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the jurogan experience what does it feel like yeah look it's been pretty crazy you know obviously on top of the water right now but yeah i feel like you're living in a fog like a dream a little bit but i've had that vision you know for so long you know i've manifested for so long and um you know before this fight even as a young amateur i knew i'd be world champion i knew one day my time would come and you know it finally did well i was told about you a couple of years ago by my friend vinnie shorman uh who's uh big in the muay thai world and liam harrison is a muay thai world champion they were telling me how awesome you were years ago but uh until saturday night of last week the world you know they didn't know they had to see it yeah look uh both great guys and um i think it was 2018 i was in this in uh wild card gym sparring and i'm in the ring and i see these two guys and they're watching so i thought you know i'll put on a show for these guys and let's see they might be someone that can take it to the next level they might be promoters who knows so i always want to put on a show and they couldn't believe it and then i knew that they'll comment on your show when i started speaking to them and when they dropped my name on it i was like wow this is amazing now i'm here with you well your performance against tia female was uh spectacular it was amazing and i mean it was a fight where how much of an underdog were you coming into that fight i was a huge underdog you know seven to one underdog wow you know bet online.ag had me seven to one so you know um that just shows the adversity that you have to come through you could be a massive underdog but no matter what you know you get through it and you you can win whatever you choose to do well you were undefeated coming into that fight but you just hadn't faced the same level of opposition that he had and it didn't mean that you weren't capable of it it just you just hadn't had the opportunity before so it wasn't a seven to one like they didn't think you had the
skills it was seven to one that you just hadn't had that that moment in the sun before i think because that's right i haven't had my moment yet leading into that fight but you know he was coming off the big long chenko fight the big win there what he done in that fight so impressive he knocked out richard comey as well so the hype the the noise that he was making this was just going to be a normal mandatory fight you know that took so long to make and um he was supposed to do the business and move on to something bigger but now that hunger that i had you know that that tunnel vision to show who i am to show how great i am and i had to go through it all in that fight you know from the cuts to being put down around 10 but i knew that this is my greatness now how good i can be and show the world and shock the world it is you definitely did shock the world it is a reoccurring theme in boxing and in all combat sports when someone takes an opponent lightly and they go in thinking they're just going to steamroll this guy and then they get met with reality i mean it's happened so many times in fighters careers and then there's also the other reoccurring theme a guy like yourself who has his eyes on the prize is completely focused and people are counting them out then they rise to the occasion and become a superstar and that's what happened to you you see it many times and i feel that he didn't take me lightly because he's in great shape he was in unbelievable condition i felt as we led into the fight and we had that first press conference where we looked into each other's eyes and i saw the you know a guy who it came too fast and he needed to be matched with someone that was not going to take a step backwards and the whole thing was this whole preparation i was never going to take one step backwards i never gave him that that inch and even in the fight i never gave him that inch i was always there to be dominant and i felt like he was it was a bully kind of character you know where
he bully lomachenko he bullied kami yeah he bullied all his past opponents but you know i've come from bullying i was an overweight kid at a young age i've been bullied all my life you were overweight i was overweight i used to be 135 pounds at like 10 years of age until i fell into boxing so you know i knew it straight away i got okay i know how to stand up to this guy i know what i got to do in this fight and he saw how serious i was so you know we we stayed focused we kept the tunnel vision and we uh we done the business well you did a beautiful job of boxing him as well i mean you stayed in the pocket and cut angles you landed beautiful combinations that one right hand in the first round though really set the tone for that fight when you sat him down at the end of the first and dropped him and it was just and it was a hard right hand i mean it was a beautiful right hand and when you see his eyes roll back and he drops and he gets up and he's like what the [ __ ] just happened that was a giant wake-up call and it really set the tone for the rest of the fight yeah it did um i went into that that first round i knew he'd be very emotional i knew he took it so personal and leading up to the whole fight week when i kept getting asked is this personal for you because i knew i knew it was so personal for him so no this is business for me and this is just another fight this is what i love to do doesn't matter who's in in that side of the ring for fighting against me and i knew i had to get his respect straight away he would come out crazy i stayed composed i landed some really good short shots on the on the inside in the first round and like the great customize i said to muhammad ali when he fought george foreman he goes how am i going to beat this guy how can i beat this puncher and cuss goes hit him with the right hand in the first round him with your best right hand and show him that hey i can punch as well and i had that in my head you know i have the great book by customato and i have it highlighted and before i went to the arena i went over it i showed it to just have it in my head what a amazing
mind he had custom models mind for boxing for the psychology of boxing was just so incredible you know and the fact that mike tyson found that man when he was 13 years old it's almost like destiny you know and you know what i i believe that everything in life is destiny you know i look at my road to to get to the championship it's just it just fall into place but with destiny you need to work hard you need to you know take it in your own hands as well but everything's meant to be and that right hand was meant to be and i said it to my team okay you're watching the first year i'm going to catch him early i'm going to hurt him with something because i knew i was looking for that right hand and when he came out crazy and he you know he was heavy on the front foot he tried to fake the jab and i saw that front foot right there i knew his head wouldn't move here it is here's that shot i've been dreaming about my whole life bang i let it go like a lightning strike let's take a look at it jimmy show me that punch because that was just so beautiful i screamed when i was at home and i watched it yeah i yelled out i was by myself i sit in the living room the whole world just jumped down okay now we gotta fight because i don't think many expected me to even stand a chance in the first round you know they were so vocal about one round one round especially his dad well his dad made a huge bet didn't he bet a hundred thousand dollars that he was going to knock you out within two rounds yeah well i want to find out the person he better gets because here it is take a look at this and take it in nice beautiful left hook well you were in front of them but you weren't there that was what was beautiful about it like your head movement like right there that angle guys just gorgeous box here it is right here baby bake oh my goodness and i saw it in his eyes as soon as i landed that shot and he got up he thought what the [ __ ] was that you can see it right there he's like whoa yeah now we're in this flight and then the the fake smile
i was a little bit off balance but that shot there was was probably more devastating than the original shot and then i'm just going off i had to say it i said you know now i'm here one round is that what you said yes i said one round okay now we're in a fight it was an amazing performance