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April 22, 2025 55 mins

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Pro Boxing prospect, soon to be contenderJahi Tucker pulls no punches in this raw, unfiltered conversation about boxing, social media drama, and the mindset that's propelled him toward championship contention. The once-soft-spoken fighter reveals why recent months have pushed him to become more vocal when fellow boxers Amari Jones and Truck Simpson crossed the line between business and ego.

"I've always been a cool dude...but some of these guys blur the lines between their egos and business," Tucker explains in this sit down with The Spar-Inn Boxing Podcast. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on?
Y'all.
Yo what the fuck are you at Yo?
Just yo, yo.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'm out west right now, man.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yo you living life man, hold on.
It's on a sunny out there andall that.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
So we're recording right now.
That's Jahai Tucker.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're alldiscombobulated right now.
What's going on?
Jahai, I'm cooling man Pleasurebeing here bro.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you for taking the time.
I know I'm annoying.
I harass everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Nah, nah, nah.
Best podcaster, you guys havegot the best podcast on the
island and soon to be in thecountry and in the world.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You're making me blush.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, did he?
Yes, sir.
So yo, Jahai, what's going onwith you, man?
We got a lot to chop up.
I mean, when I first met you afew years ago, you were very
soft-spoken, like a nice guy,even nice to all the fighters.
But I'm just going to get rightinto it.
Yeah, the past few, I'd sayweeks or months.

(01:02):
Yeah, Probably months, I'd saymonths.
I'd say weeks or months.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, probably months , I'd say months, I'd say months
.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, you've been a little vocal Vocal on your
opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know, honestly, I feel like I just feel like.
You know, I've always been likea cool dude.
I never like, got no problemwith nobody, everything's cool.
You know it's all business atthe end of the day.
But some of these guys, theycan blur the lines between their
egos and business and you knowthat's the business that we're
in boxing.
So you know, it's just what itis.
I just, if I'm attacked, I'mgoing to be on offense.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, so why?
And I'll name the names in aminute but why are these people
we speak of coming at you Like Idon't know where it came from?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, came from.
I saw where this shit come from.
That's wow.
Like you know, it's always.
It's always he says, she saytype thing, but it's always it's
mainly all about boxing, likefor example uh, amara, I saw
with amari jones, yeah I wasgonna get there the thing with
him now is when he um, the thingwith him now is well, I want to
say when I fought the SheikNaveeli guy, right, the Russian

(02:07):
dude.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
The boxing voice asked him like what do you think
about Jahai's performance?
And then he, um, he goes and hesays you know, I wasn't really
impressed and stuff, you feel me?
I'm like I cool, it's whatnotnot.
I've seen that I react to hiseye cool.
So then I want to say, maybeabout about a year later I see

(02:29):
him in houston.
Everything is cool, everythingis cool.
Right, I didn't offer to fighthim.
I didn't offer to fight him.
His team declines to offer.
From what I'm told, from whatI'm told, all right, from what
I'm told, his team declined tooffer.
Then you know, you know he popshit.
I'm popping shit with mypopping shit.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I could curse with him right, right, yeah, yeah,
you can do whatever you want,man.
This is the spot.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Curse ain't no sponsor All right.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
But, but yeah, you know, fucking I, you know we're
popping shit.
I'm popping shit with my cousinand you know my brother and
them, you know.
So then one of my peoples, theyget into an argument with one
of the Devin Haney promotionpeoples, and not so much an
argument, it's more so like adebate of like yo, jahai versus
Omari.
And my guy was just like yo,bro Jahai already exified Omari

(03:26):
and Omari turned it down.
So then even it got it got tothe point.
Even devin haney, like himself,was asking like yo, like, is
that true?
Like what's going on?
So after that, now amari takesthe instagram to defend himself
saying like yo, I never jahari'stop line, I never ducked your
fight, so, so, so, so I justresponded by sending him a
screenshot of the matchmakertelling me, yo, they don, they
don't want to fight.
I have a screenshot, so I sentit to him and then you know he

