FULL SEND PODCAST - Gervonta "Tank" Davis x Nelk Boys | Ep. 19
Episode Date: December 1, 2021Gervonta "Tank" Davis Calls Jake Paul a Clown & Talks Fight with Isaac Cruz Presented by Happy Dad Hard Seltzer. Find Happy Dad near you http://happydad.com/find (21+ only). Video is available on�...�http://youtube.com/fullsendpodcast/videos. Follow Nelk Boys on Instagram http://instagram.com/nelkboys. Part of the Shots Podcast Network (shots.com). You can listen to the audio version of this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & anywhere you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We want out! We want out! We want out! We want out!
All right, we got Tank Davis. Tank Davis in the building.
Yeah.
We're at the... This is Mayweather's gym.
So this is where you train at?
Mayweather slash my gym.
By the way, where's the... I'm not trying to be like whatever, but where's the...
Is there air conditioning in this place? Does he turn the fucking air conditioning on?
No.
I walked in here. It's literally a fucking sauna tank.
Yeah. It definitely is.
All his money's going to fund his strip club now and not the gym or what?
Yeah, I wish I was at the strip club.
You like strip clubs?
No.
No, I can't.
I can't do them.
It's a waste of money.
Strip clubs is the biggest waste of money on planet earth.
Have you ever been to Mayweather Strip Club?
No, I haven't.
I don't go to, I did it once, and I spent way too much money, and I kicked my, nothing happened at the end of the night, and I just realized I spent all this money and threw money in the air, and I'm like, where the fuck did the money go?
It went on the ground, and these girls just picked it up.
And I was like, it's gone now.
So, strip clubs really are my thing.
It definitely, it definitely be like that sometimes.
Yeah.
100%
No ass
But anyways
Good luck
Coming up here
You have Isaac Cruz
Yes sir
Coming up
You're excited
I'm definitely excited
This is my first time
Fighting at the stable center
So
On the Sunday
So
We gotta pull up to that
We're gonna pull up to it 100%
What does this fight
Like kind of like
Mean to you
As opposed to like other fights
You say it's like tough or no
Yeah
It's definitely tough
Well I don't know
To I get in there
But
Just the whole
thing like going on like me fighting the stable center on a Sunday I got to adapt to like who I
see in the crowd how the crowd is how to the arena just overall that's like a football player
when he's about to you know go into the arena or a basketball player would you say you fight better
when the crowd's against you I'm not sure I I fight better when I fight better when I
I feel like my back against the wall, like, when I feel like the whole, when people, when I think, not the crowd, but when I think that people, like, leading up to the fight and I think people that's going against me, I think that's what bring the best out of me.
I hear a lot of athletes saying, like, they don't even, like, pay attention to the crowd or, like, they're so dialed, but you're, like, kind of the opposite.
Like, you actually, like, you, like, analyze the crowd as you're, like, walking in, and that either helps you or.
To be honest, I pay attention to everything.
Really?
To everything.
Like, even me just on a press car, like on a call with him, I just pay, I pay attention to everything just to fill out to see how everything going to play out.
I like to pay, even now, like, there's period in life with I make sure I pay attention to, you know, everything.
Is he an easier opponent?
You think Cruz and the guy you're supposed to fight for, Roli?
I don't think he's an easy opponent because his style of fight.
He's coming in.
He's throwing a lot of punches.
He can hit, you know, and he come forward, you know, so.
I think that he's not, he's an opponent.
Our assistant, Gabe, by the way,
Gabe looking to get his screen time.
He's just shoving it in your face.
You can tell the fuck off at any time.
He just likes to be on camera.
Do you train, like, specifically for an opponent?
Does that, like, fuck shit up when an opponent pulls out?
To be honest, I work out to better myself.
It's never to fight towards that opponent,
because that opponent can change his style of fighting.
But I just train to better myself.
That's it.
And when we go into the ring, it's just like,
you got to adapt to whatever that guy bringing.
What's like the regiment, like in a camp, like schedule-wise?
People have, like, different camp.
Some people just go away and be...
But you specifically?
Me?
I just
First of all
I get a camp house
You know
Out here
Like day one in the camp
I start running
So I run it probably like
It's different times
I might don't feel like running in the morning
I might run at night
You know
It all depends what fit too
Like
I run in the morning
If I don't
I run at night
Train probably like
Two or three
If I want to do something
again I train at night or I run and that'll be it but when I'm in can't I really don't go
outside like it's hard for me to go outside so I'll just be in a gym and home that's it
like I don't go nowhere what kind of runs do you do like how long's like a run the long as I just
did a run the longest run I probably ever did was like a eight mile run and that's like a daily
thing eight miles no hell no what do you like what do you run like what do you run like what do you
On a daily, like what's a daily run?
A daily run, probably like five miles.
Five miles is a day.
How did everything start for you with boxing?
Like, when did it start?
Like, when did you start falling in love with the game of boxing, you know, fighting, everything like that?
So, first of all, I came from the group home, came from the group home.
My mom, I meant my grandma fought to get me and my brother back.
And we was the new kid on the block.
So I was always the aggressive one.
So I always was the one that was fighting.
Like, I used to fight my brother battles and things like that, you know.
So just fighting a lot, fighting at school.
And one time I was fighting in front of my doorstep.
And my uncle came outside.
And he was like, he got on me.
And he took me to the boxing gym, you know.
And I was getting love from the gym that I wasn't getting at home.
