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moments that you're going to want to hear. Reminder, thank

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coming off the weekend. If you want the recaps of

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the nick Ball featherweight title win for the WBA Championship

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over TJ. Dohaney, my namesake, you got a TKO win

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on Saturday. Read Dan Substacking newsletter. You should be subscribing anyway,

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but go check it out there. And also Austin m.

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event for Matchroom Boxing. So you can read Dan's complete

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description about that bout as well off his fight preach unit, substack,

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and newsletter. So again, I'm in travel fun Sunday, Sunday

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night and into Monday morning. But now you're gonna get

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the chance to hear more from Big Dan with Sebastian Fondora.

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Fundora will headline the PBC on Prime card coming for

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Las Vegas this Saturday, Fondora defending the WBCWBO Unified Junior

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Middleweight crown against Cordel Booker. Booker is a late replacement,

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but Fondora is ready for his first fight in twelve

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months since he upset Tim Zu in a controversial wild

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split decision where Fondora overcame a broken nose and zoo

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bled badly from a gash on the top of his

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head for the last ten rounds of the fight. Fondora

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got the decision. This is his first defense. He'll talk

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to Dan about all of that here ahead. So again

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a reminder will come back with a preview podcast of

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the Fundora fight itself. All the news of the week,

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some great nostalgia on Julio Cesar Chavez and Meldrick Taylor's

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epic first fight turning thirty five years old. This week,

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we'll do all that on the preview podcast leading the week.

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For now, I'm signing off because I'm still trying to

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get back home folks. And Big Dan is here with

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Sebastian Fundora. That is right now here on the pod.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm very happy to have on the podcast this week,

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not only than the WBC WBO Junior Middleweight world champion,

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Sebastian Fundora. Sebastian, I'll tell our listeners what's going on

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with you. You have your first title defense coming up

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March twenty second. It is the main event on the

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PBC on Prime Video at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

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I'm looking forward to seeing you back in action, so welcome.

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It's been a while since we've seen you in the ring,

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So tell me just in general thoughts about finally getting

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back in there.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited this last year King helping my father with

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my sister become an undisputed champion.

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Speaker 3: So that's been it's been an excited year last year,

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especially me.

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Speaker 4: Winning my bills as well. But I'm just happy to

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be back in the ring and show off my skills.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is going to be, like you mentioned, it's

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going to be your first fight in almost one year

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to the day. It'd be like fifty one weeks since

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you had the very memorable split decision victory against Tim

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Zu to win the vacant WBC title, to take away

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his WBO one hundred and fifty four pound title, and

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so just to look back on that that. Of course,

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everybody knows at this point you were the late replacement.

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the injury, the card was rearranging. You got to move

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into the main event just two weeks before the fight.

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So that fight, though, was so memorable for a lot

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of people, and you were in it. So I want

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to ask you a little bit about it. You suffered

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the broken nose in the second round. Later in the

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second round, you know, you guys had that accidental clash

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with your elbow in his head and he definitely got

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the worst of it, cut open his scalp very badly. Uh.

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First of all, in terms of your situation in that fight,

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how badly uh did you think that your nose was broken.

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of the way because it was so early in the

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fight and you guys had a long way to go.

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Speaker 4: All right, now it's time to cliarch some things up right, good,

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let's do it.

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Speaker 3: There was no broken nose. There was no broken nose.

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Speaker 4: And then because nothing, I didn't have to go to

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no hospital or anything to fixed on.

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Speaker 3: Nothing up it. I went home.

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Speaker 4: I rested maybe a week, and my nose was back

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to normal. No, the swelling was just from the fight itself.

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Speaker 2: But were you swallowing blood though, or no swallowing blood

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from you know, from your nose.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever bleft from your nose before? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Sure, and you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you your nose and your throat, all these things

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are connected, so you will swallow some blood if I

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was in if that's in the fight, my fat My

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father told me, you blef for your nose before. If

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you've seen a cover of my fights, then I have

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that from my nose a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: So it's just nothing new to me, just another nose belief.

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Speaker 4: And then he ran into my he ran into my farm.

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phone stick a little bit more. But uh yeah, he

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did run into my forearm, the elbow or anything.

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Speaker 2: No, no, it was I'm not making that acquisition. It

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was you can watch the video clear as day. This

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was an accidental thing where he just like you said,

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he basically ran into your elbow as an accident, I

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think on both ends.

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Speaker 3: But it was not an elbow. It was not an elbow.

