WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Teofimo Lopez Talks Upcoming Boxing Match With Shakur Stevenson, Addresses Racial Controversy + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.960 Hold every day up waiting, click up the Breakfast Club. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.520 You know I'm finish for y'all done morning. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.320 Everybody is DJ n V, Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.760 We are the Breakfast Club. Long the roses here as well, 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.120 our brother, I can say. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:16.160 So you know what that means. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.599 We got a box in the building, Ladies and gentlemen 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.439 from Brooklyn, New York. He's fighting on the thirty first 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:22.000 of January. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:22.360 He's fighting. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.680 You should call Stevenson too low pez welcome, Yes, how 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:27.440 you feeling. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.720 Brother, feeling great, feeling excited, and I'm just pumped for 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:31.200 this fight. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.840 It is a dream matchup, you know what I'm saying. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.040 It's a fight that boxing fans, you know, just these 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:37.280 are the fights we want to see. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:38.879 What made you want to fight your core? Right now? 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:39.720 How did y'all get it done? 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.199 I think it's just fate, you know, it just lined up. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.960 I think that you know, he's been talking a big, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.839 big game since the Williams of Pay the fight that 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.240 happened over here at the Armstrong Stadium. So I think 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.480 that there's nobody else at one thirty five that he's 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:56.560 trying to aim for. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.320 So he wants to come for the top dog and 0:00:58.360 --> 0:00:59.480 that's me at one forty. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.920 So it just lines up, you know, And I'm always 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.240 I'm always willing to fight the best, and I feel like. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:06.039 Why not. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.960 You know, people talk highly of Chakour as they should, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.240 and I'm just here. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:10.959 To do my part. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.400 And you know you mentioned the fight against the Peya. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.560 Were you surprised how Shakur Chakour has gotten criticized for 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.480 moving and being a boxer that isn't that aggressive, which 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.640 I mean, he's been successful at it. But on a 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.560 Septa fight he showed the word that he could fight 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.960 in the pocket like to pay that those are the 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.120 thousand punches of fight. Were you surprised that you expect 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.280 that Chicour can fight that type of fight as well. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.680 Man, I look at it, like, I know, we mentioned it, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.240 we talked about it. I'd say that it was. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.320 The people get to him. People get to Chokour going 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.120 quite easily. So I feel like whatever the people want 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.800 is what they're going to try to get with Shakur. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:01:59.200 Oh. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.040 So he said he fought like that to please the people, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.520 to prove to the people that he can do it. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:03.880 Yeah. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.120 Yeah, he didn't need to, Yeah. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.520 Because you can't tell if you court don't want you 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.480 touch him, you're gonna you see that immaculate you just said, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.560 you said that you are you ready to pull an upset? 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.519 So you you acknowledging that you cause the better fighters. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.160 Never no, no, no, he said the upset. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.959 We say odds in my head. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.640 No, yeah, it's just the odds. They got him as 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.760 the favorite OS. I think it's like three to one 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:29.160 right now. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:30.440 That's all. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.600 I'm kind of used to being in that position. I'm 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.480 just here to reclaim him and redefend him. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.680 So with that upset, like, what do you plan to 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.120 like exploit about your court and ring? 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:48.160 That is defense is not as impeccable as people mention it. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.959 That's pretty elite. Come on, it's pretty elite. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:53.720 No. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.639 What is his weakness though? If there's one, his mind. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.080 Once you penetrate the mind, that's it. This game, This 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.600 is boxing, this has always been since forever. And if 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.400 your mind ain't strong and this, it's never gonna accomplish 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:09.239 anything in life. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.160 And that's why boxing to this day is the toughest 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:12.880 sport in the world. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.240 You can't take away from that. And it starts with 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:17.000 the mind. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.480 That's why now you're both fighting in the guard, you're 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.720 fighting in the garden. What does that mean to you? 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.760 You from Brooklyn, him from Jersey, What does that mean 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:24.079 to you? 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:24.480 Now? 