WEBVTT - Ep 09: The Politics of Fighting

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, what's up, everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Jammelle Hill and welcome to Politics and iHeart podcast

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<v Speaker 2>and Unbothered Network production.

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<v Speaker 1>Time to get spolitical.

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<v Speaker 2>Last week, Time magazine revealed its Athlete of the Year, and.

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<v Speaker 1>The choice was Caitlyn Clark. Now, I thought the honor

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<v Speaker 1>was well deserved.

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<v Speaker 2>When you look at this year, few, if any, athletes

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<v Speaker 2>have had the impact that she's had on women's basketball,

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<v Speaker 2>really on any sport at both the college and the

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<v Speaker 2>professional level. And march, Clark became the NCAA men's and

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<v Speaker 2>women's all time scoring leader. A couple months later, her

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<v Speaker 2>Iowa team met undefeated South Carolina in the National Championship

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<v Speaker 2>and while South Carolina won the title, that game averaged

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<v Speaker 2>eighteen point four million viewers, and for the first time

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<v Speaker 2>in history, the women's national championship game had more viewers

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<v Speaker 2>than the men. Game also averaged more viewers than any

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<v Speaker 2>of the NBA Finals games between the Boston Celtics and.

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<v Speaker 1>Dallas Mavericks and the WNBA.

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<v Speaker 2>Clark won Rookie of the Year and her Indiana Fever

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<v Speaker 2>team made the playoffs for the first time since twenty sixteen. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>if I listed all the ratings records that Caitlin Clark

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<v Speaker 2>broke in the WNBA. I'd be talking to you all

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<v Speaker 2>for another hour, but I think you get what her impact.

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<v Speaker 1>Was this season.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, as part of This Time Magazine honor, writer Sean

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<v Speaker 2>Gregory wrote a terrific piece about Clark, who hasn't done

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<v Speaker 2>many one on one interviews this year. So this was

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<v Speaker 2>the first time that we are hearing from her at length,

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<v Speaker 2>or I should say the first time in some time

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<v Speaker 2>we're hearing from her at lyngth and ball. Some of

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<v Speaker 2>her supporters mad about the things she said.

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<v Speaker 1>Ever since Angel Reese did.

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<v Speaker 3>This, and Angel Reese knows a ring is coming.

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<v Speaker 2>Race has been part of the conversation, whether we like

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<v Speaker 2>it or not. At that moment in the National Championship

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<v Speaker 2>game between LSU and Iowa, racial battle lines were drawn.

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<v Speaker 2>Caitlin Clark was certainly a popular player before that National Championship,

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<v Speaker 2>for her popularity exploded among a certain group, and let's

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<v Speaker 2>just say it was a group of folks that could

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<v Speaker 2>not stand the site of a black woman talking trash

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<v Speaker 2>in this manner to a heralded white player, even though

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<v Speaker 2>that same white player had done the same gesture in

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<v Speaker 2>a basketball game before.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, as Clark's popularity continued to explode.

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<v Speaker 2>Those of us with common sense and good observational skills

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<v Speaker 2>could see the truth. While the majority of people root

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<v Speaker 2>for Clark because she's a generational talent, there was another

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<v Speaker 2>loud contingent in the room that saw Clark's success as

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<v Speaker 2>an opportunity to let off some steam about how they

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<v Speaker 2>really felt about black women. That loud contingent is now

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<v Speaker 2>big mad because it turns out that Caitlyn Clark isn't

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<v Speaker 2>nearly as hateful and unaware as they wanted her to be.

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<v Speaker 2>In the Time magazine piece, Clark made made it clear

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<v Speaker 2>that she found the racist, misogynistic attacks and homophobic narratives

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<v Speaker 2>to be upsetting and gross.

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<v Speaker 1>Those were her exact words. But here's the.

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<v Speaker 2>Quote that really pissed off her so called fans. Caitlin

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<v Speaker 2>Clark said, I want to say I've earned every single thing,

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<v Speaker 2>but as a white person, there is privilege. A lot

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<v Speaker 2>of those players in the league that have been really

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<v Speaker 2>good have been black players. The league has kind of

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<v Speaker 2>been built on them. The more we can appreciate that

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<v Speaker 2>highlight that talk about that and then continue to have

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<v Speaker 2>brands and companies invest in those players that have made

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<v Speaker 2>this league incredible. I think it's very important. I have

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<v Speaker 2>to continue to try to change that. The more we

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<v Speaker 2>can elevate black women, that's going to be a beautiful thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh they was mad, heeded. How does fish grease that?

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<v Speaker 2>Clark not only acknowledged her privilege, but she then committed

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<v Speaker 2>a deeper internal sin. She had the nerve to publicly

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<v Speaker 2>acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of other black women black women.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of her fake fans again had that hatred

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<v Speaker 2>for from conservative media personality Megan Kelly, who tweeted, look

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<v Speaker 2>at this, she's on the knee all but apologizing for

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<v Speaker 2>being white and getting attention the self flagellation, the oh,

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<v Speaker 2>please pay attention to the black players who are really

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<v Speaker 2>the ones you want to celebrate. Condescending, fake, transparent sad well.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess it could be worse.

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<v Speaker 4>Kitlyn Clark could have said she supports black Santa's.

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<v Speaker 1>Santa Claus should not be a white man anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>Yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white Santa.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, and by the way, for all your kids

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<v Speaker 4>watching at home, Sanna.

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<v Speaker 1>Just is white.

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<v Speaker 2>I bet Megan Kelly ain't even got a black coffee

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<v Speaker 2>cup in her house because that's how much she can't

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<v Speaker 2>stand black people now. Megan Kelly, though she wasn't the

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<v Speaker 2>only one who took a leap off the Caitlyn Clark

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<v Speaker 2>bandwagon because of her comments in Time magazine. Former college

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<v Speaker 2>swimmer and right wing darling Riley Gaines came jumping off

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<v Speaker 2>her griftin top rope to create size Clark as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Gains tweeted, no one was asking for Kaitlin Clark to

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<v Speaker 2>position herself as.

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<v Speaker 4>A right wing hero. All she needed to do was

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<v Speaker 4>remain neutral. She's a phenim who inspires countless young girls

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<v Speaker 4>to play and achieve, So I still have great admiration

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<v Speaker 4>for her, but she missed the mark on this one.

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<v Speaker 4>For those scoring at home.

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<v Speaker 2>In twenty twenty two, Riley Gaines finished fifth and the

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred meter freestyle final at the NCAA Women's Championship.

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<v Speaker 2>She soon because the winner of the race was transgender

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<v Speaker 2>swimmer Leah Thomas. But even if Leah Thomas were not

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<v Speaker 2>in that race, the highest Gains would have finished was fourth.

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<v Speaker 2>An old girl been riding that fourth place finish to

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<v Speaker 2>conservative media stardom ever since. If I'm Leah Thomas, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>asking her for a cut. At this point, I knew

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<v Speaker 2>this moment would unfortunately come for Kaitlyn Clark, who was

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<v Speaker 2>probably the most unintentionally controversial athlete in professional sports right now.

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<v Speaker 2>The moment these fake fans of hers got any indication

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<v Speaker 2>she didn't support the same clownish shit that they did,

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<v Speaker 2>they were going to come for her. You saw that

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<v Speaker 2>when she liked Taylor Swift's social media posts where she

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<v Speaker 2>endorsed vice president Kamala Harris. What's hilarious is watching these

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<v Speaker 2>people twist themselves into notts because in this time profile,

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<v Speaker 2>Clark debunked a lot of the false narratives that they pushed. No,

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<v Speaker 2>she didn't think she was targeted by WNBA players. In fact,

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<v Speaker 2>if anything, Clark said, she realizes that most of the

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<v Speaker 2>college competition she faced was substandard and it took her

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<v Speaker 2>some time to adjust to the WNBA. Clark said, professional

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<v Speaker 2>players and professional coaches, This is no disrespect to college

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<v Speaker 2>women's basketball are a lot smarter. I love women's college basketball,

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<v Speaker 2>but if you go back and watch the way people

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<v Speaker 2>guarded me in college, it's almost like concerning. They didn't

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<v Speaker 2>double me, they didn't trap me, they weren't physical, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's hard, it's college. A lot of those women will

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<v Speaker 2>never go on to play another basketball game in their life.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't have the IQ of understanding how the game works.

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<v Speaker 2>So I completely understand it, and it's no disrespect at all.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't have the IQ. You have to simplify it

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<v Speaker 2>for girls at that age, which was basically the same

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<v Speaker 2>shit Diana Tarassi said, and y'all came to herd with pitchforks. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I personally never thought that Caitlyn Clark was required to

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<v Speaker 2>speak about anything other than just basketball. She's just twenty

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<v Speaker 2>two years old and still coming into her own personally

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<v Speaker 2>and professionally. If she never mentioned race, privilege, or gender

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<v Speaker 2>in this article, I certainly wouldn't have thought less of her.

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<v Speaker 2>But the players in the w especially the black women,

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<v Speaker 2>will appreciate that she used her position and her platform

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<v Speaker 2>to speak up for them. And despite what her defecting

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<v Speaker 2>fans have said, Katelyn Clark didn't do that because she

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<v Speaker 2>felt any pressure or because she's been brainwashed by the

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<v Speaker 2>WoT mob.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a woman who comes off.

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<v Speaker 2>As very sure of herself and is certain about what

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<v Speaker 2>she stands for.

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<v Speaker 5>There's always going to be some negativity, and I feel

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<v Speaker 5>like you have had to answer more questions than anybody

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<v Speaker 5>about the intersectionality of race and gender and sexuality in

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<v Speaker 5>sport because of just who you are, and you represent

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<v Speaker 5>the growth of this thing. And even today, earlier today

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<v Speaker 5>Meg and Kelly, she was saying that you were apologizing

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<v Speaker 5>for your white privilege and the fact that you wanted

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<v Speaker 5>to uplift black female athletes and make sure that they

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<v Speaker 5>were getting the shine kind of like your pioneers were

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<v Speaker 5>getting the shine that they deserve.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just want to know how you feel or

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<v Speaker 1>how you.

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<v Speaker 5>Respond to some of those criticisms when you have to

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<v Speaker 5>deal with something that it's really not your problem, Like

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<v Speaker 5>I feel like it's them looking in a mirror a

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<v Speaker 5>little bit, but it still comes down on your shoulders.

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<v Speaker 6>I feel like I always have had really good perspective

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<v Speaker 6>on everything that's kind of happened in my life, whether

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<v Speaker 6>that's been good, whether that's been bad. And then obviously

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<v Speaker 6>coming to the WNBA, like I've said, I feel like

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<v Speaker 6>I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over

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<v Speaker 6>the course of my career. But also I grew up

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<v Speaker 6>a fan of this league from a very young age,

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<v Speaker 6>Like My favorite player was Maya More, Like I know

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<v Speaker 6>what this league was about, and like I said, like,

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<v Speaker 6>it's only been around twenty five plus years, so I

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<v Speaker 6>know there's been so many amazing black women that have

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<v Speaker 6>been in this league. And continuing to uplift them, I

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<v Speaker 6>think is very important and that's something I'm very aware of.

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<v Speaker 6>And like I said, like I try to just be

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<v Speaker 6>real and authentic and share my truth. And I think

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<v Speaker 6>that's very easy for me. Like I'm very comfortable in

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<v Speaker 6>my own skin, and that's kind of ben how it

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<v Speaker 6>is my entire life.

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<v Speaker 2>Kate Le Clark is standing on who she is. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 2>her critics are standing on some bullshit. I'm Jamel Hill,

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<v Speaker 2>and I approve this message. Coming up next on Spolitics,

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<v Speaker 2>my guest for this episode is another woman whose career

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<v Speaker 2>is built on standing on business. She's a two time

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<v Speaker 2>Olympic gold medalist who has multiple world championships and five

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<v Speaker 2>weight classes. She's the first woman in history to earn

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<v Speaker 2>a seven figure person in a boxing match. Her story

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<v Speaker 2>is so incredibly inspiring, and it's so inspiring that it's

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<v Speaker 2>coming to us in movie form in theaters on Christmas Day.

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<v Speaker 2>Coming up next on Spolitics, the quote the greatest woman

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<v Speaker 2>of all time, Floressa Shields.

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<v Speaker 1>Claris.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to thank you so much for joining me.

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<v Speaker 2>You're making history. You're the first person to actually be

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<v Speaker 2>in studio with me.

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<v Speaker 1>In this podcast studio.

