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Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson: Unveiling the Celebrity Boxing Phenomenon and the Real Cost of Fame in Sports
Can a fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson truly capture the essence of boxing, or is it just another spectacle in the world of celebrity matches? Join us at Warehouse 15 as we unpack the buzz surrounding this highly anticipated event. We kick things off with a vibrant discussion that goes beyond the ring, exploring Jake Paul's unique position in the sport and questioning the authenticity of such matchups. The conversation also opens up broader reflections on the culture of celebrity boxing and its impact on traditional sports, while considering the choices athletes face between chasing fame or pursuing conventional glory.
Our journey doesn't stop at the Paul vs. Tyson showdown. We dive into the world of high-profile athletes and the magnetic pull of fame, as we ponder whether the allure of the limelight outweighs the pursuit of sports accolades. Through personal stories and real-life decisions, we explore the temptations and challenges faced by athletes, from turning down long-term sports careers to chasing viral moments. A humorous anecdote about a staged fight on Montel Williams' show adds a light-hearted touch, reflecting on the diverse paths athletes can take in their quest for recognition and success.
In the final chapter, we peel back the curtain on the hidden truths of athletes' lives, offering raw and candid insights into the sacrifices and pressures behind the scenes. Stories of betrayal, jealousy, and manipulation reveal the darker side of competitive ambition and the mental toll of maintaining athletic excellence. Through these confessions, we aim to provide a platform for voices often overshadowed by their achievements. Warehouse 15 is a sanctuary for authenticity, where we commit to shedding light on the real costs of success and empowering athletes to share their genuine stories. Join us for a compelling episode brimming with honesty, humor, and deep insights into the world of martial arts and beyond.
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Speaker 3:Sponsorships and smiles Hiding the inner fight, sacrifices made, lonely days and endless nights. Okay, welcome to the Warehouse 15. And I know this is new for you, it's new for us too. At the end of the day, we've been talking and we all started our martial arts career and pretty much life in a different place than most people come from. I mean, we were all more or less inner city kids, and the idea of the Warehouse 15 is we're going to keep it in that same place and you can take it personally because it's meant to be personal. We're not going to cloud it with other things, but we're going to kind of share our thoughts on various things today.
Speaker 3:But today I'm joined by my two co-hosts you know them both very well and we got grandmaster, master, master of disaster, juan Moreno, and then one of my favorite fighters of all times, tj Jennings, and he is just. His career has been spectacular, as has Coach Moreno's, and I'm just honored to get this opportunity to keep it real. I mean to really take it personal and I'm going to be using terms that you guys aren't. I mean to really take it personal and I'm going to be using terms that you guys aren't used to, perhaps when they're coming from us, but in these times and in these days, it's time for us to step up and to be the voice at least another voice in the room, because so many people are afraid to talk. But welcome to both of my good friends.
Speaker 4:How are you guys doing today? Good, good, good, good, very good. Excited to be here, excited to be able to share this table and share this platform with you guys, super excited about some of the stuff we'll be able to talk about.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think this is something that we've been talking about a lot first me and TJ and obviously we know that you've done such a great job in different podcasts, herb and I think this is a new time. It's a new time to talk about some things and talk about topics that are within our scope and maybe outside of our scope and, just like we said, you know, keep it real and just kind of put it out there and have some fun with it.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I couldn't agree more and we've been for years. You know, listen, I wish people could hear the conversations we have offline. Yeah, yeah, you know, listen, I wish people could hear the conversations we have offline.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, some very frank conversations about everything from martial arts to life in general and just to what it means to be willing to do more than others are willing to do and take chances more than others. But that brings me probably to the first topic that we thought about, because it's just so. So now, and it happened now, and that's the jake paul mike tyson. Well, you can call it a fight, I guess, but uh, let's call it the event and I'm just going to open that door because I put myself in a place when I thought about I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself for a few seconds, but I want to throw that one out there. What are your thoughts on the Jake Paul Mike Tyson? Well, I'm going to call it an event. Go ahead, dj.
Speaker 5:I'll let you go first. I got a lot.
