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Speaker 1: What's up A way up at Angela Yee.

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Speaker 2: I'm Angela Yee, and we are going to have a

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Speaker 2: great time today because this is my favorite sport to

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Speaker 2: watch boxing, and we have somebody who is definitely one

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Speaker 2: of the most exciting boxes right now.

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Speaker 1: Devin Hainey is here with us.

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Speaker 3: Just ma'am, Yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: Don't do that ma'am stuff.

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Speaker 2: Okay, although, yeah, although you'll always be a little Devin

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Speaker 2: to us.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 2: So when I first met you, yeah, you were only

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Speaker 2: seventeen years old. We were just talking about just the

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Speaker 2: beginning stages of your pro career, right, So let's discuss

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Speaker 2: that a little bit because in the beginning, you guys

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Speaker 2: were definitely hustling. You and your dead Bill, who everybody

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Speaker 2: also knows everywhere. But let's talk about those beginning stages,

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Speaker 2: even finding opponents or platforms for you to be able

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Speaker 2: to get the attention that you needed publicly.

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Speaker 3: What that was like, Yeah, I mean that the early

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Speaker 3: stage of where we was grinding, you know, trying to

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Speaker 3: just be seen, trying to get my name out. You know,

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Speaker 3: that was the toughest part, you know, trying to get opponents, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, just trying to you know, you know, get

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Speaker 3: off the runway, you know. But you know, we we

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Speaker 3: stayed down, We trusted the process, and uh we just

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Speaker 3: kept just keep trying to keep my name out there

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Speaker 3: as much as possible, and so far it worked out

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Speaker 2: And I feel like there were a lot of rules

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Speaker 2: that had to change for you because you were so young,

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Speaker 2: but a lot of people did see your potential. You

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Speaker 2: actually went to Mexico first, right to Tijuana also to fight,

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Speaker 2: and I saw they were just recently saying I saw

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Speaker 2: a program I was watching the press conference, and they

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Speaker 2: tried to say that you paid to get like a

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Speaker 2: loss or raised off of your record.

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Speaker 1: But I so, can you explain where that even came from?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't know where it came from.

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Speaker 3: But it's just you know, a new rumor. You know,

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Speaker 3: they always come up with with rumors, so it just

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Speaker 3: it was just it's just a rumor. But it's also

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Speaker 3: something for to build a fight. So whatever whatever he says,

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Speaker 3: it is what it is. But I definitely got it

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Speaker 3: out the mud, you know, going to Mexico and know

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Speaker 3: started my career there being seventeen fighting grown men, you know,

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Speaker 3: guys that I didn't I couldn't watch footage, footage on

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Speaker 3: tougher way to do it than turning pro in the

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Speaker 3: States and for the world, you know, to know, you

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Speaker 3: know who, I was fighting and fighting, fighting in front

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Speaker 3: of my family, my friends, stuff like that. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I started in Mexico world. I felt like it was tough.

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Speaker 2: All right, Now you do have this fight with Regi's

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Speaker 2: Prograde coming up, and that's going to be December ninth, rate, yeah, December,

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Speaker 2: December ninth. And the big big deal about that is

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Speaker 2: just in San Francisco, where you're from. By the way,

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Speaker 2: how many people have been hitting you up for tickets

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Speaker 3: It's still it's still early, but you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: I saw five thousand like the day five.

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Speaker 3: Thousand was in pre sale, and then it's like nine thousand,

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Speaker 3: And yeah, they haven't started with the tickets asking for

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Speaker 2: They better start now because if you want to get tickets,

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Speaker 2: I just want to say, hit up bill now, work.

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Speaker 3: Ticket mass, don't wait now or ticket mass that works too.

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Speaker 2: But that is a big deal because you also want

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Speaker 1: At home, do they do fights at the Chase Center?

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Speaker 3: No, this is the first one ever at the Chase Center.

