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Speaker 1: Well, it's my great pleasure to welcome into our podcast.

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This week it's the super middleweight undefeated contender Edgar Berlanga

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and Edgar, we're here to talk about you have the

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biggest fight of your career coming up September fourteenth. It's

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the main event on the PBC on Prime kay per

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View at the T Mobile Arena and you'll be taking

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on the superstar unified super middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez.

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It's a huge fight for you for your career. Welcome

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to the show. Thank you very much for doing this.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciated that you bet Edgar. So listen, you know

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I was I was thinking back when, way back when.

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Not way back, but in twenty twenty three. You know,

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you had become a free agent from top rank and

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you and your manager at Keith Connelly, we're talking to

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different promoters about, you know, your future career path. You

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wound up signing with Eddie Hearn and Mattroom Boxing, and

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this was always the fight wherever you signed. This was

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the fight that was on your mind, was on Keith's

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mind thinking that they could make this happen. That Canelo

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at that moment was with with Mattroom not anymore, but

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they still do plenty of business with all the different promoters.

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So my question is, back then this was like a

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dream to get this kind of fight. Now that it's

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here and it's happening, like, how surreal is it that

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you actually got it?

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Speaker 2: It feels good, man.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just living my dream of what we've

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been doing for for for the the past twenty years.

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You know, we got to the point, we got to

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the pinnacle of the boxing. You know, were at the

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mountain now and it's about it's about defeeing the life now,

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you know, and taking his spot and becoming the new

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superstar of you know, of boxing in the face of boxing.

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You know, I know I got what it takes to

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become that, you know, the skills, the will to stardom,

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the charisma, the look, ticket sales. I got the whole package,

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you know. So I feel like now, you know, he

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already did his time. You know, for me, his time

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is done. You know, I think he's already going out

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that doorway. You know, he has his millions already, he

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don't got none to prove them on the squorter box,

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and he's going to go down in history as one

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of the greatest Mexican champions, you know.

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Speaker 2: So with that being said, you know I'm young, I'm

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the young line coming in now.

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Speaker 3: You know I'm the young blood coming in, and you know,

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I gotta make my mom, you know, and mark my

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tell till in the quarter boxing.

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Speaker 1: So I know. I mentioned that this was the talk

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when you became a free agent, that you guys were

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looking for this fight. But I've heard you say that

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even way back when you first turned professional, all the

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way back in twenty sixteen, that at that time Canello

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was middleweight champion. He was already an established star, but

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you were just turning pro. But even all the way

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back then, in your mind you thought, you know what,

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maybe someday I can line up with Canelo Alvarez and

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get that kind of fight, which you've got now. So

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I'm actually interested when you found out that you finally

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got to fight. Whenether either Eddie called you or Keith

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called you, and you found out, you know what you

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got Canelo, We're good, that deal's done. September fourteenth, What

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was your reaction? What was your thought after all those

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years of thinking this might happen someday, hoping it would

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happen day.

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Speaker 2: My first thing was that we did it. You know,

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I've been talking.

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Speaker 3: About this fight for years, for about five years now,

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you know, even when I first turned pro and I

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say and I was like, Dan, that's gonna be a

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that could be a mega fight, you know if I

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keep going. While I'm keep doing what I'm doing, you know,

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winning and spectacular fashion. I was knocking people out in

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the first round, I was like, that's gonna be a

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mega fight for the Sporter Box in Mexico, support of Reco.

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And you know, we got it, man, Like, It's an

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amazing feeling of be in this position.

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Speaker 2: You know. Now it's just we got it. You know,

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the job is not over here. You know, it's a

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difference when you got it. A lot of fighters are

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just happy with.

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Speaker 3: Just getting in the fight, you know, because they're getting

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paid and they getting a little fame. You know, if

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this but I'm trying to I'll look at the long

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run like I'm trying to do what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: You know, I want to do thirty more of these,

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you know, these rodeos.

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Speaker 3: You know where we're going to. I'm flying my next

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fight up. We're doing the same thing we having different

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press con call. I'm ready for it, man, like you know,

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ready to sell a fight, ready to fight, ready to

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get the fans what they want, ready to entertainment. You know,

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I'm a guy that that brings us a tainment to

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the sport. So you know, I'm just I'm happy, man.

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Like you know, just getting that call was just amazing

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and it was like, Yo, we really did it, man,

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you know, and Oz's got to take the opportunity and

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make the best of it and you know, become a

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lessond in the sport now.