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<v Speaker 2>So I just want to thank you for blessing it,

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<v Speaker 2>for ordaining it. Of course, especially a super talented woman

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<v Speaker 2>like yourself, it makes it even more makes it even

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<v Speaker 2>more special. But I'm going to start by asking you

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<v Speaker 2>a question that I ask every guest that appears on

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<v Speaker 2>this podcast, and that is, name the athlete or the

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<v Speaker 2>sport that made you the athlete, Name the athlete or

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<v Speaker 2>the moment that made you love sports?

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<v Speaker 7>Honest Lee, I have to say, like, my love for

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<v Speaker 7>sports started with seeing Serena Williams play tennis.

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<v Speaker 1>This is before I was boxing.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, my grandma was a big uh Venus and

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<v Speaker 7>Serena Williams fan, and.

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<v Speaker 1>We watched Dwight.

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<v Speaker 7>Howard growing up when he was a magic man and

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<v Speaker 7>all that stuff or was it magic mean a miracle?

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's magic man.

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<v Speaker 7>And I have to say my grandma always was like,

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<v Speaker 7>we watched Surrenda Williams player all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>So before I even chose boxing, I knew about tennis.

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<v Speaker 4>Did you ever think about playing tennis because you saw her?

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<v Speaker 1>No? But I wanted to do sports though.

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<v Speaker 7>I played basketball and football growing up and ran track,

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<v Speaker 7>and then when I turned eleven, I started boxing. So

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<v Speaker 7>before boxing, I had already kind of known I was

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<v Speaker 7>an athlete. I ran track, I did karate, I played basketball,

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<v Speaker 7>I played flag football in school. I played real football

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<v Speaker 7>with the guys in the hood in the in the field.

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<v Speaker 7>I've even strained. I even spranged my wrists one time

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<v Speaker 7>because one of the guys tackled me.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, y'all was out there for real, Like, yeah, So

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<v Speaker 2>I always have love for sports, but I think seeing

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<v Speaker 2>Serrenda Williams, I was like, okay, I can do sports.

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<v Speaker 1>Not like tennis, but I can do sports. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Now that fire inside your biopic is out, What does

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<v Speaker 2>it feel like to finally see this happen, that people

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<v Speaker 2>are able, well they will be as of Christmas Day,

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<v Speaker 2>that people are able to really learn about your story?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I have been in a few of the premieres,

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<v Speaker 1>and to see.

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<v Speaker 7>People reactions as we watch the movie together, and to

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<v Speaker 7>know that the movie is about me, I'm always just

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<v Speaker 7>shook and I'm so excited for the world to see.

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<v Speaker 1>It on Christmas Day.

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<v Speaker 7>I believe that it's going to change so many lives,

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<v Speaker 7>going to change people's perspective of women's sports, women's boxing,

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<v Speaker 7>of me, and they'll see that it's hard being a

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<v Speaker 7>woman athlete. But the best of us who stay and

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<v Speaker 7>continue to push and continue to not quit, continue to

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<v Speaker 7>just fight the best and can control our brands, that

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<v Speaker 7>this is what all it takes to get here. And

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<v Speaker 7>I'm just ready to inspire a whole new generation of people.

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<v Speaker 1>The movie is very inspiring.

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<v Speaker 2>I got a chance to see it when it premiered

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<v Speaker 2>in Los Angeles, and I was really I mean, I

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<v Speaker 2>knew your story, but it's it's it's interesting when you

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<v Speaker 2>see it all put together.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's like much more powerful.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think you had told me previously that, oh

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<v Speaker 2>it'll make you laugh, it'll make you tear up. It

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<v Speaker 2>was a couple of times I definitely got emotional. I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't let that Denzel glow ear dry. But it was

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<v Speaker 2>a few times.

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<v Speaker 1>That I got emotional.

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<v Speaker 2>But I saw it as a ninety six percent score

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<v Speaker 2>already on Rotten Tomato. So you know, how do you

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<v Speaker 2>think this film or were you at all anxious about

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<v Speaker 2>how this film might be received.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I wasn't anxious about it.

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<v Speaker 7>One thing I've known the whole time is that my

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<v Speaker 7>story is very resilient, you know, in that it's a

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<v Speaker 7>story that needs to be told that the sports world needs.

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<v Speaker 7>It's filled with so many different dynamics, and I just

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<v Speaker 7>feel like I'm a different type of woman, right And

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<v Speaker 7>I always been that way. And they're like, why is

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<v Speaker 7>she like that? You know, where did this come from?

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<v Speaker 7>Is she cocky or is she confident? Is she arrogant?

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<v Speaker 1>You know? Is she angry or is she just passionate?

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<v Speaker 7>And I hope that when they watch the movie they

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<v Speaker 7>see that I'm very passionate about boxing. I am not

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<v Speaker 7>an angry black woman who boxed because I was sexually

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<v Speaker 7>abused and I want to be the men.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, that's not why a box. And it's kind of immatuity.

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<v Speaker 7>People have that as the story about me for a

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<v Speaker 7>very long time, and it's still like, what, I'm breaking

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<v Speaker 7>all these records? You think, you guys think I'm breaking

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<v Speaker 7>all these records just because I hate men. It don't

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<v Speaker 7>have nothing to do with that. It's because I want

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<v Speaker 7>to be great at something and I want to be

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<v Speaker 7>remembered after I die. I always knew that my story

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<v Speaker 7>is going to change so many lives, and I feel

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<v Speaker 7>like God chose me to be the one to do it.

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<v Speaker 7>God told me I'll want to go melt the first time.

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<v Speaker 7>He told me I want to go melt a second time.

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<v Speaker 7>And even though I had no idea what the professional

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<v Speaker 7>ranks for the women held, you let me know you're

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<v Speaker 7>going to be the one to change women's boxing.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to do.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's been a long time since I said this

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<v Speaker 2>about a movie, but after at the end of Yours,

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<v Speaker 2>I was thinking I could have had another thirty minutes

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<v Speaker 2>of that or another like it could have been like

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<v Speaker 2>longer in my fire inside. You're right, because it does

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<v Speaker 2>only it takes you up to your professional, you know, career.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course in the end notes, you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>know what happened. Obviously, they update people about where you

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<v Speaker 2>are and they show actual footage of you. Were you

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<v Speaker 2>concerned at all about how people close to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Might see their portrayals? Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 7>You know, And I'm happy that Ryan caught me and

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<v Speaker 7>was like, hey, you know, what was the relationship like

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<v Speaker 7>with your mom?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, at this age or at this stage of

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<v Speaker 1>your life, you know, and.

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<v Speaker 7>Everyone is okay, well how they were portrayed because everything

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<v Speaker 7>was the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>I was gonna ask you that, like, how, yeah, what

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<v Speaker 2>percentage of this would you say? I mean, of course

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<v Speaker 2>it's Hollywood, they're gonna you know, it's gonna be some

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<v Speaker 2>drama that they were, but like, you know, what percentage

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<v Speaker 2>of this would you say it was true?

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<v Speaker 1>I would say ninety five percent of it with I.

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<v Speaker 2>Mean, that's pretty good for her for yeah, for Hollywood,

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<v Speaker 2>yeah it is, it is.

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<v Speaker 1>But I let them know everything in the movie.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm like, I want them to see the real stuff,

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<v Speaker 7>to see like this is what I went through. This

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<v Speaker 7>is how it was for me growing up, Like this

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<v Speaker 7>is how it was what I went through. I want

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<v Speaker 7>them to see it raw in the cut, just like

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<v Speaker 7>t Rex was.

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<v Speaker 2>What are the I mean pretty much the crux of

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<v Speaker 2>the movie is your relationship with Jason Crutchfield, who was

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<v Speaker 2>the person who sort of got you into the sport.

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<v Speaker 2>It was your trainer, mentor all those things. What's your

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<v Speaker 2>relationship like with Jason?

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<v Speaker 1>Now we don't.

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<v Speaker 7>Work together as far as in boxing, but every time

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<v Speaker 7>I see him, it's still just a woman brace. He

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<v Speaker 7>always tell me he happy for me, he proud me,

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<v Speaker 7>and we're happy that we got this movie about our

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<v Speaker 7>lives together. We were connected for life, and you know,

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<v Speaker 7>we want our first gold medal together, we want our

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<v Speaker 7>first world title together, and the professionals. And if Jason

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<v Speaker 7>everyone to try to coach me again, I'll let him,

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<v Speaker 7>would you, I would?

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<v Speaker 1>Look?

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<v Speaker 7>The only thing is to just I think I think

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<v Speaker 7>the disconnect was the personal life of it. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>even though he was like my dad, he didn't know

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<v Speaker 7>how to separate the dad and the coach, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>and he kind of mixed it all up in one,

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<v Speaker 7>and he made the rules being for both, like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 7>Dad say you can't date, in Coach say you can't date.

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<v Speaker 7>So if you don't listen to Dad, you don't listen

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<v Speaker 7>to coach. And then if coach get mad, he puts

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<v Speaker 7>you out the gym. And you know, it's just all

0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.240
<v Speaker 7>this stuff that was going on, and I just remember,

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<v Speaker 7>like dang, you know, not that I should have listened,

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<v Speaker 7>but it was just like I was grown at the time,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, and I had already accomplished getting a gold medals,

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<v Speaker 7>so having a boyfriend wasn't a big deal to me.

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<v Speaker 7>But if I knew what I know now, I would

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<v Speaker 7>definitely go back in time, and I just I would

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<v Speaker 7>have never, ever, ever, ever had a boyfriend.

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<v Speaker 4>It sounds like you're saying Jason might have been right.

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<v Speaker 7>It might have been right, but I did spend a

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<v Speaker 7>great four or five years with that guy, and we're

0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:13.280
<v Speaker 7>still friends now.

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<v Speaker 1>But I just think I don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>If I had a daughter, I will I will tell her,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, wait till you twenty five.

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<v Speaker 4>She will kind of do what you did, which is

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<v Speaker 4>not a right.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, that's just how that's that's how it goes.

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<v Speaker 2>Was there anybody who didn't like how they were portrayed?

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<v Speaker 1>My dad?

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<v Speaker 7>My dad didn't like how he was portrayed, and my

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<v Speaker 7>little brother is not even showcased much in the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>But he was like, I think my Charac should put

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<v Speaker 1>more effort into it. And I'm like, dude, you showed

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<v Speaker 1>three times three times. Shut up.

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<v Speaker 7>And actually, the guy that played my little brother, I think,

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<v Speaker 7>look a lot like my little brother and talk like

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<v Speaker 7>him and everything. And I was like, that a great

0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:04.280
<v Speaker 7>job casting this dude. But yeah, I don't know why

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<v Speaker 7>he was mad about that. I was like, Peter, you

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<v Speaker 7>weren't even in the movie, bro like just stop and

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<v Speaker 7>then my dad is like, oh, me and Jason Because

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<v Speaker 7>my dad and Jason never really had any friction. They

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<v Speaker 7>may have had conversations and stuff like that, but never

0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.479
<v Speaker 7>any friction. But I feel like, you know, Hollywood had

0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.159
<v Speaker 7>to kind of spend it a little bit and so

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<v Speaker 7>the conversation that they had, they just probably made it

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<v Speaker 7>to where it looked like that. But my dad did

0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.960
<v Speaker 7>pull up to wherever he's at loud music all the time.

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<v Speaker 7>My dad nickname is Bobo, but he is like hardbody.

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<v Speaker 7>He's a hardbody and he's old school. And my dad

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<v Speaker 7>is one of my biggest protectors, you know. But he

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<v Speaker 7>didn't like that in the movie and show him and

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<v Speaker 7>Jason beef and he like it.

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<v Speaker 1>I never bet with Jason. Never.

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<v Speaker 2>Me and Jason always been cool and they have what

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<v Speaker 2>do you how do you think that people in Flint

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<v Speaker 2>will we'll look at this because I you know, Flint

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<v Speaker 2>is sort of like a character and they showed the

0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.439
<v Speaker 2>city some of the things is gone through because you know,

0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.480
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't lost on me, especially when they showed picture

0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.600
<v Speaker 2>of the water plants. So and we know about everything

0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:13.960
<v Speaker 2>that's happened there with that. But how do you think

0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:15.119
<v Speaker 2>people in Flint will look at this?

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<v Speaker 7>I was at the Flynn premiere over four hundred people

0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.720
<v Speaker 7>as they watched the movie in two different and two

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<v Speaker 7>different venues, and I can tell you Flint was so excited.

0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.679
<v Speaker 7>They're so happy about this. They're so happy about this.

