Have sent tamerlan tsarnaev down a dark path. in a boxing documentary by entertainment tonight, we hear tamerlan tsarnaev speak. eddie bishop remembers that swagger. he recalls a extremely confident tamerlan at a 2009 golden globes boxing tournament in massachusetts. what was your first impression of him when you saw him? flashy guy. you know, he had cowboy boots on, leather pants. reporter: a swagger that soon turned sour. bishop, who worked with another fighter, echoes the comments of other trainers who observed tamerlan in the ring of the great puncher, enough raw talent to have a shot at the olympic team. but i noticed he was lacking a key element. reporter: tamerlan tsarnaev, a golden gloves champion, went to the national championships in salt lake city in 2009, but fell
Trained a fighter who was in the famed national championship tournament that tamerlan tsarnaev was in in salt lake city in 2009. he observed tamerlan for a week at that tournament. here is eddie bishop. flashy guy. he has cowboy boots on leather pants flashy shirt, hat, he was he was eccentric. he was a talented fighter. he could punch. he could definitely punch. i notice he was lacking a key element, you know. he lacked heart. you can look at somebody in a ring and say that guy can punch, that guy can move just know the little subtle things, you know, he lacked heart as a fighter. so he got to the national championships. didn t win them just lost the bout and some coaches are putting together the reasons why, didn t put it together at the end. the next year he gets disqualified because he s not a u.s. citizen. he thinks that turned him down that dark path.
I said, i think i know him. we lived next to him last year. he said, tell the fbi. well, i said, i know who he is and so i don t think he is the guy. and besides they said it is the gy from brown university. so i left it at that. i assume that someone heard our conversation and told the u-mass police. and after that they shut down the school and we know what happened next. austin hightower, thank you for joining me. any time. thank you. now to julian pollard. you were a boxer and roomed with tamerlan during tournament. what was he like? well, during that trip, i noticed tamerlan was a bit after flashy guy. sharp dresser. confident in his abilities as a boxer. he was good boxer? he was. he had some skills. he had some punching power. good hand speed. he won a couple fights in