Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman a one hand
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Speaker 1: is Lights Out with Sean Merriman. What's up, guys. We're
Speaker 1: back with another Lights out podcast with me Sean Merriman. UM,
Speaker 1: and we're going boxing to day man and it's strictly entertainment. Um.
Speaker 1: I know, I talked about it a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: with Jake Paul's fight and been asking we got his
Speaker 1: his trainers right hand man j Flores, a former high
Speaker 1: school football player himself but also a hell of a
Speaker 1: box who had a hell of a career, And uh,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna speak you know, in the first turn
Speaker 1: basis I was there. I've seen the work that they
Speaker 1: put in UM and just this wold wild road that
Speaker 1: they've been on as far as with Jake Paul and
Speaker 1: him growing the sporting you know, look, it's entertainment. Uh.
Speaker 1: He has a great following the pay per view shows
Speaker 1: that they're entertained and they want to see more fights
Speaker 1: like this. And we're gonna find out next what's for
Speaker 1: Jake Paul and his trainer b J Floors. Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: going on there? So, so what's next. Maybe you guys
Speaker 1: have been kind of flying out and doing you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's been a whirlwind. And I talked to
Speaker 1: the trailer guys down then Ryan and everybody, and I
Speaker 1: know they're planning something here. What in September or October?
Speaker 1: That sounds about right. Jake's Jake's agent has been working
Speaker 1: on that kind of low key, so I don't have
Speaker 1: all the details exactly, but yeah, I mean they definitely
Speaker 1: want to have him back. I think late August early
Speaker 1: September is probably the timeline they're looking at. And uh,
Speaker 1: we got a couple names floating around right now. I
Speaker 1: can't really say because I don't want to get any
Speaker 1: any situation where you know, they don't want to do
Speaker 1: the deal after I say it. So so so so
Speaker 1: let me. I'm I'm a back up man because I
Speaker 1: used to play used to play football too, right, so
Speaker 1: never never at a level L no, no, no no, what yeah?
Speaker 1: You all you all stay? Yeah? I was a stay
Speaker 1: and then I was. Before my sophomore season at Snow,
Speaker 1: I was a preseason All American wide receiver. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I injured my hand. I'm straying about honestly. Before our
Speaker 1: first game I had three touchdowns on our in our
Speaker 1: our final scramments before the games. The season started and
Speaker 1: I did something to my handstring that stame like the
Speaker 1: next week and I could just never recover. And I
Speaker 1: was injured my entire sophomore season. So I didn't really
Speaker 1: have a breakout year. I didn't do that good. I
Speaker 1: had like forty catches, like seven touchdowns, like it was
Speaker 1: all right with nothing crazy and and just kind of
Speaker 1: you know, pushed me over the boxing because I played
Speaker 1: by I do boxing half the year and I played
Speaker 1: football the other half the year. But after and after
Speaker 1: your DUCO you go to Division one school, I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's it's seven on football. You can't mess around.
Speaker 1: So I chose boxing. So I always say this too,
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of especially former athletes to
Speaker 1: get injured or come across something. Maybe he had a
Speaker 1: bad coach, you know, putting guy put in the bass situation,
Speaker 1: maybe got in trouble whatever that is, to end up
Speaker 1: transitioning over in the combat sports. What what do you?
Speaker 1: What is you? Because I'm I'm pitting. I'm pushing guys now. Said, look,
Speaker 1: if you get injured early or you know, you're done
Speaker 1: with the game early pick up some form, pick up
Speaker 1: some form of combat a school. I don't know if
Speaker 1: his boxing and it may do something. What what was
Speaker 1: the deciding factor? Man? It kind of push you over
Speaker 1: to to getting getting in a boxing Well. I won
Speaker 1: my first national title when I was ten years old.
Speaker 1: So I won my second national title when I was eleven.
Speaker 1: I won my third on fifteen, I won the national
Speaker 1: Bolden gloves O were all fifty states when I was
Speaker 1: eighteen years old at a hundred sevent eight pounds. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was always one of the top boxes in the country.
