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bridge business bridge businesses chalk
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it up baby bridge business
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come on man let's go come on we got we
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got the champ here stephen fulton jr
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aka cool boy stuff he's here man big
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round of applause man
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come on yes congratulations
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congratulations
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thanks i appreciate that absolutely man
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welcome to bridge business that's big
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horse right there
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hey hey pete stephen how you feeling i
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feel being a champ man how do i feel
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being the champ right now
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it feels great yeah i'm getting numb
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below
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yeah did it come did it rub in yet like
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you start feeling it because at first
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you wasn't not all the way
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all the way yet i feel it but not all
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the way yet i'm
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i'm going to get it out though how the
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city how the how the city loving it how
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the city loving you i know the city's
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showing you so much love right now
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yeah they showed me a lot of love
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[Laughter]
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that that's what's up you know i was um
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first of all congratulations uh
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i got a chance to really sit and watch
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your fight
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um against leo and bro
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you got you got that eye of the tiger
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i'm not you know no pun
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intended i know that's a rocky reference
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but you got that eye of the tiger and
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you and i communicated a while back
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you know and and ever since then i've
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been like okay let me check the boy out
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see what he doing uh did my research you
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know i'm philly official of course you
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know they love me in philly right
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and so i started calling around i
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started calling around and i was talking
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to my man freeway
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you know and um i was asking him about
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you and he was like yeah man he's from
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the same neighborhood i'm from
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that's true yeah
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yeah we all from the same like roots
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uh-huh what is that westfield lee where
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you from north philly
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my my mom and my father north
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and we moved to west so i'm raised in
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west but
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like i always was in north so i was like
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they write they right over the bridge so
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it's like right there together
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what was that like man growing up in
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well that's philly because
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you know you talk to freeway you talk to
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beans and you know you might
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you know that's a whole other lifestyle
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i remember going to philly hanging out
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with benny siegel
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and just going into the different
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neighborhoods and i was looking like man
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that philly is um
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billy is different bro it's a it's a
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it's a different kind of challenge
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it's definitely different he got his ups
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and his downs with it but
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you know once you once you used to it
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that's home so
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that's that's that's home
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let me get into the champ a little bit
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hey what was it like growing up in
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philly like for people that just started
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looking at boxing
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they just turned the tv on the other day
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and they just saw you put him on his
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show the other day was like wow who is
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this dude
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where he came from what is that that you
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want people to know that this wasn't
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you 18-0 you were champion 19 in those
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skills but you 19 know
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you're a champion you're from philly you
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know and that's philly has you know
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some of the best fighters that ever was
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created you know the greatest fighters
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what does he want people to know about
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you
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i want everybody to know the type of
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person i am like it's not all about
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being a head honcho with me there's
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other great boxers coming from the same
