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INTERVIEW: Edgar Berlanga Talks Upcoming Fight With Canelo Álvarez, Addresses Backlash, Caleb Plant + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We
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Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. Of course he got aft with
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Speaker 2: us today because we got a special guest in the building,
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Speaker 2: Edgar Balonga.
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Speaker 1: Welcome brother, my boys.
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Speaker 3: Everything man, real good.
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Speaker 4: How you feeling a big fight coming up, sir, September
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Speaker 4: fourteenth against Canelo Alvarez.
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Speaker 3: How you feeling about it? Amazing?
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm highly blessed man to be in this position.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not supposed to be here. You know,
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Speaker 3: we went through a lot of trials and tribulations. You
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Speaker 3: feel me, and you know we got here, man, we did.
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Speaker 3: You know, all the hard work is paid off. Man,
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Speaker 3: And I started boxing at seven years old and twenty
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Speaker 3: years later, man, you know I'm finding the biggest fight
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Speaker 3: of my life. Wow.
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Speaker 2: Now you wanted this fight for a long time. You've
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Speaker 2: been calling it out, You've been saying it. So what
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Speaker 2: what finally got the deal done?
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Speaker 3: You know I've been I've been talking about this for years. Man.
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Speaker 3: You know, even before who's about to turn pro? With
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Speaker 3: my you know, I was like, you know, we've seen
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Speaker 3: Connelo Rosen and we was just like, yo, listen, man,
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Speaker 3: like this the fight that's gonna happen soon. You know
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Speaker 3: something big. You know, Puerto Rico's is Mexico, and I
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Speaker 3: feel like, do my hard work keeping God first. You know,
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Speaker 3: it happened, man, and the manifesting for me, like just
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Speaker 3: talking about it, putting out there in the universe for me,
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Speaker 3: and it came.
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Speaker 1: All the golden ticket. People say it is like is
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Speaker 1: it really lucrative?
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know obviously because they say they say,
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Speaker 3: is the golden tick because it's money. You know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying, You're not. You're not You're not making the
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Speaker 3: money he was making before you for me when you
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Speaker 3: fight him obviously, because he's you know, he's a legend, bro.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, you know, but we got the fight from
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Speaker 3: my last fight. You know, we became the w BA
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Speaker 3: mandatory my fort Patrick McCory and knocked him out in
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Speaker 3: the sixth round. He was a light heavyweight ib O
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Speaker 3: world world champion, and uh yeah, man, we did our thing.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: They were just like, you listen, we need a big
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Speaker 3: knockout in order to like in a spot for this,
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Speaker 3: you know. And I came through, man, big big, big,
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Speaker 3: Like what.
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Speaker 5: Uh were there negotiations for this fight? Or was the
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Speaker 5: first all for accepted? You know what I mean, because obviously,
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Speaker 5: you know, to Charlemagne's point, it's the money fight that
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Speaker 5: people want. Was the first off of the money that
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Speaker 5: you expected? Or did your manager Keith have to fight
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Speaker 5: for a little bit more?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it was. It was crazy, man. It was
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Speaker 3: to the point that we probably thought we wasn't gonna fight.
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Speaker 6: Because you know, because in this show off it wasn't
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Speaker 6: with you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And this is where I really noticed, like, and
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Speaker 3: at the level where we're are now, at the high level,
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Speaker 3: I understand why a lot of big fights don't get made.
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, because you know, the numbers. The numbers got
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Speaker 3: to look right, you know, and it's about the fighting,
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Speaker 3: it's about pay per views, and there's about a lot
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Speaker 3: of other things. For me, So it hit me like, damn,
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Speaker 3: this is why a lot of big fights don't get
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Speaker 3: made because of that, you feel me, because because of
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Speaker 3: the numbers is not right. And then a lot of
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Speaker 3: negotiations behind that lot, like phone calls after phone like
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Speaker 3: it was days like you know what I'm saying. I
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Speaker 3: wake up and I'm like damn we get in a
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Speaker 3: fight or not. But I was in the gym. I
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Speaker 3: was working, working, working, working, because I know I was like,
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Speaker 3: I want them catching you off.
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Speaker 1: God.
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Speaker 3: You know a lot of fighters they start training the day,
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Speaker 3: you know, the day that they signed a fight, and
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Speaker 3: next thing you know, you got five six weeks to
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Speaker 3: the fight. Like what happened was now time and then
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Speaker 3: you're not in shape for me. So I was like
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Speaker 3: my father was only like your egg, This shit's gonna happen,
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Speaker 3: you know, whether you like it or not. I think
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Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. So we got to stay ready. We
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Speaker 3: gotta make sure we're ready for this.
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Speaker 1: Are you nervous at all?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 2: Because it's it's like you said, you grew up watching
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Speaker 2: him and watching Box and he was one of the
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Speaker 2: people that you like watching god A live. So it's
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Speaker 2: kind of like as a kid, it's like playing your
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Speaker 2: Lebron or playing.
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Speaker 1: Your your Jordan.
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Speaker 2: Do you get nervous for playing one of your your
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Speaker 2: idols fighting one of the idols at all?
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say nervous. I'm just excited, man, Like I'm
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Speaker 3: not gonna lie. I was like on two hours of
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Speaker 3: sleep the day before yesterday, I was just going, bro.
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Speaker 3: I was in the gym track working my coach, Like, yo, bro,
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Speaker 3: you ain't take none or because you you up, bro,
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Speaker 3: Like they were trying to me to sleep. You know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, like, yoga, go take a nap. You know,
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Speaker 3: we only got two hours. We just we just landed
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Speaker 3: in New York. Got tending them and sending In the morning,
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Speaker 3: I'll say, well, I'm going, man, Like I said, the
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Speaker 3: fights here, man, the fight stars now, you know, and
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Speaker 3: I'm excited.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's opportunity to make history. Man, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And I'm from New York, Puerto Rican
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Speaker 3: and I'm from the trenches. And you know, a lot
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Speaker 3: of people depending on me, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: and through me, people that never made it to that,
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Speaker 3: to that level, I win. They all going to win.
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Speaker 6: Mhm.
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Speaker 5: You know this weekend, you know, I just came from
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Speaker 5: from from LA to Crawford fight. And during the fight, Turkey,
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Speaker 5: his excellency Chic put out an offer to Canelo for
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Speaker 5: the butterfight. So in other words, they're looking past you, right,
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Speaker 5: He's already thinking about Terrence Crawford fighting Canelo OBErs.
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Speaker 6: How does that make you feel?
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Speaker 3: I was upset looking at because they just kept mentioning
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, And I'm like, damn, they
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Speaker 3: overlooking me. But you know it was bound to happen,
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Speaker 3: you from like, I feel like now all my life
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Speaker 3: I've been overlooked, you know what I'm saying, even me
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Speaker 3: when I turned pro. You know, all the promoters didn't
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Speaker 3: want to sign me. Nobody wanted to sign me. Now
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Speaker 3: we don't want them.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that is?
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Speaker 3: I have no clue, bro for real? For like, you know,
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Speaker 3: I went to the Olympic Charles I lost, so we
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Speaker 3: were supposed to go to Puerto Rico, but had I
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Speaker 3: had an injury. So we were just like, yo, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna turn pro. So when we want up turning pro?