Speaker 1: And then I won the US Championships, which is the biggest,
Speaker 1: the tournament that they used to decide the Olympics, the
Speaker 1: Olympic team. Um I won that in two thousand one,
Speaker 1: two thousand two. I won every every tournament in America.
Speaker 1: I won the Four Nations tournament against France and Germany
Speaker 1: and Australia. I won the Korea China duels, and I
Speaker 1: started getting a lot offers the term pro and boxing,
Speaker 1: and you know good offers, you know the kind of money,
Speaker 1: the kind of contracts that you don't really get offered
Speaker 1: unless you know you're an Olympian. So That's why I
Speaker 1: went ahead and I turned pro the year before the Olympics.
Speaker 1: But the kid I beat, Devin Bargas, Uh, he was
Speaker 1: the Olympian for you know for two thousand four as
Speaker 1: a headyweight. I beat him all three times I fought him,
Speaker 1: so you know, he thanked me whenever I turned pro
Speaker 1: a year early. But you know that was kind of
Speaker 1: a deciding fact. But what I would tell people is
Speaker 1: this man like look like just just competing every day.
Speaker 1: It's very important. I think it's just important to compete
Speaker 1: in anything you're doing, you know, in your job and
Speaker 1: you're anything you want to just compete and it brings
Speaker 1: out the best of you. So any guys who get injured,
Speaker 1: you know, like like hand to hand combat combat like this,
Speaker 1: it gives these athletes and their careers are maybe terminated
Speaker 1: a little early from an injury or whatever, it gives
Speaker 1: them opportunities to compete, which is very valuable for from
Speaker 1: my mental well being. No how to question and I
Speaker 1: and I tell people now even why I trained the
Speaker 1: way I do is it's number one mentally, you know, emotionally,
Speaker 1: you get up, you got something, you gotta reason to
Speaker 1: get up. But that's what you need. First of all,
Speaker 1: you gotta a reason to compete. You gotta reason get
Speaker 1: up so great great boxing career. And then you fast
Speaker 1: forward now onto how did you come up? Well? The
Speaker 1: first times you meet Jake Paul? How did that happen?
Speaker 1: I made him. I came out. I came out to
Speaker 1: Big Bear before his fight, uh would give January two
Speaker 1: thousand twenties. So I was out there December in Big
Speaker 1: Bear and I started. I came out as a sparring partner.
Speaker 1: I spared him twice and then ah, I just saw
Speaker 1: a lot of potential in him. And he's really tough kid.
Speaker 1: I liked him. He's nothing like what people think he
Speaker 1: is like online. He's nothing even like that. So I
Speaker 1: had a real good experience with him. He was such
Speaker 1: a hard worker, and I noticed how hard he worked
Speaker 1: in the very beginning, and I really like that about him.
Speaker 1: He's dedicated. He did everything we asked him to do. Man,
Speaker 1: he was just he works his ass off. So that
Speaker 1: that's when I first met him December of two thousand nineteen.
Speaker 1: So so I even tap onto that because a lot
Speaker 1: of people do ask me about I said, look, man,
Speaker 1: this this dude works. He does so when I came up,
Speaker 1: When I came up to the Big Bear with you guys,
Speaker 1: and I stayed for those couple of days. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I had the same outlook on on Jake,
Speaker 1: just as everybody else did YouTuber, social media, looking forward,
Speaker 1: tanch and this and this, and I and I saw
Speaker 1: something completely different. And we've both been around professional athletes lives,
Speaker 1: so we know how guys work. So the first thing
Speaker 1: that I noticed is that he was a total opposite
Speaker 1: of what I thought I was gonna see when I
Speaker 1: came there. He worked hard, pushed through, didn't beat your complaint.
Speaker 1: And I said, Okay, when I saw that, I said this,
Speaker 1: this kid got a he got a real, a real chance.
