Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody is the DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne, the God.
Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. We got our brother Ac
Speaker 2: with us this morning, A and we got a special
Speaker 2: guest in the building, the champions here Amanda surround A welcome.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling great, feeling great.
Speaker 4: A little too early for me, but for you guys,
Speaker 4: I'll sacrifice parade yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it was amazing. It was it was. I
Speaker 3: was there in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: I got honored as my Guinness for the world records
Speaker 4: for seven division and it was like a complete different parade.
Speaker 3: This time. Everyone knew who I was, my name. Is
Speaker 3: just felt so welcoming and so awesome.
Speaker 5: You want to, like you just said, titles in seven
Speaker 5: different weight classes. Are you chasing greatness? Are you chasing
Speaker 5: something something deeper?
Speaker 4: I'm chasing legacy, and I believe I've accomplished that already.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm the first Puerto Rican to become undisputed
Speaker 4: male or female and first seven division world champions. So
Speaker 4: now it's just doing other stuff, making money, making money
Speaker 4: and opening the doors and continue to open the doors
Speaker 4: for women in the sport.
Speaker 6: You know you he mentioned seven divisions. People don't realize
Speaker 6: how difficult that is. The only fighter that has done
Speaker 6: more is Manny Packard we just talked about him has
Speaker 6: done eight divisions. Yeah, yeah, but that's what's in the
Speaker 6: in the books, right. So so what she's done is
Speaker 6: like it's insane, right, But there's another division that you
Speaker 6: haven't fought in one seven, right, And I just want
Speaker 6: to throw that out there because I know that Clarissa
Speaker 6: is a lot bigger. She's fighting heavyweight one fifty four,
Speaker 6: one sixty, but she's a big name in the sport.
Speaker 6: And for some reason, you girls were cool. But it's
Speaker 6: like tension, Like you put out a tweet that I
Speaker 6: actually respected your tweet, like because it's kind of like
Speaker 6: you were fed up of her attacking MVP, your promoter.
Speaker 6: It is that a pipe jam if it ever came,
Speaker 6: if she came down on one forty seven, could that
Speaker 6: fight ever happen?
Speaker 3: What's your natural weight?
Speaker 4: First, I'm the champion currently, I'm the featherweight champion, which
Speaker 4: is one hundred and twenty six pounds twenty pounds. I
Speaker 4: am fighting for the title. I wont forty with Katie Taylor.
Speaker 4: But respectfully, I respect Clarissa what she's done in the sport.
Speaker 4: I respect her as an athlete, her accomplishments. But I
Speaker 4: came here today to talk about July eleventh, to talk
Speaker 4: about me, to talk about the girls that are making
Speaker 4: history at Manison Square Garden on Netflix.
Speaker 3: So ye, she.
Speaker 5: Said something, she said that the Many eight is questionable.
Speaker 3: Why because he won two division two divisions.
Speaker 4: They weren't world titles. There were regional titles. All my
Speaker 4: divisions was world titles.
Speaker 1: Got you?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I need to ask, you know, when gaining that much weight,
Speaker 2: right when you're naturally won twenty six and you have
Speaker 2: to gain twenty pounds, how does that affect you? Affect
Speaker 2: your speed, affect your strength, and infect your mental It does?
Speaker 3: It does affect you. People don't't realize it.
Speaker 4: It's harder for me to go up and weigh than
Speaker 4: to make the lower weight because I walk around one
Speaker 4: thirty four one thirty five, So it's easy for me
Speaker 4: to drop ten pounds. But when I'm going up a
Speaker 4: lot of these girls they can withhold my power. They can,
Speaker 4: you know they can. You know the power is I
Speaker 4: still have power at that way. But it's just a
Speaker 4: lot easier for them to have hold it, and it's.
Speaker 3: It's I have to be constantly eating.
Speaker 4: My trainer, my sister. Everyone's like forcing me, you have
Speaker 4: to eat, you have to eat.
Speaker 5: Eat healthy.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, I'm not. I'm not hungry. I just
Speaker 3: finished training.
Speaker 4: I'm not hungry. And they're like, no, you have to
Speaker 4: eat because I can lose weight really.
Speaker 5: Really fast if you believe you ate healthy. Yesterday after definitely.
Speaker 3: You know, everybody know what's Honestly, I didn't, but I
Speaker 3: have a fried fish sandwich.
Speaker 4: It's probably not Puerto Rican food, but it was just
Speaker 4: it was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was crazy.
Speaker 7: Well, you're you're fighting, speaking of July eleventh, you are
Speaker 7: fighting Katie Tailor. You already for her twice. Now, what
Speaker 7: are you doing differently this fight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: I brought in Nowpie people for the camp. I have
Speaker 4: a nutrition coach now, Sidney Miller. She's been helping me
Speaker 4: feeding me good food.
Speaker 3: I have a running coach. His name is Spencer.
