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Episode Date: June 30, 2025

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Today is press conference number two, for Canelo versus Crawford. They just had the first one out in Saudi Arabia. and I thought Canello kind of laid down the law on Terrence Crawford a little bit, not to the degree that Turkey-Ala shake laid down the law to pretty much everybody in boxing, but I thought that Canello won the first one. If there is a winner of press conferences, he looked more stoic, he was telling Terrence he wasn't any different than anyone he'd ever face.

But we're back on U.S. soil. We're in New York, and I don't know if that's going to give Terence Crawford any energy, but if that doesn't, I've heard a little rumor saying that there's going to be some more faces involved with this press conference some teases going on about not only who's involved with this presser but who's involved with this fight the big name personalities are lining up let's take a look at this thing and break it down who potentially looks like they're getting the better of the second press conference we got one more in Vegas but today they made it back to new york canello versus crawford second press conference breakdown let's go let's get ready to rumbo classic classic look at this crowd this

is the energy this press conference needed. You've seen some of the talk online, people saying, oh, they may be too buddy, buddy. Listen, I don't need them to be hurling insults at each other or, you know, going crazy, but I do need some intensity. This is a massive fight. You're talking about Bud Crawford trying to become three-time undisputed.

You're talking about Canelo Alvarez, putting another historic name on his hit list, and now is the undisputed at 168. This needs some big fight feel in this crowd. If it wasn't already feeling that way, this crowd is definitely going to make it. Got him walking in front of it. Okay.

Got him walking in front of the States first. He's getting booed. I mean, again, oh, he said four times, and then Bud looked at the crowd and said five times. Dang, I guess Canelo is the favorite here in New York. I like it. Canello clearly is the superstar globally that Terrence is just not right now,

which is another reason Terrence taking this fight makes sense for him, right? You get the Canello rub. Pause. You've potentially beat Canelo. and you get some of the shine that he already has across the world. Damese caballeros de halisko, Haro, Sao, Canelo. Let's go. Michael Buffer rolling our, son.

I'll tell you what, they are on board. Canelo is definitely the baby face here. Big H.E. Wait, why did they sit Turkey on Canelo's side again? I guess because Canelo's the champ, but Turkey said last time, I don't know why they put me here. I want to be in the side of Crawford. He's taking sides.

And again, I have a feeling. I know who's about to come out. And they should make him take Canelo's side. The raining. The raining! Defending! Give me data white, damn it. I need you to understand.

We have at the table the most expensive boxing contract ever happened before. First off, I think the Canelo contract by itself, I don't know what the number ended up being that Turkey signed Canello for the four-fight deal he signed him for. But it was massive. If it's the most expensive in boxing history, I mean, that would have to mean that both of them are getting paid more than Lloyd and Manny Pachial got for their fight. And didn't they get something like, I don't want to misquote, but not to pocketwides here, but I just wondering, didn't they both get something over like 150 million each? If that's the case, good Lord. Oh my God.

Whatever the number, I'm just happy we're getting it. Give the flag of the conference to my brother and dear friend Dana White. Let's go! Let's go! Dana walking out in the T-shirt and jean, son. Got the Canelo versus Crawford shirt on. It's a little, it's fitting a little tight, Dana. It's fitting a little tight.

Yeah, you got the gun season out, but we got to get Gary Breka back on the phone, son. Zufa boxing, okay? up New York. Thanks for coming out today. We appreciate it. All right, let's get this started. Who's got the first question? Oh, we're going straight to the media. Dana didn't start by saying anything. He went straight to media. This is very interesting. Okay, you don't see a lot of boxing press conferences like this, or at least not like what you're about to see. Dana is going to run this like a UFC press conference, which I think personally works a little better for combat sports. You don't have a lot

of the fluff where you get both guys to come up to the podium and their coaches come up to the podium. You really just get into what the people or what the fans or whoever's going to ask questions want to ask. The question for you, Crawford, would be, obviously there's a bonus now for a knockout. Are you going to be looking for that bonus? If so, and what style? I'm hunting them. That's it. I'm hunting everything that he got. And I'm going to take it come September 13. Yeah. There you go, Bull. Bud? There you go, bud. Go hunting one time. A wild Canello appears. Go freaking Aaron the plumber style. Catch them all, baby. Catch all them belts. My Lord Rick Rideo appears, baby.

He's got off the golf course. If you win against Canello, where would you rank yourself among the list of greatest of all time? When I win. Yeah, I knew. I was going to say as soon as he said if Bud wanted to get in that mic and say, win, when I win. I win. Again, a different intensity in this press conference, mainly from Bud Crawford. I don't know if he saw some of the things online that people were saying, or maybe he just felt he wasn't himself in that first one. I didn't necessarily think he did anything wrong in the first press conference, but it just felt like more of a friendly kind of thing.

This one he doesn't look as friendly about. He's just got a little bit more spite, a little bit more intensity, which I like. For this to be the first fight that I ever promote in boxing, it's incredible. It's an unbelievable experience. That is pretty nuts, by the way, that Dana is stepping into one of the most watched boxing events. Potentially ever, we'll see how it goes. But it'll be on the biggest platform right now you can have in sports media, which is Netflix. 300 million subscribers.

And you're talking about the undisputed super middleweight championship. Everybody feels on board for this thing. And Dana's stepping into this role as a massive start. It's the best start you could have ever as a promoter. You know, there's a reason why I wasn't getting done. those big fights because God was preparing me for this moment right here. And this is my time. No doubt about it. If Terrence Crawford can come up to 168, jumping two weight classes, again, I've said this more really like three because he's had one fight at 154 and beat the undisputed

super middleweight champion in Canello. He's able to do this. This is a career defining win. Forget about whatever the win looks like as far as other opponents. The Spence win is great. This is career defining. This is legacy cementing. This is huge. I think. Everything on this fight mostly works in the favor as far as legacy is concerned of Terrence Crawford. If Canelo beats Terrence Crawford, that's a great win. And it will definitely add a massive name to his legacy. There are other things that Canello can still do to get even better in his legacy. This is the one for Terrence Crawford.

Is there a chance we see some cross promotional appearances in WWE? We're talking about it. Maybe. Maybe you will see me in the WWW. What? Hold on. That is an interesting question. When he asked it, I was like, what? He's he's asking Canelo to, he's going to go and do a wrestling show. If Canelo shows up in the WWE, my jaw will fall off my fucking face, dude. I mean, I never even thought about it before. Canello comes out,

and again, you know, Mexico has a great history with professional wrestling, but I just didn't, it's not clocking to me right now, that he's standing on business. No, I would love to see Canello pop up in the WWE, him and Terrence, maybe not in a, I don't know, maybe after the fight. I don't know if I want to see him do like a promo battle. I want all the people in the stands that boo me. They're going to cry when they go home. Yeah. I like that.

Accepting, I don't want to call it a villain role, but accepting this underdog mentality or this, yeah, go ahead, boom me. Boom me now. Cheer me later. Boom me now and pay for it when I come in and take out the golden goose. Yeah. Go ahead. Wow.

I just found out what the sign language means for cry. Yikes, buddy. Get the question out. I just cringed. You put on two great fights the same night. We have UFC Noche that night. And I know there's a lot of questions about this. The main events will not,

the main cards will not cross over. That's an interesting thing because I'm of the idea that there's not a lot of crossover between UFC fans and boxing fans. But on that night specifically, because it's such a massive fight with Canelo Crawford that some MMA fans are definitely going to tune in. Like, they're definitely going to take a look.

I mean, like, okay, that's a massive thing. UFC No Chase big, but this is clearly bigger. He says one fight is going to run before the other. He doesn't really say which one there. So I guess we'll stay tuned to see which is which. Dan Kenobio is inside boxing live. Let's go! Let's go.

My boy, Dan Kenovio getting his questions in. Talk to him, Dan. For both fighters, we've seen some photos come out of you guys eating together, kind of joking around. the interview with Pierce Morgan was very friendly. Can you explain to fans out there that it is a gentleman's sport? Is there animosity? And what could you make of some criticism?

Like, oh, these guys look like they're friends. I respect Canelo, just like I respect every one of my other opponents before Canello. But once it gets close to that time, you know what I mean? It's time to go to work, you know? And when we go to work, I know what comes after that. Great answer. Yeah, Dan asked the question that a lot of people, They saw the picture with them eating dinner. They saw the Pears Morgan interview. I was just more shocked in the Pears Morgan interview that Pears just kept asking about if they could kill Pears. He was like, hey, could y'all kill me? Could you strangle me? I was like, Pears, what do we? This isn't your platform to get off your fetishes, buddy. This is a great answer to that question. Like, you can have respect for your opponent and still as the fight gets closer. That animosity builds regardless.

I want to bring up the first member of our broadcast team. He is the best boxing analyst in the sport. Ladies and gentlemen, Max Keelman. Oh, they teased him. They teased him. Tell them to me. That's what I'm talking about, man. This is what I mean when I say you're getting some of the best and brightest in boxing on this card. Yes, it's about the fighters. First and foremost, it's about Canello, it's about Crawford. It's not about Dana. It's not about Max. It's not about anybody else. But when you get these guys as bonuses, these are the right decisions to make. Max Killerman has so much history. in this sport, so much ability to commentate, to be an analyst, to be a part of a commentary team. Trust me when I say people in the comments, you're going to get a special night of someone laying out boxing the way it deserves to be laid out and taking you on a journey with Max Kellerman. Canello is 62 and 2 with two draws, 62, 2. So was Marvin Hagler when Sugar Ray Leonard moved up to fight him.

They produced one of the biggest spectacles in the history of boxing. Ah, cook! Let him cook! When you have someone that can tell the story of boxing and they could point to the lineage of the best in the world, fighting the best in the world, and make it all tie together in a perfectly put together fucking bow, this is what you need, man.

I'm telling you, you're just getting a little taste, by the way. He's just giving you a little side piece, you don't understand? He didn't even give you the full meal yet. But look at that grin on Dana White's face. He knows he's got a real story. storyteller, someone that really understands the sport and that can articulate it well to the fans in a fashion that isn't overcomplicated. But I'm going to start with you. Why are you jumping up and skipping a division?

You just got to junior middleweight. You were given the best fight of your career at junior middleweight by Madrimal. Who gave you a tougher fight to Mademort? Stop that. And now you're, who, who? Someone gave you a tougher fight to Mademol? Listen, if y'all thought that was a tough fight, then, whoo. Yo, Max comes right in and sticks it on Bud.

He's trying to tell him, listen, you've already taken a tough challenge. Now you're going to go even tougher, but Bud's taking it disrespectfully. Max is right. That was not an easy fight. Like, that was a back and forth fight. And again, it was a bit of an odd one to watch. I was there in person. It was something that we didn't expect.

