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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4049890a1823.html - full interview
Heres a quik recap of the interview :
"You gotta have balls and heart to be in Philadelphia ... I live in the 'hood. I come outside, there used to be a body. It's survival.
"I've seen my mother die in front of my face, I've seen people get shot, I lost a close cousin on the streets. It's do or die. That's why I got this tattoo (he displays his left biceps): Only the strong survive."
He charts his own strength to a painfully early age, when his mother died and he was left alone, with his sisters. "I was a grown man at 13: I wasn't grown, but I was grown up. I missed my childhood, I never had the chance to have fun like the rest of the kids. I took boxing seriously."
A junior Olympic champion, with an amateur record of 82 wins, 12 losses, two Golden Gloves and one silver, he turned pro early, at 20, because he had to. He considered the only ways to escape were basketball, rap music, boxing or drugs.
"I didn't want to sell drugs, I didn't want to work. Boxing was the only thing I knew. I live with my aunt, I take care of her, and my girlfriend and one son. It's my destiny, my job to make sure we have a better life, I am here to try to make their life easier."
He has fought 15 times as a professional, and won all 15, and won all of them in the first, three-minute, round. Usually quicker: one took 29 seconds, one took 25, another 17, which is just about long enough for the bell to ring, the fighters to cross the canvas, and the first combination to be thrown.
The world record for consecutive first- round knockouts stands at 19, and after 10 fights, people began talking about it, and Brunson began pursuing it with vigour. Clearly, there has been an element of that sideshow boxing in his whirlwind two- year tour through the mid-east cities of Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids, dropping five guys on debut, others with records of 5-12 and 10-12. It may not build pedigree, but it did buy a house
"We love the criticism, we love the critics ... we're going to shut them up," Walker says. Then he becomes animated: "When we break this record, when we step up, that's when you see the real Tyrone Brunson. "He will dispose of guys second, third, fourth round, he will take his time and have patience to do that's when you'll see the real gangster, know whatta mean, that's when you see the real beast."
Brunson is 22 and has plenty of time to fulfil his nightly prayer of becoming a world champion. But first, the record, and he isn't downplaying it. "People don't know," Brunson says. "Nobody is going to knock out 15 straight guys, I don't care who you are ... we could get 15 girls in here now, and I guarantee you are not going to knock all 15 girls out. It's hard."
Sparring in an Auckland gym, Brunson is preparing but doesn't want to know, doesn't care, who the next victim is. "I can adjust real fast, any type, any style, I can adjust to it any time," he says.
That's good, as Glozier is still lining them up.
"It's open to any junior middleweights in New Zealand or Australia really, an open invitation to try to go more than a round," he says. "If they come along, we will put them on."
This kids gna be very exciting in the future,we need these typa guys with devastating power punching
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