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<v Speaker 7>It showed the streets, you know, Ryan Destiny running on

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<v Speaker 7>the streets Baltimore, North Saginaw, her being at Northwestern High School.

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<v Speaker 1>It shows all this stuff, and.

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<v Speaker 7>People from Flint are like, oh my god, they probably

0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.240
<v Speaker 7>still live on that street, or they right right down

0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.880
<v Speaker 7>that street. They seen me running down that street. Now

0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.119
<v Speaker 7>to see Ryan Yam, it gets everybody in the city hope,

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<v Speaker 7>like wow, if she went through all that and still

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<v Speaker 7>made it the then what's my.

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<v Speaker 1>Ryan?

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, you know, just in a little that I've

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<v Speaker 2>been around you, like she really had your mannerisms, like down,

0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.200
<v Speaker 2>how much time did you all spend together?

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<v Speaker 1>I think Ryan is great at what she do because.

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<v Speaker 7>We FaceTime two or three times, we always text always,

0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.960
<v Speaker 7>you know, kept in touch. But I never was on set,

0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:27.919
<v Speaker 7>not one time. I was never on set. So Ryan

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<v Speaker 7>did all of that. You have to give her kudos

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<v Speaker 7>for that. Even when I seen it. I said, this

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<v Speaker 7>is but she's an actress and this is her breakout role.

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<v Speaker 7>And I mean even her boxing was so phenomenal to

0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.600
<v Speaker 7>me now. But I also told her, I said, girl,

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<v Speaker 7>don't you mess up on that part. And I even

0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.040
<v Speaker 7>told I told Rachel, Hey, if you guys need me

0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.119
<v Speaker 7>to come in be the stunt man, let me know.

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<v Speaker 1>But this is boxing. We're gonna get it right. This

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<v Speaker 1>is not rocky, this this is real and the greatest

0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.959
<v Speaker 1>one of all time. You got to get these boxing right.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't know about the acting part, y'all can figure

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<v Speaker 7>that part out, but the boxing part, y'all need me

0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.320
<v Speaker 7>let me know. And they never had to need me

0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.200
<v Speaker 7>because Rob tell you a great job training rind this.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, once people who obviously don't understand the Hollywood process,

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<v Speaker 2>but like once you give them your life, essentially you're

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<v Speaker 2>kind of out of the process a little bit. Was

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<v Speaker 2>it hard for you to kind of turn over creative

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<v Speaker 2>control and give someone license to near license to shape

0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.320
<v Speaker 2>their shape their life in the way that they saw it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, yeah, no.

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<v Speaker 7>No, no, no, I am very you were very involved,

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<v Speaker 7>very strict about how I'm portrayed, especially to the world

0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.800
<v Speaker 7>and how that's why I took over my own brand

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<v Speaker 7>and when people start seeing who I was, because the

0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.959
<v Speaker 7>people I hadn't tricked, my brand had me as some

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<v Speaker 7>beasts and even my fans were scared of me, and

0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.119
<v Speaker 7>it was like I didn't like that. So with the

0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.840
<v Speaker 7>movie coming out, me and Barry sat and talked. Me

0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:07.640
<v Speaker 7>and Barry Jenkins sat and talked who wrote who wrote

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<v Speaker 7>the movie? Me and him talked for four or five hours.

0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.119
<v Speaker 7>When I met him, I asked him what was his

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<v Speaker 7>perception of what my story was and he told me

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<v Speaker 7>and I said, well, okay, I got you, and I said,

0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:18.960
<v Speaker 7>it's a few things that you missed out.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, this is my life.

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<v Speaker 7>And then I said, let's we got to put our

0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:23.440
<v Speaker 7>minds together to make this right.

0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:25.280
<v Speaker 1>And then he was like, well, how do you feel

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<v Speaker 1>about this?

0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:27.439
<v Speaker 7>How do you feel about He asked his questions and

0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.760
<v Speaker 7>I answered everything truthfully and then he was like, do

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<v Speaker 7>you want to include that?

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely? I want the truth in the movie.

0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.880
<v Speaker 7>And before the script even was able they were able

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<v Speaker 7>to start shooting, he sent me the script and said

0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:43.040
<v Speaker 7>I'm waiting on you to read it, and when you

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<v Speaker 7>get back to me and let me know what you think,

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<v Speaker 7>then then we'll start. So he sent me the script

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<v Speaker 7>a few things. I was one or two things. I

0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:55.879
<v Speaker 7>was like, I take it out.

0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:58.800
<v Speaker 1>And he respectful of it. He took and he took

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<v Speaker 1>it out.

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<v Speaker 7>And from there, when they started doing the casting, like

0:24:03.359 --> 0:24:04.719
<v Speaker 7>Rachel will reach out to me all the time, Hey,

0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:05.680
<v Speaker 7>we're doing the casting.

0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:08.000
<v Speaker 1>Thousands of girls showed up.

0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:12.880
<v Speaker 7>I even told a girl name who's an actress night

0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:14.080
<v Speaker 7>a nice feast of Williams.

0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:14.440
<v Speaker 1>I said.

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<v Speaker 7>I was like, go because I thought she could play

0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:20.320
<v Speaker 7>me right. And when she said let me know that

0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:24.680
<v Speaker 7>Ryan Destiny got the part, I said, okay, cool. Met

0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:27.720
<v Speaker 7>Ryan Destiny over the phone, like we talked and she

0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:30.040
<v Speaker 7>let me know. I'm like, I'm like, I'm training very hard,

0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:33.439
<v Speaker 7>but I was. I wasn't involved as much as I

0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:37.360
<v Speaker 7>needed to be involved, you know. And even before they

0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:41.320
<v Speaker 7>started showing up the premieres and everything, I seen the

0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:43.200
<v Speaker 7>movie first.

0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:45.160
<v Speaker 1>It was just me, I believe my publicist.

0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.959
<v Speaker 7>It was here in LA I seen it, and I

0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:49.960
<v Speaker 7>am one hundred percent for sure, even though that the

0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:52.719
<v Speaker 7>contract was signed, if I did not like the movie,

0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:56.000
<v Speaker 7>if I didn't like I was portrayed, I'm one hundred

0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:59.320
<v Speaker 7>percent sure that everyone would have went back and did

0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.240
<v Speaker 7>things better, differently, fixed whatever. I am one hundred percent

0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:06.040
<v Speaker 7>sure of that. So I think working with them was

0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:10.639
<v Speaker 7>very simple and easy. And they also knew that if

0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:14.119
<v Speaker 7>I didn't like it, I'll be outspoken about it, you know,

0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:15.920
<v Speaker 7>but not in a bad way, but just you would

0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:17.879
<v Speaker 7>have told them, yeah, yeah, like this.

0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:18.960
<v Speaker 1>Ain't it which I do this world.

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<v Speaker 7>But I literally love how the truth is in there

0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:26.040
<v Speaker 7>and how I was portrayed, because that's the truth.

0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:29.240
<v Speaker 2>There's a lot of success just in the fact of

0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:33.520
<v Speaker 2>getting a movie made. But do you have in your mind,

0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:37.080
<v Speaker 2>like what success looks like in terms of how this

0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.840
<v Speaker 2>is received, how many people see it, how much money

0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:43.920
<v Speaker 2>it makes. It's like, what part of that? How will

0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.159
<v Speaker 2>you judge and determine that about whether or not this

0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:47.920
<v Speaker 2>movie you consider it to be a success.

0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:53.280
<v Speaker 7>It's already a success, you know, just the fact that

0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:55.000
<v Speaker 7>I have a movie about my life at the age

0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:57.840
<v Speaker 7>of twenty nine and I gotta fighting too much. I'm

0:25:57.880 --> 0:25:59.960
<v Speaker 7>still ranked number one woman fighter in the world right now,

0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:01.919
<v Speaker 7>So that's already a win in itself.

0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:03.640
<v Speaker 1>It's the win from Ryan Destiny.

0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:07.600
<v Speaker 7>She's getting so many awards, so many nominations.

0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:10.159
<v Speaker 1>I believe that the world is going to take to

0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:11.000
<v Speaker 1>this movie. Now.

0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:13.320
<v Speaker 7>Of course you want to see the box office numbers

0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:14.879
<v Speaker 7>and you want to see all this stuff, of course,

0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:18.280
<v Speaker 7>but I'm not gonna let that be toured. How great

0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:20.080
<v Speaker 7>this is for me. I mean, what other boxs have

0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:24.320
<v Speaker 7>a biopic about their life? I tell you, maham Ali, right,

0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:28.000
<v Speaker 7>can you think of another one off the top of

0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:28.360
<v Speaker 7>my head?

0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.280
<v Speaker 2>George Foreman, George Foreman, you're right, yeah, I did see

0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:33.760
<v Speaker 2>that movie. Yeah, And I'm trying to think who else? Well,

0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:36.479
<v Speaker 2>I mean not a feature film. I mean what they

0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:39.400
<v Speaker 2>did a series on Mike Tyson, right, I think that's

0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:40.960
<v Speaker 2>probably what I can think of now.

0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:43.880
<v Speaker 1>But obviously you're the first.

0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:47.560
<v Speaker 4>Woman at the You're the first like this is big.

0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:49.800
<v Speaker 1>This is big to me, and it is well deserved.

0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:51.959
<v Speaker 7>And to be a believer in Christ and have your

0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:54.440
<v Speaker 7>movie come out on Christmas Day, I get to share

0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:58.239
<v Speaker 7>my day with the most powerful man in person in

0:26:58.280 --> 0:26:58.760
<v Speaker 7>the world.

0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.159
<v Speaker 1>That it was going to be Christmas or it just no.

0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:04.679
<v Speaker 1>They had told me August. The day changed so many times.

0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:06.920
<v Speaker 7>First it was August, which I was happy about because

0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:09.040
<v Speaker 7>I was fighting in July. And then they came back

0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:10.879
<v Speaker 7>and said, oh, it's December, and I'm like, what are

0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:13.879
<v Speaker 7>you guys doing? And then they're like, oh, it's Christmas Day?

0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:16.320
<v Speaker 7>And I was like in my mind, and actually I

0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:17.880
<v Speaker 7>text Rachel I said.

0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:20.840
<v Speaker 1>Who the hell go to the movies on Christmas Day?

0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:25.639
<v Speaker 7>And she wrote back and said, correct, everybody, A lot

0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.560
<v Speaker 7>of people. But this is how how much I'm out

0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:31.080
<v Speaker 7>the loop, Like this show how much I just train

0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:33.800
<v Speaker 7>and work out and you know, travel.

0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:36.959
<v Speaker 1>I'm not thinking of those type of things. But I

0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:40.760
<v Speaker 1>believe the color purple came out Christmas Day. Now that

0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:45.080
<v Speaker 1>everything is like dawning on me, I'm like, this is

0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:45.720
<v Speaker 1>really big.

0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:54.680
<v Speaker 2>Your fight February second, Danielle Perkins, it hasn't been a challenge.

0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:56.720
<v Speaker 2>You're promoting this movie, you have so much going on.

0:27:57.320 --> 0:27:59.960
<v Speaker 2>Has it been a challenge in terms of preparing.

0:27:59.600 --> 0:28:01.640
<v Speaker 1>For that, Well, it's just got to announce.

0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:03.280
<v Speaker 7>So I've been in the gym the past two months

0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:07.840
<v Speaker 7>already trained and working out, but it has It is

0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.240
<v Speaker 7>a challenge when you're traveling back and forth and you're

0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:12.960
<v Speaker 7>going all these different places and then you land where

0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:15.199
<v Speaker 7>you're where you can train, but your body is like

0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:17.920
<v Speaker 7>you having jet leg and dehydrated because you have drinking

0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:23.320
<v Speaker 7>of water, all this stuff, so it it holds its challenges,

0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:24.919
<v Speaker 7>but I'm happy that you know, this is something of

0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:26.720
<v Speaker 7>the last bit we gotta do, and I don't let

0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:29.680
<v Speaker 7>them know, like, look, your girl needs eight weeks to train,

0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.199
<v Speaker 7>because who wants to have a movie come out of

0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.960
<v Speaker 7>our life and then lose after kind of embarrassing that

0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:37.919
<v Speaker 7>probably wouldn't be It's not even just lose, it's more

0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:41.240
<v Speaker 7>just like I have I have, I'm gonna have millions

0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:43.680
<v Speaker 7>of more new followers and fans.

0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:46.440
<v Speaker 1>I gotta over I gotta overwin.

0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:48.320
<v Speaker 7>Now it's like, yeah, you can win, but you gotta

0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:51.840
<v Speaker 7>like really good, you know, especially with all the hate

0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:53.680
<v Speaker 7>right now, I got to show these folks.