Speaker 4:I don't got a lot, I'll tell you why, but definitely an event, definitely an event. I mean, I hated on it from the as soon as they announced it. I hated on it when it was about to happen, I hated on it while I was going on and I turned it off at round two. It was a spectacle. It just seemed weird and honestly I couldn't get through with it. Like I said, I was like let me save the extra 55 minutes of my life and go to sleep and wake up early in the morning and start tomorrow, because that's not Mike Tyson, that's not the Mike Tyson we wanted to see. And with all the little skepticism about it being kind of rigged and all that stuff like that, it kind of just looks more and more like you said. It was an event. It was an event. Did you watch it though? You watched it. I watched two rounds and that was it. You didn't watch it. I couldn't watch it anymore. I couldn't watch. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 5:That's not, I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it, I couldn't stomach I could. I give you so much credit, tj, because I remember talking to you and you're like I'm not watching. I was like what? I watched it because it was a spectacle.
Speaker 5:But let me just say this I know people don't like jake paul. I mean I give the dude a lot of credit for his, his willingness to learn the craft, his willingness to to promote his, his ability to make money. I'm not hating the guy for any of that, but if this idiot, if this jerk really wants to be considered a real boxer because he goes, I'm a real boxer and I've heard great podcast host Joe Rogan says he is a real boxer and I get it by definition he's a real boxer. But if the dude really wants to be taken serious, then fight some real current young, hungry people. Why won't he? Because he's star searching, he's looking for the big name, so people will draw attention to it, or he'll draw attention to it and it'll be a spectacle. It'll be an event because, listen, the one time he fought a decent guy and it wasn't even decent, tommy Fury he lost, and he lost easily, to be honest with you.
Speaker 5:So you know, quit calling out the Canellos of the world, the Mike Tysons of the world, all these former great MMA people. That's like me trying to call out a damn judo player or wrestler that's a world champion and say, hey, man, come over here and fight Taekwondo, and then I beat him and I talk about how great I just beat a wrestler, or vice versa. They asked me to wrestle, they could tie me up in a damn pretzel in two seconds and I'm supposed to. You know, it's supposed to be important. I'm tired of this joke.
Speaker 3:It's ridiculous, you know. The example I give is this. So I'm trying to imagine myself at my age and my birthday is coming up and I'm 64. I'm going to be 65. So could I enter the ring with a 27-year-old taekwondo guy in my weight division who's not an Olympic-level?
Speaker 4:fighter. He had six years of boxing, I believe.
Speaker 3:I think Jake Paul's been boxing for six years or something like that a guy that comes in my gym, I train him for six years, or he trains one of you guys for six years and then he enters a match with me with modified rules, not three minute rounds, two minute rounds, or, in our case, if they had three and they made them two in our case now they're two minute rounds make them a minute and a half or a minute. Could I survive a guy? Could I beat a guy that was an average dojang guy that did taekwondo at a dojang? I'm pretty sure I could survive and probably could knock him out in the first round or two. If I got past that, I'd probably get a little tired because I'm old and there's all the injuries and stuff like that. So I kind of looked at it from that perspective.
Speaker 3:Could I beat a current olympic middleweight in my division who was in his prime? Probably not, but you know. So when I looked at it, you know. Here's the thing I watched it and the reason I watched it it was free. Had it not been free I would watch, true but I got a special black box.
Speaker 3:But that's a whole nother story I'm trying to keep out of jail, but the, uh, the, what. I. I watched it and the sadness is because all of us have this nostalgic thing for Tyson and understanding what he did when he did it and then seeing the lead up to the fight, seeing what he was doing and realizing that had he done just one of those punches, then this other guy who basically was an internet clown from day one, if you look back at his career and hasn't fought anybody substantive or good or somebody that really could put him on the floor and I have a lot of respect for the MMA guys he fought and that was kind of interesting. But on the Tyson thing, you know, I absolutely I'm not convinced. Listen, and I'll ask you Was it staged? Was it staged? I think it was, but I'll tell you why. I think there's a second fight if Tyson is so is so entitled to fight his brother. But and that was the kind of lead- up at the end.
Speaker 3:That was the lead up to that, but the uh with that said. Here's the thing who was the smartest guy in the room? And I'll ask you the question, if you had a choice the both of you, having swum in the deepest waters possible, been Olympic guys running and meddling and winning and you had a chance. Somebody said to you listen, you can keep on the path you are on. You can become an Olympic champion or a world champion, or you can go, not take that path. Just be this internet guy and you'll get $10 million or $20 million for the next fight if you challenge somebody. Good, so you can either win an Olympic gold medal and you know what that brought us. That and 25 cents will get you on a bus, um or you can make $10 million and be a clown, and so it's.
