October 20, 2023 • 23 mins
The Champ is in the Building!! Devin Haney came by the Cruz Show to talk about his upcoming fight in the Bay Area on Dec 9th. We talked about everything from Bay Area Sports, to his music tastes, his fav Mexican Food & his relationship with Ryan Garcia
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Was good jobs Devin and Jef Haney. And you're checking in on the Cruise
Show podcast. Make sure to subscribe, rate and share. This is when
you rise. These are the momentsright here, Devin Haney, Hey,
you look at count with the righthand. He looking for that body shot
had right hand comes starving from Haiti. He felt that, Devin, Devin
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Hainy, Hainy trying to turn yourright hand. She heard her with that
ring. I'm dispute it, lifeWay Champion the World. Devin shout out
to Jeff Garcia Sports two for thatintro, crazy introc intro. I need
to steal that intro that yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, now you can
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steal it. You can steal itfor one hundred and fifty thousand, just
kidding, dog Yo. Listen iff around and find out was a person
that's Devin Hainey and he's on theCruise Show Real ninety two three. I
got how you feel, man,Oh man, I'm blessed to bere We're
ready, We're prepared for focused oneyo, Devin, your focus is crazy,
right, it's it's it's I meanobviously right thirty and oh your focus
is out of control when it comesto your focus. It's not to be
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played with you feel me. Buteveryone has that guilty pleasure, right that
like something you like to do orthings you like to do when you want
to take some pressure off of yourmind off of things, right Like do
you listen to K pop? Whatare you doing? What are you doing
when you're don't lie? I dolisten to Nah, I don't know.
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I like to. You know,I got a lot of you know,
female friends that I like to spendtime with the boy. You know,
it's just a boy. Just vibeyeah, no, not let off no
steam, you know, just getsome catch some good vibes together. A
little feminine energy doesn't hurt exactly,it only helps. Yeah, a lot
of female friends. How many doyou hang out? Is it? Are
you the only guy in this group? Lucky basket? I mean yeah,
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I mean on a good day,Yeah, the night at all Women's jail.
That's his life. It's NonStop.It's like having as I was like,
Yeah, Yo, this is yourlife, my life. You want
this. I aspire to be likeyou. Yeah. By the way,
I'm Cruise. That's let you.That's Jackie Miraz. Devin Haney is here.
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Undisputed world champion again. The recordis thirty and oh let you let's
get it youngest undisputed champ ever.A lot of pressure there, No,
I mean no pressure because you gaveit to yourself, right yeah, yeah,
exactly. It happened organically. Iworked hard to to gear and it
just it just came. Yes,sir, you were running last night in
Beverly Hills. Yeah, man,yeah, I mean it was good.
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I live around there so open.It's always good to you know, get
it run in and just get inspired, you know, see, you know,
get motivated and get a workout.It's just like in East La at
night. Put a little put alittle fear behind that job. Yeah yeah,
yeah, you bro for anything,I'll be looking around. Yeah yeah
yeah. It can only help thattell you, so, okay, how
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hard do you work? Like,what's your what's your routine? I mean
it just really depends on on theday. But I worked out with two
or three times a day when I'mwhen I'm deep in the camp. You
know, it's really just resting,eating and working out. That's and it's
a repetitive cycle. I don't takereally that much days off, but I
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love it for to right, youcan't do it. Yeah, I mean
no, I can, but Idon't know. I just don't feel right,
you know, I just when Iwant to just know that I,
you know, did everything to preparemyself the best way that I can.
Yeah, And I don't want to. I don't want like I didn't cross.
I don't want to go into afight, you know, just thinking
that underprepared or I didn't do everythingthat I that that that I thought I
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could have. I don't want toleave no stone unturned. Was that because
that happened once? No? No, not no, I just because I
don't want it to ever have.I feel and do you apply that way
thinking and everything in life or thefighting? Yeah, I don't know.
It just comes natural with the fighting. Yeah, yeah, give it my
all and it's and it's fun tome, you know, I don't it's
not I don't feel like a job. You know. It's something that I
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truly love to do. Is therapeuticfor me. So, uh yeah,
you have a boxing at no joke, right, Like Floyd said, you
don't play boxing. No, youcan't basketball. You play football, you
know you're not playing boxing. No, you can't play boxing. No,
because in that ring. You know, you know, one mistake could end
it all all and literally, youknow, we we see so many fighters
lose their life and in the boxingring over the last few years. So
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yeah, you gotta you gotta beserious like Gladiator ship. Yeah, like
Gladiator for sure, And it wascrazy because us fighters we go in there,
we we we beat each other upand we you know, we hurt
each other for the world's entertainment.So you know, I just I just
think about it sometimes like we can'twe gotta be some type of like crazy
in the head, like we can't, like that's not normal. But no,
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Devin, there's something wrong with youfor sureund wrong with all of us,
dog, and there's just a littlemore wrong with you. And that's
why you're the world cham you feelsure for sure. No, but you
talk about like you know, youall beating each other up in the ring,
and like I've always thought, likehow brutal is the pain after the
adrenaline goes away? Yeah? What'sdating number two? Like fight? It
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just depends some fight. Some fights, you know, it's more pain than
others. Some fights you don't feelnothing, but some fights you be sore
for a week, just your wholebody, so you won't even feel it,
you know, in the ring,I tell a lot of people this.
