it's in nigeria bring the situation to boiling point sparking fears of violent arab spring style revolt there too all that amid concerns the country could shut down its oil exports which are vital to the west. up next a champion american boxer tells our see whether russia is capable of launching its way to the top of sport. hello again a welcome to spotlight thing from the shall i take my mouthing off and today my guest in the studio is labeled luther thinks this bikini girls and money bags

around the ring make boxing one of the most masculine and glamorous sports high hopes and high stakes are often that by a deadly right to happen 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 pull a lot of relentless booster the former heavyweight champion and the man who once knocked out bladder. 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 prize came in last may guess when town bought him a klitschko part of the family that's became dominant with the beijing securing him the w.p. no title. or 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 a single global sport it's your website yet so tell me is books include ready global sport. it is it is a global sport but a few things for the first thing is is 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's 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 what you're looking for and there you have it so this is so slight look like a search machine in the internet gives boxing overall full contacts more stamina may kick boxing and as i say sparring is very difficult in america because i remember getting ready for vladimir classical fight you know his style was not a typical american style so what i ended up dollars 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 minute still try to find somebody else or i would hurt the guys from ari and i have to try to replace them and there's no outlets out there no i'm no i guess road just to finding sparring partners jim promoters anything to do for context for stuff for fighting connect. and i like your overall good luck with that site because i really i mean it's a great job you devalued but still though 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 this is understandable and then there was a black diamonds and most mostly afro american deaths now more and more russians and also ukrainians build the russians well well is it a tendency do you explain it somehow. but i can i can explain it 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 you didn't need to use 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 the money to go a lot of and then have it sort of eternally pocketable you facilities in green leaves so the good boxing is something where you don't need a vacation and you know on the on you this week 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 though i mean you know what it does what it all boils down to are two pings

it was down to a person is will and desire and a person's financial gain and that as a reason would i feel a lot of russian fighters are becoming more dominant in 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 and then we 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 whip 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 got the. first four years through ok perfect example same of 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 the 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 you really 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 told to 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 right or 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'd rather not have a mean and then have money then to have a meeting and not have money you know would you not iraq is i always thought that a guy who is like eighteen years old he doesn't have enough legislation then those ten million bucks that 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 another thing that seems pretty strange for me in modern boxing is that this is i think the only sport it will maybe particular sport with where there's some real tennis is several champions chosen to to different the different championship groups is it right it's the biggest 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 white fighter he may be a black fighter but then he may be from ireland you know or the people from american or wall 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 were how mentally he was world champ yes but today for me and the amateur but for me there isn't

a world. champion know several people who come to the clay agree 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 their king the. c. of the video you know anybody who a lot of money can go and start his own organization and you know that that's pretty much how i got it you know and that's the problem with box and there's so much money on the table that people are fighting for the passion and love and glory of boxing more now images fighting for the for the the bank account but it's impossible i mean to do move away from that and i mean this is this is always going to be you know i you know what i think energy a small 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 start doing that you start seeing much better fight much much better fights because in prison conditions i mean the title of the new looping champion maybe season better than it will chan because because at least this is the ultimate title you're going to be the 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 got a million people want 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 plus and so what not says bruce through the four w.d. a heavy. champion spotlight will be back sure we will continue this interview in

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welcome back to spotlight i'm out here in oregon just a reminder that reg asked in the studio today is lame and brewster the former w b o heavyweight champion lehman you were the guy that knocked down klitschko one serious right now there are two klitschko brothers as many might know and they're both champions in different years in different categories they've said they will never fight each other they say this is this is what they promised their mum is it true or is a sort of a advertising thing and they were the head and sometimes they will see a fight between them well you know that and i don't think verify i mean they grew

up in a same house i mean. they're brothers my blood you know and you know no army no anything that they could be possibly trying to prove is you know who is the best and i. i think that they that they know who's the best who's the toughest as it is money's not the issue for them so unless ever they became desperate for money that they would never fight and we will be ludicrous to think that two brothers are fighting and for the millions of people they're going to baguio around t.v. and do that would you have a fight your brother if you had a brother who bucks you know how i would know because you know i mean there's just me you know i don't have a 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 there's 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 me you know 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 not to release personal is a no no not a row me i never have feelings toward any fighter is just i just want to show that i am better than 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 competitive. come talking about ok you know let's talk a bit more about promoters i mean this this fight fixing mean turning back susan to plunge burns 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. twenty million dollars for your fighter to fight on this car when he goes to his fighter 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 fighter 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 flyers and get some people to recognize the two people going to fight and he should he makes all of that money is an awful way to promote it would tell you that if it wasn't the promoter you'd still be funny in your pack you're 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 sports shouldn't be so traumatic

like is there a way the way of making boxing less traumatic no i don't think so in my opinion years i see this guy using our limits but this is like amateur boxer you know the helmet does not protect you from getting knocked out what their home serves a purpose of is if you get knocked out if your head is to cavite is you're less likely to have a serious injury don't get kernels of mentally well yeah yeah i guess so if you should be to a very well i knew this is what's it all about because it's this is fighting you know it it is me trying to 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 well we're going to make the glove 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 to fight for ten rounds on one knee oh and one leg basically and today's 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 though 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 eternity i'm going 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 where he may be with his lady and he was approving of the march oh god 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 those versions be enough to beat me up boys 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 that 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 start as age of 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 that 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 blue klitschko with in twelve rounds and he later you said that he was probably drugged before the fight what was your reaction to do you think that was possible no 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 where 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 were perfect and then he couldn't understand because for every two or three shots he was storing my one body shot to wait. more out of the ten shots he was trying to hit me with 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 huge prieto many

things back he don't say to any more so you so you aren't wouldn't care now thing you take him into the water make him drown himself so said he was stronger wasn't physically oh yes you know you were afraid you know you had to outwit him somehow it the thing of it is here is the reach he has the height. so why if you know that a guy is strong early phase which all the tapes that i was told him he faded one out of way to start to fail and then turn it all you know also about what i did speaking of that barak same time can mean well lived before and after the fights your sparring partner james toney he once lashed out by saying that 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 hall of shame said that certainly well i mean why are

boxers so used to insulting each other well that i mean i knew support 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 deceive hears here or we're going to fire you know we go to the ring well 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 l.z. ok last question we were running out of time i could have talked to a lot better last question i get an impression recently that that heavyweight boxing is becoming slow it's becoming yes a little bit wild bunch i mean. middleweight are more fun to watch sure is it true yes because they. see the world has this perception that bigger is better so back and back in from from the ninety's on back the average heavyweight was was anywhere

from two fifteen to twenty and under now they think you get a guy that is a two 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 that i come in. 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 excuse me may don't know how to teach the guys what they breed instead of so you say yes sir you want to stood out from your hold of you know maurice. thank you thank you very much and just through trying my guess 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 we have someone in mind see what we sense of you next time just

drop me a 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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