0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.800
<v Speaker 2>So what uh, you know, looking at the evolution of

0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:00.640
<v Speaker 2>the competition that you've had to face about your career

0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:02.960
<v Speaker 2>as a professional, just talking about that part of it,

0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:07.240
<v Speaker 2>how have you seen the competition evolved? Do you feel

0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.520
<v Speaker 2>like women's boxing is in a stronger place because of you?

0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:14.160
<v Speaker 7>Absolutely, women's boxing is a very stronger place because I

0:29:14.200 --> 0:29:19.240
<v Speaker 7>think that you know, me speaking about equality, me being

0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:25.360
<v Speaker 7>on these brands, me being main event on Showtime, ESPN, HBO,

0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.840
<v Speaker 7>The Zone, me having talked with these execs, is changing

0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:30.560
<v Speaker 7>women's boxing.

0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:31.760
<v Speaker 1>I have real talks with them.

0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:33.680
<v Speaker 7>I'm not a person who's going to come in the

0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:35.840
<v Speaker 7>room and scream and yell and tell you to do

0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:40.600
<v Speaker 7>what I say. I come with the facts. Hey, you guys,

0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:43.120
<v Speaker 7>we got the next fight coming up. Last fight, you

0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:45.280
<v Speaker 7>guys gave me trouble about how many viewerships we got,

0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:47.080
<v Speaker 7>even though I got more viewership than everybody else.

0:29:47.960 --> 0:29:49.600
<v Speaker 1>You guys said I should have got more viewership.

0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:51.720
<v Speaker 7>Well, I believe I could have got more viewership if

0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:52.960
<v Speaker 7>you guys promoted my fight.

0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:54.640
<v Speaker 1>Twelve weeks instead of four weeks.

0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:57.080
<v Speaker 7>You guys promote the men fight twelve weeks And then

0:29:57.080 --> 0:29:58.480
<v Speaker 7>they asked me, how do you know that?

0:29:58.560 --> 0:30:02.320
<v Speaker 1>Well have proof, I'll screenshot it.

0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:05.520
<v Speaker 7>You guys started promoting Adrian brownin fight this date in

0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:08.240
<v Speaker 7>his fight date was that date. You started promoting my

0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:10.920
<v Speaker 7>fight this date, and my fight was four weeks later.

0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:14.240
<v Speaker 7>So you can't say I'm supposed to get more viewership

0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:15.720
<v Speaker 7>when I don't get the same amount of promotion.

0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:18.400
<v Speaker 1>But that's a conversation you got have for them. It's

0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:19.040
<v Speaker 1>not that they're.

0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:22.320
<v Speaker 7>Sexist, it's just they're doing what they're used to doing.

0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:26.040
<v Speaker 7>Women don't women just want the money. We want to

0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:26.720
<v Speaker 7>be paid equal.

0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:28.400
<v Speaker 1>That's it. Pay us equal, pay us equal.

0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:32.520
<v Speaker 7>And it was just like they're not realizing they're not

0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:34.719
<v Speaker 7>paying us equal because of this, or they got all

0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:38.160
<v Speaker 7>these different reasons why, but you just let them know.

0:30:38.360 --> 0:30:41.480
<v Speaker 1>You guys are you guys are making this reason. You

0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:42.240
<v Speaker 1>guys are doing this.

0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.640
<v Speaker 7>So you have to fix your part and do the

0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:47.080
<v Speaker 7>same that you do for us for them, and then

0:30:47.120 --> 0:30:49.360
<v Speaker 7>we can talk about the numbers. Now, if you promote

0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:53.240
<v Speaker 7>my fight twelve weeks like you do the men, and

0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:56.080
<v Speaker 7>then I still get half the numbers that they get,

0:30:56.680 --> 0:30:59.600
<v Speaker 7>then we know, all right, it's not that we got

0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:00.560
<v Speaker 7>to fix something else.

0:31:01.160 --> 0:31:02.880
<v Speaker 1>But that's not it.

0:31:03.080 --> 0:31:06.040
<v Speaker 7>Because I've getten more numbers than the men, and we

0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:08.880
<v Speaker 7>promote my fight six weeks, eight weeks, and I get

0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:10.200
<v Speaker 7>I get a lot of viewership.

0:31:11.320 --> 0:31:14.280
<v Speaker 2>I asked you about the competition just because I know,

0:31:14.680 --> 0:31:18.080
<v Speaker 2>you know, looking at boxing history, is that every great

0:31:18.080 --> 0:31:20.080
<v Speaker 2>boxer needed a foe, you know.

0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:22.240
<v Speaker 1>Almost Yeah, I've had a few of them, that you've

0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:22.760
<v Speaker 1>had a few.

0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:25.760
<v Speaker 2>But I mean, let's be honest, is that like you

0:31:25.920 --> 0:31:29.760
<v Speaker 2>have destroyed a lot of your your competition, all of them,

0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:32.400
<v Speaker 2>which speaks to your individual greatness.

0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:35.800
<v Speaker 1>Have you felt like you know that.

0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:39.720
<v Speaker 2>You need a a George Foreman or you know, a

0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:43.320
<v Speaker 2>Joe Fraser, Like have you felt like, hey, I would

0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:46.560
<v Speaker 2>you have liked to experience having like a real like

0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.760
<v Speaker 2>a rival rival like some of these other boxing legends.

0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:55.120
<v Speaker 7>I've had rivals, you know, Hannah Gabriel's being one. The

0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:59.200
<v Speaker 7>girl knocked me down in the first round. I remember that, right, crazy,

0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.480
<v Speaker 7>even though I won that fight, you natally, I mean,

0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:03.320
<v Speaker 7>Savetta Marsha will Be and the amateurs.

0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:06.680
<v Speaker 1>Me and her had a rough, ruggy fight. I won unanimously,

0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:10.640
<v Speaker 1>but it was rough and rugged. She was tough.

0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:13.880
<v Speaker 7>Christina Herrin being my first girl I ever really had

0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:16.080
<v Speaker 7>a grudge match with and who I thought we would

0:32:16.120 --> 0:32:19.480
<v Speaker 7>have plenty more time, but hey, I destroyed her so

0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:21.840
<v Speaker 7>bad at the first fight. She didn't want to she

0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:24.280
<v Speaker 7>didn't want to rematch me. None of these girls want

0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:26.680
<v Speaker 7>to rematch me after I beat them. So those were

0:32:26.680 --> 0:32:31.320
<v Speaker 7>my George Foreman fights and it so yeah, like I mean,

0:32:31.680 --> 0:32:34.560
<v Speaker 7>it's to be as skilled and as great as I am.

0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:36.920
<v Speaker 7>It's like a blessing and a curse at the same time.

0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:39.840
<v Speaker 7>But I take it for more of a blessing because listen,

0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:45.280
<v Speaker 7>if a girl can get in the ring with me

0:32:45.960 --> 0:32:48.920
<v Speaker 7>and she can't stand total toe with me ten rounds straight,

0:32:49.080 --> 0:32:51.520
<v Speaker 7>go to war with me, have good defense, offense, not

0:32:51.640 --> 0:32:55.560
<v Speaker 7>back down, and I would give her props. I'll give

0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:59.040
<v Speaker 7>her props, but I'm never gonna make a fight like

0:32:59.120 --> 0:33:01.479
<v Speaker 7>that on purpose. She got to come in there with

0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:03.760
<v Speaker 7>the smoke, and if she ain't got the smoke, it's

0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:06.480
<v Speaker 7>not my job to go on there and take easy

0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:06.720
<v Speaker 7>on her.

0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 1>If it's too hot in the kitchen, get out. I'm sure.

0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:13.440
<v Speaker 2>Obviously, like a lot of people, you watch the Jake

0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:17.360
<v Speaker 2>Paul Mike Tyson fight, and you know, as it stands now,

0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:21.400
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people have credited Amanda's soroano and Katie

0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:24.280
<v Speaker 2>Taylor is having the most watched women's sporting event of

0:33:24.320 --> 0:33:25.600
<v Speaker 2>all time because it's seventy.

0:33:25.600 --> 0:33:26.560
<v Speaker 1>Four million viewers.

0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:30.040
<v Speaker 2>You seem to you seem to have to take an

0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:34.440
<v Speaker 2>issue with that characterization that they're the most watched.

0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:35.720
<v Speaker 1>Is that the truth or a life?

0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:37.960
<v Speaker 4>That's why I asked, like, well, I was going to

0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:38.480
<v Speaker 4>ask you.

0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:43.640
<v Speaker 7>I'm gonna ask you. Was it a sporting women's event?

0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:47.080
<v Speaker 7>It was not, so they were on a larger star.

0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Yep.

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<v Speaker 7>As you know, all right, so so so, so just

0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:57.040
<v Speaker 7>just bear with me. Beginning of your sentence said it

0:33:57.120 --> 0:33:59.719
<v Speaker 7>was the most watched women's sporting event with seventy four

0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:02.400
<v Speaker 7>mini right right, And then I asked you was it

0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:03.440
<v Speaker 7>a sporting women's event?

0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:06.520
<v Speaker 1>You said no, it was not, So how does that

0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:09.280
<v Speaker 1>go hand to hand? It don't.

0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:13.319
<v Speaker 7>And that's not a knock to them. It's not a knock.

0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:17.120
<v Speaker 7>It's a win for women's boxing. But when I was

0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:21.359
<v Speaker 7>the head of the bill, I was the head. I

0:34:21.440 --> 0:34:25.600
<v Speaker 7>got four million views two k two million in the UK,

0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:30.040
<v Speaker 7>two million in the US abroad four million people over

0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:32.400
<v Speaker 7>four million people watch the fight. We're the head of

0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:34.120
<v Speaker 7>the bill. That's what you were promoting with. That's what

0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:39.080
<v Speaker 7>you're going with. That's not the same here now. And

0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:43.840
<v Speaker 7>did fifty many people tune in to gather around and

0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.000
<v Speaker 7>make sure that they were in their seats and ready

0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.880
<v Speaker 7>to watch when Mike Tyson came out? Because who doesn't

0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:53.160
<v Speaker 7>want to see Mike Tyson fight? Absolutely, But that doesn't

0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:56.000
<v Speaker 7>mean that the girls are not worth the views. I'm

0:34:56.000 --> 0:34:58.920
<v Speaker 7>not saying that. I'm saying had they been the top

0:34:59.120 --> 0:35:02.479
<v Speaker 7>of the bill without Jake Parler, Mike, without Jake Paula

0:35:02.520 --> 0:35:07.080
<v Speaker 7>Mike typing where they have got that viewership and there

0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:10.840
<v Speaker 7>in their first fight they got one million point five

0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:16.400
<v Speaker 7>And that's the issue I had with old Cameron. He

0:35:16.520 --> 0:35:19.239
<v Speaker 7>says he's reading off QR cars and I don't know

0:35:19.320 --> 0:35:22.759
<v Speaker 7>much about boxing women's boxing, but you get on a QO,

0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:25.440
<v Speaker 7>you're reading a car. Oh a man of Sano and

0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:28.680
<v Speaker 7>K Taylor has the most watched women's boxing event in

0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:32.040
<v Speaker 7>history with one point five million, And it's an article

0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:35.400
<v Speaker 7>that shows you that I had two million viewers who

0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:40.520
<v Speaker 7>watched the fight alone in just the UK. So that's

0:35:40.560 --> 0:35:42.960
<v Speaker 7>my thing. It's not to take a knock from them.

0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:46.080
<v Speaker 7>It just they do things trying to make it seem

0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:49.759
<v Speaker 7>like what I did. They they're trying to make make

0:35:49.840 --> 0:35:52.040
<v Speaker 7>records that you guys are not breaking a record if

0:35:52.040 --> 0:35:54.239
<v Speaker 7>you're not doing it the same way, it's not the

0:35:54.280 --> 0:35:59.760
<v Speaker 7>same thing. They do have the most women's watched boxing

0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:04.640
<v Speaker 7>mat in history as the co main event. I have

0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:08.719
<v Speaker 7>the most watched women's boxing match as a standalone women's box.

0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:11.680
<v Speaker 2>But you said you considered this to be even though

0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:14.440
<v Speaker 2>they were a part of a larger event or you know,

0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:16.480
<v Speaker 2>within one, you consider it to be a win.

0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:19.319
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's a win. I feel like the girl stole

0:36:19.360 --> 0:36:21.120
<v Speaker 1>the show. I agree.