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city as me
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so when they be champion i'm gonna be
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happy for them so just as well as he was
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happy for me i
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and that's the type of person i am i
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just wanted to see that i wanted to see
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that other side of me
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in that ring i want to see that i'm not
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just a
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a boxer i can dog people out i want to
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show is is other aspects
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and and my arsenal that i got it's other
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things in my life that i would like to
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like present so unboxing is just the
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start of it boxing is just the start of
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it for me
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what made you start boxing from the
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first what made you start boxing what
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gets you into boxing
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uh my father he was a prison for 10
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years
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uh so he came home when i was 10. okay
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we we're muslim so we went to the mosque
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and everything
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made prayer and then we seen a family
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friend that we always knew
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i knew them since i was like a baby and
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he my dad kind of walked up to him
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you know reunited asked him how he was
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doing what they were getting into and
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they said he was training kids
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so then my dad just looked at me i was
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like you want a box
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and i was like i don't care i wasn't
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doing that anyway so it was like
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i always want to be a part of something
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like basketball football or something
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but
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my mom's a single mom and never getting
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those type things so
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man where was the first time you got
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punched in your face in the boxing ring
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how did that feel
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i mean punches hurt
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but how did i react though if it was
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that was more so
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the the the the question how did i react
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off
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i kept it cool i kept my cool and ever
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since then i just knew like
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i want to do this most people get hit
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once they hit back
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i got hit and i stayed calm and i waited
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for my
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my my sneaky time to get it right back
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and i got it back
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so you you already had the science in
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you naturally
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like you wasn't even trained yet
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yes so is that how they looked at you
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like this guy is a natural did you hear
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people saying that
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everybody say that i just got natural
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i'm
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athletic i'm i don't know i feel like i
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feel like this is what i was made to do
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so it was like did you watch boxing
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growing up did you watch boxing like
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look at a couple of boxes
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no i never watched boxing growing up
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that's the thing but as i got in the
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sport i started to learn more about it
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i wasn't like i didn't handle male role
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model in the hot or no melt in the house
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that was just like half box and it was
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just me and my mom and three sisters so
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i was wearing all females playing
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they playing house and everything i'm in
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my own room then they don't learn about
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new boxing no basketball no espn or not
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that's crazy man did you like i know a
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lot of boxers
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that once they started training once
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they started learning how to box
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they didn't box in the streets no more
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so if anybody tried to push up on them
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challenge them because
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folks would challenge after you start
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learning how to box for real
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did you ever have any more street fights
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[Laughter]
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yo i don't remember last on my street
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for anybody
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like i ain't fighting years yeah like
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things just change
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your attitude towards it change as well
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what do you mean you know what you can
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do so it's like man i ain't about to
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feed into that man
