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For over 30 years, boxing trainer Antonio Fernández "Moustache" has been turning around kids' lives through the sport of boxing.
Citation
Main credits
Torrellas, Álvaro (film director)
Torrellas, Álvaro (screenwriter)
Fernández, Antonio (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Cinematography, Valentín Álvarez; editing, Celia Cervero; music, Antonio Fernández Ruiz.
Distributor subjects
Youth; Sociology; Culture + Identity; Education; FamilyKeywords
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I'm gonna kill you when I get you Gato,
Antonio tell him to step outside.
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Antonio tell him to step out,
I'm gonna kill him
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tell that fucker to come out here.
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Listen... just listen...
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Tell that fucker to come out.
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Stay behind me.
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Gato step out, I'm gonna kill you,
step out!
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Dude shut up.
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No way Antonio, tell him to step out,
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Come with me... .
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He was making a fool of me yesterday...
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I'm gonna kill him, tell him to step out...
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No, no Antonio, no
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Antonio I will kill him, he was making
a fool of me and I'm gonna kill him.
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Think about it.
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I'm not gonna think about it.
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He was making a fool of me
the other day and I am going to kill him.
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If I had never met Moustache...
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something terrible would've happened.
I would've been dead or in prison.
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No doubt.
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I would have been dead.
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I started boxing because my mom used to
tell me not to get into fights.
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She used to punish me so much
that I didn't want to fight anyone.
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I was afraid of everyone, bullied.
They used to steal my milk
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and the yellow cheese
that the Americans gave us.
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Then one day I decided to get into boxing,
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I went to the Betis soccer stadium
by myself.
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At that time they use to have a boxing club
and I joined them.
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After the first 3 months I went
looking for the next door gangster.
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And I beat him up so bad
that people still talk about it today.
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Streets are tough.
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Real tough.
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It depends on how you handle it.
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Because of what happened,
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after seeing my family suffer so much
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and after seeing the images
of my cousin still alive,
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it really hit me and shook me up.
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I was suffering so much that I couldn't
find the meaning of living anymore
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I didn't feel my life was important,
all I wanted to die and be close to her.
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I have different people in here.
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I have guys with college degrees.
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Architects, lawyers, engineers,
Iberia pilots.
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Right here in my gym.
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But, I also have guys
that have robbed banks.
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Or guys on parole,
guys that have a really dark past,
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I won't point anyone out
because to me they are all equal.
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The pilot that flies 400 people
to the United States
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or some of the chiefs of police
that train here with me.
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This is a family
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and I try my best to make sure that
there are no classes or status in here.
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I don't care if you make five thousand
euros a month or one hundred.
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This is a family and
that's how I want it to be.
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Let's work the overhands Zapa,
that's it, and the left to the gut.
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Now one step back and the counter.
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You are fighting with those kids right?
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I don't know.
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Keep on going. Just keep going.
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My hand hurts.
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C'mon man! That's nothing!
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Good afternoon.
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That's it.
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They're filming again?
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You bet they are!
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What are they filming for now?
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For a porn movie!
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Oh ok, a porn movie.
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Let's go!
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These are the nicest guys in the world.
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If you treat them right
and talk to them straight up.
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I quickly learned that because
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I've been here for 21 years
and I've never had a problem.
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I've never had a problem.
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Not a single fight. Do you know why?
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Once someone steps into my gym and talks
to me, I know what they are all about.
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And the way that I have
to talk to that person
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and the way I can joke with that person.
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And if I have to tell that person
to stop being
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a whining motherfucker I absolutely will.
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Leave that hand up there, after you throw
the punch both hands up. Always.
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Right after you throw the punch
both hands up, keep your guard up.
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That's it, that's it Zapa.
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Can we step into the ring him and I?
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Sure, go ahead.
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Whoever loses takes it in the ass.
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You guys are such pussies,
stop sticking your asses out!
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Look at that, what's that?
How about a couple of kisses you guys!