So, you know, any kid, I just.
loved the gym just as because it had coaches it had I had older people I probably I wasn't the
youngest but I was one of the youngest you know so um it wasn't just boxing it was just the love
I was getting at the gym like it was like family type stuff you love the energy yeah so I kept
going and then I started actually fighting because I went to the gym when I was seven you can't
compete till you eight you know so once I start competing I won like 15 fights straight
to our loss.
So, and then I, when I was 10, I went to a national.
So at a young age, I was traveling and doing stuff like that.
So I actually felt like I could make something out of boxing, you know, so that's how I just kept with boxing.
So when you say the, the group home thing, so how did that all take place?
Because I read something that it was, you were five years old when, was it you were?
I don't really know what was my age.
but I was young.
I was real young and my mom and dad was on drugs
and my mom left me and my brother in the house.
And I guess somebody called the police on her
and the people came and got me and my brother.
So we was, it's three of us.
One of my brothers was already in a group home.
And me and my other brother, they came and grabbed us
so we was all separated.
Me and my other brother was together, but the other one was just, like, to this day, I don't know, like, way yet.
Like, I don't talk to them and stuff like that, but.
Did you, do you have any communication with your parents at all?
Yeah, I love my mother.
No matter what happened.
I love my mother.
Nice.
And do you use any of the stuff as, use this stuff kind of as motivation when you get in the ring?
Yeah, I was always the type of fighter, I'm a type of person that I always used something to my advantage.
It's never, like, not people use that, like, I ain't had my mother or father.
So I ain't gonna be shit.
Sometimes I had that mindset, like, damn, like, why my father didn't do such a, like, be that for me, so I don't have to do this.
But then again, I'd be thinking, like, I'm happy, you know, because if he didn't do that, I wouldn't be here where I'm at today.
Because you find that a lot of things are important for a lot of people in life is having, you know, a solid mentor, you know?
And so it's important to have somebody that you can lean on that can pick you up during times or inspire you in certain ways.
So, I mean, who were some guys, whether be early in your career, middle of your career, or late in your career, who were some of your mentors?
The one mentor I had, the one mentor that I had was Calvin.
He probably here.
Where's Calvin at?
Calvin was my coach, so he was really the person that I had, like, damn, like, that I looked at like a dad, like a superhero type stuff.
When did you guys meet?
When I was seven.
Matter of fact, we didn't even, I started with Calvin's son.
Calvin's son started me off in the gym
Calvin's son did
He got killed
I started off with him
Because we had another fighter
That was good in the gym
That Calvin was paying attention to
So he wasn't really worrying about me
I was young I couldn't even compete
So
Calvin's son used to come home and tell Calvin
I got this boxer so on so on
And Calvin wasn't hint that he was so focused on his fighter
So his fighter wound up going to prison for like a robbery itself for five years.
So now he started looking at me, you know.
So that's when, you know, me and Calvin locked in because we was on the same mission.
Like my mission was, you know, to be the best amateur out there.
And his mission was to be the best coach, you know, so.
And he's still with you all this time.
That's pretty dope.
Actually, all the guys that started with us.
They all did.
Like, everybody that was older than me that started with me,
they all got killed in the gym.
Like, it was probably, like, six or seven, seven of them.
Like, everybody that I actually started with did.
Really?
Yeah.
All the fighters.
So did you grow up, like, in the hood?
Yeah.
I mean, Baltimore, that's, like, a, that's pretty tough, right?
Yeah.
What was it like, what was it like there?
I mean, regular, like, hood stuff.
Just fighting and get older, you start other activities and, you know, but.
And your way of it's kind of staying out of the, that life was the gym in boxing.
Yeah, boxing definitely really saved my life because I had an anger problem.
And any little thing that ticked me off, even now.
Great, great.
Definitely boxing, you know.
Watch yourself, Bob, man.
I'm like, I'm like, this one guy can't fuck with on our podcast show, it's you.
So, you know what I mean?
Especially sitting so close here.
Yeah, but Boston definitely saved my life.
Yeah, for sure.
How did you and Floyd connect when did you first meet Floyd?
So me and Floyd connected once I had my old manager.
I don't want to say his name because, but I had an old manager.
He brought me to Floyd.
I was young, though.
I probably was about like 18, 17, 18.
and
so he brought me to him
we chopped it up but it was at a club
so Floyd wasn't really
I don't think Floyd was really paying attention
so Adrian Brono
he was fighting
in Vegas
and Adrian was
fighting here and he brought me in
like one of his fighters
and then he was like
and Floyd had a guy
so me and the guy sparred
and Floyd like like the spawn so he was like he he had his assistant call like they
was hit me like everywhere my phone no I don't think they had my number they emailed me or
something and they was writing under my pictures and they was like Floyd trying to get in contact
with you and I didn't even see it somebody in my comments like kept like and the person like
don't you see this like they're trying to get up with you type stuff so I wind up you know
coming back out of Vegas and I was out of Vegas probably for like a whole
whole I want to say six months to a year straight with Floyd
like I signed to him before I even signed to him he was like doing a lot for me
I don't a lot without even paperwork so I stuck with him you know and
he got me my first world title at 21 I think 22 oh wow so I was at a young age
I was only would probably like a year
and he got me my world title
Has he gifted you any of this jewelry that you're wearing right now?
No, but he gifted me a lot of jewelry, not this, but...
What is some of the stuff?
Like, how did he give you his first piece?
He gave me...
He gave me a Rolex.
I think I wrote a plane...
