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Speaker 1: Sir Ree is a two time w BC's Super Middleweight
Speaker 1: champion and activists or philanthropists, sports analysts with Fox Sports
Speaker 1: and the Epitome of a Champion. Whether he is inside
Speaker 1: or outside of a boxing ring. They also tell me
Speaker 1: that he makes a mean sweep potato pie. Really, okay,
Speaker 1: let's hear about that. He's talking to the picking expert,
Speaker 1: please whipping the money making conversation, my man, Anthony Durrell.
Speaker 1: You guys doing how they're gonna how they're gonna put
Speaker 1: a mean sweep potato in your credit and I don't
Speaker 1: see those swepertato in your I can do it. If
Speaker 1: you could do it, I got my grandma wrested. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all you can do is just to sweepertato pie.
Speaker 1: Can you do it? You know I can cook up.
Speaker 1: My mama raised me to be a uh independent guy. Okay.
Speaker 1: My mom and my grandfather, you know, Michigan went to
Speaker 1: little with my grandfather when I was like thirteen. I
Speaker 1: think he took us over because my mom, you know,
Speaker 1: we had six we had I got five brothers and
Speaker 1: sisters and six kids for her was a lot, lot
Speaker 1: And I understood, you know why we did that, just
Speaker 1: being around the ladies in my family, my grandmother, my
Speaker 1: my mom, sisters, hunts. You know, I learned. You know,
Speaker 1: all I gotta do is watch. If I watch, I
Speaker 1: can learn how to cook. My uncle can cook. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know a guy in my family that can't.
Speaker 1: So I cook it all. So I went. It's almost
Speaker 1: kind of like you know you said, you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of bragging here in front of me. We're nothing
Speaker 1: in your hands, you know, Like listen. So I went
Speaker 1: to camp one time. It was Thanksgiving time, and like
Speaker 1: I wanted foods, So I cooked some sweet potatoes. The
Speaker 1: only thing I didn't cook was the turkey. You know
Speaker 1: I usually cook at turkey. I cooked the sweet potatoes,
Speaker 1: I cooked the greens. Yeah, for sure I couldn't. So,
Speaker 1: you know, because I know a lot of people use
Speaker 1: that kid stuff. That ain't what I do. Na what
Speaker 1: kind of meat you put in there just to smoke turkey? Ye,
Speaker 1: I'm a bacon guy. I mean, you know you can
Speaker 1: do that too. You know you can do that too,
Speaker 1: But that smoked turkey give it that smoke taste. So
Speaker 1: my mama told me that, like you said, you she
Speaker 1: shaped you to be an independent man. And but your
Speaker 1: whole life is tied to being independent, being yourself. Following
Speaker 1: your voice. Tell me a little bit about who you are,
Speaker 1: Anthony Durrell. I'm a I'm a professional fighter. You know,
Speaker 1: that's not what I want to I want to be
Speaker 1: known as just the helper, you know, somebody that goes
Speaker 1: out there to help people, you know, especially before you
Speaker 1: is a professional fighter. I'm a boxer. I've been doing
Speaker 1: this since I was nine years old, so that's really
Speaker 1: you know what people think. I just know, but I
Speaker 1: love boxing. Boxing. What is my life? You know, that's
Speaker 1: how you know I got to the position that I mean,
Speaker 1: and I'm grateful for my grandfather got me and when
Speaker 1: I was like I say, nine, and I'm just so
Speaker 1: happy that to be in this position. I had to
Speaker 1: fight for everything, you know, when I lost the world
Speaker 1: tighter to when I got it back and then just
Speaker 1: lost it again. But you know, good things. How do
Speaker 1: you deal with those highs and loads? Because my show
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation tells people about overcoming the odds that
Speaker 1: you know, you have to have a plan when you
Speaker 1: get knocked out the company to ship back up or
Speaker 1: walk straight when people think you should be you're running.
Speaker 1: You just you just have to keep You have to
Speaker 1: believe it in your mind that you know you can
Speaker 1: keep moving forward. A loss is just something to get
Speaker 1: you to the next step. Everybody takes a loss. Of
Speaker 1: the grades took a loss. Mohammed Ali took a loss,
Speaker 1: and that's not even it. If you look at the
Speaker 1: successful business owner, they took a loss in some time,
Speaker 1: but they still persevered and got past that, that that
Speaker 1: hurdle that was in front of them, and then succeeded
Speaker 1: to be million or billionaires. I only put boxing glows
Speaker 1: on one time in middle school when out there swinging
Speaker 1: my forces for swings, and my my arm just dropped
Speaker 1: to my side. I couldn't pull them up no more.
