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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Everybody is the j Envy Charlamage the guy. We are
the breakfast club. We got our brother with us today.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
From the zone.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
What's up? What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Once again, we got a special guest with us, the boxer.
Usually they have the ring and the belts and everything,
but ladies and gentlemen, we have Canelo Alva. But you
sink they have it on the board, the visit champion.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
You go.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Seventeen world times, twelve literal titles.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
There you go Alvarez. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How you feeling brother here?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Very good, very with them. Just hear promotion the fight
and I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
You got a Jamel challo on September thirtieth. Man, what's
your predictions.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
For the fight?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Charlamagne is not good with predictions.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
It's not good fight. He's with fight, he said, with
fighters too. And I like these kind of fights because
he's he's on disputed to another weight class. So but
I like this kind of fight because the people enjoy
these big fights. So I'm happy to do to be
involved in in big fights like this.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Do you ever feel like you letting people down?
Speaker 6 (01:10):
If you don't, if you don't knock them out or
stop them because people feel like your last three performances,
want your want your best.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
No, you know me. In boxing, you never know if
he's gonna come that no, cow or no. You need
to prepare yourself for the twelve rounds. Is boxing, you
never know, but I try my best. I try my
best to always bring everything to the ring and finish
the fight before the twelve rounds. But you never know.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Who do you think is better from the two brothers,
Jamel and Jamal? Like I know, you haven't been in
a ring with them, so you can't really test that,
But like the eyeball test, who's the better fighter?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I think both are grave fighters. But I think your
Mail is the best, the best.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Of the two, and Jamel is the person is the
one you're fighting.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
They said that you got players the fighter Jamal after Jamil.
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Uh No, we don't know. We don't know. Maybe happened,
you know, the brothers come up and say, maybe we
never know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What was your thoughts on the Crawford Spencer fight?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Really good fight, but I always I always know new
Graph is better fighter. I like Spence too, but if
you see grades better fighter.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Crawford was on this show, and he said, you know,
to Charlamagne that he'd be willing to fight you at
one fifty eight. And I think you made a comment
about that, saying it's levels and the weight classes for
a reason. So that fight is impossible. Could it ever
be possible? You're never going down on one six?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
No, No, I can't. I can It's impossible because you know,
like he say, if he beat Jerymonta, and everybody's gonna say, yeah,
it's just small, right and this and that. So it's
the same thing. I respect Crawford. He's a good fighter,
but we're not different weight class.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
That's a mega fight though, Canelo like that's kind of
like the last big mega fight out there, right.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I mean, because of the way he beats Spencing, how
easy they see, there's no challenge Ronald's divisions outside of
the canal. He's the only guy. And that's why I
guess to your yea.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But if I him what you're going to say, that's
a small well, you get, you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Get what you asked for. If he if he if
he asked for it, if he's saying he wanted you know.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean, you went up to one seventy five, but.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
You know, everybody wants to fight me. Everybody wants to
fight me. That's a that's a that's the true. But
I know no, for that, you need to get there
and fight everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Is anything left to prove for you in boxing?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
No, I think I've done a lot, a lot in boxing,
so but I love boxing and I try my best
to continue to make history. And that's why I'm here now.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Your dad didn't approve of you boxing early on, right
what your dad? Your father didn't prove you boxing.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
He don't want me to to be in in boxing
because he wants me to do and be in the
school and the ice creams and everything. But I say,
you know, this is what I want. If you gonna
support me, it's fine if you're not.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
For people that don't know, how did you get in
the boxing, because usually because it's the father, the father
that pushes him to do it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So what got you into the sports?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
My older brother starting in boxing, when I saw him
get his first fight and professional fight, that's when I
fall in love in boxing. I say, this is what
I want for my life.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You fell in love with golf recently too, in the
last few years. I mean, at this point, in your career.
Do you do you enjoy golf more than boxing?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
No, no, no, not yet. It's different. It's different. I
enjoy golf and I try to get outside boxing a
little bit better. Boxing is my It's just.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What brings you peace.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Canelo, my family is my family, my family. I think
my family, my my my people around, and that's that's
made me feel peace and calm and everything.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
But Bernard Hopkins says he feels like, you know, Jamel
could Jamal could give you problems.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, I mean you feel like he could be a
nightmare for you.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, he can be because he's a great fighter. But
that's why I'm here, right. I don't. I don't, I don't,
I don't. I don't put in my money. He's going
to be an easy fight. I know. That's what I'm
three hundred percent because he's a good fighter.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You know, people often say that Canelo has made so
much money, He's accomplished so much in a sport. Where
do you pull like the hunger from to get up
for these big fights. I mean, you've done it all,
Like how do you do it?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I love boxing. I love boxing and I respect boxing,
and that's why I am I mean in that or
right now. I I've been there in one month right now,
in the training camp without my family, without everything, because
I love boxing. I love the discipline of boxing.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What do you have the time?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Right we talked about Canelo promotions, we talk about the
tequila that you just launched, and all the activities outside
of boxing. Is what's making you? What fuels that fire?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Is it because of that as much as you're in alarm?