In the ring, you don't reallyfeel punches that much. You don't
really feel them that much because youradrenaline is going. It's just moving so
fast. But obviously when you knocksomebody, I mean, when you get
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knocked out, you knock somebody out, it's just that you don't feel it,
you don't see. It just happens. Yeah, but you don't really
feel pain like that in the inthe ring. But because you're a movie,
you're in the moment, right,But after those days after is when
you feel the focus like yours andall the female friends that you have,
you have to set some of thatback. And from your course of course
of course, right, you don'twant to make your knee week, Yeah
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for sure. Yeah, yeah,you know about the making of these week
you YouTube, and Oscar de laHoya told me, Yeah, yeah,
that's a real thing. Well nothey say, they say it's a real
thing. You can't say. Theysay whatever, whatever, my knees a
week after dog. But I'm different, bro, I'm two hundred and fifty
three pounds. Yeah, I mean, I just I just you know,
I don't know if it's real ornot, but I think it's more of
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a mental thing. So I thinkit's more of a you know, staying
focused mental type of thing, justyou know, sacrifice it. Yeah.
So yeah, we after a certainamount of time, we you apply that
Mamba mentality. Uh yeah, forsure, for sure. I mean to
be great and in any sporting anything. I mean, you can apply to
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Mamba mentality and if you want tobe great in anything that you do.
Yeah, man, that's what's ga. Bay Area sports situation is very unique
right now. The Raiders bounced A'sare out of there. Like as someone
from that area, does that likedrive you crazy a little bit? I
mean, how much did you rootfor teams growing up? An a fan?
Right? Yeah? No, no, no, I never really was
like an as fan fan or likea Writers fan like that. Always a
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Warriors fan for sure. But Idon't know, I feel like it's it
may sound bad, but I feellike it's just opening up for me,
you know, to take over thatthat that that's that spot and I'm you
know, I'm the new guy.I'm I'm I'm the Bay Area kid.
So you know, I feel likethe whole Bay is getting around me and
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embracing me as they should me beingfrom there, and I feel like it's
just my time to step up.Is that That's why you probably had the
geek to be able to do thefight at the Chase Center December ninth,
by the way, Zone, ChaseCenter, Yeah, the Zone. I'm
definitely geeked about it. You know, tickets are selling fast. You know,
we did five thousand tickets on presale right now. Right now,
we did nine thousand tickets and withseven weeks to go, So it's gonna
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be a sellout with things like seventeeneighteen thousand or whatever. So yeah,
it's it's it's gonna be a crazyevent. Man. What do you make
of this guy you're fighting? Bro? Who is this guy? Bro?
I mean he's he's a you know, tough, strong opponent. Sure,
but yeah, for sure, Imean, you know, but that's for
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me to go in there and showthat it's a mismatch, that he shouldn't
be fighting me, that he shouldn'tbe in the ring with me, uh,
because I just feel like I'm levelsabove him. But that's for me
to you know, prepare the rightway and uh and going there and dominate.
Yeah, is it true that yousit and I mean you have to
write almost It's like watching game tape. You have to see what he can
do and what he can't do.So you have to watch them tape.
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Yeah, I mean I go.I watch a lot of tape. I
got a team just around just theto study my opponents and what they the
habits that they do with, likeyou know, what they do wrong,
what they do right? You knowthat the like it could be this the
smallest thing, you know, ifthey just keep just you know, going
like that, just keep rubbing againsttheir face or keep touching their trunks or
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whatever. Just just the little habitsof the little mistakes that they do.
And to take spoint Tom on FightNight, your producer Plow says, the
Bay Area basically is responsible for anythingcool, right, the iPhone, the
hottest music, I mean, thelist goes on off the dunk dunks.
Yeah, he said dunks the areastarted. Yeah, is this is do
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you can you confirm that? Doyou believe this? Also? Yeah?
Yeah? Yeah for sure, forsure all the cool things come out to
Bay. I mean, yeah,bro, you feel I mean, the
Bay honestly came up with a lotyou know, and you know there's something
to be said about that. Youalso have you know, some of the
biggest, the biggest legends in musiccome out that way as well. Man,
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who's walking you out? I don'tknow, Yeah, I mean,
I got so many people that wantto have been reaching out to walk me
out. I don't know. Idon't know yet. Though you're thinking about
a Bay Area artist or I wasthinking about Francisco. I was thinking artists.
But I don't know how I think. I don't think I am no,
but I walked out with forty likem probably like a few fights ago,
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No, probably like six seven fightsago Water Philly. So I don't
know. I don't think we doa barrier artist this time. But I'm
gonna do somebody big crazy rotation rightnow like Drake think a little dark my
rotation. Yeah, man, Ilisten to everybody right now like that Shaq
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and Kobe Meek. That means uh, who else? I like Little Baby
of course with dirt, Yeah Drake. Drake's new album is crazy. Yeah,
I would say that that's my mainrotation. K Pop in the mix,
ca what K pop? Cake pop? My fat as K pops right
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now? Okay, after the interview, might we might treat what K pop
artists? Are you listening to?Wall? I thought you're talking about the
song? No, I mean there'sK pop artists, right, we're talking
about cap the genre like BT yes, got seven? Oh no this song?
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Keep up the song? They cameup the song? Yeah? Oh
I thought you know I was talkingabout Korean pop music. Oh no,
I never heard it. That's different, bro. It's the big market though,
it's a really big market. Absolutely. You know your talkies over hot
Cheetos. Hot Cheetos over talking talkiesfor sure. Yeah, you like the
blue one went new A's you know, I'm like, you know, the
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cheatos cheats is old easy now no, no, but the talkies is a
new thing for sure. You're sayingtalkies the new kids, Yeah, cheetos
old head vibes. Yeah, wow, the new kids are eating talkies for
sure. Yeah, but hot cheetosstaple my g No, no, not
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goingos? Is you know? Respectafter them? Listen Flaming Chito's Mayweather ge
and then the talkies is Devin Okay, he just stands on what he believes.