I didn't even know what Rolex was.
He bought me a damn Cuban.
That probably was like a hundred grand.
Right.
He bought me a lot.
He bought me a car.
He got me in the house.
He did a lot.
He did a lot.
a lot before I even was signed to him.
Because I see a lot going on here, so that...
You're trying to start rocking ice, Bob?
No, I would never. I can't pull it. I can't see rocking
those earrings. No, no, I can't pull that off. I can't pull it off like he can.
But I'm blinded by all this shit going on over here, that's all I'm saying.
What is that? What kind of watches that?
This is Richard Millie.
Richard Millie, okay.
And the earrings, those things, what do those things go for, hypothetically?
If I wanted to go to the store and buy that right now, how much would that be?
These, like, three sets are earrings, so they are at different prices.
all right
they're like 10,000
50,000
they are over
probably 200
you ever think
you would get to this point
where you could
have all this going on
I always knew
I was going to be big
but never so quick
I didn't know
my whole goal
was to be good at boxing
like
wherever
be a world champion
like
I remember me going to
like an amateur fight
like an amateur
tournament they had boxing glove there and they
they showed me the boxer glove I look at
the boxing glove like hell no I'm never
turning pro like I'm gonna fight amateur but
really you thought that
yeah I was because the glove was so small
I'm like hell I'm never getting hit with like
somebody wearing this like they can't hit me with
this but I'm here
what's like your overall goal
like what's your goal as like in this sport
like what do you want to achieve
I just want to
I want to be, like, it's not even just being just a champion no more.
It just, I want to be a star, where it's though, my star power lead to something else.
Like, it's just not boxing.
You know what I mean?
I just don't want to be a boxer.
You know, I want to be more than a boxer.
I want to be, like, a star, like, not just a boxer star, just lead to something else.
I don't want my journey to stop at a boxer.
That's not my journey.
You know, I want to branch off and do other stuff,
be an owner of mad other things,
probably a movie star, anything, just...
Why, you do a little acting?
I mean, no, but I can get into it.
I studied Shakespeare for a little bit.
I could see you doing Shakespeare.
You ever look at Shakespeare?
Shakespeare?
Yeah, theater, you know?
No, I don't know nothing about that.
Sorry, never mind, sorry.
I was big into theater for a little bit.
in acting so if you need anybody coach you on the acting let me know oh yeah i got your back on that yeah
so tank how would you fight floyd in his prime like if you were to fight floyd like
don't fight him if you guys were both in the yeah don't fight him i mean floyd was good
he was he was he was he was top tier i mean me i feel as though i could compete with any top top
fighter i'm not saying me going at floyd but i'm saying like i feel though my skills i feel like
my skills and not to take nothing from floyd but i feel like my top my skills can compete with
anybody that ever laced up a boxing glove you're crazy to watch bro like yeah you hit like a
fucking yeah like it's fucking yeah like yeah so you think you're a fan of uh garcia ryan at all
How is that even like a thing though to me like I don't think that would even be like fair?
No I think that he's he's you know how he got fat he's a he's a he's a he's a Instagram box
yeah he's a good looking guy like I wouldn't want to leave my girl around in shit but like I don't know about when it comes to boxing like wouldn't be fun he's a really good look guy I wouldn't want to leave no he would it's not fair I'd probably be a little worried to be honest but with it was Ryan when it comes to boxing.
Ryan looks like a Greek goddess.
Tank would fucking toss him down.
Oh, he does.
He's a good-looking dude.
You're right.
I would be afraid to leave my girl around him.
And he is dope to watch
and, like, the Instagram videos and shit, too.
Like, he has fast hands and shit.
He's obviously a good boxer, but...
What about when it comes to, like, this level?
It wouldn't even be fair?
He can't compete with me.
People in the gym will tell you, like, I've already...
I've really got top skills.
Like, top guy, like...
top five type stuff is Garcia in your sorry is Garcia in your way class or anything like yeah
you guys are the same white class we're supposed to for it why didn't it happen he poured out
why did he pull out mental health okay that's what he said I know a little bit about
I feel like he's probably just not ready they probably just think he's not ready that's what I
would say yeah I mean mental health is he is he on your hit list of fighting
know because that would be a big fight right yeah it'd be a big fight but it's like you never
know with him it's always something going on like not to talk but want to keep going on and on but
just it's always something going on with him so you never know how about uh how about jake what do you
think of jake clown yeah he's a clown who you got in the tyson fury uh uh uh jake paul fight
or do you care Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy
Or Tommy Fear,
Tyson would be the same result.
Tyson,
I think,
because he's,
can Tommy Fury even fight, though?
Like, really?
I don't know.
He looks fucking huge, by the way.
I don't know.
But I know that Jake can't fight.
Can't fight.
He can't fight, so.
Would you look at it as a joke if someone,
if your team was like,
yo,
we want you to fight Jake Paul?
Would you be like,
yeah,
I laugh at him?
Like,
you want me to fight him?
You think it'll ever come to the point
where you're going to mix into,
I mean, you're obviously doing the real ship,
but whatever mixed into the point
where the money's big enough for you to take...
I feel, as though, in my career,
I can't do that right now.
Why I say that?
Because I ain't put in enough work.
Like, I ain't...
I'm not a Floyd Mayweiler.
I ain't no Manny Packia or no Canelo.
You know what I mean?
I still got Ashley to work to put in.
That's like...
That's like me in that eighth grade
trying to, like, do something like...
