February 26, 2025 • 38 mins
On this episode of the Strawberry And Lizette Mexican / Ginger Podcast, we had pro boxer Blake "Beast" McKernan talk about losing 20 pounds in one night, calling out Jake Paul, getting sunburned as white guys, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Episode fifty three of the Strawberry and Lazette Mexican Ginger Podcast.
We had pro boxer Blake mccernon with us, talking about
losing twenty pounds in a night, calling out Jake Paul,
and battling sunburns as white guys. All that and more
coming up next. It's podcast time. It's the Strawberry AND's
that Mexican Ginger podcast. Not suitable for a younger audience. Right,
(00:26):
we have a fighter in the studio with us right now. Blake,
what is what's your fighting name?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Blake, Blake the Beast mccernan.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Blake the mc mccurnay.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Are you Irish?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Scottish and Irish?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Ay?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I knew it lighting in my blood, it's right.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I don't think i've ever heard you talk before. And
so when I saw your last name was like mix something,
I was like, oh, he's got to be Irish or
something like that. And I and I thought of who's
the other fighter, the famous one.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Don't say Conor McGregor.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You know the way he talks. So I was expecting
you to come in talking.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Like that, all right, lad yeh.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I go to the front door and he's like, hey,
is that nice to need you finally.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Call your normal.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, it totally caught me off guard, but it gets funny.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
People always, I always catch them off guard with my
deep voice, so like, oh, I didn't know what you
sounded like.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Right, Yeah, that's a nice way to say, Oh, I
don't know you were white. That's a nice way of.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Saying No, I knew he was white, but I just
found out today you're Irish and Irish. I thought you
were going to talk like that an accident.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Where is the Scottish from? Where's the Scottish from? And
where's the Irish from Irish?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
By the way, my parents were never married. My dad
and my mom were never married, so obviously when I
was born, I got a little bit of everything. So
I'm a little bit, uh, Cherokee, Indian, Scottish and Irish.
So I got a little bit of everything in me.
But wow, I don't know if you could tell I
really don't look Cherokee Indian.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Have you ever been to Ireland or Scotland?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Not yet, but my siblings have, you know, have family
and Gladsgow of Scotland.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
With the capital beautiful out there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I always wanted to go out there, just haven't made
it yet, but I planned on going out to Europe
later this year.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's so fun. And the way they talk Irish people
and Scottish people, like generally they'll sound the same to people,
but like the Scottish people sound like really really drunk
people at a bar, Like they're like the way they
slur their words is different than the way that Irish
people slur their words the same to me, That's what
I'm saying. People think it's the same, but when you
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get out there and you go to Ireland and Scotland
and you compare talking to different people.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Like kilts are kilts.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's hard, hard to communicate in Scotland.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So we got to think a normal day out there
is going to the bar, drinking a pint, going to
a soccer game, getting in a few fights and then
going home for the night.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, the day, you know, the the most fun people
I've ever met though, hanging out in Ireland in Scotland.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Has anyone ever told you that? When you cause, the
first time we met was at one of our shows
at Thunder Valley. I can't remember which one summer Jam
and Blake, like a long time ago. It was briefly yeah,
And I kept seeing you, like around backstage and stuff.
I'm like, who is that guy?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
He looks like Pib, Like Blake goes back there wearing
a suit probably white, with sunglasses and he's and he's bald.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I was like, that guy looks like Pible. That can't
be Piple though he's way too tall.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Everybody always says that whenever I dressed up, They're like,
oh my god, that I was.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Going to have worldwide I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I get it all the times, making bald headed more
fashionable now, So shout out the for that.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I've been bald my whole life. Man, I've never had hair,
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Why?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I've just been the military.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I always shaved my head, and then obviously when I
joined the military, I didn't really have to change your
hair stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Okay, what branch I was in the Army.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I was infantry. I was a machine gunner. So I
was in the military for three and a half fun overseas.
Do I wrack for a year and then came back
stateside and my contract, you know, enlistment was over, So
I got out and started pursuing boxing.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you start fighting in the military.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Before before Yeah, So I tried to join the military. Initially,
you always have to have a job, so I was
always going to be infantry. But once I got out
of basic train and I was supposed to be sent
to Colorado Springs that try out for the Army boxing team.