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Speaker 3: No promoters wanted it, but I stood ten toes down.
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Speaker 3: I told Mark, I told my dad. You know, they
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Speaker 3: was just like, listen, they don't want you soon. And
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Speaker 3: when I went in the gym because nobody, nobody wanted
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Speaker 3: to sign me, right, so I was like, okay, copies
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Speaker 3: you no more. I'm used to this, you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying. I'm used to being on the dog I'm
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Speaker 3: used to being in this position. And what started happening.
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Speaker 3: I started knocking people out in the first round, and
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Speaker 3: I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Like that right there, sixteen first round, I got screak.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that right there was like the key start
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Speaker 3: to everything for me. Like I was like, Yo, these
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Speaker 3: people out here is really dug and me. They they
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Speaker 3: don't see my work. They don't see okay, And I
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Speaker 3: started polling people out. Boom boom, boom boom. Next thing
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Speaker 3: you know, I got the city shaking, our promoters just
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Speaker 3: calling us.
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Speaker 1: Did that help it hurt? Though?
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Speaker 2: The reason I ask is when you knock everybody in
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Speaker 2: the first round, everybody expects that every fight. So if
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Speaker 2: you don't and you take somebody to the distance, or
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Speaker 2: you take somebody to the sixth round, they're like, eggle
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Speaker 2: fell off, heat the same, but you can't knock out
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Speaker 2: everybody in the first round.
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Speaker 1: So did that help it hurt?
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Speaker 3: I said, it was a gift. It's always a gift
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Speaker 3: for me because I feel like God, you know, God
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Speaker 3: definitely blessed me with his power for me, and it's
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Speaker 3: in the strength that I got is crazy. So but
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Speaker 3: then you know, I felt like it was a curse
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Speaker 3: a little bit too, because you know, people now all
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Speaker 3: they expected knockouts now, so they don't really look at
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Speaker 3: They don't want to look at my boxing scales. They
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Speaker 3: don't want to look at me boxing and moving around
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Speaker 3: and hit and don't get hit no more. You know,
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Speaker 3: they like this, dude's a bum for me. So I
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Speaker 3: went five straight fights. It was supposed to be four
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Speaker 3: straight fights, but I went five straight fights to distance
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Speaker 3: and your people have been like, ash me bye, you
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying on social media and shit. But
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Speaker 3: I say it's a curse, right because you know you're
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Speaker 3: knocking people out. People get used to that. For me,
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Speaker 3: people get used to the knockouts. Knockouts knockouts in boxing
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Speaker 3: is not about that. You feel me like the first
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Speaker 3: round was cool, Don't get me wrong, because it blew
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Speaker 3: me up quick. You know what I'm saying. In two years.
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Speaker 3: Next thing, I got a little Wayne on my phone.
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Speaker 3: I started, I'm going to Tracey Morgan's crib. You know,
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Speaker 3: I built a crazy relationship with him. You for me
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Speaker 3: so and then you know if I Joe been with
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Speaker 3: me since before and so yeah, man, like it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: You know, Khalie Plant he said you are an unworthy
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Speaker 4: challenger for Canelo. He said you got a week and
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Speaker 4: lack of experience and poor technical boxing skills. He said,
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Speaker 4: you have no experience against genuine, world class opposition, and
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Speaker 4: you struggled against the marginal competition that your promoters have
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Speaker 4: carefully selected for.
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Speaker 1: You to maintain your unbeaten record. What do you say
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Speaker 1: to that.
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Speaker 3: He's a hater period, He's a guy. He had his
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Speaker 3: see you know, it was a thing with him right
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Speaker 3: and I told him when I seen him and I
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Speaker 3: seeing him in Vegas, I say, y'all got a lot
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Speaker 3: of respect for you because you've been at that levee.
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Speaker 3: What I'm saying, even though you lost, but you've been
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Speaker 3: at that level like you fought Canelo, you fought Benevidez,
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Speaker 3: and I got to give you that respect.
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Speaker 1: You got it.
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Speaker 3: You got to that level for me. But I feel
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Speaker 3: like now he clout chasing you for me. He's doing
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Speaker 3: a lot of weird shit just to just to be
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Speaker 3: relevant again for me, because I feel like, and a
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Speaker 3: lot of people know, dude, don't sell you for me.
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Speaker 3: He don't sound less he unless he's finding a big,
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Speaker 3: a big fighter you for me. So I'm like, you'
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Speaker 3: a hater, bro, because when it was your time to shine,
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Speaker 3: when it was your time to step in ever ying
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Speaker 3: with can of Loo and all these guys. I never
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Speaker 3: bashed you. I never said nothing about you. You know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying. I let you have your moment, but you
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Speaker 3: ain't take your opportunity for me. You loss, you got
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Speaker 3: knocked out.
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Speaker 6: So how did that? In Vegas?
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Speaker 5: I saw you guys going back and forth in a
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Speaker 5: clip that went viral, and you said you was giving
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Speaker 5: him respect. So how did it turn into you guys
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Speaker 5: going back and forth? Because what did he say to you?
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Speaker 5: What was his Because you're broad the.
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Speaker 3: End of the day. I'm I'm a dude man, right
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Speaker 3: like I'm from I'm from New York. I'm from the
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Speaker 3: trenches for me, So it's different how you come you're going.
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Speaker 3: If I'm giving you respect, you're gonna respect for me.
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Speaker 3: And I gave him that respect, but he just kept
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Speaker 3: going and going and going. Yo.
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Speaker 1: But what's up?
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Speaker 3: Yo? You're gonna give me that fight?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I'm like, now I'm focusing on some time. I got Cannelo,
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Speaker 3: But forget about that. If you don't get knola, what's up?
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Speaker 3: I'm like, no, it's not I'm not even worrying about that. Like,
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Speaker 3: I got a plan. We're sticking with that now. But
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Speaker 3: he just kept going and going, Oh yeah, but what
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Speaker 3: happened with the spawn? And he's talking about spaw wing.
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Speaker 3: I was like seventeen years old, and I'm like, what
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Speaker 3: what happened in the sixth round? I fucked him up?
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Speaker 3: I fucked you up and I blew you on the
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Speaker 3: sixth round with the body side you ran out the ring?
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Speaker 3: He started, Oh, oh, I'm all right. So that's when
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Speaker 3: you know I got on my New York.
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Speaker 6: SHO got seventeen years when you were Yeah, he was
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Speaker 6: it pro already.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was pro, and I just turned it up
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Speaker 3: on him. You know what I'm saying, Like, if you
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Speaker 3: know what ship went Viraloe called me like, yo, he
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Speaker 3: looks sound like a real New York nigga.
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Speaker 4: Man did did when when you when you beat somebody
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Speaker 4: in sparring, is that something you can hold over their
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Speaker 4: head until y'all actually getting the ring?
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Speaker 3: I don't believe in that, you know, saying, I think
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Speaker 3: sparring and sparring for me because you have a lot
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Speaker 3: of off days in the gym for me, like a
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Speaker 3: lot of times, right, sometimes the day before sparring, you
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Speaker 3: probably got to do what you did to a day.
