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The Money Mondays

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Yeah, man, you got to do something with this kid, man. He has a lot of energy. He has a lot of shit to him. You guys need to take him somewhere progressive so he can let a lot of his energy out. My dad, you know, he was an MMA fighter. So, you know, so he trained in a lot of different, you know what I mean, spaces and disciplines. And he just started taking me to the boxing gym with him, man.

The Money Mondays

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You know, there's one thing about it, man. I think it's extremely hard. You know what I mean? Just me just being in space and, and just me just really, uh, you know, kind of stepping away, um, to just focus more on business. And, um, and just even for somebody like myself that, that I've always had a great network of huge, uh, you know what I mean?

The Money Mondays

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Just, I'm just somebody of everybody, you know, to a point I've sat and mastermind. I've learned so much about, you know, just overall just business, but still a transition that can be pretty tough. Um,

The Money Mondays

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All the time. All the time. And, you know, it got to a point I kind of got tired of a little bit because every time I went to every event, you know, everybody just wanted to talk to me about boxing.

The Money Mondays

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Exactly. You know what I mean? But it gets to a point, it gets to a point that, okay, cool. You know, I need to just have one win outside of the ring. I mean, business-wise, so I can start having some different conversations. And that's what I've been at for some time. And I had a great conversation with my boy Shaq. You know, he said the same thing. He's like, man, you know what?

The Money Mondays

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I hate when people talk to me about basketball. I want people to respect me for my business sense. Now, when you come to speak to me, yeah, I did that shit way back then. But talk about all the companies I own. Talk about this. Talk about this. I want to be able to have those different type of conversations. So I think that's a different type of source of respect.

The Money Mondays

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I already have all the belts on the wall. I already have all the titles. Not too many people can make that transition and jump in and be respected.

The Money Mondays

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You know, for me, man, I think... You know, I've always been, you know, I love media. You know, just like you say, yeah, I love media. I have a great, you know what I mean, network of great friends that are heavy in a lot of different, you know, I mean, spaces. I was never one of those guys that only thought of himself as a fighter. I'm a boxer. You don't need to talk to me.

The Money Mondays

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You're not talking about boxing or training or coming to a fight. You know what I mean? I was always one of those guys like, okay, cool. You know what I mean? I want to dive into this. I want to talk about this. I want to – I want to jump in this business. I want people to see me and see all the different, you know what I mean, all the different sizes and layers of me and all different aspects.

The Money Mondays

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So I think that's really been the main thing that's really kind of been keeping me, you know, relevant this long and being able to continue to speak because a lot of these fighters, a lot of these athletes, period, they think that we're just dumb brutes and we don't know shit, you know, outside of the sport. A lot of these guys don't talk.

The Money Mondays

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I mean, they don't go on social media and actually talk and let people in know who they are. Like I say, just as people. I think that's a big flaw, but it's always been one of my big benefits.

The Money Mondays

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Ever since then, man, just fell in love with him.

The Money Mondays

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Oh man. I mean, you got to sit back and study up. You got to be able to learn again. You know, I think that's one thing too, man. A lot of, you know, a lot of great athletes, they do not feel like they should go back and be students. And I believe that you should. Especially outside of the game, you need to put yourself in a space to humble yourself enough to be a student again.

The Money Mondays

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And a lot of us don't. We put a lot of work in for a lot of years. We've been respected and always been seen at a certain level. So how do you tell a guy with all this money and all of this fame and success to try to humble himself?

The Money Mondays

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We try to listen to something else or sit down in a seat, you know what I mean, like add a mastermind and try to learn something else. You know what I'm saying?

The Money Mondays

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A lot of guys, you know, even though, you know, outside of the game, if they haven't, you know what I mean, like made the right decisions, you know what I mean, and just knowing that they need to do something, they're not humble enough to sit back and try to be a student again and learn again. And that's always been a downfall.

The Money Mondays

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That's a fact. I mean, just like you, like you, I mean, like I said, like you've seen it in real time with me. I'm sitting at these masterminds. I'll be there by myself. And people around me, they're taking pictures. They want to sign on.

The Money Mondays

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Let me sit down. You know what I'm saying? I think that's the great thing about me is the fact that I've always wanted to learn. I've always been a sponge. I've always been a sponge. And like I say, that transition, I want to be a strong example of that transition.

