubs so we could prepare the battle battle of the world. Yeah. Not just to see every club, we hotels should have one. You know, we'll fight as we're supposed to be the strongest people in the world. That's what the that's with boxing. Every way champion, even in the U of C, 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, Nick Khan, they're entering the world of boxing. They turn up Zufa boxing. You held the WBA, the WBC, the IBF belt and the ring belt as well. It seems like some of the prestige is coming back to the ring belt. They're going to choose another belt into boxing, the Zufa boxing belt. What are your thoughts on that? Do you think boxing is another? Listen, man, I'm talking about amateur boxing right now. Stop talking about these other outfisks, people. They're not involved in our situation. OK, I'll talk about it. Tell me actually about amateur to help these kids and I answer that question. I don't know nothing about these guys, what they're doing with their life. This about children right now, bigger than us, bigger than those clowns, bigger than me. How am I going to bow down to them over this? How am I going to give you a compliment about them over this? So, please ask me questions about these kids. Yeah, absolutely. Who are you excited to see this weekend? Anyone stand out? No, listen, I want to see little Sean Haney fight. He's getting ready to fight. Ryan, I see his cousin. That's what we're doing. How big is that? Danny. The rivalry goes into amateurs and the family and everything. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, it's going to be Devon Haney. There's a real story there. We're going to fight again. Yeah, that's what it's about, but not about who this guy is. Yeah, and it's the next generation. He has his children, his life. This is about us, our future. You can extend that and have the young people fight and then they'll come out and our kids will watch it and grandkids and everyone. This is all one thing, this is one of my babies I want to accomplish. Yeah, absolutely. They don't have those kids that have no money. They open the refrigerator, they see an apple. They have no money to come here to eat in a hotel like King's. You never experienced living in a hotel or anything. If you imagine that one thing, they make them want to improve themselves and become 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 learn in boxing. You become a world champion in life. That is the way to ring with the belt. This is about making you a champion in life. Everybody's going to be champion in the world, but they're going to be champion in life. And that's what this boxing prepares them for. We spoke out to the women as well. How important is it to help these young women in amateur boxing and help grow them as well? Well, Carissa Shields the baddest monster on the planet. She's a good person to look up to. Yeah, to make everyone respect women boxing. I know there's other good fighters out there. I know and I respect them too, but they're not Carissa Shields. That's the real deal. And listen, I'm going to say all those other women boxers out there, they contribute too. I'm not saying they're bomb, they ain't worth anything. I respect them. And I look up to them as just as much. The Carissa Shields is just a 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 boxers, she'll want to kick her ass, but still a respecter for that. Hopefully one of these young ladies fighting can be the next Carissa Shields. They will. They'll be better one day. It's like they're surpass me one day. And that's why I want to be a part of that. I want to be part of the guy that said, Mike Tyson, who look what I did. 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. Right? Absolutely. And you're connecting to that forever. Yeah, for real. Especially if we can revitalize boxing because it's a bad sport. If I could inspire somebody to be from the perspective of the world better than me, something I look at in my head, I put a feather in my head. I don't look at him and he's about to, wow, I helped him become that. That's how I look at life. The ran and all he helped me become this guy. I am now. So important. And 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 and I became Mike Tyson. Can you imagine that? I see this. I don't want to want to be like him. I see the rent. So Latino guy was 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 to 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 stuff, it all made me this person. And that's why I'm grateful. I'm not grateful. I'm not depressed. I'm not so sorry for myself. But we came deaf. I beat all the odds. And now I'm going to give something to the world. God willing. God is great. God is good even when he looks bad. Even when he looks bad, he's good. Sean Haney vs. Ryan Garcia. I mean, how great is that? Hey, listen, that's the headliner. You know what I mean? Imagine that alone. That's professional stuff. Yeah. But listen, it's legacy, man. It's legacy. And the families and everything, especially in Las Vegas, getting that type of main event and your first invitation, that's incredible. And listen, God is great. You know, man, I'm really close friends with the Haney's and