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Speaker 3: For me, there's a crazy strimming condition and training, then
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Speaker 3: you did a crazy boxing training and you got to
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Speaker 3: spil the next this So sometimes your body be off
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Speaker 3: from me. So I don't really count sparring. Like there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of guys that probably get beat up and
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Speaker 3: spawning and they go fight night and they shine like
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Speaker 3: a star. And you got guys that look like floored
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Speaker 3: in a gym and they go fight and they tuck
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Speaker 3: their tail next thing. You know, you're like, yo, But well,
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Speaker 3: those skills that when you was in the gym, And
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Speaker 3: it's because a lot of people can't when when it's
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Speaker 3: that time. You know, when you got the lights, you
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Speaker 3: got the ref when you got thousands and thousands of fans,
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Speaker 3: you know that the energy that that light gets to people, sometimes.
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Speaker 6: It's just them dumb overwhelmed them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Facts, Is there any constructive criticism to take from something
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Speaker 4: like Khali said, like when you hear when you hear
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Speaker 4: the things that he lifted you, So you know what,
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Speaker 4: maybe I do need to improve on My boxing skills
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Speaker 4: are little bit maybe I do need.
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Speaker 1: You know, to move my head a little bit more
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Speaker 1: like you listen to any of that?
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Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: No, So you.
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Speaker 5: Know, outside of outside of plant, like you you mentioned
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Speaker 5: the social media, they've been attacking you saying you don't
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Speaker 5: deserve the Canelo fight. You haven't done enough to earn
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Speaker 5: that fight. What do you say to those people that
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Speaker 5: aren't giving you a shot and saying you don't deserve
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Speaker 5: to fight.
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Speaker 3: Even if even if quote unquote I would have deserved
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Speaker 3: a fight, they still would have been talking shit. Yo, bro,
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Speaker 3: I'm probably like the top. I'm probably like between me, Chicall,
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Speaker 3: Devin Ryan and who else is out there and me,
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Speaker 3: it's five of us that everybody hate and boxing your
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Speaker 3: her And they've been like that for a while already
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Speaker 3: for me. And I'm gonna always be like this, bro,
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Speaker 3: like is gonna be hate?
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Speaker 6: What do you think it is about about you?
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Speaker 3: I'm humble, but you know with me, I'm like, it's
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Speaker 3: because I'm flat. You know, we're from New York, but
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Speaker 3: that's us. Feel me, like people get a sense of me,
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Speaker 3: like all this dude's cocky, all this do on the
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Speaker 3: way they talk about my jewelry, They talk about my watches.
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Speaker 3: This that all yet? But so what Bro, that's New
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Speaker 3: York like when you come but people don't understand the
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Speaker 3: only people from New York understand that you feel me.
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Speaker 3: So people from New York they could be haters, but
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Speaker 3: they would just hate off my box and create a
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Speaker 3: lot of people just hate me overall because of my
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Speaker 3: lifestyle you feel.
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Speaker 2: Does it affect you though? Do you read that and
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Speaker 2: be like I gotta change this or does that bother
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Speaker 2: you it all?
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Speaker 3: Nah? I don't know. Before when it first started, I
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Speaker 3: used to yo, I'm not gonna lie. I want to
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Speaker 3: do a little depression, bro, because I never received crazy
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Speaker 3: back lives like that. Fore me after that when I
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Speaker 3: did the Mike Tyson bite when a hudo right and
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Speaker 3: and they suspended me and then they was just trashing me,
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Speaker 3: bro for like eight months. Why people?
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Speaker 1: What got into you that night?
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Speaker 3: Nah? So listen, look, so that's why I've been right
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Speaker 3: the guy right. First of all, the guy came in overweight,
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Speaker 3: like three pounds cool. He came in on purpose. He
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Speaker 3: came in overweight. He did some rye g see the
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Speaker 3: ship like, came in overweight. He didn't want to lose
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Speaker 3: the weight. It was about to take like fifty thousand
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Speaker 3: from his from his check. He said, Yo, the day
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Speaker 3: were for the fight. Yo, if they'll take fifty thousand
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Speaker 3: from me, the fights off. So whatever, he came over weight.
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Speaker 3: Obviously I made the weight, but isn't it rules for that,
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Speaker 3: Like we have to listen. His coach did an interview
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Speaker 3: after I beat him and said that they they attacked,
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Speaker 3: it was to come in three pounds of weight so
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Speaker 3: they don't gotta be weight drained so they could absorb
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Speaker 3: my punches better from me.
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Speaker 6: So he didn't get fired. He didn't. They didn't take
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Speaker 6: the fifty grand from him. He kept it.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, Top Ringer had to pay me because if not,
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Speaker 3: they would have the fight would have been off of
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Speaker 3: It was Puerto Rican their weekend. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Tickets was sold. It was a sold out event, so
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Speaker 3: it was like Noah, no, no, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: So for those they don't know that money goes to you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, on thousand percent. And then during the fight, So
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Speaker 3: I got this dude on YouTube as a crazy fan
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Speaker 3: of me, and he broke the whole ten rounds down.
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Speaker 3: But how dirty? Uh? And Gulo was fighting. You know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like he split me open with an elbow.
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Speaker 3: He was throwing shots like when he was throwing up
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Speaker 3: because he was like, you know what I'm saying, hit me.
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Speaker 3: All I felt was head butts and elbows the first
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Speaker 3: four rounds for me, So that was already getting me
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Speaker 3: like upset. And then I told the ref before the
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Speaker 3: fight in the back. We was like, listen, this dude's
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Speaker 3: a dirty fighter, so you gotta watch you with het
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Speaker 3: butts and with elbows. Yeah. Yeah, but he wasn't you
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. He wasn't the warning him and nothing,
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Speaker 3: so it was just off O don't know. It was
14:08
Speaker 3: his own you know, come.
14:10
Speaker 4: Over, what are you thinking about Tyson when you did it?
14:14
Speaker 3: Yeah?
14:16
Speaker 1: Being from New York from Brooklyn, right yeah, oh yeah
14:19
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, so you probably like.
14:21
Speaker 3: Bush and from Lower East Side, so you don't.
14:24
Speaker 6: Wait till there's no mouthpiece though, with the mouthpiece.
14:27
Speaker 3: But your front we never here, we never, we never.
14:30
Speaker 3: I never grabbed them like you see Mike Tyson winning grab.
14:33
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson it yeah, I never.
14:35
Speaker 6: I never Mike Tyson out.
14:39
Speaker 3: It was like an attempt for me, but you know,
14:41
Speaker 3: I most hated SOMs. Oh yeah, you're gonna take off
14:44
Speaker 3: you need like I think it was like seven months,
14:46
Speaker 3: six months, yeah, six months, and then they charged me
14:48
Speaker 3: like fifteen thousand whatever.
14:52
Speaker 6: Did you watch the Crawford imagine More fight?
14:55
Speaker 1: Yeah?
14:56
Speaker 5: Do you think Crawford can challenge Canlo? Do you think
15:00
Speaker 5: he can beat him or or be at that level
15:02
Speaker 5: with Canelo?