0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:23.560
<v Speaker 7>I mean with the with the head, but the cut,

0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:27.960
<v Speaker 7>the punches, the counterpunching, Amanda with those strong hands.

0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:31.719
<v Speaker 2>Listen, I watched the fight. I was glued into it.

0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:33.719
<v Speaker 2>Did you think the outcome was right? Did you think

0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:34.800
<v Speaker 2>that was the right decision?

0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:38.000
<v Speaker 7>I did, Okay, I thought Katie edged it with her

0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:41.440
<v Speaker 7>skill on her counterpunching when I watched it they're in person.

0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:42.719
<v Speaker 7>But then when I went home and watched it, I said,

0:36:42.719 --> 0:36:44.960
<v Speaker 7>this could have been a draw. But those girls are

0:36:44.960 --> 0:36:49.400
<v Speaker 7>like kryptonite to each other, like their styles just don't mix,

0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:53.880
<v Speaker 7>Like they just are always gonna give each other trouble.

0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:56.719
<v Speaker 2>Indeed in a way, so they haven't. Really, it's gonna

0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:58.799
<v Speaker 2>be another decision. You thought that was a win for

0:36:59.040 --> 0:36:59.760
<v Speaker 2>women's boxing.

0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:01.160
<v Speaker 1>Did you you think? Yeah?

0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:04.279
<v Speaker 2>The Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight was a win for

0:37:04.320 --> 0:37:05.279
<v Speaker 2>boxing for men.

0:37:08.480 --> 0:37:13.120
<v Speaker 7>Asking the question, you know, Listen, I'm glad Mike Tyson

0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:14.160
<v Speaker 7>did whatever he wanted to do.

0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:16.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm glad he went in there. I'm glad he fought.

0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:18.560
<v Speaker 7>I'm glad I got to see him walk to the

0:37:18.640 --> 0:37:21.160
<v Speaker 7>ring with my own eyes and see him inside the ring.

0:37:21.200 --> 0:37:22.920
<v Speaker 7>And boxing was to dream of mind, you know, to

0:37:23.080 --> 0:37:25.839
<v Speaker 7>just see that. Of course I would love to see

0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.759
<v Speaker 7>him knock Jake Paul out, absolutely, but I.

0:37:28.719 --> 0:37:31.399
<v Speaker 4>Know you two have history. Yes, yeah, but it's just like, what.

0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:35.480
<v Speaker 7>Did it do for boxing? And didn't do anything? But

0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:38.719
<v Speaker 7>I'm happy for Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. I just

0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:43.040
<v Speaker 7>I just didn't it didn't do anything for boxing. I mean,

0:37:43.080 --> 0:37:46.040
<v Speaker 7>you want to say, all we got viewership, but it's Netflix.

0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:49.160
<v Speaker 7>Who doesn't have Netflix. It's eight ninety nine a month.

0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:52.680
<v Speaker 7>Everybody watched Netflix and it didn't charge nobody to watch it, So.

0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:55.960
<v Speaker 1>Ingrass to them. Man, it's beautiful.

0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:00.680
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, there's a larger question to be asked there

0:38:00.719 --> 0:38:02.640
<v Speaker 2>about the sport. But before I ask you that one,

0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:05.239
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right

0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:08.840
<v Speaker 2>back with more from the quote the greatest woman of

0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:23.200
<v Speaker 2>all time back in a moment. A lot of I

0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:25.480
<v Speaker 2>asked you that about the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight

0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:30.080
<v Speaker 2>because there's mixed opinions along boxing fans. Some people think

0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:32.719
<v Speaker 2>that it's great for the sport they look at the viewership,

0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:37.440
<v Speaker 2>but a lot of boxing purists, they are a little

0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:40.920
<v Speaker 2>disheartened that this is the kind of fight that has

0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:46.160
<v Speaker 2>now become considered a premier fight. So do you still

0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:50.080
<v Speaker 2>think that boxing men's boxing? Would you consider it in

0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:52.359
<v Speaker 2>a healthy place if this is the kind of fight

0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:55.920
<v Speaker 2>that becomes considered a marquee event.

0:38:57.239 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 7>Jake Paul is great at marketing, great at building his brand,

0:39:01.800 --> 0:39:04.520
<v Speaker 7>and that's something that you know, I give him credit

0:39:04.600 --> 0:39:08.000
<v Speaker 7>for me saying that he came from YouTube and just

0:39:08.040 --> 0:39:10.920
<v Speaker 7>came to boxing and started making millions off the bat

0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:13.919
<v Speaker 7>and I gotta work this hard and I got real

0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:17.359
<v Speaker 7>accomplishments that let me know that I need to build

0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:19.560
<v Speaker 7>my brand. So I do, you know, give credit to

0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:22.440
<v Speaker 7>Jake Paul for that. Build my brand on YouTube, build

0:39:22.440 --> 0:39:27.040
<v Speaker 7>my brand on Instagram, beild my brand on Facebook, everywhere.

0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:27.680
<v Speaker 1>Just build my.

0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:31.799
<v Speaker 7>Brand because your brand will last you longer once you're

0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:34.120
<v Speaker 7>done with the sport anyway, And if you don't have

0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:38.440
<v Speaker 7>a brand, it's like everything you did kind of disappears anyway,

0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:41.400
<v Speaker 7>because there's always a new up and coming fighter or

0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:45.920
<v Speaker 7>up and coming champion, you know, and people. So I

0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:48.560
<v Speaker 7>think that's where he's winning at, you know, and I

0:39:48.560 --> 0:39:51.279
<v Speaker 7>think everybody keep looking at because boxing is such a

0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:54.719
<v Speaker 7>real sport. It's a real fight in there, and they're

0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:57.759
<v Speaker 7>trying to say that his fights aren't real. I mean,

0:39:57.840 --> 0:39:59.919
<v Speaker 7>Jake Paul has a loss on his record. He lost

0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:02.520
<v Speaker 7>Tommy Fiery, So he had a real boxing match. That's

0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:04.279
<v Speaker 7>the real, the real one I thought that he had

0:40:05.040 --> 0:40:08.560
<v Speaker 7>and he lost. But you don't hear him talking about that.

0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:10.359
<v Speaker 7>They just try to, Oh, we thought he won't but

0:40:10.360 --> 0:40:14.240
<v Speaker 7>but he lost and he's trying to become a better boxer.

0:40:14.239 --> 0:40:17.280
<v Speaker 1>But boxing is such a real sport.

0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:22.600
<v Speaker 7>I think that these guys are overlooking that they're overlooking

0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:24.920
<v Speaker 7>that you have to build your brand outside the ring.

0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:27.560
<v Speaker 7>It's not just about fighting anymore. We're not in that.

0:40:28.440 --> 0:40:32.000
<v Speaker 7>We're not in that place an era of where social

0:40:32.040 --> 0:40:35.279
<v Speaker 7>media don't matter like we are. I grew up in

0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:38.560
<v Speaker 7>a social media era where it's like you use this

0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:41.840
<v Speaker 7>up to your benefit. People still kind of oh, we

0:40:41.920 --> 0:40:44.640
<v Speaker 7>don't really play the internet games, we don't do social media.

0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:48.000
<v Speaker 7>Oh you know, having viewership and people watching your social

0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:51.040
<v Speaker 7>media followers don't mean nothing. And I'm sorry to tell you,

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:53.920
<v Speaker 7>but it does mean something. How you looked at on

0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:56.839
<v Speaker 7>social media, who follows you, how many followers you got,

0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:59.920
<v Speaker 7>it matters, sadly, no matter how great you are mad,

0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:04.319
<v Speaker 7>So that's what is winning for him.

0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:06.960
<v Speaker 1>Now, men's boxing, where is it at?

0:41:07.080 --> 0:41:10.600
<v Speaker 7>They need to understand that you guys are getting paid millions,

0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:12.200
<v Speaker 7>but people don't know you.

0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:15.320
<v Speaker 1>Guys name that.

0:41:15.600 --> 0:41:18.080
<v Speaker 7>They don't know what you do, what you stand for,

0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:20.480
<v Speaker 7>what your life is about, who you are.

0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:21.560
<v Speaker 1>They don't know.

0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:25.520
<v Speaker 7>So once you're done boxing and all those ten million,

0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:28.600
<v Speaker 7>five million, two million payday stop coming in and even

0:41:28.640 --> 0:41:31.640
<v Speaker 7>spend all your money. That's why you don't see a

0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:34.839
<v Speaker 7>lot of boxes with endorsements and sponsorships because they don't

0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:37.120
<v Speaker 7>build the brands. I'm going to be one of the

0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:39.760
<v Speaker 7>first boxes that you see that have deals and stuff

0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:43.040
<v Speaker 7>like Sarrenda Williams go, It's going to happen because I'm

0:41:43.080 --> 0:41:46.160
<v Speaker 7>putting in the work and I'm building my brain.

0:41:46.719 --> 0:41:47.880
<v Speaker 1>Is that in a way.

0:41:49.760 --> 0:41:52.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to say, because you mentioned like you know, hey,

0:41:52.840 --> 0:41:56.279
<v Speaker 2>this is just kind of what it is, but you're it.

0:41:56.320 --> 0:42:01.160
<v Speaker 2>Does it sometimes frustrate you that your accomplishments in some

0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.280
<v Speaker 2>circles or in some regards when we talk about marketing

0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:06.239
<v Speaker 2>and getting the deals and all that isn't enough. You know,

0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:08.480
<v Speaker 2>like you talked about how you have to market yourself,

0:42:08.520 --> 0:42:11.400
<v Speaker 2>promote yourself, build your brand, Like that sounds like a

0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:13.000
<v Speaker 2>lot of work, you know what I mean.

0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:14.120
<v Speaker 1>It absolutely is.

0:42:14.200 --> 0:42:16.160
<v Speaker 7>And I have a great team who I work with now,

0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:19.800
<v Speaker 7>you know, PR team, styling team, a hair makeup. I

0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:24.000
<v Speaker 7>have a great team that I work with now. But

0:42:25.239 --> 0:42:29.040
<v Speaker 7>I just said that to say, yeah, it's frustrating, but

0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:30.200
<v Speaker 7>it's also it's the part.

0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:33.120
<v Speaker 1>It's a part of it. You know. Serena Williams.

0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:35.360
<v Speaker 7>When I look at her, you know, she played with

0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:38.200
<v Speaker 7>the beads for a long time, she represented for the culture.

0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.720
<v Speaker 7>But then you know, people start saying like, oh, she's

0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:45.879
<v Speaker 7>she's strong, she's built like a man, and you never

0:42:45.960 --> 0:42:50.919
<v Speaker 7>really seen her respond. You always just seen her kind

0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:55.480
<v Speaker 7>of put her time into her work. And when she

0:42:55.520 --> 0:42:57.879
<v Speaker 7>put her time into her work, that's when you've see

0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:00.680
<v Speaker 7>that all these endorsements and sponsors and everything like she

0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:03.359
<v Speaker 7>didn't pay that stuff no mind. I think the more

0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:05.239
<v Speaker 7>you focus on yourself and your career and what you

0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:07.080
<v Speaker 7>want to do and you keep the outside of the

0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.719
<v Speaker 7>noise out, that's when you start to really elevate.

0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:11.640
<v Speaker 1>And that's what I'm doing right now, is it?

0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:14.400
<v Speaker 4>You know, as you have won more and more and

0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:14.960
<v Speaker 4>more and.

0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:16.880
<v Speaker 1>Sitting at the top of the sport.

0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:19.840
<v Speaker 2>How do you handle that pressure because people are looking

0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:22.520
<v Speaker 2>for you to lose. You know, you have some challenger

0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:24.439
<v Speaker 2>you don't even know right now is at home thinking

0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:25.960
<v Speaker 2>about like trying to knock you out.

0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:26.959
<v Speaker 1>So how do you.

0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:30.640
<v Speaker 4>Handle dealing with like you're carrying a sport?

0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:36.239
<v Speaker 7>I train that's it when you self made, you know

0:43:36.280 --> 0:43:37.560
<v Speaker 7>what I'm saying, and you get to where you got

0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:39.600
<v Speaker 7>to because of you being you, you doing you how

0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:41.640
<v Speaker 7>you do you, and you know how you got to

0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:45.680
<v Speaker 7>where you are, no handouts, nobody giving you nothing. It's

0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:48.360
<v Speaker 7>like I know how stat the top, I know what

0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:50.880
<v Speaker 7>to do, I know what matters. So it's like people,

0:43:51.320 --> 0:43:55.080
<v Speaker 7>of course, everybody always want the winners to lose. People

0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:58.800
<v Speaker 7>love controversy like they love drama. They love a comeback story.