stuff. And God is great. Yeah, God is great. Yeah, I saw Bill earlier. They're excited. And I saw Ryan and Devin 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 making them a box man. I talk about they don't fight, but they're different than us. They could pay more attention to their families than we did. We were fighting too long too much to pay attention to our families. That's another thing that probably didn't go right. I'm fighting too long to really acknowledge my family. You know, and you're going out there a little by little, you're getting poisoned by the world and you're distancing yourself from your family. So I can't say, you know, but I know the best fighters came with the guys before the line. That's all I know. Guys with the most experience are the better fighters. Look at Pernell, he got a six-handed fight. What do you do with guys like this? What do you do with the Minyanco? He got like a thousand amateurs. What do you do with guys like that? I can't, so he went to fight with two amateurs, two pro fighters. He had a thousand amateurs fight out. So that equates to like 60 pro fights. Literally. How do you, especially you're coming up in your pro career, a few fights in, you got a fighter guy with a thousand amateurs fights, who lives, breathes boxing all day every day. Exactly. Unless you run into my situation when you're trained by a master, then that might be different. Yeah. There's not too many of those guys out there. No, they weren't. I filmed the last one. It was meant to be. He said he summoned me. I was telling him, I can't believe I came in my life and buckled him so bad. I really appreciate it. He said, no, I summoned you. There's no coincidence. He told me that you really, he's the, I summoned you. There's no coincidence. I'm fine. He was into that mystic, you know. No, there's, there's nothing greater than that. And the fulfillment he got, you know, seeing you come up and through your amateur career and become the man, the young man. I, I can't see a target older. Imagine, imagine me, even my type of, I'm seeing some young kids, they, from one of these little kids' cousins or something, become a vicious savage and let me make a hundred or so million of dollars and stuff. He said, I saw Mike Tyson and 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 commercials with superpowers, tagging up with the president anytime he wants. He's doing, you know, that's some guy that comes from sales, comes from scum. You know what I mean? Open up the fridge, right? You see a soda or an apple and you know what time it is. And you could go to the president and see him anytime. What, you know what I mean? You're very grateful to be hanging out with the president. You know what I mean? He was a good man. I've, you know, before he was president, he's a great man. Now there he is president. It's just, nothing ever changed. I just love my life. Download the Prize Fix app today. Use code double to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Shoot your shot on Prize Fix and get $50 instantly when you play your first $5. That's right. Prize Fix is now giving you $50 when you sign up and play your first $5 in lineups. Prize Fix makes every dunk, every dime and every board that much more exciting. So don't miss your chance to download America's number one app for sports picks. The NBA has been crazy lately. Bam out of bio scored 83 points and broke Kobe's record. How nice would it have been to put more on his points that game? But my favorite thing about Prize Fix is the injury reboots. The player that I pick to go more or less on a certain stat gets injured in the first app and doesn't come back. I'm good. Prize Fix has the injury reboot. I've been loving it. Go set your lineups on Prize Fix right now. Prize Fix is simple to play. Just pick more or less on two to six player projections and you can cash in. Prize Fix has everything from tennis to golf to basketball to the UFC. If you can play it, Prize Fix has it. Prize Fix now has early payouts. If your player gets off to a hot star, you can cash out those early winnings before the game even finishes. Download the Prize Fix app today. Use code double to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. That's code double to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Prize Fix, it's good to be right. Is there any advice you would give these amateur fighters fighting the Mike Iced? I think it's give them the experience I had. I don't know what it is. You know, get out of a fight, get experience, fight. In a fight you can. Because let's go prepare you what you're going to do. I listen to my trainer, custom model, right? Everything. In a manual boxing, you got to do road work. Because you're not doing road work at the time of the wrestling. You go upstairs and clean your room. Your room is a mess. You should clean your room. That road work. I said, no way. I'm in love with the romanticist boxing. The road 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 hitting the bag. I just love everything. I don't want to run. So yeah, that's the kind of world 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 what I'm looking for. That's powerful. There's nothing greater