- [Narrator] Dennis Morris, The Mongoose,
is no small town guy when it comes to boxing.
Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
but moved to Milwaukee with his mom as a teenager
and has been boxing for over 15 plus years.
Many like myself, thought boxing was on the decline.
A lost art.
But according to Medina, Dennis' trainer,
professional boxing is on the rise.
- I lost my boxing license for three years
and made a comeback.
Now I'm a four time boxing champion.
And why?
All because of things what happened in New York.
(announcer shouts)
He ain't want me to fight DeShawn Munningham, boxer.
For his debut, I was gonna be the one put him down,
and they realized that.
And they came to my hotel
and they realized they had the wrong Dennis.
The Dennis they wanted is the one that I knocked out
and they realized they flew the wrong one in.
- What I look for in a champion boxer,
number one is discipline, self discipline.
Especially in their own personal life, first.
And then the sport comes second.
You know I want them to understand that
if their personal life's in tact,
that their career will last much longer.
'Cause they have to have respect for life,
they respect for the parents and respect for themselves.
Then I can work with them
and I know they're gonna get far in life.
- Dennis is a hard trainer.
He gets up early in the morning, he trains.
He pretty much put training in front of everything.
At the same time he do work his schedule around
that he can do other things
but he goes out to the lake and he runs up stairs
and it's something that he loves doing.
It ain't like a hobby or that he have a choice or not
it's just something that he's dedicated to doing
as a fighter and a boxer.
And he's a good fighter.
However, we did feel that he was outgrowing his trainers
and that we needed to find him a new trainer
and that's what we did for 2018.
- So went up to the commission office.
Made weight at 176.
And went downstairs, the commissioner's with everybody.
With the fighter, and with his manager
and close the door while I was downstairs and made a deal.
So the fighters came downstairs and told me
you ain't gonna be fighting that night.
I was like why?
He was like they in the room making deals.
I was like okay, we'll wait 'til tomorrow.
So I wanted to tomorrow,
came downstairs from the hotel room,
he had all the fighters that was out of town right there
and all the sudden he was like Mongoose,
you ain't gonna be able to fight tonight.
And I asked him why?
He was like the doctor said something wrong with you.
I was like it ain't nothing wrong with me.
Ya'll just don't want me to fight this guy
because it was his debut
and ya'll realized ya'll flew the wrong one in.
So flew the wrong one in
and while they was talking to me
they was already on the line calling the fighter I had won,
Dennis Cousins, they was calling him,
already had him flying.
So I realized that I wasn't gonna fight that night.
And all because of my skills level
and all because I was in shape,
it made them change they mind of that fight.
And also that fighter had more amateur fights,
more amateur fights, like 100 and some amateur fights
than me, I had three.
He had 100 and some.
So why would that guy be scared of me?
Why I put this threat on him
and they ain't wanna give me that chance.
So I just let it be and tried to fight.
And they suspend my license when I went back home.
- It affected him where he totally shut down
where he couldn't fight for three years of his career.
When I say shut down,
his biggest supporters are me and my husband
and of course his family,
and he just didn't come around for three years,
however he did continue to train.
- See now I met him about 15 years ago
and I remember I met him at a Milwaukee rumble
and he came up to, he says
Coach Medina, someone tells me that you're a good coach
and I wanna be better.
And that's the way I always was in my whole career,
I travel all over the world with boxing.
I train with some of the best trainers,
the guys that train De La Hoya,
the guys that train Manny Pacquiao.
And so for me to get better is to be around
those kind of individuals.
Is to surround myself against other champion coaches
and stuff like that.
So I see that in him.
The drive to wanna be around people who are positive.
And so there's a lot of resemblance between me and him.
And always hungry to learn.
Always hungry to get to the next step.
And he never says I know everything,
and I feel the same way.
As a trainer, I tell everybody I'm 10% trainer, 90% student.
I'm always a student of boxing
and that's what Dennis is, he's a student of boxing.
He wants to know every aspect of the business
including the skills.
- When that happened, I couldn't fight nowhere.
I couldn't fight across sea,
I couldn't fight in Madison.
I lost so many fights.
Now this fighter got 20 some fights
and I just been hold back for three years
while he's still fighting.
Only thing I could do is just sit back
and watch fights on YouTube
and I start thinking like hey I ain't no quitter,
I ain't finna give up.