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Speaker 1: I know that in the in the in the time

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trying to get the deal done, which making these types

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of fights is never easy. And I keep in touch

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with Keith, your manager, Keith Connley, and we talked about it,

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and you know, he was saying that they're working hard

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to get it done. I know how how hard he

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worked to make this deal happen. He does that for

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all of us fighters. But I wonder what is what

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is he meant to your career in terms of being

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able to not just guide you from the early days

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of your pro career, but to get you to this

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point where you know, you ended up getting the biggest

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fight you could possibly.

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Speaker 2: Get say it again the last question.

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Speaker 1: Just in terms of what Keith meant to you getting

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you to this point where you're doing your job by

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winning your fights. But he had to do all the

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a lot of the hard heavy lifting in the in

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the deal making to make this happen. I know how

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hard he worked for it to get it for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean yeah, man.

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Speaker 3: You know, Keith is the goal bro Keith is Keith

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is the best, not one of the best. For me,

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He's the best manager in the boxing game right now.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Keith Conley.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, he did his groundwork obviously. You know, it

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takes a team to be successful in the sport of boxing.

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Speaker 3: You know, I did my work, but he did his work,

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you know, and he put in his label and I

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think that he did a tremendous job. You know, he

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didn't stop fighting, you know, as much as probably people

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gave up because you know, probably that they thought he

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was going to kind of was going in a different

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route of different directions. You know, he kept he kept

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his foot on the guys. You know, he kept his

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foot on the next you know, in the boxing world,

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and just kept pushing his fighting pushing the fus. You know,

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obviously I did what I had to do my last fight.

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You know, I knocked Patrick mc koree out in a

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spectacular fashion, you know, and then he went in and

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he did his little ground work and you know, everything.

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Speaker 2: Just we just put the puzzles together. Man. And you

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know you.

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Speaker 1: Mentioned the McCrory fight. I wanted to ask you about

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that because that had been a fight where you hadn't

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had you had on that great knockout streak in the

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first round at the beginning of your professional career that

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lasted for a while, knocking everybody out, and then you

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went on a little bit of a stretch there where

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for five fights in a row there was no knockout.

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A lot of people sorted to question you about where's

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the power and you know, where's the spectacular knockouts that

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he was scoring. And so when you got the McCrory fight,

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a lot of the conversation was, if you're going to

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land this fight with Canelo, we need to see a

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knockout from Edgar Berlanga. I think Mattroom and Eddie they

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kind of put that pressure on you a little bit.

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Did How was it going into that fight did you

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feel the pressure like I got this potential huge fight

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that I might get, but I got to really shine

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against McRory. Did you feel that pressure and feel like

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you needed to impress with a knockout in that fight.

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Speaker 2: I didn't care about the knockout. I wasn't thinking about

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I got to knock this guy out. I just was

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thinking about I.

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Speaker 3: Just got to go out there and just look my best,

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you know, and do and do my best and out

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there and just shocked the world, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, and just really go out there and really show

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people I still got power. You know. I was away

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from my coach Mark for right for four and.

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Speaker 3: A half years, So that's why I went on that little,

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Speaker 2: That little drought way.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't knocking nobody out, you know, because Mark is

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a guy that knows me. He's the one that built me.

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He built the monsters. So obviously, you see what happened

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once I got with him.

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Speaker 2: Even through the injuries, he fought quickly, and I dropped

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quickly like four or five times, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then I came and I fought mccorey and fucking

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blasted mc kobe out in five rounds.

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Speaker 1: That uh, that quickly. Fight probably could have been stopped

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if you ask me, but that's that's yeah.

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Speaker 2: And we was facing a lot of injuries. That was

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my first fight back with.

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Speaker 3: Mark, for right, only had like three months to train

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with Mark, and that was me four years without being

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with him.

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Speaker 2: So Mark was.

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Speaker 3: Trying to like take a lot of bad habits that

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Speaker 2: Of where he wanted me to. And you've seen the results.

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You know, I grabbed freaking quickly. I busted him up nasty,

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Speaker 3: Plus I was facing a lot of injuries that camp,

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you know, like I had like two big major injuries

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that I could have pulled out from the fight if

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I wanted to.

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Speaker 2: You know. And I was like, nowh fucking the fighters sold,

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they're ready to tickets. It sold. We got to fight,

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you know. So and you see what happened with that.

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Speaker 3: And then I came and you staid right back in

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the gym at work and can't working a grab for me,

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and I blasted.

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Speaker 2: Him out, all right.

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Speaker 1: So and so now you got the big one. You

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got to fight with Canelo Alvarez, and I just was

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curious because one of the big selling points in terms

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of the way they're marketing the fight and the way

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that you guys spoke about it during the press tour

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that you had, uh is it's Mexico versus Puerto Rico,

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and that's obviously one of the great rivalries in boxing.