Come on, you people, wishyou wash. You know what I'm
saying. You confront everyole flip.Some people will flip. Man. Yeah,
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I like talkies. I like them, but it's hot. It's hot
talkies all day, bro, bro, you feel me? I do say
this in Mexico though, Are theyin the talkies here? How so?
They just taste different? Now,cheat, I feel like the cheetos in
Mexico to taste better. Really,yeah, I like it. Like obviously,
hot cheetos here tastes better than hotcheaters in Mexico, and the talkies
in Mexico tastes better than I don'tthink I tried the talkies in Mexico.
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They're better if you like them,like them here, you like them better
over there? What about Mexican women? Better here, better in Mexico?
Let you, I love accents,so like over there, that action is
more prominent, so like yeah,like that for the seat you ever heard
of? The seat? Like theboogie Mexicans. Mexicans not nice always like
I mean, but they usually are. Yeah, I like I like bougie
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woman. I think I think Ilike the ones. What's on your mind,
buddy, I'm trying to think.I'm trying to think. I'm trying
to think. I'm trying to thinkabout like the ones here, bro,
your friend here, I think,I think I like the ones here.
I don't speak Spanish though, that'swhy I don't speak Spanish, so no,
I mean everybody speaks universal language.I don't necessarily have to speak the
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language, right, connection speak thelanguages, that's right. Google Translate,
that's it, man, You everhave to use Google Translate? Yeah,
Mexico for sure, that's right.You got to get around. Yeah,
I spent some time in Mexico.Well, part can't. I've been in
Mexico City. I've been to Conocan Cool, Okayjuana, spend a lot
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of time in Tijuana, that's right. Yeah, it's a lot of great
boxing. Hong Kong is the gymyou go to. Yeah, I was
trained the Spark. I heard ofthe Hong Kong gym. I've just never
been to it, right, right, I don't have a gym membership to
Hong Kong, but I'm willing to, you know, do a free trial
membership. I know the manager ofthe gym. I've never been though,
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but I'm just saying, of coursenot I know the manager there. So
you never got a sense of humanthat's why you like, man. I
saw a review for Hong Kong writtenby Devin Hayes. Yo, Yeah,
I saw it. So yo.So Mexican food, then you're a fan.
Yeah yeah, right, I mean, I mean Mexican food and it's
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big in the Bay Area too.You know, we got the mission where
you know, we got the mission. Oh but Pele said that the burrito,
remember it was it was created inthe Bay Area. That's right,
But the type of burrito was notwith the California Burrito. Yes, yeah,
for sure. That's crazy. Wedidn't know that. I mean,
pe really advocates for the Bay andwe respect that. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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yeah, And so does Jackie's boyfriend. He's from the Bay Area as
well. They just moved in.They put a dog together from the city.
Yeah, they just moved in witheach other. I got a dog.
Okay. So she doing like wifeythings as a girlfriend. Would you
say she's doing that? Yeah,there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing
wrong with that. You know that. When it comes to that, it's
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a that's a little weird for you, right, a little bit. Yeah,
but it's part of the process.You gotta trust the problems. They
always cap on me for that.No, it's all good. Yeah.
No, she's also pressuring him toget married. So there's that, you
know what I mean. But hewants to he wants to get married.
Okay, no pressure in No pressuremakes diamonds. That's what. Is there
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anyone in your life that that's pressureto you, like but like out of
from a good place that you appreciate. Yeah, my publiciers over there,
that's you know, sitting there.She it's a lot of pressure on me.
But it comes it comes from agood place, you know, it
comes from it comes from a greatplace. Actually, Hey, remember bro,
you're the talent. Bro. Youknow what I'm saying. You shouldn't
have to worry about a lot ofthings. Yeah, you shouldn't cloud your
head with ideas and information. Pleasefight. No, No, she's black
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in Mexicans love black and riding oneperson. My g. I love that.
I fight is December ninth of SanFrancisco Chase Center. Man tickets are
available, They're gonna sell out fast. There going crazy. Devin Hainey is
obviously a star, feel met andshuts down the building as soon as the
lights go off, My g,and it's time to walk out. It's
go time, right of course,your thought. Is it the same thought
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before you walk out? Is ita prayer? Is it a phone call?
Same thought that you know that goesthrough your head while you're walking out.
No, I mean it's when you'rewalking out that's when it's real.
It's like it ain't no turning backnow, It's it's go time. And
when you're get in that ring,it's like it's nothing that you can do.
An know, you can't get out. It's like you're going into that
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cage gladiator mode. There's no backingout, do or die. Yeah,
yeah, And people are screaming yourname, some people are talking ship right.
You have to tune all that out. I mean, you know,
to be honest, you don't reallyhear it when you when you when you
when you get in there, it'slike it's tunnel vision. It's the arena
is so loud, but you'd hearnothing like but like familiar voices that you're
around twenty four to seven, likemy dad, my brother, my team,
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the people that I hear a lot. I hear their voices, but
other than that, I don't reallyhear the crowd too much. And what
are they saying? They know howto push your buttons. Do they know
how to hype you up? Yeah, yeah, no, for sure,
they definitely know how to get memotivated. And uh yeah yeah. What's
a trigger word? They get youright right right right? I don't I
don't. I wouldn't say I gotlike a trigger word. Like my cousin
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Marcos you did some time, rightif you tell him like you was a
beat, it's on site, it'son site. It's like we're gonna have
to square up. You don't likethat exactly? Is there a certain word
that might just like, yo,that's that's fout that disrespect. Nah,
that's somebody that anybody if somebody wastelling me why I was in the ring
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and now to get me fired up? Oh ship, I don't know.
