Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the Key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Arland Decker. Welcome to Unleashed from bet MGM,
Speaker 1: the King of Sports Books and Janice. What a weekend
Speaker 1: for New York sports. The Giants and Jets both one
Speaker 1: and overtime and avoid going oh and four. It's the
Speaker 1: first time both teams have won on the same day
Speaker 1: in nearly two years. That is absolutely wild and then
Speaker 1: the Yankees one on a walk off single to clinch
Speaker 1: a wild card spot. So your honest did you forget
Speaker 1: how to celebrate properly? Because I can teach you, as
Speaker 1: a packer and Chiefs fan what it's like to just
Speaker 1: win and celebrate. Right. It's been a long time, even
Speaker 1: with the Yankees, it's been a long time. So let's
Speaker 1: go Yankees, and yes, congratulations to the Giants and Jets.
Speaker 1: What a weekend from New York. We needed it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you did. I think you personally needed it.
Speaker 1: But it's such a great time of the year in
Speaker 1: sports where we kind of get this buffet of options, right.
Speaker 1: The NFL and college football are in full swing. NBA
Speaker 1: and NHL seasons begins soon. That's just a few weeks away,
Speaker 1: and we've got a huge heavyweight boxing match this weekend,
Speaker 1: Fury of the Wilder Saturday Night in Vegas. I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I'll be ringside with our bed MGM family. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to attend my first fight, and maybe more importantly,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to scan the crowd for big celebs.
Speaker 1: Who do you think I'm gonna see? Oh? Man, everybody
Speaker 1: could be there. Who knows? It's it's a I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is the thing about boxing that really
Speaker 1: annoys me. I mean, we've been waiting for this fight
Speaker 1: for so long. We've been we always wait for fight,
Speaker 1: So I mean it could be every celebrity from Los
Speaker 1: Angeles flies in. Yeah, they got nothing to do, Hollywood
Speaker 1: shut down. There was just a big strike, so who
Speaker 1: knows they could all be there. Might have been seen
Speaker 1: Jack Paul. You know what? That does nothing for me?
Speaker 1: Like to me, he could walk in a room and
Speaker 1: I'd barely recognize him. I'm serious. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1: I know I'm the minority there, but I'm talking more
Speaker 1: like what real housewives are going to be there. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Okay, we have the perfect guest
Speaker 1: to help us preview this fight. He's credited with pulling
Speaker 1: off what maybe the greatest upset in sports history. One
Speaker 1: of the men who once held the belt, former undisputed
Speaker 1: heavyweight champ Buster Douglas, joins the show. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to pick his brain and of course have some fun
Speaker 1: with them now. Honest, I wasn't born in when he
Speaker 1: upset Mike Tyson. Do you remember where you were when
Speaker 1: this happened. Yeah, I was full adult when this happened.
Speaker 1: That's the age difference between me and you. Like, I
Speaker 1: was in uh, what was it, eighth grade or ninth grade?
Speaker 1: I remember it was. Yeah, I remember where I was
Speaker 1: for the O J trial. I remember where I was
Speaker 1: for this. This was That's how big this moment was.
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson was absolutely indestructible at that point. Nobody and
Speaker 1: their mother gave Buster Douglas a chance to win, and
Speaker 1: when he when he won, like, it was one of
Speaker 1: those things where everyone was calling everyone. There was no
Speaker 1: internet then, believe it. I'm from a time before the Internet,
Speaker 1: and so the news didn't spread as quick and you
Speaker 1: had to find out from a friend. And plus it
Speaker 1: was in Tokyo, so it wasn't televised, you couldn't watch it,
Speaker 1: and so it kind of trickled out slowly and everyone
Speaker 1: was in shock. Everyone just kind of walked outside and
Speaker 1: looked around, like does anything make sense? Everyone just locked
Speaker 1: out their door and looked around and waited to tell
Speaker 1: their neighbor the news, Like what did you have to
Speaker 1: wait for the nightly news that night to find out? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was back when local news was big. Trucky Scarborough
Speaker 1: was the biggest star in New York City. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know I have so many more questions to a sky
Speaker 1: about the late eighties and early nineties. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that later. Plus, at the end of the show, we're
Speaker 1: going to cut right to the chase and give you
Speaker 1: great betting insight for this weekend Slate with Peter Andrew
Speaker 1: from bet MGM. And you know we're gonna reveal who
Speaker 1: lost our punishment picks and who has to read the
Speaker 1: outro written for them by the winner. I've lost the
Speaker 1: last three, honest, I'm eager for a little redemption because
Speaker 1: I think my mother will ground me if I read
Speaker 1: your crass language on air one more time and my
Speaker 1: mom would say crass. Let me tell you right now, Olivia,
Speaker 1: this is just a fluke. Don't get used to it, Okay,
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. You know, one person who didn't
Speaker 1: win this week was our bad Beat of the Week.
Speaker 1: It's our man, Aaron Bailey, Bad Beat all the Week.
Speaker 1: He got eight of nine in a one game parlay
Speaker 1: Bangles and Jags Thursday Night Football. The one that he
Speaker 1: didn't get was Jamaar Chase to score any time, which
Speaker 1: seemed like a good bet. Chase got two touchdowns the
Speaker 1: week before or it is obviously a favorite of Joe Burrows.
Speaker 1: They went from LSU too since you together, so tough
Speaker 1: luck my man Aaron getting eight of your nine. That sucks.