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That's a couple of pussies,
the pimp and the one with the marks.
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Every time he sees his chick,
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he comes back to the gym like Christ,
with scars, bruises.
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But you have to joke around with them
in a funny way so they don't get mad.
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I give them trust and they are
all just fine with me,
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I still haven't had anyone turn on me
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and told me to go fuck off.
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Never.
And I've been doing this for 21 years.
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C'mon let's go, One more time
and the left down low now. Here we go.
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One two, one more time.
Right there, right there.
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Pepa you're now prettier.
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When you first came you were such a fatty
and now look at you.
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You are completely doable now.
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You're thinking about jerking off right?
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What a crew, what a crew!
Always thinking about jerking off!
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Let's go big man, c'mon!
Throw more punches, a lot more.
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As quick as you jerk off c'mon!
That's it, that's right.
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But they know they way I speak to them,
they know when I call them suckers what
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I mean is that they are really nice guys,
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like, c'mon sucker
you are doing such a good job.
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and that's my motto here,
I don't treat anyone different.
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Once they step in my gym
they are all equal to me.
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They are all the same to me.
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This is my world and I feel so good in it.
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What's going on!
You want to fight a little bit
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Yes, I do, but tell her not to hit me
in the head because I have a headache.
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Don't worry, she will just hit you
on the gloves.
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If you knew how much I like you.
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I like you too.
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No, for real.
Like if you were my daughter.
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Because you gotta have the balls
to do what you're doing today.
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You come the first time, don't know anyone.
And you step into the ring.
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It's ok because you're here with me.
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Listen up. There are two minutes left.
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Let's fight a little bit.
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Touch gloves.
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Let's go, c'mon. One hand
and the other one. C'mon, let's go.
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Let's go Pepa, take it easy, c'mon.
C'mon girls, let's go pretty girls.
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Take it easy. Direct your punches to
the helmet and the gloves.
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I don't want any injuries or accidents or
anything like that.
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Hey!
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Let's go, take it easy, switch guard,
switch guard. Touch gloves.
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That's it, c'mon.
Just like that, here we go.
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Pepa the left, and another left.
I don't want you to hit her hard Pepa.
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No, stop.
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Touch gloves, let's go.
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Let's go, we are teammates here.
You have to kill the girls from other gyms.
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Let's go, c'mon. Step back Pepa,
take it easy.
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Keep your guard up,
and don't move straight up.
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Pepa control yourself.
Touch it a little bit.
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Direct the hits to the gloves
and the helmet not into the face.
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I don't want punches in the face.
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That's it, that's what I want.
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C'mon, let her fight a little bit Paca.
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Let's go, c'mon girls.
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Put your left hand back up,
keep your guard up. You see?
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Pepa enough, you little motherfucker!
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Keep your guard up, keep your guard up.
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Man, you hit with one hand and
with the other one you cover yourself.
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You have to stick that into her brain.
If not she's going to get hit.
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Pepa, take it easy.
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She didn't bang your boyfriend
or anything like that.
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Let's go Pepa.
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Hold on, hold on. No low blows.
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15 seconds 15.
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Let's go Pepa, take it easy,
take it easy Pepa.
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No punches in the boobs,
be careful with the tits.
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Ok, ok. That's it.
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Ok Pepa.
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There was a robbery.
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I won't say where or what we robbed.
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And the judge... well the cops caught us.
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And the judge was really cool.
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She gave me the option
of going to a mental hospital
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instead of going to prison.
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Because she told me I had a
mental illness.
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So I was put into a mental hospital.
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I was eighteen years old.
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It was shit man.
Just like that.
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They've ruined my life.
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They've marked me forever.
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Throw straight punches Trini, God damn it!.
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Paco you piece of shit! Paco!
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Mariano is the newest one in the gym.
He's been here only three or four months.
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He calls me the Messiah.
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He says that to him I'm his Messiah.
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Because he's had a lot of trouble
in many gyms.
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He's been kicked out of all of them.