Speaker 1: That let me know that this is not what I
Speaker 1: what you can do, it's easy. It's not easy, but
Speaker 1: but you you make it look easy. Is that just okay?
Speaker 1: Nine years old you put on the globes. How much
Speaker 1: did they weight? They were? Uh, that's that's pretty heavy
Speaker 1: because you're swinging. And I learned that when you miss,
Speaker 1: it takes a lot more out of you. He definitely does,
Speaker 1: definitely does. It's it's you know, I've been doing it
Speaker 1: for twenty six years, so since I was nine years old.
Speaker 1: Thirty five now, so twenty six years. It's it's a
Speaker 1: long time, specially give use of something you know. I
Speaker 1: can't if I go play basketball. I can't compete with
Speaker 1: a guy who've been doing it twenty six years. I
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm picking. I know how to do it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not as good as that person. So when
Speaker 1: somebody perfect their craft, you know, it's it's tough to
Speaker 1: get them out, or it's you know, it's easier for
Speaker 1: that guy too to keep going. Like I can go
Speaker 1: into the ring now me not through a point since
Speaker 1: my last fight and still go probably ten rounds easy.
Speaker 1: Just knowing how to get through the process. The technique
Speaker 1: that too, and and you know, you gotta know how
Speaker 1: to conserve. You gotta make that fighter on the other
Speaker 1: side think that you're not tired or something that's coming
Speaker 1: if you come in you know, it's just it's just stuff.
Speaker 1: Like it's just little things. If you do the little things,
Speaker 1: and this is not just boxing and anything, you can
Speaker 1: get fired. The little things matter. It's not the big
Speaker 1: things that everybody sees. The little thing. Well just really
Speaker 1: interesting because I'm talking to you and you know your
Speaker 1: you know your strength and weaknesses, and your opponent knows
Speaker 1: your strength and weakness. And I know sometimes okay, God
Speaker 1: like that like that now because and you use the
Speaker 1: analogy about business a lot too, and in your sports,
Speaker 1: and about overcoming the odds, about knowing how to market yourself,
Speaker 1: knowing how to prepare, knowing how they and even business
Speaker 1: people make a mistakes. Nobody has a perfect business. No,
Speaker 1: Apple has not put out a product that walked off
Speaker 1: the stores. That's why the keep coming off owns every year. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And so with that being said, you as an individual, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we all know with athleticism, is you know
Speaker 1: the biggest champion or that you have to fight this age?
Speaker 1: Does that? Does that work in your mind? I have
Speaker 1: that that that's setting in your mind. That are you've
Speaker 1: already prepared to say, Hey, I'm going to do this.
Speaker 1: So I'm planning to do this with my life when
Speaker 1: I'm for the fifty sixty or whatever. So my plan
Speaker 1: when I when professional to retire at thirty five. I'm
Speaker 1: thirty five. Now I lost my I lost my last fight.
Speaker 1: But me being the competitor that I am, I can't
Speaker 1: go out on the loss and I have to I
Speaker 1: want another fight. If the championship fight comes this year,
Speaker 1: it comes, but after this year, I'm done. And I
Speaker 1: already have my mind made up of what I wanna do.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to start multiple business, not
Speaker 1: just one. And I want to push other people and
Speaker 1: motivate other people to do the same, you know, when
Speaker 1: they retire, like in athletics, in any sport. I think
Speaker 1: it should be mandatory that you take a class on
Speaker 1: how to manage your money because because there there there's
Speaker 1: no help like you give these kids. And I when
Speaker 1: I say kids, it's kids. It's nineteen and twenty year olds,
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. They only can do one
Speaker 1: thing with that's spend it because they didn't go to
Speaker 1: school or don't have nobody with them to show them
Speaker 1: the correct way to go. If I can take if
Speaker 1: I can go back to my beginning of my career
Speaker 1: right now, I would invest in so much more than
Speaker 1: I am now that I wouldn't even need I wouldn't
Speaker 1: need to do nothing else for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: We have to admit we all and I was in
Speaker 1: I was in mortal, you know, and that I thought
Speaker 1: it seemed so far away, you know, It's like it's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: how far away forty wars or sixty that that number
Speaker 1: wouldn't even exist, you know. So so we play on
Speaker 1: the on time because we see time as okay, I
Speaker 1: have this time. We're thinking you're gonna do something forever
Speaker 1: and you're not right, and that's what that's what you've done,
Speaker 1: thinking you're gonna get that next. And with the athletes
Speaker 1: like you live like, oh I got a million to
Speaker 1: come back, but if you get hurt, that's gone, so
Speaker 1: you gotta have something to fall back on. And me
Speaker 1: being like you said, us being nineteen and twenty years
Speaker 1: so we didn't think of that then we thought we
Speaker 1: can get hurt, Oh we'll just come back. No, it's
Speaker 1: gonna you gotta put some money aside or rainy day. Yes,
Speaker 1: then that that's that's something that everybody can relate to
Speaker 1: who made a mistake or realize I should save that
Speaker 1: mode because it's as successful. That's I am. I would, man,
Speaker 1: I showed I just started saving like that guy told
Speaker 1: me when I was twenty four, because he told me,
Speaker 1: he said, hey, hey, just fifty every hey period and
Speaker 1: I kept saying fifty, man, you know what I could do?
