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Well, it's always my pleasure to
be joined on the podcast by the one

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and only undisputed super midleweight champ of
the world, one of the all time

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greats of boxing, Canelo Alvarez.
Canelo, thank you first of all very

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much for joining me today. House
camp going for you for this big fight

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that we're going to talk about.
That's my pleasure, my fan. I

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feel great, I feel ready.
I'm just waiting in the last coach in

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late Tachoin and I feel better than
ever. Well, well, let the

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people know. Number one, you're
going to defend the undisputed super middlewhite title

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to be taken on the undefeated Haimi
Moongia. I think a fight that most

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people expect to be very exciting,
an action packed will be May fourth on

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pay per view, and I believe
I will call it the house that Canelo

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built, the Team Mobile arena in
Las Vegas, where you've fought so many

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times. Tell me, first of
all, just your your thoughts about you

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have moved your camp, as you
just mentioned, you're now training in Lake

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Tahoe, not a place where you've
typically trained. You've trained in Mexico,

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you've trained in San Diego. But
what was it that made you decide to

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make the chains. I've watched your
videos of you jumping in cold water,

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in the hot tubs or the cold
tubs. The altitude, the altitude.

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You know, I feel great when
I'm training the altitude. Uh, that's

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the first thing. When when when
think when we're thinking about to go to

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the altitude, we thinking about in
light that. So we find this this

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gym and and we feel great.
We feel great because you know, it's

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a very relaxed place. We have
everything we need, and and and and

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and and my training comes goal was
really good and and I feel in my

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best right now. Before this fight
was made, Canelo, we all know

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you had had the big win over
Charlotte to defend your title in your previous

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fight. That was part of what
was supposed to be a three fight contract

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with PBC to work with Al Haiman
and and their group to do your fights.

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You had the one fight and then
you split up for a few minutes

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there after you couldn't come to terms
on the fight that's going to take place

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coming up and now, and then
you did get back together at least for

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the one fight. Could you just
walk me through briefly what happened there and

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what what led you guys to get
back together. No. I always like

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to do to to to work with
everybody, and especially right now with Al

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Jaymon. He always trained me really
good. All the team in BBC training

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really good. And I always loyal
and I always uh do my best.

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I'm very disciplined and I'm very I'm
very responsively responsible all my teams. So

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things happen. Obviously they have something
and but nothing bad. Nothing bad.

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I just say, you know,
if you don't have anything right now,

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I can find other things to to
fight next May and next May. And

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they say, okay, let's the
sea and everything, and and they at

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the end of the day they find
something and and and we put everything together

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because you know, the fight with
Charlock is not excited for the for the

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fans after his brother do what he
do in the in the fight, which

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was nothing with nothing, So he's
not gonna be a good fight for the

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people. No, And and we're
thinking about to to do this fight,

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and I think he's very excited for
the for the fans, and and and

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we are here, we are working
together. Well, I'm glad that you

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made that decision. And when I
looked at Mangia and I thought, Okay,

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that's gonna be a really interesting fight. Was part of your mentality,

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part of your reasons for seeking out
that fight in particular, because there was

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a lot of people who are boxing
fans, boxing media that talked about how

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great he looked against John Ryder.
He knocked him down four times, he

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knocked him out, and in John's
previous fight you had beat him decisively by

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a one sided fight. You knocked
him down also, but he knocked him

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down four times and stopped him.
You knocked him down one time and it

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did go twelve rounds. So was
it the comparisons that people were making that

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you thought, you know what,
let me give this kid a shot.

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Yeah. I think that I fight
make everything interesting in more and I never

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looked about if I fight the same
guy and I did that different way.

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So it's very hard to josh that, you know, because the styles made

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fights, you know, sometimes is
different with every fighter. But I think

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he deserved a shot. He served
a shot, and he looked good.

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He's a young fighter who come in
throw a lot of punches, He's strong,

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he have a good mentality, so
it's gonna be a good fight,

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and especially because for the first time
to Mexican fighters, fighting the four Wels,

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I think is a good fight.
So I know at one point you

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had stated that you not that you
would never fight a Mexican fighter. Uh

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it was I didn't I don't speak
Spanish, but the way it was translated

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to me was that what Canelo had
said was that your preference was not to

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fight a Mexican fighter. So what
was it that made you decide for this

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fight on the holiday single? Demayo, I will fight my Mexican countryman,

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Mangia. You know, I represent
Mexico. That's what That's the way I

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feel, and that's why I don't. I don't really like to fight Mexicans.