So I didn't.
So once that happened I was like
I gotta find somebody from New York,
someone close to help me with everything.
So I had to get on the computer, on Facebook,
and I looked up.
I hit a H, Hassan came up.
And all the sudden I had wrote Hassan.
I was like I need some help, I told him what's wrong.
I ain't lie to him or anything.
So he's like okay.
He's like son, I'm finna fly you in.
So I was like okay.
I flew in the next following week, I flew in.
And once I got off the plane,
he took me right to the boxing gym and sparred.
He took me right to the gym to spar.
He ain't talk that much,
he thought I gonna need some work.
And he realized he saw what I had
and he know something was in me
that what God gave me that was a gift.
So I put in work at the gym every day
and all the fighters love me there
and respect me in New York.
So I kept on training and kept on training,
years go past, another years go past,
I was coming back home.
Went back up there, went back home.
Came back up there.
So the last following year,
me and him went to the specialty doctor.
I was in New York.
And all the sudden you know what they told me?
They told me it ain't nothing wrong with you.
They just didn't want you to fight that fighter
because he had a lot of people coming from New York.
He was basically like they money man.
He had a lot of people coming from New York,
Irish, everybody.
So that's basically the reason why they ain't want me
to fight the fighter
because they know that I was going to put him down.
- [Narrator] Dennis has such a great future
and Medina shares how he plans to execute,
with precision and style,
to take Dennis to a national level, pursuing HBO.
- We wanna fight on a big show.
We wanna get him to that point
and at the age he's at we have to be real careful
and that's why he comes to me.
I'm a very technical coach, I'm a very intelligent coach
when it comes to keeping his mindset always focused
to the goal, not taking his eyes off the goal,
and that's 'cause he wants to be on HBO, Showtime,
that's our goal in five years.
Within five years, hopefully.
Maybe next year, maybe two years.
But we're gonna get him there.
- Then when the doctor told me,
I went back home to the nerve doctor
and they told me the same thing.
And I had to go back to New York
and Hassan told me only way you can fight,
the commissioner said you gonna have to lose weight.
So I was like okay.
I play football, baseball, not get tired
and I was still training everyday.
So they said I gonna have to come down pounds.
They say I gonna have to come down pounds.
So I came down 13 pounds
from 189 to 176 in three days.
So the day of the fight was the day of the weigh in.
I made weight.
I couldn't eat nothing, I couldn't drink nothing
because it felt like I was already full.
So what I did was two hours before the fight
so I went back to the hotel, got a little sleep.
I had to get right back up and I had to go get in the ring.
Won all rounds.
I had to fight like Rocky.
I don't never fight like that
but I had to fight like Rocky that night.
Won all rounds.
End of the fourth round, had a minute and 30 seconds left.
The guy just caught a lucky hit.
Because the refs came between me and the guy just throw.
So now I was like okay.
Went back home.
I told Hassan I was like I appreciate it
I thank everything that you did for me,
'cause it wouldn't for him I wouldn't be in this position
where I'm at right now.
So showed my love to him, thank you for having me.
And went back home.
For that 90 days I was doing a lot of thinking what I want,
what I'm gonna do.
That type of stuff make you think.
And today I ain't never trust nobody.
Forever I ain't never trust nobody.
And I'd I was gonna do my own thing.
I'm gonna make everybody want me.
So from that 90 days I had,
I had a lot of days to think about what I'm gonna do.
And it did work.
So now, now I went on a seven straight knockout.
Seven straight knockout.
And seven straight knockout.
And now everybody, they looking at me.
They looking at me oh who's Mongoose?
I'm that one they trying to stop his career.
But I didn't let it happen.
I didn't let it happen 'cause Mongoose is not a quitter.
My mom didn't raise no quitter.
She told me son, you got to go out there and get
what you gonna get.
Do not be a quitter, 'cause you gonna let them win.
This other fighter in Colorado
and the promoter asked me to sign with him.
I said no.
I ain't gonna sign with nobody.
And all the sudden when I said that,
I know I was gonna have to fight
because it was his fighter.
I wasn't used to the atmosphere out there.
So I know the guy I had fighting in Colorado,
he won the first round with little baby punches.
But thing about it, I had five more rounds
to think about what I gonna do
and I had a minute to think about,
on my break after that first round,
I had a minute to think about
what I was gonna do real quick.