Maduro performed better than we expected. And there seems to be something. out there like the way for you to win this fight is to move move move is that true listen turkey you need to put a small ring a small ring that's the only hey matt yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the only running that i'm gonna be doing is running upside his head and not gonna show you talk to him let him know bud let him know i told you from the moment he stepped on stage there was a a different intensity. There was a different look in his eye and you can even see it here. Look at it. You can see that. And again, speaking of the eyes, he ain't wearing no sunglasses.

He's looking directly at you. Not to say that's anything, but I'm telling you, Bud has got a different mentality in this presser. He's tired of the question of him running, which again, I don't know where that question's coming from. Bud Cropter's never been a runner. I love that answer because Cannell's, yeah, make the ring smaller, turkey. Please, please make the ring smaller so he don't run. Terrence said, I'm going to run these hands right upside your head. Let's go.

And he got a big head, too. Dang. Canello, I mentioned Sugar Ray Leonard. He do. Canello does have a nagging on him, though. This will be, it's safe to say, the most watched prize fight, more eyeballs on it than any fight in almost 50 years,

in almost half a century. Max is doing a great job with this, man. Look at Dana. Dana is cheeszing, dude. He knows he got the freaking white whale. He got him. He's such a good storyteller, man. God, what a get. And now, before we get out of here, Dana, you're going to face the fighters off. Oh, yeah. Let's get to it. I saw what's about to happen on social media earlier today. What I didn't see is the things that precursed what happened.

We're going to see a bit of a pushing and shoving match here. But what I didn't take into account was the entirety of this. press conference. Who has been on the offensive this press conference? It's been Terrence Crawford. Who has been the more intense one in this press conference? It's been Terrence Crawford. Whether it's toward Canello or the crowd. Yeah, boomie, boomie, whey, cry, that whole thing. Or telling Canelo he was going to put hands on him. Only running is me running these hands across your face. And you got a big head. And now, right before they're about to face off, look who is adamant about taking the center. Canello's still getting his mic off or doing

something. Terrence walked right to the center. The last press conference, Canello met Crawford over halfway. Let's say this is the halfway point. Canello met Crawford over here. This presser, Crawford has met him in the middle before Canello's even turned around. Again, little things that may or may not matter, but Crawford trying to send a message here. I'm the one taking control from here on out. I'm sending you a message that I'm not taking back steps. I'm not meeting you where you want to meet me. I'm the one dictating how this whole thing goes. Look at him. Ready. Now on the other side, you can say, okay, mind games from Canello, making him wait.

Yeah, do all that. Talk all that stuff. But I've been here. I've done that. Something you innovated. Yeah, the performance bonus that night is going to be over six figures. We're still talking about it. So, yeah, it's going to be a big number.

Whoever wins the performance bonus of the night that night. Wow, okay. So right in the middle of them getting everything out of there, Dana just happens to kind of throw out there that this performance bonus, which again, is something that Dana is bringing over from the UFC, and you heard him say it even there. It's not a CO bonus, performance bonus. I assume it's going to be, you know, the highlight of the night, which is different from what Turkey and them said, right?

They said it would be a CO bonus. Dana saying performance bonus, which I like better, because you never know if a fight's going to be a knockout or if two fighters are just going to go in there and give it all, and it could be one of those fight of the night type things where both guys get a performance bonus. I don't really know. But if fighters are, you know, potentially going to be on this undercard,

and for Canello and Terrence Crawford, A six-figure performance bonus is nothing to shake their head at. Now again, Crawford and Canella are making more money than they've ever made in their careers, so that whatever. But if you're on this card, you have an opportunity to steal the show and make six figures for yourself. I love that. Here we go. Again, look. Look at this.

I told you. Look, I'm telling you, there's the mind games here are so evident. I know that I usually don't read too much into it, but it happened at the last one. And it's happening here. Look at how Terrence Crawford answered how Canello addressed him in the first face off. Canello, again, went past halfway. Watch Terrence. Terrence is not stopping here.

He's walking straight up to him. Way past Dana. Here's halfway. He's like, no, I'm meeting you at your front door. And he's backing him up. Oh, then there's the shove. Look at Beaumack. Look at Beaumack.

Oh, shit, we got everybody getting in there. Renozo security Michael Buffer well Mac one thing Bob max he's going right for his guys man different intensity this time around for Terrence again you can read you can read a lot of stuff into that look at him not like both guys stairs not leaving locked on he'll face off again this time Canello oh see see it's it's a game of tennis it's a game of back and forth because this time Cannello walks up on Terrence. Okay, you got that one off. Watch this. Now I'm gonna push you back a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, see I'm gonna push you back just a little Look at that look, man. Oh, what the hell? Wait, what just happened at the at the back end of this?

Beaumac getting into it again. Oh my Lord Look at both of them though, man. That stare just locked on each other. Ooh, we. Oh, we. That's what we like. That's what we like. That's what we like. I gotta hear what they're saying though gotta hear what they're saying Hey, there it is there it is Oi, oh, oh, hey, oh, oh, oh. Go it to him, Kennello hoi

Different intensity this time around man. I think there's one more angle I want to look at. All right, so this is the backside angle again, this is something that the UFC does so good with their face-offs and I'm again, I don't see this a lot in boxing, boxing. This is Dana White's actual own footage because he hands his phone to somebody one of the media team behind him when he does these face-offs and they get an angle that we do not ever get. And I don't know how much we're going to be able to hear on this, but again, it's just little things like this that make such a difference to me when I get to see these face-offs at a

different angle, super up close, get to hear what the fighters say. Let's take a look. Straight up, man. And Bud just starts pushing him back. And Canello with the shove, and then Buzz said get on me. Look at Beaumack. Bowmack went straight away. Nick Con trying to hold him off. My guy ish doing his thing. Ease.

This is what they need it though, man. They need a little bit, a little bit more intensity. Look at Canello this time. Let me walk upon you this time. Bomack's beefing the camera guy. Bob max beefing the camera man trying to get the shot. Boback's pissed He's pissed he's beeping the camera man

Come on, Boback That's Dana's camera guy too Dang Bo Mac trying to swing on Dana's camera man I'm dead Dang it I couldn't hear him Dang it I wanted to hear what they were saying They're gonna have an angle for sure That gets that conversation

I need that but folks That's it That's the end of the breakdown listen this was exactly what this fight needed. A bit of a maturation process, we'll say, with getting people to get engaged, with getting this thing in front of a massive audience, I think definitely helped.

Budcroft were coming out with crazy intensity, definitely helped. Again, I think he got a little bit, I don't want to say it got to him, what Canello did in the first presser, just kind of walking up on him and getting on his side of the podium and all that. But it definitely planted a seed in his head, and he came out, was talking to the,

crowd was talking to Canello was talking to everybody talking to Max Kellerman about how he was going to smack Canello up and all this now you can read that a couple different ways you can read that as canello you know being reserved and being like this guy's new to this I'm just going to sit back and let him get all his emotions out and looking super confident in his own right canello's like hey make that that ring smaller he ain't ready make that ring smaller don't run from me he's got his own mind games he's playing telling Terrence yeah stand in front of me you ain't seen power like this you're not telling him that but he's essentially saying you're not ready for this power and then Terrence is like, listen, you ain't about to punk me.

Straight up, that's what you're not about to punk me. Now, again, is that a little bit over-emotional? Is you reaching a little bit? Or is that just genuine? Like, no, this is the intensity I'm going to have for the rest of time you see me. We had all that dinner stuff, all that play nice, it's over now. We're about to fight and you're about to see Bud Crawford come out. Regardless, I think this is a slam dunk press conference, doing it at Fanatics Fest,

doing it with Dana White leading it. Max Kellerman giving you the history of boxing and just weaving it into this fight. It's all coming together the way this fight definitely needed to. I'm pumped already and we still got a couple months to go. We still have one more press conference in Las Vegas, but you guys let me know again, I try not to pull winners and losers out of this, but I think Bud Crawford gave an intensity that I did not see in the first one of focus,

a bit of a swagger in this one that I didn't see. And I'm glad he did because this was what I wanted to see. And I think Bud comes out of this press conference looking good. Yeah, people are booing him. Canello's got all the fans, but he's on his I don't give a fuck stage, right? Like, whatever, do all that. I'm going to upset all y'all. I'm going to make y'all cry.

Love that. And that's why I think Bud Shine in this one. Canello still did his thing and we'll see what happens to the next one. But comment below what you guys think. That's it and that's all. I don't know what happens next. I don't know what happens in the fight. But I do know this thing is going to be massive. And you're starting to see it already trending in that direction. And you knew that when it was announced. But now you're seeing the fruits of the labor of Turkey Alashik, Nick Con, Dana White, everybody involved with putting this together, getting the right people, Max Kellerman, whoever else is going to be there, ultimately focusing on these two awesome legend. legendary fighters, Canello and Crawford. What happens next? I guess we'll find out. Hi, 5.50 on the 5 stick, you can get high with me. That's a deal, right? Riled with me. If you ride with me, you can slide with me if you feel like.

Folks, welcome back to the WayConcept presented by the Ring Magazine. Today, we are circulating back to the world of boxing, and I wouldn't call it crossover boxing, but now it just feels like boxing. Even though it's a little bit of an odd matchup, it is one that kind of makes sense. I'm talking about Jake Paul, Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. If you didn't know, that fight's going out this Saturday, I'm going to be live right here on this channel 24 hours for that fight and UFC 317. It's going to be an extravaganza of a live stream that you do not want to miss.

I'm playing games with chat. My girlfriend will be here and we will be interacting with the chat, playing games, having fun, all leading up to this fight and the main event of UFC 317. But today, Jake and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. had their first face to face of fight week. And just judging by the picture that I'm seeing in front of me, it looks like it's going to be a doozy. Because Chavez Jr. looks like he's on actual drugs right now.

I have no idea what to expect from this, but let's get into it. Jake Paul, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., face off the breakdown. Let's go. If I play with the diamonds, yes. I'm super smart, man. This is how dumb he is. If I play with the diamond, what is happening, dude? Is that his resting face?

Pound for Pound number one of the world, yes. Oh, here, ah. Look me, man. He's an angry little elf. On Saturday night, live on Desaigneur Paper view. What? What is going on?

Well, Jake, another. I'm sorry. Who is this? Why is he sitting next to Chris Mannix? Am I supposed to know who this is? Is that a translator? Like, whose man's is this? Okay, I have no idea.

Maybe I'm just uneducated, but my man is here in the, in the somewhat middle. I mean, he's taking up more in the middle than Chris Manix is, but all right, we got two moderators. The WBA and WBC plan on ranking me depending on my performance. I don't really know what that means, right?

Boxing rankings from these sanctioning bodies at this point don't really mean a ton to me. And that's not a disrespect to Jake or anybody else, but like, Manny Pacquiao just got a title fight after being offered for four years. Just got ranked. Devin Haney just got ranked in a division he's never fought in, and that's happened in multiple cases as well.