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But at the end of the day, despite I think that people won

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this fight, and and and it's
history for Mexico. It's history for Mexico.

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I think he deserved a shot and
and and and for Mexico. Is

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a really good fight because you know
it's history. Now we know that you

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obviously have had your differences in your
falling out with Golden Boy and particularly with

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Oscar. He is one of the
fighters that Golden Boy and Oscar promote does

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It is it is. It also
part of the reason that you decided to

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take him on because you love nothing
more to not only retain your title,

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but to basically beat up one of
the golden boy fighters and one of Oscar's

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top guys. Not really, not
really. At the phrase, Luke,

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I say, no, I'm not
gonna fight with Mugia because he's with all

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them, boy, and then we
say, okay, you know the fight

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is good, and I'm gonna give
mugi an opportunity and I'm gonna forget everything

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around him. Will make you feel
a little happier though we know and that

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you took out one of oscars top
young guys, it won't. It won't

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make you feel a little happier if
you take out one of oscars guys.

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I always happy, and I think
he's gonna be more happy for me.

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Yes, okay, there you go. H one thing. Also, you've

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beaten in your career a lot of
undefeated fighters, and I mean you're a

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motivated fighter regardless of who you're fighting
in my experience of covering your career,

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but I just wonder he's a guy. Also, like many of your other

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opponents that you have defeated that are
undefeated, he's forty three. Oh will

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it make it a little bit more
special or does add any additional motivation to

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once again take the O from an
unbeaten fighter like Mangia. Yeah, it's

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special for me. I motive been
myself a lot because I love boxing and

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I love being involved in these kind
of fights. He's a really good fighter,

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he's undefeated, and I'm involved in
other great fights and I'm excited.

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I'm gonna wait in May four and
still continue to make history. You've had

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four fights in a row that have
gone to the final bell, including the

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fight against Charlot in your last fight. Are you getting a little anxious to

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get a knockout? It's been a
little while. We always prepare ourselves for

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a knockout. Does that's for sure, But you know when don't come and

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prepare for everything, you need to
be smart. You need to be able

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to handle everything. So but I
yes, I prepare myself for a knockout

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and I'm gonna look at look forwardd
This may form. You know, there's

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a lot of people that wanted to
see you fight David Benavitie's he's an undefeated

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contender. Also, the way Monkey
is also Uh, he's maybe a little

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higher in people's minds in the rankings
because of his longevity and the things he's

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done, the fighters he's defeated,
the way he's beating them. I just

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I want to give you a chance
to just sort of explain why it was

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that you haven't been willing or interested
to fight him, at least not yet,

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and do you think you will in
the future. You know, you

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know that I always fight with everybody, and I always fight with the people

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they say I'm not gonna fight.
I always involved in that kind of fight

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fights. And right now I'm in
a position I can do whatever I want,

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and I don't want to give you. I don't want to give that

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opportunity to him because he being me
so to the table just twenty pounds small,

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the fight, the knife, the
fight night. So that's why why

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I'm gonna put myself in that position
right now. I don't need it.

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I don't. I don't. I
don't need that kind of things. Well,

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okay, and I know we got
to wrap it up in a minute,

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but there are people that will say, well, Cannell, he fought

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light heavyweight. Those are big guys. Also, I know there's been conversation

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about maybe another light heavyweight fight.
So is David sort of just that size

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guy? Yeah, but they are
fighters. You can't give a how do

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you say advantage a button jage?
Yeah? Okay, And just to wrap

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it up, you have monkey in
front of you. Very good fight.

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I think to most people, how
do you think this fight goes in the

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end? I mean, he's never
been stopped before, he's never beaten,

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he's never been beaten before. He's
gonna be a good fight. He's gonna

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be a good fights. His style
is is really good. He's my style

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really good to be a good fight. But I'm gonna win, and I'm

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gonna win. As you always say, you're gonna win, Canelo La,

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that's not news to me. Thank
you very much for your time today.

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I wish you could lucky to fight
and look forward to seeing you in Las

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Vegas. Thank you that Yah