Speaker 4: He's the one who helped Turn of That and all
Speaker 4: his fights, so that's been a great help for me.
Speaker 4: I hire another assistant coach that's helping me keep my
Speaker 4: distance helping me with my head movement and boxing and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. But listen, me and Katie had twenty
Speaker 4: great rounds together.
Speaker 3: We bring great fights.
Speaker 4: We show the fans that we can't fight, and this
Speaker 4: fight is going to be no different.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: We ad headlining Madison Square Garden, an all girl card,
Speaker 4: and the good thing is that all these girls are
Speaker 4: coming to fight, so we don't know who's going to
Speaker 4: be the fight of the night, so all of us
Speaker 4: are stepping our game up.
Speaker 3: I'm stepping my game up.
Speaker 4: I need this when on paper, I believe I want
Speaker 4: both fights, but this one is different because I need
Speaker 4: the judges to see that I want this fight, eat
Speaker 4: this fight on paper. So yeah, we're working a little different, smarter,
Speaker 4: and I believe this the third times.
Speaker 6: The charm and you know the fact that they're fighting
Speaker 6: a trilogy, even though Katie got both decisions, speaks to
Speaker 6: like how close those fights were and how many people
Speaker 6: felt you even won both of those fights. What fight
Speaker 6: you think was close out of the first two.
Speaker 3: The first one, the first one was a good fight.
Speaker 4: My coach told me after the fight, he said, I
Speaker 4: think his ninety six ninety four is pretty close. So
Speaker 4: when the first judge said that, he looked at me,
Speaker 4: he said, you see, I got we got it.
Speaker 3: But the second one I think was pretty clear that
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 4: I landed one hundred and seven more punches on Katie.
Speaker 3: To every people say that I get hit a lot. Listen,
Speaker 3: one hundred and seven punches. That's a lot of punches.
Speaker 4: And the first one was the fifth of the second
Speaker 4: one was the first.
Speaker 3: In a couple of rounds.
Speaker 4: Like I've heard Katie every fight, both fights that I've heard,
Speaker 4: or She's never really hurt me other than the head.
Speaker 4: But but you know, I respect Katie as a fighter.
Speaker 4: She's a great fighter, great champion, and she's gonna come
Speaker 4: to fight. She needs this win to be like convincingly.
Speaker 4: She needs the fans to say, Okay, Katie won this fight,
Speaker 4: and listen, I'm a professional, I'm a champion. If Katie
Speaker 4: was to beat me, like clearly, I would say, pats
Speaker 4: off to Katie. Katie, you're a great champion, you're a
Speaker 4: great fighter.
Speaker 3: You beat me. But I just don't feel it.
Speaker 4: The fans don't feel it, my team doesn't feel it,
Speaker 4: doesn't see it. So I'm like, God, just this one
Speaker 4: is like this, Like the last hurrah.
Speaker 2: How do you feel confidence in the judges during that now, right,
Speaker 2: because you think you lost, you think you wont both
Speaker 2: of them. You feel like you would cheat it. So
Speaker 2: how do you still have that confidence in the system
Speaker 2: and the judges because you punch, you show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 4: That's the only thing that I'm like, ah, we need
Speaker 4: we need better judges, and hopefully the team gets that
Speaker 4: work before I step into that ring, because I feel
Speaker 4: like those two fights it was like four against one
Speaker 4: or five against one because it's the judges, Katie and
Speaker 4: the referee. The referee wasn't on my side the last
Speaker 4: fight as well, So I just want a fair fight.
Speaker 4: I just want me and Katie to fight and the winner,
Speaker 4: you know, takes it all.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just how do you fix the politics
Speaker 5: of boxing though, because I mean you can clearly watch
Speaker 5: those fights until boxing politics came into place, So how
Speaker 5: do you fix it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And it's not just my fight, you know, it's you
Speaker 4: see it every day every time there's a fight.
Speaker 3: I mean that I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if if the judges are influenced by
Speaker 4: the crowd or the influence by the promoters or it's
Speaker 4: just really hard. I don't know what they're thinking, what
Speaker 4: they're seeing. I don't know if they need to watch
Speaker 4: it in a screen because I watch fights front row
Speaker 4: and it's really hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so hard to.
Speaker 4: See a good fight. Sometimes the referee gets in the way.
Speaker 4: I just don't know what they're seeing. I've seen fights
Speaker 4: where the judges have to like be moving around to
Speaker 4: actually see the action, and then if the person's back
Speaker 4: is against that one judge, you don't know what's happening.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if maybe a screen be a
Speaker 4: better I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Any better judges.
Speaker 6: I mean, boxing is the only sport where you can
Speaker 6: keep messing up at your job and never get fired.
Speaker 6: Like judges that judge bad fights always wind up judging
Speaker 6: more fights, you know. So I think the Commission and
Speaker 6: all the States needs to the judges need to be
Speaker 6: judged sometimes. But I want to go back to the
Speaker 6: second fight. What round was it that you got the cut?