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go ahead but just don't touch me though
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is this
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on that type grown-up muslim
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um i find that really interesting
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because
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uh being muslim you know it's certain
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things you
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don't do there's certain foods you don't
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eat you know what i mean
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it's um certain practices you have you
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know devout muslims say praying five
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times to the east every day
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is that how you grew up yes but
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i can't say i grew up making all prayers
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because my father wasn't
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around so being honest
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my mom was like sending me to church
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with my aunts and stuff like that
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so my dad came home and took over that's
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when i got my correct
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got back in the correct way of living
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and
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more so the religion
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i like how you said that horse the
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correct way you're living yeah
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hey so now right now since you for leo
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was that the hardest dude that you
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really trained for
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since she was coming off a colvin and
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stuff like that was that the the hardest
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dude you had to train for because
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i think leo seemed like he wasn't the
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type of fighter that she was about to
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fight that she was that you knew he was
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gonna run in there and knock him out
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i thought you was gonna go for the long
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run so was that what you was training
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for for the
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you willing to go to the distance with
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this guy
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i always prepare and train to go to
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distance if
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it ends up being a short night that's
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that's the better part of it but i feel
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like
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we all should train for the distance
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because you never know it might be that
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one guy in there like leo or somebody
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tougher that's going to take you the
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distance
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and you got to be prepared to go to
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distance you know watching you box the
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other day man
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it brought it back to the old school of
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the art of boxing man i mean you put on
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a great performance man i mean it was
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it was one of the greatest performers
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i've seen somebody fight because i mean
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leo wasn't no dude like he
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was coming to get it every time you gave
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it to him he came and got it and i mean
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you gave it to this dude and i think
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some of these young fighters
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they need to look at that they need to
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look at the art of fighting that you
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that you put out there that you
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presented the other day because
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you was trying to finish them but you
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was putting it all together you was
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working you was working you put it all
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together and you you got so much in your
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arse you got so much i mean
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i know there's a lot of guys that said
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that you run and you this down the third
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but
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man the other day man you put on the
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show my brother
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i prefer fighting like i prefer to fight
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but but but it stabs that makes the
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fight though it ain't you know sometimes
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you gotta you know it's
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you gotta set guys up you gotta set
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traps you gotta start certain things so
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maybe that's the way that you do things
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right or wrong
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you know for sure i'm sneaky in the ring
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[Laughter]
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what do you mean by that like you just
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kind of wait it out
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like are you you talking we can play the
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way out game
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i'm i'm i'm super smart when it comes to
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fighting
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more so mentally breaking my opponents
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down
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just as well as physically that's why i
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say i'm sneaking
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i got a sneaky style in there people