than that. And 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 life. That's what boxing has done for over 100 years. I agree 100%. It's not about anybody. It's about your soul. You want to help these people. You can hate my guts to want to help these kids and help these kids. You know, like I said, I don't have the answer. The kids give me the answer. You know, they give me the answer. With their determination, they will. They give me the answer. I don't want to be a fighter. I don't want to be a fighter. That's beautiful. We got a award for it. The Will of Still Award. And that's because Richard Still, you know, he always sees the bodies of kids in his gym. So hard, four-foot-up and everything. And with this Will of Still. And that's probably going to honor him with that. I love that. A little award show. Yes. Yeah. And to honor someone like that. They deserve that. That's what I always look for. Listen, when I was a young boxer, I don't know if there's any young boxer in the amateur. We get the Trophy of the Year award, the Trophy of the Night award, Outstanding Fighter. All the fighters, all the fighters, all the little kids we walk by that are arrogant. I'm winning that tonight. You know, the guy fighting right next, I'm winning that tonight. And the guy's like, no, you're not. I'm winning. I'm winning. I'm winning. Guys are coming to me. I'm winning tonight. I'm winning. I'm beating and knocking everybody. Everybody's talking about the Outstanding Trophy. I'm winning it. No, I'm winning it tonight. And that's what I was, I don't know. I hope they're tough. That's what we did. You know, like sometimes I look at fights, right? Like we're amateurs, but sometimes we have a chance we may go through some amateur fights, some international fights, or maybe go through some professional fights. And we will go like this. We see some professional fights, maybe a little bit heavy. So, oh man, I'm gonna get ripped, man. I'm gonna get ripped. I'm gonna be ripped. I'm gonna have my clothes on. They don't do that no more. Do that. They don't see a constant, oh, I'm winning it. It's gonna be ripped when I go there. I'm gonna go to constant to be ripped. I don't, they don't think like that no more. No. You know? You always thought about ripped, working out hard. I'm ripped. Look at me, I'm ripped. I mean, I'm ripped in the rim. I'm ripped on the scale. I'm way in there. I'm just a clown. You know, that's what I think about when I think about boxing. How I'm gonna look, you know? So, to be the best boxer in the world, you have to, I don't know, they call it, you have to love yourself the most. The best fighter in the world loves himself the most. He may not act it and stuff, but he loves himself the most. Those are the greatest fighters of all time. Any other awards besides that one that we're gonna give to the kids? We have other ones, but that was the main one. Yeah. That they're gonna be looking for it. Hopefully they're all kind of, you know, competing to get that award and they're arguing with each other who's gonna win it. No, they're all friendly arguments. Some of them are not friendly. Some of them want the minute I'm talking. They talk disrespect. I'm knocking everybody out. How can I not get it? I love it. Yeah. I talk a lot of crap too. That's the energy we need. Yeah, really. Determinate. I think when the tennis players come out, I think they should play their music day one. You know, I don't think you should always be the kings, the queens, the English or anything. We should all play that makes us play better. That made them play better. It should come out with them music like the fight through the golf and tennis. Yeah, your daughter Milam, she's a great tennis player. You're not the only champ in your family. Well, one day she'll be a tennis player. She'll have to watch me to understand the champs and conduct themselves. Yeah, yeah. But she will be a champ one day, yeah. You're passionate about young tennis players too, right? We want to see them be the best too. This is why I realized I'm 60 years old. I'm not going to be here much longer. I have to get something back. More than one day, I have to get something back. You know, I have to get something back. You know, I mean, you have to get something back. Something. Something. Something back. 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 the national values. I mean, we have to teach them value, self-value. Once they have self-value, they have self-independence. They don't need me anymore. If we can give some kids some self-high this weekend, it'll be a great weekend. This will give them self-high. Yeah, that's an amazing cost. This is something that they could do without anybody helping them. You know, they don't need somebody to help them from a school bully or anything. That's something that they can handle themselves if they do it over and over again. Then the pros and the cons. Imagine being that person that can just dictate your home life. Very difficult for a person to understand. This is the beginning of learning to be independent. It's just the beginning. One day, his coach is going to be sick. He can't come. Three might die. He can't come. But they still have to go to