Out of this world to somebody
that's already did that.
school work and shit like that so
I think that I actually still
gotta have my foot
on the gas far as boxing
like I gotta completely completely
take over and prove that
take this yeah like if I do that right now
they're gonna just they're gonna look at me as a joke
just as well they look at
Jake Paul you're on too good of a streak to just
yeah I can sidetrack off that
you seem like like you know you're kind of like a quiet
reserved dude yeah I mean
all this shit that leads up to the fight like
sitting here for an hour
I just saw you on a fucking press conference for 30 minutes.
I saw you doing an interview over there.
Do you hate this?
Do you just want to get in the ring and fight,
or do you actually enjoy the prep and all this media and stuff that comes with it?
No, I enjoy everything.
I enjoy it.
Sometimes I get, you know, I get like a little tiring,
but for the most part, I feel as though I ask for all this.
You know how you pray for someone to actually come?
You'd be like, damn.
Like, this shit actually works.
You feel me?
So I think that, you know, sometimes I get tiring, but it's all for the better, the better myself.
You know, I feel as though this is what I need to do to be a star, to be, you know, bigger than the next boxer.
You know, so I always tick it in, even if I don't feel like doing it, I try to get it done.
I guess that's like any job too, right?
Like, blessed to be in the position.
No, but a job is like a job that can be.
People don't like jobs.
They do it because they...
They have to.
Money or they had to, you feel me?
Me, I do it because, you know, I love it.
Or I ask for it.
And then if it get tiring after a while,
sometimes it'll be like, fuck it.
But...
You just got to push just like anything else.
Yeah, for sure.
So are you a heavy favorite against Cruz?
I don't even know.
I don't pay attention to that
because I don't never want to think about, like,
or they think
I'm a...
So if I feel like
I'm a happy favorite,
I feel as though
like I take somebody likely
so I don't even pay attention to that.
I don't even like bet
I need to start betting
on like games and stuff
like football games and shit.
I would expect you to have
some of the partnership
with some sports book
or something by now, right?
Yeah, I don't got none of that.
Can't athletes?
I don't think athletes can do that.
Gaichi?
Gaichi does for you.
Gachie always promoting it.
athlete and pumping
all these tattoos
do they all just connect to one
you're all tatted up all over the place here
yeah it's crazy sick so many tattoos
you got Starface on there by the way but listen
I see a lot of boxes getting that leg tattered
yeah because let's just say I started all this shit
yeah but what is you got Pacino on there right
yeah that's Al Pacino
I love him like I can watch Scarface like
all the time
I just like him because he he was
a person that he lived in his truth.
He didn't, he didn't, I just think that he overdid it when he was doing, like, he started
doing drugs, heavy on drugs.
As an actor or a character?
As an actor.
No, not as a character.
I like Scarface.
That's why I was, that's what I was.
Do you, how do you unwind?
With all this shit going on, you got all these cameras, everything, blah, blah,
how do you unwind?
You watch, are you in any Netflix shows?
I'm into power.
I'm late, but I'm into power right now.
Power is my.
What is power?
I'm sorry, I don't know.
I'm just asking him.
Can you explain to him?
It's basically a dude that, I forgot, I mean, I haven't watched it in a while.
I was on like, I was watching a couple episodes and stuff.
It's really interesting, but it's basically a dude that owns a bunch of, like, clubs, right?
Yeah.
And he's like into the whole, like, it's just a lot.
It's a lot, honestly.
You got to watch it.
Yeah, he has a family deal with him.
Yeah, it's everything.
Family man.
Yeah, his kid don't listen to him.
him.
Yeah, his kids.
Bob's just religious
Squid Games, eh?
I mean, I started Squid Games.
I watched three episodes.
I think people that watch Squid Games
just, they got to be like lunatics.
I just don't get it.
Yeah, I don't understand it either.
I can't get into it.
People that watch Swede Games just,
they got to be crazy, like a little off.
Come on it, have you seen it yet?
Have you started to watch?
Yes.
Well, when did you give up on it?
I couldn't get through the first 15 minutes.
People started getting lit up.
You couldn't keep watching?
I watched the part when they got, like,
When they had to play Greenlight, Real Light or something like that, I watched that.
I was like, nah, I can't watch this.
It was too graphic?
No, it's just crazy.
Like, I think people that watch that got to be sick in the head.
Jesus Christ, all right, I'll stop watching.
For God's sake here.
Oh, my God.
So, Mike, we just had Mike Tyson on the show.
You have a relationship with Mike?
Because people, don't they compare a lot of your style?
Do you have a relationship with you never met someone?
No.
You never met him?
Not really, but I mean, what, so you guys just talked online?
Yeah, we talked on, uh,
We talked on FaceTime.
We talked on live.
That's about it.
But I see, we don't really have a relationship.
I mean, he just liked me as a fighter as I like him as a fighter.
You know, I think that top fighters, they respect each other.
You know what I mean?
Like, people that's, I mean, I feel like all the legends respect me.
Talking about in the sport, in the sport of boxing.
I think they gave me my props.
Who was the coolest guy ever reached out to you?
You're like, damn.
The coolest guy that reached out to me,
probably Drake.
You boys with Drake?
Yeah.
Odell.
A lot of athletes reach out.
Are you boys with Little Baby?
Yeah.
That's my boy.
Yeah.
Yeah, Lil Baby.
He's going crazy right now.
Who?
Little Baby.
Yeah, that's my boy.
I thought you meant Dubbaby.