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from the outside looking in like oh he'd
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do this wrong he did that wrong
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when you get in there with me it's a
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whole totally different story
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it seemed like in your your your corner
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was seeming like they wanted you to box
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a little bit more
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but i feel like if you were in that box
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the judging right looked at a little
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different it seemed like you went in
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there and said you know what i'm taking
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this
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i'm gonna run in there i'm taking this
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and that is that was the mindset that
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you are you running are you taking this
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yes the mindset that we we the the i'm
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gonna go to the game plan was to
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actually box him early rounds
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then take the fight to him but once i
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got in there and i seen
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the type of fight he was bringing i said
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no no i can't
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i can't box right now i got i got to
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bring him i got to earn
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show them what i'm what i'm made of and
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when i did that
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i noticed like the third fourth fifth
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round that he started to
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slow down he was taking more of than
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what he was dishing
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and those type of situations you gotta
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be able to take what you could dish out
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is that the first time you did that with
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your corner like they were like yo do
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this and you was like nah i'm gonna do
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this is that the first time you ever did
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that in this fight yeah that's that's
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probably the first time but i i warned
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them though like i let them know a
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couple times like yo
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i'm gonna have to get in there and fight
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even like when i was training like in
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philadelphia
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i'm like yo i'm gonna have to get in
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there and fight they're like yeah but
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just be smart and box first i'm sitting
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there like
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all right but the whole time i'm
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preparing myself to fight
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you knew it was coming down the pipeline
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right
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yeah i already know uh so what's next
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man uh who you want next man is it
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michael conlon is it figueroa what's
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going to happen
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i want the winner out of figaro and
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louis neri for that wbc and that wba
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i want the winner item that's a
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unification ball i got the wbo
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so that puts me closer to being
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undisputed and that's what i always
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wanted to do be the first undisputed
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then michael collins can also you know
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get it we're going
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we also fight that'll be a big fight so
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that's the goal to be the undisputed
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like super bantamweight champion right
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have you looked further than that yet
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because when i look at like careers of
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people like let's say a manny pacquiao
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who started even lighter
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and ended up you know being champion in
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like nine different divisions
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is is that your ultimate goal in the end
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my ultimate goal being
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realistically and being smart for my
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health and not just about the money
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i would say maybe after i'll accomplish
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that
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two more weight classes 26 and probably
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30
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then on to movies or something or or
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just in the business
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commentating and doing other things
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really do you do you have a um i already
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have a i already have without the
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control i already have a seafood spot
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like restaurant that's in chester
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yeah this is called i'm trying to start
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it let's talk about that that's why we
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call this
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bridge business you know it's also about
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business and that's the thing i found
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fascinating about you is your crab shack
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what is it called cbs crabs
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okay and then how long have you had it
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we
