Speaker 1: And everything I do, I do it to be the
Speaker 1: best daddy. You know you don't really want to. I
Speaker 1: want my first spite eight years old. I've been doing
Speaker 1: this my whole night. You're like, I'm supposed to be here.
Speaker 1: My dad guy had cancer and when he pushes me,
Speaker 1: I pushed myself. No one can stop my shine. Very
Speaker 1: down smoke, anybody feel in front of you. I wanted
Speaker 1: to show the world I heard to be none of
Speaker 1: the king. We never tried, you would never tried. You
Speaker 1: ain't never tried to survive on the time with the
Speaker 1: best Welcome back Man, season two of All the Smoke.
Speaker 1: We got a real special guys, what's up with your
Speaker 1: brod each with a virtual handshake. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: that I never told back I want to smoke. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another addition of All the Smoke. We got
Speaker 1: a very special guest today, someone I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Mike Tyson fan. In this dude from
Speaker 1: the day he stepped on the scene reminded me of
Speaker 1: just a smaller version. He's an animal that jump in
Speaker 1: left hook knocks plenty of people out. Man. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, Thank Davis Man, Thanks for coming in, bro,
Speaker 1: thank you all for having man, no doubt, big fans here.
Speaker 1: We love what you're doing. You got a big fight
Speaker 1: coming up Halloween on Showtime pay per view. You ready
Speaker 1: for that? Yeah, I'm definitely ready. You know, training each
Speaker 1: and every day, you don't pin on a great performance.
Speaker 1: You know, it's my first people fight. So he's definitely ready.
Speaker 1: Get you get that page. That pay per view money
Speaker 1: might be a little different. I heard. I don't know
Speaker 1: shit about it, but I heard that that pay per
Speaker 1: view money a little different. Yeah, it's crazy. I was.
Speaker 1: I was actually last fight against gam boy, um, and
Speaker 1: I've seen you go to work. A lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff went on. If I actually when he
Speaker 1: when he when he kind of towards Achilles, I kind
Speaker 1: of said something to Steve at the time. I say, man,
Speaker 1: I think he heard himself, and I knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of How do you feel about your
Speaker 1: performance that fight? I actually I watched it. I watched
Speaker 1: a little bit of it. You um, I probably watched
Speaker 1: it probably like once you had a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: later and I turned it off. I think, yeah, that
Speaker 1: wasn't my best performance. So that's why now I'm on
Speaker 1: my training camp to you know, Las Vegas, so I
Speaker 1: could be able to put on a better performance. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that was bad for my fans. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll put that high fought and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I'm definitely coming back stronger and better, you know, And
Speaker 1: this is definitely you know, I make up for my
Speaker 1: last fight. Us as athletes, though, we understand, bro, because
Speaker 1: like a win is a win, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We we we we we didn't play games or we
Speaker 1: didn't play like ship and still was able to win
Speaker 1: by one or two points. So a win is a
Speaker 1: winning as a professional athletes, so we understand, we go
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board and come back better. So, Bro,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be fans. We're supporting you down. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. What is it like trying, like you said,
Speaker 1: you've moved your camp to Vegas. What is it like
Speaker 1: trying to focus on this day of you know, Jack
Speaker 1: and I kind of caught to tell ind of it
Speaker 1: our NBA cris, but this social media world is fucking saying.
Speaker 1: So what is it like trying to manage all the
Speaker 1: outside noise knowing that you're preparing each and every fight
Speaker 1: to be your biggest fight you've ever had. It's really not.
Speaker 1: I was always like coming up, just night, just coming
Speaker 1: up period. I was always that kid that no one
Speaker 1: the time to buckle down with things like that, Like
Speaker 1: I know when you know when it's time to get serious.