Everyone has that phrase. You grewup listening someone you know, a bully
would tell me you disappointed, Likemy mom called me a disappointment once.
So that's like my trigger work.Like I don't know, wrong, I
don't know, I don't know.I can't really say. Plus, in
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the ring, when you fight withlike like anger or like that's you don't
fight, you don't fight, it'sgood like you you gotta still be relaxed.
Yeah, bro, still have thatthat tunnel vision and like, you
know, because we fight, we'refighting with you know, technique, we're
fighting with strategy. So when yougo in there with just anger, gett
knocked the funk out, doesn't feelor does it feel? Just so quick?
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Everything is like every as fast likewow, yeah, you don't have
time to like really like think toomuch. It's all just like repetition and
just the punches and everything is comingso fast fast. Wow. You know
when you have a dream about fightingand you're swinging so yeah, so slowly.
Every dreams like that, Like you'renot strong, not fast, You're
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nothing. You're running. You camerun fast, can't open the door.
You're a marshmallow. No, Ican't do nothing, man, yo.
So I'm I'm the same way whenit comes to water. I I think
I can tell right, even thoughI failed at it, when when when
they put me to the I cantell what water is? What? Right?
You're you're a Fiji guy? OnlyFiji? Yeah? Why Fiji?
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I don't know. I just it'scrisp, like I could just drink a
gallon of water a day, soso it's I don't know, it's just
easier for me to drink when it'sFiji that that sounded boogie. But that
sounded bad. But no, Ijust like that. That's what I prefer
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water today. But yes, butrich water is the best. But that
would you say you're nah? No, I want to say I'm bougie.
I mean we all can be.Yeah, you know, money dog,
it's all good. Don't we seeit in your teeth? Yo, Jackie
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just got a tooth. Jim,you see it like you were coming,
bro, I got this is justa ca on Jackiet. No, no,
smile this ship your ship hidden forsure. Now I don't want to
smile. Sparkles. The whole frontdog is crazy. Yeah, I'm getting
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more on this side just because Yeah, it's better than tattoos at this point.
Yeah, I agree. Hey,Devin, you have a history with
Ryan, you know, like youguys came up together in a sense,
right, He had a tough timehis last fight out. Did you guys
like afterwards maybe text each other consideringyour history and kind of you know,
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maybe he does usually as a springboardnow that you're professionals, or do you
guys do that? No, becauseat the end of the day, we're
still rivals at the end, Iwas gonna say, yeah, it's a
fine line. No, you know, but there's a lot of respect.
I got a lot of respect fromRyan. We obviously came up together,
and you know, one day,I think it's gonna be a big fight,
but I wish him nothing, nothingbut the best. You know,
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he dared to be great and hecame up short and his boxing what can
you do? Yeah, sometimes yougotta lose to win, you know,
like you gotta feel that for aminute, you know, before you can
come back. Now, you haven'thad that in your professional career, but
I think you know sometimes that it'sbeneficial, you know. Pjria Canelo two
is a great example of that.Too Young fought Floyd. You know,
wasn't pretty, but you know hefigured it out. And then my second
question is my kid just got hisears pierced on Saturday? Can I can
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I switch his earrings? Yeah?Yeah, I figured, Fuck it's what
that you know you got those thatplayer? Stop playing? No? I
did know it's crazy is because solike I didn't. I just got my
ears pierce probably like probably like ayear and a half ago. And and
when I when I when I gotmy ears pierced, I didn't want to
like use to start earrings. SoI had earrings bigger than this, and
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I just put them in like Iforced him in. Oh yo. So
like my my ears was like theywere droopy, like everything was like it
was. So it was just likehanging like yeah, yeah it was.
It was they were your ears.No, no, no, I got
them. I got them pierced.But then I but then I took the
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starter earrings out and I pushed straightto the v. Yes, exactly.
So so my ears were scabby.It's not lying, but yo, that's
a prob. You have to likepush them in there. Bro. It
was bleeding. It was, itwas, it was. It was a
situation. So I had to takethem out. I had to repierce my
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ears like let it, let itheal. And I had to repierce my
ears where they started earrings. Andthen I went smaller because others are just
too big. Too big, youhave the big joints. All, I'll
just settle for these. Yeah,don't ever settle unless you're Devin Haney.
We can afford to say. Yeah, you can afford to settle by y'all.
Man listen. Deceummer ninth, ChaseCenter in the bear at San Francisco.
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We uh, you know, wewould wish you luck, but you
don't need it. The harder youwork, the more luckier you get.