The Money Mondays

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Yeah, for sure, man. But like I said, I do see it. They want to save these clips for later on when I make a billion. You know what I mean? Sitting with Dan and really talking about this shit.

The Money Mondays

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You know, I really think, you know, when it comes down to it and, you know, like the whole sports aspect and the fact that Now you've been chosen, you've been blessed to be part of the small percentage of people, the small percentage of people to compete at such a high level and to be looked at and admired at such a high level. Me, myself, I don't believe that all of that is just for you.

The Money Mondays

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I believe that you've been exalted to a point to give and spread to everybody else as well. You know what I mean? I think you need to be able to find something that's a little bit greater than yourself to really motivate you and to put those good jujus out to the world as well. God has blessed you to be at a really... I mean, at an amazing point in your life, you should always give.

The Money Mondays

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You should always give. That's the way I've always looked at it.

The Money Mondays

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Me, myself, I was a little bit fortunate. As a professional, I'm not going to say fortunate because I put in a lot of work, right? You know, just coming from the amateurs, you know, I went to the Olympics in 2004, so I was turning pro. I had a lot of eyes on them, a lot of big promoters, a lot of big managers.

The Money Mondays

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Yeah, I'm rich. They ain't not rich. They got to work for it. Shit, I don't know.

The Money Mondays

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Yeah, man. I mean, shit, I don't know, man. I don't think I've got to that point yet. I mean, I understand what everybody's saying. I've heard zero. I've heard 100% of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure. I have to still, you know, we're looking at that question because, you know, like on one hand, I want my kids to work for everything that they get.

The Money Mondays

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You know, but then again, I want to be able to leave, like they said, like in the Bible, like I said, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. I want to be able to leave them something. So with that being said, I may leave a good portion, say 50 or maybe 60%, but I'm going to put together... such extensive and a crazy trust. You know what I mean?

The Money Mondays

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Trust in place with requirements to be able to unlock this shit. And if you're able to do it, shit is yours. You know what I'm saying? I want to put them through the gauntlet. You know what I'm saying? So by the time they get this thing, man, they're just going to be transformed to completely different people. And once they get it, they'll know how to do it.

The Money Mondays

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Across social media, my name, at Andre Berto everywhere, on Instagram, on Twitter, on, you know, Spaces, TikTok, everything at Andre Berto, man. We got a lot going on. I'm excited. Yeah, it's Money Monday.

The Money Mondays

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You know, but a lot of kids, man, they're not as fortunate, and they want to turn pro, and they want to box just in general. You know, so as an amateur, I had to do, like I said, I had to work. I had to, you know, because I was more in yards. We had car washes. We did everything we could just to get a dollar just to move around and go to these local tournaments just to be known, just to be heard.

The Money Mondays

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I didn't even have social media back then. You didn't have a smartphone 2004. That's what I'm saying. I had to make a point every time I went to a tournament. My name is Andre Berto. My name is Andre Berto. Y'all going to see me. I went in that thing and just had to really, really, really make sure my presence was known every time. I've

The Money Mondays

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Like you said, we didn't have social media, so the people had to go out there and knock out. Everybody else had to go out there and talk. And that shit spread like wildfire, man. Smaller wildfire.

The Money Mondays

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Yeah, people can do it on their own, but you're going to be playing a long game at that point. I mean, boxing does have a union, so you really can turn pro if you want to. But most likely you're going to be fighting it properly, like local bars fighting for $200. So it's great to find you a great established manager who has plugs when it comes to all... Big, you know, I mean, that works.

The Money Mondays

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Yeah, main characters. You got the Bob Arums, the top rank. You got Golden Boy. You got PBC with Al Hammond. Now you guys got guys like Eddie Hearn over at the zone. Yeah, those are probably like the main four to five. You know what I mean? Like top guys now. But now. You guys have. You have Turkey Al-Sheik over there in Saudi Arabia. He is paying.

The Money Mondays

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Paying the big bread to get all the kids over, man. And like I said, he paid his way to get into the game. Sure. And, you know, he's, like I said, he got a chance just to shake it up within the last few months, within the last year. And, you know, I mean, I say right now he's the man in boxing right now. But I think he's bringing in, as you can see, my man Dana White as well. So, yeah.