Speaker 1: Again? I feel for the four So you fought six
Speaker 1: rounds with blood in your eye?
Speaker 6: How do how do how do you avoid those butts?
Speaker 6: Like going into the third fight? Like, is there a
Speaker 6: strategy where we know what Katie does like, is there
Speaker 6: something you're gonna do to kind of avoid getting hit
Speaker 6: with the head again?
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I'm maintaining all distance definitely, because once I
Speaker 4: heard her, I know she's going to come in and
Speaker 4: try to hold me and try to grab me and
Speaker 4: then use her head. I mean, she's very good at
Speaker 4: using her head. Not taking anything away from Katie, she's
Speaker 4: the great champion.
Speaker 3: And she's very very skillful fighter.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think what I've got hurt the
Speaker 4: most was with the head. And the second head butt
Speaker 4: was so painful, Like people don't know. The first one,
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, whatever, but the second one, it
Speaker 4: was a very open wound and it hit the bone
Speaker 4: and I was like I saw black for a second.
Speaker 4: I was like, what is going on? That's why I
Speaker 4: was just so I was pissed off. I was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god. And then there was no help with
Speaker 4: the referee. The referee wasn't really warning her with the head.
Speaker 4: But listen, this happens in the sport of boxing, and
Speaker 4: it's just onto the next one.
Speaker 7: You did say third time, as I'm with you, but
Speaker 7: are you prepared for it to go the other way?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 7: What what do it mean for you to win, I
Speaker 7: mean to lose the third time to Katie's.
Speaker 4: It will suck my god, three times, I mean. But
Speaker 4: but I'm not thinking about that. I'm not putting that
Speaker 4: into the universe. I'm manifesting a win like I always do.
Speaker 4: But you know, like I said, if if she wins
Speaker 4: the way she's supposed to win, then I'm gonna be like, listen, Okay,
Speaker 4: she got it. But I'm just hoping that the judges
Speaker 4: are watching the fight in different.
Speaker 3: Differently.
Speaker 5: Well, you and Katie had the best fight on that
Speaker 5: that car because Jake Paul and tights and sucked right.
Speaker 5: But when I think about that fight, I think about
Speaker 5: how bloody it was, like it looked like Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 5: How much does it how much does that take out
Speaker 5: of you?
Speaker 3: Well, it takes a.
Speaker 4: Lot of a lot of you, you know, honestly, knowing
Speaker 4: that you have this car, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Blessed that I have a great, a great corner. My
Speaker 3: cup man was amazing. I did not know.
Speaker 4: How big the cut was until I saw it and
Speaker 4: the monitor and the monitor you could it was.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that bad. When I went to the back
Speaker 3: to get stitched uff, I was like.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I brought a tea to my eye
Speaker 4: because I thought about my family back home watching now
Speaker 4: on Netflix. I was like, oh, because I know it
Speaker 4: looks a lot worse on TV. So but it takes
Speaker 4: a lot all that blood and then it wasn't just
Speaker 4: that one headbutt. It just kept happening and her rubbing
Speaker 4: her head on it, so you definitely can feel it.
Speaker 4: I believe if I did lose around it was the
Speaker 4: round after the cut, because that was just like probably
Speaker 4: still in pain. But that didn't stop me. You show
Speaker 4: you saw the heart I had in there.
Speaker 3: I was like, let's go, let's keep fighting. And but
Speaker 3: it can't take a lot of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's been men with smaller cuts that can't continue
Speaker 6: and quit before her. So Jake Paul has signed so
Speaker 6: many women obviously this are all girls card. He's done
Speaker 6: a lot for women's boxing. Do you feel like you
Speaker 6: are kind of the reason because you know what he'd
Speaker 6: done with your career and uh and how successful you've been.
Speaker 6: That's why women are saying I want to go there,
Speaker 6: Look what he look Look what a man has been
Speaker 6: able to do.
Speaker 4: Listen Jake Paul and the case of Adarian MP have
Speaker 4: changed my life completely. They have changed the sport of
Speaker 4: female boxing, and I am super proud to be part
Speaker 4: of them. And yes, yes, I believe that they these women.
Speaker 4: In the beginning, these a lot of people had a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff to see say about Jake and and
Speaker 4: I took that chance to be with Jake Paul because
Speaker 4: when I met Jake Paul and the KISA, they told
Speaker 4: me where they wanted to go. They asked me how
Speaker 4: much I was getting paid, what you want to do
Speaker 4: in the sport and whatever. They made sure the first
Speaker 4: card that I was Cana, he he said, I want
Speaker 4: the whole card to make the most money that they made,
Speaker 4: So he paid me the most money I got.
Speaker 1: Paid before that. How much have you what was your
Speaker 1: biggest paid before?