Speaker 1: That's so close, but you actually did win here because
Speaker 1: listen to this. He only bet ten bucks on this
Speaker 1: whole part way and bet MGM is going to give
Speaker 1: him a hundred for submitting is bad beat. So look,
Speaker 1: as long as Twitter doesn't go down, make sure you
Speaker 1: submit your bad beat of the week to at bet
Speaker 1: MGM and you two can win one dollars at bet
Speaker 1: MGM will announce it on the show. Not a bad
Speaker 1: pay day from my man Aaron, not at all, not
Speaker 1: at all. Congrats Aaron. I like it. You know now
Speaker 1: it's our favorite segment of the show. Janice, I love
Speaker 1: this part. It's time for us to go off on
Speaker 1: one topic we feel passionately about this week. Be honest,
Speaker 1: let's unleash. It's time. Okay, I want to go first
Speaker 1: this week. I mentioned earlier, things are really shaping up
Speaker 1: in college football and we're going into week six in
Speaker 1: a twelve game season, which is crazy. So I know
Speaker 1: you follow the NFL a little bit closer than college football,
Speaker 1: and that's very East Coast of you, honest, So let
Speaker 1: me fill you in my alma mater. The University of
Speaker 1: Georgia looks like the best team in the country and
Speaker 1: they're still number two in the national rankings behind Alabama,
Speaker 1: which is infuriating. So let me spell this out why
Speaker 1: this is so crazy. They're five and o, which other
Speaker 1: teams in the country are too. But Georgia has two
Speaker 1: top five wins, and you know, in college football it's
Speaker 1: all about how you win because there's a committee who
Speaker 1: seeds everyone for the playoff, and it really is kind
Speaker 1: of opinion based. They'll have numbers back up their opinion.
Speaker 1: But you've got to win big. You got to run
Speaker 1: up the score, right even when you don't have to,
Speaker 1: because you have to have these statement wins. Well, they
Speaker 1: opened the season against number three Clemson, Clemson who everyone
Speaker 1: touts every preseason. They held them to just a field goal.
Speaker 1: And then last weekend they had ESPN game Day their
Speaker 1: home game, a lot of pomp and circumstance, and they
Speaker 1: shut out number eight Arkansas, who everyone was saying, is
Speaker 1: this blossoming giant in the SEC? Arkansas was kind of
Speaker 1: becoming the sweetheart of the SEC. Well, Georgia one thirty
Speaker 1: seven to zero without their starting quarterback. Honest, look at this.
Speaker 1: Alabama has faced zero top ten teams. The best they
Speaker 1: got was Miami week one in Florida, who went on
Speaker 1: to lose to Kentucky this weekend. They've also allowed two
Speaker 1: touchdowns from both Mercer Do you even know where Mercer is? Jannice? No?
Speaker 1: I know Ron Merson the basketball player, and that's about it, Okay,
Speaker 1: Mercers in Atlanta in Southern miss Currently, they have no
Speaker 1: top ten teams on their remaining schedule, so that means
Speaker 1: unless one of their future opponents really shoots up there,
Speaker 1: they're not going to beat a top ten team all
Speaker 1: season and you just watch. They're still going to be
Speaker 1: number one the a people week after week while Georgia
Speaker 1: is putting together this monster resume with stiffer competition. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you get it? How fresh reading that is? It
Speaker 1: does sound frustrating to me, and so does this college
Speaker 1: football system. It's stupid, you know, it is kind of stupid.
Speaker 1: That's why they're going to expand the playoff and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of change to college football. We
Speaker 1: have touched on it in this show. And I know
Speaker 1: you into American University. I'm pretty sure they don't even
Speaker 1: have a football team. So are you ready to become
Speaker 1: an honorary Georgia Bulldogs fan for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I am, and I have to correct you. It's the
Speaker 1: American University, like it, it's the Ohio State. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't have a football team. It was a small school
Speaker 1: of five thousand. So I am a free agent and
Speaker 1: you know I am now a Georgia Bulldog and I
Speaker 1: am also a Toronto Raptor. Yes, well, we need national
Speaker 1: advocates because everyone is blinded by the hound's tooth of Alabama. Okay,
Speaker 1: honest I feel better now it's your turn. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're justified, Olivia. You know that that's this is one
Speaker 1: time again where heart and head they aligned. So I'm
Speaker 1: with you girl, I'm with you girl. Let's go Georgia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right out. Time to talk about something that nobody
Speaker 1: has talked about. It's on nobody's mind. Urban Meyer, my
Speaker 1: man who I would love to grab a beer with. Butter,
Speaker 1: I'd love to meet you down in Jacksonville and hit
Speaker 1: a bar and get some lap dances together. Give the
Speaker 1: guy a break, man. I mean, we live in such
Speaker 1: an era of snitches. I mean, he's Urban Meyer. He's
Speaker 1: been a cocky asshole his whole life. This is not shocking.
Speaker 1: He went out and he unwinded a little bit. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's when he gets his best thinking done when he
Speaker 1: goes to his restaurant. He eats a nice fat steak
Speaker 1: and he gets a lap dance from a twenty five
Speaker 1: year old. Big deal. It's got nothing to do with
Speaker 1: their football, even though they are alling four. If they
Speaker 1: were four and oh right, he I think he would
Speaker 1: still get in trouble for this. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: like this. This is just gossipy news. He's a football coach.
Speaker 1: He's not a politician, he's not a religious leader. Leave
Speaker 1: him alone, and can people please stop filming everything. Let
Speaker 1: the guy get a lap dance, big deal. It's between
Speaker 1: him and his wife and that's it. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about it. JFK used to have hooker pool parties at
Speaker 1: the White House. Okay, that's a known fact. But he
Speaker 1: also saved the world from a nuclear war by having
Speaker 1: back channel negotiations with CRUs Jeff with the Cuban missile crisis.
