Deontay Wilder

But if you grow up without having certain things, you don't know what it is.

So you're more happy.

You're content with certain ways of things.

And when I started really getting up and started talking to my dad, especially when I became a champion and stuff, he explained to me how hard it was because at one point in time, my mother left.

And he left, and my father had to raise all the, you know, four of us by himself, you know what I mean?

And that's why I respect him so highly, you know what I mean, as a father.

And so he really showed me and my brother certain things, although I learned other things along the way.

It was young.

I mean, we had to be, we was young.

It was pretty young.

maybe seven, eight, it was between, man, nine, maybe nine, 10, 11, somewhere up in there.

Yeah.

Oh, most definitely.

They came back together.

They came back together and stuff like that, you know, but it was a little phase of time that she did leave, you know, and he, he had to take up a responsibility of all of us.

So my, my, you know, my daddy,

is a father for sure.

He, man, you know, it makes me want to cry now.

It's just, just to think about certain things, like when he's, when it's time to step up and what he did, you know, when it, when you, when you talk about, now, when I look at it, you know, and we always talk about women and men and what women can do, men can do, you know, what shouldn't be, should be done, shouldn't be done, the roles that we play as men and women.

Now, I do believe in