The Baby's got some shit.
Do you see his Instagram live today?
Oh, that's two to different.
From babies, yeah.
Yeah, that was too big.
The baby went off today on something.
He went, something with, he got in a fight.
You see that?
He got in a fight, like live on Instagram live.
He went live today.
And with his girl got in this.
It's hard to believe that's real.
He was live on Instagram.
I know.
I don't know.
Fucking, it looks kind of fake.
No, he's really what it.
I could tell.
You can't tell.
What do you mean by that, Salaam?
You can't really, if you go off of, like, what you see on the internet,
you all have a different, like, people will say I'm a monster on the internet.
But when you actually meet me, it's like, you see a different person.
That's why I don't know if it's 100% real.
I mean, he went on live and told his baby mama that she was just a side chick.
And it's like right when a single drops too, but I don't know.
Yeah, it's actually, it's going.
Yeah, you never know what the end in that, bro.
Because he could be promoting something, she could be promoting something and just, I don't know.
That's why I just don't mind my business.
because you never know
like y'all can come on and say
y'all don't like each other and they can be a whole
thing for the internet and I be like
I side with you and say fuck him
and be like that whole time y'all's cool
and y'all just now it's just I made a beef with you
out of nothing so it's best for
people to mind that business so you try and stay
off the internet you pay attention to anything
no I'm on the internet but
I just know how to
mind my business because I be having my own stuff
going on so I can't
you know i can't comment on somebody else stuff you know a lot of people we're not
nobody not perfect but people play to be perfect on the internet everybody had that own
problem so do people to people fuck with you at all like in the dms yeah did you get mad
i'm um i used to like right back but now there's literally no point of doing that right there's
no point i can i do that too i don't you do it all the time i know i do i got to stop trust me i got to
I mean, when I first start coming out, I'd start writing back, like, going crazy
at people, but then I'm like, I can't write everybody back.
So now they, people are into trolling now.
Yeah.
Yeah, so if you, like, if you, like, keep up with them and troll with them and shit like that,
it's like they feed off that, so you got to, you got to block it out.
You can't win if you respond at all your fault.
Jake Paul, he's, he's not.
to keep bringing him up, but he liked the troll.
So if you keep going at him, like, he'll troll you.
And people get, like, enjoyment out of it.
So you just got to chill.
Now they're talking about Logan fighting Tyson.
Tyson Fur?
No, Mike.
Oh, my God.
Like, they're talking about that.
Yeah, but actually, too, though.
Is Mike a little older now?
You think he would still, I don't know.
Would he still beat him?
I mean, didn't that come up on our podcast first or no?
I could tell you hate this whole entire fucking...
No, I don't hate it.
I don't hate it.
Really?
Do you watch these things?
Like, do you buy the pay-per-view when he, when Logan fights or Jake fights or any
these guys?
No, not when they fight.
I bought it when Floyd for it.
No, I actually didn't buy it.
We went to, like, a crab spot.
But I definitely watched it, though.
Do you ever think these things are, like, fixed?
Like, the fights that Jake and, like, Logan did?
No, hell no.
I don't think it's fixed because the only reason why I say is not fixed because you,
actually got to do what you say you're going to do like i don't think that they just be like yo go
knock them out and shit like that like people put that money into like just as well like that's
like they can say that this shit fixed that man it's it's a cruise guy like it's not fixed he's actually
trying to win do you think like what they're doing now is good for boxing in your in your opinion
good for the sport or it's not good for the sport i don't think so you don't think so no in what way
Because it's, let's just say like, like me, right?
I've been training since I was seven.
Like, I've been training for, since, 20 years.
Yeah.
And then you got somebody that never done it before
and put on a boxer glove and can make up $1 million.
Like, that's crazy.
You think it brings more, like, eyeballs
and gets people more excited about boxing overall, though?
No.
No?
Because they're only going to pay attention to who they want to pay attention to.
They don't care about it.
They don't even know the other fighters.
They just know this one guy that they're paying attention to.
Once they stop watching him, they're going about that day.
That's like me right now.
I'm a singer and I like a fighter like you.
And then you come in that box.
I don't care about who you fighting.
I like you as a person.
You know what I mean?
After that, I'm going about my day.
Was there rumor you were going to fight McGregor?
Or did somebody ask you once about McGregor?
Somebody probably asked me about McGregor, I say I'll fight him.
When I after Floyd?
I thought I read something online that you did something about McGregor.
Didn't you say you'd beat McGregor in a box to match?
Come on, bro.
I'm a boxer.
He'd lay McGregor out.
Yeah, come on.
I think.
McGregor's on some shit right now, too.
He's out for how long?
Didn't McGregor just get hurt, right?
in the last UFC event?
That guy's got us out a record
for a Guinness Book of, like,
assault charges soon.
He just punched a DJ and shit.
Oh, yeah,
he threw some shit in the guy in the-
Yeah, I think so.
Would you ever tap into the M-MA,
like, fighting M-M-A fighters?
Or would you just strictly boxing for you?
I mean, if they pay me,
like, I know they probably won't pay me,
like, a boxer match,
but if they pay me enough, like,
that I'm comfortable with it,
I'll fight a M-M-A fighter.
You'd go into the Octagon.
Yeah.
Because no one's done that yet.
You do that?
Yeah.
Really.
But who's going to...
Actually, people have done it, but not recently.
Like, you can't kick me in the face.
Like, can you kick him in the face?
Yeah, yeah, you can do that.
