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Speaker 1: Well, it is my pleasure to once again welcome to

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our podcast, the one and only Canelo Alvarez. Canelo, You've

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been on this podcast before. You know the drill. I

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appreciate your time. Look forward to covering my twenty third

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Canelo Alvarez fight come September fourteenth, when you defend the

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unified Super midiweight World Championship against Edgar Berlanga. It'll be

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a PBC on Prime Pay per View at the Team

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Open in Las Vegas, as I call it the House

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that Canelo built. So welcome and thank you for doing this.

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How's everything getting ready for you? Getting ready for this

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big fight for you?

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Speaker 2: Every day it's very my friend. I'm very happy for

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here in Lake Tako. I always training with my hundred

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percent there in the game, and I feel great. I

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enjoy every day every time I'm being in training comm

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and getting ready.

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Speaker 1: Now, last week spoke prior to the fight that you

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had in May against himI Mangia, I introduced you as

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Canelo Alvarez, the undisputed Super midaweight champion of the world.

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You were defending your four belts. You went out there

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and you beat Homy Monkey and an entertaining fight for

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the fans, no controversy, won the fight, and now we

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go into this fight between you and Edgar, and unfortunately,

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your status has undisputed, is no longer there because the

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IBF stripped you of their title because you declined to

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fight the mandatory against a fighter named William Skull, who

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is so unknown that he fought an eight round fight

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on your undercard in May, in a fight that was

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not even part of the pay per view or even

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on the preliminary stream. So my question for you is

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has that upset you that they've taken away the belt

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from you? We know you're the champ, but you don't

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have that extra belt.

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Speaker 3: I know you know that.

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Speaker 2: I understand them, and I know I'm not complain about it.

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They think they that's that correct thing to do. I

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don't really blame on them, you know. I'm Josh and

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I'm I'm very happy with that where I am, so

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I'm doing my team. I don't I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Gonna fight with the school.

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Speaker 2: I can fight, I can't fight with everybody at the

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same time, right mm hmm. And the fight with the School,

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I don't. I don't see that much. I don't see

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that fight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not gonna sell. It wouldn't sell any

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pay per views, is I mean? Listen, you're always gonna

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sell pay per views.

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Speaker 2: Like, honestly, I never hear of all the school seeing.

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When I hear about the schoolers after they they say, hey,

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you have them on the toy you need to play

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with them. But I look, I'm doing my team and

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I'm not. I'm not complaining about it.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's go back to the May fight.

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You had to fight against mong Gee, Like I said,

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a very entertaining fight. You you won handling on the scorecards.

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You're you didn't get the knockout, and then you probably

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would have liked that. You're fifth fighting a row without

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a knockout, but still a clear decision. I've heard from

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some people who have suggested Canelo that once you had

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him under control later in the fight because you had

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knocked him down, that you basically carried him. You let

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him survive and not got the knockout because you didn't

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want to embarrass a fellow Mexican. What is your response

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to those who think that you could have got the knockout,

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but you let him survive because he kind of liked

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Mangia and like I said, he is a fellow countryman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like my my, my people from Mexico.

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Speaker 2: And you know why, having phoned there in the fight,

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I really enjoy it a lot. And I say to

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my turner, you know, if I put everything in one round,

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on two rounds, I maybe finish Mungia, but you know,

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I have him phone.

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Speaker 3: Taking my time and the people enjoy a lot of fight.

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Speaker 1: So after that, when it came time to set up

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this fight for you on the September of Mexican Independence

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Day weekend, because of who you are and your stature

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in boxing, everybody knows that if Canelo Alvarez chooses to

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fight somebody, the chances are he can get the opponent

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that he wants because of what you bring in terms

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of the exposure and the money and everything that goes

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along with the Canelo Alvarez event. So my question for

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you is what was it that made you select Berlanga.

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I know there was also conversation maybe Chris hu Bank

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Junior was one of the candidates. What was it that

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made you and your team and Eddie everybody say, you

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know what, let's give Berlanga the shot.

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Speaker 3: You know was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two or three fighters in the table, and VY

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called me and say, you know, we want to make

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this fight because we think he's more entertained for the

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people Mexico versus Puerto Rico and be Langa is Sean

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John and everything. And I say, you know, I don't

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care if you choose whatever you want.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready, all right.

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned that part of it was the reason

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that you and your team selected Edgar, who, by the way,

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is one of your mandatories. Not that that made a

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difference in terms of skull, but nonetheless he is. But

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you faced a few Puerto Rican fighters through your career.

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But I was looking at your record, I didn't realize

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that it had been such a long time since it's

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been you facing a portric Yeah, exactly. That was a

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huge fight back in twenty fifteen. So it's been a

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number it's almost ten years, frankly since that last type

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of fight against the Puerto Rican. So tell me your thoughts,

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just to describe what it means to you the Mexico

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Puerto Rican rival. You fight, you fought Miguel, you fought

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his brother, you fought Kermit centron Uh and in past

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Mexico Puerto Rico matchups. But what's the rivalry mean to you?

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Speaker 2: You know, you know, especially with Mighan Alcoto, for me

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was I feel very proudable that pie because you know Micoto,

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I watched him when I was young. To to lain

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a lot one of my favorite spiders, and to beat

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him for.

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Speaker 3: Me was special.