I have a feeling that pretty much. much at any point if Jake is continuing to win fights, these companies are going to rank him because he makes money and he brings in money for these sanctioning bodies and whatever their fee is to fight for their belt eventually. I don't think that means he gets a ranking and now a world title shot, but then again, who knows? His dad is one of the best ever do it. I like building my resume, having the best looking box wreck of all time, Mike Tyson and Diron Woodley, Anderson Silva. It's a very interesting way to put it. I've told you guys before that Jake is a master of of narrative constructing.

And that don't mean that, again, in necessarily a bad way. Jake's Boxerick, if you look at it right now, does have a who's who of popular combat sports names on it. And to be honest, Jake's Box Wreck has more experience in his first 10 or whatever 11 fights than most fighters would, even without an amateur career. And this isn't meek-lazing,

but the point I'm making is he does have Mike Tyson's name on it, knowing that Mike Tyson was nowhere near what Mike Tyson was at any point in his actual boxing career. still has the name on it. So the weight of it is heavy, no pun intended, but it isn't necessarily the best boxing wreck of all time, which is why I said he wants to build the best looking boxing wreck of all time. So it's now a real boxer. But other fight I can have a rematch Canelo or not a lot of big name, but I think he is a perfect opponent for me. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. cannot rematch Canello right now. I'm sorry, no one is going to pay to watch

that fight, Canelo is not interested in that fight. The reason that Chavez Jr. took this fight is because, yes, Jake is a massive name and also because he's probably getting paid more to fight Jake than he would to fight anyone that he realistically can fight right now. Point blank, period. Nothing wrong with that, but just don't lie and be like, oh yeah, well, I could have taken the Canello rematch, but instead I went and like, no, you couldn't have. Do you think this is going to be a tough fight for you? So Jake is young, you know, it's too young, so you have a lot of energy, that's the big part, you know, the difficult part for a new guy. And Julio gives probably the most honest answer he can. He's like, yeah, every fight's different.

He's young, so he has a lot of energy. I think that, you know, Jake also has a lot of power. Chavez Jr. has never seen. Again, he's moving up, I don't know how many weight classes from middleweight. Probably never fought a guy that hits as hard as Jake does. Not to say that Jake's, you know, exorbitantly powerful or anything like that. He may be, but it's just he's a cruiser weight. Chavez Jr. is fought, I think, once at cruiserweight, maybe twice now. Jake's youth is a massive factor for him. Chavez Jr. is 39. He's not, you know, 50 or whatever, but got a lot of boxing miles on him, has some obviously outside of the ring substance issues, been out of the ring and on and off for the last however long is taking massive breaks. So all that's going to factor in. I do think

that there's a path for Chavez Jr. I don't think it's the most likely one for him to win this fight, but I think there's a path there. And it's going to be a very upsetting night for him. Yeah, yeah, 100%. I'm so confused. Who is this guy? He's like short form translating for Jake. It's got to be like one of Jake's homies or like some famous person that I'm just not aware of.

But I have no idea who this man is, dude. Like, yo, uh, Julio, just so you know, I know you can understand English because you've been speaking in English throughout this entire face-to-face, but I'll put it in an easier way for you to hear. He's gonna fuck you up. And then he said it in English.

I mean, listen, I like Jake's, confidence. Whatever you want to say about Jake, he puts in work, man. He does. He puts him work down there in Puerto Rico. He has some great training partners. And Gabriel Zato was in camp with Jake this time around. He'll be prepared. Again, I want to see something I haven't seen out of Jake in his last couple of fights, to be honest. I didn't see it in the Mike Tyson fight with however you want to think about that. I didn't see it in the Perry fight. I just haven't seen Jake look like he is doing more to improve in a while, right? I haven't seen him take that next step yet. Like he could stop Julio with pure brute strength and an iron chin and just being able to

find a shot either earlier later on in the fight. But I want to see Jake's feet get back under him. I want to see him be a little bit more controlled in what he does, but also where's the jab been, right? Where's the in-and-out movement been? Where's the angle-cutting been? I want to see some more of that. And again, because the only reason I say that is Jake keeps talking about

world title, world title, world title. I need to see Jake look better than he's ever looked. I think that's the only measure of success for Jake here because everything else, like, there's nothing really to gain. You're not training properly. And then you have these fat sparring partners who you think mimic me. Well, one, they're wrong with fat people. My man got offended in the middle of the question, for one.

That's crazy. You don't talk about fat people that way. Also, let me translate what he just said. Oh, okay. So again, maybe translator. I don't know. But yeah, Jake, I guess, has got some people that are around Chavez Jr.'s camp that are telling him, like, what's going on?

And he said, you're sparring fat people getting ready. But you can't talk about tomorrow. There is. Go work out. Go workout. Go work out. There's a fat guy sitting there. I want to put him back, make him work.

Extra war, you know, that's my, my, my, my, my strategy is not about my, my, my, my, uh, Loya Mariaz. He's going to fuck you up, well, he's going to make you dizzy and then he's going to knock you up. So, interesting. I mean, again, I like that answer from Chavez Jr. It's going to be, obviously, easier said than done to push Jake backward when he is the, the stronger, bigger fighter. And if you are stubborn enough to, to stay in the pocket with him long enough, not saying

Jake's a great combination puncher, but he's going to find something at some point. whether it's the overhand right he likes to go to. He has a nice left hook now, but I will say when Jake is at his worst is when he is pushed backward. When you do interrupt him, usually with the jab, right? If you're volume heavy, I mean, I'm pointing to the Tommy Fury fight, the one fight where Jake lost. He was interrupted with a jab consistently. He was not build momentum in his offensive game because he couldn't get his feet. Couldn't get his hands going because he couldn't get his feet.

He was always having to reset either backward or circle out, and he wasn't able to put together consistent, efficient, It was one shot at a time, usually a check left hook, jab in between, he landed one big overhand right in that fight, but I don't necessarily hate Chavez Jr. saying, you know, I'm going to have to push him back a little bit. He just not as good Mike Perry. Oh my God, man. This is a heavy body, man. No, Mike Perry. What do you do?

Let me see. Finally, the. Like, rock you, man. He said he's a worse Mike Perry. And what I get from Jake saying that is that he thinks Chavez Jr. is going to be a punching bag. That he's going to be able to be tough and take punishment to get to where he wants to get to. If that's the case, yeah, Jake's going to knock him out cold. If Chavez Jr. is a bit more calculated, if he does mix things up, if he does set things up, again, working behind his jab, then no, that's not the same person at all.

By the way, I don't agree that Mike Perry is a better boxer than Chavez Jr. No, I wouldn't even say it's close. Perry is tough. He is durable. and those guys are tough to get out of there. They're dogs. Perry is a fucking dog, but skill for skill, Chavez Jr. is a better boxer.

And you know it too. I see it in your eyes. Mike Perry versus Tyson, man, maybe it's a great fight, man. I go with Mike Tyson here and that. I don't know what the hell's happening, but Chavez Jr. says he would take Mike Tyson to beat Mike Perry.

That's interesting. But anyway, Jake said something there. I see how you fight. I've seen how you're training. He thinks that Chavez Jr. is going to plot forward without the jab or without anything to set up his, big attacks to then swing behind the high guard, get to range, take some punishment, and then try to

deliver. If that's what actually happens, and he's not clever, and he does think he's just going to walk forward behind a high guard and push Jake back, then yeah, Jake's going to batter him, because you have to give him something. You have to. Taking a beating is not how you win this fight. Mike Perry had his ribs broken in the first exchange of the fight by Jake's right hand. That's not, Jake's too strong, too explosive to just walk forward and take punches the entire fight. We're critical of Jake fighting Mike Tyson. Do you have a problem with that? That's that he doesn't believe in elderly abuse, as this kind of saying. He said he understands the money, but he doesn't like that a young man is fighting a six-year-old.

Yeah, that he would have let himself get an ass with two old man and great action. What's crazy is Mike last... I don't know if that's like an accurate translation, but this dude's funny. I love this translator. It's going to be a quicker and shorter night for you. Which I know you like. I know you like quitting and giving up. When you have like a real career, you have a lot of things, you know, like good fight, not so good.

Sometimes I'm not there like mentally. I'm prepared like 100% physical and mentally, you know, because I have surprises. That's a very honest answer from Chavez Jr. To say, hey, listen, you know, when you have a real career, throwing some shade, hey, when you got a real career, they're going to be nights where you don't show up your best. There's going to be nights when you're not physically there, when you're not mentally there. And obviously, that's a lot of what happened for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr's career. And it wasn't just on fight night. It was in fight camp. But the problem is, it still does give credit to what Jake's saying. He did quit on himself. In fights and in camp. At the end of the day, it does tell Jake that you can be pushed to a point of quitting.

No matter what happened, you know, it's, I love boxing. So I want to, I feel great, you know. I feel great. And I want to show. I'm going to be honest, this does not sound like a super confident I'm going to win no matter what answer. It sounds like a very introspective answer and one that, like, he's honest, right? He's like, what's different now is that I'm committed to boxing. I'm not self-sabotaging. I'm not out doing, you know, whatever else outside of the ring. I'm disciplined. I'm boxing.

I'm putting myself in the best position possible no matter what happens. And I've got a different mindset, a different focus, but you don't hear the words win in there for Chavez. Obviously, he wants to win, but you don't hear him dead set, locked in. Mentally, there's no other outcome that's possible besides winning. And that's concerning. I'm sure he wants to win. I just don't know if it's in his mind. the only thing that matters, and I think it needs to be for him to get this done.

He wants to look the best he can. He's focused. He's locked in, no more drugs, no more BHA. Yes. Were you locked in, you would say, again, in your camp against your eye haul? Yes, I'm trained. So I win the fight only six-round decision, but you see the fight and see, oh, you don't look good. So I want to be Julio. So I want to do this for me a fight. Me, you're good five. Jake is essentially trying to ask Chavez Jr. if he trained really hard because Jake doesn't believe he looked very good versus Uriah Hall. And I agree. That fight was not a great look.

Uriah Hall had never had a boxing match and came in and went toe to toe with him over six rounds. It was kind of a low volume, low output fight that you can argue. Uriah Hall should have won more rounds than he did. But Chavez Jr. is trying to say, oh yeah, you know, I won that fight and, you know, maybe I won it a little closer than you think I should have, but I did that so that I could get the Jake fight. So Jake would look at me and say, oh, I want to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. I don't know how true that is. A lot of people can say, oh, I just did enough to win, get the big fight. If that's true, genius. If not, and it's just the fact that Travis Jr. doesn't have much left. Like Jake said, it's going to be a short night for it.