Speaker 1: So you know, if JFK was around now, he would
Speaker 1: have got canceled and maybe the world would be blown up.
Speaker 1: I mean, just leave it alone. I mean, Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King used to cheat on his wife too, but he
Speaker 1: was the greatest civil rights leader this country has ever known.
Speaker 1: So this is canceled culture. To me, this is irrelevant.
Speaker 1: It's got nothing to do with football. You know, he's
Speaker 1: got a rookie quarterback they're rowing for. He will figure
Speaker 1: it out. He will turn it around in his second
Speaker 1: year or third year. If he's not fired for this.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but this is what
Speaker 1: you call bullshit. Yeah, I think the young woman at
Speaker 1: the bar was just giving him some unnecessary roughness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, or maybe listen, maybe she is a football
Speaker 1: savant like you, and she was giving him a few
Speaker 1: tips and the bars very loud. You know how bars
Speaker 1: can be right, So maybe they just had to get
Speaker 1: very close so he could hear her. I bet that
Speaker 1: was it, you know what, You're right, And I think
Speaker 1: she had like a Hitten playbook or something in the
Speaker 1: back pocket of her jeans. Maybe that was it might
Speaker 1: have been. No, look, this is this is my take
Speaker 1: on this. I don't feel like we should politicize or
Speaker 1: glamorize athletes or coaches and make them this moral compass.
Speaker 1: I've thought that for a long time, Like whatever the
Speaker 1: hot topic of the day. I don't feel like we
Speaker 1: need to demand athletes and coaches regardless. If they are
Speaker 1: role models, if kids wear their jerseys, that's great. They
Speaker 1: are entertainers. We pay money to watch them entertained. They
Speaker 1: don't need to be our moral compass. If you want
Speaker 1: a moral compass, read philosophy, go to church. Don't look
Speaker 1: at urban Meyer for it's right and what's wrong. I
Speaker 1: just I don't think that his marriage is any of
Speaker 1: our business. And I cannot believe reporters at an actual
Speaker 1: press conference asked if he apologized to his family. That
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with football, that has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with us. We don't know their marriage. Plenty of
Speaker 1: people have different types of marriages, and his wife has
Speaker 1: been liking tweets that have been having fun with this
Speaker 1: whole thing. So I I have a hard time believing
Speaker 1: that the family is very distraught over him kind of
Speaker 1: canoe to ling with a young woman at a bar.
Speaker 1: Another thing, these camera phones everywhere. You know he's not
Speaker 1: doing things that other people are not. Again, doesn't make
Speaker 1: it right or wrong, but I think in general, if
Speaker 1: he's being reprimanded at all, it's kind of like, dude,
Speaker 1: be smarter, don't be in public. There are tons of people.
Speaker 1: He was taking post pictures with people, so I think
Speaker 1: that's interesting. One thing that does look bad from a
Speaker 1: team perspective is he didn't fly home with the team.
Speaker 1: That happens a lot, you know in sports if you
Speaker 1: do have a bye week and off week and people
Speaker 1: end up going to do so with their family or whatever.
Speaker 1: But not a good look that. Then he stayed in Columbus.
Speaker 1: He stayed in Ohio and did that. But I have
Speaker 1: a friend on the team. I texted him, what's the vibe.
Speaker 1: They don't care, They're fine this. You better believe his
Speaker 1: players are not upset at his moral judgment over this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's really like people gotta stop film,
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's it's unfortunate because in comedy, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle takes everyone's cell phone before he does any show,
Speaker 1: and it's like, people just stop recording and live your life.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, you know, stop making movies out of everything.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Lawrence Taylor like had to deal
Speaker 1: with people having cameras while he was you know, drinking
Speaker 1: in between games and and you know, occasionally smoking a
Speaker 1: little crack rock. Big deal. You know, he still did
Speaker 1: his job on the football field and is the best
Speaker 1: defensive player of all time. We got to stop this
Speaker 1: puritanical purge and left football players be football players. It's
Speaker 1: a stressful job, Jesus. That all being said, if it
Speaker 1: was my husband or my dad, I'd belivid. So again,
Speaker 1: this isn't my take on how we behaved. He behaved poorly,
Speaker 1: and it's embarrassing and it's a bad look. That being said,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the media's business. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's anything to do with football the way he's coaching
Speaker 1: or his team. And he has a really spotty track
Speaker 1: record as is, so this is not the first blooper
Speaker 1: in his reel. Let's just say, yeah, well listen, Kevin Harland,
Speaker 1: let's get a beer together. Man. Were at least we're
Speaker 1: in the same age bracket, so I'll make sure there's
Speaker 1: no cell phones. Yeah, you're gonna be bored to death
Speaker 1: if you go get a beer with my dad. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be like going to get a beer Urban Meyer.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. He's my favorite announcer, and
Speaker 1: I've said that many times, and I mean it. It
Speaker 1: would not be boring. I would love to pick his
Speaker 1: brain about sports yea, and also about his daughter. How
Speaker 1: did she become so talented and great? Oh see, now
Speaker 1: you're the second up to me because you know you
Speaker 1: lost punishment picks and you know I'm right in your
Speaker 1: outro and you want me to be kind. But let's
Speaker 1: move on and get to this weekend's fight, and let's
Speaker 1: bring in someone who knows what they're talking about. A
Speaker 1: former heavyweight champ Buster Douglas has come up now, let's
Speaker 1: bringing our guest. He's a former heavyweight champion of the
Speaker 1: world and pulled off one of the greatest upsets of
Speaker 1: all time when he knocked out and undefeated Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: in James Buster Douglas is here. Buster thinks, so much
Speaker 1: for joining the show. How are you a good time?
