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Claressa Shields Talks Pay Inequality and Ground-Breaking Achievements on Sway In The Morning
Oct 18, 2023
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and undisputed boxing champion Claressa Shields recently stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about her extraordinary career and the ongoing issue of pay inequality for female boxers.
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Claressa Shields Talks Pay Inequality and Ground-Breaking Achievements on Sway In The Morning
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[Applause]
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and that's that yo and she still keeps
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that same attitude and let me tell you
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that voice right there to guote herself
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14 professional fights 13 professional
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World titles o we due to add up became
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the fastest fighter male or female in
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boxing history to win a world title in
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three weight divisions wow one asie
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award as boxer of the year for 2022
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three time Undisputed
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Champion her life is the is the subject
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of a of theatrical film being produced
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by MGM Studios written by Oscar
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awardwinning writer Barry Jenkins she
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just won another war three in a row the
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first and only person to do it at the
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women and sports Foundation Galla what
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can I say about her she's a a symbol U
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she's someone that a lot of people
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around the world aspire to be like she
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comes from some humble beginnings from
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Flint Michigan and now she's she gallops
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around the world and people gather
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around her to hear her speak when she
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goes and does her interviews she speaks
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so powerfully about the truth of behind
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boxing her journey being a woman in this
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sport she does not hold her tongue and
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there's nothing anyone could do about it
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because she's undefeated citizens she's
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not only undefeated in the ring but
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she's undefeated out of the ring she's
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shown a size of women in this boxing
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sport that we haven't been privy to not
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only can she whoop your ass by night
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time but by daytime she'll be on a date
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with her with her partner and she shows
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us every side of it she shows us that
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even though she could float like a
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butterfly and sting like a bee inside
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the ring that sometimes she struggles
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with basic dance choreography and she's
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not scared to show you
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that that's levels today hey that's why
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we love it give it up for the one and
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only claressa
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shield in the building the
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[Applause]
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the what brings you to New York um so I
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was in Dominican Republic okay I had got
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an award out there from the WBO they
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made me a painting and gave me another
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statue wow um
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2021 uh fighter of the year uhhuh so
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thank you and then I had to fly here to
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get I was the sportswoman of the Year
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finalist but I also just won that again
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so okay wow my third time third time
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yeah wow when when you when you win
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these awards at this point you won so
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many of them I mean initially you know
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we got to give ourselves a pat on the
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back but when you win do you see it as
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you winning or you see it as everyone
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winning um I see it as really women's
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boxing winning as like a whole we've
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been a sport that's been looked over for
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so long um we have some of the most
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hardworking and the most beautiful
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athletes in the world this is true um
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boxers Fighters and because we are women
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they have kind of tried to put us in
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this stereotypical oh we're all gay
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we're all studs we all um are not pretty
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right and so now that when I win these
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Awards is it's not just because I'm a
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great fighter but because I do look good
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I speak well I I'm a businesswoman and
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just I'm raising a bar for women's
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boxing so it's a win for all of us but
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you know um I say it's just a win it's a
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win for God you know to me for for me to
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tell my story because that's what it
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really that's what it's really all about
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yeah you know to save more lives bring
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more people to Christ and just let them
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know like look I went through some of
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the hard things in my life but listening
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to God which he brought me to boxing I
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thought my I thought my purpose was to
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be a great a great boxer and um years