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There's been great fights between people from those places. And

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I wonder, what is it like for you to be

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part of now this great rivalry to fight. You're the

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Puerto Rican, You're fighting the number one Mexican. How is

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it for you to follow in the footsteps of so

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many of the great fights that have taken place between

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the top Puerto Rican fighters and the top Mexican fighters.

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Speaker 2: It feels amazing.

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Speaker 3: I mean for me, you know, this fight for shows

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going down in the history books, you know, So I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: Man. You know, we already made history. And you know

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that dreams when you know we.

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Speaker 3: Spoke about in the drind that me and him was

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going to be history. Who's gonna make history? You get

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what I'm saying. And for the history books at boxing,

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I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like it's going to be up there with with with

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when when When.

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Speaker 3: Trinidad for Oscar de La Joy and when Trinidad for bargains,

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you know, when Manto.

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Speaker 2: Camanto for jul Java is you know, that type of

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magnet who fight. This is what is bringing you know,

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I'm excited, man.

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Speaker 3: You know, we gotta win September fourteenth, you know, so

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that's really what's all my mind, you know, regardless of

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you know me, you know, the Mexican WIST supported recal thing.

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Speaker 2: You know, my main thing right now is is getting out.

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Speaker 1: With w Now, a lot of folks say, you know what,

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Edgar Berlanga, he's a he's a good young fighter, got

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a hell of a record, but he really hasn't earned

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the title shot. I'm not saying that, but a lot

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of people sort of look at it like that, and

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they say that Canelo, who's fought everybody through his you know,

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his career, has maybe taken his foot off the gas

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a little bit in terms of his opposition. And then

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he's picking Edgar Berlanga because he sees you as maybe

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a chance for you know, an easier win, and to

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do so against a Puerto Rican and he hasn't fought

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in Puerto Rican in quite a while. What is your

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response a sort of that mentality that some people look

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at his fight like.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't look at me like an heasy opponent, because

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if he looked at me as he's an opponent, he

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would it never took the fight.

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Speaker 2: What he does think is that I lack i Q.

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Speaker 3: He knows I'm a big puncher. He knows that I'm dangerous.

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He knows that that any punch I throw him that

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if he's not if he's if he's not alert, I

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could put him out. But his main thing that and

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and I've seen him through the pest with the press

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too and having you know, interviews with him in the

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same room. He thinks I lack i Q and experience,

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you know, because of everything that he's been through. But

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you know, I got the believe it or not, I

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got one of the best coaches in boxing right now

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that all he that all he teaches is i Q

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and mental literally like it's not about physical. But and

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I'm told him, I said, it's not physical about this fight, bro,

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It's not about physical or who's strong or who hard.

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Speaker 2: It's about this, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Fighters go up and wait and collect titles and fight

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bigger fighters and big heavier guys, and they went wide

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because it is because it ain't mind. So once your

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mind is connected, once your mind is connected to your

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hands and to your feet and to your heart and

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to your balls, good to go.

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Speaker 2: You could be anybody. You know what I'm saying. So

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that's what I kept saying. It's all about the mentality,

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It's all about the IQ, and I know that's what

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you like. Well he thinks I like. Is that that's

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why he he he really took the opportunity. He said,

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you know, let me catch his young kid. Now he

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knows I'm gonna be a star. He knows. He's not dumb.

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Renoso's not dumb. They know I'm gonna be a mega

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star and a squarter box. And he's on his way out.

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You get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I'm Puerto Rican, I got a country behind me, and

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I sell a lot of fucking tickets and I bring knockouts,

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so they know.

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Speaker 2: So he's trying to do somewhere. He's like, let me

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catch this guy young. So he does blow up. I

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got him on my on my on my resume, like,

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oh we beat him ready.

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Speaker 1: Now before this, you guys spoke, you spoke respectfully to him.

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Uh he did to you. And then you've got front

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of each other at the press conference, and because you

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know you guys are going to fight each other, it

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starts to ratch it up the intensity. You know, you

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had your say, He had his say. You know, he

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said something like, you know twenty of you wouldn't give

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him a problem. What was it like to be face

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to face with the guy at the press tour, looking

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him in his eye, knowing you guys are gonna throw

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down for real on September fourteenth, And.

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Speaker 2: Man, I see right through him, Dan, I see right

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through him.

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Speaker 3: Look at these eyes, right through that man, Bro, I

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see right through him.

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Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't give a fuck about all that,

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all that.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know what crazy he was in my city,

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he was like this. He was quiet, didn't choke much,

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he ain't he had that same energy, just like with

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fact Joe say a sucker.

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Speaker 2: Because then New York he was like this, and he.

