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

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this week it is none only, none other than the

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former WBC Evyweight Champion of the World, Deontay Wilder. Deyontay,

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thank you very much for doing this. And before we

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get into it, I'll tell the people why we're chatting

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because you, for the first time of the year, are

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coming back to the ring. You're gonna be taken on

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Tyrrell Herndon in a ten round fight will take place

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June twenty seventh in which of Ta Kansas live on PPV,

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dot Com, integrated sports pay per view, satellite and cable

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operators all over the place, so people can check that

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out to see the return of the Bronze Bomber. Deontay,

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how have you been. It's been a while since we've talked.

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Speaker 2: I've been good, Dan, you know, just been dealing with

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the issues the lives of the hand with me in

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my life, getting everything and situated, you know, when under control.

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Speaker 3: And it's been good. It's been good.

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Speaker 2: You know, will come to the bad times the good,

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and will come the good times the bad. So is

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I say my life has been balanced out pretty well,

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you know, And and I've.

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Speaker 3: Been taking care of a lot of business.

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Speaker 2: Just let pass last year having some type of understanding

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what's been going on with me? Why have I you know,

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falling on the store in and the stick and you know,

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my last couple of outings and different things just in

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all in general, you know, and and I had to

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find a solution to the problem.

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Speaker 3: You know, at first I didn't understand what the hell

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was going on with me, you know, and why things

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were happening.

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Speaker 2: And until I realized what was going on and why

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things was happening, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: If that I am now?

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Speaker 1: So I mean obviously, like you mentioned, you did lose

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a couple of fights. Yeah, the rough knockout to Angeli

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in your last fight that was a year ago.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people thought maybe that would

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be your last fight. Obviously that's not the case. You're

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coming back. Prior to that, you had that decision with

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Joe Parker.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But again you apparently still want to carry on. Did

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you ever think about retirement or was never in your mind?

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Speaker 3: Now the retirement was never ever ever in my mind.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, a lot of people like to be

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like to be first and being correct and read rumors

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about things. But I always tell people, if you ain't

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heard it from my mouth, then if most likely it's

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not true. You know, I'm not a person that just

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gives us so easily just because things don't go my way.

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You know, it's a reason for all things. And as

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long as I continue, as long as I can stay

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healthy and continue to have a mind to think and

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continue to focus, and my body can generate the things

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that they need to at the time they need to,

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I'm here. You know, I still got goals to set

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out for this business, and I'm looking forward to seeing

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myself a company that's definitely before I retire, because when

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I do retire, you know the word everyone would know

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it will be silent, it will be permittent, and it's

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no coming back.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be the one.

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Speaker 2: That retired, the come out of retirement, then go back

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and then come back out, because can do.

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Speaker 3: That to you.

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Speaker 2: You know, because once you're a warrior, you never the

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warriors spirit definite lead. You always feel like you can fight,

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that you got one more fight than you and you

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can go on and do you know, do this or

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do that, or become a champion of Gigon or whatever,

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and you know, that's the mentality of fighters should have it, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean that I can still do it.

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Speaker 2: But there's also things that that's logic, things that make sense,

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you know what I mean that what's really what it's

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not And for.

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Speaker 3: Me me being able to run, return and do.

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Speaker 2: What I need to do at a UH at at

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at the uh at the high level, I could still

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do that, you know that hands down.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was just gonna say, my understanding is that

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after after what happened in the last fight, that you

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had like a right shoulder surgery.

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Speaker 3: Is that correct? That's correct?

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Speaker 1: I mean you're I mean when you talk about right

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shoulder surgery. We know, anybody that knows about Deontay Wilder

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knows the right hand as the money maker. That's where

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you've scored all your big, massive knockouts. That's what you're

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best known for. So can you tell me a little

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bit about what was that about and how things are?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, even before even for that fight, I

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had to show the injury going on, you know, I mean,

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I've been dealing with it, so was the injury for

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the last four years. You know, you know, certain things

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you just got to keep it to yourself and you

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just got to go on with it and they don't

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need to complain about it. You know, certain things you

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just got to live your life with it. You know,

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many people you may wait a minute, many people you may,

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you may, you may. You may tell things about or

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you may tell the world about it, and they look

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at it as an excuse or whatever. But you know,

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certain things, you know just not meant to be said.

