Michael Moorer vs. Evander Holyfield - 25th Ann. of Heavyweight World Title | PART I
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
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4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In Part I of this 3 part series, Teddy Atlas recounts his early years and work with Cus D'Amato, his introduction to Michael Moorer, and the initial challenges in lead up to Michael Moorer's (and Teddy's) first Heavyweight World Title shot against the great Evander Holyfield on April 22, 1994.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. I'm Ken Reinow joined as always by a |
| 0:08.3 | legendary trainer and world-class friend Teddy Atlas. Teddy, how are you? |
| 0:13.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:17.0 | The pleasure is all mine. |
| 0:20.0 | I want to talk to you today about the |
| 0:24.1 | That we recently had the 25th anniversary of the Michael more |
| 0:27.3 | Evander Holyfield fight where you won your first heavyweight world title with Michael more |
| 0:31.9 | And that's why I'm going to shirt. |
| 0:34.5 | The shirt is 25 years old is in good shape. Me not so. It's so good but the shirt is |
| 0:41.2 | held up pretty well. You and the shirt is held up pretty well. |
| 0:43.0 | You and the shirt look great. |
| 0:45.0 | The, um, that chapter in your book about training Michael Mora and the psychology involved with that I think really highlights |
| 0:58.0 | what makes you such a special trainer and commentator and why I think people respect your insight into the sport. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'd love to cover some of your experiences working with Michael |
| 1:11.0 | because again, I found it to be be fascinating reading about it in your book and kind of reliving it I remember when it happened but obviously it was 25 years ago |
| 1:19.5 | Can we walk through how you came in contact with Michael, how you started working with him and what that experience was like? |
| 1:28.0 | So maybe start out with how you were introduced to him and the relationship started. |
| 1:33.0 | Well first of all just to touch on something that you, you know, you put a finger on. |
| 1:39.0 | 75% of this business is mental. |
| 1:42.0 | So if you don't understand that aspect of it, that |
| 1:46.0 | dimension of it, I don't think you're going to be too successful helping somebody |
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