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opened it july 16 the day before my
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birthday
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2020. so you were 22 years old or 20 no
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no i was i was the age i am now
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oh you said oh i thought you said 2016.
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oh ok
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that was like damn man don't philly boys
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be hustling
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so when you open the business like
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that's different from
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you know your business yourself your
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brand is a business and i love the way
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you
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carry yourself it's gonna come to you i
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see it happening you bringing a lot of
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attention to this
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to this weight division i see that
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happening but i like the way you think
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that's what freeway said to me
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he said man he really smart you know he
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got his thing together
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how did you learn how to open a business
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like that did you do research
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yeah my me and my coach why he
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was the one that was in a uh ring with
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me
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man him he he honestly taught me
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and kind of changed my mindset on
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just wanting jury and cars and stuff and
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more so on the generational wealth and
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breaking generation and curses
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so once he once he like kind of got in
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my head about that
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he took me on a ride showed me sir a
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couple of his properties and everything
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so
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it kind of changed my perspective on a
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lot of things
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and how i was like looking at money and
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like it ain't nothing
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man once i hit like 24
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23 i started working doing inspections i
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got my
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own inspection station i got my homies
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they own inspection season i was like 24
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years old when i did that right off of
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him because he that's how he started off
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doing a car inspection so once i started
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doing that
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it helped me with just managing money
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and everything like that
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and just knowing how to handle my own
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business and i'm still
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like learning along the way but now we
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got a credit spot and
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it's doing good so so
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you're good
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benefit from this question this is this
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might be one of the the most serious
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questions we're going to ask you tonight
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um if we go to your craft place can we
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eat for free
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yeah i'll take care of y'all
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[Laughter]
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cool boy i didn't give out three dishes
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already
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so yeah for sure my guy my guy
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so it seemed like the plan for you is to
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be retired
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at 30 from boxing have your belts and by
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30 you have your businesses running
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have a chat you'll be a champion by 30
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you think that you know
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is that the plan for you right now i'll
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probably go a little bit more
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above 30 like 33 34. give me
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[Music]
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for you to be the age you are and you're
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investing and you're doing a lot of good
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things like that you know sometimes
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it's the legacy that a lot of boxers
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fight for so it's the legacy that you're
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doing but you're building for that that
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future that that that wealth like you
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said you learned from your you know
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shout out to your coach you know
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shout out to him you know you're
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training and it doesn't stop here so i
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have to do it for like the ones
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underneath me don't stop
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just at me that'd be selfish to myself
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that makes sense you know when i look at
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boxers like yourself
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who is very well versed obviously
15:31
invested in the science the sweet
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science of boxing
15:34
well-rounded and then also well-rounded
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mentally
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outside of boxing it is totally
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i won't say 100 percent opposite but
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when you usually hear those stigmatized
