Danny Trejo Talks About Being a Prison Boxing Champ | Mostly Football

so you don't just play better the better your movies you're an actual bad and when you were a prison back in a day you were champion boxer joint yeah lightweight and walked away I used to fight both both 37 bout a long time ago you know boxing sheriff's impressive being a prison boxing gym well that's kind of like the start of the MMA you know if you had a like a the ref was your friend you could get away with a whole lot you know and uh see we didn't if he wasn't your friend just came a couple cigarettes and he became your friend like this is crazy so how did they set up the fight thing they just said it's like you know you have a gym that they cut them all out now there's no more there's no more athletics in the penitentiary they just cut them all but I watch a documentary we talk about prison reform and how the whole system is off the system now is just it's a money-making system yes it's like so there every law that they pass is to keep more people in because they have to stay at a certain capacity passes like the hotel exactly so how do you work to changed it like I do like just keep on with Jerry Brown's actually the governors do doing a lot for us yeah but he's got a lot of people to deal with you know the prison the guard Union prison guard unions one of the biggest you want a stronger so they they passed the three strike law what's his name the governor then I'll know her name well you know he he actually the worst thing he ever did was passed that three strike law because all it did was take young kids that were that were you know doing crack three rocks and giving them ten fifteen years you know instead of rehab which is which is what they need you know I mean and so they just do a free labor over there oh absolutely the fires came out they try to get people out of prison who pay one dollar a day to fire camps the fire camps were actually less time and good you worked prison it's just a warehouse for insanity you know it's all but your path from prison to Hollywood is an edited epic journey I think he got hired to train there across all the box box and then you end up getting cast in that film and I think he went from what like three hundred seven dollars a day to thirty thousand the director they had somebody cast to fight Eric and uh and Eric's are pretty boy I don't know if you know Eric Roberts Eric Roberts yeah come on iconic for no boy yeah he's almost prettiest sister good-looking but prison there's no such thing as good-looking yeah you're prettier or you're not I got I got cast to box him you know and from a friend of mine guy named Eddie bunker who I was also in prison with in like got 65 I think and and and and it he was a he actually adapted the screenplay runaway train to fit an American audience because they had Jon Voight the lead character as somebody that killed his wife and then he's a hero in prison well if you kill your wife you're not a hero it can be a hero you know it just doesn't play near need to play in the NFL baby but you can be here questions oh how did you how did you change your life around well you know what it's like when I in in 1968 mirre Pacheco Henry kiha I could say the both dead got killed in robberies there was a prison riot a riot broke out Cinco DeMayo 1968 it was alleged that rapist Chico hit a a free person it was alleged that Henry Kahala kicked the coach it was alleged that I feel a rock and and hit lieutenant Gibbons in the head so all three of those are like gas chamber offenses hidden a free person striking a coach throwing rocks you know and so so we went to the hole and I just kind of like made a deal live God let me die with dignity just let me don't let me piss my pants or or scream and yell you know just just let me die with dignity and I'll say your name every day and I'll do whatever I can for my fellow man I thought it was just gonna be like a couple of years then they were gonna like kill me right but he fooled me and he said okay and I when I it was the the charges were what they call a DJ reject there was no witnesses you know they had they had 500 informants and they all said Mickey Mouse did it your mother did it my aunt came you know so basically there was no wit so that was of what they call a DJ reject the DJ's now again so when I came out of the hole it wasn't like I promised that I would be good don't get me in trouble it was kind of a really so I just started right there I just started trying to do my best and say his name and by the grace of God he's held up to his and I've held up to mine you

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 14 2018