Because that fight was rough. I lost a couple of fights, but I never see a guy and he big me and break me down and put me like down two, three times. So nobody ever just whooped his app before. It's always been a good fight. And the homies like there, man, he's ready to get this fight. He's going to be a great fight. Yeah. You agree with that? I just, I mean, we'll hear Jake answer this. He's ever whooped this? I would agree with that. He's got to beat, but they've never just completely whooped his ass. Yeah.

But what is that mentality? You know what I mean? Like that's supposed to be a former world champ talking about, well, I might have gotten beat, but no one ever whooped me. Going into a fight with Jake Paul. What? This is the world. Oh, man.

You think you're better than Tommy Fury. Of course, man. Of course. That's no question, man. I'm much better than him. So he trained hard. He trained hard and his muscle guy too. I think Jake is better than him now because experience.

I don't disagree with this take, by the way, from Uliosazer Chavez Jr. Jake losing to Tommy was less about Tommy's high-level boxing ability and more about his age, his size, his youthfulness, his experience that Jake maybe didn't have at that point. And also just the measurables. Tommy has a crazy reach and he was able to touch Jake with the jab. And Jake wasn't super fast compared to him or he wasn't, you know, you didn't have these massive physical abilities or physical advantages. So when those things were one-to-one, Tommy had a little more experience. Jake has gotten, I think, in the last year, if you want to count the Mike Tyson fight four or five,

fights since Tommy fought him, has gotten experience, has gotten a 10-round fight under his belt. I don't disagree that Julio Cesar Chavez is far better boxer, world champion level boxer, even though, again, however you want to look at his world championship, he was a top level great boxer, good to great boxer. The question isn't his skills. It's more so how much has stayed around at 39 and how much better has Jake gotten? The question I always ask, how much better has he gotten? They say, oh, is the son of the Chavez?

Man, I'm sorry, I don't want, I don't can say nothing about this situation because it's like that. So, oh, my God, sometimes it's hard to say, oh, you're bad or you're bad. Womp, womp. It's not, wow, wow, yeah. I was gonna say, me, I don't know what Chavez is saying right now, but he's just yapping. I'm no idea what he's saying. He don't give a fuck about his dad.

I don't worry. So you don't love your dad? She gets him to my papa. She gets up to my papa. Owaita papa. Oh, wait to papa. Say something about his dad. I didn't say anything about his dad.

I just asked him if he loved his dad. Yeah, go after Greg Paul. Yeah. Yeah, Chavez, talk that shit about fucking GP. Where are we at, man? This is insane. A former world champion is being encouraged to talk shit about Jake Paul's father. What the hell?

Do you think there's any chance you can lose to this man? No, man. So everybody has a chance, but it's not, no. I don't see any, like, if you work. I just don't believe you. I don't believe him either. I don't believe him either. He's sitting there with his arms.

Like, no, no, I don't know. Everybody got a chance to lose, but I don't think, not this, maybe not this time. Just, no, I'm not losing to him. I will not let it happen. What is this? If you were to lose to him, would you quit? Boxing forever? Yeah.

So, I mean, he says that if he loses this fight, he's done. He answered, would you retire if you lost to Jake more confidently than he. he answered, are you going to lose to Jake? Let that sink in. You continue your career because you have a lot of promotion, your tube and everything, promote fighters. So you're already good, so you're ready for a loss, your second fight. And after that, maybe you'll be a good fighter, you know.

Jake has more to lose here. Let's be honest about it. Jake is the guy with looming potential big money fights out there, whatever it's going to be. I don't really like the idea of him fighting Jervante Tank Davis, but they've talked about that. Out of the two of them, which is crazy to say, Jake has more of a chance

of fighting Canelo Alvarez than Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. does. And yeah, you know, whatever else out there, Jake has big money fights. You lose to him and the Canelo fight goes away forever. Do you see yourself taking a shower

with him maybe after the fight, kicking it? After la Palazio, I was going to say, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. don't need to be around any drinks anymore, dude. We can't be encouraging

more addictive struggles for a former addict. Let's just move on. They whoops your ass, he's going to go to YouTube and entertain people and then come back. Man, honestly, I don't think you can do it. Yeah, bro, listen, you got to have a little bit of personality to jump on YouTube. People like the cobra himself, Carl Frotch, Anthony Joshua, even somebody like Tyson Fury. They're big enough stars, and they have good personalities to make it on YouTube.

Julius Caesar Chavez Jr. I don't think you're making it on YouTube, my boy. Do you think you can be a YouTuber? No. Okay, he gets it. It's embarrassed man. Wow. He just calls you embarrassed.

Jesus, fuck. Dude, dude, dude. Okay, so this guy's a YouTuber, all right. I didn't know. So he's, yeah, he's saying that being a YouTuber is embarrassing. Jake, you mentioned the... Not for me, bro. They had a life off this shit.

Staying on biz. Man, every Mexican I've just met walking around with my flood attendant on the way here, he was like, man, we don't like that viz. da'est. We don't like him. He's that fucking bull. Borderline, what is that accent? Y'all, see, we don't like that. That's crazy, dude. Hey, you got to reel that accent in, dog. We're going to do it. We got to do it, right?

That's what it's where it kind of sounded like, I'm not the best of it. But yeah, they're like, we're rooting for you, essay. Essay. Essay. What he's in your flight attendant? Yeah. He was a cholo? Yeah. There's nothing he does that can offset anything I'm going to do to him. Not a single thing.

Cardio, pace, output, jazz, body work, inside fighting. Wherever the fight goes, however the fight goes, he's going to be outworked in every single round. Do you see the difference? And again, I know you can call it delusion, whatever, fringe that Jake talks like this, but do you see the level of difference in confidence when he's asked that question versus like whatever we get from Chavez Jr. when he's dancing around an answer? It's night and day.

He's going to learn that I'm one of the most heavy-handed, fastest people in the sport of boxing, period. Out of every single weight class, pound for pound, I'm one of the strongest, hardest hitting people in the whole entire sport. The bold claim. It's a bold claim. I know about the fastest, but, I mean, Jake hits hard. I know that, but pound for pound in the sport?

Martin Bacoli up there, Tank Davis up there, the monster Inouye up there. Yante Wilder there. There's some heavy, heavy, heavy hitters. in the sport of boxing right now. I don't know if Jake is there. Biter Biav is there, I don't know. But Jake does hit hard.

Como, I'll go come on. Say you look like you want some shit. Vada's here today. What the fuck? Oh, okay. Chavez Jr. accusing Jake of being on PEDs. Uh-oh.

Okay. Let's hear what, let's hear this discussion. You say shit. This is how dumb. No, this is how dumb you are. I'm super smart, man. This is how dumb he is. I'm the first YouTuber pound for pound number one of the world.

Yes. Oh, here. He's getting angry. He's an angry little elf. No, I'm not angry, man. It's true, man. But you say stupid shit. What is he even saying?

Okay, so he says something about the diamond. I'm the first pound YouTuber. So I don't know what that was. But Chavez is, like, convinced that Jake is on PDs or he says you look like you're on stuff. And Jake says, all right, well, Vada's here today. We'll see. But if they are doing VADA testing for this, then we'll know. We'll know if Jake gets hit with some.

And if they've been doing VADA testing since camp started, we'll know. If that were to happen under VADA, that would be a huge story. Huge. But I'm never heard of Jake failing a drug test ever. But I guess Chavez Jr. is saying you're a YouTuber and then you're wanting to be number one pound for pound. How does that happen? And he's saying, okay, you must have taken PEDs. But Jake has never popped, ever.

So... Take advantage of the situation, timing and an opponent. Timing. I thought he said diamonds. Well, man, possibly he's had more possibility. But I think he's saying that he never took advantage on the situation. Oh, right. I thought he was just about to cry. I think he said you were going to cry.

Maybe. After video? That doesn't seem to make sense. Yeah, maybe I'll cry after I beat you. He's like, yeah, Jake's all. That doesn't really make any sense. Okay Would you take your sod off?

I know you don't have to be more Just a little bit, bro. I think you'll be fine. We can't, no, we can't. What was this enabling? We're doing. Chavez Jr., no! You're clean for the last two years, please.

We saw his last fight. It was pretty snooze fest and I'm just going to continue to give fans knockouts and electric fights. I told you guys this when this fight was booked that Jake, part of the reason I think for taking Chavez Jr. specifically, if he couldn't get

Canello, however close that fight was to happening, is to framework, put out the catchphrase, the line. And also, you know, it does have some validity, at least on paper. He wants to be able to say he was able to knock out Chavez Jr. And do something Canelo couldn't. Because Canello couldn't knock out Chavez Jr. When Chavez was a little bit better and obviously still locked into the spore and younger and all that. But he couldn't knock him out. And Jake, if he knocks him out, is going to use that as ammo to try to get the Canello fight.

It's going to be a relatively easy night for me. Easy night. He says, how do you think this fight ends? Knockout. Later, you know, or decision? It's like, again, when I look at him say that, Knockout? He's like, knockout?

Maybe. Decision? I don't know. I just don't see a lot of confidence in the answers of Chavez, Jr. Looking forward to it and good luck. Thank you. All right, there it is. The face-to-face for Jake Paul to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Jake's saying he's going to knock him out early. Chavez Jr. hopes to knock him out late or potentially gets him in a decision. I mean, yeah, I think that's how everybody kind of looks at this fight, like Jake being the younger, more explosive, stronger guy potentially can catch Chavez Jr. early. He hurt him with something, put him away. But if this fight does go later, how does Jake carry his power? He's been able to do that before. Honestly, this face-to-face didn't give me a lot of confidence in Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. I'm sorry. I didn't see it. Not to say that he can't do some things because I think that, again, the body work, some of the stuff he said about pushing Jake back. he's using his jab and not just walking forward with a high guard could get pretty interesting.

I think that that could be a way that blusters and frustrates Jake and makes him fight in a way he doesn't like fighting, which is on the back foot, very reactionary, very much countering versus being on that front foot and initiating. He doesn't like to fight that way and not many guys have been able to really push him that way. But if that's possible for Chavez Jr., that's a path to victory. What I think is more likely is that he tries to do that, gets hurt with something or gets hit with something that backs him off and Jake starts to slowly take over. potentially yeah leading to a knockout but it's the first fight video of fight week for this one i have some more breakdowns coming stay tuned what happens in this fight and also we take away from this face to face because i didn't get a lot of confidence from chavez junior but maybe i'm just missing something let me know in the comments and this saturday live in the honda center in an anaheim california jake paulio czscheves who wins

guess we'll find out hey five 50 under five stick you can get high with me that's a deal right Rile with me if you ride with me You can slide with me if you feel like Folks, I have not covered this as much As I feel like I probably should have to this point But Jake Paul and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. are fighting In the Honda Center on June the 28th Right here in my backyard, Nanai in California.