The Money Mondays

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Yeah, so I'm looking forward to see what they're going to do.

The Money Mondays

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Man, just right now, just like you said, we have social media now. guys need to utilize it. You see a guy like Ryan Garcia. Like I said, all of us had to go through the Olympics and blah, blah, blah. I mean, just try to use all these different things to be heard, but you see a guy like Ryan, he's good, but he really tracks his situation with social media.

The Money Mondays

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So I tell all these young guys now, man, if you're good, if you're saying you're as good as you are, continue to train, fight, but you need to document everything Document everything. Put it out there. Let these people see who you are.

The Money Mondays

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You know, pick up that phone and make sure to talk to, you know, let these people understand your story and continue showing these guys that you're knocking everybody out of your training heart. You need to use social media. You know what I mean? Like I said, to your benefit.

The Money Mondays

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That's how you sell tickets and pay-per-views. That's how you sell tickets, man. You have all that old school shit. You're sitting back letting the promoter do it. Nah, that's all over. Go out there and promote yourself. You know what I mean? Train hard. Continue to post. Continue to document. You know what I mean? Knock these guys out. Continue to post. Continue to document.

The Money Mondays

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You're going to have your own press conference in your room. You can have your own promotion. Promote yourself. Train hard. And go out there and make it happen. That shit's going to fly.

The Money Mondays

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He was like, I don't know. I don't know if I want to win this. You know what I mean? There's one thing about him, man. His fight game is so mental. It's so mental.

The Money Mondays

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That's one great thing about this event tonight that I'm going to about the mental health aspect of boxing because you have some of your highest highs in life and you have some of your lowest lows when it comes to this fight game, just like you said about Ryan Garcia. He just had another loss. So You know, I mean, I'm going to be looking forward to see how he's going to come back mentally now.

The Money Mondays

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You know, physically he has the skills. For sure. A lot of guys. A lot of guys. I mean, I even went through it myself after my first loss. Of course, I still had the skill. But mentally, do I still have the confidence to walk in there and do it again? I've seen it happen over and over and over again to a lot of the greatest fighters. Like Ronda Rousey. Ronda Rousey. You know.

The Money Mondays

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How y'all's going on? It's your boy Andre Berto. We are here in the building. A 2004 Olympian. Two-time boxing world champion. And I've been smacking people for a very long time. That's pretty much about it. You boxing from a kid? Yes, yes, yes. I was a troubled kid growing up, man. You know, my parents, they were immigrant parents from Haiti. So they were working all the time.

The Money Mondays

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That was it for Ronda. That was it. The movie star after that. Just walking into the next fight, I could literally see it on her face. She was trying to blind it out and trying to walk in there focused. But like I said, I went through it myself, so I got a chance to really see her demeanor coming into that ring. And I was like, oh shit, man, it's going to happen again.

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It's like you're walking back into a nightmare. If you're not getting your mind right, it seems like you're walking back into that same nightmare that ruined your life the last time. So it's definitely a mental... You just want to get out of there. You just want to get out of there. You know what I mean? So it's a wild ride. Can anybody beat Devin Haney right now? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

The Money Mondays

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I mean, as you can see, even last fight with Devin Haney, he went through a situation with Ryan. He lost to Ryan. Very embarrassing time. He got a chance to see how he was on top of the world. He got embarrassed by Ryan Garcia in front of the world. He had to sit out for a year to deal with that in his house alone.

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Now all these people that praise you, now they're talking all this shit, talking to you crazy, saying you're a bum. Making memes and all that. Social media just made it worse.

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You know what I mean? Memes everywhere. And like I said, just me just being a fighter now for like 20, 21 years, I wanted to see how he was going to come back mentally. I mean, it didn't matter to me how hard he trained, the pictures that he took looking like he was in shape.

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I wanted to see how he was going to react once he walked back into that same squirrel circle where he got embarrassed last time. And, you know, he showed up, but a lot of people said, okay. You know, he fought. The fight was boring. It looked like he had, like, some type of PTSD. He was fighting very, you know what I mean, like, very skittish.

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You know, I think he just wanted just to get that under his belt and, you know, I mean, just to come back for a win and process it and, you know, just move on. So we're going to see how he's going to continue to move forward. So it's a tough game.