Ready, Yes, sir, that'swhere the luck comes in right there,
to hard work. Yeah man,once that meets it's that preparation, once
that meets opportunity, skull time.And this is what happens when you step
in that ring, yes sir,yeah, many al. It's love man,
come see us anytime. Uh,and we wish you all the love
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and respect man. Seriously, thankyou guys. Yeah, I can't wait
to watch this fight. Dog.Let's get it. Hey check get rich
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Was good jobs Devin and Jef Haney. And you're checking in on the Cruise
Show podcast. Make sure to subscribe, rate and share. This is when
you rise. These are the momentsright here, Devin Haney, Hey,
you look at count with the righthand. He looking for that body shot
had right hand comes starving from Haiti. He felt that, Devin, Devin
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Hainy, Hainy trying to turn yourright hand. She heard her with that
ring. I'm dispute it, lifeWay Champion the World. Devin shout out
to Jeff Garcia Sports two for thatintro, crazy introc intro. I need
to steal that intro that yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, now you can
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steal it. You can steal itfor one hundred and fifty thousand, just
kidding, dog Yo. Listen iff around and find out was a person
that's Devin Hainey and he's on theCruise Show Real ninety two three. I
got how you feel, man,Oh man, I'm blessed to bere We're
ready, We're prepared for focused oneyo, Devin, your focus is crazy,
right, it's it's it's I meanobviously right thirty and oh your focus
is out of control when it comesto your focus. It's not to be
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played with you feel me. Buteveryone has that guilty pleasure, right that
like something you like to do orthings you like to do when you want
to take some pressure off of yourmind off of things, right Like do
you listen to K pop? Whatare you doing? What are you doing
when you're don't lie? I dolisten to Nah, I don't know.
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I like to. You know,I got a lot of you know,
female friends that I like to spendtime with the boy. You know,
it's just a boy. Just vibeyeah, no, not let off no
steam, you know, just getsome catch some good vibes together. A
little feminine energy doesn't hurt exactly,it only helps. Yeah, a lot
of female friends. How many doyou hang out? Is it? Are
you the only guy in this group? Lucky basket? I mean yeah,
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I mean on a good day,Yeah, the night at all Women's jail.
That's his life. It's NonStop.It's like having as I was like,
Yeah, Yo, this is yourlife, my life. You want
this. I aspire to be likeyou. Yeah. By the way,
I'm Cruise. That's let you.That's Jackie Miraz. Devin Haney is here.
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Undisputed world champion again. The recordis thirty and oh let you let's
get it youngest undisputed champ ever.A lot of pressure there, No,
I mean no pressure because you gaveit to yourself, right yeah, yeah,
exactly. It happened organically. Iworked hard to to gear and it
just it just came. Yes,sir, you were running last night in
Beverly Hills. Yeah, man,yeah, I mean it was good.
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I live around there so open.It's always good to you know, get
it run in and just get inspired, you know, see, you know,
get motivated and get a workout.It's just like in East La at
night. Put a little put alittle fear behind that job. Yeah yeah,
yeah, you bro for anything,I'll be looking around. Yeah yeah
yeah. It can only help thattell you, so, okay, how
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hard do you work? Like,what's your what's your routine? I mean
it just really depends on on theday. But I worked out with two
or three times a day when I'mwhen I'm deep in the camp. You
know, it's really just resting,eating and working out. That's and it's
a repetitive cycle. I don't takereally that much days off, but I
(03:29):
love it for to right, youcan't do it. Yeah, I mean
no, I can, but Idon't know. I just don't feel right,
you know, I just when Iwant to just know that I,
you know, did everything to preparemyself the best way that I can.
Yeah, And I don't want to. I don't want like I didn't cross.
I don't want to go into afight, you know, just thinking
that underprepared or I didn't do everythingthat I that that that I thought I
(03:49):
could have. I don't want toleave no stone unturned. Was that because
that happened once? No? No, not no, I just because I
don't want it to ever have.I feel and do you apply that way
thinking and everything in life or thefighting? Yeah, I don't know.
It just comes natural with the fighting. Yeah, yeah, give it my
all and it's and it's fun tome, you know, I don't it's
not I don't feel like a job. You know. It's something that I
(04:11):
truly love to do. Is therapeuticfor me. So, uh yeah,
you have a boxing at no joke, right, Like Floyd said, you
don't play boxing. No, youcan't basketball. You play football, you
know you're not playing boxing. No, you can't play boxing. No,
because in that ring. You know, you know, one mistake could end
it all all and literally, youknow, we we see so many fighters
lose their life and in the boxingring over the last few years. So
(04:33):
yeah, you gotta you gotta beserious like Gladiator ship. Yeah, like
Gladiator for sure, And it wascrazy because us fighters we go in there,
we we we beat each other upand we you know, we hurt
each other for the world's entertainment.So you know, I just I just
think about it sometimes like we can'twe gotta be some type of like crazy
in the head, like we can't, like that's not normal. But no,
(04:56):
Devin, there's something wrong with youfor sureund wrong with all of us,
dog, and there's just a littlemore wrong with you. And that's
why you're the world cham you feelsure for sure. No, but you
talk about like you know, youall beating each other up in the ring,
and like I've always thought, likehow brutal is the pain after the
adrenaline goes away? Yeah? What'sdating number two? Like fight? It
(05:17):
just depends some fight. Some fights, you know, it's more pain than
others. Some fights you don't feelnothing, but some fights you be sore
for a week, just your wholebody, so you won't even feel it,
you know, in the ring,I tell a lot of people this.
In the ring, you don't reallyfeel punches that much. You don't
really feel them that much because youradrenaline is going. It's just moving so
fast. But obviously when you knocksomebody, I mean, when you get
(05:39):
knocked out, you knock somebody out, it's just that you don't feel it,
you don't see. It just happens. Yeah, but you don't really
feel pain like that in the inthe ring. But because you're a movie,
you're in the moment, right,But after those days after is when
you feel the focus like yours andall the female friends that you have,
you have to set some of thatback. And from your course of course
of course, right, you don'twant to make your knee week, Yeah
(06:00):
for sure. Yeah, yeah,you know about the making of these week
you YouTube, and Oscar de laHoya told me, Yeah, yeah,
that's a real thing. Well nothey say, they say it's a real
thing. You can't say. Theysay whatever, whatever, my knees a
week after dog. But I'm different, bro, I'm two hundred and fifty
three pounds. Yeah, I mean, I just I just you know,
I don't know if it's real ornot, but I think it's more of
(06:21):
a mental thing. So I thinkit's more of a you know, staying
focused mental type of thing, justyou know, sacrifice it. Yeah.