15:45
stories of boxers they usually get by
15:47
the time they in boxing
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they broke they ain't got no money you
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know physically and mentally
15:53
you know they're damaged and it's always
15:55
a stop you know it's just a sad story
15:57
you know these legendary iconic people
15:59
and you see them
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broken down and at the worst but talking
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to teal
16:04
female talking to danny garcia talking
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to you you know teo female says
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something to me
16:10
really interesting when he came on our
16:11
show he said sway we the new generation
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we that new wave of boxers right now
16:16
it's a new movement coming over
16:18
that's why you see garcia trying to call
16:20
his fights and going hard and you see
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all these different things
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is that a general consensus amongst the
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young boxers
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we're gonna do this differently we're
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not gonna end up broke at the end of the
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career
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for sure i feel like this generation is
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is more so
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on top of it because we've learned from
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the mistakes of the past generation
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i can't say we just up and just wanted
16:41
to do that on our own no we learn from
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people from others before us mistakes
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so that's more so what it is as well as
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us wanting and seeing i'm
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seeing like i'm not gonna they're
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influencers like rappers and everybody
16:54
seeing how they get
16:55
is of course we're gonna want to keep up
16:58
everyone wants to keep up with that
16:59
image and want to keep up with
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those type of people so uh that was
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as long well well as as well as
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fighters wanting better because we've
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seen the past fighters mess up in those
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positions i like that
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with promotion um false promoters you
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being a champion
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and you know you coming up you know 19
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you know
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how hard was it i mean how hard is it to
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get like a big promotion company to come
17:28
snatch you up like you know you got
17:29
mayweather promotions you had golden boy
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and all of that
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you know is that you know who you're
17:34
being promoted by right now like what
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what's your promotion company see i
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don't have
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a promoter i got owl heyman i'll hand my
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manager so
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okay that's bigger than he bigger than
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promoters
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[Laughter]
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al hamid your matter oh you good money
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man
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yeah all my managers so i was like but
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shout out to tgb promotions they
17:55
definitely
17:56
put on a great show for like with
17:58
alongside us
18:00
they definitely put a great show on
18:02
which me and
18:03
angel leo that was promoted by that and
18:05
mayweather's promotion so shout out to
18:06
me weather promotions as well
18:08
and shout out to showtime amen
18:11
uh crunk jim is famous man emmanuel
18:14
stewart
18:14
to me legendary iconic trainer shane
18:17
mosley
18:17
tommy hearns you know linux lewis uh but
18:21
the crunk gem
18:22
man that thing got a legend attached to
18:24
it man
18:26
uh what do you know about chron gym
18:30
uh and the amateurs it was always like
18:32
young kids coming up wearing the uh
18:34
what was that the yellow the red it was
18:37
those type of colors like they had those
18:39
those
18:39
old school uniforms the blue uh the
18:42
detroit right
18:43
yeah so yeah they had those they had
18:44
that that type of style that type of
18:46
swag
18:47
so that's and then manuel stewart that's
18:49
the only one i really
18:50
learned from besides like the guys you
18:52
just mentioned
18:53
uh he still was around during the golden
18:55
gloves he's out of the gully well the
18:56
year
18:56
not the year that i won but my very
18:58
first year out in the national
18:59
guard so i met him and it was just like
19:02
a wonderful experience so just to know
19:04
somebody that came from that
19:05
that era that gym when it was when it
19:07
was like lit and popping
19:09
yeah uh not seen richardson legend in
19:12
his own right iconic
19:14
the last fighter he worked with so
19:18
my first time meeting him i didn't
19:19
really knew the history on him like
19:21
i can't lie very very very first time
19:24
but i always heard of him
19:26
so i met him that as time started going
19:28
on he just been helping
19:29
me and my coach and things like that
19:33
he was helping us since we was in the
19:34
amateurs like letting us hold their
19:36
official pro
19:37
scale and everybody know how hard it is
19:40
like looking for a scale on them in them
19:42
tournaments
19:42
to see if your your weight the right
19:44
weight so he was like been doing little
19:46
things had been putting out messages
19:47
about us
19:48
then he started working with help
19:49
helping alongside my old coach
19:52
trained me and he got sick at the end of
19:55
it all
19:55
but i was the last fighter he was
19:57
working with
19:59
oh that must be an honor man you should
20:01
be honored by that right
20:03
hey i i i seen your instagram the other
20:06
day and i seen you giving um
20:08
use passing back that jewel to the
20:10
youngins from philly the two boxing
20:12
twins
20:13
and you were saying yes to brandy quiz
20:15
man great kids man
20:16
and the stuff that you was telling them
20:18
was great man i mean
20:20
you was telling them like yo you don't
20:22
have the average normal
20:23
childhood as most kids you know people
20:25
ain't going to understand but when you
20:26
want to be a champion
20:27
these are the type of things that you
20:28
have to sacrifice to become this is that
20:30
something that you had to go through
20:32
for sure i feel like that helped me
20:36
and shaped the man i am today to learn
20:38
that discipline
20:39
of the the sport and making those
20:41
sacrifices
20:42
uh people would never know the backstory
20:45
of it until they were put in those shoes
20:47
so everybody will always say oh man
20:49
you're only missing out on the holiday
20:50
man go you got some
20:51
a bigger head in reality we want to be
20:54
