career has taken him around the world. but he has been gearing up for his biggest comeback fight at the 02 arena so we ve come to speak to tom where it all began, right here in salford, in his dad s back garden. did you expect your career with ufc to take off as well as it did, as soon as it did? in the market is going to sound pretty arrogant but yeah, i did. because i was dedicating my whole life to it when i was in my late teens and early 20s. 0bviously when i was in my late teens and early 20s. obviously been to parties here and there and stuff but i was never parting every weekend. i was always living the dream lifestyle. i was just in the gym dedicating everything i ve got to the dream. lastjuly, tom collapsed with a knee injuryjust lastjuly, tom collapsed with a knee injury just five minutes lastjuly, tom collapsed with a knee injuryjust five minutes into this fight. it injury ust five minutes into this fiuht. , , . ., ., injury ust five minutes into this fiuht. , . ., ., , f
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yacht all of burgess claims. burgess claims are not unique. just last year california returned land in manhattan beach to the bruce family. nearly 100 years after the city unfairly took the resort area citing imminent domain. other states are looking to compensate black families whose homes were taken to build interstates generations ago. last summer burgess took his story to the reparations task force, the first of its kind created in 2020 to investigate wrongs done to generations of black families. professor jovan lewis is a member. we ve gone through let s call it injury by injury looking at the various areas of society in which african americans have seen themselves, you know, put to disadvantage. reporter: this summer the task force will issue a report on the scope of the disparities black people in this state have faced for centuries. in another year, they ll make a recommendation on how california can atone. jonathan burgess isn t waiting for reparations policy. he wants h