So yeah, we after a certainamount of time, we you apply that
Mamba mentality. Uh yeah, forsure, for sure. I mean to
be great and in any sporting anything. I mean, you can apply to
(06:42):
Mamba mentality and if you want tobe great in anything that you do.
Yeah, man, that's what's ga. Bay Area sports situation is very unique
right now. The Raiders bounced A'sare out of there. Like as someone
from that area, does that likedrive you crazy a little bit? I
mean, how much did you rootfor teams growing up? An a fan?
Right? Yeah? No, no, no, I never really was
like an as fan fan or likea Writers fan like that. Always a
(07:06):
Warriors fan for sure. But Idon't know, I feel like it's it
may sound bad, but I feellike it's just opening up for me,
you know, to take over thatthat that that's that spot and I'm you
know, I'm the new guy.I'm I'm I'm the Bay Area kid.
So you know, I feel likethe whole Bay is getting around me and
(07:27):
embracing me as they should me beingfrom there, and I feel like it's
just my time to step up.Is that That's why you probably had the
geek to be able to do thefight at the Chase Center December ninth,
by the way, Zone, ChaseCenter, Yeah, the Zone. I'm
definitely geeked about it. You know, tickets are selling fast. You know,
we did five thousand tickets on presale right now. Right now,
we did nine thousand tickets and withseven weeks to go, So it's gonna
(07:51):
be a sellout with things like seventeeneighteen thousand or whatever. So yeah,
it's it's it's gonna be a crazyevent. Man. What do you make
of this guy you're fighting? Bro? Who is this guy? Bro?
I mean he's he's a you know, tough, strong opponent. Sure,
but yeah, for sure, Imean, you know, but that's for
(08:13):
me to go in there and showthat it's a mismatch, that he shouldn't
be fighting me, that he shouldn'tbe in the ring with me, uh,
because I just feel like I'm levelsabove him. But that's for me
to you know, prepare the rightway and uh and going there and dominate.
Yeah, is it true that yousit and I mean you have to
write almost It's like watching game tape. You have to see what he can
do and what he can't do.So you have to watch them tape.
(08:33):
Yeah, I mean I go.I watch a lot of tape. I
got a team just around just theto study my opponents and what they the
habits that they do with, likeyou know, what they do wrong,
what they do right? You knowthat the like it could be this the
smallest thing, you know, ifthey just keep just you know, going
like that, just keep rubbing againsttheir face or keep touching their trunks or
(08:54):
whatever. Just just the little habitsof the little mistakes that they do.
And to take spoint Tom on FightNight, your producer Plow says, the
Bay Area basically is responsible for anythingcool, right, the iPhone, the
hottest music, I mean, thelist goes on off the dunk dunks.
Yeah, he said dunks the areastarted. Yeah, is this is do
(09:18):
you can you confirm that? Doyou believe this? Also? Yeah?
Yeah? Yeah for sure, forsure all the cool things come out to
Bay. I mean, yeah,bro, you feel I mean, the
Bay honestly came up with a lotyou know, and you know there's something
to be said about that. Youalso have you know, some of the
biggest, the biggest legends in musiccome out that way as well. Man,
(09:43):
who's walking you out? I don'tknow, Yeah, I mean,
I got so many people that wantto have been reaching out to walk me
out. I don't know. Idon't know yet. Though you're thinking about
a Bay Area artist or I wasthinking about Francisco. I was thinking artists.
But I don't know how I think. I don't think I am no,
but I walked out with forty likem probably like a few fights ago,
(10:07):
No, probably like six seven fightsago Water Philly. So I don't
know. I don't think we doa barrier artist this time. But I'm
gonna do somebody big crazy rotation rightnow like Drake think a little dark my
rotation. Yeah, man, Ilisten to everybody right now like that Shaq
(10:28):
and Kobe Meek. That means uh, who else? I like Little Baby
of course with dirt, Yeah Drake. Drake's new album is crazy. Yeah,
I would say that that's my mainrotation. K Pop in the mix,
ca what K pop? Cake pop? My fat as K pops right
(10:52):
now? Okay, after the interview, might we might treat what K pop
artists? Are you listening to?Wall? I thought you're talking about the
song? No, I mean there'sK pop artists, right, we're talking
about cap the genre like BT yes, got seven? Oh no this song?
(11:16):
Keep up the song? They cameup the song? Yeah? Oh
I thought you know I was talkingabout Korean pop music. Oh no,
I never heard it. That's different, bro. It's the big market though,
it's a really big market. Absolutely. You know your talkies over hot
Cheetos. Hot Cheetos over talking talkiesfor sure. Yeah, you like the
blue one went new A's you know, I'm like, you know, the
(11:39):
cheatos cheats is old easy now no, no, but the talkies is a
new thing for sure. You're sayingtalkies the new kids, Yeah, cheetos
old head vibes. Yeah, wow, the new kids are eating talkies for
sure. Yeah, but hot cheetosstaple my g No, no, not
(12:01):
goingos? Is you know? Respectafter them? Listen Flaming Chito's Mayweather ge
and then the talkies is Devin Okay, he just stands on what he believes.