that, to make that work like you said. Still got to go to that tournament and win that medal or that trophy. That's what this teaches them, discipline. And imagine how proud they're going to be to win a trophy. Won't forget that. Especially when they're in the box of a world, all their friends are in the gym together. They're talking so much stuff. Oh, social media, everything. Oh, I forgot that. Look at the trophy. I'm standing in front of social media. Everybody else is a punk. Oh, I forgot about the stuff. I'm still back in the 80s. Who am I right now thinking about the 80s? Especially with Haney and Garcia. They're going to be going at it. And the streaming. The zone has it. Some other people are streaming. Oh, man, it's going to be like the biggest amateur competition since the Olympics. It's probably surpassed the Olympics. Yeah, that would be way bigger. Yeah. It's surpassed the Olympics. They could kick us out the Olympics, but we still have this Mike Tyson invitation. We got all the young kids watching. Yeah. And then they'll become boxed. And me and Austin, guys like we're burdened around, we'll take our teams and fight all over the world. That would take us. Anybody that would take us. We go all over the world. They get their team to fight their team. It's keep team after team. I love it. Team. Man, you're doing this all the time. This week we go there. Maybe next week we go ahead. We do a weekly every two weeks, months. But we get it down. Let's figure it out. You know, let me ask you, we're going to travel the world. Team Tyson versus the world. Team Tyson versus Robert Panama. Robert DeRan. Team Tyson versus Russia. Team Tyson versus Scotland. Stuff like that. And how proud are these young kids going to be to represent their countries? So 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 only traveled the world when they was in the team. They never did it with their parents or nothing. They never had money. Only with their team. That's the only thing. You know, only with that team. And then they went home and became something else. Because they still never traveled the plane since they were kids. You know, it's just, and they've seen the world. And some of them get married. They just, it's just changed them. It's just changed them 100% when they see the world. For any life experiences. This is after 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. 100% listen, if you don't want this, 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 a little junior Olympics and we have it, we have it, like you say, in different countries in different years. We have it, different months, whatever. We don't make our own terms. Just fight everybody in the world. And everybody could be with us too. We're not looking to oust nobody. You know, if anybody wants to be USA Bosnia, they like us and we whatever. We can get on. I want everybody to be involved, but this is going to be the biggest stuff in the world. You got your arms open, whoever wants to help the kids. I don't want nobody to say, I'm trying to take anything from you, but I'm trying to kick anybody out. We got to do this together. This is for the kids that nothing to do with us. I put my ego out through Mike Tyson. MIT is nothing without everybody's help. It's all about the greater good. So if anyone can help you accept it. If they can't do the greater good for kids, then they're not living their life. They're not doing this for children. They must be something for themselves. That's just the truth. They must want to sell things. This is for the kids. I don't take no money. That matter of fact, coming out of my pocket. If they don't want to do that stuff, they don't care about the kids. This is for the kids. That's not about no ego, no organization. I don't want no business. I don't need that business. At least 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. God will. No, God will. Anybody, I don't know. We're a three-card one. That's all it takes. Yeah, God willing. All hands are on deck and we're open. No, all hands are on deck. Yeah. All hands are on deck. No, it's amazing. And I'm proud to be here. I can't lose. I'm proud to be here too with you, brother. Thank you. Thank you. It was an honor to interview you and I'm really excited to watch these fights this weekend. Thank you, brother. Thank you. 45 years ago, legendary trainer, Kuz DeMoto, summoned a young kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn. Previously, Kuz 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 Burbick. Two years later, Tyson would defeat Michael Spank, 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, Kuz DeMoto. 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, Kuz DeMoto and my first boxing trainer, Carlos Panama-Lewis. Rest in peace to two legends. At AJ Bell, we believe investing is for everyone. And when we say everyone, we mean your dad, Dan, Danielle, Dean, Dave, Del, Del's delivery driver, Denise, Denise's dentist, Dinesh, and Devon's strongest man, Donathan. Donathan? Donathan, that can't be right. Donathan? Well, whatever your name is. If you're a real person, investing is for you too. AJ Bell, feel good investing. The value of your investments can go up or down.