15:02
Speaker 3: I think they pushing it, you know, I listen, man,
15:05
Speaker 3: Crawford is a legend, bro, Like, I studied crawl Ford
15:08
Speaker 3: so much because his discipline and that ring isn't saying
15:11
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, and his IQ is even
15:13
Speaker 3: more crazy, feel me. So I respect Crawford as a
15:17
Speaker 3: fighter one hundred percent. Like he's a legend for me.
15:19
Speaker 3: He's gonna go down as one of the greatest quarter
15:22
Speaker 3: box and Canello I think they just they was just
15:26
Speaker 3: overstepping until now they've seen him fight a guy that's
15:29
Speaker 3: a real one fifty four pounder that's strong for me,
15:32
Speaker 3: and you know, he gave him a tough fight. You know.
15:35
Speaker 3: So now everybody's, oh, oh why because everybody probably thought
15:38
Speaker 3: he was gonna knock this dude out, you know what
15:40
Speaker 3: I'm saying. But when you go up and wait, people
15:42
Speaker 3: gotta understand that those punches are different man like fighters absorbed.
15:46
Speaker 3: The punch is way different for me, you see, like
15:49
Speaker 3: guys like Benavitaz that went up to seventy five and
15:51
Speaker 3: he thought he thought that that Ukrainian dude could even
15:54
Speaker 3: buggle him for me.
15:55
Speaker 5: So, but it's not only about weight though, I mean,
15:58
Speaker 5: magine more style is a lot different than then Canelos. Right,
16:01
Speaker 5: boxing is about styles, and he's awkward and hard the time.
16:05
Speaker 5: Canelo doesn't fight like that. Canelo picks his shots and
16:08
Speaker 5: doesn't move his feet as much.
16:10
Speaker 3: You know, but he but after the fight, he kept
16:12
Speaker 3: saying how strong the guy was. So if he he
16:14
Speaker 3: felt like that guy was strong, just imagine imagine.
16:18
Speaker 6: Strong and he hits harder.
16:20
Speaker 3: You get what I'm saying, So right there, you know,
16:22
Speaker 3: and then you know, you notice that he was just
16:24
Speaker 3: like you listen, man like Cannelo got a fight coming up,
16:26
Speaker 3: you know, and he wanted obviously he just finished fighting,
16:27
Speaker 3: so he don't even want to think about it.
16:29
Speaker 5: I still like, I still like that matchup for but
16:32
Speaker 5: I think stylistically is still.
16:33
Speaker 3: A good fight.
16:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, but obviously you know that's down the line. You
16:38
Speaker 5: got a big fight with Canelo. Stylistically, why are you
16:42
Speaker 5: better than Canelo?
16:43
Speaker 6: Outrest?
16:45
Speaker 3: I just think right now, right listen, Connelo is a legend,
16:48
Speaker 3: and you know he been in there with the best
16:51
Speaker 3: for me, like Floyd triple G three times, So we
16:56
Speaker 3: would never overlook Canelo and what he does you for me.
17:00
Speaker 3: But the thing is right me, I gotta go in there.
17:05
Speaker 3: I said this before. We gotta be a little crazy,
17:08
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, it's kind of cool,
17:11
Speaker 3: but I feel like it's my time now, you know
17:13
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And I got this opportunity for a
17:15
Speaker 3: reason at the right moment. Stylically, I got everything. You know,
17:20
Speaker 3: I'm bigger, I'm stronger, I could take a punch, and
17:23
Speaker 3: I'm younger. You know, Canello has his experience over me,
17:26
Speaker 3: so you know we know that with this fight, it's
17:29
Speaker 3: all about IQ for me. It's not physical about this fight.
17:33
Speaker 3: I'm strong, you know what I'm saying, Like I got that.
17:35
Speaker 3: They say I got that country and bunking strength for me,
17:37
Speaker 3: So I know I'm strong. But he fought strong opponents
17:41
Speaker 3: as well. You know, he fought triple G, He fought
17:43
Speaker 3: a lot of guys like a punt. He fought a
17:44
Speaker 3: big BiVO. But with me, it's the IQ that's going
17:48
Speaker 3: to change the game, you know, And we we've been
17:49
Speaker 3: that's what we've really been focusing on, is IQ in
17:51
Speaker 3: that gym and working on a game plan to execute,
17:55
Speaker 3: because like I said, you can't go in there like
17:57
Speaker 3: a crash dumb with that dude. For me, you can't
17:59
Speaker 3: go in in there, you know, I think that's what
18:01
Speaker 3: Muir did. You know he went in there just throwing punches.
18:03
Speaker 3: For me, they take a punch, but there was no
18:05
Speaker 3: IQ behind it, and you gotta make him think, you
18:10
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. You gotta make him think before
18:11
Speaker 3: he throws. You got to make sure that you know
18:13
Speaker 3: he's gonna come to fight. So a guy like him,
18:16
Speaker 3: you gotta make him think on hundred percent. For me,
18:18
Speaker 3: you can't just go in there and just try to think.
18:20
Speaker 3: I can't go in there and I got bricks in
18:22
Speaker 3: these hands, man, if I land because he got hit,
18:25
Speaker 3: he got hit by Triple G. He got hit by
18:26
Speaker 3: guys that for me, and he got crazy movements. So
18:30
Speaker 3: you know, like I said, it's his IQ, it's intelligence.
18:33
Speaker 3: You know, it's gonna be an intelligent fight.
18:34
Speaker 2: Crazy thing is if if you lose, quote unquote you
18:37
Speaker 2: were supposed to, but if you win, they'll be like, oh,
18:39
Speaker 2: he was on his way out. So how do you
18:40
Speaker 2: feel like that? Like it feels like you can't win
18:43
Speaker 2: regardless of what you do.
18:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean even you said that if I lose,
18:47
Speaker 3: they're gonna he thought. But I don't even think it's
18:49
Speaker 3: that You're They're gonna still trust me. They's still gonna
18:52
Speaker 3: probably put me trying to put me as a meme
18:54
Speaker 3: on Twitter, on social media, because that's how much hey
18:58
Speaker 3: I received for me. So I'm just I'm just absorbing
19:02
Speaker 3: everything for me, Like I'm just staying focused here because
19:05
Speaker 3: this is the most important thing. Your mind controls everything
19:08
Speaker 3: in your body. For me, your mind tells your body
19:10
Speaker 3: what to do. So if I could keep this in tact,
19:13
Speaker 3: and I'm keeping my mental sharp and strong, you know,
19:17
Speaker 3: and getting ready for the fight five six weeks, seven
19:21
Speaker 3: weeks before the fight, here, I'm good to go, man,
19:23
Speaker 3: Like I'm one hundred percent mentally. It's dangerous now.
19:28
Speaker 2: Bud had a hit list, right, a list of everybody
19:30
Speaker 2: that talked negative about him, so when he won, he
19:32
Speaker 2: was able to check off the list. Charlomage was one
19:34
Speaker 2: of them. Do you have that same type of list
19:36
Speaker 2: of everybody that talks back and like when I win,
19:38
Speaker 2: I'm going back to check the last person.
19:41
Speaker 3: Sure, man, I got a whole list. I probably got
19:44
Speaker 3: like a thousand people.
19:46
Speaker 6: A couple name a couple that we would know that
19:49
Speaker 6: on that list.
19:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more like bloggers and ship. You know what
19:53
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like people I see on Twitter?