You got everything.
Knees, elbows.
Yeah, you got to be careful before you give that answer here.
Take downs.
No, I still do it.
Because you got to think about it.
I slip punches.
So if somebody can kick me from all the way down here, I deserve to get kicked.
You just have to choose someone that's maybe like not a big wrestler or some.
shit no somebody just yeah i gotta fight somebody like in my weight class
because i don't think nobody like get me like somebody in my weight getting me down like
pinning me like i don't i don't see that because we you i'm from the hood like we use a
like that's what we do like what's the difference in gloves though sorry go ahead
first thing we do is like if we can't if first thing we do we're going to swing and then from the
swing we picking you up and slamming like that's just said if i'm fighting right now on
the street i'm not going to just straight box you i'm gonna swing and then i'm gonna pick you up
you're going up in the air do you do you guys like usually just hash it out like back then
like when you were in baltimore like you just fight hash it out that's it like i used to be like
we used to have like a gang like how we is in the ring we used to have like a gang of people
that used to fight oh you guys just all brawl each other we was crazy bro i don't even want to
see what we used to do on like yeah
You ever heard of point them out, knock him out?
I think I've heard of that.
Definitely.
No, I haven't.
Yeah, we should do, like.
Don't elaborate, I would pull it up, pick up is, or whatever?
Just pull it out.
Just Google that.
Point them out, knock him out?
Yeah.
Just listen to it.
Point them out, knock them out.
Wow.
So someone points, and then you have to knock the guy up.
Oh, man, that's what it sounds like.
Yeah, it doesn't seem too complicated.
It seems like it just is what it is.
So have you ever gotten beaten the street fight?
I got jumped
I got jumped by my homeboys
so we went to go fight
and my uncle used to work
at a building
like a building that we was
like near what we was fighting at
so he called me so
I go
I go and see what he wanted
I'm like man we're up here
like doing whatever we're doing then
I ran back so they thought I ran
on them like fighting-wise
so they jumped me
So, boom
So when they jumped me
I'm like, all right
The next day in school
It was school
And I get up in the morning
I get all my stuff
I tell my uncle like
I'm going in here
And if I see any one of them
They're going to be calling you about like
12, 12, 30
So I see one of them
I take out my book bag
He was like, you shouldn't know
And I just stole them
I just hit him in his mouth
And we got into it soon
you know, they caught
him my uncle, going crazy,
talking about, this one I used to fight in school
like, I used to fight in school
like every day, bro.
So there's a lot of detentions or suspensions
in school? Yeah, I used to fight in school, like.
And then you get, you get sent
to the principal's office?
Yeah, or expelled.
Or expelled. You've been expelled?
Yeah.
I'm sorry, we all have our, listen, I mean, I were
expelled, but I used to try to make people laugh a lot
so I used to always do things that got me suspended in trouble.
Never used to fight people. I couldn't do that.
Back to the MMA thing.
We're good friends with Dana, Dana White.
We were having dinner with him last night.
I don't know if you've seen those, you know the kids that,
you've seen the kid that looks like a baby that's like Khabib's friends?
So he was telling us that they're actually in negotiation to put,
you've seen the two kids fighting though.
Cole, you should pull it up if you can.
Hasbullah.
They're going to fight each other?
Dana told me he's actually like trying to make it happen.
And it would be over there?
In the octagon.
They're older though, right?
They're 19.
They're 19 years old.
Yeah, yeah, isn't that funny?
So they're not like little people, but they're just like, I'm not sure what the
diseases, but they're just like, they look like babies.
But, and they actually don't like each other.
They don't like each other.
Wow.
I don't know.
They just don't fuck with each other.
Like they fought, they were pushing each other at the, you should find the video,
cool.
Yeah, there's a video of them like on YouTube probably pushing each other.
Yeah, I thought they were like three or four years old.
I did not know they were.
Yeah, though they were five, six years.
So they understand what they, like, they understand what they're doing.
I guess.
You know Khabib, right?
Yeah.
So the one kid's from the same small Russian town, Dagestan.
So I guess he became friends with Khabi and now, I don't know who this other, the other little guy is.
But he's a little fireball too and they're just fucking full of energy and they just want to go out of it.
Angelo, I like him.
This is my guy right there.
He's fucking funny.
What he's saying, though?
He's awesome.
Oh my god
These are two people don't like each other.
I don't know.
I think I just love fighting.
Oh, he with the shit.
Oh, shit.
That happened in Abu Dhabi, right?
I would buy that.
fight all day.
Yeah, I would watch that.
I would watch that all day.
That would be interesting to see.
I just thought since Dana was against the whole, like, obviously, you know, Jake Paul
stuff that he wouldn't want to do this type of thing.
But last night he was, like, dead serious about it.
What if they get hurt, though?
That's what I asked them, but he said, obviously, they have to look into it with the
doctors and stuff like that and see if it's.
I don't know if there be, is there a lot of knockout power in those punches?
I think the guy with the blues, I think, I think the guy you liked would get fucked up.
The other guy looked like he had some, he had like a good stance and shit.
It's funny how they're in a suit and they, like, like.
Can you imagine?
Beetlejuice.
I like Beetlejuice, too.
Yeah.
Why?
Was he trying to fight?
Nah.
He'd be always in my DM talking about you trying to fight.
So back to your shit in December.
So who's walking you out?
I don't know.
Who do you think should walk you up?
You should get baby.
I mean, yo, Moneybag did that thing.