But because I got caught up in the deployment rotation
and getting ready to deploy, I actually got stationed with
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one of the most rapid deployment units in every branch
of the military. With have OK, so I had no
chance to go in there. So I just had to
kind of get through my time toward duty and then
you know, pursue boxing again once I got out. But
I started boxing when I was ten years old.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Wow, that's what I was going to ask. Because I've
done boxing as like group classes and stuff like that,
or like I've gone that title and like I've worked out.
I've only gotten in the ring a few times and
it was with headgear. I'm pretty sure I had headgear on,
so nobody like put like fists in my face. But
to take that step from a group class into I'm
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in the ring and so one was trying to beat
me in like that's a big step to take and
I didn't know when you started taking that step because
when I was ten years old, I was playing soccer, right,
you were punching people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh, it was all around athlete and I always played basketball, soccer, golf.
Got into the boxing when I was ten years old,
and it just was something that as soon as I
did it, I was like hooked to it. He didn't
know I was going to do that for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
My son did boxing for a little while and he
like he really wanted to do it, so we put
him in there and then he got bored really fast
because it was a group setting and he was with
other kids and it was just the same routines that
he's running through over and over and over again, and
he got bored.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No sparring, right, there was no sparring. Punched the bag,
punched the bag.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, he was practicing like with the instructor, so like
all the kids would be in the ring and they
would be lined up, and then he would teach them
like okay, one, two, one, two, three, like whatever that's called.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, there's certain levels too, though, you know, you got
to go through learning the basic combinations of footwork things,
doing the group classes for kids. You know, a lot
of times if it's a bunch of like minded kids
are always goofing off. So yeah, really really dictates, you know,
how much training they're gonna get, depending on how strict
the coaches. But in the same time, you got to
let the kids enjoy it and have a good time,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, yeah, anyways, he doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He got dog, he got boxing and batter sports are
made for everybody. You know, it's it could be really
hard if you stay disciplined and you know, do it
all the way. But either way, you know, a lot
of people I think are intimidated by combative sports or boxing.
So the fact that her son was getting implemented into it,
I think it's something great for everybody to do because
(06:39):
it's a good way to take out your frustration. Answer
you help time. Hey, you got kids, you know picking
on you at school, go to the gym. Your boyfriend
or your girlfriend's pissing you off. Let me go to
the boxing gym and aunt least some frustration, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Exactly, speaking of bullies, have a morality test for you
before Before we get to the test, uh, Blake, plug
the fight real quick.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We're gonna come back to it again, but plug a
fight thunder Valley Next Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I'll be headlining the first time, headlining at thunder Valley
Casino at the new concert venue called the Venue, Saturday,
March eighth, seven pm. Got it, and it's going to
be a sold out event. Man, So if people haven't
gotten tickets yet, get them because it will definitely be
sold out.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, I want to talk more about the fight, but
I know Zette wants to kind of set the tone
with this morality test. It's perfect with the bullying, right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I was going to do this first as like an
ice breaker.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Just walked in.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, people left, He walked in the left is real quick.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He's not wearing his glasses. Put your glasses on.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh I gotta put on the glass.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And then take your hat off.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Bring for everybody watching on YouTube. People walked in and
he walked right back on.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Look.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Okay, back to the morality test. Okay, so you have
a son, right, so maybe you can actually put yourself
in this position and really think a little harder about
it than other people have. So your son, you find
out your son has been getting bullied at school, he
comes home and he's like he comes home upset. He
doesn't want to talk about it. Sometimes he's like a
little you can see he's been pushed around or whatever.
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And one day at the end of the week he
tells you and your wife like, I've been getting picked
on at school, Like that's why i haven't been, you know,
too happy. When I come home and you guys sit
him down and you're like, you got to stand up
to your bully, Like that's the only way they're going
to stop is you kind of got to put him
in their place. And your son's like, okay, I'll do
that next time. I'll try. Thanks whatever. It's the weekend,
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and he's like, I want to go to the store
and get a snack, So you give him a few bucks.
He walks to the store to go get some snacks,
and then like ten fifteen minutes later, he comes running
back in the door and you're like, what's going on,
Like what happened? And he's again like visibly shaken up.