Speaker 1: Good good? You know, I want to just take you
Speaker 1: back to that moment. I know you've been asked every
Speaker 1: question under the sun about that fight, but it was
Speaker 1: your second shot at the title, the second chance. First
Speaker 1: time was against Tony Tucker, and you were actually given
Speaker 1: more of a chance in that fight, not so much
Speaker 1: the second time around against Tyson. Do you think that
Speaker 1: helped you? We look at that chip on the shoulder
Speaker 1: a lot in sports. Did that help? I think the
Speaker 1: motivation was definitely there because you said I had a
Speaker 1: little better appreciate you for it at to have him
Speaker 1: on the first title shot, and I was really excited
Speaker 1: about it and more determined than ever to succeed Buster.
Speaker 1: I was, you know that was I mean, that fight
Speaker 1: shocked the world. I remember I got a call. I
Speaker 1: remember where I was for that. I remember where I
Speaker 1: was for the O J Verke I mean that was
Speaker 1: big news when I was in high school. You were
Speaker 1: you were on a six fight wind streak, though, I
Speaker 1: mean you were looking the best you ever looked. Everyone
Speaker 1: and the media was talking about how this was gonna
Speaker 1: be just another tune up fight for Tyson. But do
Speaker 1: you think Tyson knew that he had his handsful? Considering
Speaker 1: how good you look preceding that fight, I mean you
Speaker 1: were looking good six in a row. Yeah. I was
Speaker 1: really worked hard and uh prepare you know, put my
Speaker 1: all effort into it, and uh it was really excited
Speaker 1: about being an opportunity to fight for the title again.
Speaker 1: I was more determined than ever and I felt very
Speaker 1: confident going into the fight. Did you talk any ship
Speaker 1: to him in the ring? No, No, you just went
Speaker 1: to work. I was always telling not to run off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just went to where let my hands go, Let
Speaker 1: my hands do the talking. I like that. So much
Speaker 1: has been written about that fight. What's something that fans
Speaker 1: or media may be surprised to know about that night
Speaker 1: in Tokyo. Well, it was the fight was actually at noon,
Speaker 1: you know, at twelve o'clock noon Tokyo time, and uh,
Speaker 1: we were paying and training around that time and in
Speaker 1: the ring and noon. We were trained the noon. Every
Speaker 1: day I got up and round in the morning, Hey, breakfast,
Speaker 1: and went back to take a little nap and then
Speaker 1: went back to the gym. So at twelve o'clock I
Speaker 1: was preparing for the fight every day. When you were
Speaker 1: out there in Japan, I mean you're training, You're burning
Speaker 1: a lot of calories. You gotta eat. Uh get sushi?
Speaker 1: You're a fan of sushi? Was the food weird? Not
Speaker 1: at all? No, I mean uh American food and saying yeah,
Speaker 1: basically saying died I was on when I was in
Speaker 1: the United States. Have you ever tried sushi though? No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Yeah, no, I feel you no my
Speaker 1: cup of tea, I like like like flames and I
Speaker 1: hear you buster. How much did your life change after
Speaker 1: that fight? I mean all of a sudden, you're a
Speaker 1: household name from boxing fans and beyond. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: just went on a total circus of a media tour
Speaker 1: and met all these people. What was the biggest change, Well,
Speaker 1: just like you said, it was just a media circus
Speaker 1: and I wasn't hired demand where everybody wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to me, and no who I was, where I came from.
Speaker 1: It was like I was alien from another planet. But
Speaker 1: you know what's interesting about that fight, not only did
Speaker 1: you beat Tyson, but you really set the blueprint for
Speaker 1: how to beat him afterwards by keeping him at bay
Speaker 1: with the jab, keeping him away jab jab jab jab
Speaker 1: jab jab jab. Did you know that that was gonna
Speaker 1: be the key to fight them and to beat them
Speaker 1: or did that just was was that something that came
Speaker 1: to you while you were in the ring. No, this
Speaker 1: is something my father and I discussed. He was telling me,
Speaker 1: always telling me to be first, don't sit dren be looking,
Speaker 1: let your hands go and and go from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because that jab really kept him away. Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: see Lennox Lewis beat him that way, even if Vanderer
Speaker 1: beat him that way, and that was the way just
Speaker 1: like if anyone wanted to beat Tyson after that, you
Speaker 1: really just kept him away, kept him from getting inside
Speaker 1: with that job. So that was that's very interesting that
Speaker 1: you kind of you beat Tyson, but then also people
Speaker 1: copied you afterwards to beat them with the style. Correct. Yeah, Buster,
Speaker 1: Where do you think the sport of boxing has grown
Speaker 1: since you've hung it up? And where do you think
Speaker 1: it's going I think it's grown quite a bit, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think it says it still has a bright future,
Speaker 1: you know, being a great sport that it is, you know,
Speaker 1: one on one individuals in the battle, battle lane it out.
Speaker 1: I think it has It's gonna be around for a
Speaker 1: long time to come, that's for sure. What do you
Speaker 1: think about all the antics outside of the ring? That
Speaker 1: has grown a great deal? Uh, you know, entering the ring,
Speaker 1: it's very theatrical, you know, but you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how you enter the ring is what you do
Speaker 1: once you get inside there. That that has never changed.