Speaker 1: I ain't got time for that. And if I do,
Speaker 1: just listen to him, that fifty dollars may have been
Speaker 1: a maybe an IBM stock twenty times triple and guess
Speaker 1: what we would need to be talking right now. And
Speaker 1: and I believe it. I believe. But that's where I think.
Speaker 1: You know, when you grow up, you learn so much
Speaker 1: more because you look back on the things that you
Speaker 1: did and reflect, like if I would have did this, now,
Speaker 1: I can do it, and I'm gonna go do it now,
Speaker 1: or give it to my kids or another kid that's
Speaker 1: coming up in the game, or just want to do
Speaker 1: the same thing that I'm doing. You know, you can
Speaker 1: teach them, you know, the correct way, if they listen
Speaker 1: or not, you can just put it in their ear. Well,
Speaker 1: you know the thing about it. One of the reason
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring on it, just like the third
Speaker 1: we kind of missed you came to town and because
Speaker 1: of the fact that you had setbacks in the early
Speaker 1: age and so and that's why I always tell people,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know what your future. Even as
Speaker 1: a young person. You might seem like, hey, endless opportunities,
Speaker 1: but every every day you should feel understand it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: Now I'm a cancer survivor, you know, I was diagnosed
Speaker 1: that I had cancer in my fifties and it was
Speaker 1: and it was. It was it was a major when
Speaker 1: they told me I had cancers, like you know, it was.
Speaker 1: I'll tell people, when somebody tell you cancer, you you
Speaker 1: you don't understand what that word does to you. You know,
Speaker 1: you can walk around, read about the newspaper, you can
Speaker 1: read about the statistics and people are surviving. But when
Speaker 1: they tell you you have it, that's a different conversation
Speaker 1: because you start thinking immediately death immediately. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't care what the stats are out there all you
Speaker 1: because for some reason, that's all you think about. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's all my loved ones. I want to
Speaker 1: live a long time. How did you react to it, Anthony?
Speaker 1: So when I had it, I was one. It was
Speaker 1: two thousand six, so I think I was twenty one. Uh.
Speaker 1: I didn't really know much about it, honestly, And when
Speaker 1: I started reading up on it, that's when my I
Speaker 1: started getting down and down and down, because like you say,
Speaker 1: when you think of cancer, you think of death. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's only that's true. Yeah, and that's true. And when
Speaker 1: I went to the doctor, he said that it was
Speaker 1: a nine percent curable rate kind of brought me up.
Speaker 1: But that medicine still brought me down. Uh it was.
Speaker 1: It was tough. Cancer. It's no joke. You know. I
Speaker 1: was talking to this I've seen the kids smoking. Uh
Speaker 1: couldn't have been. I don't even think there was eighteen.
Speaker 1: And I said, why are you smoking? Because I know
Speaker 1: what cancer, I know what I know what chemo feels like.
Speaker 1: And they said it doesn't matter, I'm gonna die. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, but that's not that's not it. Like
Speaker 1: when the chemo is just it seems like it's just
Speaker 1: worse than death to me. And I don't even know
Speaker 1: what death feels like, but it just seemed like it's worse.
