July 11, 2024 • 6 mins
Kiwi boxer Andrei Mikhailovich joined D'Arcy Waldegrave to discuss his upcoming 'World Title' bout in Las Vegas Nevada.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be we're joined now by a man who is
chasing straps, two of them, and he's chasing them this weekend.
Andre Mikaylavichard joins us ahead of hers big fight against
Zanamik and I'll Knuly thank you very much for joining us.
A lot of pressure on you right now? How are
you coping with this? Are you even feeling that pressure
(00:32):
at all?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Andre?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Nah, pressure is what you make and it's all of
our perspective. If you think it's going to be this big,
scary deale, then it'll be that. If you think it's
just gonna be another day in paradise, it'll be that.
So I'm just living my life and I live in paradise.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So at that, how have you preped for this?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Though?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You've got an opposition in front of you. He's got
quite a punch on. I mean, all boxes do, don't they.
It's part of your job. But have you looked much
into what he delivers in the ring? Is that part
of your process here?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah? I see everything, I know everything, I know everything
he does. It's all a part of the process. But
I'm lucky. I've got a great training thing behind me
that you know, support me and give me the right ideas,
and I just follow the instructions and I just be
their puppet. That makes life easy.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So has their instructions.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Please don't tell me you're saying get out in the
middle and wipe him out in the first minute. We
don't want to exhaust yourself early. How are you looking
to break this down?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Andre, I'm just gonna like run around and more a
shot and knock him out in the first round.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And that's that's from your management. That's what the training
is seen.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Is it na look man like, we got our game
plan as us and everything, and we'll do what we
have to do and we'll win whatever whatever many means necessary,
it means it's a long boy fight, or it's a
you know, it is what it is, man. I just
do my job and be professional and listen to my coaches,
and obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Tell us about your build up for this fight, because
you're inactive for a long long time and then you
suddenly got busy again.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Talk us south through the build up. Andre.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I thought I had to I had I was meant
to fight in May, but I ended up fighting in
April to stay current and Mighty be Frankings because the
Dennis thread Evan who has mandated to fight, they know
I was going to fight for the world title eliminator.
He kept getting did and we couldn't get a deal together.
So I ended up getting mandated for the IBF title
and that's one fighting Jenny Bick in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So what did you learn out of your last fight,
because it was the period before that wasn't it was
a year of an action, So what did you pick
up out of that that you might need to use
come Sunday afternoon, New Zealand time.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You know, I think being patient is really important, and
I also think an extra level of self belief because
you know, no matter what was happening in my life
last year, I stayed, you know, I said in the gym,
and I'm proud of that, and.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's an important part of it. So you're fit, You've
worked really, really well, you've taped it off. Well, what's
it involved in the last week since you've landed in
camp Andre, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
We've taped off good. You know. Isaac's a relentless trainer
and he's also really good at judging where I am
at in terms of energy, in terms of how how
how tired I am, or how I'm feeling and how
I'm looking. You know, I've been trained with Isaac for
years now and you can just look at me and
no exactly how I'm feeling. So we have a real
good relationship. He's the man and he knows me better
(03:06):
than my wife, So that's good.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Ibey doesn't know you that intimately, Andre, No.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Maybe very close. There's a lot of that here. He
can read me like a book. He's really onto it,
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You're very confident. You always have been.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
This has been part of your what twenty twenty one
fight career. I think it's been and that's not going
to stop. You haven't adjusted anything, so now you're on
the on the cusp of actually achieving your dream. Ibfwbo straps.
Has anything changed, head wives leading up to what is
a matt could be a life changing fight for you, Andre.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Not really. I've always haid that corn and belief is
that I'm the man and I'm meant to be here,
So not really, I just like you know, like I said,
I just listened to my coaches and I do my job,
and that's super a professional fighter and enjoy it, you know,
like IM thinkers with Vegas, where if you put it,
if you make it into this big deal in this
big city, you know, it's like to put into perspective
like Vegas is forty three times smaller than Auckland, so
(04:00):
it's not actually a big city. And the lights are
just neon lights. It's nothing too crazy. It's just another city.
And in this hotel, I could be anywhere in the world.
I could be in Saada, Arabia, Alba Dubai. I've been
in London, Australia, could be anywhere. It doesn't really matter.