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You know, I tell people all the time. I say

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truthful the things that I say. You know, people use

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my truth for their for their excuse. It ain't my excuse.

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Is my proof that I'm telling you and any type

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of way you want.

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Speaker 3: So is it?

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Speaker 1: It's the shoulders good now though there's no issues or anything.

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Speaker 3: So it's great. So the sholders you don't have flick

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the sholder is great.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? This is you know, the

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first time in a long time that that I felt

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this way, you know. Uh, But get all to be

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presented itself, you know what I mean. I can say

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a lot of things, uh, And like I've said in

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the past, you know what I mean, to try to

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convince myself to to keep going and convince myself that it's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be okay. Over.

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Speaker 2: I have time in training to get myself at a

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mental state that I need to be, But at this

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point in time, it's none of that convincing. It's no convincing.

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It definitely, you know, speaking from my heart and where

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things are. You know, I'm definitely injury free at this

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moment in time, and I think I think, you know, Dan.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna present itself.

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Speaker 2: You know, it ain't something that I gotta say next

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week is gonna present itself. We're gonna see if if

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if if it's really if it's not, you know what

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Speaker 3: And uh, And that's the great thing about it.

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Speaker 1: So I know you didn't come back to fight to

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come back to fight tyrrel Herding. And I'm not trying

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to insult tyrrel Herdon, but he's obviously not a world

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class level guy. And it's understandable, coming off the shoulder surgery,

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coming off a year left, coming off a couple of losses,

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that it would make sense for somebody of your accomplishments

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who has still goals to come back and sort of

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see where you are. So I guess I want to

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insult your opponent. So I'm gonna assume that you're gonna

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win the fight. I know you think you're gonna win

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the fight. You mentioned earlier. You have still goals to

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take care of it in the boxing world. Can you

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tell me what those goals are?

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Speaker 2: I mean the univide A division, you know what I

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can all the things that I've I had coming in,

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I still want accomplish that.

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Speaker 3: You know that, don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't aboard the mission just because of a certain

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things didn't go my way, you know. I mean, I've

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gotten it in the stick. If anything enhances me, allows

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me to go back and reevaluate certain things and whatever

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the weakness is, then I make strong but and get

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it right. But at the end of the day, you

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got to have my fir ability, and if you don't

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have it, then all things crashes.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: And I've seen over the years that this country that

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mental mental health has been one of a major priorities,

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probably one of on the top list. You know, when

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it used to be a time where you know, you

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talk about it, people look at you crazy, but you know,

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it's a real factor.

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Speaker 3: It's a real thing. PTSD is a real thing, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I just had to overcome a lot of different things,

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you know, and and here I am, so you be.

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Speaker 1: Able to deal with the losses and like put them

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in their compartment and and get over them, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: Because I understand why it occurred. Okay, So I understand

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why it occurred. And no matter what coach I had

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at that time, or no matter who I fought, I

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truly felt that I see where I failed because of what.

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Speaker 3: I had going on.

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Speaker 2: Uh. It spears to me mostly uh with him myself.

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You know what I'm saying outside of the rings. Little

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of it done in the inside, but madard of it,

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uh is displayed on the outside of the ring with

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my battle.

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Speaker 1: So tell me what you know or if you were

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even concerned about Herndon, I mean he's fought some names,

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but I mean I look at the record. I see

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he's been stopped a few times. Uh, he's one a

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few fights a row against sort of lesser opponents. Richard Torrez,

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who's the Olympic silver medal winner, who was a prospect,

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did stop him not that long ago. And Richard me

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go on and become a heavyweight champion. But he's certainly

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not at the level of Deontay Wilder yet, So when

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you when I ask you about Herndon, what's your thoughts

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about who you're going to be in front of co

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Friday night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know too much about about him, you know.