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later I find out that my purpose is to
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go as high as I can go in life to where
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I can get more ears to listen and people
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can see that where I came from and how I
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made it out of that so God wants me to
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tell my story to save lives I love that
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clesa shs you bring up Floyd Mayweather
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and when you say you like him you don't
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just mean um I love him I love Floyd
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that's my yeah I love him yeah Floyd
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that's our guy Floyd you know let me
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tell you Floyd early on when we start
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bringing boxers on this platform Floyd
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was one of the first to say yes you know
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now everybody got boxers on platforms
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but even when you used to come you know
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it wasn't all of these platforms putting
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the spotlight on um boxing but Floyd has
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always said yes Floyd has always just
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shown me a lot of love right but one of
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the things I always appreciated about
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him is his his the way he does his
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business right his his business hours
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you do the same thing it may not be on
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the level with Floyd right but how did
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you learn um how did you learn business
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you know it's always trial on error at
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first absolutely listen there is no
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wrong question yeah like I am happy that
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in a lot of rooms I'm not the smartest
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person in the room yeah I I've had some
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experience that's that others have an
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experience but I'mma ask the questions
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you know and people be like yeah after I
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get done talking with you hey how do you
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start a podcast I'm ready to start mine
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what do I got to do to make I want to
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start a podcast have fans make I make
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money I want to ask you how to do it
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yeah I ask people that's already in a in
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the field that I want to be in and I ask
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them so many questions like I had talked
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to Floyd up in the UK in London he
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called me on stage he called me the
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female TBE and I'm like no Goot but he
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like no female TBE he just so hellbent
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on that I'm like all right whatever
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female TV it is but um I said you know
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I'm I'm struggling at the time I'm like
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I'm struggling right now to get the
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networks to pay me more than 350k yeah
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you know what do I do he like how many
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fights you got at the time I probably
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had like eight fights nine fights he
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said in eight fights and nine fights I
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wouldn't make a
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350k wow I said so you were making more
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than Floyd was at that time that's what
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he told me and I said well what you mean
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you know I'm like but you making
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millions now he like but when I had
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eight fights I wasn't Mak you no 350k
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that's what I'm telling you he like what
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you need to do is keep robbing the bank
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I said it was like he like quit trying
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to get more right now he like keep
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winning the bank I mean keep robbing the
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bank keep getting the titles keep
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getting the accomplishments keep getting
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better in your boxing skills and he was
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like and the money GNA come but he was
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like never turn down a deal because oh
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they oh they offering 350 but you want
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500 he like keep going and I listen to
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that and my last two fights I made a
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million dollars [ __ ] damn it come on I'm
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quitting right now wow going to the r
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I'm about to go jogging I appreciate
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that because people don't talk about
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their salaries a lot you know yeah well
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in women's boxing we never have gotten
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paid well we were supposed to get paid
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even now I feel like 13 time world
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champion the only three- time Undisputed
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Champion yeah shout out to BU Crawford
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just becoming two time Undisputed
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Champion so it's just me and him yeah
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right now but it's like he made 20
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million versus Errol Spence and in my
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fight against Savannah Marshall I can
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say was way more competitive and way
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more entertaining but I made one so when
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we look at things like that it's like we
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have to speak about our salaries because
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I'm not happy with 1 million cool that's
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all right but um I'm still the the most
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accomplished yeah I'm still uh the most