0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:02.720
<v Speaker 1>But for me, it's like I just believe in winning.

0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:05.320
<v Speaker 1>And how do you win? You train, you have discipline,

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.080
<v Speaker 1>you focus, and you just you just do it. So

0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:12.439
<v Speaker 1>I don't really hate come with the game.

0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:14.839
<v Speaker 7>You know, And I've always known as a young girl,

0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:17.239
<v Speaker 7>and my coaches tell me all the time women have

0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:19.960
<v Speaker 7>to work ten times harder than me. He always told

0:44:19.960 --> 0:44:22.280
<v Speaker 7>me that. So now that I'm a fifteen time world champion.

0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:25.160
<v Speaker 7>I'm like, yeah, no, I'm gonna start getting some endorsement, sponsorsitions, SOUF.

0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:28.480
<v Speaker 1>All right, cool for you?

0:44:30.040 --> 0:44:31.879
<v Speaker 4>What motivates you now to keep going?

0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:35.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you're it's hard to believe your twenty nins,

0:44:35.560 --> 0:44:38.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, because it feels like you've been on the

0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:41.000
<v Speaker 2>scene for so long. But what what would you say

0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:42.640
<v Speaker 2>is your motivation now?

0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:45.879
<v Speaker 7>My motivation for me is that I haven't gotten through

0:44:46.160 --> 0:44:49.160
<v Speaker 7>where I want to get to yet. And it's not

0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:51.759
<v Speaker 7>I mean, in boxing, I can retire right now. I'm

0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:55.160
<v Speaker 7>going down the Hall of Fame, you know, but and

0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:57.680
<v Speaker 7>be regarded as one of the greatest women boxers to

0:44:57.719 --> 0:45:01.000
<v Speaker 7>ever live. I get that, But it's like I want

0:45:01.200 --> 0:45:02.640
<v Speaker 7>I still girls, I want to fight.

0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:04.400
<v Speaker 1>I got records, I want to break.

0:45:04.480 --> 0:45:08.759
<v Speaker 7>I got a vision of myself that's so big, and

0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:11.480
<v Speaker 7>it's like, that's what motivates me. It's like, I have

0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:14.799
<v Speaker 7>to get there to feel that satisfaction for me, not

0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:15.520
<v Speaker 7>nobody else.

0:45:16.239 --> 0:45:17.480
<v Speaker 1>For me. I got to get there.

0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Have you thought about or how much have you thought

0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:21.040
<v Speaker 2>about how much longer you want to do this?

0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:22.640
<v Speaker 1>Because boxing is you.

0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:27.319
<v Speaker 2>Know, it's one of those sports that it has a

0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:29.520
<v Speaker 2>certain shelf life because of the physicality. So how much

0:45:29.560 --> 0:45:32.440
<v Speaker 2>longer do you or how much thought have you given

0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:34.000
<v Speaker 2>to how long you want your career to be.

0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:37.400
<v Speaker 7>I've been boxing eighteen years now, you know, and I

0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:39.560
<v Speaker 7>think I'm going to retire when I'm boxing at twenty six,

0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:44.520
<v Speaker 7>so I have eight more years in boxing. So those

0:45:44.560 --> 0:45:47.439
<v Speaker 7>who thought they wanted me to go on ahead eight years

0:45:47.440 --> 0:45:48.520
<v Speaker 7>thirty eight, I'm going to retire.

0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:51.640
<v Speaker 1>Really And why did that number? Why?

0:45:53.800 --> 0:45:55.960
<v Speaker 7>I don't know, because I think if I don't retire

0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:58.520
<v Speaker 7>at thirty eight, I'm going to be boxing on fifty.

0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:01.279
<v Speaker 7>So it's just like, but you know what the also too,

0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:04.920
<v Speaker 7>I'm saying thirty eight. But if I'm still in great

0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:08.880
<v Speaker 7>shape and I can whoop these girls at forty and fifty,

0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:09.640
<v Speaker 7>you would do it?

0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:09.799
<v Speaker 5>What?

0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:13.560
<v Speaker 1>Why not? But Hopkins did it? You know?

0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:15.680
<v Speaker 7>So he was boxing at fifty. I think he was

0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:20.200
<v Speaker 7>boxing at fifty. So for me, I'm just like, but

0:46:20.239 --> 0:46:22.359
<v Speaker 7>that's the age, you know. I feel like twenty six

0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:26.600
<v Speaker 7>years boxing, I think I'll be Okay, I've done enough fighting.

0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:31.080
<v Speaker 7>I don't have you know what, I'm going to retire

0:46:31.239 --> 0:46:33.879
<v Speaker 7>when when that bone in me when it like comes

0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:36.920
<v Speaker 7>to a fight, when like the fire don't light up

0:46:37.600 --> 0:46:39.960
<v Speaker 7>that's when I retire. And I'm thinking that age to

0:46:40.000 --> 0:46:42.279
<v Speaker 7>be thirty eight. It's not gonna be before then. But

0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:46.680
<v Speaker 7>it's like, if somebody challenges me, and I don't get like, oh.

0:46:46.600 --> 0:46:48.000
<v Speaker 1>You're challenging me. You think you can beat me, You

0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:48.600
<v Speaker 1>want to fight.

0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:50.759
<v Speaker 7>Me, and and I don't get that hunger to go

0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:53.280
<v Speaker 7>train and work and then I'll retire.

0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:56.680
<v Speaker 1>But till then, I'm just gonna keep beating these girls up.

0:46:57.800 --> 0:47:00.640
<v Speaker 1>Dare I say, I guess if the fire inside it's

0:47:00.719 --> 0:47:04.520
<v Speaker 1>not that the fire inside is not there, then on

0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:08.239
<v Speaker 1>fire side, yeah, then you're like, I won't box now?

0:47:08.239 --> 0:47:10.600
<v Speaker 2>Do you you're the first woman in boxing to get

0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:15.440
<v Speaker 2>a seven figure pay for a fight. When you think

0:47:15.440 --> 0:47:18.680
<v Speaker 2>about your legacy, do you think what you have? You know,

0:47:18.760 --> 0:47:22.160
<v Speaker 2>individually you've been able to accomplish all these things financially

0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:26.200
<v Speaker 2>in the sport, But do you think the success, the

0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:30.080
<v Speaker 2>financial success that you've established that women's boxers can have,

0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:33.120
<v Speaker 2>you think that's sustainable? Like, do you think that if

0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:36.759
<v Speaker 2>there's another woman that comes along who you know is

0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:38.799
<v Speaker 2>able to accomplish some of the same things that you did,

0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:41.399
<v Speaker 2>that she's going to get a payday that is as

0:47:41.440 --> 0:47:43.040
<v Speaker 2>big or bigger than yours. You know what I mean

0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:45.840
<v Speaker 2>that you've laid the foundation. Yes, I am creating a

0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:46.799
<v Speaker 2>full blueprint.

0:47:47.680 --> 0:47:49.680
<v Speaker 7>I'm a promoter, so I got t Rex promotion, so

0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:52.000
<v Speaker 7>I actually promote a woman fighter, and I'm giving her

0:47:52.040 --> 0:47:54.520
<v Speaker 7>audi jewels and stuff that I know so she can.

0:47:54.440 --> 0:47:55.960
<v Speaker 1>Get her big paydays too.

0:47:56.560 --> 0:47:59.080
<v Speaker 7>It's a blueprint now on how you make a million

0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:02.239
<v Speaker 7>dollars even if you don't have the gold medals. And

0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:05.400
<v Speaker 7>that's shown with Katie Hiller and Amni Torano. You know

0:48:05.480 --> 0:48:08.720
<v Speaker 7>that they made a million and I've made a million,

0:48:08.800 --> 0:48:10.319
<v Speaker 7>And I'm trying to think, is there any other woman

0:48:10.320 --> 0:48:11.160
<v Speaker 7>that made a million in box?

0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:14.080
<v Speaker 1>I think it's just us for right now. But I

0:48:14.120 --> 0:48:18.000
<v Speaker 1>am letting them know. It is a blueprint, and I

0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:22.279
<v Speaker 1>always the biggest blueprint is built your brand. In terms

0:48:22.320 --> 0:48:22.960
<v Speaker 1>of pay equity.

0:48:23.040 --> 0:48:27.080
<v Speaker 2>Another thing that you fought for is when it came

0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:32.360
<v Speaker 2>to the Olympics. You know, for a female boxer to

0:48:32.400 --> 0:48:35.399
<v Speaker 2>get paid the same as they do for mailboxes when

0:48:35.400 --> 0:48:37.759
<v Speaker 2>they're training and everything for the Olympics. And I looked

0:48:37.800 --> 0:48:39.680
<v Speaker 2>it up and I saw that I think it was

0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:42.799
<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty two, Congress actually passed a law that

0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:49.480
<v Speaker 2>said that American athletes who are representing Team USA in

0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:52.719
<v Speaker 2>international competitions, you have to pay them the same, regardless

0:48:52.760 --> 0:48:55.600
<v Speaker 2>of gender. And it feels like that was a fight

0:48:56.160 --> 0:48:59.680
<v Speaker 2>that you fought and you won. So when you think

0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:03.720
<v Speaker 2>about out the legacy that you have left as someone

0:49:03.760 --> 0:49:07.359
<v Speaker 2>who fought those kind of battles, you know, how does

0:49:07.360 --> 0:49:09.560
<v Speaker 2>that make you feel about your purpose?

0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:12.000
<v Speaker 7>You know, I alway wanted to stand for something bigger

0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:16.000
<v Speaker 7>than myself. And that's why, you know, I told Tim Usa, listen,

0:49:16.120 --> 0:49:17.799
<v Speaker 7>if you guys don't pay us like you paid the men,

0:49:17.960 --> 0:49:20.040
<v Speaker 7>I won't even go back to the twenty sixteen Olympics

0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:23.760
<v Speaker 7>and I'm the reigning Olympic champion, and they're like, okay,

0:49:24.520 --> 0:49:26.920
<v Speaker 7>you got it. And the women were getting paid the

0:49:26.920 --> 0:49:29.080
<v Speaker 7>same as the men. You know, I was getting paid

0:49:29.120 --> 0:49:31.280
<v Speaker 7>five thousand a month actually leading up to the Olympics.

0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:32.560
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't three. It's say three in the.

0:49:32.480 --> 0:49:35.000
<v Speaker 7>Movie, but it was actually five because I was returning

0:49:35.480 --> 0:49:37.880
<v Speaker 7>Olympic go milest So I was getting paid more than

0:49:37.880 --> 0:49:44.200
<v Speaker 7>the men actually, But I think that that's where the

0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:46.120
<v Speaker 7>fight started at. But I didn't know that things were

0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:48.760
<v Speaker 7>so unequal like that because all I did was focus

0:49:48.840 --> 0:49:51.160
<v Speaker 7>on boxing. You know, it wasn't until I had conversation

0:49:51.200 --> 0:49:52.680
<v Speaker 7>with the men, like how much y'all get paid them on?

0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:55.680
<v Speaker 7>You know, people don't have this conversations because they say, oh,

0:49:55.719 --> 0:49:58.839
<v Speaker 7>you know, some people can't talk. They contracts and checks

0:49:58.920 --> 0:50:01.359
<v Speaker 7>or whatever the case may be. But I was just like,

0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:03.320
<v Speaker 7>you know, I was curious how much how much I

0:50:03.400 --> 0:50:06.239
<v Speaker 7>make a month? And they'd tell me. I'm like, really, hum,

0:50:07.520 --> 0:50:12.239
<v Speaker 7>that's interesting. And I mean, I just didn't grow up

0:50:12.280 --> 0:50:14.480
<v Speaker 7>around that type of stuff. Like when I was at

0:50:14.520 --> 0:50:16.680
<v Speaker 7>the gym with all the guys. Coach didn't make me

0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:18.959
<v Speaker 7>run less, I didn't punch the bag less, I didn't

0:50:18.960 --> 0:50:21.440
<v Speaker 7>spar less, I did everything like the guy. So I

0:50:21.480 --> 0:50:25.239
<v Speaker 7>didn't think that these differences between men and women even

0:50:25.280 --> 0:50:27.919
<v Speaker 7>existed until I got a little older. I'm like, oh,

0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:32.640
<v Speaker 7>this is what these girls were talking about. Oh okay,

0:50:33.560 --> 0:50:36.239
<v Speaker 7>So now that I know about it, I joined the

0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:40.080
<v Speaker 7>fight for it now. When I turned pro my first

0:50:40.160 --> 0:50:43.640
<v Speaker 7>you know, I reached out to uh, Laila Ali and

0:50:44.040 --> 0:50:44.759
<v Speaker 7>a Wolf and.

