MY UNFORGETTABLE YEAR
WHEN the whole world was saying ‘why did Deontay Wilder hire Malik Scott?’ Deontay was looking at the world saying ‘f**k y’all, Malik Scott is a genius’.
And after a while the world realised this dude does know boxing. People would say ‘I don’t really like him but I’ve got to give him credit’. Even if you don’t like me, you can’t take my knowledge or my love for this noble art away.
Deontay didn’t just hire me as his trainer, he believed in me too. It’s different when people just want you to be their coach, but he believed in me and brought me in, trusted my mind and my gameplan.
At 2-3 in the morning we were working out, 2-3 in the morning I’m sending him film to study, he’s sending them back. I tell him training is at 3:30 and he’s there at 3. It made me proud to see him like that because I’ve never seen Deontay that receptive to anybody before.
I still look at myself as a 12-year-old kid in