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.560 Yeah, brick city and concrete jungle. That's how you gotta 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.880 look at it. It's it's a blessing. I mean for me, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.600 I think it's a It's a not only an honor, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.240 but it shows where we're at in the pedigree of 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.480 the sport. You got two prime fighters coming in the best, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.680 fighting the best and putting on the show. In New 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.640 York is nothing like the Mecca and Madison Square Garden. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.120 There's so much history there. I've won my titles there. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.600 I've I've been defeated there, won them all back again. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.080 So I got a lot of history when it comes 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.080 to Madison Square Garden. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.640 Does it get to your head when you hear the 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.880 odds or you hear somebody like Charlemagne say and his 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.920 defense is impeccable and say that you underdog. Does that 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.640 get to your head at all when you see like 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.600 people going against you so much. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.760 No, it can't be, can't be. It comes with it. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:16.400 I look at it like this. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.040 I was talking to my father about this and what's 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.960 also my training. I said, if you want to be light, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.000 then you know you be light by being a good fighter. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.200 You want to be loved, you be the best fighter, 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.800 but you want to be hated. You be the greatest fighter. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.440 And I think that all comes in different atmospheres. And 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.279 when you're the greatest, not a lot of people are 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.120 gonna agree with what you're doing and how you do it. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.200 So I'm trying to aim for that category, aim for that, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.719 for that, for my journey and for my name. And 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.800 before I hang up these gloves, people can say to 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.240 your female, what's the greatest. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:54.920 The thing I love about you? 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.200 You've you've been very open about like your personal struggles 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.640 and pressure and mental health. How he's doing that work 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.160 made you a better man and fighter. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.880 I love it. I love it, I honestly love it. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.080 I think that's like part of the journey is like 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.360 you learn with struggle, you learn with obstacles, and you 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.160 also learn within yourself what you can and cannot do. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.280 And then you hit a point. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.159 In your life where you start realizing that there's not 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.760 much that you cannot achieve, so you push limits far 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:29.960 beyond your own measures. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.160 And I love it. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.440 I love it. I love this right here. I love 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.039 this fight. I love this part where it's. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.320 Going to test my limits. It's a challenge to. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.080 Show people, and I'm here to exploit his defense of 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.040 Shakur Seemson. I'm here to show that there's a lot 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:49.240 of flaws in his style. We don't grown up in 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.080 the amateurs together and since the early two thousand and tons, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.880 so we got a lot of history when it comes 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.159 to like seeing each other rise to the cream of 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.839 the crop. But I think that now it comes to 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.120 where we just meeting them, so we never faced each other. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.320 Wish nothing but the best after he loses to me, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.840 and yeah, I can't wait to just keep on going 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:13.280 from there. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.839 I have to ask you because I'm so happy that 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.359 this fight is happening, because at one point this is 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.160 a ring fight, right, so Turkey els she gets involved. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.680 And at one point it was saying that you were 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.240 on the outch. You said something about Saudi Arabia, you 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.920 said something about I don't know the religion, correct me 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.960 if I'm wrong, and supposedly Turkey didn't want to do 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.200 any business with you. But then in Vegas, I saw 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.320 you have everybody like kind of mingling so what was said? 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.960 How did you guys mend a beef or whatever issue 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:44.360 that was. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.320 It's boxing, there's no beef. It's just boxing. You're gonna 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.440 talk sometimes, you're gonna talk hit and miss. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.400 I know, But did you regret anything that you said? 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.039 Because youre outspoken, have you ever regretted anything that you said, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:06:59.200 like to the public? 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.440 Well, one thing you learn in this game. You don't 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.200 talk about religion. So I don't learn from that. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.919 No, but I'm just saying not learn from it. I 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.000 don't recall me even mentioning about religion. I think people 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.000 mix up my words from time to time and that 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.119 comes with this game. