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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. I'm live on the radio right now and
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Thanks for being here with us on Nebraska's news, weather
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And in just a moment, you're going to get a
live performance of a song made popular by Antonio banderas
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in the movie Desperado. Yeah, that is fantastic and we
heard it live as Omaha's own champ. Bud Crawford came
out there to say hi to the crowd and then
beat the ever lovin s not out of some poor
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guy to collect yet another title. But this is something
that one of the gentlemen in the studio who will
be a part of this mariachi performance in a moment
saw coming from a very young age. It's my honor
to welcome here into the studio, longtime friend of Terrence,
Bud Crawford, Rosendo Robeblest, thank you very much for coming in.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hey, thank you, good morning everyone. This is ros Sendo Roblis.
Thank you for having us here.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you guys, you were one of the first ones
to get your face punched in regularly by Budd. You guys,
were only like fifth graders, right.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, we were young, and yeah, we would do sparring
and we were sparring on a regular basis every day
at the CW Boxing Club here in Omaha.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Now is that something where you guys were buddies and
then said let's go in and start doing some sparring
and some boxing or did you meet him there in
the ring?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, we met there at the boxing gym, and it
was kind of a it was kind of a rough
meeting at first because you know, I.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Was because he was punching you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, well, he wanted he wanted to take the punching
back away from me that I was hitting. Yeah, and
so I was like, well, you're not taking in and
he's like, well, yes i am, and I'm like, well,
no you're not. So we we got a little in
a little little scuffle and we got separated, and after
that the sparring started and you know, you know, we
would hit each.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Other with their hardest punches. We developed a friendship.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So that's how that started. He just came in there
acting like he owned the place exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, Terrence, He's been about it since we were little,
and you guys were like, what eleven years old?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right? Yep, who's older, who's younger?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We're the same age.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay, so you guys are like fifth graders. What made
you decide that you wanted to go into boxing. I
would get bullied.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I would get picked on as a kid, as a child,
and my father would tell me, hey, you know, you
have to defend yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You have to defend yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And you know, it got to the point where I'll
come home crying and he'd be like, you know what,
next time you come home crying, He's like, you're going
to get another butt whooping by me. He's like, if
you don't do nothing about you know what they're doing
to you, so so excuse me. So you know what
happened again? And he was like, you know what, that's it.
He's like, I'm going to take you to Jim and
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you're going to learn how to how to fight.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And no, wait a second, you're are you getting bullied
by one guy by like a group of guys, by
one little girl who's bullied?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You know I'm getting bullied by I'm getting bullied by
one guy. Yeah, well several different people, but like one
person at a time. And you know, just getting pushed
and getting you know, smacked around, and yeah, so my
dad took it upon himself to take me to the gym.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is a concept that I think was a lot
more regular for guys that were a generation or two
before us. I'm not putting myself in your generation. I'm
a very old man, but it used to be pretty
commonplace for a kid to get picked on. The dad's like,
come on, I'll teach you how to fight. Yes, I
don't think that happens very much anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, it does not.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And you know, I have my own children, and you know,
I tell them and I talk to him, and I'm like, hey,
well you have to learn a little bit of self
defense as well, you know, so I try to implement that.
H But you you're right now, it's it's a tradition
that's kind of died down throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So you learned a few moves. Did we have that
moment like in it like some sort of movie or
TV show or something where you went up to the
guy bigger than you and just lay him out in
front of all the classmates and they're like, oh my gosh, Rosendo,
you know, is that did that happen.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That happened a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yes, tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I got picked on and and.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know, I got pushed, and you know I would,
of course, I would warn the person first, you know,
or to the guy, and I'd be like, hey, listen,
I don't wanna I don't want to hurt you. Oh
well hurt me. You're gonna hurt me. And I'm like,
trust me, I know what I'm telling you. I'm gonna
hurt you. And you know it'd continue and then boom boom.
You know, I'd have to do what I have to do,
and you know, and I mean, of course there'll be
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consequences at school and I'd get into some trouble and
you know, they'd call home and you know, i'd talk
to my Dad'd be like, what happened, and I'd be like, well,
this is what happened.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
This is what happened.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And he's like, okay, did you look did you start
the issue? I said, no, Dad, not at all. And
I just had to defend myself, you know. And it
happened a couple of times. But I started getting gaining
a little bit of popularity.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah. Yeah, the guy who can kick everyone's butt in
the school yard generally gets looked up to. But you
weren't a bully yourself. Did you think like, hey, this
is kind of fun. Maybe I can go find some
other guys and take their lunch money.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You know, No, I was always I was brought up.
I'm very fortunate to be have been brought up in
a household where respect was the first thing taught to me.
And you know, you respect everyone everyone. You respect everyone,
and you treat everyone equally, and if you can help
out your fellow people.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Last question about that whole part of your life. Now,
we always see the thing in the movie where the
guy's getting picked on, goes up confronts this bully, doesn't
start the fight, but finishes it. But the night before
we never see that you're lying in bed. You know
tomorrow you're gonna get picked on because you get picked on, yes,
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and you also know the training you've had. What were
you thinking about as you were lying there in bed?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I was actually thinking of what hand I should throw first,
either the left or the right.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And you know my stance and everything.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Make sure everything's correct, and make sure you know they
don't they don't touch my face.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, you don't want to get punched in the face.
When I mean there were probably some times there during
that training. It's not like you go in for one
day and you're like, I'm ready. How much training did
you get because you were probably thinking like, hey, maybe
I'm ready, maybe I'm not. I don't want to go
in there and and throw the wrong way and then
get whooped even worse than before, and then you know,
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and I'm done, right, So you had to pick your spot.
