Welcome back to the fight with Teddy Atlas, I'm Ken Rideout. This is part three of the Michael

Mora, Vandaholyfield heavyweight title fight in which Teddy won his first

heavyweight title as a trainer. When we left off last time, Teddy, you guys had just gone into the ring.

MC hammers in there, the crowd is lively, and you just told Michael that this is the first, this is the last time that you'll walk out into the ring first

I'll let you pick it up from there

Boy, um and we were just watching clips of the old fight and he said it brought back a lot of memories and the first thing I noticed is that you looked like a teenager in those videos.

Yeah, I didn't realize how young you were. I mean, you know, obviously I

know all the details, but to see how young you looked in those things that

really highlights what a big deal it was, not just for Michael, but for you as a trainer to be that young

and training a heavyweight champion of the world. It's incredible story. Sorry to

interrupt. Go ahead. Take it from there. You know, like I had said, I just want to keep his, I want to make sure that nothing goes wrong

now in the last seconds, you know, that his mind is where it needs to be you know that we

don't have any ninjas following us from the dresser room into the ring and crawling

through those ropes you know the ninjas of the imagination that we are

focused, you know, every once in a while when I thought it was necessary, I would just

feel the pulse of it and of the moment and I might say something too, you know,

you know, you know, make sure he stayed loose, make sure motion relieves tension, make sure that he keeps moving, you know, and maybe every once in a while shoot out a little something as we were waiting for the ring instructions, we were waiting for the announcements, you know, while that time's going by, I was just keeping tabs on everything, you know, looking at them making sure, like I said, if I needed to say a couple words,

you know, the jab is, remember the jab is the key, you know.

In camp I remember there was a time in camp where I got the audience to kind of be on my side

to kind of be on my side I used the audience

where when they would come to those workouts on the tennis

court I would sometimes I'd go up to them before Michael got there. I'd go up to them and say okay and I'm sure

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