So in my head I had to switch,
instead of being fast I had to switch everything up
and hit like a brick.
The guy I had fought,
he wished he was never in a ring with me
because I beat him, bad.
I dropped him, broke his nose,
they still didn't stop the fight.
Bleeding all over the place,
they still didn't stop the fight.
Commissioner, everybody got up in the back,
got from the table because it was a bloodbath up there.
The refs said he slipped and it was a clean hit.
So I was like okay and in my head,
I was like I'm not gonna win this.
But I'm gonna beat him like I won.
So that's what I did.
Broke his nose, broke his eye socket, closed both his eyes.
And around 12 o'clock, he went to the hospital.
But I still lost only because
I didn't sign with the promoter.
I don't think that's right.
But from this day now, all the fighters that I lost by,
they gonna remember me.
And all the promoters out of Colorado, New York,
commissioner, where these guys at now?
I got four titles.
And they don't got none.
- Counting all the new business side of boxing
which is political sometimes.
Sometimes it's not even fair to the athletes
what's going on.
They can win a fight and sometimes
they're not given the fight.
So there's a little bit of set back.
So there's a lot of times they're gonna feel
almost desperate to wanna walk away,
but again, what drives them could be
maybe their dad used to box or grandpa used to box
or maybe since he was a child this is what he wanted.
I mean when I was born I knew I want to do boxing.
So no one's gonna stop me having my gym
and my career in boxing, and that's why I'm here today.
So when I look at athletes and they this a ton,
it is a sacrifice, it's a very lonely life.
And girlfriends are not almost in the picture anymore.
I mean families, Christmases are missed.
Birthday are missed.
Sometimes special moments at somebody's wedding is missed.
- [Narrator] Dennis is more than a boxer,
he's a business strategist
and supports local causes such as youth organizations,
breast cancer awareness, and much more.
His safeguarded plan includes a sportswear line of clothing
as well as recently launching his very own
Heavy Hitters management production company.
Watch out for Dennis on HBO because that's where he
and his team has set their punches high
to create a lasting future in boxing.
- Every fight Dennis would like to
donate to someone or give back to something.
So every fight that he have,
he makes sure that he do an event.
And February the 10th, 2018, it was the kickoff
of Heavy Hitters Promotions,
which is a family promotion company
basically to support Dennis and his career,
to move his career along
without having interruptions with the other promoters
because the state of Wisconsin is limited
to the promotion companies that are available to Dennis,
so now we have our own promotion company
called Heavy Hitters Promotion.
And so during February the 10th,
we had our first kickoff of the promotion company
and Dennis decide to donate 50% of his purse to charity
and his charity of choice was breast cancer awareness.
So he was able to donate that.
And he does it freely from the heart.
So there's no grudging there with giving his money away.
So at the events he do different things,
but this particular event
was the cancer awareness for breast cancer.
- I teach a lot about losing.
Even before winning.
Some gyms talk about just winning.
I talk about losing because the loss is part of the growth.
And if they can grasp that the loss is a life lesson
and you learn from those lessons, then we never lose.
So we're always talking about that,
you know the struggle,
and the losses in a gym or in a fight
are no different than the losses in life.
So if we can deal with what goes on in life
and understand how to overcome loss,
the loss in a ring is no different.
We'll come out victorious.
Inspiration that I can share with a non-athlete,
if somebody's maybe considering doing boxing
is that they have to commit to the lifestyle of a boxer
and we're not normal.
Boxers are not normal.
They don't eat the normal food,
they're on this normal sleeping habits,
it's pretty much like a lonely life.
They don't have the normal friends,
friends have to really give up their time
and only show up to the shows and support them there
and not feel like they been left out.
So what I can say to them is if you have that drive
to kinda live a lonely life, maybe 10 15 years,
then you're gonna see a title.
He's a tik-et-et, he's a character.
He loves being in front of an audience.
He loves putting a show on for the people.
He's really a people's champion, as far as I'm concerned.
He wants everybody to walk away from the show
happy, fulfilled, and saying I wanna see this guy again.
And he's very intelligent
when it comes to promoting himself.
So I consider him a really intelligent boxer.
- His number one goal is to please his fans.
He has a lot of fans.
He will stay in a hotel as we coming out
if we doing some kind of networking over there.