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I opened up the doors of my gym to him
and he is doing better day by day.
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We are integrating him
cos it's mentally really hard for him.
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It's mentally complicated.
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I knew him because he was on T. V.
a couple of times.
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And cos everyone in the neighborhood
talked about him.
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They said that there was a gym
where you could box
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with a trainer that has
an amazing charisma, a charisma and
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and something... like a special power.
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Something he has that we
feel attracted to.
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Because there are a lot of boxing gyms
as you can imagine.
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But I really like this one.
I like my teammates.
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I like my coach "Pitbull",
I love the way he gets under your skin.
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He really knows what we've been through
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and why we are here.
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Each day trying to surpass yourself,
I think that's what boxing is.
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Trying to do better every day.
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And it's the best thing
that has ever happened in my life.
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Take it easy, take it easy. One more time.
Let's go one more time.
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That's it, let's go.
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Four times. Again.
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One, two.
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Hey!
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He came to me, I saw him, I spoke
a little bit with him and I told him...
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Listen up man.
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If you are able to behave like a man
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and have the balls to respect
everyone here
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and that everyone
that talks to you respects you.
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The doors will always be open for you
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if you fuck around
I will kick you out myself.
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He stood still for like a minute
and told me.
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I'm very happy and as long as I live
I will thank you for this.
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So I told him you will thank me but
I will also thank you,
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I will also thank you
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because as long as you behave,
this will always be your house.
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And so far so good.
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Psychologists and psychiatrists
have ruined my life with pills and shit.
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I can't stand them,
not a single one of them.
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And Moustache... Moustache
gives you a different medicine,
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The medicine of life,
the medicine of brotherhood.
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It's the best thing I know, train and
watch my teammates train.
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My teammates are amazing.
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They are incredible.
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Because most of them have gone
through the same problems
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that I've gone through or even worst.
And they keep on training every day
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with an incredible will of getting better
and you see a kid and you think
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wow this kid was really bad and now
he looks great, integrated into society
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you can see men here, little kids
are now men integrated back into society.
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15 years old kids that look 30,it seems
they've been living for 30 years because
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they have suffered on the streets, are
beat up by the streets, drugs, whole deal.
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And in this gym, some find a second home,
for some it really is their first home.
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And here they find love.
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Because most of them don't know
what being loved feels like.
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Here they find a hug,
encouragement to train, to get better.
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And they feel complete here.
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Let's go, one more time.
One two, one more time.
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Let's go, one more time... C'mon.
One more time.
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Too much jerkin off and
too much weed, sucker.
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C'mon, let's go.
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Now when you finish practice instead
of smoking a couple of joints.
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You hook up with a couple of chicks.
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And that will make you feel like
a newborn child.
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Leave the joints for now
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and get freaky
with those chicks all day long.
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He's such a good person.
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Really good. A truly good person.
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Respectful, loving. He's had mental
problems and other kind of problems
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but I think he is a great guy
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and as time goes by
he'll become a gentleman.
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I guarantee that
he'll become a gentleman.
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I come from the school
of the hard knocks.
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And I've spent many years
in this school.
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Psychologists study, nurses study,
doctors study but don't live the streets.
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They don't experience the streets
or the real problems that these kids have.
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That's why I think my degree
is better than their degree.
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Specially when you have to show that
knowledge to kids that have been
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caught assaulting citizens, breaking into
stores and stealing everything,
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snatching purses or even robbing banks.
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When I talk to these kids and
they see how straight down the line I am.
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I'm not a snitch.
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I help them with their troubles
and expect nothing in return.
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That's when they really open up.
00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.440
And they become unconditionally
part of this gym.
00:20:52.840 --> 00:20:54.360
And that's what I want.
00:21:37.280 --> 00:21:40.400
Throw punches Manuel. Let's go Roger
keep those hands up. C'mon Roger.
00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:46.240
Let's go Carlos punch it, c'mon Carlos.