Speaker 1: And so I want to I'm I'm vouching on that
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of people want to say, oh,
Speaker 1: he's not doing this, if he's doing that, or he's
Speaker 1: doing whatever. Um So him being a raw athlete. Even
Speaker 1: the day we we out, we ran on the field
Speaker 1: on the football field that day, I said, Man, this dude,
Speaker 1: he pushes like hell. He actually just wants to win.
Speaker 1: He's a winner at heart. Man, You're you're right about that,
Speaker 1: and you just and it's good that you saw firsthand
Speaker 1: because you can. I mean, you've been around pro athletes here.
Speaker 1: I mean, he don't won't get his credibility until he
Speaker 1: beats more people. And I understand that it's part of
Speaker 1: the game. But um, the kid is working man, trust me.
Speaker 1: And and that's not even that's not even when he
Speaker 1: started getting good. He's really started getting good when we
Speaker 1: went to Vegas for those four or five months, he
Speaker 1: was sparting with everybody all over the I mean good
Speaker 1: pros and he has no business being in there with
Speaker 1: But because it's fundamentals and his basic technique so good.
Speaker 1: He can do two or three things that will give
Speaker 1: anybody a problem. You know what, it doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: it is, we'll give. He'll give somebody a problem with.
Speaker 1: You know, even good guys. He'll give. He'll give problems
Speaker 1: at least two or three things that he does really well,
Speaker 1: which I'm not going to disclose. But he, uh, his
Speaker 1: fundamentals are very good, his techniques very good. His spacing
Speaker 1: is good. He's got a great left hand, which you know, Sean,
Speaker 1: the left hand will take you around the world. Your
Speaker 1: right hand will take you around the block. So he's
Speaker 1: got that left hand and Muhammad Ali I'm not comparing
Speaker 1: with Muhammad alive, but I'm saying the importance of the
Speaker 1: left hand is so important and we've really worked and
Speaker 1: developed that. So he's uh, he's he's coming along really nicely,
Speaker 1: and I know he's spared the other pro boxes. So
Speaker 1: so when I see people, what do you say when
Speaker 1: people say, oh, yeah, he's fighting on YouTube or he's
Speaker 1: been been asking what do you what are you saying
Speaker 1: to that because I know and you know that he's
Speaker 1: sparred other pro boxes, other quality, real quality guys. Are
Speaker 1: you just sitting back saying, okay, you just wait or
Speaker 1: are you guys? Is it kind of getting out of
Speaker 1: your skin because you know what he's already done. If
Speaker 1: I disclosed some of the videos and I gotta Jake
Speaker 1: beating up with some good pros like trust me, it
Speaker 1: would be uh, it would be eye opening. But you know,
Speaker 1: in the in the in the business of boxing, we
Speaker 1: don't do that. We don't. We don't. We don't postparing
Speaker 1: videos of guys that were you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't do that. So a couple of distraggler guys
Speaker 1: who came in the gym we post that, but nobody
Speaker 1: that I respect do we post just had a respect
Speaker 1: and just kind of an unspoken rule in boxing. But
Speaker 1: if people saw what I saw him the gym every day, man,
Speaker 1: there would be no questions about it. And you've you've
Speaker 1: seen a little glimpse of it, Sean. But even in
Speaker 1: the last six eight months, man, he's really he's really
Speaker 1: turned on to another level. He's really something. And uh,
Speaker 1: he's just working so hard. He's got such a good
Speaker 1: team around him. He so focused. Um, there's no distractions,
Speaker 1: and he just listens. Man, he's like a sponge. He
Speaker 1: really does. We watch film, We spar we watch film.
Speaker 1: I believe film study is very important. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of advantages that you can gain by
Speaker 1: watching your opponent and in not having the old fashioned
Speaker 1: mentality like oh I'm gonna whoop his ass, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I pick up little things. I watched people what they do.