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hardworking I'm still the most feared
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you know I dare to be great I have 14
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fights but I fought against girls if you
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add up all the girls I fought against
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records it's like they got
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like 135 wins and seven eight losses
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that's it out of all the people you
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fought out of all them you can bind
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their records together and it's like I'm
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I'm I'm a little 14 and0 you know with
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two big knockouts there you go I saw
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them both I saw them both wow does that
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make it difficult at all to have
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relationships with the women that you
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fight outside of the ring is there a
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level of intimidation because you're
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always the main competition H let me see
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what I'm gonna say with this
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yeah that's a good question take your
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time Clarissa yeah when when you are
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great
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people are intimidated just because it's
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girls who not even in my weight class
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who call their self having beef with me
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they they never going to be able to get
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in the ring with me and fight me but
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they don't like me it got girls who I
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haven't fought against who got a problem
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with me right and the thing is that's
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just the jealous part of them wanting to
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be me wanting to have what I have
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wanting to get the recognition it looks
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so easy when you on the outside looking
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in right but when you the person that
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got to put in the work and you actually
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going through it they don't know all the
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things that you're doing all the the
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mans that's being uh held behind the
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scenes so I show all the girls
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sportsmanship love support um leading up
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to the fight you know but when it's
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about the week before I don't I don't
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like
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them
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and I and I just tell him like we about
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to fight my mom my mom about to be in
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the crowd my dad my sister my niece who
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my my my niece is my twin I'm like and
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you talking about you about to beat me
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up and take my belts no I don't like you
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and I ain't got no love for you but I
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talk my trash to these girls a lot of it
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is a mind game and some girls can't get
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over that right I see what you mean you
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know like cuz cuz I dig a little deep I
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don't know um I do my research on girls
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I see what they upbringing was I see who
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their boyfriends was who they broke up
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with who their husband is I look up they
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life you almost treated like a rap
9:36
battle and then I and then I talk [ __ ]
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to them in front of the whole world and
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I say stuff that's like hurtful but it's
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to get them to make to make them fight
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me different right but some girls never
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get over it now we have some that know
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like girl you know I just you know
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messing around just playing we selling
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fights right yeah we got to sell the
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fight cuz I don't want to see no girls
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fight if they hugging and kissing on
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each other before the fight hey girl I
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love you I'm so supportive of you like
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no true I see that I know I don't mhm so
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it's more of like me having to sell the
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fights and bring that attention and let
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people know like it's about to be a real
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deal scrap like I look at boxing as a
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legalized street fight yeah that's all
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it is we got to follow a couple rules
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but either way it Go somebody ass
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getting beat in here that's right it's
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not mine claressa Shields come on man
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I'm
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curious my bad Mike m just one followup
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I'm curious um does it ever feel
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compromising to your relationship with
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God that a part of the entertainment
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part the spectacle part of boxing is the
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[ __ ] talking and potentially hurting
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someone no I don't I don't think so
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because I I truly feel like God blessed
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me to be a boxer you know um that's the
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path that he put me on to get me to
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where I need to be at in life and and
10:48
boxing change my life I I've always
10:51
people see me win the fights and if you
10:52
go watch every fight that I've have soon
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they announce me as the winner I look up
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to the sky and I say thank you to God so
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I'm so I'm humble to him I don't know