He will stay three hours,
just taking pictures with his fans.
No matter what I say, he be going like my fans.
So I would say, I threatened him I'll leave him
and he still won't come.
His fans mean a lot to him.
Another good thing about Dennis
is that he love working with Special Olympics.
So he do a lot with Special Olympics.
He shows up at their bowling, all their events.
And I have a special needs son,
and he always want Dennis to come
because he know Dennis is a big support.
And Dennis helps me a lot with him
because we go out to Las Vegas once or twice a year
where he also do sparring
and he gets a lot of work in over there.
And so everybody loves him.
Dennis plays a big role in the creation of
his own clothing line.
I am dressed up in Dennis' gear.
I think I have more outfits than he have
because I like it, it's very comfortable gear
and Dennis keeps it at a low price.
Rick, the guy who produced his clothing line,
tried to get Dennis to bring it up some
so that Dennis is getting a better profit,
but Dennis says no my fans,
I wanna keep it low for my fans.
So he keeps it at a reasonable price.
But as you can see, this is not no patch on,
it's actually made inside the material.
So Dennis' face and all his designs
is made into the material so you can iron right over it
and everything, easy to wash, easy to iron.
I don't think I'd go too much without
wearing something of Dennis, with Dennis' face on it.
- I ain't gonna let nobody stop me
or get in my way to stop me.
And I said I'm gonna keep going forward,
I ain't looking back.
And all the time the promoters,
and all the time the commissioners,
you can hate me or you can love me.
I'm gonna keep going
and I'm gonna be ready for any fighter out there.
And I'm gonna be ready for any fighters out there.
And I'm gonna be ready for anybody out there
and let them know I'm that champion.
I'm ya'll champion.
And anybody that went through the same thing I did
I just hope you didn't give up or let them win.
'Cause boxing is a dirty game,
but it's a lot of good people there.
And I'm that one that going to make it happen
in a good way.
You know so I like to thank all of ya'll,
you know I like to thank all of ya'll too.
And if it wasn't for me boxing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
it would not be professional boxing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It would not be professional boxing in Wisconsin.
I'm the one that brung it back here.
That's why boxing lives again
because of me and the fans and the supporters.
And we gonna keep on living it.
We gonna keep on living it.
♪ The champ is here ♪
♪ The champ is here ♪
♪ Oh shit I am gonna be-- ♪
♪ The champ is here ♪
♪ Mongoose ♪
♪ Step into the ring ♪
♪ I'ma put 'em in a coffin ♪
♪ This my jam ♪
♪ Come step into my office ♪
♪ Get 'em off me ♪
♪ Gotta get 'em off me ♪
♪ Mongoose, fight king of Milwaukee ♪
♪ Boxer, not a kah-zee ♪
♪ It's gonna be a kamikaze ♪
♪ Rode off on the waves ♪
♪ Looking like a tsunami of the ocean ♪
♪ Mongoose Promotions ♪
♪ I am the chosen ♪
♪ And these hands is golden ♪
♪ Anything can happen as long as I stay focused ♪
♪ Show me my bone ♪
♪ And I'ma show me my opponent ♪
♪ One round, two round, three round, four ♪
♪ I don't really think that he can fight no more ♪
♪ I do it for the city ♪
♪ And got love for the fans ♪
♪ I'm a businessman trying to throw these hands ♪
♪ Do it for the struggling ♪
♪ Anyone from the jungle ♪
♪ Keeping my composure ♪
♪ While I'm always staying humble ♪
♪ Trying to progress ♪
♪ Trying to be the best ♪
♪ Keeping them gold flex ♪
♪ Denny is so blessed ♪
♪ Uppercut his jaw ♪
♪ I just wanna see him fall ♪
♪ Got 100 fights baby ♪
♪ I'ma win 'em all ♪
♪ Work ♪
♪ Get 'em off me ♪
♪ Gotta get 'em off me ♪
♪ Step into the ring ♪
♪ I'ma put 'em in a coffin ♪
♪ Get 'em off me ♪
♪ Gotta get 'em off me ♪
♪ This my jam ♪
♪ Come step into my office ♪
♪ Get 'em off me ♪
♪ Gotta get 'em off me ♪
♪ Step into the ring ♪
♪ I'ma put 'em in a coffin ♪
♪ Get 'em off me ♪
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