This fight has kind of gone under the radar Since it's been announced, they had one press conference Where Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. was in one hand giving Jake his respect And another completely disrespecting him calling him a YouTuber But this fight seems to make a lot of sense. It checks a lot of the boxes for what Jake either wants to do or is trying to do, and that is become a world champion, but also secure a Canelo Alvarez fight. Why do those two things matter? Because one, Jake is fighting whether he's in the same weight class

or not, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who is a former world champ. And two, he's a man that also fought Canelo Alvarez, and Canello couldn't stop him. Jake, void of all context, is going to essentially say, if I stop Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., I did something Canelo could stop. And yes, it would be at a different weight class, and yes, it would be years after Chavez was in his prime, and after addiction issues and all those things, but it would still be a meaningful win, even though Jake already beat somebody that beat Chavez recently. I still have no problem with the fight. In fact, I enjoy watching these kind of fights because it shows me where Jake's level potentially can be.

I don't think he's going to one-punch knockout Chavez in the first round. I think it's going to be a little more difficult. But we have some training footage, chat. So let's take a look and see where Jake's at, where Chavez-Uniar's at, And before we get into fight week, two weeks from now, what we can gather from it. The breakdown, let's go. So here is Jake Poller sparring somewhere. I still haven't figured out where Jake's camp is located right now.

I don't know if he's back in California. I don't really know. But here he's sparring. I don't know if he's sparring our guy. Bousen Kaysen. I don't know if that's him here. But Jake is sparring what looks to be a light heavyweight or maybe smaller cruiserweight. And let's see what he's got.

Nice little body shot there. That looks like Moose. though. Nice little body shot, maybe a little low. I don't like this right hand, but again, I can focus on the stuff that I don't like, or the, excuse me, the stuff that I do like. I like that he hides it with the jab. I don't like that he kind of slaps it out there and it gets more square. Good reactions for moose and casein though. That's a good, that's a decent beltline shot. Jab, right hand, kind of winged it. But again, I throw right hands the exact same way. But I'm also not to fight I'm not about to fight a former world champion. Not that Julio Cesar Chavez is that level anymore,

but counter uppercut is there. If you want to throw when he throws, the right hand is there. Jake can take punches, but a little sloppy, you know. It's a nice jab to exit, though. We like that. I like the jab to set up the shot to the body. Right? I like the jab on the exit. I like that. That's good stuff. Something I've worried about with Jake for a long time now is that I feel like he is, and I've said this before, I don't know if it's on video anywhere. I feel like he is sacchar A bit of technique for a lot of power, right? I feel like there's the some of his technique has gone by the wayside in favor of throwing big heavy power in exchanges Because he has leaned into that power and he should Jake is a puncher He don't like hearing that, but he is he drops damn near everybody he's in there with but it has looked a little more sloppy late

And I think that's fair to say is that because of the weight gain? Is it because of a conscious effort to get away from being a little more technical and just sitting down on punches in a fight like this if Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. comes in and is actually taking this seriously, he's going to have to be a bit more technical than he was with Mike Perry and he was with Nate Diaz. He's going to have to be sharp. Uh, not because Chavez Jr. is a puncher because he's not. He wasn't even a puncher like that in 160 pounds. And that's crazy, 160 to 200. But the counter shots can be there and you still don't want to get hit with those. No matter if you're at cruiserweight or wherever else. At the fault of his technique, when you have a guy in Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. who the public might not think has a chance.

And maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's not taking it very seriously. But the chances he does have is if he's able to for 10 rounds put together a boxing master class. Because I don't think he's knocking Jake out. I think you hurt Jake. I don't see him knocking him out. Maybe if Jake tires and stuff out, but he's gone 10 rounds a couple times now. But I just, I want to see how Jake does against a experienced, technically gifted. Because what Julio Cesar Chavez was, he wasn't a hard worker, he wasn't a big puncher, but he was technically gifted. Had very natural talent for the sport.

Whatever you want to say about his work ethic and what he ended up being as a boxer, He was very, very gifted technique. The jeans, it all made sense. If he has any bit of that left, I want to see a more technical Jake here. I don't want to see him go away from the power, but I worry that he is sometimes invested too much into it and become a little more sloppy. On Fight Night, the version of Jake that you're going to see is my best performance yet. The way I match up with Chavez stylistically,

I'm going to put on a boxing classic, pick him apart, and people are going to be able to see the skill set that I've been working on in the gym that I haven't been able to showcase in recent fights yet. I do feel like it's always something Jake refers to when he talks about fights he's about to have is that I haven't been able to showcase it. I haven't been able to showcase it. And for certain fights, I agree. You know, he stops Andre Agus quickly.

He stops Ryan Borland quickly. And those aren't fights where you could really see if Jake had gotten better since the time he lost. But, you know, I wasn't overly impressed with what Jake did in the Mike Tyson fight. I think he knew he kind of. had to be more safe, even though people were saying, oh, he just carried Mike. I think he was just like, let me not make a mistake. The Mike Perry fight, you know, it got a little sloppy. You could say, okay, Jake had a short camp and was, uh, was cutting weight for the first time, like from 240 to 200

or whatever he was. So, you know, his gas tank maybe wasn't there. I don't know. But I, I haven't been impressed technically with Jake since, you know, I mean, I was impressed in the Tommy Fury fight, even though he lost. I was impressed in the Nate Diaz fight with how he handled Nate. I thought he should have done that tonight but I want to see the stuff he's saying when he's like I I haven't been able to showcase it I want to see what that is why haven't you been able to showcase it and why is this fight going to be the one that lets us see it once again because at a certain point we got to find the plateau we got to find the peak of where Jake's going to be is that going to be world title I don't think so but that's just one man's opinion I want to see if he's

continuing to gain levels because he's been at this for a while now you know Chavez junior doesn't look super blown up at this weight he You know he looks strong Jake on the other hand looks almost like squatty you know almost almost like thick boy and even at cruiser weight I really think that that blow up to make the Mike Tyson weight really messed with his body like composition because they say this about fighters all the time when you start jumping around weight and then try to go back down it's it's more difficult than it was before you gained all that I mean that's clear but you you sometimes fighters don't ever lose all of the weight the body composition changes Roy Jones Jr. is a perfect example of that. Jumping around in weights, you know, I think on top of the fact that it was getting to be later in his career,

affected him so detrimentally that it ended up costing him a lot, some fights. So I just wonder, can Jake ever get to a functioning cruiser weight that looks like he is in that weight class and not cutting to that weight class and still have the pop and still have the footwork and still have the activity needed to compete at a high level in that weight class? Or is he going to be a guy that's very ploddy with his feet, a bit more stationary and looking for big time. power punches instead of volume over time like you saw in the tire on woodley one fight even though there wasn't a ton of volume he still out through the frozen one the same things that got him into trouble in the tommy fury fight didn't throw enough he didn't have enough volume i wonder if we're ever

going to get back to a more volume heavy finding openings through offense and not sitting and countering or looking for one or two big shot this is julio sazer chavez jr getting ready for jake let's see what he looks like man because it'd be easy to just go okay Jake's gonna walk through Chavez and that may be what happens, but the things that you want to look at for a Jake opponent is How do you the blueprint is out there? How do you beat Jake? You overwhelm him with volume. You stifle his jab You stifle his punches and you fight him inside of pocket range. You don't fight him at the distance where he likes to operate which is out of range to end You fight him by jabbing your way and sticking in range with him combination punch bitch Excuse me that don't look like an old man

Hold on a second now. I'm not worried about the sound to the punches. I'm not worried about the power of the punches. I'm looking at the effortless nature of these punches and the speed of his hands. Not that he's trying to look fast here, but I'm just, I'm looking at the intensity behind the shots. Good shot. Good twist. Hide the chin. Again, a technical fighter at 160, not a guy that would put your lights out. He has gained weight. And I, I know he's 39. Woo! I'm gonna tell you something, man. This is a little surprising. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I I'm not even trying to do the, no, here goes way, trying to hype up a bad opponent.

First off, I don't do that. Secondly, this is different than I've seen him, then we have seen him, in a long time. I don't know if Chavez Jr. can gain back the years of substance abuse and time off from the sport. I don't know. I don't know if that outweighs the years prior where he was somewhat committed to the sport, even if it wasn't at the highest level, even if he took shortcuts. He may take a shortcut in this fight. He may find it more difficult than he imagined, which a lot of people do when they get in there with Jake,

and look for a way out. That could easily happen. It's happened before with Chavez Jr. But no one has really ever said when talking about Chavez Jr., when he gets to a fight that he's a massive quitter, right? He has done that before. But the story has been he just hasn't really put any effort into training. He hasn't really ever committed himself to training.

But in the fight, he goes out and tries. But it's a half-assed sloppy effort because the work wasn't put in there in training. And listen, it's easy to get fooled by this padwork. When I watched him fight, Yariah Hall, from about 10 feet away, and he didn't have any, he did have a single thing for your riot that night. He couldn't hurt him. I don't know if he was even trying to. I don't know what that was, but it was a sparring session between him and Yerai Hall. It wasn't fun to watch. It wasn't a good fight. I thought Yerai won, but you honestly. But if we see some intensity like this,

we're going to have a fight. Tim Paul. Literally Chavez's last shot, by the way. If he has anything left at all in the sport, it's got to start and really finish with the Jake Paul fight. The real question. is, to me, the mindset of Chavez, when all these cameras aren't around, when no one's there with their phone filming, is he is motivated to come in and work. I don't have any question that Chavez Jr. can box. I want to know what his mental toughness looks like. I want to know how he prepared. Is he ready for 10 rounds? But yeah, he's got clean bag work.

Man, that jab is nasty, son. I like the off-speed timing of it, too, right in between bounce back I just don't like the circling to his left constantly you know on his jab just walking into Jake's right hand constantly stepping off every time there we go but that fading to his left off the jab you see that that's just inviting that overhand Jake gets underneath the jab and here comes the overhand as you're sliding into it it's it's a great jab he's got snap to it but I just think that that again you can get a little casual if you don't think Jake is on the level you are. You can get a little casual and get a little loose with what you know you probably shouldn't be doing. If you think Jake can't

capitalize on it, I'm just going to sting him with this jab and he's not going to do anything about it. Until he does. And regardless of the fact that Chavez lost to Anderson Silva, I think we would be idiots if we didn't acknowledge that this is the highest level technical boxer Jake has ever faced. Regardless of who he lost to, he's a better technical boxer than Anderson Silva is. Like, all this looks, this is fine. This is good stuff. He really wants to. to throw that power to the body too. Not to say this is like a big tell for anything. Dude, Chavez's eyes are crazy, dude.

He's literally got like, crackhead eyes, though. He's just like fucking... Not that this is like their like strategy or anything, even though I used to make those titles like crazy, but Chavez Jr. has clearly put an importance on the bodywork in every single mitt session, everything. Maybe that's just the way they like to do mitts. Or it could be.