00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:49.120
C'mon lefty, never bring
those hands down you devil.
00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.800
Hi my name is Marcos but everyone
here calls me Marquitos.
00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:55.960
And my wife Susana, they call her Nana.
00:21:56.120 --> 00:22:01.800
You'll only step into the ring if
you want to and if you are ready.
00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:06.880
You have heard that beeping right?
That will be your alarm.
00:22:07.560 --> 00:22:10.560
Three minutes you train,
one minute you rest.
00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:13.640
Take advantage of that minute of rest
because you are going to need it.
00:22:14.320 --> 00:22:17.040
Everything I know about boxing
I've learned it from Moustache
00:22:17.120 --> 00:22:18.800
cos in Madrid they taught me how to box,
00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.000
but I would cross my guard
like Moustache taught me
00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:25.080
and I've boxed the way
Moustache taught me to box
00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:30.160
and I've seen how Moustache trains
people and I try to train my people the
00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:35.640
same way my father does. I've seen how
he treats people and it works just great.
00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.160
In my gym I treat people the way
I would like to be treated.
00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:44.920
I just see someone sweating
like I'm sweating, training.
00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:50.720
And I don't care what you do outside,
here you're a boxer like I am.
00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:54.720
And that's what I've learned
since I was little.
00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:05.080
Bolili I've got to be afraid of you.
Punch hard!
00:23:06.760 --> 00:23:08.240
Let's go Bolili!
00:23:15.560 --> 00:23:21.200
Bolili straight, stick your hands
together straight, bend your knees.
00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.360
Stick your elbows to the body.
Punch straight, straight. That's it, fast.
00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:32.720
Now you dodge, shake them off.
00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.360
One two, pam pam!
00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:40.280
You dodge from the same place, pam pam.
00:23:40.360 --> 00:23:43.840
Keep your hands up and
punch straight bend those knees.
00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:45.920
Argandona one two, hit with the left, start
00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:47.680
with the left hard
and your right hand back.
00:23:51.040 --> 00:23:53.280
1990. first practices.
00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:59.080
1992. Spanish Amateur Finalist.
00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:00.960
45 fights 1 draw.
00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.640
1995. First professional fight.
00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:10.720
1999. Intercontinental Finalist.
00:24:10.800 --> 00:24:14.000
17 fights 1 defeat.
00:24:56.760 --> 00:25:01.240
My father, my brother and I, we've been
following the same line of work
00:25:01.320 --> 00:25:05.960
for 22 years, each one of our boxers
is like family to us.
00:25:06.040 --> 00:25:08.760
We don't sell out a kid.
00:25:09.520 --> 00:25:12.120
That's the biggest problem
that I see in boxing today.
00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:17.760
Trainers and promoters
treat boxers like meat
00:25:17.840 --> 00:25:22.560
or merchandise, they just see money.
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:28.040
We treat them like if they were a
member of our familiy.
00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:45.440
Let's go Borja.
00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:53.400
Stop!
00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:25.040
Am I doing ok?
00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:26.320
Very good dad!
00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:30.760
Wherever the son goes he brings
his father in the wheelchair,
00:26:30.840 --> 00:26:35.680
cos he is 95 years old and his legs
don't work as well as they used to.
00:26:35.760 --> 00:26:41.320
One day when his son was doing
weights he was getting bored
00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:46.960
from just waiting on the wheelchair,
and we have such a good vibe at the gym
00:26:47.040 --> 00:26:50.600
everyone talks to him and greets him so
00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:54.520
he was feeling comfortable and
he started punching the bags
00:26:54.600 --> 00:27:00.680
and the balls and now he has a
better mobility in his arms and body.
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:22.520
Back and forth, speed it up.
00:27:27.120 --> 00:27:29.320
Drop him with the left son!
00:27:30.120 --> 00:27:31.760
1999. First amateur fight.
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:38.400
Winner by KO... Domingo Fernandez!
00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.240
1990. Spanish amateur Champion.
37 fights 1 defeat.