Speaker 1: My dad was very big on film. When I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I would always watch, uh, the guy who
Speaker 1: watch fighting. The next night in the tournament, my brothers
Speaker 1: would be over filming him in the ring and I
Speaker 1: would be fighting on one ring and the next guy
Speaker 1: who I'd fight the winner. My brothers would be filming
Speaker 1: him and watching them. So we go home at night
Speaker 1: and we watched the film, we break it down, and
Speaker 1: I'd have a full game plan coming in on day
Speaker 1: two of the tournament, dame day three of the tournament.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's something that I brought to
Speaker 1: Jake's camp, that it's very effective. He's he's very smart,
Speaker 1: he's he's studious. He pays attention, and we look for
Speaker 1: little things, a little little opportunities that we can take
Speaker 1: advantage of. We we don't try to do a lot
Speaker 1: of things, but what we do do we do really well,
Speaker 1: no no doubt. And so he's going to continue to
Speaker 1: get better and and what no matter if and people
Speaker 1: forget that he's only been boxing for a couple of years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. Do you do you think when I watched
Speaker 1: Jake and knowing him as as a person, right, I
Speaker 1: don't care about this, you know, everything else, but just
Speaker 1: knowing him as a person. So but when I see
Speaker 1: him doing some of the other stuff, do you ever
Speaker 1: think just a little bit like Jake, that's that ship
Speaker 1: is a little bit it's a little bit out there,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little bit too much or do
Speaker 1: you say, you know what, it's part, It's part of
Speaker 1: the sport. It is what it is. I kind of
Speaker 1: do the ladder, you know what, kind of like Jake,
Speaker 1: Jake it is the social media you know, expert. He
Speaker 1: knows how to get people, get under people's skin. He
Speaker 1: knows how to you know, create a buzz. And my
Speaker 1: I'm moral fashioned. I'm you know, I'm just like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stay in my lane. I'm gonna do what I
Speaker 1: gotta do. I'm gonna clock in every day and be ready.
Speaker 1: But I don't really understand all the other stuff sometimes.
Speaker 1: But I mean, whatever works for him. But uh, I
Speaker 1: know exactly what you mean. I'm just moral fashioned. Fox
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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Yeah. No, I'm because I'm
Speaker 1: in the middle, Like I'm I got that school like
Speaker 1: me too, you know, I'm not I'm not doing on
Speaker 1: this you know bullshit out here while I'm chasing guy
Speaker 1: on doing certain But then also too, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: the reason why Jake is in that position is because
Speaker 1: he does some of this ship and as long as
Speaker 1: I think we understand, we understand that he's backing it up.
Speaker 1: That that's most important for me watching him, is that
Speaker 1: he's backing it up. Now people can say he didn't
Speaker 1: fight a real fighter and all other stuff been asking
Speaker 1: it was a real fighter, I mean, not a boxer,
Speaker 1: but he was a real fighter. And then it almost
Speaker 1: reminds me of you know, I got into some fights
Speaker 1: back in the day where you go up and and
Speaker 1: somebody like, oh, yeah, he can't do that to me,
Speaker 1: and then you go and you punish him and you
Speaker 1: do something to him, and then the next guy said,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I bet he can't do that to me.
Speaker 1: Then you go you punish him, and so it's always
Speaker 1: another guy saying he won't do that to me. Is
Speaker 1: that what you guys seeing, because I've just seen Tyrone
Speaker 1: Tyron Woodley you know, calling him out, some other guys
Speaker 1: calling he can he can get it, next to he
Speaker 1: can get it if he wants to say he can
Speaker 1: get it, no problem. So so you're you guys open
Speaker 1: Flori fight with Tyrone will Tyron Woodley has no I
Speaker 1: trust me, I respect him. He's a very very good,
Speaker 1: very good. M M. A fighter, he's excellent, he's I
Speaker 1: was a fan of him. But he doesn't he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to. He doesn't know nothing about that ring like that.