Speaker 1: You know, I know how to focus, you know, no
Speaker 1: matter what's going on around me. That's what made me
Speaker 1: so special. While I came so far and you know,
Speaker 1: things like that, me coming up, I had a lot
Speaker 1: of people older than me, what's already in the streets
Speaker 1: and things like that. So and um, I watched my
Speaker 1: coach and them tell them, give them advices and things
Speaker 1: like that, and they still done it and and they
Speaker 1: want him getting killed. So I think that was, you know, um,
Speaker 1: the best part you know of of me, because you
Speaker 1: know me just be able to you know, stay focused,
Speaker 1: you know, and saying it as a young age. So
Speaker 1: when it's time like this, now, you know, I could
Speaker 1: be able to stay focused no matter what's going on
Speaker 1: outside the world. On the outside of the world, but
Speaker 1: once something locked in, I'm locked in. Absolutely. You mentioned
Speaker 1: it a little bit, obviously, losing people along the way
Speaker 1: rough childhood in Baltimore. Um, take us back to your
Speaker 1: childhood and and and what the scene was like and
Speaker 1: what actually inspired you to get into boxing. Coming up normal,
Speaker 1: just uh in a city kid. You know, mother followers
Speaker 1: on drugs and things like that. And um, you know
Speaker 1: my mother left me, left us in the house by herself,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh protective service they came grad us
Speaker 1: and things like that when they split us up, you know,
Speaker 1: and once my grandma ford to get us back. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: I was always aggressive one I was younger, you know,
Speaker 1: so I was much more aggressive than my my oldest brother.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, I was always fighting a lot. You know.
Speaker 1: I used to fight for my brother, you know, because
Speaker 1: we was the new kids on the block and we
Speaker 1: were brought up under our grandma. We didn't have like
Speaker 1: our mother and father. So it was like stuff that
Speaker 1: we had like reboxes and people had like kids had
Speaker 1: drawings and nikes and things like that. So well, I
Speaker 1: always used to fight. I used to fight in school.
Speaker 1: So one time I was fighting in front of my
Speaker 1: house and my my uncle so happened to walk out
Speaker 1: the door, ain't seeing me fighting, So um he took
Speaker 1: me to the boxing gym. You know how were you
Speaker 1: not to cut you off? How were you at that age?
Speaker 1: I probably was about I want to say, like seven.
Speaker 1: I was seven. It must have been a flawless victory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it was fighting things like that. So it took
Speaker 1: me to the gym. And when I was going to
Speaker 1: the gym, I was getting It wasn't really about the
Speaker 1: fighting or boxing at that time. It was really about,
Speaker 1: you know, me getting that love from love at the
Speaker 1: gym that I wasn't getting at home because my grandma
Speaker 1: she was you know, she was she she was moving
Speaker 1: around too much and things like that, so she didn't
Speaker 1: have time for us. So I just got that love.
Speaker 1: I got that farther figure. I had other kids and
Speaker 1: the gym, like brothers and things like that. So I
Speaker 1: was always fighting in the gym too. So I just
Speaker 1: grew up and you know, um just they started being family,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was wondering a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: because I was I was still fighting in school. So
Speaker 1: it was time that you know, when we're fighting at school,
Speaker 1: that make a spall in the gym, like we gotta
Speaker 1: fight the big kids in the gym. I was getting
Speaker 1: so good that they was telling me like, no, we
Speaker 1: can't do that with you, youre just gonna have to
Speaker 1: stay outside, like stay out the gym. Yeah that's what
Speaker 1: I used to that cry and things like that. I
Speaker 1: just loved the gym. And you're like, I used to
Speaker 1: get out of school at two thirty and I go
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even go home. I go straight to the gym.
Speaker 1: And the gym don't open to like four or thirty
Speaker 1: or five o'clock. So I used to sleep outside the
Speaker 1: gym before it open. They used to like it was
Speaker 1: a daycare right uh next door. So they used to
Speaker 1: call the police on me and like this kid out
Speaker 1: here homeless and things like that. But you just couldn't
Speaker 1: wait to get the gym. Yeah, yeah, I just couldn't
Speaker 1: wait to get to the gym. Or I used to
Speaker 1: beat the people that opened the gym up, like even
Speaker 1: if they came people, I used to beat them there
Speaker 1: like I was working there a something like, I just
Speaker 1: loved it. That's what's something, man. You found a sense
Speaker 1: of you know, family and home and and you adapted
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah. So I'm kind of similar to my mom.