Speaker 1: It just had me just down the whole time. Body
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling right. It just had me going through things
Speaker 1: that that was a challenge. Then you recover correct and
Speaker 1: then motorcycle twiter. So at you the point your life
Speaker 1: on what that what's going on here? You know what?
Speaker 1: When I did get into the motorcycle accident, the first
Speaker 1: thing I thought about was just me living or walking again,
Speaker 1: just to play with my kids. Uh, that was the
Speaker 1: first thing. But when I knew that it will be okay,
Speaker 1: like I will recover fully, it, Uh you know what
Speaker 1: was damage? So I broke my leg. So this finger
Speaker 1: was here, this one was here. I mean you can
Speaker 1: still see it. So your finger moving it cut on
Speaker 1: your left hand. Yep, it could from this thing, you know,
Speaker 1: my index fingers where my thumb was. My thumb is
Speaker 1: where mine risk. So and they didn't even know at
Speaker 1: the time. Oh when they knew about my hand, they
Speaker 1: didn't know about my leg my leg. I had my bones.
Speaker 1: They got my leg and they didn't they say, there's
Speaker 1: anything else. So I said, yeah, my leg is broke.
Speaker 1: They cut my pants and I went into sur I
Speaker 1: think I was in surgery four hours maybe, So they
Speaker 1: got a ride and my leg is still in the
Speaker 1: have with your hand and my leg is broken. Ye,
Speaker 1: so you just dealing with the pain at that time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, y'all gotta give me something. And then they
Speaker 1: hit me with the more. I just went into heaven
Speaker 1: like I could. And I was literally like when they
Speaker 1: say your life flashed before your eyes before death. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my life literally I've seen everything, Like this is no joke.
Speaker 1: Right before I hit that car, IVE seen everything just
Speaker 1: I mean it was like a split second, but everything
Speaker 1: you can see it clearly, everything. And then I hit
Speaker 1: the car. But I got up. I have never blanked out.
Speaker 1: I got up, but I fell back down and my
Speaker 1: leg was broke. I got back up again because I
Speaker 1: didn't know what was wrong, and I fell back down.
Speaker 1: They said stay down, your leg broke. But my leg
Speaker 1: was twisted in the back, so my my front, my
Speaker 1: foot was in the backwards and I had to flick
Speaker 1: it back or whatnot. But yeah, it was. It was bad.
Speaker 1: But I think everything happens for a reason. You know,
Speaker 1: was I supposed to get it? Should I have been
Speaker 1: on the motorcycle? Don't know, but I was. You know,
Speaker 1: everything happens for a reason. I think it just makes
Speaker 1: you a better person, you know it. It makes your
Speaker 1: story better. And and if I could take something back
Speaker 1: that in my life that happened, I will take. I
Speaker 1: would change nothing because anything happens for a reason. It
Speaker 1: molded me into who I know. Because when I hear
Speaker 1: you talk and I'm talking to two times world middleweight
Speaker 1: champion Supermiddle, Age Super say they just put world was super.
Speaker 1: I got put super right there, Super super middleweight champion
Speaker 1: Anthony Durrell. You know I talked about, you know, my
Speaker 1: lung collapse. You know, stay in hospital thirty days, I'll
Speaker 1: talk about you know, I'm turned tires. I probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been driving a car, and I woke up and
Speaker 1: I'm going, I'm five miles down the road, don't remember
Speaker 1: the five miles and I did, and I don't even drink,
Speaker 1: just doing stuff, pushing myself physically where I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: not have pushed myself. And so so that's those are
Speaker 1: the stories I have to tell people that, Okay, what
Speaker 1: I did was stupid, and I'm alive to tell you
Speaker 1: it was stupid. So that's my role that I played.
Speaker 1: So when I listened to I'm asking you to tell
Speaker 1: your story because of the fact that as we as
Speaker 1: young people who listened to my show, we put a
Speaker 1: time lyne on I wait, I'll do that later, and
Speaker 1: you really don't know what later is or what later
Speaker 1: can bring you. So when people talk about saving money,
Speaker 1: people talk about get that education, people talk about living
Speaker 1: your life, pursuing opportunities that being given to you and
Speaker 1: not realizing that blessing because you think you can wait.