(03:48):
just goes defending himself.
You know he started saying alltypes of stupid stuff.
So I just told him listen, man,I don't pay him too much mind
anymore because yo, we had theopportunity to fight and you
literally turned it down.
So I mean, if you're not goingto fight down the line.
Then it's like bro, it made nosense even talking to you.
It made no sense you feel me?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Now did you guys yeah go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
No, I'm listening.
Oh oh, Did you guys ever spar?
Was there ever sparring?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
We never sparred, we never sparred we never sparred
we never sparred.
Okay, we never sparred.
In fact, everything wasactually cool.
We didn't say nothing to eachother, like there wasn't no
tension.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
There wasn't nothing, it was just like you know, fist
bump, fist bump, and that wasthat, so boxing shit is weird
out here.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
You think he was just following, like the other guy
talking trash Truck Simpson yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, he's just trying to get his little five
seconds of clouding right now.
That's all.
He's literally trying to gethis five seconds of clouding Now
with Truck.
That's why I paid him no mind.
He's still fighting fucking.
I don't even know bro.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yo, I was going to say like I respect all fighters,
obviously, but I was looking athis box record, his last few
opponents, and I have seen himfight.
I just didn't pay it any mind.
But and I'm like, man resumesmatter and you are.
I got a new nickname for you.
You are Jahai Risk Tuckerbecause he's taking all the
risks here, man.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I appreciate it, dog man, but but what were you going
to?
Say I was going to say withTruck.
Now, with Truck, the build upwith him is I sparred him and
you know the sparring went howit went, how it usually goes.
You feel me, yeah.
And then from there you knowRoy gets back around to him that

(05:46):
yo, I did my thing against him.
So then after that they want tofight.
You feel me, mm-hmm, thank you.
After that, now he decided toHuh.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
He posted too.
I know he posted that clip,which to me was cheesy.
That's like posting somebodyshooting an air ball and they
went five for six from three.
You know what I'm saying.
He posted a clip of you withyour gloves on the ground or
something.
You were bent over.
Hello, oh, and we lost him.
Yeah, well, that was good.

(06:27):
Take back what I said.
Don't beat me up.
Yeah, that's on his end.
No, that's not on us.
But hey, that was Jahai Tuckerman.
We lost him.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm just going to turn the pot.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I hear him.
I hear him.
I don't know what's going on.
I hear, like I hear aliens.
Okay, he's probably going tocome back.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, but we were rolling.
That's Jahai Tucker.
That was the surprise, havingsome technical difficulties on
his end, but I'm sure he'll popback in.
I'm actually going to text himright now just to pop back in
whenever he's ready.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's like still the same length and stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
What yeah, yeah.
Same length Should be samelength.
All right, yo, yeah.
So basically, what's going onwith Jahai is?
You know, I've noticed, andwe've been friends with Jahai
for a while now.
We met at Native Boxing and hewas always soft-spoken, Never
talked shit, even when you lookat him.

(07:37):
I think Tim Bradley started it.
Yeah, tim was talking a lot ofshit.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
He put the battery in his bag.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Tim definitely was talking a lot of shit.
I think he's coming back Holdon, I see you.
Let me see if I add him.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Okay, jaha, jaha, you there yeah, can you guys hear
me better?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
yeah, yeah, it is better.
Damn so nice over there.
It's all sunny and shit thewifi man, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
So yeah, long story short.
Even the flick that he posted,bro, like nigga, like he did not
even drop me, that's what gotme tight.
I love it.
I was like bro, I literallyslipped, like no punches thrown,
no, nothing happened, bro, likeit was like the first one.
I like slipped and I wasgetting up.
He posted a picture of mestanding up and I was on the
what's this shit called theBoxing Voice?

(08:26):
No, the um, the boxing voice.
No, what's the box?
It was a little mill cityboxing.
Actually.
He tells me, like you know,he's gonna have truck simpson up
on the show when he's there.
I told him, listen, he hascameraman there.
He has cameraman there.
Tell him, post the footage.
Tell him to post everything on.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Post the footage anyone who knows anything about
boxing knows, knows that's likethe cheesiest thing ever.
And when you only post apicture it kind of reminds me
back of like the PaulieMalignaggi, Conor McGregor hype.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
They give it like Ryan vibes right now yeah.
But it don't make sense fory'all to be doing that yet.
It's not like y'all, all bignames, right?