Speaker 1: My mom was around. My mom worked a lot, so
Speaker 1: my grandmother raised me too. And I know what basketball
Speaker 1: did for my life. You know what, it took me
Speaker 1: a lot of places to change my whole family life.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to do the things I have,
Speaker 1: the life I live if it wasn't for basketball and
Speaker 1: not And you know, I appreciate the game. It's boxing
Speaker 1: the kind of the same way, which it's the same
Speaker 1: way for you, Like if it wasn't for boxing, You've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of things. Was able to do a
Speaker 1: lot of things for different people because of boxing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: boxing definitely, you know, play a big part in my life.
Speaker 1: Like if it wasn't for boxing, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I'll be at you know, because you know, it ain't
Speaker 1: too many people big in my family. The people that
Speaker 1: you know I started with in the gym, you know,
Speaker 1: they eventually got killed in the streets. I can't help
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I used to. I used to
Speaker 1: come outside and see like people driving cars and wanted
Speaker 1: because my grandmother had a van, but besides that, nobody
Speaker 1: else had a cart. I used to wonder like it
Speaker 1: I am, I am I gonna be able to drive
Speaker 1: when I get older and things like that. So box
Speaker 1: and definitely be a what I would say, be a
Speaker 1: big part of my life if it is my life
Speaker 1: and things like that because it help you, you know,
Speaker 1: calm down and challenge your your anger someone else like
Speaker 1: inside the gym and started going outside the door and
Speaker 1: just doing anything. You know. So, and this is while
Speaker 1: I'm from It is a small city, so it's easy
Speaker 1: to get in trouble there, so you can focus in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: you can focus anywhere. So you developed a real close
Speaker 1: personal friendship and and almost mentor father figure friendship with
Speaker 1: your coach and trainer. Uh, Calvin, did you meet him
Speaker 1: early on or what part of your what did you
Speaker 1: meet him? I met Calvin around by when I first
Speaker 1: thought first boxing, but Calvin I used to train with
Speaker 1: Calvin Calvin son, Calvin Soun trained me started me off.
Speaker 1: He is his son is one of the guys that
Speaker 1: you know got killed too. So his son, his son
Speaker 1: was training me. And we had another guy named Ramon Manley,
Speaker 1: That's who. That's who cal was like holly On because
Speaker 1: he was one of everything. It was from Baltimore, so
Speaker 1: he was the only one going through d C everywhere
Speaker 1: and beating people like top notch people. He asked me
Speaker 1: another one that got killed, so um him having Ramon
Speaker 1: and his son was training me, so they used to
Speaker 1: always go back home and like his son used to
Speaker 1: always tell Calvin about me, but Calvin was like, I
Speaker 1: was too young, so he was like, I'm not worrying
Speaker 1: about him right now, I worring about Ramon because he's traveling.
Speaker 1: So m Ramon was one of everything, and mom got
Speaker 1: locked up for robbery or something. He tried to rob
Speaker 1: somebody want him getting caught. So he was gone for
Speaker 1: about like five years. So now it's me. Now I'm
Speaker 1: ten years old and I'm start winning everything every like
Speaker 1: going places and things like that. So man Calvin grew
Speaker 1: up on. We grow up on first by me just
Speaker 1: winning us always together. So now I stopped going to
Speaker 1: his house. I started sleeping over this house and watching boxing.
Speaker 1: He used to make me watch boxing like till like
Speaker 1: three in the morning, and I'll be falling asleep. He
Speaker 1: attacked me and wake me up. Make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: if you believe it, you can achieve it. And that's
Speaker 1: where he always he always taught me, and that's why
Speaker 1: I go by till this day. That sounds similar. It
Speaker 1: sounds a lot like you know Marviously, Mike Tyson and
Speaker 1: custom Model. You know what I mean, where he found
Speaker 1: that mentor father figure, that that that believed in him
Speaker 1: and and made him believing himself and and it turned
Speaker 1: out beautiful. Now you've spoken a lot already in this
Speaker 1: interview about I mean, we know your career, you're undefeated,
Speaker 1: You've obviously thrown hands your whole life. Is there anybody
Speaker 1: from the second grade on who's never got you? Uh?