Speaker 1: Your experience is being chronicle right now for us on
Speaker 1: this show says do it now, right. You have to
Speaker 1: live every day in that moment, I don't think because
Speaker 1: tomorrow is not promising. You know, we see that from
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant and and and rest in peace to her
Speaker 1: and conduce this goes out to his family, but we
Speaker 1: see that in that. But you have to live for
Speaker 1: the day. You can't live for tomorrow. You can't live
Speaker 1: for the week. You have to live for the day.
Speaker 1: And and that's the big thing. That's the thing I
Speaker 1: don't think you know, younger people UH understand about about life.
Speaker 1: It's life. You have to you have to live it
Speaker 1: in I think you live it. You know how you
Speaker 1: want to live it. You know you you you you
Speaker 1: do things that you want to do. If you don't
Speaker 1: explore this world or get out and get out your
Speaker 1: comfort zone something time, it'll be I mean, it's just be.
Speaker 1: It'd be bad. I know some people you know from
Speaker 1: my city, Flint, Michigan, who haven't left Flint. We want
Speaker 1: to talk about that in the next break because that's
Speaker 1: really why we have you on the show, because I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of that. You know, I
Speaker 1: got a lot too many people surrounded me from Flint.
Speaker 1: You know, Mama Soul, that's my girl out there, you know,
Speaker 1: And so just let you know how deep I go
Speaker 1: up there. Okay, Uh, now you said your titler is
Speaker 1: really uh. Two times super World super Middleweight Champion Anthony Durrell,
Speaker 1: We're right back. He's Flint Michigan ball and we will
Speaker 1: come back and we'll talk about some causes. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he got his own day up there and everything every
Speaker 1: year step come around. He got this day in the
Speaker 1: rail day. Everybody know him up there. He's a bad man.
Speaker 1: He's a bad man. Be right back with more Money
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Speaker 1: about your dreams and put some plans into action. I
Speaker 1: just Reshard McDonald sitting next to two times super Member
Speaker 1: by Champion Anthony Grell out of flat Michigan. Can you
Speaker 1: still stay in flat grand blank? On the ALCA, I
Speaker 1: still stay in Michigan. Okay. I don't think I'll move.
Speaker 1: When when something feels right, you don't want to change
Speaker 1: to your weather. So I lived in Chicago five years,
Speaker 1: so I got closed and I got clothes I can't
Speaker 1: wear nowhere else but in Chicago, because you know, it
Speaker 1: hits some snow yesterday. But I was ready, I ready.
Speaker 1: I got from don't come up and they got with
Speaker 1: your brother, And you might be a lot more colder
Speaker 1: than that being up there. It's all right, But so
Speaker 1: why do you stay up there? Why is Michigan part
Speaker 1: of your just part of your your lifestock because you
Speaker 1: have the money and the success to live anywhere while
Speaker 1: you're why are you staying in Michigan? Just it feels right?
Speaker 1: You know, when something feels right, you you kind of
Speaker 1: stay put. But I can go anywhere. You know, I
Speaker 1: can vacation any Uh. When it starts feeling wrong, that's
Speaker 1: when you know I'll have to pack my things and move.
Speaker 1: But until then, you know, I'm a I'm I'm from Flint,
Speaker 1: you know that's I'm from Michigan. So that's where you
Speaker 1: know I'll be for I think the remainder of my life.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I can go, I can travel anywhere,
Speaker 1: and I think just other places, just vacations, you know,
Speaker 1: home is home. No matter where you're at, you're always
Speaker 1: going to think of where you was born and where
Speaker 1: you grew up. It's it's home. Nothing can beat beat home. This.
Speaker 1: Um oh, boxing you have you know, you have UFC
Speaker 1: out there now you know, and then you have a
Speaker 1: wrastling is always out there because in the end, boxing,
Speaker 1: like any football about it's entertainment. Yeah, it's entertainment. It's entertainment.
Speaker 1: So so do you consider yourself an ambassador a boxing
Speaker 1: as you as you as your career transitions because you're
Speaker 1: doing Fox Fox Sports. You know, what story are you
Speaker 1: trying to tell about why boxing is not only a
Speaker 1: good sport for young people to get involved in, but
Speaker 1: also why it should be a highly rated entertainment sports.
Speaker 1: I think you know when you got two competitors in
Speaker 1: there boxing risking their life to entertain millions. Uh. And
Speaker 1: for me, it's a it's adrenaline rush, It's it's something
Speaker 1: that I love to do. I've been doing it, like
Speaker 1: I said, since I was nine. And uh, it's just
Speaker 1: and plus your family member. Yeah, I mean my grandfather,
Speaker 1: boxer Muhammad Ali. You know, he was friends with them.
