So here it is real and raw. This is my first of 40 vlog posts for 40 days that I'm

calling confessions of a fighter. And today I announced that I will be having my

boxing debut at the O2 arena here in London on April 2nd. That's 40 days from now.

That's a Saturday night. It's the biggest indoor venue in all of Britain. We

expect it to be fully sold out and I will be fighting for the very first time in

my life. I will be gloving up, putting a mouthguard in and going toe-to-toe with

another man and the plan is to punch each other in the face until one person stops.

And needless to say, this is a big challenge for me. Maybe the first and the

biggest challenge in my life. It's something that equally terrifies me and excites

me. It's something I've always wanted to do in my life and something I never

thought I would be doing at 50 years of age. But they say what success is when

preparation meets opportunity. And I was presented this opportunity a few

weeks ago. Strangely enough, three days before our massive David Ike livestream,

I got a voicemail from an old friend of mine who said, Brian, this is your

chance to fight. And I went through the reaction that most people would have. The

first one was LOL, laughing out loud, thinking, there's no way I will do this.

This is preposterous. And I had a lot of things on my mind that week because we

were doing a big livestream with a big guest and had a lot to prepare for, didn't

know if we were going to get banned or arrested or any of that stuff. And the last

thing I wanted to think about is me getting in the ring, which is something I've

never done. Now I've trained martial arts. martial arts probably saved my life when

I overdosed from heroin in New York City in 2001. And I came to London in 2002, it

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