Speaker 3:He made $40 million reportedly for that fight. And so who's the smartest guy in the room? And I asked my son this question cause, like you guys know, my son loves soccer and I said would you rather be on a premier league team and make eighty thousand dollars a year or be a guy that competed against somebody in a 1v1 soccer match, like um messy, or when messy finally retires and isn't any good any longer, and that's a hard question for somebody. I mean, that's a huge payday he's. He's a clown, but think about it.
Speaker 4:I think it's harder for someone who hasn't been that deep before to add to that question. I mean, like it's a little different. I mean I think it's harder for someone that's been that deep.
Speaker 3:What would you do? What would you do You've?
Speaker 4:been to the dance. I just don't know if I could be that outwardly boastful about I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that Like if I really wasn't the guy.
Speaker 3:You have a path now to choose. You're in your gym, you're training and you remember, juan, and I found you way back when right, remember that training camp in.
Speaker 3:Colorado Springs and you were with a group of talented guys and talented kids and we said this guy's the future of Taekwondo and you were the future. Now, at that point, somebody else comes up to you and says forget about this Olympic nonsense. You're a good-looking kid, You're talented. I can make you an internet star. Just go around and do a little bit of this. Get an Instagram following, Get a TikTok wick walk and I'll guarantee you. You challenge Jungkook Young. That's a good example. You challenge him because he's been retired for a while. Greatest fighter in the world for a welterweight. You challenge him to a 1v1 match in Korea, In Korea, and you bring your best Puerto Rican and Mexican friends with you. Let's go. That was going to be the other name of this podcast. A Puerto Rican, a Mexican and a black guy enter a bar, but you can fight Jungkook Young now in front of the Korean, and you're going to talk crap about Korea and we're going to.
Speaker 4:You're gonna talk crap about korea and we're gonna give you five million dollars you're saying I'm young, right, I'm not me now, I'm me before me, right now. I still think you're not like 20, you're 38 38 you're still young, 38.
Speaker 3:I was 32 when I won the olympics 38. I still won the olympics did. If they had an Olympics I would have went to it. I didn't go because it was 40. 40, no man, it's too old. You got two more years left.
Speaker 4:That's it All. Right, I'm going to go back to that. I got two more years.
Speaker 3:Think about your coach, Coach Moreno. He was 17, first Olympics. Then he fought like in 20 Olympics. I think he's still.
Speaker 5:No, but actually I think we're. My problem is okay, Jake Paul's who he is, Jake Paul's who he is, but Tyson, I just I don't know why he did it. Did he really need the money? I heard he does well with his other businesses. I know he's very good friends with Jake Paul. Would he take an L for Jake Paul? That's just what bothers me. Listen, who couldn't use $20 million, Superstar or not? But you know what my ego. You know what I know your ego, Young, and I know your ego, TJ. I don't think you would let yourself lose If someone said hey, man, do an exhibition fight, we're going to let it be a draw.
Speaker 3:I'll give you 20 million. Can I remind you of a story? And you're going to have to go back and find it on YouTube somewhere. Do you ever hear of Montel Williams? Of course, all right. So, montel Williams, they call me up. This is like. It's like between 88 and 92. They call me up and they say hey, listen, we need you for a TV show. And at this point I hadn't been on, like anything, and I think it was like before the Olympics, and they said it's a. It's a show about women in sport and it's men versus women. But we want you to fight. Do you remember this? We want you to fight. We want you to fight, lynette Love.
Speaker 5:Oh come on. I do remember this.
Speaker 3:This is a true story, true story. So they go and so I go. How much are they going to pay you? Zero. I was in. I didn't even get a plane ticket, so zero money.
Speaker 3:I'm in New York but I'm going to be on TV, right. So I'm like, ok, and they said she's got to win. So if you watch, I'm not going to tell you somewhere on youtube, you watch. It's me fighting lynette and as much as you love lynette, even in my sleep I could be asleep on my bed dead and I could still beat lynette, right. So I got a fight with lynette and we fight in a ring and they got some ref or something and at the end I have to let her act like she can hit me in the face and with a back hook kick. And if you know Lynette, she can't back hook kick, right, she hits me in the arm. And I got to like all down and act like I'm knocked out. I think she really got you, dude, I did it. I did it. But yeah, no, full well knowing. Yeah, watch the tape. I'll send you guys a tape, but watch the tape because it's funny. But on the other side I'm a relatively young guy. Might be between 88 and 92. And I was honored that they called me.
