marred by worrying signs of radical islam is gaining traction in the country. and america's efforts in afghanistan get a bleak assessment on the leaked cia report describes the situation as a stalemate with corruption and incompetent governance undermining previous president optimism a decade ago. but next one of america's most successful boxing stars tells r.t. whether russia could punch each way to the top of the sport. hello again

a welcome to spotlight clinging to me shall i take my mouthing off and today my guest in the studio is labelled truth. exists bikini girls and money bags around the ring made boxing one of the most masculine and glamorous sports high hopes and high stakes are often busted by a deadly right to violent approach and while the loser sniffs omonia and wipes blood from his face the one that takes on all the boxing hall of fame is dominated by americans but recently more and more champs are coming from the east from russia and the former soviet union states is it a trend or mere coincidence can russia become a new boxing superpower we're asking pool a lot of relentless booster the former heavyweight champion and the man who once knocked out ladder. lehmann brewster is one of the most successful heavyweight boxer is in history first as an amateur he wants several big

competitions in america the failing to qualify for the atlanta olympics he turned professional brewster's biggest fights came in last may guess when but in a klitschko part of the family that's became dominant at the beijing securing him the w b o title. welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today well first of all i want to ask that about that. website it's called the fighting connection come to my website and it's cleaning that that this website it's going to try to truly make boxing the global sport it's your website to me is books include ready global sport as it is it is a global sport but a few things for the first thing is it's so hard to get sparring partners like when you speak about how russia and rest of europe is now becoming dominant that's

because they are adopting the the western way of fighting but with their way of training but yet at the same time western fighters don't have access to be able to spar with european fighters so they're being dominated you know and a lot of times when a guy is looking for a gentleman a different country a different city a state he has no clue how to find like you know sam going to paris found a little box and you know how do i find it you know it may not be listed there may be a great gym but five the connection is just too quick to civvy you quit where you're looking for and there you have it so this is so slight look like a search machine in the internet give marks all full context morse and i'm a kickboxing and as i say sparring is very difficult in america because i remember getting ready for vladimir klitschko fight you know his style was not a typical american style so what i ended up door was reading guys from the other

side of whoa to get them to can to find out that they were not that kind of guy that i nice i need to get rid of them and at the last moment is to try to find somebody else or i would hurt the guy inspiring and have to try to replace them and there's no outlets out there no i'm no i guess role just to farming sparring partners jim xm energy promoters anything to do for context for stuff for fighting connect. and i like you all good luck with that side because i really am i mean it's a great job you devalued but still well i want to talk about about this the tendency that it used to be i mean boxing used to be done in asia by the brits well it is a british well so this is understandable and then there was a black down and so and most mostly afro-american yes now more and more russians and also ukrainians build the russian as well what is a tendency do you explain it somehow. but i can i can explain

a very easy the thing is that more americans are now turning toward other professional sports like football basketball baseball which is leaving more war dominance for other. other countries so you will say that the that there were times when boxing was the sport yes especially for the black guys yeah yeah especially for but that's because because you didn't need you a lot of blood come from broken homes come from you know bad neighborhood yeah absolutely so you know in order to go to college you got to have you know little money to go a lot of and then have it sort of eternally pocketable you facilities or you need to serve the food boxing is something where you don't need education and you know on the on the discrete science degree in boxing. well is there something boxing today that at least looks like what we see for example

it in rocky and sylvester stallone movies or is it completely different today so i mean you know what i guess what it all boils down to are two things it was down to a person is will and desire and a person's financial gain and that as a reason what i feel a lot of russian fighters are becoming more dominant in a sport because they're and for the glory and love of boxing whereas america more more american fighters are just in it for the money you know and whenever you get a guy to center for the money versus a guy the center for love a guy who wants to love the sport is always going to see further than the guy with the money what it would turn skew is a king who is a legend i let me he did bring boxing to a completely new level even though he made it really global but some say that that it's not competitive anymore that boxing the boxing is a competition. of promoter's right that the it's the fists right but the mini of

the which is a true yeah it is true i mean is it right or is it wrong is wrong because because you take a guy but you still want to believe. that's where it gets through ok perfect example shamos the for many pryke you're right he's sighing and paying for like two million dollars five or something like that he gave me his best in the first row until he got hit in a second round then he realized many pragya was a better fighter went to the draw got two million dollars let me just survive and best when we go to bring us a level to last you know these fires regen so much money and they got these guarantee million dollar fights to say i can't win so i got ten million dollars this is you you're a guy for over a pretty simple background listen this is a young guy who's worked with eighteen to it does he need ten fifteen twenty million dollars or isn't same better isn't it better to be to two to be cool

i mean is money the only way to be cool and you know. no i mean you know it's kind of a trick question because it's like yeah you want the fraying what is better to have the money you know because i mean what does it matter to be famous and then you don't have lights on your house i would rather not have a mean and then have money they have a mean and not have money you know but you got to run it is i always thought that a guy who is like eighteen years old he doesn't have enough legislation then those ten million but so it was you know this is more and been years as being young is getting making sure that you have the right advisors to to understand that money won't last forever and if you make the right investments ok and the other thing that seems pretty strange for me in modern boxing is that this is i think the holy spirit will maybe a particular sport with where there's some will teeniest is several champions

