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Chrisean Rock Is Boxing: Promoter Damon Feldman Talks Adam22, DJ Akademiks, Shaq And More
Feb 3, 2026
AllHipHop Talks Chrisean Rock, Boxing, Adam22, Shaq And More With Damon Feldman
In this exclusive AllHipHop interview, the Celebrity Boxing pioneer breaks down how he built the platform, why most rappers talk tough but avoid real fights, and how his new XRumble Fighting Championships is changing the game. Feldman talks Lamar Odom vs. Aaron Carter, Ryan Garcia sparring sessions, finding boxing’s next female star, failed metaverse experiments, and why experience matters more than investors.
Would rappers earn more respect if they actually stepped in the ring?
Is Hip-Hop boxing the next big crossover?
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What's going on, world? It's your man
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Chuck Creekmer, aka Jigsaw. I'm here in
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Philadelphia with Damon Feldman. Now, me
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and Damon go way back.
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Long time.
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Way back. Yeah. So, first of all, tell
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everybody what you're up to now cuz you
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know, your boxing game is crazy.
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Yeah, man. It's just
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It's crazy. When I first met you, I was
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like on the grind trying to make
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celebrity boxing work. It ended up
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working.
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Uh now we're turning everything into
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XRumble Fighting Championships, which is
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new boxing league. You stand up stand up
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striking with MMA gloves. So they
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battled it out and we're starting XR
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Rumble which is sort of a alternative to
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celebrity boxing.
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Okay. So celebrity boxing that that kind
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of put you on the map.
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Yeah. Yeah. 100%. You know I started my
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I was undefeated nine and0. My boxing
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career ended.
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I didn't know what else to do. So I I
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put a celebrity boxing match together
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here in Philly and I sold it to Clark
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Productions next.
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Oh shoot. I didn't know that.
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Yeah. only two years ago. Yeah.
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Yeah. So, um you know, as everybody
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knows, I'm a huge boxing fan. And
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are we going to get you in the ring?
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Are we going to get you in the ring
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soon?
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Hell no. You're not going to get me in
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the ring. Look, I I I I'm in the ring in
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my basement
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punching a a a standup heavy bag.
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I don't even I don't even use the
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regular heavy bags anymore.
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Just keeping it for training. Training
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is better anyway.
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Yeah, definitely. Just in case one of
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these young bucks want to, you know,
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want a fair one. I don't do the the the
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the other stuff in the street because
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you know, but a fair one. I'll still do
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a fair one.
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Yeah, you look in good shape, man.
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Thanks. Thanks. But um so let's get
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right into it. Tell people what you're
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doing in April.
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Yeah. Um real excited, man. We signed um
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Kan. She's like one of the biggest
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female internet girls out there with
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hiphop, too. Like she's And a lot of
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people don't understand. She was on the
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TV show American Ninja. She won it. And
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also she was one of the stars of the
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show Baddies and
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you know I just hooked up with her and
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watching her uh spar around with Ryan
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Garcia
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and we ended up hooking up talking and I
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talked to her manager Kim Kimberly Ross
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and here we are you know we're putting
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her fight together announcing her
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opponent Monday and uh she's training
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with Javvante Davis's trainers Calvin
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Ford and Kenny Ellis. I think we're um
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we're going to see boxing's next female
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star here. Do you think you guys are
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going to be able to take it to the next
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level?
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Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. Um I mean, we're
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gonna see, you know, she she has what it
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takes. There's no doubt. You saw was
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different when she was playing around
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with Ryan Garcia. She was trying to
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knock his head off. You're like,
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there's something different about this
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woman and
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she is she's, you know, she's nice woman
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and she's she she trains hard, you know.
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That's what's up.
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Um also, you know, she has that star
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quality. She has that uh ability
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to cut through the mess on social media.
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Oh yeah.
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And and get headlines, things like that.
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I mean, for all hip hop, we've covered
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her for years.
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Oh wow. Yeah. It's wild, man. Like, you
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know, when we did the signing
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everywhere, you thought Michelle Obama,
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I signed Michelle Obama, everybody. I
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was like, it was crazy, man. Like, this
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girl has it, you know. Not too many
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people could say that.
