The Code To Winning - MENTALITY IT TAKES TO BE A PRO-BOXER || LOLO HARRIS || EPISODE 051

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

In this episode, we sit down with Lolo Harris, a rising professional boxer born in San Bernardino, California. At just 21 years old, Lolo has already built an impressive 11-1 record with 7 knockouts, proving himself as one of the most exciting young fighters to watch.   Trained alongside some of the best in the sport, including the same coaches who work with current pound-for-pound king Terence Crawford, Lolo opens up about the mentality it takes to compete at the highest level. He shares why boxing isn’t just a sport for him—it’s everything—and how discipline, focus, and mindset fuel his journey inside and outside the ring.   This conversation dives into his path so far, the lessons he’s learned in the gym and under the lights, and what the future holds for a fighter determined to leave his mark on boxing.

How did you end up getting into boxing? Well, you know, I started when I was six years old. You know, my dad got me into boxing when I was six. You know, he always had me fighting the apartments with other little kids and stuff like that, you know, and always have me doing like push-ups. You know, I was always doing like five sets of like 50 push-ups at an age of six years old.

Do you adjust your fighting style according to who you fighting with? Yeah, yeah. That's for every boxer that steps in the ring. When they're fighting against a style, they got a lot. They got to, you know, if it's a counterpunch or if it's a pressure fighter or, you know, or both. You never know what you get. You got to be the one as a fighter in there to adjust to that style. I know there's one thing that you definitely don't like.

It's the 11 you like, but the one, you probably like, you don't like that as well. However, I often notice people always have a great mentality's setback and a comeback where they know that they have a why and so forth. So when you look back at your loss, how did that impact your mind? mindset and how did you bounce back stronger? The code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. Today we have a very, very unique guest, special guest, amazing story. He is a professional boxer with the same trainers as Terrence Crawford, my favorite boxer right now.

It's going to be an interesting interview. We're going to be learning a bit about like him being in the Mayweather camp. He's only 21 years of age, born and seven. Bernardino, California. Without further, due, our amazing guest today in the studio in the City of Angels, we're going to welcome Lolo Harris. How you doing, brother? I'm doing good.

I appreciate you having me. Awesome stuff. Thank you so much, man. I want to get straight into it, man. I mean, 21 years old. I don't know why I thought like you know, 22 must have been like an era right there. 21 years old, 11 and 1 record. Personally, where are you right now in your boxing career?

Where am I? My boxing career right now? Well, I'm 12, 5'10. You know, I'm only 21 years old. I'm still growing, you know, getting better and better each fight, you know. And we're just taking it step by step right now. Just keep climbing, trying to climb ranks, that's all. Awesome stuff.

I mean, you're Lolo Harris. How about you tell a bit of our guests, a bit about yourself, like the history. How did you end up getting into boxing? Well, you know, I started when I was six years old. You know, my dad got me into boxing when I was six, you know. He always had me fighting the apartments with other little kids and stuff like that, you know, and always had me doing, like, pushups. You know, I was always doing, like, five sets of, like, 50 pushups at the age of six years old.

And so I was always strong, you know, and already, like, athletic, you know. And then, you know, we just went from there after, you know, fighting with different kids. and things like that. And was the year in California, you were in like, when did you start getting trainers and all that kind of stuff? When did you start getting a professional trainer when you started taking the sports series? I mean, I always took it serious, you know,

but when I would say when I really got more into it, I would say when I started competing. Okay. Or I would say actually when I started sparring, which was kind of like at the age of eight years old, seeing, you know, my potential, like, oh, I'm really good at this sport, you know, and as I got older and older, you know, I just seen that, you know, I can fight. So, say, at the age of eight years old, yeah.

So personally for me, I finished high school, like in 2010 or so, but looking back in high school, I, there's a lot of, I'd say, just stupid. school fights that, you know, you know, I was involved in and stuff with friends and you usually get over over small things, dispute some understandings, and you get over it as well. However, I've noticed many people say a street fight and boxing is completely different. Can you kind of like give the disparities and the differences between the two? Have you been in both, first of all? I have, but I would say the last street fight been in, it's probably like middle school. Yeah, I haven't fought in a street fight in so long.

I don't really remember it like that. Okay. But it is a big difference. In what way? Well, in street fights, it's like people, people are just like, just trying to take your head off. Although the same thing with boxing, man. Yeah, I'm the same thing in boxing. Your last fight, you want to take the guy's head off, bro.