able to do
20:54
the same thing but we have a bigger goal
20:56
to accomplish
20:58
and those those are part of those
20:59
sacrifices that we're going to have to
21:00
make
21:01
and i have a son so i teach him to learn
21:04
like how to sacrifice but i feel like
21:11
i feel like people just don't understand
21:13
what boxers have to go through
21:15
in the sport and not just inside the
21:17
sport but outside the sport we still
21:18
gotta
21:19
train then you got your your female
21:23
problems or yeah yeah
21:24
your family problems outside of them you
21:26
take all that in the ring with you
21:29
as well as sacrificing so it's like
21:34
that's that was basically my message to
21:36
those young kids like
21:37
enjoy yourself while y'all doing it but
21:39
you you this
21:40
this ain't a game but to make the best
21:43
out of every situation and learn how to
21:46
control yourself and sacrifice
21:49
hmm are you when you say female problems
21:52
um you and you got a son are you with
21:54
the son's mom
21:56
oh no but i don't have female problems
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okay
22:00
[Laughter]
22:02
i mean do you have time to date you know
22:04
what i mean when you're a boxer how does
22:06
that work
22:06
i'm no yes i have a girlfriend oh oh you
22:09
got a girlfriend
22:10
all right somebody you're with somebody
22:13
grown man horse
22:14
[Laughter]
22:16
so if if these guys in that way division
22:20
start ducking you is there a chance you
22:21
might move down and clean that
22:23
118 up no i can't i can't
22:26
i can't make that listen i'm big at my
22:29
weight class already
22:30
well i would say that can't make that
22:32
you can't make that
22:34
yeah i can't make that you could make
22:36
that oh
22:38
man let me ask you this man danny
22:39
garcia's we've actually got danny garcia
22:42
on bridge business as well um and you'd
22:46
only fight her right now the only
22:47
champion boxer
22:48
um and that holds a bell from philly
22:50
right now danny actually had a belt
22:52
um before and been fighting and regain
22:54
it is it a camaraderie
22:56
amongst you know philly boxers like you
22:59
danny and all other ones coming up or
23:01
everybody just moving like individual
23:03
islands
23:05
i mean
23:08
it's in the middle of that i can't say
23:10
we all just moving individually though
23:12
but it's in the middle of that
23:14
why is that y'all from the same city
23:18
i mean eric i mean nobody like we all
23:22
like each other but
23:24
everybody be having their own thing yeah
23:26
everybody has their own thing
23:28
i guess okay i can't really touch on
23:31
that like everybody just had their own
23:33
thing
23:35
is he you you popular in the ring like
23:37
you bring your
23:38
a game in the ring because it seems like
23:39
you focus so much on training and you
23:41
got a lot of these uh
23:43
you know celebrity internet instagram
23:45
guys now you know a bunch of followers
23:47
that's
23:48
you know champions or contenders and
23:50
stuff like that
23:51
how do you feel about that knowing that
23:53
like come on these dudes ain't really
23:54
get there really want no smoke but they
23:56
got you know a bunch of followers they
23:57
got the fans gas how do you feel about
23:59
that
23:59
especially like getting your message out
24:01
there like come see me man i'm trying to
24:02
be unified
24:05
uh well those guys that's in my weight
24:07
class that's like that uh uh
24:08
i think i'm the littlest in the weight
24:10
class i mean mick collins just moved up
24:13
i mean moved down but it's like i still
24:15
think i'm the littlest in the wake
24:17
class i'm the ladies in the way so i
24:18
don't really look at them like
24:21
i don't really gotta do too much
24:22
bargaining after that performance but i
24:24
don't need 800
24:25
i beat eight undefeated fighters out of
24:27
my 19 fights
24:28
nobody doing that nobody done that and
24:31
become world champion and break a record
24:34
and become the third
24:35
most punches throne in the fight in that
24:37
same night
24:38
so it's like that's a year layoff so i
24:41
ain't got to bark
24:42
to them like i don't really am saying
24:44
then you say they already know
24:46
and you said you had more left you
24:47
couldn't believe that you was like come
24:48
on that was it you said
24:50
you're gonna go for the record you said
24:52
you're gonna go for the record then i
24:53
was like wow you put on this show and
24:55
you like that
24:55
yeah i gotta break that record now
24:57
that's what i'm that's what i like doing
24:58
i like
24:58
breaking people's records i saw you
25:02
tweet that that you want that record for
25:03
the most punches in the round
25:05
what is the record uh they just told me
25:08
it was like 1500 and something
25:13
damn that's a 1500 punches
25:16
come on man you might go to jail if you
25:18
hit somebody 1500 times
25:21
come on man
25:25
how hard is it to do that though like i
25:26
guess i guess with the discipline and
25:28
the training
25:30
everything's possible everything is
25:33
possible when you when you do things i
25:34
mean it ain't just
25:36
whether you do rather you do it is if
25:38
you do it the right way
25:41
that's how i look at it you just gotta
25:42
do it the right way but practice makes
25:44
perfect
25:45
and you stay in the gym even if you're
25:46
not in the gym you know how it is when
25:48
you're a ball player somebody walking
25:50
around just
25:50
ah you know what i'm saying that's what
25:52
we do we walk around throwing punches in
25:53
the air shadow boxing so it's like
25:56
i don't know i can't really i can't
25:58
believe but
25:59
as far as my mindset on throwing that
26:01
many punches i didn't think i was gonna
26:02
just throw that any punches i thought we
26:04
just was gonna rumble i ain't even know
26:05
how many punches it was
26:06
i just was fighting mm-hmm i ain't
26:09
thinking about the punches that they
26:10
said that's how i was like
26:12
damn yeah you sure it was that many
26:13
punches but then when i thought of them
26:15
like we
26:16
really was in there rumbling like we was
26:17
in there getting it there
26:19
so that's how it was on my behalf for
26:20
responding punches but
26:23
i seen a place that i seen someplace
26:25
that you said that you could have did
26:26
better that you was like
26:27
that performance that you put on you
26:28
felt like you could have did better than
26:29
what you put on and i thought it was a
26:30
great performance
26:32
what you felt that you could have did
26:33
better that night i feel like i could
26:35
have did a lot more better i feel like
26:36
my defense could have been a lot
26:38
better in that in that fight uh but
26:41
taking a year off of course i'm gonna
26:44
have a little bit of flaws in my game
26:45
but
26:46
i feel i still it's still a lot that
26:48
people have yet to see on me
26:51
it was that ring rust it was hard to
26:52
shake that off i don't think i had
26:54
really had rain rust
26:56
it just was like i'm back
27:01
i know it didn't look like you had ring
27:02
rust i know that
27:04
and how did uh how did it affect you
27:07
physically if at
27:08
all what was it like your experience oh
27:11
man my body was hurting
27:13
uh when i ran one night my nose was
27:15
bleeding
27:17
it took like a loss of breath hit
27:20
headaches
27:21
my body was aching and felt like my like
27:24
the inside was like vibrating
27:26
and then they were like my head my head
27:28
me like it just had me up and down like
27:30
my body was up and down at moments i
27:31
feel like i'm good then
27:32
right back down like within a couple
27:34
seconds so it was like messing me up a
27:37
lot
27:37
i'll run up the steps and lose run out
27:40
of breath
27:41
but i'm just i just was training for a
27:43
12-round fight
27:45
so it messed me up yo people got to take
27:49
it seriously
27:50
like a lot of folks that's an
27:51
unexplainable feeling though like
27:53
i ain't know what it was mm-hmm and they
27:56
had you down
27:57
well thank god you're here with us today
27:59
champ you know what i mean
28:02
let me ask you this when we had um devin
28:04
haney who
28:05
who is you know i'm from oakland
28:06