Speaker 4: Not definitely, not seven figures, way less than that. You know,
Speaker 4: I got paid four thousand dollars for world title fights.
Speaker 4: I got paid four thousand dollars for tying up with
Speaker 4: Miguel Color becoming a full division world champion.
Speaker 3: Four thousand, so.
Speaker 4: You know, section sanction fees and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been it's been a journey.
Speaker 4: I got paid a peanuts, like it's sometimes I got
Speaker 4: paid nothing, just to fight just to stay to maintain.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's the difference with Jake Paul and these women.
Speaker 4: Now that they see that we're making me Katie making
Speaker 4: millions or just making noise and my fan base how
Speaker 4: much it grew being under Jake Paul there now they
Speaker 4: want to come along. But I guess they had to
Speaker 4: see what was what he really wanted to do with
Speaker 4: female boxing, and he proved it. He proved it with
Speaker 4: me and now he's proving it. Come July eleventh, the
Speaker 4: first in history at MSG on Netflix. I am super
Speaker 4: proud to be part of that. And like I said before,
Speaker 4: this is going to be a car you don't want
Speaker 4: to miss because we have two on disputer championship, three
Speaker 4: unified champions championships, and you just don't know who is
Speaker 4: going to be the fighter of the night.
Speaker 2: Now, you recently pushed for twelve three minute rounds women's boxing,
Speaker 2: You push for that hard?
Speaker 3: Why so much?
Speaker 4: Because we talk about equality in the sport of female
Speaker 4: box and one way to do it is to fight
Speaker 4: the same time the men fight. You know, we fight,
Speaker 4: so some men complain that, oh well, they fight less
Speaker 4: than us and for two minutes tay around.
Speaker 3: Why you want to.
Speaker 4: Get paid just like us. So I believe it's one step.
Speaker 4: We want equality, so we have to fight for what
Speaker 4: we believe, for what we want. And I'm a big
Speaker 4: advocate for the twelve three. Katie, she said the rematch,
Speaker 4: she said, she shook my hand and said that we
Speaker 4: can if we fight again, we can do it, and she.
Speaker 3: Like that promised. So, I mean, we were fighting ten.
Speaker 4: Two, but I would prefer the twelve three because I
Speaker 4: believe if I had that extra minute, I can definitely
Speaker 4: hurt her and finish her. But I think a lot
Speaker 4: of us women wouldn't want that because we have a
Speaker 4: lot more time to show our skills. I believe that
Speaker 4: the ten tools it's like a sprint for women's boxing,
Speaker 4: and then the twelve three is like a little jog
Speaker 4: and marathon. We can showcase more of our skills, have
Speaker 4: more time to get these knockouts.
Speaker 6: Rumor has a year the reason why Netflix wanted to
Speaker 6: stay in boxing after the first fight in Texas, like
Speaker 6: how entertaining your fight was opposed to the others, something
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 1: You know, Jake, Paul and Mike they wore what they
Speaker 1: were right.
Speaker 6: It was a unique type of fight, but Netflix said no,
Speaker 6: we need to see that again, and that's why you
Speaker 6: fight on Netflix?
Speaker 1: Is that true? Is there some truth today?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean the birdie said no.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what I want to do every time.
Speaker 4: My trainer, Jordim all and Ato, he told me, whenever
Speaker 4: you have an opportunity, you see the opportunity, you go
Speaker 4: out there and you do whatever you have to do
Speaker 4: to make sure that people.
Speaker 3: Tune in, people watch you, people want you. And I
Speaker 3: knew that fight.
Speaker 4: I knew the fight with Katie Taylor was going to
Speaker 4: be a great fight. So I said, no, matter what
Speaker 4: I do, I have to just give my all that
Speaker 4: that night, and I did. And look and now Netflix
Speaker 4: believed in me and Katie so much that they gave
Speaker 4: us our own card with all women. So they believe
Speaker 4: in us women. And that's something that really touches me.
Speaker 4: And that really it gets me excited because now we
Speaker 4: have these big, big networks, big stadiums, big people, big
Speaker 4: sponsors that are giving their money, giving their time to
Speaker 4: promote and to just give us this the spotlight. And
Speaker 4: I'm excited.
Speaker 5: I want to ask you mentally and emotionally, was it
Speaker 5: harder fighting her the second time? Or harder to lose
Speaker 5: to her the second time.
Speaker 4: I guess I want to have thought about that, but
Speaker 4: I guess losing to her because when you're a fighter,
Speaker 4: you're mentally you You go in there, you physically prepare
Speaker 4: yourself and you mentally prepare yourself. So me, I felt
Speaker 4: I felt good physically and mentally, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I'd be her the first time.
Speaker 4: This time I'm going there were more confidence and and.
Speaker 3: Then then it go my way.
