Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. I'm Ken Rideout joined as always by the

great humanitarian chairman and founder of the Dr Teddy Atlas Foundation, the great Teddy Atlas.

Teddy good to be with you.

Well, thank you, you're so kind.

Such a, you know, customado, I remember my great mentor, I remember he used to tell me a story that back in the day when he ran the 14th Street gym in Manhattan later

on it was known as the Empire Club, the Gramercy Dream, he gave it to two of my friends.

Al-Gavin, God bless him, he's not with us anymore.

And great cut man by the way.

And Bob Jackson, another tremendous trainer in boxing person. And so he gave the gym over to them but he used to tell me these

stories about the gym all the time that he had fightists that were away.

Like they say in the old days, away in college.

When they were in jail.

They were in jail, yes.

And Cuss had a one of them was in the can and he would send guys to the stable cost when they were maybe on a lam as they used to also say.

You know, you could, you can define that if you want to can to the listeners out there that might not be up with some of these

Was some of these sayings? So he would send guys periodically down to Kuss to get safe haven, so to speak.

And they would come down, they'd come in the gym, they'd say,

Ardi set me.

That was all they had to say.

Okay, Cuz say, okay, he turned to one of his guys, he said,

take him down the corner and get him something to eat.

And Cuz had a place down there, a little restaurant down there,

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