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Teddy Atlas

👤 Speaker
927 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Well, he sent a message to me. Cus sent a guy to me. My wife was pregnant. We were living in an apartment in Catskill on Cordeskill Road. We went through all this, you know, and I was getting ready to move to Staten Island. And we still were there for a little while before we did, you know, after all this went down.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

He sent a guy to me, to the house, secret, whatever you want to call it, my wife, me. So I listened to him. Cuss said, if you leave, I'm a messenger, you know, whatever. If you leave, This was in the aftermath of the gun, the whole thing. You got to remember, Tyson was a ward of the state. He was put in Cuss's custody. Cuss was looking to adopt him for obvious reasons.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

He sent a guy to me, to the house, secret, whatever you want to call it, my wife, me. So I listened to him. Cuss said, if you leave, I'm a messenger, you know, whatever. If you leave, This was in the aftermath of the gun, the whole thing. You got to remember, Tyson was a ward of the state. He was put in Cuss's custody. Cuss was looking to adopt him for obvious reasons.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

He sent a guy to me, to the house, secret, whatever you want to call it, my wife, me. So I listened to him. Cuss said, if you leave, I'm a messenger, you know, whatever. If you leave, This was in the aftermath of the gun, the whole thing. You got to remember, Tyson was a ward of the state. He was put in Cuss's custody. Cuss was looking to adopt him for obvious reasons.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

So he had control and he loved him. How dare I say anything less? I won't. But it made sense too. But he was a ward of the state still. Do you know what that means? There's rules.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

So he had control and he loved him. How dare I say anything less? I won't. But it made sense too. But he was a ward of the state still. Do you know what that means? There's rules.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

So he had control and he loved him. How dare I say anything less? I won't. But it made sense too. But he was a ward of the state still. Do you know what that means? There's rules.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

means the state's still overlooking it if he ain't living the right life you know you gotta remember he came out of you know he came out of a jail so reform school but if he ain't living the life he could be taken away from cuz what's not living the right life well he he wasn't in school no more they didn't know about it um He had some things that were going on. We won't get into that right now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

means the state's still overlooking it if he ain't living the right life you know you gotta remember he came out of you know he came out of a jail so reform school but if he ain't living the life he could be taken away from cuz what's not living the right life well he he wasn't in school no more they didn't know about it um He had some things that were going on. We won't get into that right now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

means the state's still overlooking it if he ain't living the right life you know you gotta remember he came out of you know he came out of a jail so reform school but if he ain't living the life he could be taken away from cuz what's not living the right life well he he wasn't in school no more they didn't know about it um He had some things that were going on. We won't get into that right now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

In school and different things, whatever. And he had his trainer put a gun to his head. That ain't so good. If a report came back to them that that happened, he would have been taken away from Cuss. That couldn't happen. Nobody knows this. I talk about it a little bit, but never probably... Because why would I? I don't know. Why am I doing it now? I don't know. Because... I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

In school and different things, whatever. And he had his trainer put a gun to his head. That ain't so good. If a report came back to them that that happened, he would have been taken away from Cuss. That couldn't happen. Nobody knows this. I talk about it a little bit, but never probably... Because why would I? I don't know. Why am I doing it now? I don't know. Because... I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

In school and different things, whatever. And he had his trainer put a gun to his head. That ain't so good. If a report came back to them that that happened, he would have been taken away from Cuss. That couldn't happen. Nobody knows this. I talk about it a little bit, but never probably... Because why would I? I don't know. Why am I doing it now? I don't know. Because... I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Because I am. Because it's now. Because it's now, maybe. Maybe because it's now. I don't know. So he sent this man that, you know, obviously we both knew. And he said, here's the deal, Teddy. if no talk about this, wants it to, you know, disappear basically, you leave and he will give you 5% his word. Can you imagine? He will give you 5% of Tyson's earnings for the rest of his career.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Because I am. Because it's now. Because it's now, maybe. Maybe because it's now. I don't know. So he sent this man that, you know, obviously we both knew. And he said, here's the deal, Teddy. if no talk about this, wants it to, you know, disappear basically, you leave and he will give you 5% his word. Can you imagine? He will give you 5% of Tyson's earnings for the rest of his career.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Because I am. Because it's now. Because it's now, maybe. Maybe because it's now. I don't know. So he sent this man that, you know, obviously we both knew. And he said, here's the deal, Teddy. if no talk about this, wants it to, you know, disappear basically, you leave and he will give you 5% his word. Can you imagine? He will give you 5% of Tyson's earnings for the rest of his career.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

But I don't regret it one bit because it wouldn't have happened anyway. See, that's where I can be honest with my, people say, oh, he's a stand-up guy because I told him to shove it where the, you know, you know, in that place and tell cuz to shove it in that freaking place. You know, I was mad. Teddy, Teddy, don't get angry. Don't get angry. Are you out of here? Are you serious? Get out of here.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

But I don't regret it one bit because it wouldn't have happened anyway. See, that's where I can be honest with my, people say, oh, he's a stand-up guy because I told him to shove it where the, you know, you know, in that place and tell cuz to shove it in that freaking place. You know, I was mad. Teddy, Teddy, don't get angry. Don't get angry. Are you out of here? Are you serious? Get out of here.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

But I don't regret it one bit because it wouldn't have happened anyway. See, that's where I can be honest with my, people say, oh, he's a stand-up guy because I told him to shove it where the, you know, you know, in that place and tell cuz to shove it in that freaking place. You know, I was mad. Teddy, Teddy, don't get angry. Don't get angry. Are you out of here? Are you serious? Get out of here.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Tell him to go shove it over. And, you know, my wife was like, huh. But, and then people like, why didn't you take the deal? It wasn't a deal. It was an escape clause.