Speaker 1: Uh that's where we got into boxing. And my grandfather,
Speaker 1: So for us to do it, and it's to make
Speaker 1: him proud. He loves seeing us when he loves seeing
Speaker 1: us happy. If if I can just make him happy,
Speaker 1: I give all this to him, because without him, there
Speaker 1: will be no You gotta have the talent, though you do,
Speaker 1: but he got that talent out of us. And if
Speaker 1: you don't have somebody pushing you and getting it out
Speaker 1: of you, it just I don't see it work. You
Speaker 1: gotta have a backbone. If you got that backbone, everything
Speaker 1: will float, right. I mean he told he told me
Speaker 1: and my brother at a young age when we kind
Speaker 1: of first started, that will become world champions. And I'm
Speaker 1: a two time world champions, so what he said was true.
Speaker 1: It's really I always tell people we got to have
Speaker 1: the relationships that breathe positivity, you know, not negativity, because
Speaker 1: you know there are people out there you can tell
Speaker 1: them say you go up you ten years old, eleven
Speaker 1: years old and say hey, I want to be or
Speaker 1: excuse makers. Yes, I called him. I could complain the club,
Speaker 1: you know, because when you come up with excuses all
Speaker 1: the time and you're not trying to look for solutions,
Speaker 1: you will never make it. It was just like Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He wrote that little note saying, Hey, I wish I
Speaker 1: could say that I was I went to Disneyland, Yeah,
Speaker 1: saying that the world when he was what sixteen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And so that's why I always tell people that.
Speaker 1: And the thing that really stands out to me, you're
Speaker 1: so positive and I and I'm a positive person, but
Speaker 1: I know crisis has been in your life. When you're
Speaker 1: going the ring, that's a crisis situation. And I know
Speaker 1: people who you know, I don't like, I know, I
Speaker 1: knew one person who it's paralyzed, probably for fifty dollars
Speaker 1: just because he was in the boxing ring. But multiple
Speaker 1: people died, like I think it was six or seven
Speaker 1: people died in their boxing last year. So it's tough,
Speaker 1: you know. And this is my first time winness, not witnessing,
Speaker 1: but knowing that people died in the ring. You know,
Speaker 1: since I've been boxed, I've never heard of it. And
Speaker 1: I you know, when I think, I'm thinking, like what
Speaker 1: went wrong? What happened? Yeah, Like I I really don't
Speaker 1: understand because everybody is doing the same thing, or maybe
Speaker 1: they're just getting hit more. I don't know. But boxing
Speaker 1: is something that you have to, uh, really pay attention
Speaker 1: to your corner. You have to have a good team around. Trust. Yes,
Speaker 1: you have to. Like my so, my last fight, I
Speaker 1: was cut big over my eye. I couldn't see blood
Speaker 1: out of my eye and I got one of them
Speaker 1: cut and my basketball and the guy was kind of
Speaker 1: getting off because I couldn't see. I was worried about
Speaker 1: the cutting, said to worry about him. D hurt me some. No,
Speaker 1: but my corner knew that I was at a disadvantage
Speaker 1: anyway because of my cut and I couldn't see, so
Speaker 1: he stopped the fighting. Not it was I mad. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I would never be mad at that looking
Speaker 1: now for me, you know, when people don't know about
Speaker 1: that cut because I, like I said, I got I
Speaker 1: hear the guy's head when I was playing basketball, and
Speaker 1: it's nothing but bone here. So when you cut his skin,
Speaker 1: a very thin layer of skin hidden bone. As soon
Speaker 1: as that bad ball opens up, it's just yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just blood everywhere. And so like I said, it's uh,
Speaker 1: you have to trust. Like you say, and I say,
Speaker 1: you have to trust your team. If you can't trust
Speaker 1: in your team, I think you probably need to find
Speaker 1: a new team because that that's where all the foundation
Speaker 1: comes in that because they're on the outside looking in
Speaker 1: and you can kind of see more from the outside
Speaker 1: than you can, you know, when you're in there. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Flint. You know, a few years ago, a
Speaker 1: lot of controversy about the drinking water. Um as an
Speaker 1: individual who cares because you can't save everybody. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the initial announcement, then the travesty that was that
Speaker 1: was information that was made available with everybody, and then
Speaker 1: what you're attempting to do now it's just the announcement.