How long was that?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It was a few months.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Okay, it was probably a.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Couple of months.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I started getting the basics down and I was like, okay,
now I'm I'm I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now. During that time, you're in there either you know,
working with Bud Crawford or he's trying to take your
bag from you or whatever, and you guys are becoming friends,
sparring partners. I'm guessing yep.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, we were sparring partners through our you know, later
childhood and then through our teenage years.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
When did you realize, oh, I need to pick up
music because this guy, this guy I'm in the ring
against this twelve year old he's a boxer, and maybe
I'm not the boxer. I thought, I was, well, here's
interesting story. We won the Nationals the same year, and
so you know, I could say I had a a
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pretty good future if I if I would have done boxing.
There's actually a story, and Terrence's uh, he's not here
to refute it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah he's not, but he's He's mentioned in a few interviews.
And there was actually one of our very first sporting session.
You know, we're boxing. We're boxing, and he was a
little bit out of shape and I hit him to
the body, and you know, he he says, you know,
I knocked the wind out of him, and you know so,
but you know, we got older, we got older, and
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you know, slowly, slowly. As already going off into music,
I've always had a passion for music.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So did you ever knock him down?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I never knocked him down.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now has anyone ever knocked him down? Even when you
guys were kids. I've never seen him on the He's
never i mean a professional fight, he's never been knocked down.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Never.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I've never seen him down. I've never seen him, you know,
on his knee. Nothing take a knee or anything like that. Now.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
See, I'm I'm a boxing fan, but I'm I don't
follow the sport Real real closely on one of these
kids that grew up about a generation before you, half
generation before you. So it was you know, Sugar Ray
Leonard and then Iron Mike Tyson, correct, and so of
course boxing was huge during those days and then seeing
all the great champions since then what we're seeing from
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Terrence Bud Crawford. You're a boxing guy, Yes, can you
put it in in those terms as to what he's
been able to accomplish in the sport, because no one
else has ever done it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He is to me, he's one of the top greatest
of all time. I mean you could put him up
there with the likes of a Sugar Ray Leonard, like
you said, you know Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, you know
five five division champion, five different weight classes, and then
three of those weight classes he completely cleared out and
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became undisputed in three divisions.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So that's legendary. He's a legend.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
How was it that he came to us we're talking
here with Rosendo Roblis. Yes, how was it that he
came to you and said, Hey, what are you doing
here in September? Do you want to go to Vegas?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I was actually performing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I was at a show and he I get a
phone call from him and I'm minutes from you know,
grabbing the microphone and going on stage, and he's like, hey,
what are you doing. I'm like, Hey, what's up. I'm
about to sing. He's like, call me after you're done.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I call him. It's like three in the morning and.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He's like, hey, you know the movie Desperado. He's like,
have you seen that movie? I said, yeah, with Antonio Bandetaz.
He's like yes, He's like the song at the beginning.
He's like, he's like, what's that song. I'm like Ann
Mariacci and he's uh, he says to me, sing it
to me. So I'm like, so, you know, he's like yeah,
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he's like that one. He's like, can you translate it
for me? I said yeah. I'm like, I'm a very
honored man, and I like the very best, you know.
I don't like anything in life, women, money, nor love,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And he's like yeah, He's like, that's what I want
to come out to.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This was back in February when you know they were
talks about just talks about the fight, and he said,
I want to come out to that one I fight
Canelo Alvarez. I said, that's a brilliant idea. That is
a brilliant idea. And he's like, and I want you
to sing it? And I said what. I was like,
are you serious? He's like, does it look like I'm playing?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And yeah, he's he's he's always been about you know,
he's he's always been a man of a man of
his word with a great heart. And I said, you
know what, that'd be amazing. And then he everything stays quiet.
He's like, you want to bring the band. I'm like,
let's do a Terrence. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And here's what it sounded like as he comes out there,
and it was like the middle of the night for
most people who are watching this, millions of people on Netflix,
tens of thousands of people there at the arena. And
this was the song that Bud Crawford came out to.
This is Rosendo, Robliss and these guys that will introduce
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in a moment. But let's hear it right here on
It Live on eleven to ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We got a little bit of a little remix here
that we're gonna do. All right, We're gonna do a
little intro. We wrote this for Terrence. It's called Champion,
and then we'll break out into El Mariacci.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Because I'm a champion. I'm a champion, champion, champion.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Down in me when I was coming up, talked about me,
dragged me through the mud.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Three time on misputing. Now what's up, Terence Crawford.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Era has begun because I'm a champion, champion, Champion, Champion.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Then we break down at the end of this.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah he saw you know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
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Las Straya Si la Luna, Yes, medic and the story
I I I I, I am more, I am Emmy
corazon A Megusta, Tker guitar Ra Megusta, can Tarrelsons guitar.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Has my companion and Tom Cancion.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Megusta, Tom Armstragus sagarianies No mecormion tek La blank sor
I ah Hi, I am more, I am more Remi korasso.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I love it. I love it. Introduced these guys Rosendo.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We have here till my right, Adan Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
My name is Andre Riguez here. It's our player for.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And and then we have Hello everyone.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
My name is Austin Hernandez Moso, guitar player.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
For gentlemen, muchos grassias. This was fantastic. Thank you so
much for doing this and blessing us with this music.
Have fun during the parade tomorrow. It starts at ten
am at nineteenth in Farnham, and I imagine you guys
will be a part of that party at the Steelhouse
if anyone's lucky enough to be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yes, sir, we'd like to invite. We'd like to invite
everyone everyone out there.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Awesome cool Rosendo roblist. Thank you so much, guys, Thank
you and congratulations to you and your friend Terrence Bud Crawford.
It's a real honor for Omaha. Thank we appreciate it.
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