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where in the Bible it says be humble
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unto
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man I don't know where it where it says
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that one in the Bible right there yeah
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it it really don't say that it's like no
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if God bless you he want you to praise
11:13
him what Praise Him in the dark praise
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him in front of everybody you know not
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just when it's um you know some stuff
11:20
God done took you out of that you can't
11:21
even tell people you know so I'm one of
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them that I I got a lot of stuff that's
11:25
secrets between me and God and he has
11:28
brought me of and it's like I I tell the
11:31
world like without God this whole boxing
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thing like I Spar against men I don't
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know if You' seen that video posted and
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it just like to to have this you know 32
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in
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Waist boy come on girl to be able to go
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on there spar with men absolutely
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natural I know girls going to get in
11:50
surgery but baby mom bless me with this
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okay you better work that jacket period
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come on rest shills no so it's just more
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of just like having to where was I going
12:01
with this the last thing um catch me up
12:04
you were saying how it doesn't say in
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the Bible to be humble to man to be
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humble to God no so it's always to just
12:10
give thanks to God though and people
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know like this is where it comes from
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like I wouldn't be able to do any of
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this train Spar uh speak without God
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giving me the the the blessing to do so
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amen claressa shells Mike go ahead you
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got a question yeah cuz it's a two-part
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question I I'm thinking about right now
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about uh pay Equity within women's
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sports now I'm just thinking about
12:31
coming off at the US Open that the women
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finally got paid the same purse as the
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men did when it come to the finals in
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the championship but it was such a
12:40
conservative effort that was made for
12:43
that to happen a lot of people are
12:44
involved to really push that movement so
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the two-part question is is there a
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conservative effort within boxing to get
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women to have pay Equity within the
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sport and then the second part is that
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also too means that the sport has to be
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grown so what
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what things are being done right now to
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grow the sports of women boxing I'll
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answer the second question first okay so
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what's been done to grow the sports of
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women's boxing is all the women who I'm
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close with all the world champions I
13:11
have told them build up your brand your
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personal brand yep that matters that
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matters um whatever your personality is
13:19
who you are build that up and sell that
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to your fans and then fight like
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fighting some girls make more money
13:26
outside the ring than they'll make than
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they'll ever make inside the ring that's
13:29
why your brand is important cuz now you
13:31
can have leverage with the network hey I
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got 786,000
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followers I mean we say at least in
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business at least 10% of those followers
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are going to buy your product buy your
13:45
buy a ticket to the fight fly out like
13:47
actually give money back to the sport so
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if we talk about 70 786,000 and 10%
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that's
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78,000 so it's just like hey I got that
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many people that probably can come out
13:59
and support me so with that that's why
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your brand matters so then you know
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building your brand and fighting so then
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on your first then your first question
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is we need to have equal pay and equal
14:12
fight time in women's boxing right now
14:15
women fight World Championships two
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minutes for 10 Rounds that's 20 minutes
14:19
of fighting versus the men doing 12
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rounds for three minutes which is 36
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that's 16 minute difference right now um
14:28
me Billy Jean King the women's sports
14:31
Foundation is trying to get it to where
14:34
every world championship fight is three
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minutes 10 Rounds where we fight 30
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minutes now it's it's not equal but it's
14:41
getting us closer and if we do that for
14:43
a couple of years and everybody gets
14:45
used to the three minute rounds for the
14:47
10 the the three minutes for the 10
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Rounds then within a couple of years we
14:53
can advocate for 12 three minute rounds
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just like the men and then when you're
14:59
fighting equal pay time well when you're
15:00
fighting the same time as the men now
15:03
when you speak of speak of equal pay
15:06
it's it's more appealing just like in
15:08
tennis they they played the same time
15:11
but Billy Jin King has to had to fight
15:12
for that in order for that to happen so
15:15
I am in talks to Billy Jen king and the
15:16
wom women's sports Foundation we're
15:18
going to get some paperwork and things
15:20
flowing because it's not the women that
15:22
don't want the same fight time or the
15:24
three minutes it's these um some of
15:27
these boxing organ ganizations who feel
15:29
that they haven't done any research yeah
15:32
on this it's all oh this what we think
15:35
this is all arbitrary yeah yeah it's not
15:38
no proof behind it but they say that
15:40
they're they are saying things that's I
15:42
mean that's valid though women have
15:45
weaker necks than men
15:47
duh duh but then they're uh they're
15:50
saying that women can get uh concussions
15:53
uh easier than men or something of that
15:56
nature and it's like
15:59
we're there was no science behind that
16:01
that's just hearsay there is no if you