Speaker 3:I don't think it was after, I wouldn't have done it after 92. But it was probably somewhere in that middle world. And, of all people, lynette Love. The only one worse would have been Sharon Jewell. You know I mean that's a lose to Sharon, but um, that's it's an interesting conversation. I think you're right.
Speaker 3:Does Mike Tyson have enough pride? Why did you do it? I did it. You know I I'd have to go back to be me, but I think I did it because I thought it would help promote either the sport or me, and it was pre-Olympic probably, and I, um, I had had some attention cause I was winning uh prior to that in 87, 88. And I was bouncing back from that and I didn't do it for there was no money and I didn't do it for any other reason than, oh, I think I had an agent at that point and he suggested it would be a good thing to do. In retrospect, you know like if you watch the Montel Wood, you know what I mean. It wasn't the best decision. I think Lynette still puts it on her win column. I'm pretty sure she does.
Speaker 5:But you know. But even that, listen, I mean again errors and stuff like that was an error with Taekwondo, it wasn't so big. I mean the internet wasn't developed, you know, I mean for social media purposes, and so I mean I think you know doing things like that, you know, here and there, okay, but again just an icon. And I don't even think we can even put ourselves in the same category. We can't as a guy like Mike Tyson. I mean that's just ridiculous. You know even that our egos wouldn't let us do it. So something had to be up. I just like I said, gotta be the money or French, I think he's that close with uh.
Speaker 5:He needs 20.
Speaker 4:He needs 20.
Speaker 5:Who doesn't need?
Speaker 4:20? Who takes 20? Who doesn't?
Speaker 3:need 20? Who doesn't need it? Yeah, take it, need it. Gotta have it, love it. 20 is 20. Is that why your background is blurred? Is your background blurred Because you live in a palace that we don't? Is there something in the back of the? You have gold bars behind you.
Speaker 5:Again, you don't need 20 million. I would do it for 30. I would do it for 20. I would do it for 10.
Speaker 3:I would do I mean, that was a nice restaurant. You took me to, you know that ceviche place, but I mean you know, you know what.
Speaker 4:But, being Mike Tyson, I would have had to go like, look, I got to try to win. I would have told them I have to try to win. I don't think it would have been tough for me just to go out there and just fake it and do it, and it's something I've done my entire life, you've got to hit him once you You've got to hit him once, you've got to hit him once. I'm going to hit him a couple of times Like there's no way.
Speaker 3:What was that other fight that he fought? That the guy hit him and kind of, oh, floyd, who? Yeah, he fought Floyd Mayweather. You're talking about Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather hit him and then kind of held him up. No, who, what are you?
Speaker 5:talking about who fought Floyd, right who? Jake Paul fought Floyd or he fought the brother? No, Jake Paul's brother fought Floyd. Yeah, and Floyd like hit him a bunch of times but whatever, no, but what?
Speaker 1:I was saying who won.
Speaker 4:It was an exhibition right. But Floyd won, but it was an exhibition right. They didn't do it on record. It wasn't to go against his record of 50-0. It was he didn't do it as, like Tyson they said, this one went on his actual record, his win-loss record, which was strange.
Speaker 3:Who was the one that fought Conor McGregor?
Speaker 4:That was Floyd Mayweather Floyd.
Speaker 3:Mayweather All right, so Floyd, because he's got pride. He didn't let that one go. He was like, all right, he's the.
Speaker 4:A-side, though he's the A-side. He was promoting all that Floyd himself, as a boxer, was promoting fighting these guys. It was a little different. This is like non-boxer or a beginner boxer or a youtube boxer, whatever you want to call them. This is a that level boxer calling out people who have done it for so long, like the Mike Tysons of the world. It is just so weird. If he respected boxing, if he respected boxing, he would figure out another way to make his mark, because that's just not it. I for one, I think I didn't like him going into this, but I like him way less, way less.
