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Speaker 1: So it all goes down in Sydney. Tonight, Sonny Bill

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Speaker 1: Williams steps back into the ring against fallow footy star

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Speaker 1: turned boxer Paul Gallant. There is no love lost between

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Speaker 1: the pair. They've been wanting to fight each other for

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Speaker 1: close to ten years, and Sunny Bill Williams is.

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Speaker 2: With me now morning, Sonny, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Is all of this hate actually real?

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Speaker 2: I don't know about hate. Hates such such a strong word,

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Speaker 2: but animosity. I'm not liking each other, Yeah, that definitely is.

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Speaker 2: We're just not We're two totally different people who look

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Speaker 2: at I guess life in a total different way. I

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Speaker 2: think for myself, you know, I'm not the trash talk.

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Speaker 2: That's not my go but you know, if someone's going

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Speaker 2: to keep pushing, pushing, pushing, eventually you're going to push back,

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Speaker 2: you know. And for myself, I haven't. I don't consider

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Speaker 2: it trash talk. I kind of just spoke some truth.

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Speaker 2: And I think with this bloke, every fight that he's had,

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Speaker 2: he's made it personal. He's been the victim because the

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Speaker 2: guy that he's fought has done something that he shouldn't have.

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Speaker 2: But the reality is all I've done is spoke some

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Speaker 2: truth back and I think has rolled them up quite

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Speaker 2: a bit.

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Speaker 1: When you say he's a drug cheat, do you really

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Speaker 1: mean that?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the truth, you know, that's the truth. He

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Speaker 2: got caught, They got caught taking supplements, things that shouldn't

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Speaker 2: be in this system, and they took a band. He

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Speaker 2: took a band, and he was the captain of that

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Speaker 2: club at that time. So you know, it's not like

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Speaker 2: I'm telling any lies. He did charge his mate to

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Speaker 2: come around his house for a barbecue. You know, I

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Speaker 2: think I can't remember what else I said, but it's

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Speaker 2: not that I haven't been, you know, talking trash. It's

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Speaker 2: just telling truth.

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Speaker 1: Well, I imagine it's going to feel pretty good to

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Speaker 1: get in the ring then and sort it out once

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Speaker 1: and for all, is it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so? I think. You know, it's been

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Speaker 2: a long nine weeks. He's even said it himself. He

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Speaker 2: just wants to get in and get this fight done,

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Speaker 2: and that's what I want to do, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so night couldn't come quick enough.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me, look, you're what thirty nine or forty?

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Speaker 1: You must be feeling your body in this training?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, definitely. I just want to get home to

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Speaker 2: my kids now, my wife. I'm thirty nine, I'll be

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Speaker 2: forty a couple of weeks after the fight, so it's

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Speaker 2: definitely the last hurrah.

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Speaker 1: So is this the last fight you're gonna do, Sonny, Yes,

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Speaker 1: for sure. What's the difference between what you're feeling in

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Speaker 1: your body now, what hurts or what doesn't work the

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Speaker 1: way that you might have wanted it to work properly?

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Speaker 1: Maybe let's say ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: I think that you know, the fire, the hunger, the heart,

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Speaker 2: it's all still there. But you know, age catches up

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Speaker 2: up with you. You can't outrun age. And it's just

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing that I've noticed is just the recovery aspect.

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Speaker 2: So you know, being away from the family has been tough,

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Speaker 2: but the least I've been able to get some good

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Speaker 2: sleep without the kids running in the room.

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Speaker 1: You know how many kids have you got now?

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Speaker 2: I've got five, sister, one of them is quite small.

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Speaker 2: A yes, they go from ten to one year old

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Speaker 2: two into it. Yeah, My youngest, Muhammad, he will be

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Speaker 2: one a day after the fight, so he came four

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Speaker 2: years after the second youngest. So we head at a

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Speaker 2: stage there we were five under five, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: four under five.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, man, you're a sucker for punishment. Do you

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Speaker 1: ever end up with the whole bloody lot of them

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Speaker 1: in bed with you?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes? Sometimes? And I love it. I'm not gonna lie,

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Speaker 2: I really love it. I enjoy the aspect of being

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Speaker 2: a father. But you know, it's been a long couple

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Speaker 2: of months in my life. Say now, you've got to

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Speaker 2: get home, now, get it done, Get home now and

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Speaker 2: come to help me.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Look, I can't imagine you don't strike me as the

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Speaker 1: kind of person who's going to let the scrudge and

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Speaker 1: this animosity between yourself and Gallon Linga. Are you going

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Speaker 1: to make up after this fight?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well he said he doesn't want to shake my

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Speaker 2: hands afterwards, So it's no, it's water off a duck

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Speaker 2: back for myself. You know, I'm not I'm not a

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Speaker 2: guy that, like you said, hangs on to hate, hangs

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Speaker 2: on to anger. I'm usually the guy at my own

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Speaker 2: household that will let things go and try and be

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Speaker 2: the bigger person and talk to my wife after a

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Speaker 2: big argument. But at the same time, I'm not fast

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Speaker 2: either way, So I just want to get the dub.

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Speaker 2: The next two days with this media press conference way

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Speaker 2: and it's not probably high on the agenda for me.

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Speaker 2: I don't couldn't have, couldn't care too, couldn't have two

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Speaker 2: kids about it. I just want to get in the

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Speaker 2: ring and get the job done.

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Speaker 1: That's where my focus is a sunny Bill, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time, good luck with the fight, sunny Bill Williams.

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