16:04
go and look for a article on that it's
16:06
not one so they made up these rules to
16:07
kind of let us know okay you're women
16:11
and these are men but at the end of the
16:13
day sports has no gender so we have to
16:15
break that so that's what we're doing
16:16
right now to make it more appealing
16:19
because 20 minutes versus 36 is just
16:22
ridiculous yeah claressa sh thank you
16:24
for breaking that down great question
16:26
Mike m we're going to come back we got a
16:27
lot of callers on the line
16:29
you want to talk with claressa shills
16:31
now she does a lot of things if you
16:34
follow her like I do you know she also
16:37
she be spitting bars
16:40
now that personal Brad baby yeah see
16:44
Clarissa see hey for real now you you in
16:46
a different Arena now Clarissa I could
16:48
talk to you like I you know I talk to
16:50
you like you can beat me up when we talk
16:52
about boxing when we talk about this MC
16:55
[ __ ] right here Clarissa I could talk
16:57
[ __ ] to you you in the Valley of the
16:58
[ __ ]
17:01
hyenas is a different R baby Jabs or
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uppercuts going to save you here you
17:07
know I know you got a verse ready right
17:10
a verse y okay we going to come back we
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going to play this song right now brand
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new round
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one let's do it sway the morning Shade
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45 I be fing up AR every time I the f i
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and T that's what I R I hear the
17:27
hater [ __ ] dog walking hoes like a dog
17:30
fight we talking money honey we could
17:32
talk it all night I see some dark days
17:34
but my neck All Bright my comption they
17:36
want but it's all he tried to holl in
17:38
working like a off guci at the face off
17:41
with no effort I'm really dripping in
17:43
his who you know pressure these look
17:45
impressed I feel no pressure I really
17:47
got this ho shaking hold up hold up I
17:50
really got this ho shaking like it's
17:51
cold weather you got a crew yes man you
17:53
should know better go hter go home I'm a
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go get and you ain't going nowhere
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jzg I'm the super thick pretty BR with a
18:10
bag I might pull with
18:15
aile
18:17
Inwood they don't even want to hold up
18:20
hold up they don't even want to let me
18:22
get in my zone I'm a I got Floyd number
18:24
in my phone and when head say they want
18:26
it they can move along heyo Clara sh
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Round One streaming on all platforms
18:33
[ __ ] Ain got streaming on all platforms
18:37
what you know can get in the White House
18:39
come so our family right here give a big
18:42
round of applause round one it's
18:44
available on all streaming
18:46
platforms why you why you um you grew up
18:49
rapping
18:50
huh well I actually grew up
18:55
singing oh yeah I can sing a bit let me
18:58
hear it do something on capella singing
19:01
um what what should I sing you know I'm
19:03
a Tina Turner fan um Alicia Keys um
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Superwoman yeah very befitting
19:11
Superwoman um I I hit them notes hold on
19:15
okay see I don't like singing from I
19:17
rather rap because it's more of my
19:19
persona but the singing is more of like
19:21
a it's a like I sing at church okay so
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sing
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prend
19:30
we call him to slow it down you know
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this one um the words I don't know what
19:36
is this you don't have to call baby baby
19:40
baby since the day I saw you I don't
19:43
know these words okay what do you know
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what do you know some give me um you
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know what um what that uh is it Anita
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Baker I Apologize o you in Michigan
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Detroit on that one need Baker I
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Apologize like we just got that hanging
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out in our
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pocket I mean he dropping everything
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else I me yeah I
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know yeah while he digs that up uh we
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got now so here we do you know U big you
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done Bridge Business to um boxing
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podcast with big horse and me okay uh
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and um we also have ambassadors who work
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on our boxing P podcast all over the
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country so my man big Chu who actually
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came to the fight we saw when we saw and
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Canelo recently I know I saw you big two
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from Louisiana is on the line we got the
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champ in here
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too che che chew
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up you in a tornado [ __ ] damn che che
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chew
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got okay all right what you doing Joe is
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from Flint we always get flint
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Representatives Joe go
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ahead what's up CH what's going on first
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of all
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sway uh uh uh Tracy and Mike what's up
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my first time calling you actually here
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I appreciate it every time got you know
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you about to be your last time you keep
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talking that uh that crap you know all
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right Joe what's your question I just
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want to tell the CH I see her all the
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time I'm from Flint yo CH you look
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beautiful in that dress yesterday that
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white dress you killing them okay you
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know I'mma step whenever I can
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hey I just want to finally see you I see
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you all the time but to have a personal
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conversation and tell you thank you it's
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so good to hear somebody say they from
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Flint and don't mention the damn water
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but you oh yeah for sure we always gonna
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talk about boxing but um I'mma keep
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wearing my hair blue to we get some
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clean water and Flint because we still
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don't have it damn that's right you you
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tell them CH I appreciate you keep doing
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what you doing and I thank you for
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getting Flint that positive attention
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instead of all this negative everybody
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else I appreciate y'all too thank you
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y'all have a good weekend man you're a
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super citizen brother all right CH you