19:57
Speaker 6: What about fighters?
19:59
Speaker 3: Fighters? Yeah? Uh plant Kaylor playing bitch as Bena Vidaz
20:06
Speaker 3: bitch azz his father MOREL. That's about it. MOREL.
20:13
Speaker 6: David Morrell said, David Morrell.
20:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, as as for the fighters here right there, that's
20:19
Speaker 3: the only one I really seen, Like oh and probably uh,
20:23
Speaker 3: I've seen like a little bullshit podcast. Nobody be worrying
20:25
Speaker 3: about no but Terrence Crawford stableman, and he always be chatting,
20:28
Speaker 3: always be talking ship. Yeah, does it.
20:33
Speaker 1: Really be smoke?
20:34
Speaker 4: Is it real smoke between like you and ben A
20:36
Speaker 4: Vidas or it is just like it's boxing talk.
20:39
Speaker 3: It's boxing talk. But like I don't respect you know,
20:42
Speaker 3: I don't respect them because they they they're not good people. Bro,
20:46
Speaker 3: they you know what type of people they are? Like
20:48
Speaker 3: I go to you right and I'll be on your ship.
20:50
Speaker 3: Oh my goshaw man, the best podcast, Oh my god
20:53
Speaker 3: in the world. You feel me, and they go behind
20:55
Speaker 3: your back, they'll leave, they'll leave the room, and like, Yo,
20:57
Speaker 3: fuck this guy. This guy's a piece of ship. It's
21:00
Speaker 3: got no good. His podcast is ship. That's the type
21:03
Speaker 3: of guy here. And I ran that happened to me
21:05
Speaker 3: with that with David's pops. After the fight, kind of
21:08
Speaker 3: little fight, I'm walking into the MGM. Everybody start bombing
21:11
Speaker 3: me in the MGM, going crazy. So I look and
21:15
Speaker 3: I see him. I'm like, oh, look at his pops
21:17
Speaker 3: right this. So I want to go run down on
21:19
Speaker 3: him because I already heard him. He was talking. He
21:21
Speaker 3: was talking ship like a couple of months back. So
21:23
Speaker 3: I went to go run down on him. He's like, hey,
21:26
Speaker 3: you know the.
21:27
Speaker 6: Best guy here.
21:27
Speaker 1: This is a good fighter right here.
21:29
Speaker 3: Man. You know, I started and something one of the
21:31
Speaker 3: brothers that was out there, you know, I was recorder.
21:33
Speaker 1: Was like, yo, you was just sucking man ship about
21:36
Speaker 1: this dude.
21:37
Speaker 3: Man fuck got here and I look and I was like, sorry, man, like,
21:41
Speaker 3: here's the type of people he is. You know what
21:42
Speaker 3: I'm saying he's he's a fucking cry bro. Like you
21:45
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. I'm just holding him like this
21:47
Speaker 3: dude's funny, man. But that's the type of people they
21:49
Speaker 3: are too. And I heard him say something like about
21:53
Speaker 3: the fight. He was like, it's trash or something's a
21:56
Speaker 3: trashatz fight. And I'm like, it's a trashatz fight. But
21:59
Speaker 3: me and you was, and it wouldn't be tried show
22:01
Speaker 3: your last fight, no, no, no me getting a fight. It
22:04
Speaker 3: was always a tryshass fight.
22:06
Speaker 4: So I saw, you know before before your last fight,
22:12
Speaker 4: the last fight was a knockout. Before that, you had
22:14
Speaker 4: to fight that went to went the distance, went by decision,
22:18
Speaker 4: and they were against people who weren't considered elite level fighters.
22:22
Speaker 4: So would you say the competition got tough for are
22:24
Speaker 4: you just weren't on your A game during those fights?
22:26
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know what happened was right, I got my
22:29
Speaker 3: coach with me. That started me in the gym, right,
22:31
Speaker 3: that started me and in the pros. Right, So it's
22:37
Speaker 3: gonna be I'm gonna break it down short. When I
22:40
Speaker 3: got to the gym, right when I first turned pro,
22:43
Speaker 3: I told my coach I want to knock people out, right,
22:46
Speaker 3: he showed me how to knock people out, start to
22:47
Speaker 3: knocking people out. Now me and him split for manager,
22:53
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, for management issues and stuff.
22:55
Speaker 3: So me and him had a split after like my
22:56
Speaker 3: turn fight. He wasn't done with me building me for me,
22:59
Speaker 3: like my coach is not. He's not a coach, he's
23:02
Speaker 3: a teacher. And you know, he was taught very well
23:05
Speaker 3: from his from his father. You know, they're from the Bronx.
23:08
Speaker 3: And I was just getting so much seasoned with you
23:13
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying with Mark, for right, he was
23:14
Speaker 3: just teaching me and it's just repetitional repetition. So when
23:17
Speaker 3: we separated, right, you know, I never as a competition
23:23
Speaker 3: kept you know, escalating. We never I never with the
23:27
Speaker 3: coaches that I have, we never really like broke down
23:30
Speaker 3: everything for me and being at gym and work on
23:32
Speaker 3: the IQ, you know what I'm saying. And he wasn't
23:34
Speaker 3: a fan of the first round now because like he
23:35
Speaker 3: hated that ship. Like he never told me, you gotta
23:38
Speaker 3: knock this guy in the first round. He was like, Yo,
23:39
Speaker 3: we're gonna do this, We're gonna follow this, We're gonna
23:41
Speaker 3: set this guy out and we're not gouna come and come.
23:44
Speaker 3: If not, you already know what time it is. You
23:46
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So he was never a big
23:48
Speaker 3: fan of going into the into the second round. We
23:50
Speaker 3: always broke these guys down the first round because if
23:53
Speaker 3: you look at all my fights, it was slip boom
23:56
Speaker 3: dropping them. Know what I'm saying. It was a setup punch.
23:58
Speaker 3: So now when I when we started with the competition
24:02
Speaker 3: started getting more stiff and more you know, started increasing,
24:06
Speaker 3: I noticed like I was never like we was never
24:09
Speaker 3: going back into the drawing balls like after the first
24:11
Speaker 3: when I thought them on, it was like we never
24:13
Speaker 3: went back and studied the fight and you know, and
24:15
Speaker 3: just build off i Q you know what I'm saying,
24:17
Speaker 3: and just getting in the gym and working repetition. I
24:19
Speaker 3: feel like it was just always like getting the gym
24:20
Speaker 3: and just train, getting in the gym, train for a fight,
24:24
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. It wasn't never like really
24:26
Speaker 3: breaking breaking it down or really watching opponents and watching
24:29
Speaker 3: what they doing, how they fight, how they move and everything.
24:31
Speaker 5: So so when you full in Vegas thill, when you
24:34
Speaker 5: face first, that face that versity for the first time,
24:37
Speaker 5: when you got dropped right, That's when the negativity came.
24:40
Speaker 6: That's when that they started to come.
24:43
Speaker 5: What did you what did you learn from that fight
24:44
Speaker 5: outside of what you're saying right now, Like you felt
24:46
Speaker 5: like training you weren't doing what you had to do. Uh,
24:50
Speaker 5: But in the fight, facing that adversity for the first time,
24:54
Speaker 5: what were you going through at that moment?