When Moneybag walked out...
Little baby would be hard.
A little baby will be hard.
Drake?
You're laughing at.
What?
No, little baby would be hard.
Travis Scott?
I'll walk in.
If you want me to walk you out, I will.
I don't think it'll probably.
probably be that good, but...
Would you let us walk you out?
Yeah, y'all can walk me out.
They're like, who the fuck are these three?
No, but it got to be with someone.
Like, I can't just have...
Yo, baby, you can't have us.
We don't have no firepower to walk you out?
The hood's not going to go crazy if fucking Bob Menry walks out.
Tank, you know?
No.
Baltimore's going to be sitting down.
No, I'm saying.
Y'all can walk me up, but it got to be like also an artist.
Baby, baby.
Three of us, little baby, Drake.
We'll just be in the background casually.
Yeah.
y'all could like but you gotta do something crazy it can't be like
no we're not just gonna walk you up what little baby song
you bumping if little baby were to walk you out
you like a girls want girls guy or more of like a we paid
yeah we can't listen to i mean i can't listen to girls want girls
walking out it got to be like something like i always want to
i don't want to get my strategy away because people
people pick up on it's a strategy to the walkout yeah
It's a strategy that everything
I feel like forget that by a little baby
Would Go Hard
I like that song
What's that? Forget that
Forget that you know what I'm something
I think you should drove people off you like the Jurassic Park theme or something
Like
It can be
No
It can be like that Harry Potter
It got to be something that like
Can you
That would be the Harry Potter song
Would be hard
I'll dress up as Harry Potter
And you can dress up as fucking Dumbledore
We'll come out and walk you out
No it can't be that
But
uh what is that bad
that would be funny bro
do you follow the uh no sex rule during the uh fighting
i mean by the way i wonder that too yeah
because didn't we talk on before
who else who do we talk about before there's no sex during the fight stuff
we just spoke to somebody
Jake said that now and what he said
he said you can't fuck around
he's not about boxers shut up
okay okay you're right I'll listen to you
so you don't follow that
You can't listen to somebody that just started fighting
He don't even know
Is this your biggest bag yet you're getting in this fight?
Is this your biggest bag?
As you stare at the earrings?
No, I know.
They're growing bigger by the fucking minute.
I don't know.
Yeah, I actually really wonder that
So you don't.
You don't follow it.
Follow the no sexual, yeah.
People is different.
Like, you got to do what fit you.
So for you,
I mean, does it fit you?
I mean...
Why you switched to the sex, actually?
I wonder.
No, I really wonder.
Does it calm me down in the ring, or I don't know?
No, but if you not have sex, right, and you're training, like, say that I train, like, for, like, four or five weeks and don't do nothing.
You'd be so tensed up that, like...
I get, like, four.
48 hours before to like get like pissed off or some shit but why five weeks like that doesn't
like you got to you have to you got to you got to stay dialed too right because if you don't
then you're probably going to want to go out and like dude i'm handing me to release some stress sometimes
yeah it's a balance i don't think just like just stop like completely but back in the day fighter
used to do that though i just think they wasn't getting the way's what do you do like
Probably not
What do you do like after a fight?
Like what's the lifestyle like after like a W?
He's going to hang with Hasbullah in Dubai.
Like how long do you just like not like train for?
Yeah, I won't go to Dubai, bro.
Dubai's fuck.
Well, we actually were in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi's for 12 minutes.
I want to go to Perth too.
Let's keep making that joke.
Sorry, go ahead.
I want to go to Perch too.
You win this fight.
What's the immediate after part?
Yeah, like what's after like a W?
Like when do you, how long do you take off?
Prior to the club
I think
I think everybody go to
Like they want to celebrate
Even if it's not the club
It's something
You're not going to Davidin Busters after a fight right
It's something
You don't have to drink or nothing
Just enjoy yourself
That's like you're winning a big championship
Like
That's only if you win
If you don't win
Just sit your ass in the house
Are you enjoying yourself with women as well
like after a fight or are you just there to just have a good time on your own
the fuck I wonder no I wonder
I may probably be women there
definitely gonna be women I don't want to party with a bunch of
Full set and podcast hosts
yeah he's not partying with fucking me and you after the fight you know
no y'all can come but it's definitely gonna be
do you have to pay that bill after after you go out
are you the guy that has to pay that bill or is it
I'm not paying nothing
No?
Who covers it then?
Somebody else.
Somebody.
It ain't going to be me.
I probably don't pay the bill for like
that next.
The club probably does it, right?
The club's like come hang out.
We want you to fucking come here.
We'll stock you up, do whatever the fuck you.
No, but if you go over, like say if they pay,
like they tell you like they got a set,
like they're paying you like $20,000 to come to the club.
Then they give you an extra like $3,000 that you can
spending the club like far as getting bottles and things like that but I don't drink so I get the
bottles and just pass them out you don't drink at all no I used to drink but I don't drink
when did you stop right before my last fight because drinking like drinking it made me something
I'm not you know some days it might make me like loud and crazy and some days it may make me
angry no I just don't want to be like somebody that I can't control myself so I just
just stop and then it made me blow up it'll make me like gain a lot of weight you know so
and I'm a person that always want to be on point like when I'm outside so I can't drink and do
all that if I do drink it's wine little wine night yeah you're right or water bottles of wine
at the club I think it's my age I'm 27 now so nice getting a little yeah red wine slaps actually
the drinking was like messing up the next day as well yeah like it was just too much yeah
That shit, like I get up with a headache
It's like a day's wasted, right?
