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Everything You Want To Know About A Fighter Is In His Eyes. The Look In His Eyes Tells The Truth.

It Is Wonderful. It Truly Is. It Is The Only Thing That Is Real! It's You Against Me, It's Challenging Another Guy's Manhood. With Gloves. Words Cannot Describe That Feeling Of Being A Man, Of Being A Gladiator, Of Being A Warrior. It's Irreplaceable.

I Found Boxing When I Was 14 Years Old. I Went Down To The Gym Because My Brother, Who Used To Beat Me Up All The Time, Introduced Me To Boxing. I Found Boxing To Be A Sport That I Felt Safe In Because I Controlled What Was In Those Four Squares.

Look At Football, Where You Still Have Injuries No Matter How Much They Improve The Helmets And Other Equipment.

I Saw Todd Bridges Talk About Being Abused On Oprah. Something That He Said, Or An Expression That He Made That Gave Me That Little Boost I Needed To Be Open About It And To Talk About It As Transparently As I Did. When I Told My Wife, She Couldn't Believe It. She Was Petrified, Because It's Such A No-no, Taboo, A Hands-off Subject. But I'd Have To Say Hearing Todd Bridges On Oprah Was My Watershed Moment.