So what are you talking about? Well, well, it's more strategy to it, though. It's more strategy to it when you're boxing inside the ring, you know, then in a You're not really thinking you're going off of anger in a street fight. When you're in a boxing room you're not really going off of anger. Going off of what you're thinking and thinking ability and skills and so on. And then mentally what's one of the hardest things when you're doing boxing? Because I notice people start speaking about your legs.

I once watched a fight actually with your uncle Eva and when one of the guy was getting up, it's like, oh look, look, his legs, his legs and like what's the mentality behind that? I don't fully understand. I don't know what I would say is the hardest thing in boxing. For you personally? For me personally, I can't tell you. I'm kind of like used to everything that I do. So I don't know what the hardest thing is, I would say, in boxing is.

Okay. And I mean, you were in the May weather camp, and can you kind of give us a bit of that experience when you met him and like being around there? And how was it like the feeling with one of the greatest boxes? Oh, man, it's great. It wasn't actually, actually it wasn't a camp. Okay.

It was just, I met him when I was 16 years old. That was the first time I met him. And he got to see me spar in Vegas. I got to spar in front of him in Vegas. So that was, that was crazy. Just him watching me spar. He fell in love with my style and fell in love with, you know, how I was as a person probably.

And then went on from there. You know, I came back years. later when I was 20 years old and got to spar in front of him again. And he was like, man, you know, you look familiar. I was like, you don't remember me from when you seen me sparring at 16 years old. And I kind of, I guess I refreshed his memory. Like, oh, yeah. Tell me his team's been looking for me, trying to get in contact with me.

Yeah, man, we just went from there. I like Floyd. He's a cool guy. I respect him a lot. And for someone who doesn't know what sparring is, like what is sparring? Sparring is basically just practice, practice before a fight or just practice in general, going against somebody else in the ring, but yeah, just practice, practice basically, yeah. I grew up watching Floyd, matter of fact, the Pacio fight, I was in South Africa at that time,

and because of the time zone, I think we had like a big, it was in Vegas, yeah, it was in Vegas, I remember it was in Vegas and time difference between Johannesburg and Las Vegas. I think it was probably nine hours. And so we are watching it in the early hours of the morning. I think like four or five o'clock in the morning. But just looking back at that, what's your style of fight? Like what's kind of your style? I would consider myself as a boxer puncher.

Okay. Boxer puncher. And what is that? That's being able to box and being able to punch. too with it like I haven't seen some some snap on your punch so like Muhammad Ali yeah I would say boxer puncher yeah like Muhammad Ali that's a good one okay one one of the things I also notice like there's a obviously with like your 11 and 1 record it's chess what if you meet like somebody that's got a similar like fighting style to you

what if you meet someone that's a bit more like on like a counter attack you know what I'm saying I don't know like what of the certain terms in terms of like striking all that. Like do you adjust your fighting style according to who you fighting with? Yeah, yeah. That's for every boxer that steps in the ring. When they're fighting against a style, they got to, you know, if it's a counterpuncher, if it's a pressure fighter or, you know, or both.

You never know what you get. You got to be the one as a fighter in there to adjust to that style. You know, so. Okay. And then who's your favorite boxer? My favorite fighter right now. Yeah. My favorite fighter right now will be Terrence Crawford.

Okay. So we have a lot in common, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. Now, before I kind of get into these other ones, what would you say is probably like in your career, or I mean 11-1 and you, like, the trajectory that you're going at with the low 11 wins,

who would you say style are you bottling the most after? I wouldn't say anybody style. Actually, I don't say I got my own style that I'm, that I fight like that's just, I was just me in my opinion. I got my own style. Okay. All right. And is anyone that it's closely related to then?

Or is it completely like your kind of style? Completely my style. Okay, I love that. I love that. Yeah. Now I love the, bro, there's so much confidence in your, like, I mean, I only saw two or this. I saw two of them in the highlight rails, but there's a level of of grit and like it's just persistent.

