"He used ta hide between walls to not get picked on, and I believe when you do that, you never get outside that wall, to a certain extent, you're always hiding in that wall, for the rest of your life, that's just my belief." ..."to me, there's not a fight until there's resistance, until there's something to overcome, otherwise it's just an athletic venture..."
To me, I could get lost in this world forever, it's holy and rarely fortunate to have loved and grown up on boxing and the old ways, and respect of the old timers and the ones it drips off of. Regardless of any thoughts on Atlas and his history, he's a priest of the shit and wears it all over. I stop what I'm doing to listen to him, he comes from his angle as do we all, but he's not just one of the 1%'ers you might meet on a barstool in your life. There's a lot to critique and play with, but it would've taken me a while to stumble on the podcast so thanks for posting. I've listened to the first 2 thirds but will catch the rest in my bubble bath.
As a footnote that's neither here nor there, there was a window in time right after the brutal robbery of Foreman by Holyfield where I was exonerated from a paid seat in a hotel lobby, and that whole smudge that is Holyfield for me, thrown out because a punch was thrown, and not by me. Leaving one thing out I just said to an old mouthy fat cunt that wouldn't shut up on the folding chair beside me that Teddy Atlas only chose the name because his speech coach told him he'd slur Poo Hercules and just kept hollering Jiffy Jeff until the escort. It meant something at the time. And he's always sounded like Jiffy Jeff to me when gets worked up, the face and cadence.