Speaker 1: He'll go out the exact same way. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: can get it to no problem. We gotta look, we
Speaker 1: gotta list the guys that can get it. Tyron's on
Speaker 1: the very top. He wants to step up ship, he
Speaker 1: can get it too. You know, what's all due respecting
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not I'm not trash talking him at all.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if he wants to, it's no problem
Speaker 1: with We're not going nowhere. So what's look? And I agree,
Speaker 1: and that's I think that's one of the ones that
Speaker 1: um that people would have actually to enjoy seeing. And
Speaker 1: then too, Tyron is is respected and what he does,
Speaker 1: and so by Jake going out and having a good performance,
Speaker 1: now you started to silence a lot of these critics.
Speaker 1: What when do you think it? What do you think
Speaker 1: of the style? Because what I what I see right
Speaker 1: now is coming from Jake's way, and I know he'd
Speaker 1: do all the other ship and it's part of what
Speaker 1: he do. But when do you think of the style
Speaker 1: was somebody. People want to sit back and say, you
Speaker 1: know what, Okay, this dude can go. I mean if
Speaker 1: he would have, if Ben would have made it to
Speaker 1: the second or third round, then people would have seen
Speaker 1: a lot of Jake's skill set. I'm telling you these
Speaker 1: couple of little things that we do good, it's gonna
Speaker 1: knock a lot of people out. I telling you it's
Speaker 1: gonna knock a lot of people out. So once we
Speaker 1: get into a round two and three, then people will
Speaker 1: see more of the skill set. It's gonna take him
Speaker 1: probably going two or three rounds and one of these
Speaker 1: fikes with somebody who's well respected for people actually start
Speaker 1: giving him the respect. But uh, I see it in
Speaker 1: the gym every day. I mean he does it for
Speaker 1: six rounds. He doesn't great rounds. I'm rotating speign partners
Speaker 1: in the whole time, bringing in fresh guys, always putting
Speaker 1: him in a disadvantage to where any moment of the fight,
Speaker 1: like he he's so prepared coming into these fights, showing
Speaker 1: you have he is so overly prepared for these fights,
Speaker 1: Like Ben I told, I said it at the press
Speaker 1: comments like two weeks for the fight. I said, Ben
Speaker 1: has no idea what he's getting in into. He has
Speaker 1: no clue and uh and by the time you know
Speaker 1: the bell rings staff person, it's gonna be too late.
Speaker 1: But I just worked so hard. I'm making sure Jake
Speaker 1: is prepared for any situation. It doesn't matter what it is.
Speaker 1: A boxer, a banger. Guy's got good condition, guys a
Speaker 1: good inside fighter, guys are good on the outside. We
Speaker 1: work everything, Bro, he's so over prepared for these fights.
Speaker 1: I put him in with a million different styles as sparing.
Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't only try to go find guys
Speaker 1: like Ben Asking. I found everybody we had can't. We
Speaker 1: had calls out to everybody. Bro, he's sparring, bare knuckle champions,
Speaker 1: Andrew Tabatie, Jean Pascal, UFC guys, m m A, guys,
Speaker 1: people from all over the play wrestlers. I put him
Speaker 1: in with everything because that's what Raiss is boxing, I Q.
Speaker 1: That's what teach him how to deal with certain situations
Speaker 1: when he gets in the ring. Unless you've done it
Speaker 1: in sparring and you've trained for it, it's tough when
Speaker 1: you get under those lights. So you gotta put I
Speaker 1: gotta put all these different situations in front of Jake,
Speaker 1: so he knows how to handle when he sees that style.