00:27:43.560 --> 00:27:46.640
1991. Spanish national boxing team.
00:27:49.560 --> 00:27:53.680
Professional record 7 fights 1 defeat.
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:20.360
I got into boxing because of a fight.
I was 16 years old
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:24.640
and I got into a little trouble
with a guy and we started fighting.
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:29.400
At that time I wasn't boxing so
I wasn't ready for a fight,
00:30:30.320 --> 00:30:31.680
but we did fight.
00:30:31.760 --> 00:30:34.800
I was running out of breath and
I was losing the fight.
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:39.360
The other guy hit me more than I hit him.
00:30:39.800 --> 00:30:44.120
When the fight ended I felt so frustrated
that when I saw him turning around,
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.320
I went after him and
I punched him in the back of his head.
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:54.000
I felt the skull when I hit him and
I broke the knuckle of my little finger.
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.800
That made me feel so humiliated.
00:30:58.080 --> 00:30:59.360
That's the exact word
to describe how I felt.
00:31:00.280 --> 00:31:03.760
And that's the reason I started boxing.
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:15.560
I had another fight when we went
to see the big motorbike championships.
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:22.360
We started drinking so much
and also taking some substances.
00:31:53.760 --> 00:32:00.800
I beat up a friend of mine, after that
I broke into a car and stole what I found
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:06.160
it was only two or three bags
with not that much stuff inside.
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:10.520
But they caught us and we ended up
in the county jail.
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.480
Because of that they gave me
a two year parole.
00:32:16.560 --> 00:32:19.800
I've been signing in every day at court.
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:25.600
and thank god that all of my robberies
were done when I was under 18.
00:32:25.800 --> 00:32:29.240
That's why they gave me a two year parole.
00:32:29.520 --> 00:32:36.040
During these two years I can't do
anything wrong or I'll go to jail.
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:57.800
Stick it, c'mon stick it.
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.840
I want a four punch combination.
Let's see it.
00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:04.440
Kaka?
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.520
The strangest guy in the world.
00:33:07.800 --> 00:33:11.440
My name is Jose Manuel Pacheco Navarro
and they call me Kaka,
00:33:11.520 --> 00:33:19.920
cos when I was 12 I played a role of a
kid named Kaka in a film called "7 Virgins"
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:26.360
He worked in the movie "7 Virgins",
so he was a bit cocky.
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:31.960
He came into the gym looking
over his shoulder, trusting no-one,
00:33:32.280 --> 00:33:36.440
taunting other boxers.
He made me work hard.
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:41.000
It's probably the most complicated kid
I've had here.
00:33:41.080 --> 00:33:42.760
He didn't trust anyone.
00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:46.840
He was even trying to punch his own shadow.
00:33:54.360 --> 00:33:56.880
Time up! Let's go gentlemen!
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:13.640
Touch it, touch it,
one more time, let's go.
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:16.960
Right there, let's go.
00:34:17.040 --> 00:34:21.200
Let's get it together, one more time.
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.960
Now the other way around right
punch and the hook
00:34:25.200 --> 00:34:28.840
Before I was in Moustache's gym
I was in another gym and it wasn't
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:33.040
the same as when Moustache opened
up the doors of his gym to me
00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:35.520
he opened them up completely,
with all his heart.
00:34:36.520 --> 00:34:43.120
He taught me how to box and how
he truly is as a person.
00:34:44.600 --> 00:34:48.840
Because at the beginning I wouldn't talk
to him at all.
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:53.520
I would just train,
without talking to anyone.
00:34:53.600 --> 00:34:55.480
I was doing my own thing.
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:12.200
I let him do his thing, alone, and
he was feeling left out.
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:16.600
But as he'd already trained in another
gym where he'd had some bad experiences,
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.200
he began to realize that in my gym
we really show people how to box.
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:26.080
And I knew he knew, that's why
I would let him be.
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:32.680
As time went by I earned his trust,
cos he realized that this gym is for real.
