Joel Engel
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
He grew up in a part of Houston, Texas, known as Fifth Ward, which is the slummiest slum you've ever heard of. And he was always angry. He wasn't sure why he was always angry, but he got in a lot of fights. His five older brothers and sisters used to call him Mo Head. He didn't know why they did. He just knew he didn't like it. And he was much bigger than they were.
Global News Podcast
Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
And he looked like he came from a different family, actually. And he did poorly in school. And he got involved in something called the Job Corps, which took young people like him when he was a teenager. And they put them in a place where they might be able to learn useful life skills.
Global News Podcast
Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
And it was from that when he was in Oregon, they sent him to Oregon to do that, where he first was involved in boxing. Now, I don't mean street fighting, because he did a lot of that. He was the town bully or the neighborhood bully. But he learned boxing from that, and from there he went to Golden Gloves, and from there he went to the Olympics.
Global News Podcast
Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
He once said the reason that Muhammad Ali had the neurological problems that he had was because his head wasn't made for getting hit. My head, he said, was made for getting hit. He could really take a punch, but he was insanely strong. If you've ever seen the video of the...
Global News Podcast
Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
His fight when he won the heavyweight championship against Joe Frazier, who was considered pretty much unbeatable, he lifted him off the campus a couple of times with blows to the midsection. He was incredibly strong and a large man.