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  • Why will you be the first one kill to defeat him?

  • Just because I'm This is my time.

  • And I believe the team believe that we're gonna take that title away from him.

  • We believe that is not boxed.

  • Anyone at my level Andi were fully focused on.

  • I'm ripping that title away from Terence Crawford for our audience who's not as familiar with your career on this side of the pond.

  • Kell.

  • Brook.

  • Let me just tell everyone Kell Brook was an undefeated fighter who won the title.

  • Beat Sean Porter, who's an excellent welterweight more decisively than Errol Spence did or Keith Thurman did.

  • Um, which who are two stars of the division?

  • You were undefeated.

  • You had made title defenses.

  • You have a decisive win against Porter, your rising star, and you choose to move up to fight Triple G who was a middleweight.

  • You jumped up two divisions to fight him.

  • You gave him a great fight, but you lost by knockout.

  • And then you turn around and you get in with Errol Spence, who's another killer in and around that weight class, one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world again, a terrific fight, but you come up short.

  • You've had a couple of wins since then.

  • What?

  • What have you learned from those fights that you can take in against yet another elite of the elite type and Terence Crawford?

  • So you can not only give him a good fight but actually come out on top this time?

  • Absolutely.

  • I think being in first of all, being 28 year old and thinking kinda kinda perform at this level against Sean Porter, you know, as the rounds went on and realize this is where I do belong.

  • Then I become world champion on obviously going on from that defending looking spectacular on.

  • Then nobody nobody stepped to wanna come and fight me.

  • So I jumped up because that's what I want to do in this game.

  • Fight the best fighters out there for the fans.

  • So I jumped up to fight Golovkin or nobody would fight even in his own way in middle way.

  • You know, I showed I showed the world that the blueprint out to be Golovkin I stood with him.

  • But the eye socket went and it wasn't my night on Ben.

  • And then immediately after about several spends.

  • It wasn't heard of really at the time, But we the people in boxing, knew that this guy was special, you know?

  • And I will win in the fight until the other bomb.

  • When But, like, you know, it's just one of them.

  • It's just one of these things, you know, one of these things that they're being taken care of now, the common determinant.

  • Because I've got two metal plates in there and I feel I feel stronger than ever.

  • And I feel like I'm I feel like I'm getting better like a fine wine.

  • I feel I'm in the best shape of my life and I'm absolutely 110% ready for this mentally and physically.

  • As you can see, the shape of May I can't wait for this Saturday night now to show the world that you know I'm the I'm the man I'm the special one And I'm gonna be taking that title on with my well Carol, let me say this First of all props to you because you're a damn good fighter on And I wish you nothing but the best.

  • I remember when you fought Triple G.

  • You're right.

  • I got messed up.

  • If I remember correctly, you have to have surgery on that, just like you just told our audience.

  • And then you went up against a row.

  • Spence junior.

  • And I think it was your left eye then because people was wondering whether I was gonna hold up after the triple G fight.

  • Then you went up against Spence and then the other I got hurt.

  • So is you never looked out of shape.

  • You never looked completely overmatched, but obviously caught a bad break there now.

  • But you were 36 no, if I remember correctly before you fought triple G, now you're going up against a guy and Terence Crawford, who's about 36?

  • Whose 36 0, he's something spectacular.

  • Talk to us.

  • About what?

  • Why, why should anybody believe that you're going to be that guy, considering the fact that he's constantly in the discussion as the best pound for pound fighter on the planet, you know, want it any other way.

  • You know, I'm glad the East pound for pound fire the best in the world, because when I be and you know I have that title Well, um, you know I believe that is never boxed A fully fledged welterweight.

  • Who's hungry or believes it was being a champion who really believes that they're gonna win, you know?

  • And I can hit very hard, you know?

  • And I'm very accurate.

  • Samos, Samos, Crawford.

  • I've got a good job, and I'm gonna need to be the best I've ever bean this Saturday night to be in.

  • But what we've been doing in training in our field, you know, coming down to the 147 limit and before with 147 because I'm a big welterweight.

  • There were £10 rehydration closed with a due bill bill, You know, weighing on.

  • I don't need to worry about weighing in again with a £10 limit.

  • So I just coming on fighting out and away.

  • What away?

  • So I'm gonna be fully focused on a totally, totally focused on on Terence Crawford on, uh, you know, this is this is my time.

  • Training has gone absolutely perfect the way it's bang on.

  • So I'm gonna make take care of the white Friday and and take care of Crawford Sattler, you are a big welterweight.

  • I always thought maybe you were really a junior middleweight campaigning at welterweight.

  • It's good to hear that you make the weight more comfortably now.

  • Terence Crawford in his last fight.

  • He's my number £1 for pound fought Kavaliauskas, who is solid fighter but no one's saying a spectacular world champion kind of fighter.

  • And Crawford had kind of rally in that fight to win by stoppage at the Garden and and was hit Mawr than we've seen him hit earlier in his career.

  • Which Terence Crawford are you preparing for?

  • Do you look at his last fight and say, Wait, he's more hittable now?

  • Do you think that was because of his opponent?

  • Are you preparing for that guy or the or the kind of slicker boxer that we saw earlier in Crawford's career?

  • I'd be I'd be a fool to be training for that guy betrayed.

  • I'm training for the best Terence Crawford.

  • And don't get Don't get me wrong either, either.

  • All round, solid fire, good balance.

  • Good power could switch it, you know, But from from the school where I got brought where Princess, um, we're from, you know, the unorthodox style.

  • I'm usedto, you know, I've I've sparred many, you know, That's where I've done normal 25 years in this game, you know, in the angle, Jim.

  • So I've seen the unorthodox style, you know, But, you know, we've We've prepared him for the best.

  • Terence Crawford.

  • You know, this is, you know, this is the fight of my life.

  • You know, this is this pressure on him, you know?

  • But I'm putting pressure on myself in this fight because I want this so bad, you know, because I wanna show the world, you know, the me 100% you know, is a complete different different guards.

  • Whatever what you've seen before him yourself.

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Why will you be the first one kill to defeat him?

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