Tommy Hearns has seen Better Days
And a national radio show has no problem telling you about it...
"What he gonna do? Drool on me? What he gonna do?"...
Many radio shows have heeded the siren call of Las Vegas and taken the opportunity to broadcast their shows on location for free or at reduced rates in order to drive interest and pay-per-view buys for this weekend's Floyd Mayweather - Shane Mosley fight.
In addition, Thomas Hearns is one of the boxers making the radio rounds to help promote the sport and the fight. He dropped in with "The 2 Live Stews" and proceeded to engage the hosts in an amiable, and at times incoherent, five minute conversation.
It quickly became clear that years of taking shots to the head have taken a toll on Hearns's speech pattern. The two hosts cordially made their way through the quick interview... and then the second segment of the show happened:
To be fair, I know they're the Stewart brothers and they have distinctly different voices but I don't listen to the show often enough to know if it's Doug or Ryan acting as the antagonist during this exchange:
"Before you move on, Dogs and Poodles, stop sending me the e-mails about the Hitman. Just stop it. I'm not going to read them. I'm not going to talk about it. I'm trying to move forward with my life and this show. Stop sending me those e-mails."
"Y'all better than that, man."
"Y'all should be better than that. That man is boxing royalty. I don't care if he has no idea where his... what?"
"He's right there, man."
"Oh, okay. My bad."
"He's right there!"
"My bad. Okay."
"What if the Hitman come back over here and have a problem with you talking about him?"
"What he gonna do? Drool on me? What he gonna do?"
"No, he whup yo ass!"
"Please!"
"Them hands don't leave."
"You out of your damn mind."
"What do you mean I'm out of my damn mind? That man's hands are registered as lethal weapons. Are you crazy?"
"I'm going to say this as respectful as I can."
"Okay, well keep on talking then."
"You listening?"
"Go ahead."
"If he was to step to me, I would tear his tail up. That cat held his eyes closed so long trying to get one of them sentences out. How he gonna hit me? You gotta be out of your mind."
"Man, what kind of professional are you?"
"What do you mean?"
"That's not professional."
"You never should have brought this up."
"You brought it up!"
"I was about to talk about Favre!"
"You brought it up. You said, 'Dogs and Poodles, stop e-mailing me about Tommy Hearns.'"
"Well that's true. I did say that."
"Why are you doing this though?"
"I just want to move on."
"You're talking about him behind his back."
"If y'all think he can take me you're out of your mind."
"The man did us first out of all these shows on radio row and this is how you repay him?"
"I guarantee you, it took him an hour and a half to put that jacket on this morning. I guarantee you. He wanna fight me? Please, you're out of your damn mind."
Mocking a 51 year old ex-boxing legend while he stands mere feet away? Maybe it's part of the secret to their show's success? I don't listen often enough to know but it probably doesn't fall under most people's definition of "best business practices."
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