Speaker 4: So I was like, gosh, and I and I knew
Speaker 4: and I felt that I won that fight because I
Speaker 4: kept coming forward and I landed more punches. I do
Speaker 4: more punches, and for the for the judges not to
Speaker 4: see in my way, it's just like a man that sucks.
Speaker 1: What about the Puerto Rican people?
Speaker 6: You bought a house in Puerto Rican, you've been living
Speaker 6: there when you went back after that fight? What what
Speaker 6: did the Puerto Rican people say about the second fight?
Speaker 4: To this day, honestly, if I had a dollar for
Speaker 4: every person that told me that I won that fight
Speaker 4: was just But to this day, people are like, we
Speaker 4: got this from gud this you know, we need to
Speaker 4: knock out and you want, you want, you want, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know, I like, I'm happy and proud
Speaker 4: that I gave my fans, I gave my my island
Speaker 4: such happiness and joy that I did my job.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, okay, but I still need that win.
Speaker 2: How does it feel a fight with, you know, Puerto
Speaker 2: Rico on your back?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Those are something the biggest fights when you have like
Speaker 2: a whole island, a whole group of people supporting you.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen it at the Puerto Rican Day Parade,
Speaker 2: over a million plus people. How does that feel because
Speaker 2: you can't let them down there?
Speaker 4: Know that it's it's I mean with Puerto Ricans, as
Speaker 4: long as you go out there and you fight, you
Speaker 4: give it your all, they're super proud of you. But
Speaker 4: that's one thing. When I see my flag and when
Speaker 4: I see my people and hear my people cheering for me,
Speaker 4: that just gives me so much more to go out there.
Speaker 4: Like yesterday, We've seen all those people screaming for me,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I gotta go today to the gym and.
Speaker 3: I gotta work my butt off.
Speaker 4: That's so hard because I don't want to let them down,
Speaker 4: and I don't. I don't if I give it my all,
Speaker 4: I'm not letting them down, but it's just it's not me,
Speaker 4: it's the judges guys.
Speaker 3: But it just it just brings me so much more,
Speaker 3: like ah, yeah, like I got I have to do
Speaker 3: it for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even know how to at least at
Speaker 5: at least say it's a draw, right, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, like just to give it or to win.
Speaker 5: How did those losses shape you, not just as a fighter,
Speaker 5: but just as a woman in a competitor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we always turn those l to w's right.
Speaker 4: That's what Jake Paul says.
Speaker 3: It's not losing his learning.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we definitely go back to the gym and
Speaker 4: and and my team they've been watching the both fights
Speaker 4: and then they see what we need to work on
Speaker 4: and that's what we've been working on in the gym.
Speaker 3: And just go with it. And just like mentally, I mean.
Speaker 4: I'm okay, I'm still going in there with more confidence
Speaker 4: knowing that I can hurt her and I did hurt
Speaker 4: her and I wont. But it's just just just just
Speaker 4: being ready.
Speaker 3: I'm putting in the work.
Speaker 4: I make sure that I check all my boxes before
Speaker 4: I go out there. I'm running, I'm sparring. I'm training hard,
Speaker 4: I'm eating right, getting my recovery done. So as long
Speaker 4: as I do that, I know I'll be okay.
Speaker 2: Now, you jumped in MMA for a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you did pro wrestling for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeh, i'n't done pro wrestling. I practiced it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Is it the challenge or is it, you know, the
Speaker 2: competitive nature, or is it the money?
Speaker 4: Well, honestly, the MMA difference MMA was part of money
Speaker 4: because my MMA contract at the time was bigger than
Speaker 4: my boxing contract and I was a six division, seven
Speaker 4: division world chapping at time. So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I do it. It's fighting, let's try it. I mean,
Speaker 4: MMA is really really hard, but yeah, I think it's
Speaker 4: just the competitiveness in me. Like I just I love fighting.
Speaker 4: I love going out there. I love proving to myself
Speaker 4: that I can do it. I never thought that I
Speaker 4: would be where I'm at now, being a champion, being
Speaker 4: a multiple division world champion. I never started boxing to
Speaker 4: become a world champion. I did it to have something
Speaker 4: in common with my sister Cindy, who was a former
Speaker 4: world champion as well.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, yeah, I'll try it. I'll try it.
Speaker 4: But look how I changed the sport of boxing, and
Speaker 4: I think it's just right now. It's I accomplish everything
Speaker 4: I wanted to accomplish, and now it's just opening those
Speaker 4: doors for those women, young girls looking at me in
Speaker 4: the sport and showing them that anything is possible, that
Speaker 4: you can do this and there is a light at
Speaker 4: the end of the tunnel. There were so many times
Speaker 4: that I wanted to retire because it was just not
Speaker 4: worth it. The money in boxing, so much work you
Speaker 4: have to put in, and I wasn't getting paid anything.
Speaker 4: So I was like, but thank god, Jake Paul came
Speaker 4: into my life, change my life, my career, and now
Speaker 4: I can change other women's lives.