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there ch ch ch ch all ma go ahead
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Mac way in the morning I can't believe
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I'm on here man oh my God back from
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Indiana y'all give a big round of
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applause I've been listening to your
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radio show and been trying to call in
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for years man uh thank you brother
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claressa when you beat Nikki in 2017 I
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became a big fan of women's boxing you
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are the guo G o a t Goot okay now okay
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that was the first world title yeah yeah
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that was the first one one of my one of
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my only questions is when when you got
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into it with a little bit with uh
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Muhammad Ali's daughter I was uh you
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know I was in the hype Muhammad Ali
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daughter hype and everything buta Ali oh
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my God where you be Nikki and then in
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2020 she ain't got nothing on you
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nothing so my question is do you feel
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like you've done everything that you set
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out to do for women's boxing um I feel
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like I've done uh maybe seven out of out
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of 10 things that I could do for women's
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boxing we still have to get the Equal
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Pay the equal fight time and yes man
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that's what you're saying just build a
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blueprint but I feel like I've I've
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exceeded my goals very very quickly in a
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sport and I've done a whole
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lot I believe you have to and I you are
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the Goot the greatest the greatest woman
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box of all time it's Sway in the Morning
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everybody at sway I want to thank you
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for for accepting my phone call uh I
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want to give a shout out real quick to
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my beautiful fiance Lacy Arthur uh you
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guys just have a wonderful day wonderful
23:41
guy ma hey Ma we appreciate your energy
23:43
and how genuine you are you're a super
23:45
citizen brother all right let me take
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one more Sean is in Ohio Sean what up
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man yo Sean what's up man what up
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Clarissa what's going on champ nothing
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muchy I just had to tell you hey that
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track by as hell man come on
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now that motherucker I a lie who
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produced that beat that's what I wanted
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to ask you do that beat that beat hard
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as hell that beat was by hell of a from
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Detroit he do a whole bunch of Beats by
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T Grizzly you know but he grizzling him
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so yeah hella of a guot he he made that
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be right there in front of me I'm like
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all right well let's he he he made it it
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and I just start you wrote it or did you
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come off the top how how what's your
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style I got to write yeah first I listen
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to the beat a couple times I like oh I'm
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going to go crazy then I start I'm that
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well that don't go it took me about
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three about three four weeks for that
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three or four weeks that's what's up how
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you like like is is being a rapper more
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challenging than being a boxer for you
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well the thing is in boxing nobody can
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tell me that I that I can't fight yeah
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the the proof is there the evidence is
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there and I can challenge them oh I
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can't fight well you can beat me up then
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you know but in but in rap and even in
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singing It's like everybody got like a
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different ear and and and what they
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think is good rap and bad rap and your
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style and it's like for me it's just
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more judgmental and it's more opinion so
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to me it is harder to be appealing in
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rap yeah you know especially being like
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a woman too it's like do I rap sexy or
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do I rap like my life you know I don't
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know I'm more of like a I came up
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listening to Lil Wayne Young Jeezy Me M
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those were guys who I was like these
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rappers who I was like man these guys
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are hard you know Tupac I listen to
25:30
those type of guys so when I rap it's
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like I can't rap like um like I think
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Megan is hard but she more of like you
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know talk about how she be sleeping with
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guys or make them eat her stuff and all
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that kind of stuff and booty shaking and
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it's like I don't even do that stuff you
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know so it's like I got to talk about
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like the real stuff that I that I go
25:50
through in life for my upbringing so
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it's like I like to rap like how Young
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Jeezy and Meek Mill and them rap I don't
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like to rap like you know oh I'm you
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know pretty thick brown skin with a bag
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like like like yeah that's okay but I