24:57
Speaker 3: I told my bicyle in the third round, throwing the
25:02
Speaker 3: hook to the body like I felt I felt it. Yeah,
25:11
Speaker 3: I just saying it in the corner. But you know what,
25:15
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this though. I tell you this right.
25:17
Speaker 2: So pops in the back saying that you broke y
25:19
Speaker 2: arm and he said he would have pulled if he
25:20
Speaker 2: knew y'r arm was messed up. But you didn't say
25:22
Speaker 2: nothing to do that whole fight well to finish it out.
25:23
Speaker 3: I felt like, I'm not gonna I feel like it
25:25
Speaker 3: was a big I got here with a bullet, bro Like,
25:27
Speaker 3: I felt like it was like a bullet woon't like
25:30
Speaker 3: when I when it came out, I felt, I want
25:33
Speaker 3: to say a bullet, but it's crazy, probably like a
25:35
Speaker 3: style like somebody stabbed me in my bicyle. I'm saying
25:38
Speaker 3: with my muscle rip, and I feel like that changed
25:42
Speaker 3: a lot too, because I broke his audible bone in
25:44
Speaker 3: three places, like after this fight, you've seen him, you
25:45
Speaker 3: know what's crazy. They was gonna stop the fight. I
25:47
Speaker 3: think it was in the ninth the oh yeah, it
25:50
Speaker 3: wasn't in the ninth. It was gonna stop because you know,
25:53
Speaker 3: you know how it is in box and we break
25:55
Speaker 3: somebody's orble bone. Day. They stopped to fight quick. They
25:57
Speaker 3: don't stop seeing for the Joe Sounders and he broke
26:01
Speaker 3: his ship. They stopped it. They stopped it fast. So
26:02
Speaker 3: I was like, damn, and I've been broke his audible
26:05
Speaker 3: bone in like the sixth round or something, you know.
26:08
Speaker 3: So they were supposed to stop that fight because the
26:09
Speaker 3: corner was went to pops and I was like, yo,
26:11
Speaker 3: it's crazy because you know, I faced adversity. I got dropped.
26:14
Speaker 3: It was more like an off balanced shot. I wasn't
26:16
Speaker 3: hurt because when I dropped, when I fell to the floor,
26:18
Speaker 3: was tired. I looked up when I seen the fucking lights,
26:20
Speaker 3: I'm like what I'm doing here? And I got tight
26:21
Speaker 3: and I started banging my gloves. But the cupman was like,
26:24
Speaker 3: we was gonna stop the fight. But since he caught
26:27
Speaker 3: the drop. That was whatever, like, let's go into the
26:29
Speaker 3: tenth round. Well, one thing I tell you if Mark
26:32
Speaker 3: was with me, If I was with Mark, I would
26:34
Speaker 3: have been twenty two and over twenty two knockouts one
26:36
Speaker 3: hundred percent guarantee. Wow, one hundred percent, hundred percent.
26:40
Speaker 4: Did you grow up watching like Felix Trinidad and Miguel
26:43
Speaker 4: Miguel Codo, uh na.
26:45
Speaker 3: Trinidad Okay, yeah, Coodo, Yeah yeah, because you know Coodo
26:48
Speaker 3: was uh he was coming out. He became a you know,
26:50
Speaker 3: Puerto Rican star and stuff. So yeah, I was watching him,
26:52
Speaker 3: But my main guy was you know Trinidad and Floyd.
26:56
Speaker 1: What inspiration did they provide for you?
26:59
Speaker 3: Just how I loved how you know with Trinida four,
27:02
Speaker 3: it was like a gathering in my in my crib,
27:05
Speaker 3: you know, like with my grandparents, my mom, my uncles
27:08
Speaker 3: and stuff, we get together. You know, they be having
27:10
Speaker 3: the beers out with the flag going crazy, you know
27:12
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So me seeing that right then on
27:15
Speaker 3: it and obviously I was like three years old, four
27:17
Speaker 3: years old, so I didn't know I was gonna be
27:18
Speaker 3: a boxer for me, but that's what made me fall
27:21
Speaker 3: in love with boxing was because I.
27:22
Speaker 6: Am speaking of the flag in Puerto Rico. Obviously, Puerto Rico.
27:26
Speaker 5: Uh, you know has a big community to the boxing fans, right,
27:29
Speaker 5: they love boxing. Do you take on that pressure like
27:32
Speaker 5: to be the next star because for a moment you
27:36
Speaker 5: were that guy like you were gonna carry that torch, right,
27:40
Speaker 5: and then you started to get that hate. And then
27:42
Speaker 5: they started saying Xander Zayas is gonna be the next
27:45
Speaker 5: Puerto Rican star. Then we found out Shaquor Stevenson has
27:48
Speaker 5: half Puerto Rican. So then he started waving that flag
27:51
Speaker 5: like who is the next Puerto Rican start? Yeah, his
27:56
Speaker 5: father's Puerto Rican. Yeah, so he started wearing the Puerto
27:58
Speaker 5: Rican flag on the trunks and all that.
28:01
Speaker 6: You knew that, right yeah? So but are you still
28:04
Speaker 6: like the Puerto Rican top dog?
28:07
Speaker 3: I let the fans, you know, like with me, I
28:09
Speaker 3: know my heart what it is for me. I know,
28:11
Speaker 3: like in my heart, I know I'm the guy for me,
28:14
Speaker 3: But I let the I let the I let the
28:15
Speaker 3: fans like let them, you know what I'm saying, because
28:18
Speaker 3: they the ones that don't want to put that for me.
28:20
Speaker 3: So and I know that I got I got a
28:22
Speaker 3: lot of hate. So it is what it is. I'm
28:24
Speaker 3: not gonna change who I am. I'm not gonna change
28:26
Speaker 3: how I dress. I'm not gonna change my appearances to
28:28
Speaker 3: anybody for me because they want a guy that you know,
28:31
Speaker 3: you see, you know what it is that that's why
28:33
Speaker 3: they hated Mato Kamato. Macho Kama is from New York.
28:36
Speaker 3: He's from from Spanish Harlem, and Macho Kamoto was you know, flash,
28:39
Speaker 3: flashy dude for me, and I feel like, you know,
28:43
Speaker 3: my my coach. You know, they don't really like fighters,
28:45
Speaker 3: like that's like flash, you know, they're they're like an artist,
28:49
Speaker 3: don't like like like I'm well or lou or something.
28:52
Speaker 3: For me, that's that's buzzed down, drippy. But when it
28:55
Speaker 3: comes to fighting, they want I don't know, they would
28:56
Speaker 3: let guys like with you know, with suits on and
28:59
Speaker 3: you know, collar shirts and for me, but that's not me.
29:01
Speaker 3: I'm from New York, you know, like we grew up different.
29:03
Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna change nothing. But you know, September fourteenth,
29:07
Speaker 3: for some you know that, you know, I go down
29:10
Speaker 3: in history.
29:11
Speaker 4: Man, when is the last time you've been disdoubted going
29:14
Speaker 4: into a fight ever?
29:16
Speaker 3: Now, this is the first time.
29:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, now this is crazy.
