 But that was a that was a that was a fight that pretty much did it like revive like you that was a championship fight, wasn't it? Yeah, I won the title yeah first I was my first title I won the linear championship for him, but yeah tough fight Lawrence Lakin scores about 117 to 113 and Calvin Claxton has it 116 to 112 for the winner by a majority decision and New linear The thing I so coming up young the great time right now he backs off from a sharp right upper cut to the body by Yeah, yeah, yeah, the block was serious man. Yeah, like like so when you you're younger than him Shannon's a beautiful person. He has one everybody think that he's tough If you tell me the beautiful guy nice So so you've seen that and did I give you like I can make it yeah, I can make it came China, you know How were you on 78? Yeah, he was just nine when I really left I mean well, you know, I never I never thought honestly that I'd be You never thought it now because you know, I grew up only child when mom spoiled me right and you know Yeah, yeah, yeah at school. Yeah, I mean I went to Catholic high school for a year So I was always living good, you know, you have to do nothing You know, I always had a hustle on me and try to get jobs and all that but when we lost our home I was 13. Yeah. Yeah, that's when I had to like live from house to house And that's when I you know, I'm saying I got serious in the box But Mike was a motivation again, like I said, I wasn't expecting to be no boxer but when I hit rock bottom by the time was 16 15 16 I was getting in trouble getting arrested and I was in the streets I was really in the streets my pops was on the run He wound up getting caught and going to prison and dying So for me my whole life changed and that's when I became a heart and more heart and person and I got in the boxing Luckily, I had skills, you know me and I like to use boxing as an outlet. Yeah. Yeah I'm from Marsha. Okay, Jefferson Marsha. You yeah, you but he be charged for me. So he oughta know March That's what George from yeah, I met George I walk up to him at the and I never thought I'd met George and Shannon Briggs. This is crazy I met him at the JCPenney's over there across from where I had the store at and I walk up to him I'm like, dude, you look familiar y'all Tripping on him because I even you know, I'm at home So I'm like, you know, I ain't really think about him But then it hit me when I seen people start as a autograph, but yeah, yeah, but very cool cat man But that was that was a that was a fight that pretty much did it like revive like you that was a championship fight, wasn't it? Yeah Yeah, I won the title. Yeah, the first I was my first title. I won the linear championship from him, but yeah tough fight Lawrence Lakin scores about 117 to 113 And Calvin Claxton has it 116 to 112 for the winner by a majority decision and new linear Again My mom had died on my birthday and the fight was uh, you know, not too far after and it was something that um I think kept me kept me up and kept me strongly motivated me for the fight But the opportunity that he gave me was life-changing. I was at a down point in my life. Yeah, I you know I wound up getting a very close decision. Yeah, it was anyway Yeah, um, I got one title and it was life-changing I can go down and rest of my life And here was a kid sleeping on the train a few years before that me and my mom and now here We are I was you know, she had died, but I had won the title. Yeah gave me a sense of Of work self-worth. So how was you when she died 25? Yeah, that's about how a lot was when my mom died. So yeah about the same It was about 96 for me. Yeah, it was 96. See Like like she died of cancer though. Yeah, and and it she was 44. So my mom's is 51. So yeah, she had a overdose Yeah, so yeah, yeah, I read up on that too Man, I just like I said, it's just crazy man that how you you you got to know about resilience to be in boxing, man You got to be able to bounce back. You know what I mean? So when you came back from the weight, you know losing the weight and getting back to your true self, you know You thought to yourself and came to yourself That that right there had to be that's something else People don't you let you know a lot of people they count this if I need it don't come back You know, but you was a lot of haters. So I was that helps Yeah Was happy to see me off my good foot. Yeah. Yeah, I was like, you know, I got fat. It was oh, you'll never come back I remember I had I had you know, dreadlocks. I had locks. Yeah, I want to say drill I had locks like 27 28 years. It's that blonde dreadlock. Yeah. Yeah. When did you cut it? Well, when I was going through my depression At the first time I tried cannabis. It was one day. I am I um a friend of mine who was a chef He had left it at my house. I was in the smoker. I wind up Hitting it like two two two two o'clock in the morning two three o'clock in the morning and um, I had an experience man I just like I started crying and I just started I was 403 pounds and I started crying. I was I was just I don't even know why just then I envisioned myself in shape Traveling the world I hadn't been home for a while and I was eating eating crazy And I envisioned myself Traveling the world in shape and I was like damn and I was crying I went in the house and I fell asleep and when I woke up the next morning I just walked in the bathroom With nothing with no thought and I just went in the bathroom to start shaving my head bald Without question, you know, I'm saying My wife walked in and she started crying. She's oh my god. I was wondering if you were mad at that time She started she said you went crazier You know, he went crazy and she cried. Yeah, I was like, no, I'm okay. I'm okay I was like, no everything's good and she was like, well, I was like, no, I don't know what it is But then it hit me the blunt was outside, you know So when outside I hit it a couple more times and again, I felt For the first time in years my imagination came back. Wow. I had some block in my brain. That's crazy. I couldn't think about Positive and seeing myself in a better place and here I was now because when I hit the tree I was like, oh snap. So I called my boy. I was like, yo, Jerome get over here Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Here we go