Speaker 1: If the theatrics leading up to it has gotten pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: But so I want to ask you in that fight,
Speaker 1: you actually got knocked out. So he felt Tyson's power
Speaker 1: with that, with his famous uppercut that he puts so
Speaker 1: many heads to sleep, which stretched so many people out
Speaker 1: with What does Mike Tyson's power feel like? Well, it's
Speaker 1: it's a force, you know, he has a lot of
Speaker 1: force behind it as well the impact, you know, and
Speaker 1: it really it doesn't feel like, you know, you've really
Speaker 1: been hit. That's why it's so sweet and so sneaky.
Speaker 1: It's not like you get crushed with it. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a sneaky type of feeling, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: delayed reaction. You know, it's kind of weird to describe it.
Speaker 1: But did he hit the hardest of anyone? No, not
Speaker 1: at all. I've been here a lot harder. You know
Speaker 1: before Wow, who hit harder than him had a small
Speaker 1: partner to get hit pretty good. You know. He was
Speaker 1: like a cruisyweight and uh, you know, it's just sometimes
Speaker 1: some guys just happen that and said, I don't, Wow,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the hardest and I had ever been hit.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the fight this week in between Deante
Speaker 1: Wilder and Tyson Fury. It's their third fight. These guys
Speaker 1: genuinely seem to hate each other. We were talking about
Speaker 1: antics out of the ring. Was there ever an opponent
Speaker 1: that you actually disliked like they do? Not? Really? Okay,
Speaker 1: you know it was it was, It's always been. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was always depressed. That was my main enemy, you know,
Speaker 1: because of never getting getting acknowledge like I thought I
Speaker 1: should have been. But that's what kept me going, and
Speaker 1: that what led to me becoming a heavyweight champion of
Speaker 1: the world. Buster in that tuck of fight, the press.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the press, they created the storyline that you
Speaker 1: quit and then you got known as the quitter. Did
Speaker 1: you quit or was it just that you got tired
Speaker 1: or what happened there? You know that really transpires right
Speaker 1: back in the beginning of training camp. There was a
Speaker 1: lot going on. It was not a smooth transition leading
Speaker 1: up to the fight. It was just a lot of
Speaker 1: madness going on within the camp and kind of just
Speaker 1: pulled over into the fight. Don't believe it or not.
Speaker 1: You have to have a controlled environment leading up to
Speaker 1: a fight. Everything's going smoothly. You know, you're working, focusing
Speaker 1: on training and preparing for your fight. But there was
Speaker 1: a lot of distractions leading up during that Tucker fight,
Speaker 1: and I think it just carried over into the ring.
Speaker 1: So it left a lot of doubt, a lot of
Speaker 1: miss judgments because of my performance. But I still felt
Speaker 1: determined that I knew I had to had what it
Speaker 1: takes to become a heavyweight champion of the world, and
Speaker 1: it just made me even more determined once I came
Speaker 1: up short in that Tucker fight to come back and
Speaker 1: still obtaining a childhood dream by becoming a heavyweight champion
Speaker 1: of the world and afterwards you fought a Vander and
Speaker 1: then a Vander ended up beating Tyson easily twice. Did
Speaker 1: the boxing world know of Vander? Was that dangerous? Do
Speaker 1: you think Tyson new? What? What were your thoughts about
Speaker 1: a Vander holly Field at the time. I knew he
Speaker 1: was a great fighter, and you know, he had attention
Speaker 1: to be a great fighter, and you know he was
Speaker 1: a determined individual, and you had to be on point,
Speaker 1: totally focusing at your best to going there and compete
Speaker 1: against me. So I was well aware, and that's why
Speaker 1: I accepted the challenge because I thought at the time,
Speaker 1: I thought everything was gonna be going as smoothly as ever.
Speaker 1: But it didn't work out like that, but it was
Speaker 1: still a great opportunity, and I just, uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I did what I could at that time. Who hits harder?
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson or Vander holy Field? I always said, anybody
Speaker 1: that has over two h pounds had a pretty good punch,
Speaker 1: and and so once you get hit, you get hit,
Speaker 1: So you know they're all the same. Who do you
Speaker 1: think the greatest heavyweight of all time? Is? I always
Speaker 1: a great say Muhammad Ali? Well, he's always been one
Speaker 1: of my favorite fighters and started a kind of president
Speaker 1: towards Ali. Got a chance to meet him and hang
Speaker 1: out with him. He's pretty great with a great guy.
Speaker 1: When we look at other sports, guys who are teammates
Speaker 1: when they retire, they have a bond, kind of a fraternity.
Speaker 1: Does that exist in boxing so much? Are there guys
Speaker 1: who maybe win against or just cross paths with that
Speaker 1: you're friendly with this day? Yeah, it's like that. You
Speaker 1: know some guys that you know. For me, it's not
Speaker 1: only in the heavyweight division, but it's in the other
Speaker 1: divisions as well. Opportunities. I was a big fan of
Speaker 1: other guys and that opportunity to meet him and got
Speaker 1: to know him and walked away like he is a
Speaker 1: really great guy. So yeah, that carries over in boxing
Speaker 1: as well. What do you think about m m A
Speaker 1: Because I know you train young kids now, do you
Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot of kids coming in who
Speaker 1: are training with boxing as one aspect of what they
Speaker 1: want to do well? The kids that I work with,
Speaker 1: our strictly boxers, And uh, it's a joy because I
Speaker 1: see myself and a lot of them coming up at
Speaker 1: that young age. Because I started a team as a
Speaker 1: ten year old and it's just like reliving it all
Speaker 1: over again. But I'm on the other end. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. I really enjoy it and having a great
Speaker 1: time with them. You see any potential in any of
Speaker 1: them to maybe one day be the next Buster Douglas.