Speaker 5:I think TJ, TJ, I know you, TJ, I know you know about boxing and stuff like that. We've talked about it recently. But think about this you have all that money. You're Jake Paul. Jake Paul doesn't need money. He already has the money, guys. So why does he need to have fights there in the limelight? Why can't he just kind of grind it out with all these, you know, 10 and old guys, five and five guys, whatever else, just for his pride, just for his craft? Why does he have to? Why did why not do it against those dudes versus these old, out of shape? You know I don't like to use the word has-beens, but they're not active anymore, they're not current anymore. Mma guys, football guys, old boxers why not? Why does he got to use them? If he really loves boxing, like he says he does, you got to realize what's up with Jake.
Speaker 3:Jake doesn't care about the money, because when you get money and you have money you don't need money anymore. What do you need? You're addicted to the attention, fame, addicted to the. You're addicted to being relevant and current. The hardest thing for superstar athletes like tom brady and all these guys is just get back in the limelight. So you don't care about the money. You don't need the money.
Speaker 3:And we met guys like this in the olympic committee. There was a guy, um bill hibble. He don't need money. Bill owns half of colorado, but he wanted to be president of taekwondo at the world taekwondo federation. He was vice president. I called him up. I said bill, what's up with you? He goes, might do better. So I said what are you doing? You don't need this. Yeah, he could. He couldn't do better, any worse, but he don't need this.
Speaker 3:We got a. We have a coach of ours that he's now wants to be back involved. He don't need money, he, he, he has enough money. He got enough money. He. Now he's trying to be king of the world again. Why? Because he can't. He's, he's old. He don't need to be king of the world anymore. He should relax and let the people under him. No, no, no, no, no. You got to remember the allure of fame that the hardest thing to learn is how to retire. We had a we. You had a teammate. I had a guy that I was head of team four and you, he was your teammate. He didn't know when to retire. He kept going. He didn't need to keep going, but that's that's the thing. That's the thing you can't forget. This is not about money on his side. I know, yeah, I mean he has money, but I mean I don know.
Speaker 5:I mean he has money, but I mean I don't know. Listen, he obviously has an ego and stuff like that. So last thing, stage or not? Absolutely yeah yeah. Stage and would you take the money TJ to drop?
Speaker 4:Let's do like our terms $1,000. $1,000,. There's no way, there's zero percent shot like this.
Speaker 3:I'd punch you in the face for asking that stupid question like even if you, even if you took the money, you'd have to hit him like yeah, for sure I would take it as they go back up ass You'd pick him back up, You'd stop the reference.
Speaker 5:$10,000, TJ to go in the ring on YouTube with me.
Speaker 1:There's no way.
Speaker 2:There's no way Give me some money. There's no way, russ Gale.
Speaker 4:There's no way. There's no way. Stop it. There's no way.
Speaker 3:Can I tell you the truth? I think I could beat him in boxing, do you? Let's go you never see he's been my one punch with my right hand. My right hand is devastating. My left hand is a teaser, but if I hit you with my right, I'm not.
Speaker 4:I could beat you a big boxing guy, but everything you're watching now jake.
Speaker 3:If you're out, jake, I'm an old medalist I'm old, I'm a good, I'm going to be 65. I'm still moving and jiving. I am willing to fight you and, by the way, not for 20 million. I'll fight you for a minute. Well, not a million, 2 million, 2 million, $2 million. Right here, right now, I'm telling you come, get me, I'm ready and, by the way, I don't need to train. I can fight tomorrow and if I have my right hand, we're going to be all right. Are you wearing boxing gloves? I'll wear whatever he wants. I'll wear pillows. It don't matter to me. Mike Tyson was wearing pillows, but if he's a real man, we'll fight mano a mano, no bare hands.
Speaker 5:That's better If you go bare hands.
Speaker 3:I put my money in you, I'll punch him in his foot. He'll go unconscious. Just so you know I'm ready for you. I'm not going to tell the story, but he's been around. We've been places where you know.
Speaker 5:That's what I say.
Speaker 4:If you've got bare fists, I give you the nod, the end of the curving punch Exactly.