They see Jake as a fat, out-of-shaped cruiser weight that if they get to his body, he will slow down. And even over those 10 rounds, Jake can be overwhelmed. Interesting strategy, one that people haven't really taken advantage of. No one's really gone heavy to Jake's body because when you go to the body heavy, you open yourself up for big time counter shots over the top. A little bit of a risky game plan, but it'd be interesting to see because Jake has gone 10 a couple different times now. It's not that he can't, but he will slow down in points.

And no one's really gone to his body a ton to reap the benefits later on upstairs in the fight. Don't be surprised that we see a lot of body work from Chavez Jr., or at least attempted. See, I don't even like, I don't know, this right hand is a little bit scary to me. These pull right hands he's throwing with his lead hand kind of right by his waist. I've seen too many guys throw pull right hands thinking they're going to pull off a jab and bring the right hand. But the other guy throws a jab and a right hand with it and they might pull on the jab, but the right hand coming behind it cracks them dead in the jaw. Right?

Like if he's pulling on a right hand and coming over the top, and again, that lead hand is down. by his waist that right hand from Jake if they both are throwing jab right hands or if you're throwing the pull right and Jake's throwing the jab right hand he's going to kill you with the right hand dude okay you pulled on the jab now come and eat this right hand behind it yeah you're throwing to the mid here but look where you end up right back on the center line as the right hand potentially comes across every time yeah I don't know man don't like that I like the work to the body I'm not mad at that, but I don't know. Like the one weapon that Jake can change the fight with,

every single fight is his over him. That's his bread and butter. And you either got to believe in your chin like there's no tomorrow or you got to have combinations that you throw, starting with your jab and hiding your chin that don't put you back on center line for him to throw that thing down the pipe or over the top. But anyway, that is some of the training footage we see on Chavez Jr.

Again, I think that just from watching that, if I were to pull like a secret weapon out of this, it's that Chavez Jr. wants to get to Jake's body, right? I don't think this is just padwork for padwork sake. I think that they look at Jake as a guy that's, you know, he's been 10 rounds, but he does slow down, maybe a little heavy for cruiser weight, or at least, you know, not as in shape as he could be, and looking to work to the body first to break him down into those later rounds

and try to come upstairs. I think that's something that definitely could be a factor in the fight. If Jake isn't able to get off shots earlier to land big shots and maybe tires himself out a little bit, you go to his body, the hands come down further, the gas tank starts to slow and then all of a sudden a guy that was already a better volume puncher by far a guy that already was someone that had experience going late into championship rounds in the prime of his career starts to take over the fight that's what they're looking to do in my opinion that's what i see out of this video

but seeing chavez junior do it on the mid seeing him do it on the heavy bag is not seeing him do it in the ring and quite frankly i have not seen him do it in the ring in a very very long time even against the likes of Anderson Silva in Uriah Hall, who should not hold a candle to him in the boxing room. So no matter how much I think he can be technically better than Jake, no matter how much I think he could be technically the best boxer Jake has faced. I still think Jake Paul wins this fight. As of right now, that's what I think. And I don't know if it's just about commitment or if it's about time that's been gone for Chavez Jr.

Time he can't get back, time he wasted outside of the sport and his time in the sport. But more so than that, I think that the mental part of this fight at some point will be too much for Chavez Jr. It always has been his Achilles heel. I think it'll be again, combined with the time off, combined with the weight, combined with his age. But that's just my thoughts. I do think there's an interesting strategy here. I think Chavez Jr. is looking great compared to what you would think at this point in this career.

I just don't think it'll be enough. You guys let me know in the comments. Ilya has just taken over the entire promotion of the UFC and quite frankly the entire sport of MMA. UFC fans, you have your next big superstar and his name is El Madador. He just knocked out Charles Oli. That's right, DuBronx in the first round of his introduction to 155 pounds, and he is the new lightweight champion of the world in the UFC. He has now held belt in two separate weight classes, and he is starting to make a legacy that is undeniable.

17 and no flaws. And I mean that specifically in this fight. What just happened to breakdown, let's go. So like I said, Ilya, Taforia, Charles Olivera, this was the fight. I think that everybody was anticipating this week. And it turned out to be one that actually delivered on the anticipation, unlike another fight that happened, indirect competition in the boxing ring on the same night.

I'll just say it. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Jake Paul did not deliver anywhere close to the magnitude, to the performance, to the delivery, to the spectacular nature of the finish, all of it culminating in Iliot Zipporia going absolutely bonkers and doing exactly what he said he would do. If you guys didn't see during fight week, it was almost like a foregone conclusion from Iliate Soporia that he was going to win this fight. A level of confidence that we have not seen in the UFC in a very, very long time.

One that included him walking up to Charles and telling him, it was written, I didn't want it to be you, I'm sorry it had to be you, but this win was already written. To then celebrating a victory the night before it happens, a victory dinner on the night before the fight. It was almost as if Iliot Tuporia knew what we all thought, but maybe didn't have the courage to say, because we're not him. We are not Iliath Seporia. We didn't know that his confidence would exude and radiate so much energy that eventually he would have a spectacular performance like we just saw. So let's talk about the fight.

I told you guys coming into this fight, and I'll tell you again, the biggest gap I saw between Iliad Zipporia and Charles O'Levara was obviously in the striking department, and it was in the pocket. The moments where this fight would get heavy is when Iliot Soporia and Charles both decided to engage in the phone booth fight. And right away from the opening bell, this happened.

And funny enough, as the fight started, both of them traded in the pocket. And Charles Alavara was the one that came out the victor in their first exchange as soon as the fight started. He clipped Ilya with a right hand that made Ilya back off and rethink that exchange. And ultimately, there was a scramble where Charles Olavera got double underhooks. And in that exchange, I'm not sure if Charles got cut on the eyebrow

from something Ilya hit him with or potentially just finding grappling position and cut his eyebrow, but he gets cut up above the eyebrow, and Ilya ends up flipping position on him, getting top position on the ground, getting to Mount a Crucifix really quickly passing Charles Alvara, who is a high-level black belt, passing his guard like it was almost nothing.

Charles looked for leg locks, got somewhat threatening with one, and Ilya got out of it, very calm, very collected, very poised for this moment, something that, again, when you watch him fight as the word, you keep finding in your mind, He fights with such a poise, such a welcoming of the moment. No jitters, no, no butterflies, no, the moment is too big.

It reminds you of another guy that was the champion at 145 pounds and then jumped and became the champion at 155 pounds. I'm not saying that Ilya is Cona McGregor or Connemagraer is Ilya But to not see the parallels there, I think would be absolutely insane. I'm going to go out on the limb and maybe I'm wrong, but you guys can tell me in the comments, I think from what I'm seeing from Ilya Soporio right now, his arc without maybe the flash and the cameras and the superstar rocket ship that Connor McGregor built for himself and the UFC strapped to his back, Ilya's

run is better. He has knocked out two of the three greatest 145-pound fighters ever into two fights previous to this one. And then he comes into 155 pounds and knocks Charles Olivaire out, another former world champion in the weight class he was stepping into. That three-fight run is one of the better ones maybe I've ever seen, and it wasn't against just supplementary talent. These were top-line fighters, best of the best.

The only person missing from that equation and may not be missing for very long is Islam Makachev. Keep an eye on that in the future. But anyway, so they get to their feet in Ilya and Charles O'Levara. They have another clinch kind of close quarters phone booth fight, and Ilya gets off a nice jab to the body, stabs him, jab upstairs, stabs him, and they enters in with a... combination and Charles gets to a moitai clench tries to throw the knee up the middle Ilya's wary to it shucks off the plum grip it gets back to his base

starts to get back to what he likes to do which is enter in with his jab and Charles not using those weapons that I think he desperately needed to in this fight that teep kick to keep distance right the ability to push kick to the stomach or stab at the knee or oblique kick or inside leg kick things to get Ilya off that front foot and start to engage at a higher distance where he's less susceptible to combination punching and he's more to throw his outside game as well. And with that being said, Ilya stabs him to the body again, stabs him with a jab upstairs,

steps in, Charles tries to meet him with a straight right hand, the same one that he landed to start the fight and had success with, but this time, Ilya had seen it. And instead of engaging and trying to go right hand for right hand, he takes his lead hand and just slightly pushes Charles' right hand off the center line, just slightly pushes it off path to drop his own right hand, and boy, when he drops it, It was like the atomic bomb hit because he drops this right hand and Charles goes limp immediately.

And just for good measure, Ilya winds up a left hook behind it. Charles goes flat on his back and Ilya follows up two hammer fist and it's all over in win. The first round, just like Ilya Tuporia told us and told Charles and clearly told himself his self-belief, his ability inside of the octagon, his poised. And quite frankly, just how good he is. is took over and the world took notice tonight. The UFC created their biggest, newest star. It's insane to watch him perform at this level and think, where is his ceiling? Because it wasn't at 45. At 55, he just took out one of the biggest names. Islam moved to 70.

Sure, there's matchups there and they're going to make the next matchup, whatever that is, which we'll get to in a second. But it's just he doesn't feel like a real person. And so the question becomes who is going to be there? Who is going to stand in front of Iliot support? and say, it's my turn as well. You may have this moment, but now it's my turn too. That rising star to combat another superstar rising. And we may have gotten that answer in the octagon as Patty Pimlet stepped in. And I don't know who arranged it, but he stepped right in to talk to Ilya Tuporia and say,

congratulations, but you're not knocking me out. I'm different from all these guys. You're mine. And they have a great back and forth. And Tepore is saying, I'm going to put my balls on your forehead. and I'm going to do all this and do that. It was perfect. It felt like such a good piece of business

that the UFC was doing. To give Patty Pimbley his shot at that belt to make a fight that already has an ingrained feud between two guys that just don't like each other over the belt, over competition, finally we get to see them fight. And there's even a shove from Ilya to get Patty out of his face.

Like, get the fuck out of my face, dude. I'm the champ. You're in my octagon and I'm holding my two belts. And I thought this was again, just a brilliant piece of business from the UFC. It makes sense. But then I heard Dana White say this in the post-fight presser about how much he enjoyed that face-to-face.

Well, I don't know who the hell let him in there. That should have never happened. Let's start there. I was already back in my room or that would have never happened. But that's not the fight. It just, yeah. It was fun to watch. It shouldn't happen.

It was fun to watch. Wow. That's not really what we do. I'm giving you if it was fun to watch or not. It's just that that shouldn't happen. Plus, he wins a second, a second time. and a higher division, it was just a bad call by whoever the hell let them let them in there. Dana White is upset that Patty Pimlet faced off with Iliot Tuporia.

He's upset that he could have potentially put together one of the best fights you can make right now at 155. Why? That's, that is exactly what you want. That's the rivalry you need. This is a sport of MMA where, yes, star building is super important. And maybe Patty Pimlet's not the greatest matchup because of his strength, because of his strength, because of his size, because of his grappling ability. Tough fights make superstars and a loss isn't the end of the world.

