From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto π₯ E123
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Who is Andre Berto?
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. 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. 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.
Did it again.
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. Ever since then, man, just fell in love with him.
So on the make money side of the podcast, at what point can a boxer make money? Because the first one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight years, it's kind of hard to make money, right? You're just living off of sponsor money. But boxing is expensive. You've got to get trainers and coaches and food and supplements and gym time. There's a lot of money that goes into it. How do you make money?
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. 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.
You didn't even have social media back then.
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 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.
So when you go from amateur to pro, do you need a manager, an agent? Can people do it on their own? What happens?
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.
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