Speaker 6: Now youve the top putting top erna in female boxing,
Speaker 6: in all of boxing. You talked about contracts. Right to
Speaker 6: my understanding, you have a lifetime contract with MVP. Now, like,
Speaker 6: I don't think any woman has ever had any type
Speaker 6: of contract like that.
Speaker 1: What does that look like? What does that mean exactly?
Speaker 4: What that just means once I retire that I have
Speaker 4: part of MVP the company. I will be part of
Speaker 4: the women's side of it. That's my goal, that's my love.
Speaker 4: I love empowering women. I love seeing women grow on
Speaker 4: the sport Listen. I always told the girls if it
Speaker 4: wasn't for me, I want to see them grow. I
Speaker 4: want to see them make the money. So if I
Speaker 4: if the next generation of the women make ten million dollars,
Speaker 4: I'm like yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: There cheering, like yes, I help that because we're making
Speaker 3: a little bit of millions now. But we wanted to grow.
Speaker 4: We want to see the the women's boxing grow.
Speaker 3: So that's my that's my thing.
Speaker 2: They talk about Jake, how did y'all meet? How did
Speaker 2: y'all meet and decide to start doing business?
Speaker 3: Well, I met Jake.
Speaker 4: I had four his on the car when he made
Speaker 4: his pro debut back in twenty twenty, and I knew
Speaker 4: knew of Jake because of my nephews. They were big
Speaker 4: Jake Jake Paul fans.
Speaker 3: So I met him there.
Speaker 4: And then Jake Paul wanted to empower women and put
Speaker 4: a woman on his on his car when he fought
Speaker 4: in Cleveland and it was for showtime at the time,
Speaker 4: and Steven Espinoza he said, I have this young lady
Speaker 4: who fought for me a couple of times, and man,
Speaker 4: the Surrando you should look her up.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 4: And then they reached out and then said do you
Speaker 4: want to fight on Jake Paul on the car?
Speaker 3: And I was like why not?
Speaker 4: You know, he has different viewers, she has a different audience.
Speaker 4: So I was like, that would be amazing. And then
Speaker 4: they talked about the pay with the pain. I was like, okay, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna get Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 4: And then after that he saw that I fought a
Speaker 4: tough Mexican champion. It went the distance, but we had
Speaker 4: a great fight, and and they liked the way I fought,
Speaker 4: like the way I act. And they spoke to my
Speaker 4: manager Jordan, and they said, what you want to do.
Speaker 4: We're going to start a company called m VP. Well
Speaker 4: you would you like to be a part of it?
Speaker 4: And we said, you know what. At that time, we
Speaker 4: was like.
Speaker 3: We're over.
Speaker 4: We're not getting the respect, we're not getting the paid
Speaker 4: I was ready a seven division world champion, unified world champion,
Speaker 4: and we still wasn't. So when they gave us the
Speaker 4: cold opportunity, he said, now let's do it.
Speaker 2: They said that when you first met him, you went
Speaker 2: to reach your hand out.
Speaker 3: Yeah this kid, Yeah, it was true.
Speaker 4: It was true because I was so excited more for
Speaker 4: my nephews because I knew of him because I kept
Speaker 4: hearing his songs like it's every day bro, So like
Speaker 4: I knew of him. So yeah, when I shook his hand,
Speaker 4: he gave me a fist pump. But honestly, I was like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 4: But there are boxes that don't shake people hands because
Speaker 4: of the squeeze and.
Speaker 3: The knuckles or something.
Speaker 2: That they first at first at.
Speaker 4: First, and then after we spoke about that because I
Speaker 4: told him, I brought it up to him a couple
Speaker 4: of times that he laughed and he said he said
Speaker 4: that it was that he had COVID, so he didn't
Speaker 4: want to give.
Speaker 3: It to me. I was like, okay, okay, Jake, but
Speaker 3: we're cool now.
Speaker 5: He's still gonna got COVID. Do women boxes have to
Speaker 5: be with m v P to get get the best
Speaker 5: kind of looks and the best kind of money?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 4: I think we were changing the game, and I think
Speaker 4: m VP wants to continue to empower women and give
Speaker 4: us this opportunity and give us these paychecks that are
Speaker 4: unheard of. And I think, I mean, hopefully a lot
Speaker 4: of these other promoters can take a page out of
Speaker 4: MVP's book and start paying us women better and paying
Speaker 4: these women who want to sign. But it's just it's
Speaker 4: all women have to come together, continue to fight hard,
Speaker 4: continue to put on shows, and continue to prove that
Speaker 4: we deserve the paydays, we deserve the spot like and
Speaker 4: I think one day it can't change.
Speaker 6: Speaking of money and checks, you've obviously made good money
Speaker 6: in the last three years. Have you gotten to the
Speaker 6: point where now family is coming out of nowhere asking
Speaker 6: for money.