I'm in the hotel the whole time, so it doesn't
really matter.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then you dragged into a squared circle doing what
you always do. So that doesn't changed from what the
Auckland Boxing Association right the way through are now. It's
the same place and it's canvas and ropes.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, that's it. It's just two guys in a ring
fighting to make money and one will win and one
will lose. It's all it is. People over sincetionalizer. You
just got to keep a basic second potatos for life, baby.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And what about the support from home. Have you had
a lot of that? You've been contact with people near
and deerdy? Have many people come over for the trip
for the fight?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I don't know. I got a I don't know. Yeah,
everyone's like really supportive in that, but like you know,
I think I'm being pretty selfish, weak and just raining
by myself. And if people are coming over, like that's
on them to sort it out really, and I'm just
like I'm trying. I'm just trying to do my thing,
which is fight, and I'm not worried about anything else.
I can only control what I can control, and that's
what I say do in the field, So that's what
I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Do you look between it all started, I mean in
the Auckland Boxing Association gym earlier on in the piece,
but you got underweight?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
How many fights? Also?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Twenty one fights were working out. I'll get there eventually,
called Rob Ramsey. Do you remember that way back then?
Did you even consider where you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Might be if you were successful in that first up scrap?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I think that my pro debut. I was just excited
to be a pro, Like it was always my lifelong
ambition to be a pro. I remember fighting as an amateur,
and I was like, this is not it. I have
to wear like a head gear and like a single
it and fight with these big gloves on. I always
liked the effect of like just having a like mano
man who fight with just like a mouth guard and
some one gloves. So to be a pro was a
dream of mine. And you know, I was just excited
(05:47):
to be ranked like one and eighty fourth from the
world brow and have a box wreck. I just thought
that was so cool. And then from there, I guess
there was a natural progression to middleweight champ, super worldweight champ,
and regional champ and then world ranked, and it was
just all a real long progression, Like this was taking
seven years to get here, sorry, six and a half
years to get here. So it's kind of like having
(06:10):
a baby, bro, Like you're excited that the babies come in,
but it also takes nine months to get there. You've
got time to prepare for it. It's not like it
just rocks up.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Talk about your babies. You've been in touch with your
wife and your kids.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, they're all good, bro, Like you know that
kids are good. And I try to think about them
too much because I have to try and hurt someone
in a few days, so it can't be too soft.
But uh yeah, I think good.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm think you're get to go and there you're gonna
hurt like there's no tomorrow. I really love watching your
rise and rise, and to see you up at this
level fighting for these world straps is something else.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You won't let us down. You won't let yourself down
or mister Peach either. That's the most important thing. Get
in there, cause a ruckus and bring us back a
couple of straps for your hell.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That's the job. Thank you, Darcia.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I really appreciate the call for more from Sports Talk.
Listen live to News Talks it'd be from seven pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be we're joined now by a man who is
chasing straps, two of them, and he's chasing them this weekend.
Andre Mikaylavichard joins us ahead of hers big fight against
Zanamik and I'll Knuly thank you very much for joining us.
A lot of pressure on you right now? How are
you coping with this? Are you even feeling that pressure
(00:32):
at all?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Andre?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Nah, pressure is what you make and it's all of
our perspective. If you think it's going to be this big,
scary deale, then it'll be that. If you think it's
just gonna be another day in paradise, it'll be that.
So I'm just living my life and I live in paradise.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So at that, how have you preped for this?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Though?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You've got an opposition in front of you. He's got
quite a punch on. I mean, all boxes do, don't they.
It's part of your job. But have you looked much
into what he delivers in the ring? Is that part
of your process here?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah? I see everything, I know everything, I know everything
he does. It's all a part of the process. But
I'm lucky. I've got a great training thing behind me
that you know, support me and give me the right ideas,
and I just follow the instructions and I just be
their puppet. That makes life easy.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So has their instructions.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Please don't tell me you're saying get out in the
middle and wipe him out in the first minute. We
don't want to exhaust yourself early. How are you looking
to break this down?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Andre, I'm just gonna like run around and more a
shot and knock him out in the first round.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And that's that's from your management. That's what the training
is seen.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Is it na look man like, we got our game
plan as us and everything, and we'll do what we
have to do and we'll win whatever whatever many means necessary,
it means it's a long boy fight, or it's a
you know, it is what it is, man. I just
do my job and be professional and listen to my coaches,
and obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Tell us about your build up for this fight, because
you're inactive for a long long time and then you
suddenly got busy again.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Talk us south through the build up. Andre.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I thought I had to I had I was meant
to fight in May, but I ended up fighting in
April to stay current and Mighty be Frankings because the
Dennis thread Evan who has mandated to fight, they know
I was going to fight for the world title eliminator.
He kept getting did and we couldn't get a deal together.