Speaker 2 (09:06):
now.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
You got a way bigger name than them.
I know you fought the betterfighters and then they doing
this now.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's tough, but you know what was crazy about him,
specifically him About Truck.
He actually went in to twopeople, not just you.
He came out at your jeweler andwe know who your jeweler is,
trax.
He better be careful for him.
He don't want beef with him.
Like you are who you are in thering, but Trax is coming.

(09:37):
I'd be more scared of his ass.
He's over there running thediamond dish Coming at your
jewelry man.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yo, bro, yeah word, like when guys bring up your
jewelry and shit like that.
They're just like we just hateit, man.
But I don't pay no mind because, bro, my jeweler is literally
the biggest jeweler in the world, bro.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
I know I'm like really Trax, you had him in the
gym.
You know that, trax, you hadhim in the gym working out and
all that.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Did you talk to him?
You was with us, bro, you outthere man, you was with us.
Yeah, I told Trax.
I told Trax.
Trax said I talked to him.
I told him.
I told him what the guy said.
Like he said it was Amazonlooking chains, all types of
shit.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
So oh man, I told him that.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, he just laughed.
He just laughed and he was likenothing for me, bro, and I feel

(10:39):
like I gotta go out there andjust take handle business, stand
on business and just show himlike I'm levels of boyfriend bro
, like he's like a c minusminusfighter bro, you know what I
mean.
I'm trying to go show him I'min love with my boyfriend bro.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
And the fact that you sparred with him before.
Like how many fighters have youfought professionally that you
have sparred with before?
You know what I mean, like dude.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, you know it's what it is Like, even, like,
even the opponents, that we'regetting the last guy.
We got top 10 dude well testedyou feel me?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, nobody, nobody, and big ass dude too, man.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, and he was in good shape, man.
I really was trying to get thestoppage, but he was very cool
and he wouldn't go.
Even when I would hurt him, hewould still push through it.
Man, I gave him props.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, he's never been stopped, but you knocked him
down twice, almost three timesfrom what I saw.
So you're saying that truck ison your radar and that'll be in
about what?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
a month?
A month and a half, ifeverything goes right.
If everything goes right,probably like a month and a half
Okay.
If everything goes right.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
You know what.
So I know it's WrestleManiaweekend.
Right, we're coming offWrestleMania weekend and a guy
that sort of came to yourdefense and also a friend of
ours that we interviewed, TroyIsley man, I want to see a tag
team boxing match.
I want to see some tag teamboxing match.
I want to see some tag teamboxing.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Shout out to Troy man .
Troy's a good dude.
He's been cool for a little bitnow.
Man, Tag team boxing match.
Yo top rank, Top rank will dosomething with that.
That's never been seen before.
Nah, man, I feel like we coulddefinitely do something with
that the drama's there.
The drama's there.
The drama's there.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
That'd be fire.
Oh yeah, bro.
I wanted to let you know, man,I wanted to, you heard, I wanted
to let you know that, bro, Ithink you can beat everybody
with just your jab, bro.
I don't understand like why youhave to get in a bag every time

(12:48):
you go fighting somebody.
You have to get in a bag.
Every time you go fightingsomebody, you have to get in
your bag, but you can just useyour jab.
Your jab is amazing, bro.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Nah, thank you, bro.
I feel like I've got to keepimproving on it, find different
ways to use it you feel me andlet's build on the tool.
That's really, I feel like,where I'm at right now.
I'm right there, close to thatworld championship level.
I just got to sign up on acouple things and I feel like
I'm there if I do the rightthing.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Your rope and dope is entertainment pretty much,
because you don't even have todo that.
Yo, you be in there beggingwith these big dudes.
I'm like yo, you don't evenhave to do all that, you can
just move around on them all day.
I'm like yo, Jahan just sithere with a play around all day.
He like to fight.
You gotta like to fight.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Nah, yeah, you know, and it kind of fucks him up
mentally and it fucks him uppositionally too.
Like, think about it like thisI put myself in a corner, right
the corner.
Look like this so I'm righthere in the corner.
Look like this so I'm righthere in the corner.
You only got two ways you cango.
It's only one of two ways youcan go.
You can either come to thisside and you can come to this
side, you feel me, and I haveall the advantage because you're

(13:59):
putting all your momentum on me.
The worst thing that you can dowhen you're in the corner is
just sit there and just let thedude like tee off on you.
Bro, you feel me, use the ropes, use your movement, bro, use
his.
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