Speaker 1: I need help with this. I need help with that
Speaker 1: because I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have a really small, tight enning family. I mean
Speaker 4: now with social media, everybody's my cousin that I get
Speaker 4: a lot like, oh yeah, my cousin.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't think so. I never met you before.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, so you have to say no already, no, no, ip.
Speaker 4: Jordan's been in my life. And Jordan's also my brother
Speaker 4: in law and my trainer manager. He's been in my
Speaker 4: life for twenty five years. And he's like, this person
Speaker 4: said he's your cousin. I'm like, Jordan, you know my
Speaker 4: home that is not my cousin.
Speaker 5: Oh listen, when it comes to people like or when
Speaker 5: it comes to just mentally preparing for fight. When you
Speaker 5: hear somebody like a clarician shield say she thinks you're
Speaker 5: gonna lose, you know, against Katie for the third fight,
Speaker 5: does that bother you mentally?
Speaker 4: Listen, I go in there, I fight with everything I have.
Speaker 4: I go out there, I train, I give myself. My
Speaker 4: team gives me on all the tools that I need
Speaker 4: to go out there and perform to my best ability
Speaker 4: and to win. It's not I feel like I'm not.
Speaker 4: I didn't lose those fights. It's what the judges saw.
Speaker 4: But you know it doesn't bother me. It fused me
Speaker 4: to go out there and just prove people wrong, prove
Speaker 4: that I am the winner.
Speaker 5: Did you cry after the last fight, and if you did,
Speaker 5: was it from pain, pride or just frustration?
Speaker 3: I cry more from looking at the cut. It was
Speaker 3: a pretty big cut. And I don't I cry.
Speaker 4: I cry sometimes even when I win. It is because
Speaker 4: of happiness. But I'm cry baby, that's one thing for sure.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, no, I cry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, I was frustrated because I'm like, I did
Speaker 4: everything that I could. But obviously there's room for improvement
Speaker 4: and that's what we're working on, and that's why we're
Speaker 4: going to change for.
Speaker 3: The third fight.
Speaker 6: But you won, right seven divisions. This is obviously a
Speaker 6: big money fight, a big profile fight. But if you
Speaker 6: do get the victory finally with Katie, what's the next challenge?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: I know people talking about Alicia Baumgan and she's with MVP.
Speaker 6: Now she's around your weight class. What's the next big
Speaker 6: challenge for man?
Speaker 5: You know what the world wants?
Speaker 4: No, Honestly, right now, I'm just concentrating, fully, concentrating on
Speaker 4: Katie tail Like, that's the one thing that's on my mind.
Speaker 4: My goal just to go out there and finally get
Speaker 4: this one. That's a big enough challenge for me right now,
Speaker 4: this moment, the.
Speaker 3: Seconds, a whole couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Leading up to the fight, and then after that, who knows?
Speaker 4: Who knows what the world holds for me? The team knows,
Speaker 4: and I mean they will go back and we'll figure
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 6: What about your team, like Nikkithsay and Jake like they
Speaker 6: have to plan ahead as a company, right, I know
Speaker 6: you got to focus on Katie, but what about what
Speaker 6: is a team saying about us next?
Speaker 3: Ah my, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Demons taking becoming the dispiritter champion.
Speaker 3: I won't forty come.
Speaker 4: July eleven and continue continuing to help and grow women
Speaker 4: in the sport of a boxing.
Speaker 3: That's that's definitely the goal division.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I want I want forty. Then I went
Speaker 4: down and when I want fifteen.
Speaker 7: It's crazy nuts, she said, one fight at a time.
Speaker 3: Right now, and this is the biggest, a big fight.
Speaker 4: But I'm excited just to be on this card, just
Speaker 4: just to have all these women give them the spotlight
Speaker 4: so they can showcase their skills.
Speaker 3: And and who knows.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've been a professional for sixteen years, sixteen
Speaker 4: long years. It had ups, downs, good times, bad time.
Speaker 4: Right now, the last four years have been have been fun,
Speaker 4: have been beneficial, have been super super different than what
Speaker 4: I'm used to the coming up into the sports. So
Speaker 4: I'm enjoying every second, every minute of it, and I
Speaker 4: can't wait to see the future of women's boxing.
Speaker 5: When you retire. What do you want a little Puerto
Speaker 5: Rican girls to say? When they mention.
Speaker 3: Little Puerto Rican girls?
Speaker 4: I need a little girl who or boy who who
Speaker 4: believes in themselves and want to do something. Just you
Speaker 4: have to go out there and give it your all,
Speaker 4: you know, greatness required sacrifice. I sacrifice my whole life
Speaker 4: to the sport, and I'm going to continue to work
Speaker 4: for them. And just believe in yourself, surround yourself with
Speaker 4: positive people, go out there and give it your all.
