Bruce Buffer
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And they said, is that your brother?
And I go, no, my brother's Brian.
Brian's my brother I've grown up with.
And they said, dad, do you know anything about this?
And I got this, I think that's your brother.
Son, I never told you before I met your mom or before I married your mom at 20 years old, I was married briefly, went overseas to do my part during World War II.
I came back and a son was born.
No, just one of those things, you know, where I think the last time he saw him was two and a half, you know, a divorce ensued.
guess what i'm saying too is when you're watching mike tyson fight like did you fall more in love with fighting or when did you decide i want to be the announcer in the ring one little additive to that when i when i met michael we all got together my dad and him my dad called him when he was doing an event in california they got together for lunch turned out to be his son they got along great and then we all got together and we all got along great and then it was basically about
four years later um i saw michael growing with the let's get ready to rumble and he never even made a hat or t-shirt right and i just realized that you know this needed to be trademarked properly so it couldn't be you know totally his um when you trademark something it's not just in one area it's in multiple areas
and i was making great money beach house the whole bit in the telemarketing industry and but i was burned out on what i was doing and i just had this epiphany uh when riddick bow fought evander holyfield in 1992 for the first time they fought i was at the event i saw everybody go crazy that night you know when michael would go into his rumble
whether it was hulk hogan jack nicholson whatever just going nuts and i went back to my hotel room instead of going out in vegas and doing what we all like to do in vegas and you know party blackjack whatever the case might be and i incessantly wrote three pages of notes you know trademark the phrase put them in football fields basketball toys video games all this kind of stuff i thought i could create and make happen and i met with michael and i said you know
I mean, I'm doing great, but I'm burned out.
I mean, I love the money I make and everything, but I'd rather, I want to sell both my companies.
I want to quit with the money I have in the bank.