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.880 It's cool. I mean, I'm still captain of my division. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.560 I'm holding my belts. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.040 I'm proud to be a ring champion, his champion, so 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.440 to speak, and at the same time WBO World champion. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.120 So I'm in a great position. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.880 I think that as long as you bring money to 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.000 the game, they can't exclude you out. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:33.480 I think it's just true. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.120 How much longer do you how much longer do you 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.840 plan about? Because I know you've retired before, are you 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.000 thinking about doing it again? 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.800 No? I don't know. I think for me it's really 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.280 just enjoying it. Just enjoying it. Now, what made you 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.000 want to do it before? What made you retire before? 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:51.920 What got you to that? 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.160 I was trying to do it for the I guess 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.560 there was an absence there where I wanted people to. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:58.720 Acknowledge what I'm doing. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.720 These two belts alone at twenty five is so hard 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.800 to do in box, let alone even go for one. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.560 And to do that in two different weight classes against 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.160 two top pound four pound aiming one was undisputed, the 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.280 other one was claiming to be undisputed, beating both of 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.240 them in their prime. And to do that and not 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.200 really get that kind of imbionzo, that type of vibe 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.080 from everybody else that they get from others. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.440 And the money you said you wasn't in the money 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:30.960 you deserved. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.160 But I always told myself as a kid, it was like, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.080 you get all those things when you are number one. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.079 I got them twice, nothing came around, So. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.120 I was like, you want the people to miss you. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.360 So I'm like, you know what, this this ain't gonna 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.800 really I was like that fire comes, goes down, goes down. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.480 So to rebuild it and then did my fighting times 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:57.040 square earlier in twenty twenty five. Earlier this year at 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.520 Times Square, it was great. I feel the fire more 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.480 than ever got like a blue flame on me. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.000 It worked the retirement, the first retirement. You feel like 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.120 it worked for what you were trying to accomplish. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.680 Just want to Yeah, I guess you know personally when 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.800 we talk about this stuff, it's like, you know, you 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:12.600 sacrifice the. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.679 Time with your family. I got a young young boy. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.520 I really miss most of his time, like almost three years. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.120 He's four now, So through the math, you know what 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.040 I'm saying, So you miss a lot of that time 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.360 that you kind of want to feel. At the same time, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.640 although it's our industries and our platform, you still want 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.520 to feel like a human. You still got a life 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.280 after all this, because you know this better than anybody, right, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.640 they'll eat you up and spit you right out, yeah 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.679 and call into the next one. So I think I 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:42.559 just needed that moment. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.720 So where are you emotionally and mentally now like today 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.360 compared to the version of yourself that like beat a 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.440 loma chinkle? Where are you now emotionally and mentally. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.400 Still? Yeah, I'm just very still. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.720 I'm not even trying to like argue if people say this, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.280 I'm like, go ahead. If people say that, I'm like, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.760 do what you do. None of it is gonna matter 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.680 till we fight. None of it gonna matter to I 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.200 put in the action and the work. Just keep my 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.839 faith above it all and just you know, show a 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.439 different not even a difference, just show me, but in 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.480 a way of maturity. That's really it. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.880 On paper, do you think your care is your toughest task? 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.240 I know you got to be in there with him 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.080 because the old fighters saying, I don't know, but on 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:26.800 paper he's absolutely. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.840 Absolutely, absolutely, this is why we do what we do. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.680 You can't go to do what you do and look 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.720 for easy routes. Eventually you're going to have to meet 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.679 up with people. So you know, that's why me and 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.199 my father like right off the jump twenty two, won 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:49.920 my first world title MSG boom. The following year Lomachenko undisputed. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.480 They revoked that, whatever the case be. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.800 And then just kept on going from there on. You 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:56.319 know what I mean. