Sparring With Boxing Champ Wladimir Klitschko

Vladimir Klitschko in the Young Hollywood studio. I am Leslie Robbins and we are going to play a little game because it's not every day I have a boxing champion sitting next to me. You ready?

I'm ready. For any game.

You ready? Okay. Yeah. I have something hidden. One.

Oh, I know this game so well.

Two. Three. Okay. Four. So, you're gonna wear the gloves. Correct. And I'm gonna wear the pads. Correct. Okay, let's do it. Well, this hand's gonna be the pads actually because look. Can we Can we just Let me see the size of your. It's okay. Let's see let's Can we Let's put your hand in there. So, the fact that you were heavyweight champion of the world for over a decade means you got some skill. You know how to throw a punch, right?

I guess so.

Right. Okay. Do you wanna help me then?

Yeah.

Okay. Okay. First, let's show everyone your size. Right now. I mean Okay. All right. Six. Five. 5'4" in 5-inch stilettos. Yeah. Okay. And as you know, it's it's it's about the heart, not about the size. You're a big man. You have a big heart. As big as this fist. I mean that's what you know, What's it like getting punched in the face, really? Like I I I've never Tell me.

They always answer like, do you really wanna know? I mean, if it's a real person. Don't do it. Do you really wanna know? How should they describe it at the best? I think it's not pleasant. Who wants to be hit in the face? No. And my strategy was always safety first. Okay. Because then you can last longer. So, it doesn't mean safety first, you're kind of passive. You need to be also active. Okay. And that's what we get now. Okay. So, you gotta be active now because the best defense is offense.

The best defense is offense.

Is offense. Yep. You can use that in life. Always. You gotta be always on the move. And eventually gonna get what you want. Because you are the driving force. All right. Okay. So, what's the game? What's the best way to throw a punch, block? True story, I I boxed with Sugar Ray Leonard once and he told me the key is looking good. That's all that matters. That's all that matters, looking good.

I think the best that I can recommend you

Yeah.

Is the shot that you're not gonna damage your hands. Okay. Yeah. So, and this is liver hook.

Liver hook.

Yeah. Okay. So, and every person's liver is on his right side and you just do it like that with the left hand. Yeah. Just right here. Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Perfect. Even though I'm a right. Wow. You You do have heavy hands. I can feel it.

I've heavy hands.

It's a compliment. In boxing means like you got it. You know, you have a punch. You have a punch like like you can really knock the person out. Basically. Yep. Boom. You're not even breathing. And then

No. You actually do well. All right. One, two. No. Go. Yeah. Now Now you're in the fighting stance. You can do it. You can do both. You're a really good teacher. That's a compliment. Thank you. And you are a teacher. You teach at a Swiss university. You're teaching here at Harvard.

I'm sharing. I probably wanna say teaching is kinda really uh too much in this case. I'm sharing. I don't wanna teach. I don't wanna give feeling to people and participants of the study course that I've been doing for the past three years at the university in Switzerland at St. Gallen. And now I got this chance to share my method challenge management at the university in Harvard. So, it's fantastic. Um I I had such a great time and uh hopefully I'll be back. Sharing means caring. And there's a lot of experiences and um that I have collected and I'm ready to share from inside and outside of the ring.

And those are the principles that you talk about in your book.

Exactly. Challenge management will help you to make out of your problems challenges.

And is it so easy to do that, though? How do you get through all the mental blocks to even get there?

You're talking about mental blocks and that's exactly what people feel when they have problems in life. What is the meaning of the word problem? Frustration. But if you think about challenge, you think, hey, I'm gonna solve this puzzle. It's a challenge. It gives you kind of a boost of energy. It's not a problem. It's a challenge. And I'll get it done. So simple. Simplicity is the key. Simplicity. Boom.

Wow. You got it. You are heavy hands.