Khalil Rountree Jr.
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Right?
That takes a lot of energy.
Just being around those people.
Yeah.
Even if you're just sitting in the party, your energy is being zapped.
Right.
Yeah.
And obviously if it's your fight night, everyone wants to talk to you.
Everybody has questions.
That zaps the nervous system for sure.
Like how do you expect to go fight Usyk after your nervous system has been zapped from a party?
No, it's tough, man.
I honestly, you know, I agree with that.
I think this fight in Baku really got, like, it made me realize how important...
like being locked in is because I was I think that's why I got sick to be honest Joe I think that's why I got sick because I was just exhausted no exhausted from the things that I had to do from my obligations oh so the week that I media obligations so the week that I landed I had to do
uh i had to do like four or five days of filming with draft kings for this like online so it's like i just landed but then like i didn't get time to adjust because the next day we got to wake up you know first first filming sessions at nine nine a.m oh and then so we're like week no the the week before fight oh
The week before fight well, you know exactly so like I land and they came they went to my house 2 a.m I'm not bitching about this because the guys were great, but this is just like deep my experience How much time did you have to spend doing that?
Well, I mean we we spent You know, we spent a week of filming for much time each day Five six hours what?
yeah what that's crazy it wasn't every day that we i don't remember but yeah it was like we we did a lot of filming that week you know for this content piece or whatever for drafting and then as soon as they left then it was fight week and then i had all the media stuff for fight week oh my god you know what i mean and i think by time like with jet lag with training involved yeah with the filming with all of that i think by time fight we came like my body's like fuck you yeah
that's exactly how it felt what were you doing that they needed you for five six hours in a day uh like you know i here's the thing i'm i'm grateful because i wouldn't have been able to experience baku the way that i did had i not done this so it's like right you made some old town yeah so we go to the old town and then like get a tour through old town for three hours and the lady's like