So I ended up getting mandated for the IBF title
and that's one fighting Jenny Bick in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So what did you learn out of your last fight,
because it was the period before that wasn't it was
a year of an action, So what did you pick
up out of that that you might need to use
come Sunday afternoon, New Zealand time.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You know, I think being patient is really important, and
I also think an extra level of self belief because
you know, no matter what was happening in my life
last year, I stayed, you know, I said in the gym,
and I'm proud of that, and.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's an important part of it. So you're fit, You've
worked really, really well, you've taped it off. Well, what's
it involved in the last week since you've landed in
camp Andre, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
We've taped off good. You know. Isaac's a relentless trainer
and he's also really good at judging where I am
at in terms of energy, in terms of how how
how tired I am, or how I'm feeling and how
I'm looking. You know, I've been trained with Isaac for
years now and you can just look at me and
no exactly how I'm feeling. So we have a real
good relationship. He's the man and he knows me better
(03:06):
than my wife, So that's good.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Ibey doesn't know you that intimately, Andre, No.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Maybe very close. There's a lot of that here. He
can read me like a book. He's really onto it,
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You're very confident. You always have been.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
This has been part of your what twenty twenty one
fight career. I think it's been and that's not going
to stop. You haven't adjusted anything, so now you're on
the on the cusp of actually achieving your dream. Ibfwbo straps.
Has anything changed, head wives leading up to what is
a matt could be a life changing fight for you, Andre.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Not really. I've always haid that corn and belief is
that I'm the man and I'm meant to be here,
So not really, I just like you know, like I said,
I just listened to my coaches and I do my job,
and that's super a professional fighter and enjoy it, you know,
like IM thinkers with Vegas, where if you put it,
if you make it into this big deal in this
big city, you know, it's like to put into perspective
like Vegas is forty three times smaller than Auckland, so
(04:00):
it's not actually a big city. And the lights are
just neon lights. It's nothing too crazy. It's just another city.
And in this hotel, I could be anywhere in the world.
I could be in Saada, Arabia, Alba Dubai. I've been
in London, Australia, could be anywhere. It doesn't really matter.
I'm in the hotel the whole time, so it doesn't
really matter.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then you dragged into a squared circle doing what
you always do. So that doesn't changed from what the
Auckland Boxing Association right the way through are now. It's
the same place and it's canvas and ropes.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, that's it. It's just two guys in a ring
fighting to make money and one will win and one
will lose. It's all it is. People over sincetionalizer. You
just got to keep a basic second potatos for life, baby.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And what about the support from home. Have you had
a lot of that? You've been contact with people near
and deerdy? Have many people come over for the trip
for the fight?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I don't know. I got a I don't know. Yeah,
everyone's like really supportive in that, but like you know,
I think I'm being pretty selfish, weak and just raining
by myself. And if people are coming over, like that's
on them to sort it out really, and I'm just
like I'm trying. I'm just trying to do my thing,
which is fight, and I'm not worried about anything else.
I can only control what I can control, and that's
what I say do in the field, So that's what
I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Do you look between it all started, I mean in
the Auckland Boxing Association gym earlier on in the piece,
but you got underweight?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
How many fights? Also?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Twenty one fights were working out. I'll get there eventually,
called Rob Ramsey. Do you remember that way back then?
Did you even consider where you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Might be if you were successful in that first up scrap?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I think that my pro debut. I was just excited
to be a pro, Like it was always my lifelong
ambition to be a pro. I remember fighting as an amateur,
and I was like, this is not it. I have
to wear like a head gear and like a single
it and fight with these big gloves on. I always
liked the effect of like just having a like mano
man who fight with just like a mouth guard and
some one gloves. So to be a pro was a
dream of mine. And you know, I was just excited
(05:47):
to be ranked like one and eighty fourth from the
world brow and have a box wreck. I just thought
that was so cool. And then from there, I guess
there was a natural progression to middleweight champ, super worldweight champ,
and regional champ and then world ranked, and it was
just all a real long progression, Like this was taking
seven years to get here, sorry, six and a half
years to get here. So it's kind of like having
(06:10):
a baby, bro, Like you're excited that the babies come in,
but it also takes nine months to get there. You've
got time to prepare for it. It's not like it
just rocks up.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Talk about your babies. You've been in touch with your
wife and your kids.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, they're all good, bro, Like you know that
kids are good. And I try to think about them
too much because I have to try and hurt someone
in a few days, so it can't be too soft.
But uh yeah, I think good.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm think you're get to go and there you're gonna
hurt like there's no tomorrow. I really love watching your
rise and rise, and to see you up at this
level fighting for these world straps is something else.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You won't let us down. You won't let yourself down
or mister Peach either. That's the most important thing. Get
in there, cause a ruckus and bring us back a
couple of straps for your hell.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That's the job. Thank you, Darcia.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I really appreciate the call for more from Sports Talk.
Listen live to News Talks it'd be from seven pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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