And you said it's not even your best fight, the one I saw when you were completely like striking the guy and it was just, you were relentless, you know? And so that's one of the things I'd say that's different with the street fight is that man, after a few punches, stamina starts like kicking your head. And of course it's something you do when you're super young. I've never been involved in that since probably like 2009, 2010, high school kind of stuff. But like looking back, it's like, you know, the stamina just kicks in. But I know like with boxes, the mentality side of things, a lot of like stamina is involved,

a strategy, understanding the opponent. And so what does preparation look like for you in like a fight night? Do you have any rituals, any mantras, anything that you end up like doing as you prepare for a fight night. Well, when we're at camp, yeah, I can't give away too much, but I will say we're training every day, basically Monday through Saturday, you know, and sometimes even on Sundays too. A lot of running, swimming, strength conditioning, and boxing,

all in just combining that all in one, just every single day, you know. So it's no day. off and can't. That's how us fighters always come in shape. I love that man. And now I know there's one thing that you definitely don't like. It's the 11 you like, but the one you probably like, you don't like that as well. However, I often notice people always have a great mentality setback and a comeback where they know that they have a why and so forth. So when you look back at your loss, how did that impact your mindset And how did you bounce back stronger?

Well, first off, everything happens for a reason, you know. Everything is always in God's plan. So, you know, I took the loss when I was 16 due to not knowing how to cut weight. So weight problems, you know, like that. And I bounced back by getting with the right team, the right team in boxing, you know, the right professional team that's going to know how to cut weight the right way and give me gems and help me out and with little things like that.

And just not even that, just getting better as a fighter inside the ring. So I would say, yeah, that. And then what's your ultimate goal, like short term and long term right now in your boxing career? Well, I want to be the best, best Lolo I can be in the sport, you know,

going, yeah, going long term. I want to be the best loo I can be in this boxing. You know, I want to leave a mark for sure in this sport, you know. And, yeah, and take care of my family, me and my family. And obviously, I notice a lot of boxes as well. They all is this like a historical background as to why you end up pursuing, like, the sport. was there any upbringing that kind of like led to you to pursue the specific goal and dream to become a professional boxer um uh nah i wouldn't say so okay zero whatsoever just your dad sort of

like big new 50 push-ups and before you knew it you started training with terence crawford yeah praying a lot you know praying a lot and yeah basically yeah my dad getting me getting me started took off took off from there so now I love that man so so now like I'm grateful like to hear about the experience like you know training in front of Mayweather seeing him meeting him like when you were 16 and older as well right now you have the same trainers as Terrence Crawford you know and you kind of the same camp right yeah okay same camp and how does it feel knowing that not only you You have the same trainer, but you're amongst one of the people you look up to on a day-to-day basis.

It feels great, you know, because I feel like my team is not just a team to me, or Crawford is not just, you know, just any, just Crawford to me. They're like family, family, family away from home, you know. All my coaches, not even just them, my teammates, everyone is just like a family away from home. So. No, and the reason I also like Terrence Crawford, it's not the fact that he's such a great boxer, but it's the humility that he has with the record he has and what a relentless, like, fighter it is, which I told you, and I want to ask you this question, the fight, one of the biggest fights of the decade is going to be happening.

Obviously, you see him on a day-to-day, like on a regular basis. You guys got the same trainer. I don't want you to be biased in the question I'm about to ask you right now. So the fight. The fight of the decade is about to happen September. Terence Crawford and Canello, one on one. In your opinion, I'm going to put this off of social media. I'm letting you know.

In your opinion, who is going to win the fight of the decade? In my opinion, Terence Crawford. Are you being non-biased? Non-biased. Why? Because I know who he is in that ring and I know who Terence Crawford is. You know, I've been in camps, been in so many camps with him. I've shared the ring with him myself.

And I just know what he's capable of doing in that ring. And I appreciate that, man. I appreciate that. Now, I mean, 21 years old, 11 and 1, what's the vision and trajectory for Lolo Harris? Me being 21 years old, you know, you said the vision. Yes. division for me. Just to continue

just being me, you know, being me and getting better and getting better and better in this sport and just continuing to advance. Okay. I liked this one I want to touch on as well. What is the most powerful piece of

advice that you've received that you've carried into every fight and training session? From mentor, father figure, dad, who else? To be myself. Okay. I would say to be myself, I get that a lot for my coach. My coaches and my dad, you know, every time I step in the ring,

even if it's just sparring to be myself. So every time I spar or when I step, you know, when I fight in the ring, I was going with that mentality to be myself. Because when I'm myself in the ring, it's hard for somebody to deal with somebody like me. Awesome. And you guys train Monday to Saturday every single day for how many hours? Oh man, total total? Yes.