Might it fuels your other businesses or what? What? What
makes you still have the time or energy to want
to do it boxing?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I love boxing and and like I said, I love boxing,
and I I still enjoy that training com that when
I go out and training, Like I said to my
to my coach, I say, when I started losing the
hungry and that the that failed to go and train
(06:53):
and and do the correct things in the gym, then
I'm retired. But I still love boxing.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
When you look at like Floyd, and some boxes look
down on Floyd doing these exhibitions saying it's not real,
it's just a cash grab.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What are your thoughts on that? Would that be something
that you would do?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Look, he's retired, he can do whatever he wants. Right,
and I think I'm gonna miss boxing when I'm retired
a lot. And maybe I can. I can do one
or two, but you never know.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Speaking of exhibitions, I was in Dallas for Jake Poor.
I know you heard what Jake is saying. I want Canelo,
So I don't know whether you take that seriously or
like to his point later on, do you see maybe
an exhibition with it?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Maybe not a real fight.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
No, please you want it, man, listen, because I just
want to get hurt.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I respect Jake me and I talk about this all
the time.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
He's not a real boxer and when he calls out
somebody like you give him what.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
He asked for.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
For me, not right now because I'm I'm he's in
other things in my career, but we never know.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Maybe later like after you retired.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Yeah, okay, could if you feel like it would turnish
your legacy now or you feel like you be disrespectful
to the sport.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I think so, okay, I gotta get your opinion on this,
and just.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Don't respect Jake Paul what he's doing. He's gonna do
he once, right, but I think it's not. It's not
for real boxing. For my career. Put my fight in
my record with Jaye Paul is.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
If you if you and Jake fought, how how long
would how long would it last?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Not that long the first round? Yeah, and I don't
know that long.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Would you play with him a little b would you
carry him a little bit?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
First? I think that people is going to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Recently he used to be on your squad. Ryan Garcia
has issued with issues with Oscar and Golden Boy. Did
you see that coming like that? You know that eventually?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
And I told him he can. You can ask him, Yeah,
I told him, but at the end of the day,
it's his decision, right, It's his decision. But uh, as
my experience. I told him it is, you need to
see what you want to do and everything, but you can't.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Fix the issues with the war. You think he can.
You think that he could stay there.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I don't know. I don't know about anything in his
contract right because when I was with them, I made
my own content.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
M hmm.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
They don't come and say you need to sign nothing.
I can with my contract.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
This is what you think is a good person.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I think if you see everything once he's doing, I think,
h hm. Before because we are loyal right and and
we are always we we we are the only fighter.
We we we stay with them when everybody left him,
(10:15):
right because I'm loyal and and I trade everybody like
a family. And I do the same thing with with
all the boy. But I think he's no. He knows
that kind of person you don't have no loyal I
don't know if he's a good person or no, but
I think he's not. He knows a person. What he show.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You think it's just all business with him? Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
All business. So all the business, he's like a like
a guy. He say, if you're gonna because I hear
from him, and that's why I'm okay, got it And
I never forget. He say, you need to give them
a little it big, you know, like in in the Spanish.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's the.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Get. You gotta just give him a little taste of
a little teaser so they could come for more. So
he doesn't want to give a fighter too much.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
According to the last fight.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
When I when I hear that, I take it, but
coming I got it, and and a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What about it.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I don't want to. I don't want to talk about
him because he wants what about.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It as a fighter though, like, how how would you
feel against uh? I know you pick yourself, but a
prime as a prime.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Can we never want to know because you know, I
don't like to put that kind of things because we
know we never want to know if I say something people,
I know you know, Uh, I think it's just wasting time.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
If I can still have you as a lot of
people as the best Mexican fighter of all time over
him and Caesar Travis.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
No, I'm glad to be in that position. At least
I'm one of the great. I don't put my my
myself in any position. I think that that he sorted
the boxing, he's gonna put me in the right.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Let us do it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
If I was a young fighter and I came to you,
and this is my last question about this. If I
came to you and I said, Yo, should I signed
the Golden Boy.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
No, don't do it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I was going to ask you, what were your thoughts
when he didn't go to Guarsie his room after when
he lost? Who when he didn't go to his room
after he loss? He said he was threatened and he
ran out of the stadium after the last fight.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I don't know anything about it. You know, I think
he have a lot of issues. I was gonna have
a lot of issues with his life. Oh, I don't
really know when I fought with de Floyd May where
he was in rehab two days before the fight, so
(13:16):
uh and kind of that. But uh, you know, I
I don't know really what happened there, But I don't
I don't think what he say is they don't let
me go. If I in my position, fuck everybody. I'm
gonna go there and be with my with my friend
(13:38):
being there.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
We're talking about promoters and.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
If somebody comes, Okay, we figured out right. If you
don't have that, well was to do that?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Maybe I feel like he never whenever I talk to him,
I never know if he's telling me the truth.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It always feels like he's lying.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Yeah, I think I think the same thing. He say
a lot of things and he's like I think he's
he he's that, He's that kind of person.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
We're talking about promoters. So I got to ask you
about Eddie Hearn obviously did this new deal with PBC,
and a lot of people saying Eddie's crushed because you
guys did a lot of fights together. Is a relationships
still good? And do you see yourself fighting with Matthew
and his zone in the future.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
In my side, I I I'm still good. I mean
I'm I think his friend.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Did you speak to him after the deal that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
He congratulates me when I signed with with BBC, and
and I mean I'm still he's friend.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And there's three fights with PBC that.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, you think you and Ryan go see what ever?