chosen to to different the different. groups is it right it's the biggest look like listen if in tennis we have a world champion right the usa will champion french open champion wimbledon well i mean. why do they fight each other why do they have one group money again yes money because of organizations you take a guy who has millions of dollars and he wants to start his own organization well he has in his mind who he want to be checked ok he may be a wife fighter he may be a black fighter but then he may be from ireland you know or the people who are american or support a guy from russia or a guy who are from russia may not be supported by people from africa so that all these organizations organization has popped up so that they can have their own sanctioning bodies you know with their own supporters and whatnot because for money put of you to did he well it cassius clay you were how mentally he was world champ

yes but today for me and the damage sure but for me there isn't a world. champion know several people who comes clear he agrees i absolutely agree i mean that was a time when they had i believe only one title and that was w.p.a. was stan's world boxing association but after that you know there kane be that we. see of the video you know anybody who a lot of money can go and start his own organization and you know that mask pretty much how i got. you know and asked for a problem would walk in there's so much money on the table that people are fighting for the passion and love and glory of boxing more knowledge is fighting for the for the the bank account but it's impossible i mean to do move away from it and i mean this is this is always going to be one no i you know what i think energy is most personal thing and i think they should have like set minimum zz and say ok you two

are going to fight well listen the winners are going to get this the loser going to get this is like almost i'm going to give you minimum wage unless you win and if they defend start doing that you start seeing much better fight much much better fight because in prison conditions i mean the title of the new looping champion maybe season better than it will chad because because at least this is the ultimate title you're going to be nobody's going to take away from you've lived a champ absolutely i mean a person becomes a great alum for champion because he wants to make more money as a fighter for fashion only and i just i just truly feel in my heart and i believe it to be true that the minute promoter star sam listen this is going to be the minimum for this fight we got we got twenty thousand people coming we've got a million people going to watch to fight this is going to be to mean the the minimum wage but the winner of this fight is going to make this much plus to gate

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welcome back to spotlight i'm running out of and just to remind you that reg asked in the studio today is lehmann brewster the former w b o heavyweight champion. you were the guy that not found klitschko serious right now to clinch koch brothers as many might know and they're both champions in different years in different categories they said they will never fight each other they say this is this is what they promised their mom is it true or is a sort of advertising thing and they were the and sometimes they will see a fight between them well you know that i don't think verify i mean they grew up in

the same house i mean. they're brothers my blood you know and you know no i mean no anything that they could be possibly trying to prove is you know who is the best and i think that they they know who is the best who the toughest and there's no money's not an issue for them so unless ever they became desperate for money that they would never fight. i mean it will be ludicrous to think that two brothers will fight and for the millions of people going to baguio around t.v. and do that would you have a fight you brought if you had a brother to box you know how i would know because you know i mean there's just me you know i don't have that type of eagle you know saying a psych and like i say if we if it if we both was going to make enough money where we both needed money then that would make sense but we already got you know the brothers are we have millions of this is no is no there's no way and it's not a win situation is that you do you do really i mean you might give them that i have

a tiger or whatever but you don't hate most of the people you find i mean you're usually you're friends with them but so you do find i mean some of the maybe like brothers to you and so you do fight them it's sort of hating the person oh absolutely loving person is a no no not a row me i never had a full and thorough in any fight or is just i just want to show that i am better then competing at boxing then my my my my opponent russell was is never all i want to kill him is just i want to win is just a competitiveness of it that i'm talking about ok you know let's talk a bit more about promoters i mean this this fight fixing mean turning back susan to punching bags and so will does it really make athletes hate through the tears did you really because sometimes we get an impression that you have to either but you didn't hate the liz a true absolutely absolutely because you know

a lot of the from promoters they miss him so much money off the top they skim it in the middle of a scam and at the end i mean you know you say in a television network goes to the promoter because he can't go to the fire and say listen i got twenty million dollars for your fight or a fight on this card when he goes to his fire say hey they want to pay you five million dollars so guess what of the fifteen goals. in his pocket you know so i mean one of fire finds out i'm a word that one is in a taken apart as you know is just not fair that the promoter who never takes a punch all he do is print a couple of flour and get some people to recognize the two people going to fight and he she makes all that money is an awful lot of promoter would tell you that if it wasn't the promoter you'd still be fighting in your pack here going to think well i understand their point too as well but i just think and i'm not saying that the promoter should make money but i'm saying the promoters should be more generous toward the fighters even hurt so the sport shouldn't be so traumatic leg is

their way the way of making boxing less traumatic no i don't think so in my opinion yes i see this guy using our limits but this is like amateur why do you know the helmet does not protect you from getting knocked out what the home serves a purpose of is if you get knocked out if your head is to cavite you're less likely to have a serious injury don't get cuddles of mentally well yeah yeah i guess so if you should be to agree to this is what's it all about because it's fighting you know it it is me trying to rule you the best way i can with my two hands a you doing the same so i don't think there's really no way around it unless you try to say we're going to make the glow of the size of pills. do injuries that you previously got a new box and do they still still bother you oh absolutely absolutely yes some of