Speaker 1: It was? It was one time, one time, one time
Speaker 1: in the street fight, I was fighting. We because we
Speaker 1: used to. I used to always fight a lot, so
Speaker 1: I got a little older, but coming to Highlight, to
Speaker 1: like the the sixth grade to the ninth grade, I
Speaker 1: used to fight a lot. So one time we was
Speaker 1: fighting these group of boys and one and my uncle
Speaker 1: called me. So when my uncle called me, I ran
Speaker 1: to the um. I ran to him and it it was like,
Speaker 1: we're up here like fighting. So I had to hire
Speaker 1: him and try. I hired him and try to get back.
Speaker 1: So when I heard and got back, my two homeboys
Speaker 1: said I ranked on him, so they bank they jumped me.
Speaker 1: So when they jumped me, they jumped me. So Um,
Speaker 1: the next day I'm like, I'm telling my uncle because
Speaker 1: my uncle stand with me. Now and my grandmother crib
Speaker 1: So I taught my uncle like, um, these boys jump me.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to school and I'm whenever when I
Speaker 1: see I'm gonna knock him out like that. So they
Speaker 1: people might call you from school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: gat my heads up so soon I walked down. Soon
Speaker 1: as I walked in the building and I'm going towards
Speaker 1: the class, I see one of the guys. So when
Speaker 1: I see one of the guys like he's yeah, he
Speaker 1: started talking and I just took my Like when i'm mad,
Speaker 1: I'm real aggressive. So when um I've seen him, I
Speaker 1: just take my bag off and I just hit him
Speaker 1: in them out. But I actually he actually beat me,
Speaker 1: but I started to fight out. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't care, like it won't happen again, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, smaller than everybody, so coming
Speaker 1: to school. So yeah, so once that first that first
Speaker 1: punch went off, I ain't really care if you whoop me.
Speaker 1: After that, I got my leg off. I gotta get
Speaker 1: my back. I got back. Yeah. So you're obviously from Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Rep Baltimore to the full. They're very proud of you,
Speaker 1: um or warding you with the Key to the City
Speaker 1: in a parade, did a coin flip of the Ravens game.
Speaker 1: Tell me what Baltimore means to you? Baltimore made a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, just I don't think I had this mindset
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Baltimore, because Baltimore, it's like it's
Speaker 1: a tough city. You know, if you can make it
Speaker 1: through Baltimore, you know, you can make it through anyway.
Speaker 1: If you know how to move through Baltimore, you can
Speaker 1: move through it anyway, you know. So it just gave
Speaker 1: me that mindset. I think, you know me saying not
Speaker 1: saying it's all bad, but I'm from the n City,
Speaker 1: so I see stuff deadly and things like that. So
Speaker 1: it just gave me that I wouldn't be me if
Speaker 1: I wasn't from Baltimore. Gave me that personality, you know
Speaker 1: what it's saying. It was sounding like, um, I forget
Speaker 1: the saying, it's like what you've been through it the city,
Speaker 1: make your breaking Like, I wouldn't be me if I
Speaker 1: won't even move the way I moved it, if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for the inner city, and if yeah, if I
Speaker 1: wouldn't make sure where you are to come to date,
Speaker 1: toughest fight in your mind up to this point in
Speaker 1: your career. I think there's the toughest you know, um
Speaker 1: opponent up to date because you know, um he had
Speaker 1: I want to say, he's he had thirty seven wins
Speaker 1: and you know one loss and things that day at
Speaker 1: four time world champion, So um, it's a tough He's
Speaker 1: a tough Messican. So I'm gonnalieving he's gonna bring his best.
Speaker 1: So I think this, Yeah, there's definitely the toughest opponent.
Speaker 1: He's busy with their hands. Um, most satisfying knockout up
Speaker 1: to your point, up to this point in your career.