Speaker 1: So bro, he's just doing so good right now. Everything
Speaker 1: we ask me, it's just like there's so many names
Speaker 1: out there, like who do you think? Who do you
Speaker 1: want to see him fight? You know? I think to
Speaker 1: me personally, Tarron Widley would be what in my in
Speaker 1: my opinion, because you got Taryn Woodley, who's a champion
Speaker 1: in in m m A. He's been, he's been around
Speaker 1: and yeah, I remember watching him in the mid two
Speaker 1: thousand when you're first coming on and just him, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of progressing and being and whatever. Now and I
Speaker 1: think by Jay Jake having a strong outing against Woodley, um,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna turn a lot of heads because
Speaker 1: of how respected Wholly is now been asked when people
Speaker 1: can say whatever, you know, no, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: I like one thing to piss me off. I've been
Speaker 1: asking thing And I had a I had a solo
Speaker 1: podcast like a week or two ago or a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago at right after the fight is when people
Speaker 1: say the fight's rigged right, that's to me me personally
Speaker 1: that that was the the ultimate sign of like not
Speaker 1: even hate. It's like a disrespect level, Like you got
Speaker 1: a guy like been asking that is decorated what he did, right,
Speaker 1: So nobody's taking a dive. He's not trying to get
Speaker 1: his ass whopped in front of millions of people. And
Speaker 1: then you got Jake who was put in the work
Speaker 1: to actually go and knock him out. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what m M A fighting You guys are sparring
Speaker 1: and training with before, but he called it. He's he
Speaker 1: said that Ben was going to get knocked out. I
Speaker 1: mean so when I seen that, I said, man, this
Speaker 1: this sucks. You know, you hate you hate on this
Speaker 1: kid so much that you're not willing to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: this was a clean and brutal knockout. Everybody who Jake
Speaker 1: sparred this entire camp came out of the ring saying
Speaker 1: Jake's knocking Been out, no question about it. So it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where just like you said, man like,
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta get in there with somebody to see
Speaker 1: it and believe it for yourself. And every single spar
Speaker 1: impartant we had coming up the fight. After the fight,
Speaker 1: they came in looking at Jake one way, they came
Speaker 1: out with a completely different look for him. So that
Speaker 1: he gets people's respect because he does some a couple
Speaker 1: of things, you know, a couple of things very very
Speaker 1: good and uh he's he doesn't at a very high
Speaker 1: level with this distance and his spacing and his taunt
Speaker 1: and his jabs and changing levels, and it gives people
Speaker 1: a lot of problems. Man. So people come out of
Speaker 1: the ring if they spar and they're like this, this
Speaker 1: motherfucker really fight. He really can. So it is what
Speaker 1: it is. He's still kind of new. People are like,
Speaker 1: you know, still trying to get wrapped their head around
Speaker 1: the fact that a YouTuber, you know, a Disney character
Speaker 1: third place in the Challenger Games. He setting all this
Speaker 1: funny stuff to like try to you know, bring like
Speaker 1: show like where he was before now. But it's like
Speaker 1: people a people are starting to catch on everybody that
Speaker 1: spars and comes out of the ring saying, man, this kid,
Speaker 1: this kid really fight. So you know we're hit in
Speaker 1: the right direction. What what's the what's the altimate goal?
Speaker 1: Because I see he's um he partnered with a hit.
Speaker 1: You know, he got a hands funt thing going on.
Speaker 1: Um he got a few. I mean he's got a
Speaker 1: ton of stuff going What's what's the ultsman goal. I know,
Speaker 1: you guys mean is it for him to you know,
Speaker 1: get to econom McGregor, or is it to get to
Speaker 1: a big name boxer or whoever that may be. What's
Speaker 1: what's the ultsman goal with you guys? I think the goal?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's probably a question. Really Ja could
Speaker 1: answer better than me, But um, just just making big,
Speaker 1: entertaining fights with people that you know, fight, fighters that
Speaker 1: you know, people that want to actually see him fight,
Speaker 1: whether that's Connor, whether that's Nick Diaz, whether it's Nick Diaz,
Speaker 1: whether it's guys like that. I mean, those are those
Speaker 1: are tough, tough guys. Those are credible, credible guys. I
Speaker 1: don't care you're talking about and the and the octagon,
Speaker 1: if you're talking about the boxing wing. Those are well respected,
Speaker 1: tough guys, and those are the kind of fights I
Speaker 1: think that Jake wants eventually. Um, people talking about Tommy Fury,
Speaker 1: the nephew of Tyson Fury, who's you know four Oh. Also,
Speaker 1: I mean he's like there's a there's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: How did how did he jump in? Because he he
Speaker 1: was talking on the behalf of of Tyson. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so you know, I saw that Jake was, you know,
Speaker 1: making fun of as he as he do whatever, you
Speaker 1: know what, everybody, but how did how did that happen?
