KING JOHN RINCON Top Rank Boxing

Episode Transcript

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This is me Johnrey Cohn, aprofessional boxer. I'm here at the gym.
I'm going outside though, Okay,hey man, either way, I
kind of like the ambient noise,but walking outside is fine too. So
you're already You're already in the gymworking. How long you've been up this
morning? Man? I got uparound eight o'clock. Man, I just
got here to the gym. It'sfive week for me. So is really

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just focused on losing these last fewpounds. Man, Man, that's tough,
and then autahoor is done? Callyou the king? How does the
king take off that weight so quickly? What do you What do you have
to do? Just tons of cardioor what's involved? Oh? Man?
Just eating correctly, miles in andputting the gym. When did you get
your start in fighting? When didyou realize that you wanted to get in

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the ring and pound it out?I started. I started a little bit
before eight years old, but Ijust started winning then as a kid growing
up dominating. Now I'm in aprofessional ranks and then looking in the sod
the world. Who I am inthe professional ranks. You've got top rank
boxing and that's coming up on Saturday. April thirteenth, the first fights at
five, the main cards at nine. Do you know about what time you'll

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be hitting the ring yet? No, they're just he's like, it depends
on who falls down now for sure? For sure. And you can get
your tickets the American Bank Center Arenaor you can just go through UH ticketmaster
dot com, the UH the officialseller for Top rank boxing. Now,
I was reading through your uh,your laundry list of battles that you've won.

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How much of that can be crediteddo you think or is any of
it credited to being a left handedfighter? Well, man, been fighter.
That's that's that's the to me,that's uh, that's a. It's
a it's the most tricky style,a left handed fire southall. Yeah.
Yeah. So when you face offagainst an opponent, I mean, I
guess that when they're training, they'retraining with lefties. So when you get

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in the ring with the guy,you know, maybe his skill set isn't
quite there because he's lived his wholelife being right handed. Yeah, and
already for five years you've been apro. I used to play baseball.
I gave that up when I juststarted boxing, and I just took a
serious ever since as a kid.No, I mean at eight years old?
Who puts you in the ring ateight years old and said get in
there and put your dukes up?My dad? Yeah? How inspirational was

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that relationship and carrying your career forward? Oh? Man? Having my dad
as my trainer to me to afather and a son duo? Yeah?
How many rounds will this fight be? Now? When you get in there
and you know you've got six roundsto somebody that's not in the ring,
that doesn't feel like a whole heckof a lot of time. But for

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you, I mean, can itfeel like forever? Or do those rounds
go by quickly for you? Andto be honest, when you're inside the
ring, Yeah, it goes bypretty quick man, when you start getting
up to eight, ten rounds,then it slows down before sick by pretty
fast. Man. Now this thing'sgoing to be on ESPN Plus. Also,
do you get to you ever getthe nerves knowing that so many people
are going to be watching you?Ah? Not really nerves. I'm anxious.

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You ready to fight? Man?Yeah, I'm just ready. What
kind of music do you listen tobefore you before you get into business?
I grew up on a old schoolmusic man in the eighties. Yeah,
like Running Road. I listen toMetallica, I listen to School. I
tell you what if they when youpick your music for that Corpus CHRISTI krowd,

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if you throw Metallica at them,you're gonna have everybody, You're gonna
win them over. Then that's awesome. Man, It's been a pleasure talking
to you, King John Ringcone Man. Well, thank you so much for
taking some time, and I imagineyou got a very long day ahead of
you. Top Rank Boxing Saturday,April thirteenth, First Fight at five,
Main Card at nine at the AmericanBank Center Arena. Grab your tickets at

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ticketmaster dot com. Thank you somuch for joining me this morning, and
thank you brother, thank you,thank you very much. Talk to you soon.