Speaker 3: That's all I can ask. And I always tell the
Speaker 3: young girls.
Speaker 4: They say, oh, I want to be like you, and
Speaker 4: I tell them, don't be like me, be better than me.
Speaker 4: And that's what I want to push them for. Just
Speaker 4: always to be better than than me. And that's what
Speaker 4: I do. I always want to be better than I
Speaker 4: was yesterday or or the fight before.
Speaker 3: And that's all you have to do.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have bad Bunny or which one two Puertoricans
Speaker 7: stars that.
Speaker 3: Bunny has a concert? To say? His first concert in
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico is the night of the fight.
Speaker 7: What about Jocelyne, You know Jocelyn, She had a float and.
Speaker 1: Shrinking princess right there.
Speaker 6: So walk Katie, Katie Taylor. Chapter closed. After this third fight?
Speaker 1: Is that done?
Speaker 3: I think? I think so?
Speaker 4: You know, honestly, I said that after the second, after
Speaker 4: the first one, I was like, God, I am so
Speaker 4: tired of I love Katie and Katie is my best friend,
Speaker 4: but I'm like, how can you love and hate someone?
Speaker 6: Because the last press conference, I've never seen y'all go
Speaker 6: at it the way you did. She threw shots saying
Speaker 6: your delusion and you you came, you came with the helmet.
Speaker 6: It was the football to the press conference and sceenerator
Speaker 6: and I don't want to get so this it's.
Speaker 1: Not as freely as it was before.
Speaker 3: That was just something that was just But.
Speaker 4: Then the day after we had to do like promo
Speaker 4: and photo shoot and we were just laughing talking on
Speaker 4: like regular But yeah, I think she's kind of probably
Speaker 4: tired of me too.
Speaker 6: If you beat her and she says I want to,
Speaker 6: you won't one, let's do it again.
Speaker 3: Damn money talks.
Speaker 4: But like, honestly, I'm like I told myself as a
Speaker 4: but because it's been like I'll talk of both our
Speaker 4: names since she returned pro and we wasn't even in
Speaker 4: the same weight class at the same I was, I'm
Speaker 4: never at her same weight class, But I'm like, who
Speaker 4: is Katie?
Speaker 3: But Katie Taylor's.
Speaker 4: Brought eyes to the professional box boxing world, which which
Speaker 4: is good, but it's been like that for years. I
Speaker 4: was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5: We all know what the ultimate pay day is. I
Speaker 5: don't know what that weight would be between you and Clarissa,
Speaker 5: but that would be the ultimate pay day in the
Speaker 5: ultimate matching women's box.
Speaker 3: Listen, it can be.
Speaker 4: But im just like I said, I'm here promoting July eleventh, and.
Speaker 6: It's just But would you go to one forty seven?
Speaker 6: I forget about about would you you're more that fight?
Speaker 3: That's not that's not true. I'm not almost there. I can't.
Speaker 3: I can barely make going forty and as night as
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 4: For you, Yeah, that's good for eating good, eating and
Speaker 4: training hard, But yeah I'm not. I'm not a natural
Speaker 4: one forty a natural one thirty five. I'm a natural
Speaker 4: one twenty six. I walk around I want thirty four. So,
Speaker 4: like I said, going up and wait, it's really hard
Speaker 4: for me. It's a lot harder for me than losing weight.
Speaker 4: And people look at me like I'm crazy, Like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, losing weight is hard.
Speaker 3: No, gaining weight for me.
Speaker 1: You got fast.
Speaker 4: When I'm constantly working hard and training hard, I sweat
Speaker 4: so much and I lose I lose weight so fast.
Speaker 6: So I'm like, no, like, but you can't make one
Speaker 6: forty seven if you had.
Speaker 3: To, No, I know I can't. I won't. The heavier
Speaker 3: you go, the more you lose. Yeah, my power is
Speaker 3: still there. But like I said, this million.
Speaker 1: Al right over twenty million.
Speaker 5: I'll go up to one point, but you can whip
Speaker 5: your ass.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: How does it feel when you walk in the gym
Speaker 5: sometime and know you better than ninety nine percent a minute?
Speaker 3: He confidence?
Speaker 4: Sometimes I walk around the street and I'm like, only
Speaker 4: if they knew.
Speaker 2: We wish you the best of luck. You're fighting Madison
Speaker 2: Square Guard in July eleventh.
Speaker 3: All my Puerto.
Speaker 2: Ricans, but equads, go buy your tickets, get out.
Speaker 1: There and support.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm saying right now because I was on the
Speaker 2: float last Yes.
Speaker 3: We're making history an all woman's card. Great fights.
Speaker 4: I honestly re me and Katie had two great fights,
Speaker 4: but I don't know we're up before some good competition.
Speaker 3: This fight absolutely well.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, Aman the Serrano.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up
Speaker 1: in the morning.
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