29:20
Speaker 3: They're saying first round, second round, Ko taking his bullshit.
29:27
Speaker 3: He's not making bread. That's why he's tight. And look
29:29
Speaker 3: he just he just fought at one seventy five and
29:31
Speaker 3: went the distance. Clown too. That's what I'm saying. Everybody
29:34
Speaker 3: always want to talk talk to you know what you do,
29:36
Speaker 3: know what it is. They've been chasing, trying to chase
29:39
Speaker 3: this dude. For me and me, I just had my
29:41
Speaker 3: feet up and to my back and the fight just
29:44
Speaker 3: came to me for me and these guys is doing
29:46
Speaker 3: extra shiit like trying to you know, kind of trying
29:49
Speaker 3: to do a lot of things to get this fight.
29:52
Speaker 5: Well, boxing is more than just like what the fans
29:54
Speaker 5: want to see. Obviously, there's the Puerto Rican and Mexican
29:57
Speaker 5: you know, that heritage, that rivalry that also helped. Would
30:01
Speaker 5: you agree to that help making this fight made this
30:03
Speaker 5: fight happen.
30:04
Speaker 3: One thousand percent, like one hundred percent, you know what
30:07
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I think that had a major play with it.
30:10
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a guy right that I don't have
30:12
Speaker 3: a title right now, but it's like I do have
30:15
Speaker 3: a title for me, Like my status is like if
30:17
Speaker 3: I got a world title. You know what I'm saying,
30:19
Speaker 3: Like the energy, the order, the you know, when I
30:24
Speaker 3: walk into any you know what I'm saying, in too fights,
30:26
Speaker 3: they you know what I'm saying, Like when I went
30:27
Speaker 3: to the Rye g. Seeing Devin Haney fight, I'm in Brooklyn,
30:31
Speaker 3: they had to put security guards like all around me
30:33
Speaker 3: and stuff because it was just people running over me.
30:35
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. So that type of energy
30:37
Speaker 3: for me and I'm a ticket seller.
30:38
Speaker 5: Are you still with match Room with Eddie Hurn? Yeah,
30:41
Speaker 5: so he helped put this fight together.
30:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know it was Keith Conley, my manager,
30:46
Speaker 3: my dad. You know what I'm saying. I got everything
30:48
Speaker 3: put together with PBC. Yeah, but you know, shut out
30:51
Speaker 3: like I always say, you know, shout out to Eddie.
30:53
Speaker 5: Man so they're not Mattroom is not involved in this
30:55
Speaker 5: fight on the fourteenth at all.
30:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all PBC. You know what I'm saying. But
31:01
Speaker 3: you know, shout out to Eddie, Shout out the Matchroom.
31:03
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like we definitely you know,
31:05
Speaker 3: if it wasn't you know, obviously signing with them, you
31:07
Speaker 3: probably would have never got this fight. How much?
31:10
Speaker 1: How much is your son impacted your life? He was born.
31:15
Speaker 3: A lot, man, Like, that's my little twin right there.
31:17
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It happened so quick. Wait
31:21
Speaker 3: with my girl, you know she got pregnant quick. You
31:23
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. I've seen her and we started
31:25
Speaker 3: vibbing out in three months. You know, she came out
31:28
Speaker 3: pregnant and I was I was cool with it, like
31:30
Speaker 3: and I was a guy that I wasn't really into
31:31
Speaker 3: relation relationship. But it felt like four.
31:34
Speaker 1: Months for myself at all times.
31:36
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no all the time. Now. But you
31:42
Speaker 3: know how when you find that one is like you
31:44
Speaker 3: feel like you already known lose man three four months.
31:47
Speaker 3: It felt like we was together for you know what
31:51
Speaker 3: I'm saying. And it just felt normally when she came pregnant.
31:55
Speaker 3: If it was another check out, probably would have been
31:56
Speaker 3: I would have been going crazy like nah, oh man,
32:00
Speaker 3: don't know, man, I'm not ready. But what he was like,
32:02
Speaker 3: he was ready. Yeah, it was meant to be one
32:04
Speaker 3: hundred percent.
32:05
Speaker 6: So you have some more.
32:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to go for the girl. This yeah,
32:09
Speaker 3: the girl.
32:10
Speaker 1: And how does that influence you when you go into
32:12
Speaker 1: the ring.
32:12
Speaker 3: Like I mean, you know, my son looks up to me.
32:16
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. He loves going to the
32:17
Speaker 3: gym with me. You know, he loves he does everything
32:19
Speaker 3: I do. You know. So now it's like, I know
32:21
Speaker 3: I'm a role model for me, for me, So now
32:23
Speaker 3: I gotta change how I talk, I act, how I
32:25
Speaker 3: carry myself even more in the ring. You know, I
32:30
Speaker 3: just look at him and I know that. You know,
32:32
Speaker 3: this is the way I feed him, you know what
32:33
Speaker 3: I'm saying. There is the way I can provide a
32:35
Speaker 3: certain lifestyle for him and put him in the best
32:37
Speaker 3: schools and be able to afford it. You know, I
32:39
Speaker 3: don't want him to be a boxer. I know he's
32:41
Speaker 3: gonna be a superstar. That's why I named him Chosen.
32:44
Speaker 3: But I feel like, you know, he's gonna be some
32:46
Speaker 3: amazing in this world. And you know he needs a
32:48
Speaker 3: father like me. You know, he needs he needs that bro,
32:51
Speaker 3: He needs that bag behind him to put him in
32:53
Speaker 3: the right places for me and to take it to
32:55
Speaker 3: that level. So with that being said, you know, just
32:57
Speaker 3: me because of that, you know, that's what I feel
33:00
Speaker 3: like I'm more focused than.
33:01
Speaker 6: Of speaking of bread.
33:03
Speaker 5: Obviously, this is a big money fight, you right, but
33:06
Speaker 5: it's one fight you're not comfortable with just making this
33:09
Speaker 5: big payday and that's it because that's what people saying, Oh,
33:12
Speaker 5: Edgar wanted to pay day, but if you were to
33:14
Speaker 5: beat Canelo, there's so much money down the line after that.
33:18
Speaker 5: So so you're not going in this fight just for
33:20
Speaker 5: the big payday.
33:21
Speaker 6: You're going to win.
33:26
Speaker 3: A couple yeah, bro, Like people be like, oh paid,
33:30
Speaker 3: Like listen, man, you know not fast, You're not fast.
33:34
Speaker 3: Ten million, five million go? You know how fast that
33:38
Speaker 3: ship go? Bro? Y'all know you know what I'm saying.
33:41
Speaker 6: I don't know, but you know how fast?
33:43
Speaker 3: Money go right pretty fast.
33:48
Speaker 1: You don't know how much that go, how fast that goes?
33:50
Speaker 3: But not that you know what I'm saying, Like money goes,
33:53
Speaker 3: money goes, bro. So it's like to me, it's like, yeah,
33:56
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So that's you gotta pay it.
34:02
Speaker 5: So does a fighter go You normally go home with
34:05
Speaker 5: like half his person when it's all sat and done.
34:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably like sixty because like boxing, Mama, like baseball,
34:13
Speaker 3: you get a hundred million dollar contract, as your bro.