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don't want to go too much into sexual
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stuff I guess that's good I respect that
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nothing wrong with that that's a real
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statement I feel like so many female
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artists wrestle with that Dynamic of
26:18
wanting to rap the way that you're
26:20
talking about it in a regular Cadence
26:22
and a form without having to be so
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sexually explicit and sexualized I feel
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like so many incoming artists have to
26:30
deal with that so thank you for sharing
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that that's a real standing by it yeah
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CU so many women I feel they feel the
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pressure to have to talk sexual and
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sexual
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exploitations um versus just talking
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about the Journey of their lives so
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thank you for being so vulnerable with
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that sex sales you know yeah sex sales
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claressa Shields and talent can sell too
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mhm y there you go Talent can sell too I
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S proof is in the pudding DB could you
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Mr slow it down slow it down for a
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second see what
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happens sure that's my C get
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ready I hate singing
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okay I wait till it get to my part okay
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clissa
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[Music]
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shells
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okay I love Anita Baker we going to get
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there in a minute hope she listen do my
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Justice for you Anita
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okay
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operator put my baby on the
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line cuz just the other night we had a
27:40
horrible fight I meit that I I was out
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of
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control but I still love my man with my
27:52
heart and my soul when the road gets
27:58
we say things we should not
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say I never meant to treat my bab that
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way I
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apologize come on y'all oh believe me I
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do I
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apologize Hest and true because I know I
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was WR and so I sing you this song and
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I'm trying to make it
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through to make it up to you yeah yeah
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that was amazing give it up for the
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stylings of the one and only Clarissa
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seals ladies and gentlemen on the fire
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store shout out to my man I think about
28:46
Tony when I sing that shout out to my
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man Tony a good guy man I like Tony man
28:52
Clarissa is so Michigan everyone in
28:54
Michigan loves Anita Baker like that is
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our
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everyone in Michigan right now is
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rocking their head right now like Anita
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is Michigan you know again that I mean
29:06
who love Anita who lric the queen LC the
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queen that's our family I know I know
29:13
like me and lyri talk every single day
29:16
that's every single day yeah you know
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yeah you walked out with her one time I
29:20
believe twice come on now there we go
29:23
she brought you out she brought you out
29:24
right when I fought against hammer and
29:26
then she brought me again when I fought
29:29
against Hannah Gabriel Hannah Hannah
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Hannah's the one that that dropped me
29:34
that dropped you the first round yeah
29:36
and you look like I can't believe it he
29:39
was amus that was the cutest knockdown I
29:41
ever saw like I looked at the ground
29:43
like oh my how how the hell we get down
29:46
here wow interesting but did it excite
29:50
you though like damn I actually got
29:52
knocked down it it it excited me it
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shocked me but oh my God everybody that
29:57
know me knows it pissed me off oh yeah
30:00
when I got up I heard Andre derell he
30:03
said rest stay calm cuz I was about to
30:05
be like I was about to just run up on
30:06
her and just swing hard as I could
30:09
just how dare you drop
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me how dare you Dro
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me I love it that's great wow man well
30:20
claressa shs you are the goes yes thank
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you okay and congratulations on the
30:25
continued success three time Undisputed
30:29
the only one in existence
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right yeah right now there is no M
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that's three time Undisputed champion no
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it's just me next fight wow so you know
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I'm need all My Prayer Warriors Prayer
30:42
Warriors to come through for me um I
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fight
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February possibly in Saudi Arabia but
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it's
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MMA okay so this will be our third MMA
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fight right now I'm M MMA mixed martial
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arts okay
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so I'm one in one I have a knockout in
31:00
the pfl and I have a split decision loss
31:03
so my third fight will be in February
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with the
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pfl possibly in Saudi Arabia and right
31:09
now I am training when I'm not traveling
31:12
every single day two hours in
31:14
Lancing um just to get ready so we all
31:17
know that I'm an animal and that I can
31:18
fight in there but MMA is like a whole
31:21
different game you got to be on the
31:22
ground his kicks his knees
31:25
um his takedowns and right now I'm just
31:28
drilling the like the Tak down defense
31:31
right now the sprawling I'm getting
31:32
better at it and I'm just uh excited to
31:35
conquer something else because my goal
31:37
is to be MMA pfl world champion at the
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same time as being boxing world champion
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and that' be something else that's never
31:44
been done in the history of sport so wow
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I love it man conations shs a nothing
31:50
like a good elbow to the eye socket
31:53
though be careful in there okay yeah
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gety gety Sky okay man love you sis
31:58
thanks for coming through
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today
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