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Yeah. Now, I wouldn't be doing my job if
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I didn't mention that Blueface has a
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fight coming up, too. It feels like
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I know that, you know.
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Yeah. He's fighting Swaggy P.
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Oh, you know, well, he fought on our
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platform before. My brother's bare
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knuckle. We did a boxing match on it
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which we organized for them.
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Um, I didn't know that. Wow. That's
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interesting.
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So, uh, they had a fight as uh,
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previously that didn't didn't happen. I
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forget. It might have been CO. I think
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CO messed up their fight.
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Um, so it it didn't happen. Yeah. What's
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your favorite fight? You've done a lot
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of fights. Which which is your favorite
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celebrity fight?
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I think it was has to be Lamar Aaron
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Carter. It was just something that was
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interesting. Ice Tea hosted it.
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Chocolate refereed
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and it was just like the revamp of
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celebrity boxing because it was right
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after the um pandemic and
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you know I was in the right spot at the
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right time, you know.
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Yeah. So tell people some of the others
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fights you've made.
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I've done like everybody from Vanilla
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Ice fought for us. He fought Todd
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Bridges to William the refrigerator
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Perry Manu Bowl to you know Lamar Odum
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Aaron Carter Black China's
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match now I mean
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if you were got your 15 minutes of fame
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he probably fought for me you know what
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I mean so
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did you do that Benzino fight?
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Oh yeah Benino fought for me yeah I like
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Ben yeah Benino was cool
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um then we did like Peter Guns fought
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Cisco Rosado you know Rich Dallas as a
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ref. We got to get you as a ref or
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something, man. I'll be
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It's long overdue, man. It's long
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overdue, actually.
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I'll be in. I'll be a ref.
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That's a good idea because you're a real
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fight guy. So, and you would just fit
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into it. We actually on We got to talk
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about this.
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Okay. All right. All right. I'll do
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that. Um, now, what was the one fight?
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You did a fight that I did not like.
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What was that virtual fight you did?
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Oh, you did. It was Roy Roy Jones talked
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on.
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Oh, yeah.
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NDdio Champ.
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Indo. Shout out to NDO. That's my man.
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Yeah, I like NDO too.
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But you but that was circumstantial,
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right? That was an experiment
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essentially.
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Yeah, we we thought we were pitched an
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idea of doing the first AI metaverse
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match and I said, "Yeah, man. I think
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it's great."
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Yeah.
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They got the right people behind them
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and we did it. It just it was a little
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off, you know? I mean, it wasn't I think
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it was just a little before his time.
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They didn't understand it, but
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you know, we tried. Man, I'm a guy that
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throws up throws a million things. I
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don't like working with the wrong
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people, but I, you know, sometimes you
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do. And
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yeah,
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but listen,
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we still have the video of it. Still
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cool. Still Roy Jones video. Yeah, we
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have it all.
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Yeah, that's
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But they actually did fight like so they
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didn't, you know, they fought in the gym
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and it was just made into the the
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virtual thing of it, which was really
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interesting. But
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they did battle it out, you know. Yeah.
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So
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now if you were to let me get your top
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five boxers, not celebrity, just like in
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general.
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Do you have a top five?
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Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Well,
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I I always love Mike Tyson, definitely
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Floyd Mayweather.
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Um you know, of course, Muhammad Ali,
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and you know, I guess um
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other two I could say top three up to I
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mean, Bernard Hopkins, I guess, and Roy
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Jones. Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay. Yeah. Shout out to Bhop.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We We He doesn't have a statue yet. We
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need a statue of Be Hop.
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Yeah, man. He He's the best. I love that
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dude. And uh
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he's an interesting guy.
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Yeah. Very.
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Absolutely.
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The uh the uh Executioner. Yeah, that
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was his name, right?
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Yeah. Bernard Executioner. We trained
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together in Champs Gym in North Philly.
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Okay.
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His whole career and basically mine.
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He's a little older than me, but
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it was good. It a good experience. And I
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mean, he showed never quit and get
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anywhere you want because he could have
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quit after he did his stint in jail, you
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know.
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Yeah, absolutely. No, he's a hero.
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Um, now as far as
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um Cawn is concerned, I I've noticed
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there's a lot of people calling her out.