34:15
Speaker 3: Feel me, with boxing you get a hundred million you
34:17
Speaker 3: gotta pay taxes. You gotta pay your trainers, you gotta
34:19
Speaker 3: pay management, You gotta pay your s get a cut, yeah,
34:22
Speaker 3: promoters get a cut. You gotta pay your assistant, if
34:24
Speaker 3: you have an assistant. You got to pay a strength
34:25
Speaker 3: condition to cold, You got pay nutrition.
34:27
Speaker 6: All your family members asking for money, you know.
34:30
Speaker 3: But you know I take care of my mom and stuff.
34:31
Speaker 3: So you know that's that's another stop, you know what
34:34
Speaker 3: I'm saying right there. Plus you know I gotta take
34:36
Speaker 3: care of wifey too. You know, she got to get
34:37
Speaker 3: she gotta get the bags, the juice. Yeah, and Pops
34:41
Speaker 3: and Pops. I don't even mentioned Pops because like Pops
34:44
Speaker 3: is like you know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
34:46
Speaker 3: as long as I'm good, he's gonna be good.
34:48
Speaker 1: What have you worked on?
34:49
Speaker 4: What have you worked on to improve your your your
34:51
Speaker 4: fighting since you're since the last few fights, it's Canelo.
34:54
Speaker 1: It's a different beast.
34:55
Speaker 3: It's different. I don't really want to talk about it,
34:57
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. That's why I haven't real
35:00
Speaker 3: been posting on up like on Instagram, training and stuff,
35:03
Speaker 3: you know, because we want to shock the world on
35:05
Speaker 3: the fourteenth. You know, I got so much hate. I
35:07
Speaker 3: got so much haters, I got so much people to
35:08
Speaker 3: prove wrong. And it's my opportunity, you know, God presented
35:11
Speaker 3: the opportunity for us. Bro, Like I'm like I said before,
35:13
Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to be it, you know, so I
35:15
Speaker 3: gotta take this opportunity and just fly with it, man,
35:19
Speaker 3: and really stamp my name in his sport and make history.
35:21
Speaker 5: So shock the world will be in your in your
35:23
Speaker 5: eyes ideally knocking Canelo out whatever comes.
35:27
Speaker 3: You know, I don't really like U, and I never
35:29
Speaker 3: did that. You know what I'm saying, like coming, and
35:31
Speaker 3: you know I probably said it, you know, to people
35:32
Speaker 3: like I'm gonna knock this Niga the fuck out, But
35:34
Speaker 3: you know it's a different. It's different, you know what
35:37
Speaker 3: I'm saying, And there's always been different. I'm never going
35:39
Speaker 3: in there predicting a knockout for me. I like it
35:42
Speaker 3: to come, you know, and if it does come and come,
35:44
Speaker 3: if not, then you know we're ready to box all bro.
35:46
Speaker 4: I heard you earlier when you was talking about when
35:48
Speaker 4: you were playting with having a conversation and he kept
35:51
Speaker 4: asking you to fight, and you was like, nah, I
35:52
Speaker 4: got a plan A I'm not thinking about playing beat
35:54
Speaker 4: So even with this fight going going against Canelo, do
35:58
Speaker 4: you even write down or even could sit at what
36:00
Speaker 4: happens if I do lose.
36:02
Speaker 3: No, that's not on my mom like at all. I know, bro,
36:09
Speaker 3: after this fight, listen September fourteenth, fright, I fight and
36:15
Speaker 3: my coach told me, who do you want to be
36:18
Speaker 3: September fifteenth, when you wake up in that morning after
36:20
Speaker 3: that fight, September fifteen, when you're in your hotel room
36:22
Speaker 3: and you wake up in the morning ten in the
36:24
Speaker 3: morning after your fight, who you're going to be? Who
36:27
Speaker 3: you want to be? You want to be a superstar,
36:31
Speaker 3: a megastar in a sport because you beat this guy,
36:34
Speaker 3: it's over. Like that bag is forty ms, you know
36:37
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Sponsorships, that's it, private, everything like your
36:41
Speaker 3: life started, your family's going to be set up for
36:44
Speaker 3: the rest of your life. Or you want to be
36:47
Speaker 3: a guy like y'all. I just went in there, foll
36:48
Speaker 3: kind of low. You know, I got paid, you know,
36:50
Speaker 3: I got paid a couple of m's and you know,
36:53
Speaker 3: so we took an l for me and with that,
36:56
Speaker 3: that shit just scares me. Think about that, you know
36:58
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Like, that's my that's that's that's what
37:00
Speaker 3: keeps me going.
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Speaker 6: You feel me like or no legacy outside of the money? Canelo?
37:05
Speaker 5: Does he still I heard he was getting stripped with
37:08
Speaker 5: one of the belts or is he still undisputed at
37:10
Speaker 5: one sixty?
37:10
Speaker 6: He still? All right?
37:12
Speaker 3: Yeah?
37:13
Speaker 5: So if you want to be Canelo, I mean you'll
37:16
Speaker 5: be fighting for three straps that he has. Do you
37:19
Speaker 5: want to be undisputed?
37:20
Speaker 6: Like this?
37:20
Speaker 5: Legacy? Is legacy important to you? Like winning titles in
37:23
Speaker 5: different divisions?
37:24
Speaker 3: Of course? You know that's at the end of the day.
37:26
Speaker 3: That's why I've been boxing for twenty years, right, Like
37:29
Speaker 3: the money, the money's gonna come, you know, as long
37:31
Speaker 3: as as long as you know I'm doing the right
37:33
Speaker 3: thing and I'm disciplined in the sport and I'm doing
37:35
Speaker 3: what I have to do in the sport, the money
37:37
Speaker 3: gonna come. Like sponsorship is gonna come, endorsement, all that's
37:40
Speaker 3: gonna come. We just got to focus on the main
37:43
Speaker 3: prizcent that's boxing, you know what I'm saying, and winning.
37:45
Speaker 3: As long as we're doing that, everything gonna come. You
37:48
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. And the legacy. You know what
37:49
Speaker 3: I'm saying. You focus on legacy. When you focus on legacy,
37:52
Speaker 3: you stamp in your last name into the history books
37:54
Speaker 3: of boxing. And you know, with me, I got a
37:56
Speaker 3: big island. You know, it's small, but it's big, and
37:59
Speaker 3: there's a lot of boxes and fans out there. Probably
38:01
Speaker 3: three million people on the island. Is out of three
38:03
Speaker 3: million is probably nine hundred thousand boxing fans, you know.
38:06
Speaker 3: So you know, I gotta go out there and I
38:08
Speaker 3: gotta put my name. I've been in the sport for
38:10
Speaker 3: twenty years, so I want to go out there and
38:11
Speaker 3: put my name with the greats. You know, when they
38:13
Speaker 3: mentioned Trinidad, when they mentioned Macho Camacho, a footle beneath
38:16
Speaker 3: Az Miguel Cordy, They're gonna mention my last name. They're
38:20
Speaker 3: gonna mention me.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, a fight is September fourteenth at the
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Speaker 2: Timobile Arena in vegue Is. Good luck, Danelo Alvarez versu
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Speaker 2: Edgar Balanga. We appreciate you for joining us.
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Speaker 3: Brother,