Speaker 1: I want to say for Drasa because it was my
Speaker 1: first world title. You know he was he was another
Speaker 1: undefeated Puerto Rican, So I think that was my my
Speaker 1: toughest knockout. Any boxes you look up to, not really
Speaker 1: look up to, but you know, take pointings from him
Speaker 1: as Lamont Peterson, Anthony Peterson top on that, um Floyda
Speaker 1: Millweather for sure and Adrian Brown. A lot of people
Speaker 1: could probably compare you to a little Tyson and he
Speaker 1: did an I you did an I G live with
Speaker 1: Tyson recently. What was that like doing I G um
Speaker 1: a lot. What Tyson I seen when I first when
Speaker 1: we first started talking, I've seen that. You know, he
Speaker 1: still got that anger built up in him, like uh,
Speaker 1: like he'd been through something. He's still trying to believe it,
Speaker 1: find a way to relieve it. That's that's why I
Speaker 1: got from it, you know. Um. But he overcame a lot,
Speaker 1: you know he I think a lot of people. Well
Speaker 1: where I got from it, I don't know really for sure,
Speaker 1: but when I got from it, you know, um that
Speaker 1: you know, he put his life into boxing, you know,
Speaker 1: for belts and things like that. You know. Um, Ever,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't mean nothing to him now, you know,
Speaker 1: he rever. He rever, you know, fight for the money,
Speaker 1: whereas though he could he could be more you know,
Speaker 1: um stable and things like that. That's where I got
Speaker 1: from it. You know, I probably I'm probably wrong, but
Speaker 1: that's what I got from And that's what you know
Speaker 1: I was looking. We all we all fight some demons
Speaker 1: that we all fight in the demons, you know, not
Speaker 1: just Mike, not just anybody, you know what, We're all
Speaker 1: fighting something in us in certain parts of life. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like you said, when
Speaker 1: every I didn't see Mike on a lot of these shows.
Speaker 1: I watched this podcast too, and Mike, you know, and
Speaker 1: that that that's just a part of being a man
Speaker 1: and growing. You know, I can I can imagine me
Speaker 1: playing basketball, you know, and how physical the game is.
Speaker 1: Not gonna imagine boxing, you know, walking away, walking away
Speaker 1: from basketball, my body fears different. You know, I still
Speaker 1: have that adrenaline and want to go play and still
Speaker 1: be physical. But I got a channel that now because
Speaker 1: my life is different, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: know that's that's that's not even compared to how boxing is.
Speaker 1: From fighting somebody for ten fifteen years and having just
Speaker 1: all of a sudden just not so. You know, I
Speaker 1: commend guys like you and Mike and boxing period who
Speaker 1: are able to go in the ring, try to test
Speaker 1: somebody our head off, but then come out and be
Speaker 1: a good model sense and somebody that people look up to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely hard, you know, just just training, prayers on
Speaker 1: what There's everything you know, um like evolved with boxing,
Speaker 1: you know, leading up to the big fights, even the
Speaker 1: fight that you know, the lights, that the crowd and
Speaker 1: the opponent, the judges and things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: it just you gotta be you got you gotta be
Speaker 1: a strong person. And then you know that's not even
Speaker 1: to mention all, like I said earlier, all the outside distractions,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, people, people trying to come
Speaker 1: in your circle, females trying to pull fast one. So
Speaker 1: it's a whole lot of you know, that's one thing
Speaker 1: I want to try to game my sons with. You know,
Speaker 1: my sons are eleven years old, but this is a
Speaker 1: whole different beast out here, just the way the world
Speaker 1: is reading and how it's you know, the games are played,
Speaker 1: and to be able to keep a tight circle and
Speaker 1: be able to stay focused on the task at hand
Speaker 1: is always man definitely hats off. Mike also mentioned that
Speaker 1: you're his favorite current boxer. How does that make you
Speaker 1: feel when you have a legend, uh, you know, speaking
Speaker 1: that highly on you, It feel great, you know, it
Speaker 1: just feels it's like it's just, um, I still I'm
Speaker 1: not far on far as far as like you know, big,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's still like I'm still starting out
Speaker 1: and things like that. So just having him, you know,
Speaker 1: saying things like one of the greats, and I remember
Speaker 1: when you know, um, they called the great shout I forgot.