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I think we took the pitcher away back maybe ten

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years ago or something like that. I met him in person,

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you know, I haven't kept up with his career. I

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know he's like twenty five, I mean twenty five and

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five something like that, and twenty four and five and

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uh and fall some decent fighters and stuff. And this

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is definitely a fight that is coming up to tune up,

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you know what I mean, to see where I am.

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This is a placement fight for myself, you know what

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I mean. Of course, for him, it's a different fight

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because he's you know, or who I am, and he

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can make a name of off of me and stuff

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like that. So it's the meaning is totally different for him.

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But for me is me returning and and getting back

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what I know that it's rightfully mind to what I know,

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what I can do, you know, And uh, that's my thing.

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This is tuning up for me, and I think for

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these next for these next few fighters, uh, for the

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next several fight will be that of the tuning up

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as we go, we progress, that we get ourselves back

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together and and get.

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Speaker 3: Back to the top of things.

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Speaker 2: You know, in the heavyweight division, we all know that

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we want to fight away from a championship fight, you

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know what I mean, any given moment and give me

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any given time, you know, But I want to reassure

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myself and I'm mentally, physically and mostly back.

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Speaker 3: Like I claimed that I am back is the return,

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and I too feel that way.

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Speaker 1: Then one thing, Deontay that it seemed to me over

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the last few fights that you became still dangerous with

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the right hand, obviously, but you became very predictable because

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everybody would watch it Deontay Wilder fight and just say

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he's looking to load up and land one big right hand,

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and you were using less and less of the other

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skills that you have, your jab in particular, And I

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wonder if that's been a part of the conversation with

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the team, is we need to use this fight. Yeah,

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of course you want the big knockout. If it comes,

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I'm sure it will be with the right hand, especially

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if you say your shoulder and your right is all

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good now, but that you're able to maybe set things

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up and use the things that you would abandon do.

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like I did, get away from that. I think at

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the Luis Ortiz rematch, where everybody knew in the world

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that was looking at it looking for the right hand,

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and you got him. But it took a little while

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to get there. You were way behind getting to that point.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, you know, with the things that I

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was going on, and like I said, you have to.

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Speaker 2: Be mentally ready and prepared for a lot of things,

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and and I wasn't mentally. I was physically and mostly

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prepared for well half physically, because I still had to

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show the injury and stuff. So I was I was

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limited to what I can do, you know with that,

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So I understand. I understood the position that I was in.

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I understood the tools that I had.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to show me a jab?

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Speaker 3: Is what I want to know?

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Speaker 2: You got to be that you're going. You gotta be

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there to twenty seven. I'll watching it and to find

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out I'm watching it. Yeah, for sure. I think I'm

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like I said, I think I'm you know, I can

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say whatever I.

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Speaker 3: Want, you know what I mean, just.

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Speaker 2: Talk to the other coaches or talk to my sparing

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partners and get their their opinion about it, because I

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can say anything, you know, I I no one have returned.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm injury free. I could.

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Speaker 2: I can honestly say that, you know what I mean.

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And it's a great feeling to feel that way. You know,

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if you know, if anybody nobody shows, they know, that's

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the long that's the that's the longest recovery on the

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body that can take place at least one of them.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I would say the division is sort

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of there's a pathway right now. There's fights that are

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taking place. You got Dui and who's sick in the

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rematch that's going to be for the undisputed title. A

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lot of guys are tied up with things. Tyson Fury

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year old. Foe says he's retired. We'll see if we

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actually believe that. I don't think a lot of people do.

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The big fight still for you, even if it's not

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what it was five years ago, would have been you

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and Joshua. Of course, Anthony Joshua, you were both undefeated,

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you both had titles. Would have been for the undisputed

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championship was a huge fight at the time. Is that

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the fight that you have? I mean, if you can't

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get the title fight, which I know you want, is

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that still sort of like the goal fight to finally

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you and Joshua to lock up in a fight that

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even today still a lot of people would like to see.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure, yeah, I mean, that's the number one fighter

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a lot of people would feel like to see.