And I know you don't want to kill the golden goose because Taboria right now is on a heater. He's on a hot streak. And when I thought about it more, I knew that the reason Dana White would not like this fight, the reason Dana White would not like that face off. That's not, in his words, how they do things, even though I've seen many of face-offs in the Octagon. In fact, I saw one earlier in the night with Van and Pantosia.

The reason he did not like that face-off is because it's not what Dan Dana wants. And that to me just doesn't make sense. Listen, I get it. I know that Justin Gaci is a matchup that Favors a striking battle that Iliot Tuporia will most likely win. I mean, listen, I know MMA Math doesn't always work, but Max Holloway flatlines Justin Gachi in their fight. Then Ilya flatlines Max Holloway. What do we expect to happen when Ilya Tuporia gets in there with a guy in Gaci who can be hit, he can be hurt, he can be stopped, and he wants to strike? And also if he wrestles, Seporia is probably better there as well. I think we know the conclusion of that matchup.

I'm not going to say it's not a good fight or whatever, but the matchup that I would personally want to see, especially after that faceoff and the one that I think holds more parity than Ilya and Justin Gaci is Ilya and Patty the Badi. Both of them have their own separate fan bases. Both of them do not like each other. They've had run-ins in the past. The fight's been building for years.

Why not? You can say it's too early, but at that point, is it not just the same problem that everybody has with the Marcus of Queensberry and the sport of boxing, that's the same problem we've had for years with them. We don't get the fights we want when we want them, and instead they fall by the wayside and we all sit there on her hand and say,

well, we wish we would have got them when they were in their prime. I just think that's the fight to make, and Dana's upset about it because I think Dana wants Ilya Tuporia and Justin Gaci. I'm hoping this moment forced his hand. I'm hoping that the people loved it enough to say, fuck it, you know, let's do it. I really do.

I just don't know if that's the case. But regardless, in any form or fashion, Ilya is on the verge of becoming a global MMA superstar. He is becoming what this sport has needed in the last, I would say, two to three years without Alex Pereira's name being invoked. This man can speak great English. He is well-dressed. He's got a great look.

He is a crunch time player, meaning he steps up on every big stage and delivers in the most emphatic fashion. And when he's done, it's on to the next one business as usual. if the UFC does not strap the rocket ship to his back, whether it's with Gaichi, which, whatever, or it's with Patty the Batty and they make an ingrained rivalry to just build his legacy further, potentially, or to make Patty the Batty, that next big thing.

They need to understand they have a burgeoning superstar on their hands, and if they don't take advantage of it now, I don't know what else they need to know. Ilya is the real deal, and he's going to be for a very long time, undefeated and undisputed, lightweight champion of the world and a demolishing, a demolition job of Charles Olivera, who, you know, has been around in this sport for a very long time, not sure where he goes from here.

Obviously didn't have his best performance, wasn't his night. And yes, some of it was about Charles, his stubbornness, his inability to keep the fight at distance, but more of it was about Ilya Teporia and his just greatness. What happens next for him, for Charles, for the UFC, I don't have those answers. I know one thing, it's almost impossible to mess this up because Ilya Tuporia is just that damn good. What happens for him next? I guess we'll find out. Folks, we are back on the way concept presented by the Ring Magazine,

and I am sitting next to the showstop, the King of New York. One half of your main event, July 12th, the Louis Armstrong Stadium. It's Edgar Berlanga. What's up, my man? What's up, baby, good. Chillin, bro. Hey, first off, you didn't have to wear more. You didn't have to have so much ice on you.

I didn't know if it was Edgar Berlanger or a freezer I was talking to. This man got ice, dude. You're wearing my condo on your neck. What are we doing here? You just had to stun on me? Like, what are we doing? No, no, man. You know, this is my image, you know.

I grew up, you know, loving, you know, looking good, you know what I'm saying? I always, I always felt if I look good, I feel good, you know, I could do the things I want good. Do you think I could pull it off or no? I don't, you know, I could pull the chain off? Maybe one, maybe one tennis chain. Just one, little bitty one? You can, now, you can pull it all. Okay.

But then you're going to go from being like, like, you look like, you probably like to do movies. and shit. Okay. To like a guy that. I'm going to get a square off here, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Have it nice. You put the part, you know?

Get the chains on there. You're going to really like a New Yorker. I got a bunch of friends that are, that live up in this area. Puerto Rican, for you, how important is it to put her on for not just the city of New York, but for Puerto Rican heritage, for everything that matters most to you? It's everything. That's what, you know, I'm not going in there by myself. You know, I'm going in there with my team, with my friends.

family for Puerto Rico. There's a lot of Puerto Ricans on the island that's with me, you know, and I'm going in there with them. My ancestors, you know, from the 1800s, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Those people are going in that ring with me. You know, I think that, uh, now I keep saying, I know that I'm destined for some great and Homs is just in a way, you know what I'm saying? So we can't overlook them. I can't look what's behind them. And, you know, That's the kind of a rematch and this and there's a lot of things that's lined up for us that could happen. But right now we got to focus on him, you know, because if we don't get through him, everything goes out the window. Facts.

A lot of, you said, a lot of people in your corner. And before we got on camera, you said, I got to perform. Yeah, I got to. I'm home. And my home, one thing about New Yorkers, bro, they love a fight and they love grit. And they love when you put your balls on the table and get it. You know what I'm saying? and they're

listen, New York is a place where if they love you, they love you. But if they don't like you, they'll shit on you. You see with the Knicks. They start doing parades and everything. Y'all got a little premature.

Yeah, they go crazy, bro. Can't be doing that. You got the Celtics winning last night? Y'all thought the series was over. It ain't over yet, Bigman. But they feel like it's a victory because, you know, the Knicks always been in a dump. So it's like when they get this,

far as like, is the high-ohy. So are we back, by the way, or the Knicks back? I hope they are, you know what I'm saying? I want them to win. They're from New York. You know, I'm not like a big, big, big basketball fan, but, you know, I've reped New York. Are you big, like baseball, football, now? Everything, you know, Jets.

Jans. Okay, I don't know. Jets, you know what I'm saying? But Giants is my team. Right, okay. Yankees, you know, I love the Yankees. I love the Mets. You know what I'm saying?

There's a lot of players. How you're going to love, boy, I'm from New York. I didn't know about to think. No, one thing about me is that if I get love from both, if you get love from both places, you got to reciprocate. Yeah, you got to reciprocate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I got to be equal, you know, I'm saying.

I got to be in the middle and just, you know, love both. So the Nets, too, obviously Brooklyn. Come on. The Brooklyn, the basketball team. Yeah, but they're not. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's got to be your squad. Yeah, yeah, but they just, I don't know.

I feel like, but me, they, like, new stuff. Expansion team, yeah. Yeah, they got to. They used to be Jersey bound and moved up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. claim in Brooklyn and ain't like that, right? Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. So I can't come up here and claim Brooklyn if I just move up here, right?

I'm from the south. I'm from Tennessee, so we can't just... You gotta go through me if you want to. No, I got to check in. Okay, I'll check in. I'm off. I didn't know. I had to check in.

That's cool. So, yeah, talk to me about Hamza, man. We just did the face off. Yeah. We did the press conference. You've been in front of him all day. What's the energy, man? What's the energy, man?

What are you feeling from him? Fight, right? I'm saying? I was trying to go away for nine weeks. going to habination mode because he thinks you're crazy by the way you can tell I don't go to fuck what he thinks you know what I'm saying

I am crazy you gotta be crazy in this game you gotta be look at the legends every legend look at Floyd Mayweather look at Connor McGregor look at Michael Jordan

look at Kobe Bryant Mike Tyson look at Mike Tyson look at Mike Tyson look at Muhammad Ali these guys are crazy people thought they were psycho but you can't be a normal

guy and try to be you can't be normal and then think you're going to a legend. There ain't no way, bro. Being like that, quiet, you ain't gonna be, you gotta be a little crazy. Roberto Doreen, you gotta be crazy, bro. You know what I'm saying? Julio says to Chavez, you gotta be crazy. These guys is crazy, you know, so you gotta be a little crazy to get to that level. I don't think if you're normal, you won't get there. You gotta be a little bit crazy to get up there. Because when you're crazy, you want to do, you want to, you know, try no things

in the ring. You know what I'm saying? If you're a certain way, you're not, you're gonna be scared to take that to take that leap of faith and say, you know what, let me try this. Let me try this. I'm going to be in the gym. Yo, Mark, I want to go 25 rounds and sparring today. You know what I'm saying? Like that's crazy. You just told me too before we got on camera. You're like, bro, I'm about to go train right now. Yeah. Today got you, today got you hyped up or you just... No, yesterday as soon as I got here. I landed, my flight got delayed. Me too, by the way. What's going on? LaGuardia, get it together. Yeah, they're tripping. And I came from Tampa,

so when I got here, I landed like at 10, I caught my strength conditioning coach at my yo, I'm here. Like, I'm getting to the hotel. I'm dropping my shit off. I'm grabbing my bag and we're going straight to the gym. We was in the gym to, like, almost 2 in the morning. I can tell, man, the gun's popping out. I didn't know those that was registered.

The state of New York, you know what I mean? You got to get those things checked out, you know. But I came back, two in the morning, eight, I got up at 9 in the morning, here with y'all doing all of this. After I'm done, I'm going right back to train. Just locked in different. That's it, bro. At the day, man, like, you know, all the talk and everything we're doing is, you know,

it's cool. But, you know, when it's all sent on July 12, when me and him is in that ring, it's only me and him. Yeah. I like that, though. I like the talk because, one, to me, it shows you're confident. And two, I kind of talked to you about this earlier. You put pressure on yourself. Can't really anybody else say shit to you.

You know what I'm saying? Like, if you put, like, I'm this. This is what I'm going to go do. That pressure has already been put on you by you. So whatever they say, they say, it don't matter. Because you already got, put it on me. Go ahead. Say whatever it is.

There's nobody that's, yeah, exactly. Is everything that's meant to. As long as you go here, this controls your body. Your mind controls your body. Whatever you tell yourself you want to do, you're going to do it, you know what I'm saying? If I want to run through this wall, right? No, I'm serious. Right.

No, I'm serious. If I want to run through that wall right there. Don't, by the way. Because Mark always told me, if you want to go through some, you put your mind to it, you're going to do it, bro. Like you see like the rats, right? You see the rats when they start digging holes. Okay. Like, I'm from the projects.

Big problem out here in New York, right? Yeah, I'm from the projects. I used to have a lot of rats. We shoot them where I come from. We take the gun out and just line them up, you know what I'm saying? We chase them with fucking, with bats and, and, and, and. Teeing off on the rats? The mobs?