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Speaker 3: Ran out of it quick because I had one hundred

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guys outside. You know what I'm say, ran out of

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it quick, La, He's hit town.

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Speaker 2: I'm by my that me and I have five lines

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with me. I don't need one hundred guys. I got

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five lines.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I still ten toes down to the floor

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and I shot at tailor and I sat at the.

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Speaker 2: Start of school.

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Speaker 3: I was on the right side, and I shot right

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at him in front of his face, and I take

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my eyes over him. You get what I'm saying. Then,

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I'm not a sucker. I could have violated him. In

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New York, I had no shirt on. I'll give a fuck.

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Speaker 2: I could have violated him.

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Speaker 3: Send him, yo, fuck out of here, go back, go

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back to Mexico, bro, like the fuck you. In my city,

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I could have violated him and not call him you're

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my respect. But in the LA when he feelings so walking,

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oh yeah, thinking, yoh yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying, Like, nah, fuck out of here. Bro.

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You you bleed just like I bleed.

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Speaker 3: Bro, you belied, you believe me, and you bleed the

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same way me and you breathe the same air cool.

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Speaker 2: And it's about this about heart and about how big

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your balls are.

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Speaker 3: You know, he could talk about all Its different when

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you get in there with me eighteen thousand people and people.

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Speaker 2: Standing in front. It's different too, when you get in

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there with me. And I told him that you're gonna

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see two I don't give a fuck about eight. They

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could be one hundred million people watching this shit in

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in the arena.

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Speaker 3: Give a fuck, you know why, because I'm I'm gonna

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have the blinders on that night and it's gonna be

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just him, because that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is. I'm not fighting the fans.

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Speaker 1: I'm fighting him, of course. So let me wrap up

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with this. And that's all the stuff that was going

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on outside the ring. So just in terms of the

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fight itself, you know, he hasn't you know, people got

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on your case because you hadn't scored a knockout for

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five fights in a row. He hasn't had a knockout

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on a bunch of fights either, and he took a

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loss to beevile in that group of fights. Also, he

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hasn't had a knockout since twenty twenty one when he

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stopped Caleb Plant to become the undisputed champion.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: He's getting older, like you mentioned. Uh, And so my

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question for you is, how do you then approach him

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in the ring. Do you have to make him respect

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the power he goes? He's showing a great chin. Whatever

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you want to say about him in his career great chin.

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Can you out box him if necessary? How do you

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approach that when the bell rings?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta first round. I gotta be you gotta

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got a respect, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, first round, I gotta I gotta put it on him.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I gotta make him feel

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so you can see, you know.

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Speaker 3: Because if if he doesn't, he's gonna try to walk

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He's gonna try to walk me down like I hate

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did Charlo, like I hate.

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Speaker 2: Did mo Gea. He's not gonna respect the power. You know.

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Speaker 3: He's a guy that if he sees any weaknesses, he's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna he's gonna take it to you. You get what

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I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: So with that being said, you gotta make him think,

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you know, in the first round, I gotta make him

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respect me, you know. And that's the first that's the

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first thing because right now he's no there's no respect.

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Speaker 2: But to me and him, it's no respect. Like the

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respect is a throwing that he invited me to his

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ship down here. I invited him him to a hundred

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of this ship down there. You get what I'm saying.

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So it's no.

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Speaker 3: Respect now, like the respect is out the door. So

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now is about this and when this land, he's gonna know,

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oh ship, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I can't walk into that. You get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Okay, he's gonna try to come, but I like the difference.

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I respect and I respect this game, so I'm not

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gonna go in there like how Bargus went in there

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with with Trinidad and Brodcas took it to Trinidad.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I was a great

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bright Vargus dropped them, got back up and got dropped fool.

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But I know Vargus bargains had that. You know, his

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nuts was on to the floor. You get what I'm saying.

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And we can't think like that. You get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I remember that.

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Speaker 3: Well, my nuts could be like how Bargus was when

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he brought Tnida nuts to the But then you know,

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you get hit with shots because you know it's not

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about it's not a tough man sport.

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Speaker 2: You know it's about this.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll wrap up and say I was ringside for

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Trinidad versus Fargus. That was one of my first really

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big fights I covered in my career, and we all turned.

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Speaker 2: Fugus.

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Speaker 3: I left that barkat when I flew that it's all

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to the floor.

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Speaker 2: It all. It was funny, like a lion. You're well.

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Speaker 1: We thought it was over in the first round, and

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he showed a lot of heart to go on and

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make it in one of the all time great fights.

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So hopefully we'll see a great fight between you and

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Canelo on September fourteenth. Edgar, I wish you. I wish

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you the best of luck in the fight. Thank you

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very much for the time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you will