Speaker 1: I see it in all of them really, one way
Speaker 1: or another. You know, it's just, Uh, they're exciting to
Speaker 1: be around, and they're positive individuals, and uh, we all
Speaker 1: have a dream, so you know, not to knock anyone's dream.
Speaker 1: You know, it's to enhance it and and make it better.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it will come true. What did you hate most
Speaker 1: about the media and the storylines they created? Was one
Speaker 1: of them that you hated that you didn't have the
Speaker 1: ferocity that your dad had ad or that you were
Speaker 1: a quitter? Like? What made you hate the media so
Speaker 1: much and what they said about you? I never hated
Speaker 1: the media. It was just everybody in their own opinion,
Speaker 1: everybody's entire to your own opinion. But it was just
Speaker 1: I never listened to him. You know, I could care
Speaker 1: less what they thought because I knew what was inside
Speaker 1: of me, and people around me knew what I was
Speaker 1: capable of doing, and we just made the best of it.
Speaker 1: And then nothing else. It was feel for the fire
Speaker 1: that seems to be a big part of your message
Speaker 1: and your mojo. That's such a great thing also to
Speaker 1: be teaching the kids that you're working with now about
Speaker 1: using that harnessing that energy. I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: again the fight this weekend overall, style wise, who do
Speaker 1: you like to win? Fury or Wilder? I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I would have to say Fury has it is because
Speaker 1: he is a boxing and Wilder has got a new
Speaker 1: trainer and I think he's changed his technique a little differently.
Speaker 1: But we want to see how how far how long
Speaker 1: he can sustain that, because there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on with the wild on this fight, fighting
Speaker 1: Fury and having a new trainer and going into it
Speaker 1: with one idea with a different aspect, but getting hit
Speaker 1: and wants to combat, wants to fight starts and things
Speaker 1: starting not going your way, as you're gonna maintain that
Speaker 1: ability to continue this new style, as he's gonna revert
Speaker 1: back to the old Wilder or it gets kind of
Speaker 1: wild and depends on that right hand to change things.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, but there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of weight on wilder shoulders see if
Speaker 1: he can sustain this new technique and ability that he
Speaker 1: has been working on for the last few weeks. Everybody
Speaker 1: talks about the skills in boxing and the power, but
Speaker 1: there's also a mental aspect to it as well. Like
Speaker 1: you see when everyone fought Tyson, they look scared. When
Speaker 1: you saw a Fury fight a Wilder for the first time,
Speaker 1: he looked a little scared of the right hand, but
Speaker 1: then in the second fight he didn't look scared. How
Speaker 1: big a role does the fear and mental aspect play
Speaker 1: in approaching a fight when you enter the ring. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I was saying earlier about. You know, my
Speaker 1: burning point is maintaining that mental strength, staying focused, not
Speaker 1: getting overly excited and get losing your losing the game plan,
Speaker 1: because everybody walks in there for the game plan, but
Speaker 1: it's always it's all my own fact that once you
Speaker 1: get hit and get hit again and again, can you
Speaker 1: sustain that same mental toughness to where you can stay
Speaker 1: focused enough to whether that's storm and come out with
Speaker 1: the same game plan and continue on, especially if it's
Speaker 1: working everything's working for you, because sometimes it doesn't work
Speaker 1: out in the earlier part of the fight, but you
Speaker 1: got twelve rounds to change things and have a different approach.
Speaker 1: But it's all about the mental toughness, and it's and
Speaker 1: how you react to once you get hit and things
Speaker 1: don't look as clear and get some on our edge
Speaker 1: of the year spectrum where you might might not want
Speaker 1: to stay focused and continue to believe in what you
Speaker 1: want into the ring with. It's all about mental toughness,
Speaker 1: and whoever sustains that this fight coming up, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the winner. That's good insight. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good one, you know. Buster. We always like to have
Speaker 1: some fun with our guests, and since you pulled off
Speaker 1: one of the greatest upsets of all time, we'd like
Speaker 1: to know what upsets you. So we're going to list
Speaker 1: some things that are common everyday nuisances, and you tell
Speaker 1: us how upset that makes you. Are you ready? I'm ready? Okay.
Speaker 1: The first one is when someone takes their shoes off
Speaker 1: on an airplane. How upset does that make you? It
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me unless it's a bad older you know.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I'm fine, okay, Okay. How about people
Speaker 1: talking very loud on their speaker phone on their cell
Speaker 1: phone in public. Well, that's pretty annoying. First, when you're
Speaker 1: trying to get some rest, I'm playing or something like that,
Speaker 1: trying to sleep, and somebody's on behind you on the
Speaker 1: speaker phone chitcha and all loud, unruly. That could be
Speaker 1: a very annoying. Yeah, and then you hear all their business.
Speaker 1: I hate that too. What about bad service at a restaurant? Oh,
Speaker 1: I hate that the most because when I'm going to
Speaker 1: a restaurant, I'm hungry. They need to get meal and
Speaker 1: relaxing and enjoying the company that I'm with. Ye, that
Speaker 1: could be very annoying as well. Uh man, this one's
Speaker 1: a tough one for me. But let's see how you
Speaker 1: feel about it. Long lines at the DMV, night man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I usually I usually have somebody standing in line for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: until up to the door and then I'll go in. Okay.
Speaker 1: What about when you pull up to a store and
Speaker 1: you're trying to park and someone has parked just so
Speaker 1: that you could have fit another car in, but they
Speaker 1: left too much room on both sides. You can't park there,
Speaker 1: night man. I could be very could be a touch
Speaker 1: of situation. You want to turn into the incredible hawking
Speaker 1: and slide the car over, and I think you could.