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Speaker 3: It's surprising to me.

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Speaker 2: I just got this, uh question yesterday about it, and

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and they were reaching out to a lot of I

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don't know however they did it a pole or whatever

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whatever they did, and people are still interested in it.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I'm in I'm in the business.

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Speaker 2: So if that fight come about and it's real, then

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of course, you know what I mean. But I won't

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believe until me and him is in the ring actions face.

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Speaker 1: You did have a signed contract when you were on

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the doubleheader together.

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Speaker 3: He got to win.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the sake of that fight, you obviously didn't

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get the victory in that kind of went by the wayside,

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so you.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's still a lot of stuff

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that goes into details of that how that even occurred.

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Speaker 1: But and he took he took a hard loss. Since

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then he got knocked out badly by Dubat.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, yeah, so there's been a lot

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of mistracks and stuff like that. You know what I mean.

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I mean, I believe in divine timing.

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Speaker 2: I believe if it's gonna happen, it will happen and

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is appropriate time and only then. You know, I still

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have my I still have my feelings towards why it

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didn't happen way way back years ago, you know, when

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I was willing, ready or able to do so, but

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unfortunately Death Side wasn't as honest.

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Speaker 3: To people as they should be or whatever. Just let

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it know, you know. That's why you know I have

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a problem sometime with certain things come back. Why you

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say this? Why? Because I'm I'm the realist in boxer.

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I'm gonna speak my piece.

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Speaker 2: I haven't lied about anything I've said, no matter what

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people may dissect or whatever, they won't say I make

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an excuse about I risked my life, so I don't

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want to lie about anything when it comes to box.

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Speaker 1: Are there any regrets though that it didn't happen five

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six years ago when it was the biggest fight in

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the heavyweight division, one of the biggest fights in the

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whole sport.

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Speaker 2: It's not a regret on my end, because I know

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I try. I know my team we try everything possible

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to make that fight happen, and we can live with that.

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And that's the that's the God hon is true, you

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know what I mean. If God came down right now,

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he would let everybody know what real is.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about the end because you know it's

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a different story, you know. But for me, like I said, Dan,

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I ain't never lied about anything in boxing or whatever.

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Whether people believe what I said or not. You know,

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I kept it real, and that's why I can sleep

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at night.

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Speaker 3: You know. Of course we would have made some great

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money and it would have been a great fight. It

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would have been in the history of things.

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Speaker 2: But it was out of my con throw. I did everything,

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even even even accepted to say lower money.

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Speaker 1: But he's not taking for a fight now. He wants

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to fight this fall. Deontay Wilder wins in June. Seems

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to timing would be set up very well to do

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that match up maybe at the end of this year.

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Is that is that would be?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 1: Like you're the mean thing you would want even before

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a title fight, or would you potentially even though the

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titles will be tied off, you probably wouldn't get it

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timing wise.

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Speaker 2: Uh. I mean, that's just something that my managers didn't

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when once the discussing happened and is real, they had

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to come to.

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Speaker 3: Discuss with me.

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Speaker 2: But at the meantime, I'm gonna continue in my core

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of what I'm doing and what we're trained to do.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I you know, it's.

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Speaker 2: Like the same fool me one, stame on, you fool me,

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fool me twice in the same team, and I don't

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want to get my hopes up and I don't want

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to mislead anyone until oh yeah man, you know, you

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know I make money. Make sure I'm ready now. It's

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more than that, more than that, you know. I understand

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that I can want to fight so badly, but it

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doesn't matter how bad I want it. He gotta want

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it as well, and the people.

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Speaker 3: That's around him must want it as well as well

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as my people must want it.

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Speaker 2: And it can't be one person have one side of

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the store and the other ones that don't want to

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have another side.

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Speaker 3: And it's it's confusing to people if people.

