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🗓️ 25 April 2019
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Shannon “The Cannon” Briggs, is a former two time, world heavyweight champion boxer.
He began his career in 1992 and was undefeated in his first 25 fights, and then went on to beat George Foreman for the heavyweight title in 1997.
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0:00.0 | Throughout my life I've had to be strong when I was weak. To be the man you got to be the man. |
0:08.5 | I was bully I was picked on. I was just homeless sleeping on the train in Brooklyn. Now I'm on ABC Wild World Sports |
0:16.4 | in front of millions of people. |
0:17.6 | Shanna the killer! |
0:20.6 | I lose. knockout big loss boom I'm down I'm embarrassed I feel pretty much my career was over. My life was just in turmoil and I'm like, I want to end it. |
0:37.0 | I was powered on weight. |
0:39.0 | I'm trying to feed the pain. |
0:41.0 | And then my daughter was born and I looked at her one day and I was like that's it. |
0:47.0 | I got to get myself together because if I'm not here to protect her someone's going to hurt this girl. |
0:52.0 | Let's go, Chant. |
0:54.0 | I got a dream now. |
0:55.0 | I set my mind on, I'm going to do something. |
0:57.0 | How do I lose 400 pounds? |
0:59.0 | How? |
1:00.0 | It's impossible. |
1:01.0 | And I said, let's go, champ. I'm programming myself. |
1:05.0 | You're champ, Shannon, not for no boxing. |
1:08.0 | Because when you was 13 years old, homeless, you didn't jump in front of the train tracks. |
1:13.0 | And it means, I'm a champ, you a champ, for the things that we didn't give up on. |
1:19.0 | Find the champion, find the things that you can grab on to that you feel good about. |
1:27.0 | You got to make a choice, chab. What you want to do? |
1:30.0 | Let's go, champ! Let's go champ! Let's go check! |
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