From Prison to Prime Time: The Incredible Story of O'Shaquie Foster — Transcript

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1. 0:00Looking back [snorts] at the ups and
2. 0:01downs of my career, it just made me who
3. 0:03I am today. It made me appreciate
4. 0:05everything, every day, every night
5. 0:07before I go to sleep I thank God. And
6. 0:09I'll go hard in the gym just knowing
7. 0:11that, you know, I'm [music] here for a
8. 0:13reason. So, I'mma push it as far as I
9. 0:15can. Everything that I went through, it
10. 0:17showed me that [music] can't nothing
11. 0:19beat me, can't nothing defeat me. As
12. 0:21long as I always put my mind to it and
13. 0:23believe for real,
14. 0:24then, you know, anything is possible.
15. 0:26[music]
16. 0:30So, my mom had six kids, five boys, one
17. 0:32girl. [music] I was the second to the
18. 0:34oldest. I was one of them kids that
19. 0:37really nobody wanted. I loved my mom and
20. 0:39and I knew she had a lot on her
21. 0:40shoulders. I brought her the bells, the
22. 0:42trophies cuz I started winning the
23. 0:43national titles. My mom died when I was
24. 0:4612. They didn't ever tell us that she
25. 0:48was sick. I remember getting back to the
26. 0:50house and she was on the bed. Told us
27. 0:52she had like 2 weeks. She died like the
28. 0:55next day.
29. 0:56The day of her funeral I actually went
30. 0:58and fought the Golden Gloves in her
31. 0:59memory.
32. 1:00And I won it.
33. 1:03My pops, he come from the streets. He
34. 1:05come from that type of vibe. So, he
35. 1:07really wasn't a sentimental guy. Yeah, I
36. 1:10was looking for it. The love. I found it
37. 1:12in boxing for a while. It took my mind
38. 1:15away from, you know, that. I went to
39. 1:18stay with my grandma and that's when I
40. 1:19really was like in the streets. Like I
41. 1:21was going to them tournaments and just
42. 1:23winning them.
43. 1:24Like I wasn't trying to like that. Like
44. 1:26my coaches, not my amateur coaches, they
45. 1:28was real guys. I wouldn't show up to the
46. 1:31gym, they'll come to the hood and find
47. 1:33me sometimes, but I started having
48. 1:35disagreements with one of my amateur
49. 1:37coaches and stuff like that. So, it it
50. 1:39it kind of pushed me away a little bit.
51. 1:41We was in the hood hard. Like I wasn't
52. 1:44boxing at all. We weren't no good. I can
53. 1:47say that. We weren't doing no good. I
54. 1:49probably been in jail
55. 1:51like 10 times. Yeah, I think I'm
56. 1:53blessed. Like I know God, you got me
57. 1:55here for a reason cuz
58. 1:57it could have been a lot of situations
59. 1:59where
60. 2:00I went down for some years or something
61. 2:02tragic happened.
62. 2:06I go back to Orange. I was at this club,
63. 2:09this party, I'm shooting dice all night.
64. 2:10I hadn't been asleep. So, it's like from
65. 2:1210 that night to like 12 the next day.
66. 2:15And I'm trying to go get something to
67. 2:16eat. I fall asleep at the light, the red
68. 2:18light. Police wake me up.
69. 2:20>> [music]
70. 2:20>> And they like, "You got this kind of
71. 2:22warrant, we got to take you in." And
72. 2:24that's when I went in for the longest
73. 2:26stretch, cuz nobody would bond me out.
74. 2:28So, I was in the blocks. I wasn't in
75. 2:30population. It's a little different. 12
76. 2:32people unit, 12, [music] you know, 12
77. 2:34bunks. No security guard. It's really
78. 2:37just you and the guys that's in there.
79. 2:40Like, we didn't even have windows or
80. 2:41nothing, so we looking at bricks 24/7.
81. 2:44The whole time I was in there, I was
82. 2:46getting the respect. [music] They seen
83. 2:48me as a fighter. They knew who I was,
84. 2:50like, what I could do. The worst part I
85. 2:52think for me was nobody wanted to bond
86. 2:54me out, so it made me deal with a lot of
87. 2:56stuff [music] as far as like, "All
88. 2:58right, dude, is this where is where you
89. 2:59want to be?" Like,
90. 3:01>> [music]
91. 3:01>> them kind of questions popping up in
92. 3:03your head or like, "Oh, you got to get
93. 3:05comfortable in here." And I could never
94. 3:07get comfortable.
95. 3:09>> A fight to be an undisputed champion
96. 3:13with [cheering] four belts.
97. 3:14>> We had a small TV in our room.
98. 3:17>> Watching that
99. 3:18>> Crawford and Dongo fight.
100. 3:19>> I'm thinking in my head like, "You got
101. 3:21them same skills. You got the all of
102. 3:23that." You know, that's what I'm telling
103. 3:25myself.
104. 3:28>> CRAWFORD LANDS A DEVASTATING
105. 3:30>> [cheering]
106. 3:31>> BODY SHOT.
107. 3:33OH MY, WHAT A BODY SHOT.
108. 3:368
109. 3:369
110. 3:3810 TERENCE CRAWFORD, HE'S THE
111. 3:40UNDEFEATED,
112. 3:42UNDISPUTED
113. 3:43CHAMPION
114. 3:44OF THE WORLD.
115. 3:46>> IT DIDN'T LAST LONG, I'M NOT GOING TO
116. 3:47LIE. Real early with a body shot. So,
117. 3:49watching him do that and then watching
118. 3:51like all the love he got after
119. 3:53>> [music]
120. 3:53>> it just showed me something different
121. 3:55like you know that that is possible you
122. 3:57know what I mean he come from not a
123. 3:59boxing [music] town either.
124. 4:01>> The undisputed champion of the world
125. 4:06Terence
126. 4:07Bud
127. 4:10Crawford
128. 4:14>> A lot of people compare our styles as
129. 4:16far as fighting
130. 4:17>> [music]
131. 4:17>> being switch hitters and being able to
132. 4:19counterpunch and do all that things but
133. 4:21the whole dynamic of the fight just
134. 4:23touched me you know so it gave me a
135. 4:25definite a lot of motivation.
136. 4:29Even after I watched Terence Crawford
137. 4:30them and I got out of jail still wasn't
138. 4:33on track. I really [music] didn't know
139. 4:34it was going to kick off honestly
140. 4:36until I won the John Fernandez fight
141. 4:39when I fought when I beat him for the
142. 4:41silver title that's when I knew it was
143. 4:43like all right I can really be champion
144. 4:45but
145. 4:47before then I really was just like you
146. 4:49know if it is what it is I'll make it
147. 4:51here I'm going to make it somewhere you
148. 4:53know what I mean.
149. 4:55I think that's why I've been going so
150. 4:57hard lately that simple reason me
151. 4:59watching the fight then getting out of
152. 5:01jail and and now [music] I'm in a
153. 5:03position to do it myself
154. 5:06you know it's just crazy to [music] me
155. 5:07cuz
156. 5:08a lot of people don't get that
157. 5:09opportunity and it don't come to a lot
158. 5:11of people even when they're when they
159. 5:13have it I got to take advantage [music]
160. 5:15of I'm ready
161. 5:16I said ain't too much pressure on myself
162. 5:18I'm happy man that I'm even here it is
163. 5:20what it is it's written like I'm going
164. 5:22to be undisputed for sure.
165. 5:26>> [music]