Deontay and Dad: How a Father's Lessons Created A Champ
The Lead
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🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Saturday night is one of the most anticipated heavyweight rematches in a long time. Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder square off in Las Vegas. The stakes are particularly high for Deontay Wilder who is considered by many to be the next great American heavyweight. The Athletic’s Lance Pugmire joins us to talk about how Wilder has overcome incredible odds just to get become a champion and how, even as a kid in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he knew his fate.
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| 0:00.0 | And now ladies and gentlemen in attendance and boxing fans joining us around the world |
| 0:11.8 | it's your time! |
| 0:18.3 | Tomorrow night is one of the most anticipated heavyweight rematches in a long time. |
| 0:23.9 | Tyson Fury and Deonte Wilder square off in Las Vegas. |
| 0:27.7 | The stakes are particularly high for Deonte Wilder who was considered by many to be the next |
| 0:33.2 | great American heavyweight. |
| 0:35.2 | The Athletics Lance Pugmeyer joins us today to talk about how Wilder has overcome incredible |
| 0:40.1 | odds just to get here and how even as a kid in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he knew his fate. |
| 0:46.4 | And he walks in there nine years old, puts his hands on his father's shoulders and they |
| 0:50.8 | look at each other at the eye and basically the message between them was we are going |
| 0:56.4 | to make it. |
| 0:58.4 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 1:00.9 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:02.3 | It's Friday, February 21st and this is The Lead. |
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