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Speaker 4: I have active pictures of my farm being bruised the

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next day. But uh yeah, it was a it was

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a good experience though. It was a great night, you know,

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a great night for me, for the family. Uh we

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made history, me and my sister being brother sister champions

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at the same time, so I was happy.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been watching boxing most of my life, but

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I'm in my fifties and I've never seen that. I

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can think of a fight that bloody, and you were

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in it. So when you see, now, some of it

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was your blood, some of it was his blood, Like

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what were you thinking? Like there was just so much bloodshed,

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mostly from him, But it was sort of shocking, like

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I'm ringside experience. I kind of had to turn away

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for a couple of seconds, and I'm not the one

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in there, you know, with it flying all over my body.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that that just tells you boxing not for the

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faint of heart, you know.

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Speaker 3: And again it there's blood. Boxing's blood boxing. So to

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me it's nothing crazy.

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Speaker 4: Maybe maybe if I was a spectator, I would play

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thing that's a lot of blood. Well, while you're in it,

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you don't really.

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Speaker 2: Care for her, Okay. So now we were all led

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to believe after the fact, you know, and talking to

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your promoter Samson Linquwitz, that the nose was a significant

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reason why you were going to lay off for a

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while and not have a fight maybe the rest of

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last year. After that fight in March, and then go

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through the rest of the year, maybe you'd be available

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after November December. But it didn't happen. So what was

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the reason then? If you said you just went back

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home and you know, let your nose, he'll love for

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a week or two and it wasn't broken, why the

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layoff then?

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Speaker 4: Sas as a promoter, Simpson's job is to talk.

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Speaker 3: He's good at it.

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Speaker 4: He does his thing, just I mean, that's boxing, you know.

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Would they tell you when they fight, I'm not the

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one who gets the fights. If it was up to me,

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and if I paid myself, I wouldn't be the fighter.

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I'd probably be the promoter or the manager. But you

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know these things, uh, I think things are always changing

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in boxing, the business side of boxing. I can say

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I want to fight this guy, fight this guy. I

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can tweet it, I can put on social media, I

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can call him out. I go through the space and

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call him out. But when the contract's not signed, that

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things aren't going to get done.

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Speaker 2: So well, I totally get that, but it just seemed

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to me that it was just baked in that Sebastian

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Vandor is healing from an injury. You know, his promoter

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and father are going to like want him to take

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the rest of the year off to make sure everything

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is okay and then we'll get back at action. You're

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saying there was no issue and you could have fought whenever.

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Speaker 4: I could have fought whenever, but it didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: Are you then at all frustrated that it's going to

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be one year since your last fight because you only

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had one fight in the previous year. Also, you know

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after them, you know, with them Mendoza fight.

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Speaker 3: Nah, I don't get frustrate you with that.

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Speaker 4: It's just again, as the business of boxing, I feel

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like on learning and I'm maturing with the sport, so

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those things.

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Speaker 3: Don't bother me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, after you had that big win against Tim Zoo,

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you know, you become not just one world champion belt,

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but you get you know, a unified title because of

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the fact that both of them were available and in

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the ring after the fight. In your interview on the broadcast,

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there was Errol Spence standing next to you. You guys were

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going back and forth, and you know, PBC sent out

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the photos and you know, it was pretty clear that

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the intent from everybody involved was to make the match

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between Sebastian Medor and Errol who was going to be

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moving up having lost a walterweight title in his big

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fight against Terrence Crawford. So that fight seemed like it

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was going to get made. I heard a bunch of

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different dates, a bunch of different scenarios. He got reinjured,

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Like what, what from your side of it? Can you

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tell us why it didn't actually come to pass? And

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now you're here taking this fight with Cordnel Booker.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing from my side that made the.

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Speaker 3: Fight not happen.

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Speaker 2: Understood what was your nothing.

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Speaker 4: From my side, I can't speak for him. The fight

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didn't happen. Again the bits of boxing, he came into

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the ring, he called me out whatever.

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Speaker 3: But besides that.

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Speaker 4: He showed me his earnings he won from winning the bet.

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I'm betting on me, and that's as much as what happened.

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You know, they told me, hey, you're gonna fight Spence next.

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It didn't happen, and now we're fighting Booker.

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Speaker 2: Was that the fight you wanted though? Because no offense

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to Cordy Deel Booker at all, but obviously Errol Spence

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is a much bigger name, a much bigger profile. Fight

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for you.

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Speaker 3: I'll fight anybody. I'll fight anybody.

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Speaker 4: If they tell you fight Spence next, I'll fight Spence next.

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If they say fight whoever next, I'll fight whoever next.

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Speaker 2: But I fight's a fight, okay, So let's talk about

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the fight, which is Cordel Booker a little bit. He

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is twenty three and one, He's got eleven knockouts, he

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has won six fights in a row, and the only

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loss he suffered was a first on knockout. Fair enough,

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but he was also fighting out of his weight class.