0:50:44.719 --> 0:50:47.360
<v Speaker 1>I asked and Wolf how much was her highest payday

0:50:47.400 --> 0:50:47.880
<v Speaker 1>in boxing?

0:50:48.200 --> 0:50:51.480
<v Speaker 7>Told me fifty K. I said, but you're a real champ,

0:50:51.480 --> 0:50:54.400
<v Speaker 7>you only fifty fifty K? I asked that Laila alien.

0:50:55.320 --> 0:50:57.640
<v Speaker 7>This is word the word this is on my grandmother.

0:50:57.840 --> 0:50:58.040
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:50:58.120 --> 0:51:00.239
<v Speaker 7>I asked her how much would how much did you

0:51:00.280 --> 0:51:02.719
<v Speaker 7>get paid for your highest payday? She told me six

0:51:02.840 --> 0:51:07.120
<v Speaker 7>hundred thousand, and I said, in my mind, I said, okay,

0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:09.280
<v Speaker 7>so it's possible. In my mind, I said, it's possible

0:51:09.320 --> 0:51:12.080
<v Speaker 7>for me to make a high of six hundred K.

0:51:12.160 --> 0:51:13.400
<v Speaker 1>That's what I thought to myself.

0:51:14.000 --> 0:51:17.840
<v Speaker 7>So to be able to make a million, I was like, wow,

0:51:18.239 --> 0:51:21.200
<v Speaker 7>you know, how did we get here? But that's how

0:51:21.239 --> 0:51:24.279
<v Speaker 7>I know that when women's boxing had changed. But my

0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:27.759
<v Speaker 7>first payday in boxing, my first professional fight, I got

0:51:27.800 --> 0:51:32.239
<v Speaker 7>paid fifty K. That's when I knew. I said, see,

0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:35.360
<v Speaker 7>times is changing, stuff is changing. And I didn't know

0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:37.160
<v Speaker 7>how or where. I knew it had a lot to

0:51:37.160 --> 0:51:39.760
<v Speaker 7>do with me and my Olympic gold medals. But I said,

0:51:39.840 --> 0:51:41.640
<v Speaker 7>I got to keep building off of this. So every

0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:43.000
<v Speaker 7>time when I thought, I let him know, hey, I

0:51:43.000 --> 0:51:45.759
<v Speaker 7>got to go up twenty five thousand, fifty thousand on

0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:48.239
<v Speaker 7>a K. When I became undisputed, I told them to

0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:51.480
<v Speaker 7>double my check and they were like, oh, Curris, no

0:51:51.520 --> 0:51:54.200
<v Speaker 7>woman's ever made three hundred and fifty k in boxing.

0:51:54.400 --> 0:51:56.320
<v Speaker 7>When I said, you won't be seeing me in the

0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:58.600
<v Speaker 7>ring unless you pay me it. I'm undisputed now.

0:51:59.080 --> 0:52:00.279
<v Speaker 1>And it was a fight.

0:52:00.320 --> 0:52:01.799
<v Speaker 7>You guys all thought I was gonna lose, and you

0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:03.560
<v Speaker 7>put me in here with this girl that was twenty one,

0:52:03.960 --> 0:52:06.400
<v Speaker 7>you know, with ten knockouts and I had seven fights.

0:52:06.680 --> 0:52:07.000
<v Speaker 1>Mhm.

0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:10.239
<v Speaker 7>Y'all paid me one hundred and fifty for the fight,

0:52:10.400 --> 0:52:12.120
<v Speaker 7>or I think it was one seventy five. I said,

0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:14.880
<v Speaker 7>my next fight better be three fifty or I'm not fighting.

0:52:15.960 --> 0:52:18.239
<v Speaker 7>To my promoter that I told show Time that and

0:52:18.280 --> 0:52:20.600
<v Speaker 7>they were like, Claris said, nobody, No woman's made that

0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:21.160
<v Speaker 7>kind of money.

0:52:21.160 --> 0:52:24.879
<v Speaker 1>I said, m hmm okay. And I sat at home

0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:27.520
<v Speaker 1>for about a month and I was like, no phone

0:52:27.520 --> 0:52:29.799
<v Speaker 1>call Yoka, all right, cool? Cool now.

0:52:29.800 --> 0:52:31.560
<v Speaker 7>I always not my promoter car and said, hey Chris,

0:52:31.719 --> 0:52:33.759
<v Speaker 7>we got it. Since you got what we got you

0:52:33.800 --> 0:52:37.439
<v Speaker 7>three fifty, okay, what's the day when we're when we're

0:52:37.440 --> 0:52:39.319
<v Speaker 7>fighting and its been a champions back.

0:52:40.560 --> 0:52:43.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, You've been able to win in so many different

0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:46.280
<v Speaker 2>weight classes and h to prefer our interview.

0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:48.319
<v Speaker 4>I was reading this one story that I think they

0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:48.719
<v Speaker 4>called it.

0:52:48.800 --> 0:52:51.960
<v Speaker 2>They called your new class the Clarissa Wait, because it's

0:52:52.000 --> 0:52:55.279
<v Speaker 2>like you established I can fight at whatever whatever I need.

0:52:55.360 --> 0:52:56.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, however I need to fight out.

0:52:56.719 --> 0:52:59.879
<v Speaker 4>Hey, do you have a weight you prefer to fight at?

0:53:00.239 --> 0:53:05.080
<v Speaker 7>One sixty eight? One sixty? That's I feel the best

0:53:05.120 --> 0:53:08.040
<v Speaker 7>at one sixty eight. I feel good at one sixty.

0:53:08.560 --> 0:53:10.680
<v Speaker 7>I mean I feel deprived at one fifty four. But

0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:12.560
<v Speaker 7>I went down there and I fought and I beat

0:53:12.840 --> 0:53:13.799
<v Speaker 7>beat all the girls there.

0:53:14.719 --> 0:53:16.759
<v Speaker 1>But sixty and sixty eights where I'm comfortable at.

0:53:16.960 --> 0:53:21.279
<v Speaker 7>I mean, seventy five seventy five plus for heavyweight is

0:53:21.320 --> 0:53:26.480
<v Speaker 7>cool too, But I just I find a way to

0:53:26.480 --> 0:53:28.520
<v Speaker 7>be comfortable at whatever weight class that I'm at. You know,

0:53:28.600 --> 0:53:30.759
<v Speaker 7>I do the diet and right, I be strategic. I

0:53:30.760 --> 0:53:33.320
<v Speaker 7>have a great nutritionist team try out to perfect the athletes.

0:53:33.400 --> 0:53:39.600
<v Speaker 7>Like so, I think I feel good everywhere, but sixty

0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:42.600
<v Speaker 7>eight is like naturally where I'm like, Okay, that's where I.

0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:45.719
<v Speaker 2>Now that you've gotten a little taste of Hollywood. I

0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:48.680
<v Speaker 2>mean you see that you know boxers, and I know

0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:53.440
<v Speaker 2>you've flirted with uh with MMA before. A lot of

0:53:53.480 --> 0:53:57.279
<v Speaker 2>athletes in your position make that turn into acting, make

0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.560
<v Speaker 2>that turn into doing entertainment.

0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:02.320
<v Speaker 1>Is that something that you've considered?

0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:06.480
<v Speaker 7>Now you know I've done some acting, Okay, so I

0:54:06.520 --> 0:54:08.200
<v Speaker 7>don't believe in like, oh, you should wait to retire

0:54:08.200 --> 0:54:10.560
<v Speaker 7>to do the acting. So I've done some acting now

0:54:11.160 --> 0:54:14.439
<v Speaker 7>and I actually I actually have a movie role coming

0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:16.600
<v Speaker 7>up that I have to get ready for. I'm planning

0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:20.320
<v Speaker 7>a cop in a movie. So yeah, hopefully we you

0:54:20.360 --> 0:54:22.120
<v Speaker 7>know that that's on a big platform. You guys be

0:54:22.120 --> 0:54:23.840
<v Speaker 7>able to see it. If you don't sit on the platform,

0:54:23.840 --> 0:54:25.839
<v Speaker 7>you sit on my page for sure. So I'm playing

0:54:25.880 --> 0:54:31.239
<v Speaker 7>a cop. Okay, it's other movie opportunities, but right now,

0:54:31.280 --> 0:54:34.560
<v Speaker 7>I just I've been so busy promoting a movie and

0:54:34.880 --> 0:54:37.919
<v Speaker 7>now I just start promoting my next fight, and that's

0:54:37.920 --> 0:54:39.759
<v Speaker 7>what I've been focused on. But I am I do

0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:42.520
<v Speaker 7>want to be an actress. That's what I want to do,

0:54:42.719 --> 0:54:44.440
<v Speaker 7>and I'm not gonna wait to after I'm done boxing

0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:45.880
<v Speaker 7>to do it. I feel like I can still do

0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:51.520
<v Speaker 7>some stuff now. And I want to be more motivational speaker.

0:54:52.719 --> 0:54:56.120
<v Speaker 7>I want to model. You know, it's so many things

0:54:56.120 --> 0:54:57.759
<v Speaker 7>that I want to do that I feel like I

0:54:57.840 --> 0:55:01.000
<v Speaker 7>can do. I just have to find a time to

0:55:01.000 --> 0:55:03.320
<v Speaker 7>do it. But I definitely believe that.

0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:07.480
<v Speaker 2>One of my favorite stories involving you is and you

0:55:07.480 --> 0:55:13.040
<v Speaker 2>put this on your Instagram page it's when old girl, Uh,

0:55:13.080 --> 0:55:16.200
<v Speaker 2>when the woman showed up at the gym. Oh god, like, listen,

0:55:16.800 --> 0:55:19.880
<v Speaker 2>this this is where I am. If you want to smoke,

0:55:20.120 --> 0:55:27.080
<v Speaker 2>come up here. And this this was somebody I guess

0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:29.279
<v Speaker 2>you sort of mentored a little bit right like that.

0:55:29.360 --> 0:55:32.160
<v Speaker 2>It reached out to you and said, hey, you know

0:55:32.239 --> 0:55:33.880
<v Speaker 2>what I want to I want to be you. I

0:55:33.880 --> 0:55:36.239
<v Speaker 2>want to be a fighter for real in this game.

0:55:36.280 --> 0:55:39.319
<v Speaker 2>And you, you know, offered to be mentor them. But

0:55:39.360 --> 0:55:43.080
<v Speaker 2>then things were left and somehow they thought that they

0:55:43.080 --> 0:55:45.719
<v Speaker 2>could talk slick to you, and you let her know

0:55:46.160 --> 0:55:48.359
<v Speaker 2>what she could show up, and when she showed up,

0:55:48.640 --> 0:55:52.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking she didn't realize that was probably the wrong decision.

0:55:53.160 --> 0:55:54.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, what.

0:55:57.960 --> 0:56:01.200
<v Speaker 2>Selfishly seeing how people how slick people talk on social

0:56:01.239 --> 0:56:04.239
<v Speaker 2>media for those of us, you know, I mean, I

0:56:04.840 --> 0:56:07.240
<v Speaker 2>ain't got hands like that, but there are so many

0:56:07.280 --> 0:56:09.799
<v Speaker 2>times that I wish I could put my hands on

0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:13.080
<v Speaker 2>some of these people who talk slick across social media.

0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:18.480
<v Speaker 1>So what't you tell people? Oh girl? You know, Mike

0:56:18.520 --> 0:56:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Tyson said it best.

0:56:20.080 --> 0:56:23.120
<v Speaker 7>Social media has made people like comfortable that they can

0:56:23.120 --> 0:56:25.000
<v Speaker 7>say whatever they want without getting hitting the mouth for it.

0:56:25.040 --> 0:56:28.239
<v Speaker 2>Correct, and they never had their ass whipping and they

0:56:28.239 --> 0:56:30.560
<v Speaker 2>talked like it and they need it, Yeah, they.

0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:31.160
<v Speaker 1>Do, you know.

0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:36.160
<v Speaker 7>And I would say with that, I didn't tell her

0:56:36.160 --> 0:56:38.000
<v Speaker 7>to come to the gym. I didn't invite her to

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<v Speaker 7>come to the gym. I had my hundred thousand dollar

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<v Speaker 7>challenge going on, Like if any girl she want to

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<v Speaker 7>come to the gym.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, I was like, I thought it was part of something.