The Money Mondays

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Man. Man. It's tough. It's a tough one. Because Terrence Crawford, I mean, I love both guys. But Terrence Crawford is doing something very extreme. And I don't think people realize how tough that is to jump up two to three weight classes to fight a guy. You know, he's daring to be great. I'm just a lot of money on the line.

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So of course that, you know, I'm going to add it to the fire and why he wanted to do it. But I mean, it'll be great. It'd be amazing if he's able to go in there and have the skills that he needs to be Canelo, which everybody believes that he does. But like I said, Canelo fights in 168. He's been there for the last, I don't know, four or five to six years. He's nice. He's settled. He's strong.

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at that weight class, and I think it's going to be a complete different feel than what Terrence is used to. Now we have to wait and see once he gets hit with one of those shots by Canelo, how his body's going to react. That's going to be the question. That's going to be the main thing. If he's able to withstand it, okay, we got us a fight. If he's not, it's going to look ugly.

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So they just gave us a lot of of time to be outside and get in trouble. And for some reason, somehow, I was just a very aggressive kid. You know what I'm saying? Very aggressive kid, and I just didn't take any type of shit at all. So I used to put my hands on a lot of kids growing up.

The Money Mondays

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Jake Paul. My guy. Good friends with Jake. Um... I think it's great for the sport, man. I think it's great for the sport. It's definitely, like I said, it's definitely put a lot more eyes on the sport when it comes to just casual fans and a lot of people that wasn't really into boxing. Especially the younger demographic. Of course, the younger demographic.

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But one thing I do respect about Jake is he's taking it serious. Right, he's really training. He's really training. He really put a real team around him. He's going through real training camps. I know a lot of people in this team You know, he's hired the best of the best within boxing to train him and work with him. You know what I mean? Just like all the way across the board.

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So that's one thing I do love about Drake. You know, but like I said, this is a tough game. This is a game that you really have to put in a lot of years to really try to, you know, try your best to try to master it. I know he's trying to fast track it. Sure. But, you know, but with this shit, I don't think you can really fast track. You know what I mean?

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He's doing a great job, as I said, marketing himself and fighting the type of guys he's fighting to continue to build that interest for him as well. And he's generating a shitload of money. But once he really gets in there with some real fighters, we may see a big difference. I mean, the only real boxer that he fought was Tommy Fury. Yeah. Neither one of them really did anything that fight.

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And, you know, like, to be honest, you know, when it comes to the boxing fraternity, we don't really see Tommy as a real boxer. But he does have, you know, he has skills, and he beat Jake. You know, so we're going to see, man. I think, like I said, his overall thing is great for the sport. Jake's fighting on the 28th against him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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He's fighting against Chavez Jr., which he's another guy that, Us within the fighting community. What does Jake need to fight? He needs to fight Canelo, but that shouldn't happen, right? Yeah, I mean, I heard it was going to happen, though. Did you hear about that? Yeah, I heard about it, but I can't see how. I mean, he's bringing the money. He's bringing the money.

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He's bringing the money, that's how. I mean, shit, I was on. Even me, I was caught off guard with him, man. They almost really made the fight happen. Like this, like the papers were signed. Okay, if that fight happens.

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You know, Jake's my guy. For sure, of course.

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Yeah, I mean, I think, like I said, I've been in boxing for a very long time. You can see if somebody has the stuff to compete on that type of level. But at the same time, like I said, he's still growing in the sport, maybe four or five years. His skills may advance in a way that we can sit back and say, okay, maybe, but right now, no.

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And it got to a point, man, it got to a point my teachers, I used to call my parents all the time like this, you got to do something.

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Yeah, he could. I mean, at this point in the game, Jake has came in. Jake has shown people that he can generate a lot of money. So, at that point, I mean, I believe he can fight anybody. I mean, it doesn't matter if the true hardcore boxing fans might respect it, but it's entertainment. Especially right now, it's entertainment. They got a chance to show you that with the whole Mike Tyson.

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You know what I'm saying? I mean, everybody started crazy. It's bullshit. But I was at that fight. That fucking stadium was packed. You know what I'm saying? It all matters, right? Yeah, they had like 6 billion views on Netflix, so it doesn't matter at this point. A lot of this shit now in boxing is entertainment. So he's able to do whatever he wants.