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The Joe Rogan Experience it's a wonderful thing that I had to fight to you know get everybody approval well It's tricky in boxing sometimes because sometimes it's difficult to make those match-ups happen in a dream match up like that between two undefeated world champions and for you to dominate the way you did because a lot of people had that like a pick em fight like a lot of people didn't know how to call it but you just [ __ ] ran that fight you ran that fight that was amazing yeah you know that's a fight that we've been wanting for years and um to finally secure the fight and perform the way that I performed it was it was a great moment for me and my career it was beautiful man I mean the just the way you control the way you switch things up the way you controlled the pace of the fight the defense your defense was on point those hooks that you were Landing in close were magnificent it was a brilliant fight man I mean I'm sure you appreciate it I'm sure you watched it a bunch of times but man that was like a real because it was such a mainstream fight such a huge fight where everybody was paying attention to it and talking about it even casuals that they got to see you perform that way and you know now it's like there's no dispute you're the number one pound for pound guy on Earth yeah uh that's something that I got a credit to my coaches you know because we drilled everything that you've seen fight night we drilled it time and time again time and time again so it was it was it came natural and easy for me when the when the fight came you know like I said only thing they kept saying uh how he's gonna beat me is because he's bigger and he's stronger that was it you look stronger of course of course and I was just like how do you know he's stronger than me right he might be bigger than me but big don't mean stronger but he's just taller than you you look more muscular than him too but it was just the the technique was what really stood out it's like you just were a master in there it was a master class that's something that they wasn't giving me credit for as well how because they said I think it's like how are they not
you know I don't know what it is um with me they just always try to diminish my my accomplishments and oh well who I was fighting they say oh well you wasn't fighting nobody and this guy aerospence is the most uh fundamental Lee sound fighter in the game so um that's why everybody was picking them but I was favored in Vegas so Vegas must have had it right yeah well the wise people picked you as a favorite you know just just based on your accomplishments it's not like Errol Spence wasn't a great fighter he's a great fighter but it's so interesting when you watch a great fighter against what I believe is an all-time great it's just that there's just levels upon levels upon levels upon levels and right now you're at the top of the [ __ ] Mountain yes yes yes and I and I'm I'm enjoying it I'm enjoying it beautiful you deserve it you deserve it that's uh when when you plan for that fight you knew that you were probably gonna fight him like for the last few years it was something that was on the table but not really uh there was a point there was a point in time where I was like you know uh I shifted gears and I shifted my mind off at Aerosmith because um I didn't feel like the fight was going to happen but once uh left Top Rank and we started negotiating I was like oh well maybe this fight will happen and then once I fought avanesian because the conversations and everything that we was talking about to get the fight done it wasn't lining up to what I wanted so I decided to take another fight and I came back to the table and like Hey listen let's get this fight made and uh at that point in time things wasn't gone how I would have liked it to go so I just hit up Spence like hey man listen man if if me and you gonna fight me and you're gonna get this done because you know there's a lot of people that blocking the fight how are they blocking like what was the what was the whole which is business-wise you know I just felt like I was worth x amount and they felt like I wasn't and uh they wanted to do the deal a certain way and I wanted
to do a deal the fair way and um Aerospace seen it he was just he was he was agreeing with everything that I said it was like yeah we can do this we can do that and he probably felt like he gave up too much you know at the at the end when it was all said and done but I was I felt like everything was fair was it in terms of like the purse split everything everything we talked about everything yeah and so this fight had been discussed for like how many years now at least five five years wow that's crazy that it takes that long for something like this to happen in boxing when I came when I came uh to the welterweight Division I called out all the Champions except Sean Porter I called out all the Champions I went at the mall you know at that time and I wasn't able to get in the ring with any of them and at that point in time they was calling Aerosmith's The Boogeyman and my reply was how is he the boogeyman when I'm chasing him you know um I just wanted to prove to the world that that I was better than what they said I was because given the fact that how great I looked against each opponent they say oh well he wasn't nothing or he was this he he was that because how talented I am right so they didn't want to give me no credit because I passed all my tests with flying colors so yeah it was great to get in a ring with Errol Spence Jr and do the same thing if not better than I did for the past opponents that I faced no you were on fire it was it's sort of the same thing that Roy Jones Jr faced like everybody's like Roy hasn't beaten anybody like yes he has it's just he's so much better than everybody else that he was making everybody else look like there weren't any good but those were World Championship caliber Fighters and Roy was just lighting them up right that's that sometimes when a fighter eclipses everyone else and reaches the Pinnacle that's the criticism they face until there's an undeniable moment you know and that was that was your undeniable moment like everybody's got to shut the [ __ ] up yeah yeah and that's and that's what you know uh my feelings was