Trying to get them out. But, like, when we was younger, but, you know, a rat, what it does, it keeps scratching, it keeps scratching until it gets that hole, then it down is inside the house, right? So it's the same way with us. Whatever we put them onto, we're going to do it. Backs. So when it comes to this fight, you know, like I said, I saw this energy between you and Shiraz.

Something you pointed out, and I thought was interesting, you were like, to me, you're Canelo. Like, you're the best person, even if you already went to 12 with Canello, you're the best person I've ever faced because you're the next guy I face. And you felt like he didn't have that same energy for you. At all. That's how I knew I beat him already. I already beat him. Mentally, you just think he's checked, like he's trying to overlook you already, think the next thing? Right there, I beat him.

I saw him. I just beat you. You don't even know I just beat you, bro. Because I'm looking at you like Canelo. I'm going away for Kent, like I'm not a certain part of my word. No, I'm not going on, I'm not going back home. I'm going away. Like, he's my Connollo. You know what I'm saying? Once I get him out of the way, it's like, all right. All right. Yo, Turkey, let's sit down, baby. You know what? Let's talk, man. What did you say? What did you say to him? You said Turkey was what? You said, Turkey's his poppy. You know, that's his poppy right there. You got it. Turkey got him like, this walking like, hey, hey, don't talk. When I talk, don't say nothing. When I tell you to move,

you move. So he's doing that. That's what I'm saying. He don't want to be in New York. Like, he wants to be fighting in New York. Come on. He's just doing this because they're putting in the pressure. I'm like, yo, you got to take this fight. Because if not, you're not going to get the canada fight. You know what I'm saying? So he's like, oh, fuck, I'm going to take the fight, but. But you think about it, like the way you talk about how Turkey looks at him, that says a lot for how Turkey looks at you, that he wants Shiraz to come over here in your backyard take this kind of challenge of this first fight at 168. That's a big deal, man.

Yeah, maybe Turkey's unestined in me. I think, Turkey, I think you're in estimate. Just a little bit. Okay. And it's maybe, you know, it's boxing, so I don't take nothing personal. But she'll light a fire, too. It likes a fire because then after that we're going to sit down with you. We sit down like this, me and you, we have some dinner.

She kick me out, Turkey, you can sit here. And we, you know, we took real money. We talk real money. They, they, you know. I ain't pocket washing you. look like you got it right now. No, no, no. They could buy this right here. A million of these. A million of these, they can buy a million times, you know? So you got to respect it, you know. A hundred percent. The money's different, facts, you know. Now, speaking of the money being different,

100K bet, huh? I watched it go down. The handshake made it official. Well, I don't know if it's official official, but we're going to honor it. You think they're going to honor it? Oh, yeah, yeah. I already spoke to this guy. Okay. He said, yeah, so. 100K on the line. Does that make it a little more sweet for you? Yeah, hell, yeah. Now I guess we're going. He never did no shit like that. I was going to say, you kind of stuck it on him, and it was like, do we have to look around and say, yeah? I do shit like that. Okay.

You don't even know. I do shit like that. I don't do shit like that. That's why I'm comfortable. He ain't tell me that's better 100K. I was the one I told him that. Yeah. You know the type of shit I do? I lose like 500 at the casino. That's the shit I'm on. And I don't go back. That's mine.

Let's go. When you're doing 100K,000. I know, but now I did more than that on myself. Like, basically my whole life, I've better on myself. You know what I'm saying? But like. But that's why you are in the position you're in, I think. And that's why you're going to the place you're going.

You talked about risk. You talked about being a little crazy. It's honestly just you saying yes to every challenge in front of you, man. I respect the hell out of it. Yeah, and I want to fight the best. I'm not over here, cherry-picking nobody. I want to fight the best. That's why this.

And I want to make the biggest fight. happen. Yes. Where there's a lot of fans and, you know, people can enjoy. That's the part of boxing, you know what I'm saying? People worry about their old. People worry about a lot of different things, man. It was about giving the fans a great fight, bro. Look at me in Connollo.

Nobody don't talk about. What they talk about is, yo, you in Conno, man, y'all need to do a rematch, bro. Why? In that arena, everybody was on their feet, and I'll tell you. I was in Vegas that night, I remember. You know, everybody in that arena. Everybody in that arena was on their feet. That's why it went from booze to after the 12th round.

I was leaving. I felt like a fucking superstar. Respect. You earned so much respect. I was walking through the MGM to go have dinner at like a little diner that was in the MGM. Bro, I had a mob of Mexicans, bro. Mabbing me, bro. It's pictures telling me I'm a legend, telling thank you.

Like, bro, they don't remember. They're not remembering, oh, you lost a thing. No, they remember, yo, you and kind of love. for the fucking amazing fight, bro. Just like the Guardian Ward. I never spoke about, yo, who won that fight? I just look at the fight.

I'm like, yo, that was a fucking war, all those three fights. That's what they talk about. They don't talk about all, but Ward won? No, they talk about, yo, they went out of it. And that's what boxing is about.

What's your relationship now, like, with Canello? I'm interested because it felt like there was a lot of respect between you two after the fight. And then I saw you kind of gone off on him on Twitter. what's it like right now? How do you look at it? No, it's not. It's back up.

No respect. Why is that? Because I gave you too much, I gave you so much respect after the fight. You know what I'm saying? I told me, yo, you changed my life. Thank you. Yeah.

You know, thank you for the opportunity. Like, I, and then you went on, on, and you did an interview, and you said I ran, you crazy. I'm trying to survive. And it's so funny that he's saying that the whole fight week, and then he fights a guy. And he's a goal.

Yeah. He fights. and he fights a guy that's really trying to survive. And it's like, then you see him complaining to score like, like, yo, bro, come on, man, fight, man. So it's like, who was really trying to survive? You know what I'm saying? And you know me, I'm a guy that you try to troll me.

You try to troll me. You try to make fun of me. I'm going to troll you right back. So that one's, it's back now. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Now it's personal with him. Me and him is personal. But I got to get my shit back.

Of course. Now, when it comes to fighting in general, I've always had this question ready for you because I feel like you're a guy that gets down outside of the ring, too. You've been in any street fights, man? When I was younger, yeah. Any, any, like, crazy one that you cared to? Not maybe, you know what I'm saying?

We ain't trying to. No, not, not crazy. But I'm not going to lie, man. Like, a lot of people love me, you know, and I knew how to fight. Remember, I was boxing since I was six years old. So, you know, when I was younger, my dad went away for prison, you know, in the project and stuff, I had a, I was, imagine me, light skin. Like, you, no facial hair, pretty boy.

You know, these guys was bad little kids, you know what I'm saying? They was breaking car windows, robbing cars, you know what I'm saying, working with bats and stuff, you know, and it was getting, it used to get crazy, you know, and I used to want to be outside. I'm a kid. I want to hang out outside, you know, and I used to go outside and I had to prove myself, you know what I'm saying? I had to get my respect, so I used to have to beat people up, you know what I'm saying? He's like, yo, and I used to like, yo, let's get it. Boom, ba, boom, bab, boom, right, right. Straight like that.

And then after that, it just in my project, there was, he just, be like, yo, Iger used to call me, your egg, egg, I go, yo, egg, you know what I'm saying? Out of school, coming out of school was like a fight, boom, and then I got my respect. I was going to a point where everybody learned not to mess with you. Yeah, and then also, too, you know, me going to the gym, so I stood a, I stood a, it happened a lot when my father went to prison. Because, like, I used to skip school. I used to try to skip school and also skip the gym, you know what I'm saying? They're like, you know, be outside.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. It's where everybody else is, yeah. And, you know, that's what, like, drew me into, like, want to be in the streets and fight. You know what I'm saying? And one time when my dad, like, my sister, like, was fighting with this young kid, like, grabbed my sister by the hair. And, like, my dad was like, yo, my dad told me, like, yo, look, we did it to your sister. I looked. Went up to him.

Boom. One shot. Knocked him out. Boom. Yeah, he, like, grabbed my sister by the head. It was over. It was over. You know, my stepbrother was way older than him.

He was in the school together. I used to be like, they used to be like, yo, like, one time I was in, like, I was in a class, but my stepbrother was, he was older than me. This is my ex-stepbrother. He was older than me. And I was like, I used to protect him. So, like, they came to my class there. Yo, these two kids are being, was being the shit out of your brother.

I was like, where they are? It was in the bathroom. I asked the teacher. Can I go to the bathroom? Yeah, you go. You know, you had a reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go to the bathroom.

They stood there, demolished them in the bathroom. Bing, bang. I swear they got, ping, bang, bang, bang, boom, both of them got suspended, trying to expel me out to school. No. You know, so. You've been in them streets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I grew up very sheltered.

Thank you to my mom and dad. Shelter homes. Country boys shelter. I've seen, like, six years old, bro, seeing shootouts. Oh, shelter homes. Different. I was like, wait a, sorry, completely different. My sheltered, your shelter, different.

You know, is that I brought up, and you had, you had fucking car windows in the Bronx. Here, car windows splashing, bops. and I get up, it was in a shelter and I was in the Hunts Point. I got up, I was climbing on top of the where the sink is at. It was a window, and I was just standing at the whole shootout. They was just shooting back and forth. My mom grabbed me crying, get down, get on the floor. You know, it was like level.

It was like almost on the floor, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. On a street floor. By the way, the way you're talking about this is like it's just nothing, which is crazy to me because I would be petrified for the rest of my life. It's like a, it's like a war zone. This is what shaped you. It made me humble, too.

Yeah. It made me humble because it made me, you know, respect, you know, a lot of things because, you know, that life is not cool, you know, I don't condone it. So me seeing that, like, and then, you know, my dad going to prison and leaving and coming back and then leaving again going to prison, I just had a different type of respect, you know what I'm saying, for people that, you know, that's in their life. And then I try to, like, you know, talk to these young guys now, you know what I'm saying? And telling them, they're, listen, bro, you can't be doing that.

You know what I'm saying? You got to do this the right. way, you know. And a lot of people, like, drawn to me because they see me, I'm a positive guy. You know, I'm not a sucker, but I'm also, because for you to do good in life, you don't got to be a sucker, you know what I'm saying? I feel like a lot of people feel like that, like, for you to be a good person and do good in life, whether you got a career or whether you're working on a Friday, they feel like, oh, that's a sucker. No, it's not a suck. I said, it's a real man, you know what I'm saying? A real man is a guy to take care of his family, take

care his mom, take his father, you know what I'm saying, take his kids, you know, that's a real man. Love that. You know, being in the streets and acting like a bad boy now, it's not cool, you know. Well, now you're doing this. To take care of your family, give me one last, down-the-lens prediction. July 12th, you step in that ring. Across from you is Hamza Shiraz.

The bell rings. What happens? Tell the people. Saraz. There he is, man. Edgar Verlanga. Once again, he's one half of your main event. Stay tuned, July 12th from the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

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