Speaker 1: You know, we had lead in the water. That was
Speaker 1: a travesty and own for us, for the governor of
Speaker 1: Michigan to change the water from like it was a
Speaker 1: Detroit water to Flint River water. And I think that
Speaker 1: was bad because if you look at the Flint River water,
Speaker 1: it's it's bad. And I know that chemicals and stuff
Speaker 1: to change it. But when you have lead pipes, and
Speaker 1: that's I think anywhere in any city and you put
Speaker 1: some type of chemical in it, it starts to rust
Speaker 1: and start to you know, get lead in it, and
Speaker 1: not only lead, but changing the color of the water, right,
Speaker 1: and we had that in ours. So we had to
Speaker 1: change and he still thought it was okay to drink,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. So we're going through that and still
Speaker 1: going through it to to this day to the day.
Speaker 1: So it's been had going on since April fourteen, two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen. So that's a long time to not have
Speaker 1: clean drinking water in a city. Uh in America? Still okay?
Speaker 1: Help me. So you're saying the situation is so they
Speaker 1: not too long ago. I think I was in camp
Speaker 1: for my last fight. They sold the people to boil
Speaker 1: the water again. But they what they don't understand is
Speaker 1: boiling water will not make leg go away. Lead don't
Speaker 1: go away. You can't even they get a filter to
Speaker 1: filter off the lead, it's still going to be there.
Speaker 1: You need to change the pipes. And and this is
Speaker 1: what I understand. Why wouldn't they get volunteers to come
Speaker 1: in and fix the pipes. I mean, I know it's
Speaker 1: all around you as volunteers would come in and fix
Speaker 1: these pipes without like if you put one word out there.
Speaker 1: And that's why I don't get about the president either
Speaker 1: to uh both Well, it was when they came and
Speaker 1: had the the debate in Flint, they said they will
Speaker 1: do this and do that for Flint and nothing still
Speaker 1: is done. So I think that's where and what is
Speaker 1: the governor saying? I don't even watch politics. I'm so
Speaker 1: sick of them, honestly, am because I don't think you
Speaker 1: can trust them, Like they give you one thing and
Speaker 1: and they do another, and that's all the time. I
Speaker 1: don't uh, I don't agree with the way they get
Speaker 1: into office. They feed you this fairy tale and once
Speaker 1: they get in off as it it's just flatlines. Well
Speaker 1: you know that. Here's the thing. I understand the frustration.
Speaker 1: But you are an influencer. I try to be no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you are an influence. That's why we were talking because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see how I can get into your head.
Speaker 1: That's let you remind you of your power. If you
Speaker 1: just posted videos of people still poem ward out of
Speaker 1: these sinks and it's brown and talking about this this
Speaker 1: conversation of why you can't bawl away lead. You know
Speaker 1: that people think you can do that, you know, but
Speaker 1: that information that's where the power of social media comes
Speaker 1: into play. Anthony, and I have to remind you that
Speaker 1: there's no pressure on you, just letting you know that
Speaker 1: I don't care about President Trump or him not go
Speaker 1: on and him not saying, but they can be reminded
Speaker 1: they can go viral. It can you can. You can
Speaker 1: always tell people. Social media is your individual press conference.
Speaker 1: And so here I am Russia. Mcdonaldown in the Lanta
Speaker 1: George also live in Houston, Texas. Thinking, you guys are
Speaker 1: good and you're telling me, excuse me, excuse me good.
Speaker 1: Problems is up there, so so what are you trying
Speaker 1: to do? Do you have any causes, any foundations set up?
Speaker 1: And I do have a foundation. I have a Derails
Speaker 1: Trance Foundation. It's my foundation is help to find a
Speaker 1: cure for cancer. That's one of them. I mean, with
Speaker 1: all the people up there with cancer in Flint, they
Speaker 1: still can't drink the water, and then their immune system
Speaker 1: are is so low that if they drink the water,
Speaker 1: they'll be sick for sure. So my foundation help find
Speaker 1: a cure for cancer, help keep boys and girls their
Speaker 1: education enter and out of city, and help stop bullying.
Speaker 1: But my foundation is helping that too. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: open the Boys and Girls club. You know, it's and
Speaker 1: thes in the heart of where the water crisis happen.