them you know it this is a life some of them yes absolutely. i i tore my my patellar tendon in a fight my first last clip regularly and you know and i had the five to ten rounds on one knee oh and one leg basically and to this day when i go downstairs i look like an old man because you know the pain is there and you know you can have surgery to serve you but you know it is what it is. was it worth it to me all the trauma you know something it was because of the fact that i am a warrior and that's what i do you know it's like love what you do and do what you love you know and the consequences are good and they're bad but the big question is can you. with the good in a bad you know you talk about being a worrier you china can learn to learn to live but listen. being a boxer you would never use your skills in everyday life you know i like like he's

your fists on the street show so but the so that that means you're not a warrior really just like a like a sportsman which is not really you can't use it and well no you know what it is what it has helped me and it has helped me to be more humble because i'll be out sometimes and you see a guy who he wants to be a tough guy well i can let my my pride down and say ok i don't have to prove that i'm tough to this guy because i know what i can do it is a guy whereas he may be with his lady and he was approve either macho guy i can look at him and smile whereas if i didn't know boxing i would probably have to try to prove that i was tough to you know so it keeps me out of trouble do you mean that you did have a situation when somebody didn't recognize who you are trying to beat you or well not. not necessarily as valuable enough to beat me up i've had guys bump into me or guys be out at a club and they with their girlfriend and so they want to prove that they tough you

know i could just look at them and smile because i know that i can look those guys and you know it's like at the end of the day i got i got peace of mind because i know if i hit this guy i know to repercussions is more likely i'm going to kill them if i had him so being that i know did i know what i'm capable of doing it makes me humble in a sense to just say hey walk away should this sport be talked to kids i mean yes and i'm going to tell you i mean kids yes really yes i started ages seven and what it did was it allowed me to be able to look at bullies and if if if they first of all allow me to stand up to bullies ok i put them in a place if i needed to segue of all it taught me that to just walk away from these guys and not try to prove to my friends that i was tough and the third thing you did was allow me to get rid of my energy as far as you know you have a lot of energy as a child you have to use it up you know you would be destructive and on you know it

really helped save me kept me out again that kept me off the street life it kept me it kept me in a positive environment you were of the man who stuck little klitschko within twelve rounds and he later you said that he was probably drugged before the fight what was your reaction to that do you think that was possible you know because how could a man be winning want to four and in fifth row he see the thing he pushed his self up and that was my whole plan was to make him punch and he don't want to point gravel he don't want to grab he played my thing was not win early make him just use all his energy and it worked perfectly and then he couldn't understand because for every two or three shots he was stormed by one body shot to wait. more out of the ten shots the rich are everywhere and he couldn't understand it and so when he lost dorothy he could think of all i've got poison you know but no future pre-term he

brings back he don't say to any more so you so you aren't wouldn't have a cow now thing you take him into the water make him drown himself so so he was stronger wasn't physically oh yes you know you were afraid you know you had to outwit him somehow it to think of it is here is the reach he has the high soul so why if you know that a guy is strong early phase which all the tapes that i watched all him he faded one out of way to start to fade and then turn it all you know also about what i did speaking of that boxing tarkan mean well live before and after the fight you're sparring partner james toney he once lashed out by saying that's the course to do the famous russian boxer the trainer of his opponent in the celebrities i quote was recently inducted as a hall of fame bargain but he shouldn't be in the hall of fame he should be in the hong kong shame set the telly well i mean why are

boxers so used to insulting each other well that i mean i knew it's part of the show but this is the only sport where people do that work that because it you know you have to promote the fight like like every if we didn't see it here so we're going to fight and we go to the ring where then as as a person who is spending his hard earned money is no excitement but if i look like i hate you or you hate me well then i've done my job and i so i would use. ok last question we were running out of time when i could have talked to a lot better last question i get an impression recently that that heavyweight boxing he's becoming slow it's becoming yes a little bit while bunch i mean middleweight are more fun to watch sure is it true yes because they. see the world has this perception bit bigger is better so back and back in from from the ninety's on back the average heavy weight was was anywhere from two fifteen to twenty and under now they think you get a guy that is

a to fifty oh he's a great fighter no he just he just is more exciting to look at because he's so big but he doesn't he's like a dinosaur he doesn't use his brain as much he plans on his brute strength and he's also fast i mean this is not so to him is an icon is he saying exactly because you know a lot of these trainers see the old trainers died out so these new trainers that you have they're not trying to tease guys or scuse me bay don't know how to teach the guys what they breed instead of saying ray yes sir you're not going to stood out from your job you know maurice. thank you thank you very much and just through trying to attack my guest today once lehman relaxed was bruised the former w.b. a heavyweight champion and that's it for now probably all of us if you want to have yourself spotlight without someone in a bar and see what we sense of you next time just drop the spotlight will be back

with more firsthand comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay in our team and take thank you very much.

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