Get on good terms again? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Why not? I don't. I don't have I have nothing
with with Ryan. I little things go out of control.
But he's he's young. And sometimes you you you think
it's it's good what you say, but at the end
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of the days not but you know it's it's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But all ups and downs. What's the biggest lesson you
learned from boxing?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I think I learned everything in boxing all my life.
The loyalty, the people you need to breed, the people
good and and everything. What I'm the person who I
am right now? I think it's for for boxing.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
HM.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Do you cut out sex before fights? You cut out
sex before fights like a lot of other fighters.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
One week week that's everybody saying before the other fighters
say one mom, two moms, or something like that, but.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Just the week awake, the weeks wow, no masturbation.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
No nothing, nothing. It really affects your legs.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I think just I never feel I never feel that,
but I don't know. So maybe some the other fighters
feel it, but I don't feel it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Do you think you could? You would train fighters when
you're done with boxing, because so when you're done with it,
when you're done, you want to be You don't want
to be involved in boxing at all, not even promoter
and manager help.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Fighters some boxes, right I promote some boxes right now
because I'm active, but I don't think full time. I
support I'm gonna support boxers. Edie Reno is going to
be involved in boxing, I think, and I'm gonna support
box boxers.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Why did you say it like that? No? Training? Like
you just don't like like trying to teach boxing.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I don't like the business. I don't like boxing. I
like business, but I don't. I don't. I don't like
watch boxing. And then I like training and being involving
in the fight and everything, but I don't. I think
for business, I have all the business to do, right,
(17:22):
I say, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't
see myself in boxing at least at least my son
wants to be a boxer.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And okay, I was gonna ask, would you let your
son box?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I don't. I don't want it. But it's not my choice.
He's not my decision. He wants to be a boxer, Okay,
I say, okay, then two three years more? Do you
want to do a sparting when you take the first punch,
you wanna tell me you want to be a right now? Okay,
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
People say you duck in Benevitas man.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Everybody say the same thing all my life. When if
I with throw, they say I'm dogging throw. When if
I other fighters, they say, I'm looking all up? Can
I look in La and everything? Every every time I
read every every single fighter, they say, okay, I have
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this other fighter.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Find somebody else.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah, they find somebody else. But you know I'm talking nobody.
I've been in this in this position a lot of times.