Speaker 1: I think it was after a fight or something, and
Speaker 1: it was calling like, um, they called Mike Tyson out,
Speaker 1: they called holy Field and it was somebody else I
Speaker 1: think Leonis Lois. And when they called Mike Tyson, the
Speaker 1: crowding crazy. So just having him just say like, I'm
Speaker 1: wanted his favorite fighter, it means a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: it means that I'm I'm definitely on the right track
Speaker 1: Mike's you know, since we're talking about Mike, he's training
Speaker 1: to get back in the ring. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: about him and Roy Jones Um potentially fighting at the
Speaker 1: end of the Yeah, it's gonna be crazy. It's gonna
Speaker 1: definitely be crazy. I'm definitely gonna be watching, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: July teen, two thou fourteen, you took a picture with Floyd,
Speaker 1: signed your phone case and said future champ. What was
Speaker 1: that like, Like I said, another experience where you know,
Speaker 1: an all time great it is giving you praise? What
Speaker 1: was that like back in two thousand fourteen? And then
Speaker 1: everything to come full circle now that you know you're
Speaker 1: under Mayweather promotions. I always live in a moment, so uh,
Speaker 1: around that time, I already then, you know, really wasn't.
Speaker 1: I was grateful to being you know that his presence,
Speaker 1: but far it's like from from just leading up to
Speaker 1: me signing to what from Maywell Promotion, I was saying
Speaker 1: that I was gonna, I was gonna, you know, even
Speaker 1: before he went to jail, you know, I was saying
Speaker 1: that I was signing what the owner Pomona I would
Speaker 1: ever signed what was you know, Maywell Promotions. And before that,
Speaker 1: I was saying, man, my coaches, I mean, man, my
Speaker 1: coach calviing Ford, we was talking about um about signing
Speaker 1: with out before we signed with Floyd, and everything was
Speaker 1: playing out as you know we were saying it. So
Speaker 1: it just I feel again, I feel like I'm on
Speaker 1: the right track. I'm doing the right things. I have
Speaker 1: right people in my corner and things like that, and
Speaker 1: you know, um, I'm undefeated, so we're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Has your relationship grown though, like since you since you
Speaker 1: with in my note, Like, yeah, it was cool before
Speaker 1: y'all actually start doing business together, But how has your
Speaker 1: relationship grown? You know since? Because I've seen him at
Speaker 1: the fight here in the land of your last fight,
Speaker 1: I seen him in the rain with that I can
Speaker 1: remember what what um what kind of was It was
Speaker 1: like a twenty thousand dollar jackety had all which is
Speaker 1: all glass. Oh my god. But how your relationship grown,
Speaker 1: you know, since y'all start doing business together, relationship growing
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, just at first I did really
Speaker 1: know him like that, you know, So it was it
Speaker 1: was like like if I don't really know y'all shot
Speaker 1: away from you, like I'm really quiet and things like that.
Speaker 1: But um it's it's like, uh, I follow in something born.