Speaker 1: Did he just jump in a conversation what? No, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure exactly how it happened, but it just, uh,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, he starts talking. He's
Speaker 1: got a good social media following. I guess he was
Speaker 1: on some reality show in the UK and he's well known,
Speaker 1: so you know, on paper, it kind of made sense.
Speaker 1: You know, he's, you know, Tommy Fury's tyson Fury, the
Speaker 1: heavyweight champions little brother. I mean, come on, like these
Speaker 1: gypsies grow up a different way, man. These are some tough, tough,
Speaker 1: tough guys, very tough guys, rugged guys. The father and
Speaker 1: the uncle Peter. I mean, these guys are no bullshit guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys really can teach you how to fight.
Speaker 1: So um, that's another big name too. But uh but
Speaker 1: but as far as the m M A guys like
Speaker 1: I like Nate Diaz, I like Nick Das. I like
Speaker 1: those guys. They're tough, tough, tough kids from from California.
Speaker 1: Give him a payday and they put on a great event.
Speaker 1: A big fight, and uh, everybody wins, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So, and and Jake's ready for those guys,
Speaker 1: and and nobody in the in the in the m
Speaker 1: m A world thinks Jake is. So that's what makes
Speaker 1: it more intriguing. You know, people say, oh, no, there's
Speaker 1: no way Jake's gonna bet Nadias or Nidias. So and
Speaker 1: but those kind of guy, that's a tough, credible guys,
Speaker 1: and those are kind of fights that you know, I
Speaker 1: like for Jake go, man, I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm happy for Jake, man. I hope he's
Speaker 1: stayed on his path. And I'm happy for you, man,
Speaker 1: because I really did this come to me personally being
Speaker 1: around you guys. He he needed you around him, not
Speaker 1: you know, your discipline, uh that you bring and your
Speaker 1: experience and then with his mindset and the building build
Speaker 1: because people understand when you're that big, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get through two people, man, you know, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get through. And for somebody to be as successful as
Speaker 1: he as as young and still be able to open
Speaker 1: his ears and listen, he's gonna go places, man, So
Speaker 1: big credit to you. And what y'all building over there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know I'll be down there soon. I gotta come
Speaker 1: and see the Miami crib and check you out a
Speaker 1: lot down there anytime. Man. Well, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And uh, like I said, just any
Speaker 1: any shedding any positive light on Jake about what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do, what he's you know, the obstacles he's
Speaker 1: got to deal with all the time, like all the
Speaker 1: ship that comes out of the media and with his
Speaker 1: training and everything. It's just like the kid's gotta full play.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot to deal with it. He just
Speaker 1: he handles it so professionally every day and my job
Speaker 1: is just to make sure anything he needs I got
Speaker 1: back on whatever it is and more teams. So that's it.
Speaker 1: Now you're a blessing to him. Dog. Hey but cool man,
Speaker 1: I'll come down that see you soon. Bro. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on. Thanks guys for listening to another lights Out
Speaker 1: podcast with me, Seawan Merriman. Uh, that's a lot of insight. Man.
Speaker 1: It was cool for me to be there. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm I called myself between the right because you know,
Speaker 1: I have old screw mentality. You played football, you know,
Speaker 1: back in early men two men, two thousands, and football
Speaker 1: was different then. And you know, I always say it
Speaker 1: to myself. I don't want to be the old guy
Speaker 1: and come back say oh yeah, it's soft now. So
Speaker 1: I understand the social media side, to understand the UM,
Speaker 1: the discipline of the squarter boxing and UM with great
Speaker 1: conversation with b J Force, who's Jake Paul's trainer, UM,
Speaker 1: and thank him for coming on. Thank you guys for
Speaker 1: listening in to another lighttop podcast me Sean MArmand keep subscribing,
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