Speaker 1: That's on the north side of Flint and the donation
Speaker 1: page is up. You know people want to donate, but
Speaker 1: just trying to put something positive there and you know,
Speaker 1: give the key is something to look forward to, because
Speaker 1: if if they have nothing, it's nothing to look for,
Speaker 1: it's nothing to smile about. But I'm trying to give
Speaker 1: everybody in the community something to smile about. And once
Speaker 1: I do it, maybe it's like a domino effect where
Speaker 1: everybody else does it, does it, and it goes from there.
Speaker 1: It takes off from there. Do you do you're doing
Speaker 1: the galos, You're in the events in the Flint area
Speaker 1: or the Michigan area to raise money, or it's just
Speaker 1: making people aware. You have these donations pages, making people
Speaker 1: aware of your causes using some of your money. I'm
Speaker 1: sure to move forward. These are these actions that I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. I'm in the process of doing everything.
Speaker 1: I want to do a golf auting to yea knocking
Speaker 1: the mint in golf. That's like I said, I want
Speaker 1: to do a golf audience to raise money for that,
Speaker 1: uh and for my foundation to like help people with
Speaker 1: that with the situation that's going on in I want
Speaker 1: to do more events. I give away turkeys when it's
Speaker 1: uh uh Thanksgiving. I give away gifts on Christmas, you know,
Speaker 1: on every hoiday. I try to give people something to
Speaker 1: smile about, because that's that's what it's about, you know,
Speaker 1: It's about making people happy. If you can't make anyone happy,
Speaker 1: it's it's like I'm doing nothing and I see everything.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm just out here just trying to make it.
Speaker 1: Here's a beautiful thing about this conversation. You have a family,
Speaker 1: talk about your family, and you out there taking care
Speaker 1: of kids you don't even know talking about your families,
Speaker 1: you don't even know they are important you as much
Speaker 1: as your family and how your family inspires you. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about your media family wife, talk us about how
Speaker 1: they relate and to actually push you to even further
Speaker 1: correct the wrongs that these young people are are families
Speaker 1: are facing. Yep. So I have I have a wife,
Speaker 1: three boys. Then no, they they won't, they won't, they
Speaker 1: want and I told them that one of them got
Speaker 1: mad at me. But I just I just think you
Speaker 1: know that and I understand that. But we really our
Speaker 1: life in the ring for little of money. You know,
Speaker 1: it's only a few that get you know, I get paid.
Speaker 1: So in that case, you know, it's basketball players making more.
Speaker 1: They dribble the ball and they're making hundreds of millions. Tennis, yeah, tennis,
Speaker 1: I mean even golf, you know, but uh, I really
Speaker 1: don't want them doing like I say, the three boards.
Speaker 1: They can do anything. They can't do football. Football is no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you have concussion because of the CT. I I try
Speaker 1: to brush up on my you know, whatever they want
Speaker 1: to do. No, I I get down and see it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's safe. But my wife helps me out tremendously.
Speaker 1: She she's a teacher, she teached at a college. She's uh,
Speaker 1: she liked teaching, helping kids to also. So it's just
Speaker 1: me surrounding yourself around good people. And like I said,
Speaker 1: he goes a backbone thing. The foundation, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. And if you can you can
Speaker 1: have that stern foundation, you can make it well you know. Um,
Speaker 1: I know we're wrapping up this interview, but if you
Speaker 1: I love to go out lunch and talk to you
Speaker 1: about just some ideas. That's us an influencer and I
Speaker 1: could help because I'm sadden that the Flint, Michigan situation
Speaker 1: it's not even according to you, it's not even close
Speaker 1: to being It's like I'm not gonna say close because
Speaker 1: there's still trying, but I don't. I still I don't
Speaker 1: even see nobody out there now, like even fixing pipes.
Speaker 1: But you know they're not gonna be out there in
Speaker 1: the wintertime. So but like I say, it's it's like
Speaker 1: we're a third world country, uh, not having drinkable water.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't do anything with the water. But
Speaker 1: let it run right, Well, give out your foundation again,
Speaker 1: give out your social media information, and again thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on my show. Anthony Durrell two times Super
Speaker 1: Time Super Middle eight champion, Flip Michigan. Give out your information.
Speaker 1: It's a Derrell's Trance Foundation. Uh. And my website is
Speaker 1: Athony Durrelle dot com. My social media is Athony Durrelle
Speaker 1: on every platform. Okay, cool, I'm gonna donate a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to your found app's a good thank you? Okay, cool,
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