Antonio Tarver: No Excuse For Failure | I AM ATHLETE

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Antonio Deon Tarver, born on November 21st in Orlando, Florida is a U.S. Olympic Bronze-Medalist, Philanthropist, Podcast Host, Actor, Boxing commentator and Former U.S. National Gold-Medal winning Boxer. Antonio made his professional debut with his first fight with Joaquin Garcia at the legendary Blue Horizon boxing Venue in Philadelphia in 1997. Throughout his first 16 fights of his career, which he’s all won, with an impressive feat of 14 out of 16 of those fights being won by knockout–Tarver quickly became a force to be reckoned with in the boxing world and had so many eyes on him from Florida... All the way to the local boxing hub in Philadelphia. In April of 2003, Tarver was placed in a bout against Montel Griffin, who at the time, was the reigning WBC and IBF light-heavyweight champion. After about a full hour in the ring, 12 rounds and after successfully flooring Griffin in the 1st and 12th rounds of the fight, Antonio was crowned the new champion after a unanimous decision. In May of 2004 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Antonio did something that would surprise many... He was set to do a rematch with Roy Jones Jr where he not only regained the WBC title, but also knocked RJJ out in the 2nd round–Where Jones had only been knocked out once in the then 50-fight entirety of his boxing career. Fast forwarding to 2006 after Antonio had become a household name after defeating Roy Jones, he appeared on the covers of iconic boxing Magazines such as The Ring and KO. He was also given the opportunity to be casted as Mason “The Line” Dixon in the Rocky Balboa installment of the film’s franchise that was released the same year. Antonio has since then gone on to be a boxing analyst for Showtime Championship Boxing, a spectator at some of the world’s most memorable boxing events and being a co-host on Friday Night Fights. Thank you to Antonio for stopping by the I Am Athlete studio to share his perspective on all things life and giving us insight on his past that built the resilient, brute force of nature that he is. Happy Early Birthday & Happy Scorpio SZN to you as well! 🍽 Get anything delivered with Uber Eats! Official On-Demand Delivery Partner of the NFL. Order now. *Not literally anything. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Follow I AM ATHLETE: YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/iamathlete Instagram: ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/iamathlete/... Twitter: ➡️ https://twitter.com/IAMATHLETEpod TikTok: ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@iamathlete_podcast Linkedin: ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-am-athlete Snap Chat: ➡️ https://story.snapchat.com/p/95780ea6-a4af-4e12-863f-c9d0b043aafc Apple Podcasts: ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-am-athlete-podcast/id1537836233 Spotify: ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/45N5cWXbdyGb2f1MjzTMZZ?si=7fq9yxUXT1erHJhc4_JCUw Follow PAPER ROUTE: Instagram: ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/paperrouteshow/ Apple Podcasts: ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-am-athlete-podcast/id1537836233 🎶 Listen to Paper Route By I AM ATHLETE on Faction Talk Channel 103 on the SXM app and get 3 Months Free. Subscribe Now. See Offer Details. Download or Install https://siriusxm.us/paperroute

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0:00.0	You're going to see. Yeah, came from the mud. I had to get up in my zone and I ain't half a team I had to get it on my own. The only ones I love, the ones I hit up on my phone.
0:24.4	When nobody at the top, this is how I feel when you alone.
0:27.2	Had to get up on myself, love. When I sit down, you know, with folks in this type of setting I'm trying to look for one word to
0:46.2	capture the thing and for you it's almost like it's overcoming. There's a bunch of words to come up for you. Like a thing. Overcoming. There's entrepreneurship. We can talk about business, legend that comes up for me.
1:05.5	Like when you think about your era and your careers like there's only five or six fighters that really
1:11.2	own their era and you one of them.
1:13.4	Thank you.
1:14.4	I guess for me bro, like where I want to start.
1:17.2	And I don't know how you would define who Slim is in your life, but like for a couple years we've been running to each other all the fights.
1:27.0	And we've been talking about like, oh, we got to sit down, we got to sit down.
1:29.8	And we never made it happen.
1:30.7	It's more so on me than it is you. And now it's like perfect because like yes this is the type of
1:36.4	conversation that I'm trying to have and try to have and like Slim like really put me in
1:40.8	position to capture all of your story and everything that you can teach us.
1:47.5	Can I say one thing before we start?
1:49.5	I want to just explain who Slim is, man. Slim my brother you know from another mother like I had
1:56.4	three sisters coming up and my mom was a single parent I never really had that brotherly
2:01.8	love from nobody you you know what I'm saying?
2:05.0	And the way we met and the way our relationship started
2:09.0	was again, you know, had to be God, you know, and the fact that, you know, had to be God, you know what I'm saying? And the fact that, you know,
2:14.8	through my divorce, he was with me, through all of my tough times he was with me,
2:19.6	and, you know, I, he was on my record label at one time. He was one of my artists. He's one of the dopest rappers you ever want to hear you know he write music
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