Probably like seven to eight total. A day? A day. Okay. And is it kind of four? It's different sessions. Okay. What are you guys focus on in the trainings?

I mean, I know you can review only so much, but like. Whoa. And what? In boxing? Yeah. And we focus on every little thing, you know. We focus on, you know, the highs and the lows, the weaknesses. everything we focus on on all of that because at the end of the day we're getting better you know we're

trying to get better in this in this boxing so okay and then um right now um when's your next fight uh i don't got an official date yet but um it's looking like maybe maybe um in mid august right before you're you potentially know you mean you're smiling right now do you potentially know who your your next fight is might be No, I don't, I don't know yet. Okay. And how does that work, though? Who gets the fights?

Is it like a manager, as your trainer? How does it work behind the scenes? Like when cards are created? I've always been curious about that. The manager of who I'm fighting for, send opponents. Okay. Send different opponents. You know, and then we choose out of those opponents who we fight.

Okay. You know, so. Was it both sets you guys meet? Both managers meet for two old camps, so how does that work? Because I know it's different to what YouTube boxing is where people call each other out on Twitter. There's like a main event, KSI, Logan Paul. Yeah, it's different from that.

Trash talk the entire time. So I was like, I've always just trying to figure it out like how does it work behind the scenes. Well, I don't know from the other part, but I know from my part would be sent different opponents and we choose that one, you know, then they're just, you know, they're just go back, manager goes back and tells that person, you know, you guys want to fight Charles Harris, you know, you guys want to fight him, and then it comes in agreement, you know, the rest is history, signing the papers and all of that. So, okay, okay, that kind of,

takes two to tango. All right. But then how does it work when you become like a contender, when you want to challenge for a title? Like, do you have to have a certain amount of record, or how does that work? What division are you currently in right now, actually? I fight in 140. Okay. Junior World War II. Okay. And if you want to challenge for the championship, like what do you have to do for that?

I just got to keep winning. Okay. I got to keep winning and building up, going up in ranks first before that, before the contender, the union, the champion and all that. I got to just focus on is one fight at a time and just to keep winning. Okay. So you're 21 right now in about five years of time. 26. Co-twinning is going to be one of the biggest podcasts at that one time, right?

So we'll do another interview by then. What or where do you think you're going to be in the next five years when I interview you? The next five years. You've got manifest this to the universe, so you'll be careful what you say right now. Successful. Successful. I would say successful in the next five, five years. That's powerful.

Successful. That's the key word. I like that, man. a lot. A second last question before we conclude. I always, I mean, if we're going to be talking about boxing, I need to know all time. Give me your four Mount Rashball greatest boxes of all time. Of all time, I'm talking like even freaking 1945 straight after the World War II, brother. Of all time. You know what's crazy? I never really watched old school boxing like that. You didn't watch like Ali, like, oh.

I never really got into old school boxing like that. Okay, no joke phrase. I'll maybe get into maybe like Old Florida or stuff like that or Marvin Hagler, but I never really watched a lot of old school. Okay. Yeah, so. All right. Let me just give you mine then, you know.

What's yours, man? Ali, Tyson. Floyd has to be there. Okay. Floyd has to be there. And it's so hard to put the fourth one because. Because it's like Sugaray, Lenin, there's like, I'm not, I wouldn't even say Lenox Lewis. There's a few other people.

Like, Freud has to be there. I think the fourth spot could potentially be a Lolo Harris one day. So that's why I'm leaving that open. I appreciate that. So as we conclude right now, I ask each guest this towards the end because the podcast is called the co-winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. In your definition, like Lolo Harris today, what is your definition? of winning my definition of winning I would say my definition of winning is the

same at what I just said before I'm being successful I would say I mean there's no other way to put it just being successful awesome stuff brother if you could let our viewers know if I don't know if they want to get a hold of you for promotional purposes or anything like an email address or like IG and so forth as well just let us know by looking at the camera you guys can follow me on on Instagram at Lolo the code is underscore one I don't really be on any other social media is like no Twitter and none of that so you guys could could follow me on Instagram awesome the code winning insights you need today to seize the world

tomorrow Lolo Harris thank you very much brother appreciate you thank you thank you