Come on, you people, wishyou wash. You know what I'm
saying. You confront everyole flip.Some people will flip. Man. Yeah,
(12:26):
I like talkies. I like them, but it's hot. It's hot
talkies all day, bro, bro, you feel me? I do say
this in Mexico though, Are theyin the talkies here? How so?
They just taste different? Now,cheat, I feel like the cheetos in
Mexico to taste better. Really,yeah, I like it. Like obviously,
hot cheetos here tastes better than hotcheaters in Mexico, and the talkies
in Mexico tastes better than I don'tthink I tried the talkies in Mexico.
(12:50):
They're better if you like them,like them here, you like them better
over there? What about Mexican women? Better here, better in Mexico?
Let you, I love accents,so like over there, that action is
more prominent, so like yeah,like that for the seat you ever heard
of? The seat? Like theboogie Mexicans. Mexicans not nice always like
I mean, but they usually are. Yeah, I like I like bougie
(13:13):
woman. I think I think Ilike the ones. What's on your mind,
buddy, I'm trying to think.I'm trying to think. I'm trying
to think. I'm trying to thinkabout like the ones here, bro,
your friend here, I think,I think I like the ones here.
I don't speak Spanish though, that'swhy I don't speak Spanish, so no,
I mean everybody speaks universal language.I don't necessarily have to speak the
(13:33):
language, right, connection speak thelanguages, that's right. Google Translate,
that's it, man, You everhave to use Google Translate? Yeah,
Mexico for sure, that's right.You got to get around. Yeah,
I spent some time in Mexico.Well, part can't. I've been in
Mexico City. I've been to Conocan Cool, Okayjuana, spend a lot
(13:56):
of time in Tijuana, that's right. Yeah, it's a lot of great
boxing. Hong Kong is the gymyou go to. Yeah, I was
trained the Spark. I heard ofthe Hong Kong gym. I've just never
been to it, right, right, I don't have a gym membership to
Hong Kong, but I'm willing to, you know, do a free trial
membership. I know the manager ofthe gym. I've never been though,
(14:22):
but I'm just saying, of coursenot I know the manager there. So
you never got a sense of humanthat's why you like, man. I
saw a review for Hong Kong writtenby Devin Hayes. Yo, Yeah,
I saw it. So yo.So Mexican food, then you're a fan.
Yeah yeah, right, I mean, I mean Mexican food and it's
(14:43):
big in the Bay Area too.You know, we got the mission where
you know, we got the mission. Oh but Pele said that the burrito,
remember it was it was created inthe Bay Area. That's right,
But the type of burrito was notwith the California Burrito. Yes, yeah,
for sure. That's crazy. Wedidn't know that. I mean,
pe really advocates for the Bay andwe respect that. Yeah yeah, yeah,
(15:03):
yeah, And so does Jackie's boyfriend. He's from the Bay Area as
well. They just moved in.They put a dog together from the city.
Yeah, they just moved in witheach other. I got a dog.
Okay. So she doing like wifeythings as a girlfriend. Would you
say she's doing that? Yeah,there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing
wrong with that. You know that. When it comes to that, it's
(15:26):
a that's a little weird for you, right, a little bit. Yeah,
but it's part of the process.You gotta trust the problems. They
always cap on me for that.No, it's all good. Yeah.
No, she's also pressuring him toget married. So there's that, you
know what I mean. But hewants to he wants to get married.
Okay, no pressure in No pressuremakes diamonds. That's what. Is there
(15:52):
anyone in your life that that's pressureto you, like but like out of
from a good place that you appreciate. Yeah, my publiciers over there,
that's you know, sitting there.She it's a lot of pressure on me.
But it comes it comes from agood place, you know, it
comes from it comes from a greatplace. Actually, Hey, remember bro,
you're the talent. Bro. Youknow what I'm saying. You shouldn't
have to worry about a lot ofthings. Yeah, you shouldn't cloud your
head with ideas and information. Pleasefight. No, No, she's black
(16:19):
in Mexicans love black and riding oneperson. My g. I love that.
I fight is December ninth of SanFrancisco Chase Center. Man tickets are
available, They're gonna sell out fast. There going crazy. Devin Hainey is
obviously a star, feel met andshuts down the building as soon as the
lights go off, My g,and it's time to walk out. It's
go time, right of course,your thought. Is it the same thought
(16:41):
before you walk out? Is ita prayer? Is it a phone call?
Same thought that you know that goesthrough your head while you're walking out.
No, I mean it's when you'rewalking out that's when it's real.
It's like it ain't no turning backnow, It's it's go time. And
when you're get in that ring,it's like it's nothing that you can do.
An know, you can't get out. It's like you're going into that
(17:03):
cage gladiator mode. There's no backingout, do or die. Yeah,
yeah, And people are screaming yourname, some people are talking ship right.
You have to tune all that out. I mean, you know,
to be honest, you don't reallyhear it when you when you when you
when you get in there, it'slike it's tunnel vision. It's the arena
is so loud, but you'd hearnothing like but like familiar voices that you're
around twenty four to seven, likemy dad, my brother, my team,
(17:26):
the people that I hear a lot. I hear their voices, but
other than that, I don't reallyhear the crowd too much. And what
are they saying? They know howto push your buttons. Do they know
how to hype you up? Yeah, yeah, no, for sure,
they definitely know how to get memotivated. And uh yeah yeah. What's
a trigger word? They get youright right right right? I don't I
don't. I wouldn't say I gotlike a trigger word. Like my cousin
(17:49):
Marcos you did some time, rightif you tell him like you was a
beat, it's on site, it'son site. It's like we're gonna have
to square up. You don't likethat exactly? Is there a certain word
that might just like, yo,that's that's fout that disrespect. Nah,
that's somebody that anybody if somebody wastelling me why I was in the ring
(18:11):
and now to get me fired up? Oh ship, I don't know.