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<v Speaker 7>But she never reached out and said she wanted to

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<v Speaker 7>do a challenge. I just showed up to the gym

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<v Speaker 7>to spar against these two grown men, professional fighters, to

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<v Speaker 7>get ready for my championship fight July twenty seventh that

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<v Speaker 7>I had.

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<v Speaker 1>And she trolled me so much. I got over a

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<v Speaker 1>million followers.

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<v Speaker 7>But she told me so much that it was like

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<v Speaker 7>I know this girl, like I know this girl face, now,

0:57:07.880 --> 0:57:09.799
<v Speaker 7>I know her voice now, like he trold.

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<v Speaker 1>Me so much. So as I'm walking into the gym

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<v Speaker 1>to start getting ready to spark against these men, I

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<v Speaker 1>see her. So she just showed up an announced.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, you like, hey, if you got all that smoke, nah,

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<v Speaker 2>this is where I'm gonna be.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah.

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<v Speaker 7>So I'm showing up to do what I do, and

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<v Speaker 7>that's prepared for my World championship fight. That I have

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<v Speaker 7>coming up in Detroit at Little Caesars in front nineteen

0:57:32.320 --> 0:57:35.640
<v Speaker 7>thousand people. I gotta get ready and I walk in

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<v Speaker 7>the gym and my eyes I looked in the ring

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<v Speaker 7>because I like to know who around.

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<v Speaker 1>I looked in the ring. I said, oh, I know

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<v Speaker 1>this bitch, and then I said, Clarissa s yeah. All

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<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, I just I clicked out. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>gonna lie. I clicked out. I walked into the ring.

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<v Speaker 7>She like, yeah, Chris, I told you when I when

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<v Speaker 7>I see what was up, I said, what you here?

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<v Speaker 1>F why at my gym? Fo? She said?

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<v Speaker 7>She said, I'm here to get a couple of rounds

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<v Speaker 7>spar with you. I said, I'm about to fuck you up.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I told her. I said I'm gonna fuck you

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<v Speaker 1>up bad. And then she was.

0:58:17.600 --> 0:58:18.800
<v Speaker 7>And then I was like, I got, I got, I

0:58:18.800 --> 0:58:20.440
<v Speaker 7>got you for a run round. She was like, I

0:58:20.480 --> 0:58:23.120
<v Speaker 7>didn't call off work to come get one round and

0:58:23.120 --> 0:58:26.240
<v Speaker 7>said that's all. You're gonna last one round for you one.

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<v Speaker 7>Then she got the argument, we ain't going two rounds.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm about to leave, da da. I said, you think

0:58:31.000 --> 0:58:32.400
<v Speaker 7>you about to leave when you disrespect me?

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<v Speaker 1>And I tried to run up and here outside the ring.

0:58:34.160 --> 0:58:34.680
<v Speaker 1>I was so mad.

0:58:35.280 --> 0:58:37.480
<v Speaker 7>Then all of a sudden, my ex fiance grabbing me,

0:58:37.720 --> 0:58:40.240
<v Speaker 7>my homegirl bedy grabbing me, my best friend nanny grabbed me.

0:58:40.760 --> 0:58:43.560
<v Speaker 7>I'm like, y'all need to don't nobody touch me.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm, I'm I don't I done.

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<v Speaker 7>Click thout because it's something about I don't disrespect nobody.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't do that. Like I'm personally. If I dispect you,

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<v Speaker 7>I want you to dispect me back, like I won't

0:58:55.120 --> 0:58:57.280
<v Speaker 7>smoke if like, if I walk up to you, I'm

0:58:57.320 --> 0:59:01.400
<v Speaker 7>talking in trash. I expect you to talk trash back,

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<v Speaker 7>and if you want to get active, we get acted.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I expect. That's why I don't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't do that.

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<v Speaker 7>But it was like the fact that she tried to

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<v Speaker 7>make it seem like somebody scared of her. She did

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<v Speaker 7>shed add and what I'm listen, I don't duck, no smoke,

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<v Speaker 7>zero like I'm changing my brand of course, all that

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<v Speaker 7>good stuff, but do not play with me.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not one of them. Man. She got dressed. We

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<v Speaker 1>went in the ring.

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<v Speaker 7>I said, enough talking to you, because she got the

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<v Speaker 7>cursing and your boyfriend this and your boyfriend that and

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<v Speaker 7>I'm make you my beat.

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<v Speaker 1>D da da. She was talking crazy. I said, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that's how I am. I don't like all this shut up.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to fight. I don't put my hands on you.

0:59:45.440 --> 0:59:48.680
<v Speaker 1>That's me. That's why with the social media, i'd be

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<v Speaker 1>like kind of baked girls in like do you want

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<v Speaker 1>to fight? Or now you want to scrap? Like what's up?

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<v Speaker 7>So I don't do that. Do all that talking because

0:59:56.320 --> 0:59:59.680
<v Speaker 7>everybody can do it. Everybody can do the talking, but

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<v Speaker 7>can you really back up what you say? I'm a

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<v Speaker 7>backer upper. So she she got dressed, we got in

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<v Speaker 7>the ring, We had a we had a red fern there.

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<v Speaker 2>Said like I said, it's got anybody watching right now,

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<v Speaker 2>go see the video because it's on my YouTube, on

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<v Speaker 2>your YouTube, and I can tell when you hit that girl.

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<v Speaker 1>The first time, I was like, oh no, this is

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<v Speaker 1>going bad.

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<v Speaker 7>All trying to knock her out. And then the thing is,

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<v Speaker 7>I got so much class when it like when it

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<v Speaker 7>comes to boxing that when she start covering up, I

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<v Speaker 7>stop hitting her. I stopped hearing her. I said, man,

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<v Speaker 7>I've been ana kute this, I've been I've been Jills.

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<v Speaker 7>And then she oh her own her stomach, hold her head.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, look at it, stup bit. But you

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<v Speaker 1>know what, sometime jamill just hear me out. Just him.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you got to make an example a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 2>You are preaching to the choir, that let all the

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<v Speaker 2>girls who was considering trying to get the honey k

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<v Speaker 2>or who was considering trying to come to the gym

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<v Speaker 2>to respect me, that let them know, oh she not

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<v Speaker 2>she professional, but.

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<v Speaker 1>She she's from the streets. She gonna kick our ass.

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<v Speaker 1>We come down here.

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<v Speaker 4>Did anybody did anybody take you up on any k?

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<v Speaker 1>Come on? Now? I think the first one I have

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<v Speaker 1>to be the girl came off to the gym.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you gotta that one hundred K. Was like, if

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<v Speaker 2>they can beat you, if they can beat me, you god,

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<v Speaker 2>oh my god, it ain't just show up. Yeah, because

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<v Speaker 2>if that's the case, everybody, I was like, right now,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll let you fire on me, right I was after

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<v Speaker 2>that Timmy Hers episode. But I'll let you fire on

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<v Speaker 2>me right now. For as you just said, as we

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<v Speaker 2>wrap up here. So, uh, I ask every guest that

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<v Speaker 2>appears on politics here, uh what I call the messy question.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you mentioned you you don't dunckt the smoke, and

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<v Speaker 2>anybody who follows you on social media says that you don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Dust the smoke.

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<v Speaker 4>You get paid to fight.

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<v Speaker 2>So given the recent events, I am wondering, what would

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<v Speaker 2>it take? How much money would it take for you

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<v Speaker 2>to jump in the ring with bring me my.

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<v Speaker 1>Just what it out? I mean, at this point the

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<v Speaker 1>girl leaked my number, she leads your number, Oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>what your actual telephone number? Yeah? Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 7>So at this point you can give me a dollar

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<v Speaker 7>and I'll put my hands a dollar.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. Don't have nothing to do with whatever else.

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<v Speaker 7>It's just that part alone, that that part of that

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<v Speaker 7>part theories where it's like, I'm a businesswoman, don't leak

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<v Speaker 7>my number?

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<v Speaker 1>Why would you do that?

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<v Speaker 7>You know you should have came to me like Shirley,

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<v Speaker 7>Hello Barber.

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<v Speaker 4>Charlotte, and you're too young to know about.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess I got an own soul or whatever. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's about hello Barber. This is surely for real. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's more of the more thing like but she's not

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<v Speaker 1>no boxer. You know what I'm saying. If you know

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<v Speaker 1>she hain't no boxer, So I don't want to have

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<v Speaker 1>to put my hands on it do you?

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<v Speaker 2>I have to say, like I I was so surprised

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<v Speaker 2>when I saw you trending.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking, like, did she be somebody else?

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<v Speaker 2>Like I was like, oh my, were you surprised at

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<v Speaker 2>everything that happened? Like all of a sudden, you're trending

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<v Speaker 2>people trying to put your personal life out there. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>how did you basically handle it? I mean I saw

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<v Speaker 2>some of the comments that you made on social media,

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<v Speaker 2>but like I mean, for you, that had to be

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<v Speaker 2>a bit surprising because you're out there in the public.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, this is a much different way. Well

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<v Speaker 1>one I have decided that moving forward that I would

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<v Speaker 1>like my dat in life to be private.

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<v Speaker 7>You know what I'm saying. And there's plenty of reasons

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<v Speaker 7>why I don't really care about outside perception of of myself.

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<v Speaker 1>I just I don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>I say, I wasn't surprised when I when I seen it,

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<v Speaker 7>I said, oh my god. But it's one of those

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<v Speaker 7>things where it's like, don't people have to spend there?

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<v Speaker 7>It is and it's like we all know that this

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<v Speaker 7>woman had a boyfriend. We all know that, and this

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<v Speaker 7>situation is so weird because it's like we falls on

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<v Speaker 7>the phone all the time, so just like to see this.

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<v Speaker 7>It's just like okay, but I don't know, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>I thought it was I thought it was weird and

1:04:32.920 --> 1:04:37.640
<v Speaker 7>it's strange, but black. I mean, drama sells, that's it. Drama,

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<v Speaker 7>drama sales, and it's not.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't. I'm not in that beef.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, only my my smoke with her is is

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<v Speaker 7>posting my number. It don't got nothing to do with

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<v Speaker 7>I don't got nothing to do with him. It was

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<v Speaker 7>her posting my number. So people like, oh, she wants

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<v Speaker 7>to fight, fight her over a dude, whatever, stop it,

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<v Speaker 7>stop it. That is so beneath me. It is the

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<v Speaker 7>direspect of the leak in my number part and that's it.

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<v Speaker 7>Other than that, I don't got nothing else to do with.

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<v Speaker 7>None of the other stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the timing of it, I mean a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>people are going to see your movie anyway, the.

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<v Speaker 7>Fires Christmas Day, the Fire Inside comes out in theaters.

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<v Speaker 2>Now there's some other there might be another curious contingent

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<v Speaker 2>that comes to see to try to figure out, like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder what.

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<v Speaker 1>Her backstory is.

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<v Speaker 2>But for all those who are watching it, watching it,

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<v Speaker 2>listening like the movie really is good. I'm not just

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<v Speaker 2>blowing smoke up in your ass like it's a good movie.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a great movie.

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<v Speaker 2>One more segment to go, and you guys know what

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<v Speaker 2>that means. I got questions to answer up next, your

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<v Speaker 2>viewer slash listener questions, and I have plenty of answers

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<v Speaker 2>coming up next on the final segment of Spotatives. And

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<v Speaker 2>before I close out this episode of Politics, time for

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<v Speaker 2>this week's audience question, which comes from Frank Simmons out

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<v Speaker 2>of Cypress, Texas. Frank asked, have you followed this gymnastics

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<v Speaker 2>and if so, what's your opinion of the team. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>for those who may not be familiar, in twenty twenty three,

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<v Speaker 2>Fisk University became the first historically black college and university

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<v Speaker 2>to establish a gymnastics team. But to answer the question, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>I have followed this team because I heard about Morgan Price,

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<v Speaker 2>who earlier this year became the first athlete from an

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<v Speaker 2>HBCU team to win a national championship. Now coming out

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<v Speaker 2>of high school, Morgan was a five star level recruit

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<v Speaker 2>who initially committed to Arkansas, but then she did committed

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<v Speaker 2>to go to FIST because, according to her coach, Kauran

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<v Speaker 2>Tarvor Korean asked her flat out, do you want to

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<v Speaker 2>make history? And that's exactly what Morgan Price did. So

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<v Speaker 2>shout out to Fisk University for what they've accomplished. Also,

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<v Speaker 2>their season starts in January, so make sure you support

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<v Speaker 2>them and check them out. Morgan Price is special and

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<v Speaker 2>could be the next great one.

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