Speaker 1: Very annoying. Buster. How about people leaving their shopping carts
Speaker 1: in the middle of a parking lot, you know, and
Speaker 1: they don't put the shopping car back. That's really annoying,
Speaker 1: especially we got a nice car. This one. Yeah, easily
Speaker 1: started coming towards your car. Type your car and scritching
Speaker 1: not a good thing. Yeah, yeah, you can't mess with
Speaker 1: a car, that's right. Okay, this one. My husband gets
Speaker 1: very mad at me about when I reach over and
Speaker 1: have a bite of his food. Oh yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: so bad. Oh, that's that's nice. Yeah, sharing is carrying Olivia,
Speaker 1: sharing his carring exactly. That's what that's what I want
Speaker 1: to I'm going to make sure I tell my husband.
Speaker 1: How about what you're dropping a douce and you look
Speaker 1: over and there's no toilet paper. Someone forgot to replace
Speaker 1: the toilet paper last Very annoying, very annoying. That upset you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just all I'll speak on that. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: always check before I go in there anyway, and make
Speaker 1: sure somebody was polite enough to make sure it was
Speaker 1: paper on the road before the next individual comes in. Okay,
Speaker 1: what about when people are talking at a movie theater
Speaker 1: and you can't hear the movie. That's not good, that's horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they talked throughout the whole movie. Oh here he comes
Speaker 1: in one scene. Just see. Oh yeah, look at this
Speaker 1: is what I was talking about. What's this? It was
Speaker 1: like ship up nightmare? Okay, honest, you picked the last one. Okay,
Speaker 1: the last one is how much does it upset you
Speaker 1: that Jake Paul is making the most money boxing right now.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have certly at all. It's like a power touring,
Speaker 1: you know. It's just it's this individual that's final Paulson.
Speaker 1: He's taking total advantage of it. Yeah. Him, Do you
Speaker 1: have one more fighting you? And will you fight Jack
Speaker 1: Paul and knock him out? I've always got one more
Speaker 1: fighting mee to walk and talk and breathe. I always
Speaker 1: feel like I've got another fight in me. Laugh. That
Speaker 1: is the perfect place to end. That's very inspiring. Your
Speaker 1: story so inspiring. We appreciate you coming on, Buster. This
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Thanks for having I appreciate enjoying.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot of fun. Time to get to
Speaker 1: this weekend's action. Let's go ahead and bring in bed
Speaker 1: MGM betting expert Peter Andrew. And you know what, Peter,
Speaker 1: I guess you're invite to Vegas this weekend. Got lost
Speaker 1: in the mail again. I keep thinking you've got more
Speaker 1: pole in the company than you do, so I don't
Speaker 1: think maybe next time. A lot of people think that,
Speaker 1: But I'm coming to realize I got about as much
Speaker 1: pull as the intern. Oh gosh, you'll be watching from home.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be ringside at Wilder v. Fury this weekend
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, the whole bed MGM family. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Give us a little preview of what bet ors can
Speaker 1: expect him where they should put their money. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: happened to be our newest that MGM ambassador Arial Hallan.
Speaker 1: He had an amazing interview with with Tyson Fury a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. I thought that showed us everything.
Speaker 1: He's super relaxed. Tyson. He just looks like he's ready
Speaker 1: for this fight. He's obviously been training, but he got
Speaker 1: Dante Wilder, who was a little bit on edge. He
Speaker 1: the accusation has been cheating from last fight. He still
Speaker 1: talks about it. I think Fury is coming in just
Speaker 1: clear head ready to roll. You know, first flight was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a fluke in my opinion, being
Speaker 1: a draw. But I love Tyson Fury this weekend. I
Speaker 1: don't think it goes to distance. I like in minus
Speaker 1: two seventy five he had a lay a little bit
Speaker 1: there to win just the fight out right, but minus
Speaker 1: one ten to win by either T K O, K
Speaker 1: O d Q, etcetera. So I really like him to finish,
Speaker 1: probably within the four to six round window. But overall
Speaker 1: he looks great. The Fury family as a whole, just
Speaker 1: they are superior boxers. Might see his his brother against
Speaker 1: Jake Paul in a couple of months, but for now,
Speaker 1: Tyson takes care of it. This weekend in Vegas. Did
Speaker 1: Dante Wilder's changing his coach change the lines at all?
Speaker 1: Did he come up at all? Now? It was pretty
Speaker 1: much it stayed pretty status quo. I think Fury might
Speaker 1: have even been a bit more of a favorite glass
Speaker 1: go round. But I think things have changed pretty consistently
Speaker 1: or stay the same, I should say pretty consistently throughout
Speaker 1: this one. I think it's a bit more lopsided than
Speaker 1: people may have thought a couple of years ago. So
Speaker 1: I expect that to be the case. You say, the
Speaker 1: whole bet MGM family is gonna be there. But you
Speaker 1: know there was no invite for me to be ringside.
Speaker 1: So Olivia enjoy it while I watch it on television.
Speaker 1: I will. So it's not just me. Here's there's the
Speaker 1: odd man out. It's it's me and it's both both
Speaker 1: of us. Great, it's a Greek thing. Yeah, okay, Jents,
Speaker 1: what do you say we move on to football? Looking
Speaker 1: ahead at this week, we always do our punishment picks,
Speaker 1: and Pete, you picked the three games for us. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and run down your slate punishment. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think three pretty decent games. Definitely two of them.