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Speaker 3: So this is this is special. You know, this is

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Speaker 3: We don't have much as in these days. You know,

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Speaker 1: Still come back tickets for the fact, yeah, everybody who

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Speaker 3: And then we don't got the Raiders no more. And

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Speaker 3: you know this is the I'm the I'm the thing

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Speaker 3: But we also made tickets, you know, cheap enough for

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Speaker 2: How did this even come about since they've never done

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Speaker 3: You know, it was all pretty much my idea to

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Speaker 3: And my team reached out to the Chase Center and

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Speaker 3: they said that they would love it. They said that

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Speaker 1: For you guys.

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Speaker 2: You have always done things against the norm. So even

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Speaker 2: a lot of promoters were reaching out trying to sign you.

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Speaker 2: And then you guys win a different route. Can you

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Speaker 2: talk about the thinking behind that and not signing with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean me and my dad, you know, we

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Speaker 3: We did it independently until we was able to demand

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Speaker 2: And I saw recently with Chakrus Stevenson there was a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not only twenty five percent. He was going to

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Speaker 3: He would still get a shot at you know, all

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Speaker 2: Take it, right because business wise, so if you were

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was in his position before. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: why I'll put it all on the line. And if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the business of boxing is different than anything else too,

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Speaker 2: you and pro Green are both Dezone fighters?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeahs as of now, I went over to the

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Speaker 1: Okay, I saw Showtime Sports is going to be gone soon.

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Speaker 1: They're going out, great opportunity for de Zone, I guess.

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Speaker 3: Showtime is is legendary. So many great fights over so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was surprised by that. Now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was killing myself to make one

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Speaker 3: So it was just killing me to make to weight.

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Speaker 3: And I was losing a lot of strength, you know,

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Speaker 3: the belts and then to defend my belts. You know.

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Speaker 3: So now I'm gonna be a lot much stronger at

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Speaker 3: one forty. I feel stronger. I feel better already, and

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Speaker 2: Fight night and then a lot of the last fight

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Speaker 2: And now we went to the next right, imagine going

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Speaker 1: So I never forget when Ray Jones walked himself out

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Speaker 2: Since can you imagine you know your boxes? No, I

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you know. And then look at how far

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. No, I definitely came a long way,

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Speaker 2: Whenever I see you on the blogs, Yeah, exactly. With

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Speaker 1: That's it, you know, that's just it's not just who's

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Speaker 3: Of the night with no see, that's why you gotta

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Speaker 1: Does that ever distract you? Like your personal life?

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Speaker 2: And I also saw Javante Davis and I don't know

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Speaker 3: No, no rematch. I won't be needing a rematch once

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Speaker 3: I beat him. He won't. He won't be wanting a rematch,

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Speaker 3: So it was no point in in in the rematch clause.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting to me when I was watching the

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Speaker 1: It his conditioning?

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Speaker 3: Yes, that was his strength, coach strength coach. We just

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Speaker 2: And then even like when I think about how you know,

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Speaker 3: Now? Like so like like one side of me be saying, like,

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Speaker 3: So it just really be I be both sides with it.

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Speaker 2: So all right, well listen, I'm definitely gonna be watching

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm betting on you. Me and Mano actually

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Speaker 2: you win, right, because that's how we're looking at it

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Speaker 2: right now, So you'll be the champ.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and two different.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two division, two division chap same time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, at only twenty four years old. Let's keep that

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Speaker 1: At the end of the night.

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Speaker 3: You gotta see who I'm going with, who you going with,

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Speaker 2: Okay, and what I'm wearing and what he's wearing. All right, well,

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Speaker 2: I love to see it, and thank you so much

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Speaker 1: Is that something that's already.

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Speaker 1: Long as he wins his fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, as long as we both win and yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, you got to be victorious in this one,

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Speaker 3: and then we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, he's not running from no fights for anybody

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Speaker 1: That you can.

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Speaker 3: And I'm the only guy in the division that's doing that.

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Speaker 3: These guys say that they want to fight, but in

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Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you so much, Devin Handy. December ninth,

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Speaker 2: we'll be watching. This is on his own pay per

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Speaker 2: view and you can also buy tickets right now go

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Speaker 2: to Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: The week up, you can hit Bill up and he got.

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Speaker 3: You ticket Master.

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Speaker 1: It's up the Handy

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