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Speaker 2: Want to know who this is what, because at the

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end of the day, it don't matter by records, it

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don't matter. It doesn't matter, It don't matter even by

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who to fight. People just want to stay a great fight.

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Would I'll go fight him anywhere, even if it's in hell.

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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna get out of there.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you one more thing about what

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you got coming up on, Freddick. Are we gonna see

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another big Deontay Wilder knockout? Because that's the calling card, obviously,

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that's what everybody knows you for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, And I smile when I say that.

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Speaker 1: Man, it's been a while.

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Speaker 3: It's been a while. It's been a while. I've had

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a lot of things going on. And I got to

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tell people that, especially my fans, that I.

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Speaker 2: Forgive me for for for for my lack luster of

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performing my last few fights. Is just I had a

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lot of stuff going on. I didn't know how to

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handle it. I didn't know what to do. I didn't

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you know, until I figure out what to do and

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how to handle it, you know, it should be a

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different outcome. Now, it will be a different outcome, and

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you should it will be a different outcome this time around,

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and and and and and and the fights to come.

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You know, we all go through things, you know, we're

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not robots fighters were really we still go through things

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in life, trials and fibulations, up and down, you know,

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people taking advantage of us all the.

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Speaker 3: Time, you know, and we just try to we do

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things and figure things out as it is. And unfortunately, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, my time has came alone with things has disrupted

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my life, you know, from going on, a lot of

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betrayal has happened, and I just in injury. You know,

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a lot of things have occurred like a domino effect

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from years and years out. And I'm just I'm just human.

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I have to take it one day at a time,

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one step at a time, to get it right. And

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that's why I'm here now. I'm not giving up. I

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can't give up. So many people still look up to me,

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you know, to this day, and I like to leave

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by example. So here we are Dune the twenty seven

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with Soke Kansas. I can't wait. You know, this is

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gonna be a revealed not only for myself but for

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a lot of other people.

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Speaker 3: I know, I'm ready, I know I'm right. I know,

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I'm back.

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Speaker 2: It's just time to put the action in because I

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can say all I want. We just say, had many

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of things before and the outcome has been different than

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what the as being.

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Speaker 3: But I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty confident and what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You know, as we've been talking about, you know, some

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of the stuff that's gone on recent fights, obviously talking

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about the big knockouts that you got. I would have

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never asked you this before, and I was ringsigned for

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almost all of them. Do you have a favorite knockout

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because you've had so many spectacular ones.

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Speaker 3: I don't have.

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Speaker 2: I don't have one, you know, and people Arthur spoke,

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I must be honest. Yeah, Arthur was good. But if

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I had to pick, I tell people if I had

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to pick, and when and and and when?

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Speaker 3: I when asked.

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Speaker 2: That question, the first thing to come to my head is, uh, Dominique.

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Speaker 1: Brazil another great.

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Speaker 3: One knockout, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And herd Rematches another one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, all of them means a lot

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to me because of the you know it was, you know, Uh,

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I respect all fighters to step in the ring. You know,

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I always tell we all risk in our lives for

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others entertainment, and I highly respect every fighter no matter

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what this skill level is. You know, we all other

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one percent and you gotta give your hat, you take

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your hass off to these fighters. So you know, with

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that being said, every time I go in, there is

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a glorifying moment in time for every knockout. That's why

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I don't really particularly have a have a favorite. But

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if I go with my heart, and when people ask

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me that.

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Speaker 3: The first the first picture that comes to.

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Speaker 2: My head or image that comes to my head is

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that now it may change ten years later they say,

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I I was just safe, buzz and a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of things about us change every.

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Speaker 1: Time, and maybe it'll be on Friday night it'll be

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your favorite here right, maybe we have to see all right, Deontay,

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I appreciate that very much. It's been my privilege to

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be ring cycling any of your biggest knockouts. I wish

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you the best of luck against Tyrol Herndon. I look

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forward to washing it. Thank you very much for doing this,

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SA good luck to you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thank you so much, so all my fans.

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I love this God so much.

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Speaker 2: As soon then if you can be there snow up

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