you know a lot of people like man you didn't look too happy you know after after you won after you won I didn't see the excitement in you I was like man I was happy I was happy just I had to prove myself you know to the world how great I knew I was but at the same time I was kind of disappointed at the same time that it took this long for me to get my recognition for me to get a big Marquee fight of this status at 35 years old yeah especially after Chasing it for five years right and I was chasing Manny Pacquiao for probably five years probably before yeah so it's like I'm being championed for nine years going on 10 years in March so I've been doing this game for a long time you know and uh I've been at top since since I've been Gamboa and I've been looking for all the biggest challenges there is and some of them I was able to to capture and some of them went the other way and I'm just blessed to be able to be the first man to be Undisputed in the junior welterweight division the first man to be Undisputed in a welterweight division in a Four Bell era the first man to be Undisputed in two-way divisions so uh it's a blessing it's a blessing it's a huge blessing it's it's an amazing accomplishment you looked happy you were dancing with your mom you were having a good time yeah I don't know why people thought you weren't happy because you know when you when you go in the back room everybody want to see the excitement right I was just like was there anything unusual about that fight like is that exactly how you expected the exchanges to go I'm sure you watched a ton of tape on him right actually I didn't really I didn't because a lot of people always ask me do I watch a lot of film on my opponents and I always tell them no because I have a different style they're not going to fight me the same style or the same way that they thought their previous opponents they just not you know so I already knew how he fought I just watched probably like two fights of his just to get a feel for what he liked to do what he don't like the things that you know I can capitalize on and that's it like I don't watch too much film because I'm gonna make my adjustments on the Fly inside the ring
so yeah I don't watch too much film that's interesting what is the the general consensus on that about watching film do most Champions watch film is it is it just on an individual basis no some people like to watch film to where they feel as if they know uh what their opponent is going to do when they're gonna do it because they got certain habits to uh identify uh when they're going to throw a punch or or when they want to back up certain things that you you see as a as a top athlete you start noticing okay I noticed that he's doing this when he's doing this he's doing that when he's doing this and uh you pick up on that and so you you put it in your in your mind like okay we're gonna prepare for this when you do that we're gonna do this so you try to capitalize on it but me I never was that type of person I let my coaches they do the uh studying and then they come up with a plan and then they shoot me the plan the plan to win and we just go from there when you switch because you're you're in my opinion the best ever at switching from Orthodox to South Boston since Marvin Hagler you're the best ever like when you just when do you decide do you just feel it do you go out there of Southpaw sometimes and say I'm gonna [ __ ] switch it up like how do you how do you make those those changes well I think I made the change to fight southpaw uh in the back dress room really yeah because I was like man how should I come out because in my mind I was just so filled with like the energy from the weigh-ins the press conference the way the the the moment so I was like man I just want to go out there and you know everybody's saying I'm too small so I wanted to prove it wrong everybody was saying he's gonna walk me down so I was just like man you know they just don't know like I just had that chip on my shoulder like I just want to go go head on with the bull and just go fight him and it was like just box I was like just bugs and then I was remembering I was like he ever fought too many southpaws before and then on one of the occasions he got hurt real bad by a hook so I was like I'm coming out South Park
and I'm and we going box just to start off but at the same time I'm gonna get my respect out the gate I'm not going to be doing all that moving so the plan was never to move and everybody when you interview them they was like oh Terrence got to be uh slippery he can't stand in front of spins he can't do this he got to get on his bicycle I'm like ain't no Terminator I'm like man I'm gonna be right there in front of him like I always do you know I'm gonna make a Miss I make them pay and I'm gonna fight my my fight so I feel like that was the key for uh the victory because he wasn't used to fighting southpaws do you feel as comfortable Orthodox as South Park is there do you feel like you're better in one stance or is it just depending upon the opponent I think it's dependent on the opponent you know uh I feel I'm equally as uh great in both stands I'm very powerful in both stands I hit just as hard with my left probably even harder with my left am I right you know but uh I think it's the opponent they were talking about it in the broadcast they said that when you were a kid you hurt your hand and so that's why you started practicing Southpaw yeah that's when I started actually practicing it you know uh that was something that when I when I had the cast on I was like man I love the gym so much I'm like man I'm not leaving the gym like I'm going practice with this left and that's when I got the left stronger because at first when I go softball it was only you know my righty my right my right then when my hand got messed up start working on the left and start getting stronger and stronger and I start getting more accurate because at first just throw it just to be throwing it and then you know it just got to a point where they both my left was actually way stronger than my right when it came back so I had to get my right back stronger that's great it's crazy that you have that option because that's such an amazing advantage to be able to fight just as comfortably from Orthodox of South Park oh yeah definitely definitely you know um I look at it like you can't
go nowhere right like you trapped like you move to your left I can go Southpaw and cut you off you move to your right I can go Orthodox and cut you off so and then it and then it it's great that I can pack a punch in both hands as well because a lot of people when they switch they give up something I think when I switch I gain something in both stands that I probably don't have in the other stands so it's great for me