Speaker 3:Just so you know I'm not going to be punching of the, the kind of the curving punch, exactly. And just so you know I'm not gonna be punching like the current, the current olympic taekwondo guys, and I'm not gonna be foot fencing. This is gonna be a real punch back from the hood back in the days. But the um, I mean listen, it's a great topic to start all this with, but, um, you know, it's important to remember the culture's changed, what we think, what we thought mattered to people. Now, this is pretty much, you know, we say, at least I can say this is what I see when I walk around and I go to cafes or sit, yeah, yeah, everybody's what they look like at the moment. They're sharing their as is moment with everybody in the world. And that's the question, I think, was this tyson's selfie? Was it a self tyson? We know it was a selfie for jake, but did he? Did he? Does he hunger for the spotlight? You know his only other place he's running around is on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Speaker 5:I don't know. I don't know, it was a shame, it was sad. I hate to see Mike Tyson like that. And he didn't look happy, he didn't look fulfilled, like hey, I went in there and gave it my best and I just couldn't pull the trigger. He looked off, he looked. It was sad. I mean I think everyone says that out loud it looks sad and I feel bad for the guy because he's going to let Jake Paul go around for the rest of his life and say he beat Mike Tyson and we can all say, yeah, that wasn't the real Mike Tyson, that isn't the Mike Tyson. We knew that something was going on, but he's just going to say forever I beat Mike Tyson and I think that's sad. Other people have done it too, but they've done it legit, you know, no problem. I mean we can all acknowledge that and respect that, but not this one. This was, this was a farce.
Speaker 3:Well, I'll leave you one other thought. I was at a this is back in the Olympic days and I was invited to go see a celebrity boxing match against wall street guys. So it was to raise money for something, and so it was in Madison square garden and Roy Jones jr Was there and he was this is in his prime and he's got to fight the president of the stock exchange like this bald-headed, goofy guy and, um, so he's fighting with the guy and the guy's kind of. You know, the guy knows it's whatever, the guy's not a boxer, but he makes the mistake of hitting, hitting roy jones jr a little bit, and then roy kind of tuned them up. I let him know okay, now you, this is what can happen. So, um, you know I'm still gonna. I'm saying, well, I'll ask you the real question If you thought it was a real match either way, do you think the outcome was correct? Do you think that if Mike Tyson were really fighting Jake Paul, you may think he did?
Speaker 4:Do you think Tyson or Paul who would win? Tyson Cause I'm going to say what I thought about this being the older guy, the guy that's not going to like you know, let's say, his legs were a little shaky, his legs are underneath them. At some point, uh, jake has to come towards him. He would just walk towards them slowly and just use his defense and use his counters and laid on him for eight rounds, like at the slowest pace possible, because it's not like uh, jake paul was overwhelming or doing too much crazy stuff. So I feel like, just from a script standpoint, just from the, if he prepared for this match and watched film and like look, just for this guy, he would have known he's not gonna go out there and chase him, he's not gonna, you're not gonna catch him, and that wouldn't have been the game plan going in.
Speaker 4:I think that in itself wouldn't have like created as many openings in space for Jake Paul to punch, because Mike Tyson's defense is better. You saw him slip a couple of those punches and, like Jake Paul's hands down by his body, if he throws one of them, I think he goes to sleep. You know that one where he stuck his tongue out afterwards. That was the hardest one of the match and it was like his hand was completely down by his body. And you know someone of Mike's caliber, mike Tyson's caliber, for so long. It's impossible not to see those shots over and over again if you're giving it to him. So definitely Tyson.
Speaker 5:Coach, yeah, I agree with you 100 percent, tj. I think you know just even what you said earlier, herb. Like watching him in practice. I mean just hitting a bag and just flailing away at a bag, just the power, ok, you get close and you just do three or four of those Something's got to hit, something's got to connect, and then we'd see. We'd see if he still has the power and we'd see if Jake's got a chin. Because I'll go early In the first round it kind of came out a little bit competitive and, if you think about it, tyson threw a jab, hit him right in the forehead and knocked him back about two or three steps and then he just stopped.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and it was kind of like oh, this is gonna be a long night for this guy if tyson. But after that tyson didn't throw a full punch, like everything was like I'm gonna punch in that, I'm gonna punch in that, and it was kind of like a few times you saw jake, I kind of roll the wrong way, his hand down, and tyson goes and just kind of cuts off the punch. Yeah, just let him go. So I think I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'm going to put it out there again, just so Tyson's people are listening. I'm here for two million. You can get Juan Moreno for three or four TJ. He's a little younger than us so he's going to be a little more expensive, but actually you can have all three of us, a triple match, whatever they call that thing. So you get me first, you get through me, you get to Moreno, then you get to TJ. Jake, paul, if you're listening, we're here for you. Baby, write the check, get the contract. I'm ready. And, by the way, don't get trained. I don't need any setup time. I'll come over and I'll slap you during the weigh-in if you want whatever else you need. So I'm still in pretty good shape and I can fight. And I promise not to kick you, because if I kick you you're definitely going to sleep. So I can still kick. Two for you, three for me five for TJ, that's $10 million.