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Speaker 2: And there is uh Canelo before and after Helcoro, so uh,

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it was very special night for me. And I'm and

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I'm and I happy to be in other rivalry versus

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Mexico and Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: And I guess for you, it's probably a lot better

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than taking on another Mexican like you did against Mongia,

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which I know that you didn't love the idea of

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fighting the Mexican country, Yeah, kind of part of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I always say that I represent Mexico and I'm very

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honored to represent Mexico and lit or like to fight

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with my my country man, my country people, but you know,

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sometimes you need to do it, and that was happening

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with Mungia, and I think was a.

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Speaker 3: Good fight for Mexican too.

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Speaker 2: No, and I enjoy a lot, but now is Mexico

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versus Puerto Rico, and I'm glad.

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Speaker 3: To be to be here.

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Speaker 1: So September fourteenth is a date that you fought on

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that weekend often because it's the weekend of the Mexican

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Independence Day holiday. It's not a secret within the sports

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and entertainment business that that's a night that Canelo Alvarez fights.

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This fight is going to be on the same night

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that UFC scheduled fight also in Las Vegas, the first

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ever sports event at the Sphere. I've seen and read

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comments from Dana White from UFC, who's basically talk bad

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about you doing a fight on that date against their event,

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even though you know he knows better than anybody that's

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the date that you often fight on, and it seems

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like he's talking bad about you and about the fight.

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I just wonder, what what's your view of that? And like,

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to me, this seems like there's room for everybody to,

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you know, put on big events.

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Speaker 2: No, no, Like I say, the song coming for everybody, right,

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And I don't complain about it. I don't say I

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don't want to say anything bad about Dana Why. I

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respect him. I respect he's his work. And you know,

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I never look when we made this fight. I never say, hey,

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we have the UFC there and then I just like

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to fight in Mexican Mexican independence, and I enjoy a lot,

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and I I I I'm very happy to be to

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be to be here, to be fighting.

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Speaker 3: In the Mexican independence.

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Speaker 1: All right, just have a couple more questions for you.

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It's been in the news quite a bit that when

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you were going on your press tour to promote the

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fight between yourself and Berlanga, that it seemed almost more

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of a fight between you and Edgar was the back

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and forth within you and Turkey Alshik from Saudi Arabia.

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Obviously everybody knows that he wanted to try to make

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a fight between you and Terrence Crawford, who had just

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defeated Israel Majimov at one hundred and fifty four. Have

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you fight him at one sixty eight? You said you

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didn't want to be disturbed while you were preparing for

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your fight with Edgar, and not that you wouldn't necessarily

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talk to him, but it wasn't going to happen while

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you were preparing. Can you just basically give me your

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take on him, saying then afterwards, you know what, forget it.

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I don't want to pursue a Crawford Canelo fight. It

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seemed like there was just a bunch of snipping between

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you two back and forth. What was what was your

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take on all that whole situation?

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Speaker 3: Look, ever, did respect anybody? I al would respect everybody,

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and and and.

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Speaker 2: I like if I respect everybody, I like to they

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respect me to write.

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Speaker 3: And I have nothing to do.

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Speaker 2: I have nothing with with him. Maybe he's a little

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bit desperate to make that fight. They call me the

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night before the press conference in in in Los Angeles

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and and say, you know, he wants to meet you

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and then try to make that fight with their scoff

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And I say, look, I don't want to talk about

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any other pie. I'm focused on the person on on

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September and the Verlanga pipe, and I don't want to

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talk about any other pie right now.

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Speaker 1: And I suppose there's always a chance to talk to

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me in the future. I guess, like anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But I look he the next the very next day,

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he come and say, yeah, you know, you know, he can.

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Speaker 3: Do whatever he wants. And I'm gonna do my job

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like always. I'm not desperate to make up with them.

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Speaker 2: I don't need it.

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Speaker 3: If they want to what we mean, we can war

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but different.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I'll just wrap it up with this then,

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So you have the Berlanga fight in front of you, uh,

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and I think it's you know, it's because of the

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rivalry between the countries Mexico, Puerto Rican everything. It'll be

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an attractive fight for quite a few people. But I

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think every would be less and honest if people said

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Berlanga was like your biggest opponent. You fought so many

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great fighters. It's no no knock on Berlanga, but you've

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had so many mega fights through the years. And I

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wonder when you look at the landscape, what you know,

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you're kind of running out of opponents that's super middleweight frankly,

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I mean there's not You've already beaten pretty much everybody,

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and uh, I just wonder in your mind, you know

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there's still Benevidia's out there, and and Morale. They've moved

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up to light heavyweight. So the question I have for

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you is do you have a desire to go back

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to light heavyweight at some point to fight one of

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those types guys or what is the big fight for

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you in the future.

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Speaker 3: The only the only.

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Speaker 2: Fight I can make one seventy five was I need

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to be with very much with the you go, that's

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the only fight and I don't see other than that.

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Speaker 1: And so he's obviously got an important fight coming up

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for undisputed. Just wrap it up with this and would

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you consider the winner then if you could against better

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be more people whoever wins that fight come up at

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the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I use I used wanna go up

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to have very much with people. If it wins, we

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can we can see before after that.

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Speaker 1: All right, very good. Well, first you've got uh Edgar

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Berlanga to defend your titles against on September fourteenth. Canelo,

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thank you so much for your time. Look forward to

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seeing you next month and I appreciate it my pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Take care,