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.400 And it's it's better knowing now than later, you know, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.000 because then is lying to yourself. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.480 Tim and Tim Tim Bradley said that he feels like 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.079 she coll Stevenson can hurt you not not necessarily with power, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.439 but by frustrating you, controlling the distance, another flying your office, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.240 just making you look bad. He said that he feels 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.640 like he has has some period boxing IQ compared to you. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.600 That's cool, that's his opinion. That's cool. Everybody has an opinion, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:23.320 like an asshole. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.599 You know, I swear, I wish I could be like 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.800 I sware. I wish I could be like it's like, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:30.400 say whatever, it's fine. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.160 I'd be like saying what he also said, don't run 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.319 from chicor yeah yeah. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.280 I mean, hey, I don't put on boxing shoes, not 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:44.959 track shoes. So yeah, just I'm excited for it all man, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.400 I like to go to the fire. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.120 You know people been talking about was your mental lapses 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.520 in the ring because you're so skilled, like you've been 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.200 on the power for poundless, right, especially after you beat 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.679 Loma Chankle. You showed every facet of your game. But 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.200 then there's fights, little hiccups like against sandor Martin where 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.280 people say TiO just wasn't really there, like mentally, it 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.920 wasn't really him, Like how do you avoid that from happening? 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.559 And do you hear that noise. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:18.440 Boxing? Raise me? 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.880 I say it like that, and you come to a 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.080 point in life where you realize some things may not. 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.079 Go exactly the way you plan it for that night. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:32.160 That's perfectly fine, because they're just mistakes in the in 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:33.600 the lead up to something more. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.320 It only becomes a choice when you continue to make 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.559 that same mistake. So I've come to terms where it's 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.520 like those type of quote unquote hiccups were challenging moments 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.359 for me to see where I could improve. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.480 In my game. There's no such thing as like, oh 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.319 I know everything, I know how to do it all. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.720 I got this in the bag. You don't. If you do, 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.880 you might as well quit now. And that's you. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.040 Do you still love boxing because you know it's funny. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.839 I hear you talk about your son a second ago 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.000 and you lit up. But then when you talk about boxing, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.840 it's just like fucking I'm gonna fight, I'm. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.800 Gonna win, keep it moving. Then I'm gonna go back 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.240 to my son, you know what I mean. So do 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.200 you still love it? You still have love for the sport. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.800 I wouldn't be the man I am without. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.160 It, But you still love it now? 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:25.920 Absolutely? I'm just more no one rare chill. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.960 You wanna showing proof through actions and that word. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.640 I ain't gonna win that battle no more. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.680 I'm just gonna do what I gotta do because the 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.880 real gonna prevail regardless of me. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.960 They show a lot of flaws and fake dudes. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.600 And fake people around the world now, But as long 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.280 as you keep your thing, keep it thorough, you gonna 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:44.800 get yours. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.040 But don't you feel like you're suppressing who you really are? 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.679 Like you talked about the time Square and everybody was 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.760 saying to Femo was the one that had that whole 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.839 promotion lit up, Like on the press conferences, you you 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.880 had the bravado and all of that. So now it 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.880 seems like you're saying you're gonna suppress that, you're not 0:13:58.880 --> 0:13:59.760 gonna be yourself. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.839 I'm still myself, just a different, toned down version of you. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.440 Want to say it that way, I think I just 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.640 I ain't really been on social right now. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.760 I've just been locked in. Yeah, I just been on 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:13.679 I don't know. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.600 I get what I'm saying, because even when you talk about, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:17.480 you know, the things. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.520 You're so funny though, I'm gonna definitely do my thing 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.120 at the press conference in a little bit, but. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.320 You got to show that to sell the fight because 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:24.960 you know you got you got the accolade. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.800 But you know in order to get that money, sadly, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.520 you gotta perform a little bit. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:34.080 I already got the money. Yeah, so it's more so. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.840 You want to fight to do well? Yeah, numbers it will. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.760 I mean, look, I wouldn't. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.400 This is my first time sitting amongst you all at 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.560 the breakfast Breakfast club, and honestly it's been Uh. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.920 That's what it takes you to your pops, is funny. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:58.360 He back there, like, man, all that's. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:04.840 We never goes to the South. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.360 So he said, they never lost to the South. Part 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.120 of two hundred fights more. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.160 A lot of people will look at look not to 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.320 look over it, but a lot of people look at 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.120 South posts very They're very difficult. But I grew up 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.080 with South posts as a kid, kind of understand the 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.040 rhythms of it. Don't get me wrong. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.880 He could be slick, but there's something I do to 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.160 South poles that just working. My favorite. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.920 It's called different though, sorry, called a special fighter. Drop man, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:37.800 what are you talking about? 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:39.160 Yes? 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:50.520 Hold on you still. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.400 Like freaking four seconds? 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.880 Man, This is a special fight because of both because 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.480 who we both of you all are but she is 0:15:58.520 --> 0:15:59.200 a special fighter. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.080 You gotta acknowledge that's what we're fighting there, you go. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.120 So so he does a great especially, but I mean 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.680 he got he got ahead a couple of times, getting 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.160 paid that. But he put himself in a position normally 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:13.560 like that. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.040 Damn, you. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.680 Became a disputy at a young age, like you acknowledged. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.280 When you look at your career, Now, what part of 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.560 your legacy are you most focused on building? 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:24.880 Next? 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.160 The one that's coming. That's it, the one that's coming. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.440 All that is in the past, people end up forgetting 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.160 Just gotta keep it going and and push forward on 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.400 what else you could do, Like I said before, just 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.120 trying to claim more history. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.040 Yeah, break numbers. I think we're gonna sell out the garden. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.520 We got the big room, you know. I think it's 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:45.040 gonna be great. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.040 You called out a lot of big names, obviously, this 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.320 is a massive fight you called out obviously, but called 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.560 for at one point Boots, And it's like, so, what's 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.680 what's ahead? You saying that you're gonna beat your core 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.680 upset him, like, are you going up the forty seven? 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.040 Do you still want the big fights? 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.359 Like what, I'm trusting my team, I'm gonna trust my 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.480 team on this one. I'm not gonna do no more 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.600 than that. You know, that's why you got a team, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.720 That's why everybody gets what they get from it. So 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.760 trust your team, trust the process, and trust the fact 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.760 that they got big plans for me the first quarter 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.359 of the year and then moving forward after that. So 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.520 I'm just I'm excited no matter what. I'm excited that 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.639 I'm back on the field. I'm back fighting, getting ready. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.719 It's been a long time overdue, and uh yeah, just 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.399 ready to like show people like the takeover for real real. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.240 And just the most underestimated you felt going into a 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.400 fight or was it this way. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.040 With lom No, no, no, nowhere near closed. 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.120 But I just like the fact that I'm just keeping 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.320 myself more calm and composed. Don't get me wrong, definitely 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.600 for sure, but I just yeah, I just I ain't 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.160 trying to do no more of that. I get myself 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.120 in trouble for no reason, Like I'm being my authentic 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.639 in trouble. It's like, guess me in trouble. I'm like, so, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.840 y'all just don't like I just don't like it. So 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.800 it's like i'd rather just I'm trying to get deals 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.240 and stuff like that in the near future. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:07.560 So I'd rather just keep it like this. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:14.720 What's the biggest misconception people still have about you? 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.640 That I'm crazy? Yeah, I'm not crazy. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.080 It's like, you gotta believe you're the best and the 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.119 greatest to do what you do and when you do. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.119 It, she's not crazy. It just you was. You were 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:31.960 really smart, You're genius. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.119 That sounds a little crazy, really. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.359 It's just that me and I was talking to my 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.520 father about this though, all right, So I know y'all 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:48.200 been hearing about the WBC and Crawford and all that stuff, right, So. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.760