Speaker 5:That's $10 million right there.
Speaker 3:Good, we'll relax. I'll come to Miami. We'll have some more ceviche.
Speaker 4:All right.
Speaker 3:As you can tell folks this has been the warehouse, this is where we're at, this is where you could be. It's going to be personal. You may not like everything we say, but that's okay too, because we're going to like everything that you say on behalf of the warehouse and my co-host, master, grandmaster flash moreno, and tj. Tj. I remember him back when actually you haven't changed, you look exactly the same.
Speaker 4:You haven't changed you, thank you so both of you are handsome.
Speaker 3:I'm getting a little older, but still got all my parents I got the no shave november going on man. What's up with that? What is up with that? Looking a little grizzly?
Speaker 5:No shave November man.
Speaker 3:I haven't cut my hair. I had no idea. Yeah, all right, on behalf of the Warehouse 15, we're going to continue to bring it to you weekly. You guys all have a great night. Good night, my friends.
Speaker 4:Later.
Speaker 2:Yo mic check one, two. This ain't no full track of crew. This Warehouse 15, we're legends be true. Three rings on my fingers, girl, that was clean.
Speaker 2:But under this armor, life ain't always what it seem. Yeah, every drink are a question. It's not reach. They know what it's like. Yeah, every train car Pushed limits. We reached the peak, but the pressure could come boiling. In some weeks I couldn't speak.
Speaker 2:Sponsorships and smiles, hiding them in a fight, sacrifices made, lonely days and endless nights Fapping in the book, feel the beat hit, my soul Used to the podium. Now, stories unfold. Yeah, held my country's flag, felt the national pride, but behind the scenes, dem demons I had to hide, injuries that lengthened the mental strength of this goal, relationships shattered, losing control. The price of glory, a heavy one to pay. Now, in this warehouse, I'm finally gonna say Warehouse 15, barred, uncut, no facade. We ain't here for trophies laying out the life we've had. The competition fierce, not just on the field of play. Jealousy and envy poisoning every day, teammates, your rivals backstabbing for the win, fake smiles and handshakes hiding the sin. This ain't no fairy tale. This is the athlete's truth. The pain, the struggle, the forgotten. You. Well, it's deep walls are closing in Secrets revealed. Where do we begin? And no more pre-honest hints and no more media lies.
Speaker 1:Just 300 beings. Look, looking into your eyes, feelings get hurt. Truths will be told. Stories from the top, never getting old. Welcome to the warehouse when legends confess the weight of the world off our chest. Remember that race where I took the gold, slipped my rival something Story never told had to win at all costs. Pressure was immense. Now the guilt haunts me. No recompense.
Speaker 2:Stayed in a teammate, kept it on the low, scattered what I'd be worth in careers, what I had to go. Love and ambition a dangerous game. Now it's out in the open, bearing the shame my coach pushed me far, crossed the line. Mental abuse disguised as making me shine. Years of manipulation breaking me down. Now I speak my truth, reclaiming my crown when I'm sixteen. Walls are closing in, secrets revealed. Where do we begin? No more PR spins, no more media lies.
Speaker 1:Just three Olympians. We're looking into your eyes. Feelings get hurt. Truths will be told. Stories from the top never get ignored. Welcome to the warehouse where legends confess the weight of the world off our chest.
Speaker 2:Warehouse 15, wall and uncut, no facade. Warehouse 15, wall and uncut, no facade Warehouse 15,.
Speaker 1:Walls are closing in, secrets revealed. Where do we begin? The normal PR spills. The normal media lies. Just three Olympians looking into your eyes. Feelings get hurt. Truths will be told. Stories from the top never get enough. Welcome to the warehouse where legends confess the weight of the world off our chest.