Yeah, I feel you.
The hang-up is throw you off.
Drinking really is bad, like, I ain't going to lie.
Drinking is really like, if you drink, that's drink.
And then the whole, not to bring up the internet
with the football player, but he was drunk.
Oh, yeah, shit.
His life went by-bye.
Yeah.
Well, the drinking and driving shit, that's fucking crazy.
Yeah.
You were never a big weed guy.
You said you only smoke once?
Yeah, I smoked when I was 10.
10 years old?
Yeah, smoking with my brother over there.
Did you get, like, paranoid?
No, yeah, I freaked out.
I've had the same.
Do you see the football player blame, like, the fire department or some shit?
Or the defense guy that was his, like, defense?
Was that the fire department didn't show up fast enough?
Yeah, that's a terrible situation would happen.
That was awful.
How she couldn't get out, though?
I mean, their car, I think, I mean, I don't know.
Didn't she, like, walk out alive?
Car was pretty obviously told us.
He hit her at, like, 125 miles per hour.
He was going 156
And I think hit her
That's what I said
Probably drink
Well he was drunk right
Yeah
Drinking and driving
That's a whole other level
Drinking just period
That's just
I mean if you know how to control yourself
You had somebody that like
They're with you
Then okay
But
Drink it just
People that just don't know
How to control that self
Off a liquor
And I'm one of them people
So I'd rather cut the whole
Cut it off
Because I don't want to be like
messed up or
make a mistake that I hurt somebody else
or hurt myself
so I say stop drinking
a lot of stuff too is the weight
and you have to make weight
and all this stuff too
so that probably has something to do with it too
and then it'd be like
if I'm not fighting
and I drink all the way till I fight again
it's like I'm blowing up like 40 30 pounds
now I gotta lose
then it's like
because you had issues in the past
and make a weight
you got stripped of a title
for missing weight?
Yeah, and shrimp from money.
What do you blame that on?
Drinking.
No, no, it wasn't drinking.
I take that bad.
It was from,
I ain't have like a chef.
So I was out here eating Sonic every day.
Yeah, Sonic.
Sonic?
And Slushies, drinking slushies.
Oh, they are so good, though.
I don't blame you, dude.
Yeah.
Those things are so good.
So no more slushies.
Y'all don't like Sonic?
Sonic, like, Sonic, like, two years ago.
Yeah, I mean, it's trash now.
I mean, not, sorry.
It looks good on TV.
Why can you see Sonic's trash?
That's all right.
If you feel Sonic's trash, you can save them.
I might want to deal with them.
Yeah, but there's many of them out there.
They're not going to do anything.
If you feel it's trash and don't do it, you know?
You ever, you ever get pep talks before, before your fight?
Like, somebody just hype you up, you know?
Floyd.
Floyd.
Floyd?
But he remind me, like, he don't hype me up, but he reminds me, like, that who I am.
What was the greatest thing he's ever said that's, like, stuck with you?
Like.
Greatest thing Floyd said?
Yeah.
He said a lot of things, bro.
I can't really say off the top of the head, but he said a lot of great things.
But he's one of your big, big mentors.
He's the guy.
So when you go to for, you know, he's your guy
that's hyping you up before the fight.
Yeah, he's not the guy that hype me up,
but he's the guy that's, he's the main guy that's in my corner.
Like, you know how, like, you know, like,
like your supporter type of stuff,
like your friend, like, he's one of them guys
that make sure, like, make sure you on your game.
Like, that's the guy that, like,
I'm saying, like, fight night.
When I'm in the ring, I'm going into the dressing room
and all that, he's the one to be like,
always in my face like he'd be this close like yeah he's that guy
I appreciate him for that too I ain't just really realized that to just now
that he is the main guy that be in my corner so you're a new dad yeah how is that
how was that how was the old dad um I had another girl crazy you have one you have one you have
one baby?
No, two.
Two babies.
Two girls.
Two girls.
Wow.
Yeah.
How's that change shit?
I mean, buy more guns.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, I can't imagine in the future dating your daughter ever something like that.
Hypothetically, some guy having to come to the door and deal with you.
Nah.
Me, I just be more, I just want her to, she could talk to me, well, both of them.
They could talk to me about anything.
That's the only main thing.
That's how I say.
Don't never hide nothing from me.
Like, you got always talk to me.
Because I'm not nobody to judge.
I didn't did a lot of stuff.
So for you to, you know, feel though that you got to hide something for me,
I think that's bad.
So I will always let that be known for my daughters that.
Just if you, anything, because that's how Calvin was to me.
No matter what it is, don't hide nothing from me.
But I'm here.
that's how I think
that I want my
doors that don't hide nothing from you.
Yeah, they're saying you've got to bounce, but
so when's the fight?
December 5th
in Los Angeles at the
Staples Center on a Sunday.
We got to put, we got to go, we should go.
What is it, Showtime? Paperview.
Showtime paper.
Yeah, make sure, if y'all want to come
and get your information, so.
Let's do it.
I love that.
Well, we 100% support you.
wish the best of luck yeah yeah but keep it up i think you're definitely need it you need it
you know luck all right well then we'll give you some great things man yeah hope it up bro i love that
i love that on the next uh interview the next fucking press conference or something right
uh hopefully not i love that well i appreciate you coming in brother yeah thank you bro
right dude appreciate it bro it's great and we won't walk you out we won't hold you to that don't worry