And after his feel-good, onstage shtick with the Rev. Jerry Johnston, the former “Rocky V” protégé of actor Sylvester Stallone took a few minutes to update his current state of affairs.

Let the record show there's still plenty of “Tommy” left in that 36-year-old body.

“See Elvis? He's on my tooth,” Morrison said, opening his mouth and pulling back his cheek for a fan.

“Got any knockouts yet?” he asked a young boy with boxing ambitions. “You been knocked out? Don't be scared. You won't feel a thing.”

He even offered romantic advice.

“No matter how much you love somebody, you can't be around 'em all the time,” Morrison mused. “You can't — or I can't. Maybe it's just me.”

So what is Morrison up to these days?

“Right now I'm in the process of writing my book,” he says. “There's a couple movie projects in the works — life story. My goal is to get back into acting. And there's a guy coming in from Germany to do a documentary.”

Morrison is still brandishing his controversial views on HIV, which ended his boxing career: “You know HIV and AIDS are two different things,” he says. “People don't understand that. HIV doesn't cause AIDS. I think it's a whole bunch of bull. Have you ever heard of anybody dying of HIV? I've been called crazy a lot, but part of the reason's because I am. Crazy for the Lord.”

Gone are Morrison's exotic pets. For now.

“I had three monkeys, a couple of cougars, a leopard, some birds,” he says. “One thing I want to do in the next six months or so is get another monkey. Monkeys are awesome pets. Back then I didn't have a lot of time, and monkeys require a lot of attention if you want to build a relationship with them. They're like your wife.”

As for what he's driving these days: “Right now I drive a '98 Dodge Stratus,” Morrison says. “That's a lot different than what I used to drive, huh? But material things don't do a whole lot for me.”

What does he, now a resident of Sparta, Tenn., miss about KC?

“Not much, you know, to be honest with you,” Morrison quips. “I never ate the barbecue. I'm not a big meat eater. Probably the people mostly. The people here were cool.”

His message to Cowtowners:

“Just that the most important thing is when I was here, I was a wild man. Everybody knows that. But comes a time in your life your priorities change. I didn't have time (before) to be the type of father I wanted to be. And I didn't have the type of father I wanted. And when I had a son of my own, it made me really step back.”

On his pugilistic past: “Boxing's what delivered me from probably a bad life — maybe death, maybe prison for life,” he says. “Tell everybody that if God can forgive me, he can forgive them.”

How about future fights?

“Not unless somebody smarts off in the parking lot,” Morrison joked before catching himself. “And not even then.”