Everyone has that phrase. You grewup listening someone you know, a bully
would tell me you disappointed, Likemy mom called me a disappointment once.
So that's like my trigger work.Like I don't know, wrong, I
don't know, I don't know.I can't really say. Plus, in
(18:33):
the ring, when you fight withlike like anger or like that's you don't
fight, you don't fight, it'sgood like you you gotta still be relaxed.
Yeah, bro, still have thatthat tunnel vision and like, you
know, because we fight, we'refighting with you know, technique, we're
fighting with strategy. So when yougo in there with just anger, gett
knocked the funk out, doesn't feelor does it feel? Just so quick?
(18:57):
Everything is like every as fast likewow, yeah, you don't have
time to like really like think toomuch. It's all just like repetition and
just the punches and everything is comingso fast fast. Wow. You know
when you have a dream about fightingand you're swinging so yeah, so slowly.
Every dreams like that, Like you'renot strong, not fast, You're
(19:19):
nothing. You're running. You camerun fast, can't open the door.
You're a marshmallow. No, Ican't do nothing, man, yo.
So I'm I'm the same way whenit comes to water. I I think
I can tell right, even thoughI failed at it, when when when
they put me to the I cantell what water is? What? Right?
You're you're a Fiji guy? OnlyFiji? Yeah? Why Fiji?
(19:41):
I don't know. I just it'scrisp, like I could just drink a
gallon of water a day, soso it's I don't know, it's just
easier for me to drink when it'sFiji that that sounded boogie. But that
sounded bad. But no, Ijust like that. That's what I prefer
(20:02):
water today. But yes, butrich water is the best. But that
would you say you're nah? No, I want to say I'm bougie.
I mean we all can be.Yeah, you know, money dog,
it's all good. Don't we seeit in your teeth? Yo, Jackie
(20:22):
just got a tooth. Jim,you see it like you were coming,
bro, I got this is justa ca on Jackiet. No, no,
smile this ship your ship hidden forsure. Now I don't want to
smile. Sparkles. The whole frontdog is crazy. Yeah, I'm getting
(20:42):
more on this side just because Yeah, it's better than tattoos at this point.
Yeah, I agree. Hey,Devin, you have a history with
Ryan, you know, like youguys came up together in a sense,
right, He had a tough timehis last fight out. Did you guys
like afterwards maybe text each other consideringyour history and kind of you know,
(21:03):
maybe he does usually as a springboardnow that you're professionals, or do you
guys do that? No, becauseat the end of the day, we're
still rivals at the end, Iwas gonna say, yeah, it's a
fine line. No, you know, but there's a lot of respect.
I got a lot of respect fromRyan. We obviously came up together,
and you know, one day,I think it's gonna be a big fight,
but I wish him nothing, nothingbut the best. You know,
(21:26):
he dared to be great and hecame up short and his boxing what can
you do? Yeah, sometimes yougotta lose to win, you know,
like you gotta feel that for aminute, you know, before you can
come back. Now, you haven'thad that in your professional career, but
I think you know sometimes that it'sbeneficial, you know. Pjria Canelo two
is a great example of that.Too Young fought Floyd. You know,
wasn't pretty, but you know hefigured it out. And then my second
question is my kid just got hisears pierced on Saturday? Can I can
(21:48):
I switch his earrings? Yeah?Yeah, I figured, Fuck it's what
that you know you got those thatplayer? Stop playing? No? I
did know it's crazy is because solike I didn't. I just got my
ears pierce probably like probably like ayear and a half ago. And and
when I when I when I gotmy ears pierced, I didn't want to
like use to start earrings. SoI had earrings bigger than this, and
(22:11):
I just put them in like Iforced him in. Oh yo. So
like my my ears was like theywere droopy, like everything was like it
was. So it was just likehanging like yeah, yeah it was.
It was they were your ears.No, no, no, I got
them. I got them pierced.But then I but then I took the
(22:33):
starter earrings out and I pushed straightto the v. Yes, exactly.
So so my ears were scabby.It's not lying, but yo, that's
a prob. You have to likepush them in there. Bro. It
was bleeding. It was, itwas, it was. It was a
situation. So I had to takethem out. I had to repierce my
(22:55):
ears like let it, let itheal. And I had to repierce my
ears where they started earrings. Andthen I went smaller because others are just
too big. Too big, youhave the big joints. All, I'll
just settle for these. Yeah,don't ever settle unless you're Devin Haney.
We can afford to say. Yeah, you can afford to settle by y'all.
Man listen. Deceummer ninth, ChaseCenter in the bear at San Francisco.
(23:18):
We uh, you know, wewould wish you luck, but you
don't need it. The harder youwork, the more luckier you get.
Ready, Yes, sir, that'swhere the luck comes in right there,
to hard work. Yeah man,once that meets it's that preparation, once
that meets opportunity, skull time.And this is what happens when you step
in that ring, yes sir,yeah, many al. It's love man,
come see us anytime. Uh,and we wish you all the love
(23:40):
and respect man. Seriously, thankyou guys. Yeah, I can't wait
to watch this fight. Dog.Let's get it. Hey check get rich
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