So I mean, I I just do the fights. I
think it's the best for for the fans.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Benevide will be one of the three fights.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I don't know, we don't know, we don't know that
we we on hundred percent focus in this fight, and
then we'll see you want to talk with sit down
with a high money and and and this and make
that a decision for the next fight.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is all about the money for Canelo.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Now when you come to fight, I don't, I don't
never and all my life anything is about money. Anything
is about money because you know I I tried to
do the best fight and I raised myself go up
and down in white classes with no and I don't
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need it to do that. I don't need to do
that because you know with every fighter, I'm gonna with
big money and I don't make I don't need to
take risks. So but I take it because I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In a good fights, it's been a video is considered
a risk.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Every fight him Charlow, every fighter service. When I fight
with with b Bold, everybody, everybody says he's gonna hey easy,
he pick easy five easy fight. No fighting is easy?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Are you done taking risk with as far as going
up in weight classes?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Now?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
So you still might go up the one seventy five game?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Wow, you're just not going down?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
No, No, I can't because you just you're tired of
cutting weight? Is that too hard for you to do
at this point, you're.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
No, because I'm I just go up because it's my
whole life was so hard to make one's fifty four
one sixty. So right now I feel I feel good
in one sixty eight maybe at some point one seventy five.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And that's why people always talk about how you know,
Jamel is going up to one sixty eight to fight him,
but he's bigger than Jameelo, because you know, typically you
probably should be fighting out.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
With fifty four.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I'm a small fighter.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
That's what I'm saying, like so so so one seventy
five that's insane. But even at one sixty eight and
one sixty and one fifty four years you wanted the
smaller guys. So I wouldn't say that he's coming to
fight the bigger guy. Jamel is the bigger guy.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Act as the boxing fan, would you like to see
him lose eight pounds get the one sixty to fight
Terrence Crawford?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
To be honest with you, as a fight fan, yeah,
I would like it would be an interesting you know,
But I understand his point, you know, and and all
that he's accomplished. There's no reason for him have to
to have to come down for But right like like that,
that doesn't make sense because but I can see how
the fight is intriguing to everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
What advice would you give Bud right now?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Because you know Budd is experiencing a level of fame
right now that you've had for a while.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What advice would you give to him for his next couple?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
No, I think he's he's what I saw from outside.
I think he's he's a good person. He's very small,
my person to hit on drink. He don't body, and
I think I don't. I don't. I'm nobody to to
to give advice, but I need I just he needs
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to enjoy his moment. Know, everybody enjoy his moment, and
right now is his moment. He needs to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
On the flip side, what advice would you give Arrow spins,
saying this is his first loss?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
No, you know, I think everybody when you loss, it's hard.
It's hard to handle because we don't prepare for for
our loss. It's hard. But at the end of the day,
you need to see who you lost and and and
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it's boxing you need to keep up and you need
to keep forware and not give up and and I
think you there is the champion's mate when.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Youse people think that he's some people saying that he
should retire.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
No, everybody say the same thing when I fast with
Floyd Mayware and say you need to change trainers and
this and that. He's boxing. He's boxing, and you always
in the line. You if you lose or win, it's
it's it's complicated. But you know, like I say, nobody's
(23:02):
prepared for for a loose or a loss. But uh,
another day, you need to get forward and keep fighting.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Would you rematch right away or would you take a little break,
take a couple of fights for uh?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Thinking like a like a boxer pretymatch immediately immediately.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But you don't see. You can't see Aerospence beating Crawford
in any any division, even at one fifty four. Do
you see anybody from one forty seven to one fifty
four beating Terrence Crawford?
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
So. What if he were to go up to one
sixty we know you're not going down, but would he
beat everybody at one sixty two?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Oh, we don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But up to one fifty four, you don't see anybody
beating him.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
He's a good he's a.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Good right retil fighting fighting fight him the table, it's
completely off the time.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I can't I can go down. I can't go down.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Only right, he'll fight him if if Bud goes up
to one sixty sixty eight.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, and like I said, like I saw interviewed of
craft or say, because I think they have something with JERMONTA. Davis. Right,
Oh yeah, like you say, if I beat him, everybody's
gonna says too small and I have nothing to.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Win, right, So there's no way Javonte can go up
to one forty seven and compete with we never know, we.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Never we never know. Your mont is a great talent,
to great fighter, and they can they can fight to
beat him, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
So better to be an interesting fight, like why not,
but would be a heavy favorite.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Yeah, so Bud comes up to one sixty eight, you'd
consider it?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, why you do it? Yeah? One sixty eight six?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Okay, that's the w Let's let's try to come do
you fee your career is near in the finish line.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I think four years more, we don't know, but four
years five years more?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
So you okay, you planning for that much longer?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Because mean you old as far as boxing is concerned.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I I've been in boxing. I've been in boxing, in
professional boxing since I was fifteen years old. Wow, almost
eighteen years in fighting a professional.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
He's a man of his word, because I remember twenty
eighteen when he did the deal, the five year deal.
I asked you, how much long do you want to fight?
Is this five year deal done with his own? And
you said no, maybe like eight nine years. So now
it's another four years, so you're right on target.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Why that number, like, why I always say thirty seven?
That he six around us? I think I, I it's
going to be enough a lot of years in boxing
and accomplish a lot of things, and then I need
to enjoy my life with my family and everything.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Absolutely, we know they got to go because they got TV. Yes, sir,
the fight goes down September thirtieth on Showtime pay per view.
And we appreciate you for joining us. Yeah, Champ, thank
you for coming, Ladies and gentlemen, Canelo Alvarez, thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's to breakfast club. Good morning, thank you, thank you,