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.520
We don't bullshit around, we are for real.
00:35:36.600 --> 00:35:38.120
I gave him my friendship.
00:35:38.200 --> 00:35:43.320
Putting myself at his level
and above him as a boxing coach.
00:35:43.640 --> 00:35:47.120
But I've also had to put up
with his shit,
00:35:47.200 --> 00:35:49.880
cos sometimes he's tried
to come into the gym high as a kite.
00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:05.600
Let's show some balls Kaka, lift those feet
a little more Kaka.
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:11.080
That's it let's see the overhand
now and then we punch low.
00:36:11.160 --> 00:36:14.200
The overhand and we punch low.
Outside and straight. Let's go.
00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:18.840
Put your body into the punch,
that's it.
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.840
Let's go son. You got the balls
to make it all the way Kaka.
00:36:29.240 --> 00:36:31.880
Stick him with the hook now,
the hook.
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:36.960
Five seconds, c'mon. Faster,
faster let's go.
00:36:38.040 --> 00:36:43.960
In this gym I feel like, like home.
It's my home.
00:36:44.120 --> 00:36:47.680
When I step into the gym I forget
about my troubles, I say hi to everyone.
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:52.240
They greet me back, I talk with
the boxers, my friends.
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.040
Just like at home.
00:36:56.840 --> 00:37:00.160
The right all the way out,
stick it all the way out.
00:37:00.240 --> 00:37:01.880
That's it, god damn it!
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:04.120
Touch him, one two, take it easy.
00:37:04.200 --> 00:37:06.960
Touch gloves, touch gloves...
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.680
Very nice. Hit him with the counter
and put your hands back up.
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:17.840
Keep your guard up. Grab him!
Grab him! Let's go c'mon!
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:24.040
Have you been fucking all night
long or something! You look like shit!
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:28.160
You seem so tired. Let's go son.
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.440
That's it, after you throw
the punch get your guard back up.
00:37:32.520 --> 00:37:34.320
Fuck!
00:37:40.040 --> 00:37:42.480
Touch it, take it easy. Touch it.
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:49.200
When you touch him with the left
you throw the right with full power.
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:51.920
That's it. One more time.
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.520
C'mon Kaka put your guard up.
Dodge those punches c'mon.
00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:59.360
Stick him, c'mon. One more time.
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.880
Same thing again. Pick up your guard.
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:06.240
15 seconds c'mon.
00:38:06.600 --> 00:38:10.680
15 and that's it. Let's go.
00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:13.400
Stop! Stop!
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:17.360
You have to pick your guard up
and attack sideways.
00:38:17.560 --> 00:38:20.880
You have to get close to him sideways
and after you punch pick your guard up.
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.600
You lost focus a little bit
and you got punched and it's bled a lot
00:38:23.680 --> 00:38:27.760
and blood is very over the top,
it looks like we've killed a donkey
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.240
and it's just a little bit, ok.
00:38:36.520 --> 00:38:39.280
It's nothing. You've just lost
five bucks of blood.
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:43.040
You're a champion son.
Let's go.
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:53.520
Let's see if this gets through.
Boxing training
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:58.600
is the best anti-stress in the world.
There's nothing like it.
00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:04.360
Let's say a really violent guy comes
into the gym. And let's say that
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:08.240
he is really mad because he's had a fight
with his wife or he's had a real problem.
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:12.080
After five minutes of training he has
already forgotten about why he was mad.
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.480
And after 30 minutes
he doesn't ever remember.
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.360
And after an hour of practice if he says
something or brings it back.
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:23.880
I grab the guy, joke around with him,
"what's up let's go to a whorehouse!"
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.760
He starts laughing and when
he leaves he feels brand new.
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.360
And you can see it with Kaka.
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:33.640
Every day he is becoming a
better boxer and a better person.
00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:36.800
150
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 75 minutes
Date: 2017
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish
Grade: High School, College, Adult
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