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They want
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they want to fight her. Um,
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are you are you interested in a
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long-term relationship with her that
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maybe there are multiple fights?
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Oh, absolutely. Yeah. 5,800 people
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signed up. So, but they only a certain
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amount followed the rules and did the
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videos and we weren't looking for videos
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on,
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you know, putting her down or anything
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like that. We don't don't do that. We we
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do it in a certain class way. Um, that
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being said, yeah, man, I really think
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she has talent. I really think
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she has something different.
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It's not just like a celebrity match
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because we're doing an ex rumble boxing
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match,
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right? And I I just, you know, I think
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she has a lot of potential to do
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something here and she has the right
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trainers with Calvin Ford, Kenny Ellis.
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So, I think it's gonna be good.
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Yeah. Um I've noticed also that that
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people try to do what you do.
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What do you What do you think about
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that? You know, I look, we've known each
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other long enough. You you've been
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almost like I would consider you like a
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pioneer. I know that there were a few
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celebrity things before that on MTV and
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stuff,
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but you've really been at it for a long
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time.
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Yeah. And you know like other companies
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they try to do it then they think they
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could do it or get the right investor or
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get an investor they put all this money
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up doesn't go good it loses then you
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keep moving on.
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I don't get mad I just because I already
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know it's going to happen. Yeah. There's
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there's a strategy here and you can't
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buy experience in life. That's the whole
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thing. So I have more experience than
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probably anybody in the world in this
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business. So
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is there anybody you haven't worked with
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that you want to work with?
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Um, well, Shaq, we always been, you
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know, playing he was gonna fight Charlie
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Mack. Remember that? Funny stuff. So,
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you know, I love Charlie Mack's my man,
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too. But, uh,
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I always, you know, I Shaq's one guy I
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really want to work with, man, just
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because it's not just working with him,
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you know, anything you do with him, it's
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a it's business sense. Like, guy's a
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smart guy. Anything he does turns to
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gold, you know what I mean?
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So, yeah, I I bothered the hell out of
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him, man. I text him all the time. But,
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you know, I'm hoping to get that It's
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just a timing issue. He's very busy with
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other stuff.
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Um
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I want to work with you, man. I want to
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put a show or something on with you. You
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know,
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we're gonna figure something out.
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Definitely. A lot of these rappers out
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here, they tough talk.
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Talk tough talk tough.
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Yeah.
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But I think we need to get a few more in
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the ring.
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Yeah, 100%. I mean, I think it's always
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it's been going on even with you like
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your your sites always ran
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all hip-hop always did like the beefs
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and stuff.
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These guys got to step up. They always
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talk but then
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never do it. If they end up doing the
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match, even if you lose, you're gonna be
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respected because you stepped into the
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main. They don't understand this. But
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I would love to do a hip-hop boxing
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series. That's one of my goals, too,
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man. Okay. Because it's it's just cool,
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man. Even if it's it doesn't have to
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even be a B fun thing,
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it's going to get them more and more
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exposure.
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Yeah, definitely. And by the way, back
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in the day, they did that once. Um, the
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most notable was Grandmaster Melly Mel
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fought Willie D from the Ghetto Boys.
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Oh, Willy D. He's my man. Really?
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Willy D? Yeah.
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I didn't know he fought. I know Willie
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had some pro fights, though. I didn't
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know he did that.
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Yeah, he has hands. He has hands.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. So, we're we now
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those guys are older now, so they're not
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interested, but but I think there's a
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few younger guys that
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Absolutely. But put it out there, man.
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We got an allhip hop.com fight series.
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Let's go. Let's do this.
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Let's go. Let's go. All right. Any final
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words for people?
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Ah, just listen man, if you're going
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out, final words. Um, keep following us.
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But for them, just, you know, if you
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have a dream, go after it. Don't quit.
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Don't take the word. No, it's not going
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to work. Because if you go after, you
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can achieve anything you want in life.
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It doesn't matter who you are.
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You just have to have the heart and
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determination.
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Yeah. Absolutely. And I and I I've been
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a living testament that you have done
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that.
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I appreciate that, man. Absolutely, man.
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All right. Damon Felman.
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