Speaker 1: I always say, like because he had sons that that
Speaker 1: you know, don't box and umur boxing. I was around
Speaker 1: him a lot of times, you know, when he were
Speaker 1: traveling and when he first saw me, you know, so
Speaker 1: I was with him probably like seven So he just
Speaker 1: you know, he more hands on things like that, like
Speaker 1: he'd be like you said, the fight, he was in
Speaker 1: the corner, you know, he was dan ever like he
Speaker 1: was my coach or something. You know, he was in
Speaker 1: the rain. You know. So I believe that. I think
Speaker 1: that's that's best for me, I think because it give
Speaker 1: me the advantage over a lot of other fighters. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you feeling the pressure, Like you said, you pay
Speaker 1: per view now you know what I'm saying. That it's
Speaker 1: a big fight for you. You're fighting, you're fighting a
Speaker 1: four time champ um. You're feeling the pressure about this
Speaker 1: fight than any other fight. I had pressure, but I
Speaker 1: want I say that it's always I challenged that I
Speaker 1: make it a good pressure. You know, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't let it, you know, take a toll on me,
Speaker 1: because I've seen a lot of fighters slip up, you know,
Speaker 1: because they let the pressure. You know, Whay I'm down
Speaker 1: and things like that. You know, so far as the
Speaker 1: only pressure with me that I say, like I have
Speaker 1: been on my show, that the performance that I want
Speaker 1: to put on, you know, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to give best performance I can possibly have. You know,
Speaker 1: that night because of my first paper, Boston was off
Speaker 1: for some months and things like that. So I definitely
Speaker 1: want to get the fans. You know, I gotta saying
Speaker 1: that I got it goes. I make love of pressure.
Speaker 1: When they gave me the ball in the four quarters
Speaker 1: and they thought it was pressure, I made love to it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that. You know, that's that
Speaker 1: that's basically what we do. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: have that. A lot of people crumble under pressure. So
Speaker 1: if you if you can, you know, deal with you know,
Speaker 1: controlled it and things like that underpressure and you special
Speaker 1: exactly absolutely. I have three sons. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many kids my my co host has, but we're father
Speaker 1: you have. You had your first daughter in two thousand eighteen?
Speaker 1: How did that change your life? I changed my life
Speaker 1: by you know, just being more patients. You know, I
Speaker 1: seem to you know, rush things before I had a child,
Speaker 1: and things like that, and you know, just going thwards
Speaker 1: the same her mother, you know, um and that pain
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. You know, it just made me appreciate,
Speaker 1: you know how more and things like that, and far
Speaker 1: as a person, had changed me by you know, having
Speaker 1: more patient, but far as a fighter, I'm always going
Speaker 1: to be a fighter. So I know I was turning
Speaker 1: on and off around her. You know, when I'm with her,
Speaker 1: I'm more soft. But when I'm like in a brain,
Speaker 1: go outside more, you know. Oh now, but what about
Speaker 1: when she turns fifteen sixteen seventeen eight teen, wants to
Speaker 1: start dating? What? What? What? What? What tank is she
Speaker 1: gonna get? I'll be more understand, would like like um
Speaker 1: understand how more like talk? I wanted to be to
Speaker 1: come talk to me before she had talked to someone else.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to be that that far. I
Speaker 1: don't want to shy away from me, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be hard on him, but she knows.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know that. You know, it's always right
Speaker 1: and wrong, and you know, discipline I got, I got,
Speaker 1: I got five girls, bro, So I I understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I always wanted to be a
Speaker 1: point where we had to understand where you can come
Speaker 1: talk to me am everything anything. Don't feel like you
Speaker 1: can't talk to me about it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a great way to look at it.
Speaker 1: But being away from your daughter training doing this pandemic,
Speaker 1: how has it been? It's been hard to being away
Speaker 1: from my daughter. You know, she actually heard she sleeps,
Speaker 1: but just you know, being away from it, like because
Speaker 1: this is my first time been in camp so long
Speaker 1: and far away, so just been away from it. It
Speaker 1: was a lord touchy. But I know what I'm up
Speaker 1: you know, up against you know I know that I
Speaker 1: got pay per view. You know, I know I'm fighting
Speaker 1: a tough opponent. So really I know how to lock in.
Speaker 1: I know how to shot away from everything. I know
Speaker 1: how to understand what I'm I'm into. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what's best part about me, Like I know a fool around,
Speaker 1: but when it's time to lock in, you know it's
Speaker 1: time to lock in now. Yeah, that's that's another thing.
Speaker 1: You know. So you you mentioned it earlier, but you've
Speaker 1: had a tough time making one thirty year past couple
Speaker 1: of fights. Um has your diet change or the fact
Speaker 1: that your training camp has been longer or almost two
Speaker 1: times as long as your normal training camps. How is
Speaker 1: that played into Because you said you're sitting comfortable right now,
Speaker 1: you don't have a problem getting down to that one
Speaker 1: on fight night camp been you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hard time for me and make wait.