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That was against Amma Williams. He moved up for that

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fight in the middleweight though, and he just got caught

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in the first round. And he was a good amateur,

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a bit older than you, your twenty seventies.

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Speaker 3: Thirty three.

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Speaker 2: Uh so what is your when you when you've been

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studying and preparing for this fight, what sort of the

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Sebastian Frondora scouting report on what to expect from Cordell Booker.

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Speaker 3: I don't really study. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: The only thing I know is that he's a soutball.

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I'm just gonna go out there and do what I

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Speaker 2: And what do you what do you hope to do

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you want to do that. But I mean, you know, yes,

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Door always brings a good fight to the ring. That's

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what I've seen and watching your career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just plan on winning.

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Speaker 4: I just plan winning Everything you guys will see on

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the fight because I like to kind of surprise that

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the fans.

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Speaker 3: Uh, well, whatever I'm.

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Speaker 4: Going to do, it's just it's just me. I'm just

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gonna do me. I'm gonna make sure I win.

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Speaker 2: Are there any concerns about the rust at all? Because

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it has been a year since you've had a fight.

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Speaker 4: There's no There's no rest on me. There's I've been

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training this whole time. I haven't been on break or

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anything like that. So I've been training, I've been working hard.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's any rest okay.

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Speaker 2: Now, Look, I mean a lot of people when they

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watch Sebastian frondor fight, the towering and your height is

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obviously a big part of your persona in boxing. You

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know that at six foot six, very tall for anybody,

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much less a guy making one hundred and fifty four pounds.

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So I wonder as you still make one fifty four though,

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do you think eventually, in you know, the next couple

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of fights, let's say that you will seek to go

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to the middleweight division where there could be some activity

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there as well.

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Speaker 4: No, I don't have no interest in it right now.

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You can make the way right now.

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Speaker 3: So I'm fifty fours. I'm a champion right here. I'm comfortable.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned your sister Gabriella earlier, you know, when you

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were having your layoff, and she was doing great things

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in the ring. Look, she became as you know, she

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well she's undefeated, she's just twenty two years old. Pretty

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much the consensus twenty twenty four Female Boxer of the Year,

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unified the titles, became the undisputed champion at flyweight. Since

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you had the time off and you got a chance.

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I know you're you know, in the gym with her,

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and you obviously both trained with your dad. What was

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it like though, as big brother to sort of sit

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back and watched the great success that she accomplished because

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so much of it has always been about you while

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she was coming up, but she pretty much had the

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spotlight to herself really in the Fundor family last year

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because of your being on the sidelines for a bit.

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Speaker 4: Every win she gets is a win for all of us.

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Every win I get is a win for all of us.

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There's never no negativity or anything like that. I'm there

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in the corner of working with her with my father,

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when she's sparring, when she's training. We're always there together

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and it goes both sides. So everything she do, everything

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she does, everything she wins, everything she can achieve. I'm

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proud of her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that was a hell of a year.

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And that's very unusual, of course, not only further to

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be siblings champions at the same time, but unified champions

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at the same time. Have you ever just sort of

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sat back and thought to yourself, like, what the family

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between yourself, your sister, and obviously your father as the

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trainer of both of you guys, have accomplished in such

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a short period of time.

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Speaker 3: Of course, of course I always think about it.

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Speaker 4: It's a big achievement, but we still have more work

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to do, so we can just continue to grow and

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to do greater things.

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Speaker 2: When you say more work to do, I want to

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know if that includes thoughts about perhaps becoming undisputed. You've

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got two of the belts. I know there's still two

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other ones out there. I don't know how much longer.

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Terrence Crawford's going to hold that belt of the WBA

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since he's moving up, so maybe Taez will be elevated

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to the full champion. You got Bakra martez A Leev

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who's the IBF champion. Both of those guys I just

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mentioned they are within PBC and fight on on those

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cards with Al Hayman and TGB, and then there's other

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big names we just saw Keith Thurman score a big knockout.

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Tim Zuo's got a fight coming up, and they're gonna

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probably fight this summer. There's the winner maybe for you,

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a rematch with Tim Zuo. So when you sort of

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look at what seems to be a very deep group

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of opponents as well as fights that are very makeable

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given all the associations with PBC, what's sort of your

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thoughts about about what it could be available to you

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since you've said you don't want to go up to

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the middlewake division.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I said, there's a lot of interesting fights

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to see if they can make I'm not promoting myself,

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but I love all this. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a preference?

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Speaker 3: Nope, everybody and anybody.

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Speaker 2: All right, everybody can get it.

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Speaker 3: Not bad, but exactly what I said. All right.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wish you best of luck in your first

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assignment of your title defense against Courtnell Booker Marks twenty

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second Sebastian. Always a pleasure to talk to you. Thank

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you very much, and I wish you the best of luck.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Dan