Speaker 1: Third one will say Brown's Chargers take them. Right now,
Speaker 1: Chargers look really good against the Raiders. Browns have looked
Speaker 1: really good the entire season for the most part. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think they're I think the Chargers are
Speaker 1: the real deal being the three and O Raiders last
Speaker 1: week shout out in the first half. That was a
Speaker 1: huge win. This is easy. Give me the Chargers. I'm
Speaker 1: going with the revitalized Cleveland Brown. So we disagree on
Speaker 1: this one. Given me a chance again to redeem myself.
Speaker 1: Second one, this is the game I was talking about
Speaker 1: that I don't know how close it will be, but
Speaker 1: always a rivalry Game of the week. Giants plus seven
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. So Cowboys touchdown? Favorite? What do you
Speaker 1: guys think they're? Cowboys look great, They lead the division.
Speaker 1: They've won three straight since their Thursday night opener against Tampa.
Speaker 1: They've rapped over four hundred yards of offense in three
Speaker 1: of their four games. They have so anyways to do it,
Speaker 1: so many weapons. I like the Boys by a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and I'd probably even take that if it went up
Speaker 1: to ten or more. I like the Giants. This is
Speaker 1: one time where my heart and head could line up nicely.
Speaker 1: The Giants look great. A couple of weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: remember even Peter you saying you don't think Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: is the answer. He it looks like he heard you
Speaker 1: and he took it. Personally. He looks great, absolutely great.
Speaker 1: Quan is finally looking great. They're letting him run. The
Speaker 1: Giants look amazing. Defense is coming through New York is
Speaker 1: coming back, build back better, baby. I mean by now,
Speaker 1: I think you guys know that I'm a mush So
Speaker 1: whatever you want to happen. Just let me know the
Speaker 1: opposite and it will come to fruition. Last game so
Speaker 1: big one. I believe this is Sunday Night Football. Bills
Speaker 1: plus two and a half against the Chiefs. What do
Speaker 1: you guys like there? Rematch of the a f C
Speaker 1: Championship that is so good it's going to be more
Speaker 1: drama on Sunday Night football. Is that they didn't get
Speaker 1: enough last week. The Chiefs covered last week in their
Speaker 1: win over Philly for the first time since Week eight
Speaker 1: last season in a regular season game. I don't trust
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to cover. I don't know if it stays
Speaker 1: under six, I'm in on the spread right now or
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to win outright money line. Look, Chiefs make
Speaker 1: me nervous. They're my team, They're my a f C team.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to cover too big a
Speaker 1: number because they kind of have a habit of playing
Speaker 1: with their food. They make these games hard on themselves.
Speaker 1: The offense is such a high ceiling when everything's clicking.
Speaker 1: I think they might get Josh Gordon, a wide receiver
Speaker 1: this week for a big body target from homes, but
Speaker 1: their defense is not good again. Take this number low
Speaker 1: two and a half. I'll take Chiefs. Wow. Listen, this
Speaker 1: is what makes this fun. This is the only time
Speaker 1: you and Olivia are going to disagree on all three pear.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I am going with Buffalo from this
Speaker 1: point on. I don't think they're gonna lose a game.
Speaker 1: The city of Buffalo needs this. You know, there's no
Speaker 1: city in the NFL that needs this team to win
Speaker 1: more Buffalo. I'm behind you New York all the way
Speaker 1: this weekend. Baby, Yeah, Buffalo. I mean last week, granted
Speaker 1: they were playing the Texans, but pretty impressive. I think
Speaker 1: three nothing something like that. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good one on Sunday night for sure. Well, thanks so much, Peter.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to go to bed MGM on Twitter on
Speaker 1: Monday to place your bad beat of the week. If
Speaker 1: you agree or disagree with any of our picks, don't
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Speaker 1: on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or anywhere you find your podcasts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead and bring it home this week?
Speaker 1: Since you lost our punishment picks. Ah, yeah, this is Look,
Speaker 1: there's the first time for everything. This is more of
Speaker 1: a fluke people, so I want you to know this
Speaker 1: is a fluke. Okay, I will be back next week,
Speaker 1: don't you stress it. But thank you for listening as always.
Speaker 1: And hey queens, it's me Yanni Poppy. You probably recognize
Speaker 1: me from local pocket patches or sipping PSL's at Starbucks,
Speaker 1: anything with super cute fall fields because I am hashtag
Speaker 1: too blessed to be stressed, yas. I like watching The
Speaker 1: Real Housewives on my seventy screen in my man cave
Speaker 1: and listen to the podcasts that break down all the
Speaker 1: juicy Housewives drama, specifically watch What Crappins Live. I am
Speaker 1: so glad Olivia let me come on her show every
Speaker 1: week so I can try to soak up some of
Speaker 1: her vast knowledge. I love following her on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Olivia Decker and on Instagram at Olivia Harlan Decker. She
Speaker 1: actually has two Instagram accounts, guys, so make sure you
Speaker 1: follow both so you can try to soak up some
Speaker 1: of her awesome. Also, Lilivia, I have to say you
Speaker 1: are simply superior in all things. Thank you for being you.
Speaker 1: That's our show, which is really just all you. We'll
Speaker 1: see you cool cats and kittens next week. Now, I
Speaker 1: leave you with a song. I could be brown, I
Speaker 1: could be blue, I could be Via list guy. I
Speaker 1: could be hurtful. I could be anything you like. Gotta
Speaker 1: be green, gotta be mean, gotta be everything more. Why
Speaker 1: don't you like me, Olivia? Why don't you like me?
Speaker 1: Why don't you walk out the door.