originally so you know naturally
28:08
i'm a big fan of devin haney and we were
28:10
talking about all of this talk around
28:12
their division you know
28:13
around devonta davis or ryan garcia and
28:17
or even teo female you know all of these
28:19
guys want to fight each other but nobody
28:21
want to fight
28:22
uh devin haney and i was asking him like
28:24
what's your history with these folks
28:26
like in the amateurs or even in sparring
28:29
and he was like yeah man we all sparred
28:30
before we all know each other
28:32
yeah everybody's part so everybody's
28:34
fart
28:35
right so everybody's worried so so let
28:38
me
28:38
who have you sparred what's some of
28:40
those big names other than frampton that
28:41
you that you [ __ ] you sparred with
28:44
i sparred tank before i sparked devon
28:46
before i sparked your core
28:48
i spar boots i spark like that i support
28:50
everybody
28:52
really wow so i'm gonna name the boxer
28:56
you tell me what you remember about the
28:57
sparring like what was it like sparring
28:59
with
28:59
with that all of i'm gonna say i'm gonna
29:01
you know had an answer for all of them
29:03
all of them was good work
29:04
all that was good work i can't really go
29:06
off as far if we spawn we're there to
29:08
learn
29:08
more so but if they do if they get to
29:11
that point where
29:12
people just wreck it out then oh yeah
29:13
i'm with that too but
29:15
for with those guys it was just all
29:16
strictly just good work
29:18
i ain't got really nothing to say about
29:20
them i definitely put stuff down in the
29:22
gym though but
29:24
that was good work with them did you
29:26
learn anything from either from any of
29:27
them spawning sessions did you pick
29:29
anything up from it like you know
29:30
i've learned i learned from everybody i
29:32
learned from everybody
29:33
yeah i learned from earth from everyone
29:37
seriously boxers be real secretive about
29:40
that sparring man i don't know what
29:42
that's about man
29:43
because it's like ah it's like it's fun
29:46
that's like that's like us
29:48
playing one-on-one and and
29:51
and in the gym and then we gonna talk
29:53
about it on and on
29:55
at a at the nba game or without the ball
29:58
okay it's like that the sparring ain't
30:01
gonna make a difference when it comes to
30:02
the challenge
30:03
make a difference when it comes when
30:04
that clock runs ain't gonna make a
30:05
difference
30:06
and i'm a little behind gloves on i
30:08
think i'm gonna get them we sparring 16
30:10
people fighting eight ounce gloves
30:13
okay so that's like that's fizz like
30:17
and you got headgear on when you
30:18
sparring so it's like
30:20
they don't really they don't really
30:22
matter to me it don't some people take
30:24
sparring
30:24
serious but that don't really matter
30:27
like
30:28
i like how you mentioned lord could tell
30:29
you all that
30:31
what floyd could tell look at that that
30:33
this
30:34
matter
30:45
for sure it makes that much of a
30:47
difference huh uh you know what i like
30:48
to earlier
30:50
you said out of my 19 fights eight of
30:52
them was undefeated
30:54
and you know most people be trying to
30:56
protect that zero they'd be trying to
30:58
protect that oh
30:59
that ain't something you interested in
31:01
doing you trying to take the biggest and
31:02
the best immediately
31:05
that's how yeah that's that's exactly
31:06
how i was i got to say how it was
31:09
because now it's about being smarter but
31:11
still taking certain risks
31:14
but coming up yeah it was just oh yeah
31:17
what's up all right
31:18
i gotta do that to get to where i need
31:19
all right come on that's right i know i
31:21
could beat him anyway i was more so on
31:22
that
31:23
type of mindset so how do y'all factor
31:26
in
31:26
who's next like do y'all put them on the
31:28
board and go okay we want to fight this
31:30
person we could get two more titles in
31:32
in our quest for unification i believe
31:34
my matchmakers can't do that
31:36
okay matchmakers handle that danette
31:38
just come to me
31:39
with the idea and where can that lead us
31:43
and then i make the decision right then
31:45
and there
31:46
so you make the final decision
31:50
i mean yeah it's up to me who i want to
31:52
fight
31:54
but right now they all know that you
31:55
want to be unified right now all
31:57
right now the goal is to be uniform you
31:59
fight everybody with a belt in that
32:00
division
32:01
and i'll be and i can become the first
32:04
ever
32:05
undisputed at this week class yes yes
32:08
yes and that's what i want to do come on
32:10
man
32:11
uh man it's been it's been uh really fun
32:14
since
32:14
i don't i can't remember when we first
32:16
communicated i feel like it was on
32:17
instagram or something and
32:19
um and i started no it was uh what was
32:21
that
32:22
look mind you i did my remember i told
32:24
you i had a uh that was my first time
32:26
fighting
32:27
with me angela leo fight it'll been a
32:28
year since i fought yeah
32:30
january 25th i pulled on danny garcia
32:32
car i opened up i was the first tv fight
32:35
but we i was down there with freeway
32:37
rick ross yes
32:39
yes uh at the station i forgot where we
32:41
was at
32:42
at sirius xm and that little in that
32:47
yeah yeah we just swear in the morning
32:49
yeah we got that we took the pick in
32:51
there
32:52
yeah that's where it was
32:56
that was around january that was around
32:58
january 23rd january 23rd
33:00
or 24th yep because i thought it was the
33:03
24th that's
33:04
the 25th and i start that's right
33:07
freeway with ross was
33:08
bringing you know that's the homie so
33:10
it's so this has been great watching you
33:12
ever since man your talent to do
33:13
bro you're a talented individual but
33:16
equally important i love your mindset
33:19
i love your lifestyle how you living
33:21
your life is very balanced
33:24
you know and so i think you you're a
33:25
definite asset
33:27
to the professional boxing mate let me
33:30
ask you this though when we talking
33:31
philly man philly is known for
33:33
two things in hip-hop the dopest djs
33:36
and some fly ass mcs now
33:39
uh i'm curious to if you who's your top
33:42
five
33:43
philly mcs that you go up listening to
33:47
that you like right now
33:50
that i like grew up or like i just like
33:52
right now
33:53
all together both like you know
33:59
i gotta pick me in there like me
34:03
i like me i like uzi
34:06
ah these definitely fit on for the city
34:09
and this ain't in no specific order
34:11
yeah yeah for the city
34:14
oh man
34:18
you got blacked off from the roots you
34:19
got cassidy
34:21
you know you got free what you can't
34:23
know but
34:24
you listening i i respected them though
34:28
but
34:28
that's not who we're like uh like
34:30
listening to
34:32
pnb rock he just said the same thing pv
34:35
rock p b definitely put on i gotta put
34:38
him in there i gotta put him in there
34:39
and then it'll be one more who else who
34:42
else could i like
34:43
i don't have nobody off the top they are
35:01
[Laughter]
35:06
yo uh hey man so listen bro
35:10
i'm glad we got a chance to do this man
35:12
can we do this again
35:13
after you win your next sure for sure
35:15
all right hey do this before or after
35:17
the next fight
35:18
okay man we're gonna make you like our
35:20
our our resident you know
35:22
champion that just come on the show and
35:23
give us the rundown definitely
35:26
i got you okay cool man i'm proud of you
35:29
dude it was a year ago we met
35:31
and man look at you now
35:35
that's amazing we're a gym stand
35:38
right okay man horse you want to stand
35:40
in closing
35:41
hey congratulations to you man much
35:43
success to you man congratulations
35:45
and congratulations with the chris
35:47
appreciate y'all thanks for having me
35:48
come on
35:49
yo congratulations with the crap with
35:50
the crab business too man we should with
35:52
your crab shack and all that
35:53
congratulations look at your business
35:56
appreciate y'all thanks can't wait to
35:58
get the free food
35:59
stephen from junior champ baby
36:16
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36:20
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