Speaker 1: You know, as far as the bubble wise, I don't
Speaker 1: know about the bubble. I've never been there, but they
Speaker 1: said that it's track. So but now now I feel
Speaker 1: like I can making I'm making it easily. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: walking around close to wait. You know, if I if
Speaker 1: I wanted to make way two days from now, I
Speaker 1: can make it. And things like that. You know, I
Speaker 1: know people it's definitely whining about me making way and
Speaker 1: that's the big factor. But and there's a penalty, so
Speaker 1: if I don't know what it is, but I know
Speaker 1: it's some money in bold, so you don't want to
Speaker 1: find out. I'm definitely made the weight. So obviously since
Speaker 1: your last fight, the world has changed, um, not only
Speaker 1: with the pandemic, social justice, the whole nine. We're somewhat
Speaker 1: slowly but surely starting to come back to some sort
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Um. This will be the first fight back
Speaker 1: with fans. This would be your first fight on pay
Speaker 1: per view. Tell me what it's gonna be like to
Speaker 1: know that you're gonna put on the show for the
Speaker 1: first time in front of fans. I'm oneting a person
Speaker 1: that I'm grateful, you know. I'm grateful that it's me that's,
Speaker 1: you know, the first person that's bringing it back. I'm
Speaker 1: just soaking it all in. I'm just appreciative, you know.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm working hard each and every day, you know,
Speaker 1: so I could be to pin on a great performance
Speaker 1: and things like that, you know, And I'm and I'm young.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty five years old, so I'm definitely you know,
Speaker 1: still learning and things like that. And I'm just happy
Speaker 1: to be in the position I am right now. I'm
Speaker 1: thankful for my team to beigg say it. This guy
Speaker 1: should be paper viewing things like that. So far as
Speaker 1: my my get back to them, I want to put
Speaker 1: on a great performer. I want to make wait the
Speaker 1: first time and things like that. Your top five fighters
Speaker 1: in the history, I want to say, uh, Floyd Mayweather, Sugar,
Speaker 1: Ray Lenox, m Mike Tyson m hm, putting out man
Speaker 1: sweep pee Sweetie sweepy um and Pride and pride and
Speaker 1: Pride had that movement I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. When it's all said and done, what do
Speaker 1: you want them when you're done with the sport of boxing?
Speaker 1: What do you want them to remember most about you?
Speaker 1: I want to be one of them greats, but I
Speaker 1: wanna I want to I want to have an impact
Speaker 1: Wes though, something like change something like not like Floyd,
Speaker 1: but I want to change it far as I want
Speaker 1: to have a great impact on the sport, like be great,
Speaker 1: be one of the greatest. But I also want to
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, live outside at the boxing
Speaker 1: you know, I want to be able to be that
Speaker 1: that person, like I don't want to be banged up
Speaker 1: after a fight. Or anything. I'm after my career and
Speaker 1: things like that. I want to be able to get
Speaker 1: out successful. I want to be able to retire young
Speaker 1: and eiven. If I retire you or come back, I
Speaker 1: won't be able to you know, um, come back on
Speaker 1: when I want to and not one because I don't
Speaker 1: have enough money and things like that. Because I have
Speaker 1: a family, I had my own life outside of Boston.
Speaker 1: So I always want to be looked at one of
Speaker 1: them guys that you know, Um that's took care. So
Speaker 1: just be one of the great in the sport and
Speaker 1: outside this sport. Javonte Davis, Man, we appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Good luck Halloween night, October one, San Antonio, Texas to
Speaker 1: Alamo Dome. If you need essay protection away. Good luck, bro,
Speaker 1: no doubt we're big fans man. Good luck the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. Man. We appreciate your time today. That's
Speaker 1: a wrap all the smoke season two. Thank Davis little
Speaker 1: talk to us before his big fight coming up on Halloween.
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