He says, I ran into my bully when I was
at the store, and I did what you guys said.
He was picking on me again. I stood up to
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him and I kind of like pushed him because he
was pushing up on me, so I pushed him back.
He tripped and he fell and he hit his head
and he just laid there and I freaked out and
left and ran home. So everyone's like, it's like, is
he okay? Kids like, I don't know. I just left.
I got scared. Wife is like, let me go down
there and check it out, right, Wife goes down to
the store to like scope out the scene and see
(09:13):
if the kid's okay. When she gets there, there's a
whole bunch of neighbors out there, cops, paramedics, everyone. Kid
is dead, fell hit his head, died. So the wife
goes back home and it's like, ok the kid died,
Like what should we do? So what would you do
in that situation?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Would I do? Or what would the average person?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What would you do to you me?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yes, I've raised my son in the boxing gym. His
name is Tyson, after Mike Tyson. So I've raised my
son to never be a bully, but also to never
be a punching bag. And I've always raised and taught
my son that you better not ever pick on anybody.
But if you're getting picked on, you have every right
to defend yourself because you're not just going to be
a human punching bag with people. So if a situation
like that were to happen, my son came home, and
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you know, the relationship I have with my son is
probably a lot different than most people. My son talks
to me about it everything. He would tell me exactly
what happened. My very first question to him would be
to ask him if he's okay. He's okay, once we
get through that, and be like, all right, let's go
down there and figure out what happened. Obviously, they're more
likely beyond camera, so I wouldn't worry too much about it,
(10:15):
but I would make sure to do the right thing.
You know, I'm a man of honor and integrity. You know,
it's something that's always been deep rooted inside of me
even before the military, and the military just kind of
enhanced it a lot. So I was believing doing the
right thing and the truth se'll set you free, you know.
So I would definitely take him down there to address
the situation. But you would go down there, you would
talk over the cops, but they're not going to interview
(10:36):
my son like I've raised them now. They will never
interview my son without me or his attorney being president. Ever,
I'll always protect my son and look out.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
For You have to be the first person who was like, Okay,
I know exactly what I'm going to do here is
it's going to happen. Boom boom boom. Everyone else is like,
oh man, I don't know. Do we flee the country.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Said that we were goodling non extradition countries like but
then for.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
The rest of your life you're always worried about the outcome,
the calm and looking over your shoulder. I don't deal
in address situations like that in my life. If there's
a situation, let's go tackle it head on. You know,
it's probably not going to be the most pleasant thing
to do, but at least you can sleep better at night. Yeah,
that's what matters to me.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I like that. I like how you raise your son.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You have every right to defend yourself and you are
not going to be the bully. Nobody's are out there,
but you're not one of them.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I love that, But you've never to offend himself. You know,
my son has been raised in a boxing gym. Obviously,
the way I've raised my son in the relationship I
have my son is probably far different than most people,
especially in today's society. I feel like technology is raising
people's children, not them.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Know my son, my son was born right before I
got out of the military. So as soon as I
got out of the army two months later, I was
back here. I started boxing. So I used to bring
my son to the gym with me every single day
of his life. In the car seat. He watched me
train his whole life. You know, So I've raised That's.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Probably something he was like excited to get into and
ask me.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, question my son. I've raised him and taught him
how to defend himself and how to fight, you know.
But my son is not a fighter, but he can
if he needs to.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, my son grew up in the studio, so he's
a little Yeah, he's a little sensitive.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That would bring the car seat in the studio, put
it on.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
The court, I would bring the play pen. I would
set it up. He would want the snacks and the
Mickey Mouse, and I'd be right over here working to.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Do some How I raised my son, though, I still think,
like what we were talking about earlier, I think it's
amazing for a lot of people, especially at a younger age,
to learn about how to go through the responsibility to respect,
the discipline, the strength and endurance of knowing how to
challenge yourself and learn how to fight. I think it's
something that could never hurt anybody. You should always know
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how to defend yourself, men or women.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, so I agree with your fight coming up on
the eighth. What kind of things do you do to
like prepare for a fight? Like, what's your schedule? What's
your daily routine? Your diet?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Does everything change?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know for me, most people only start training really
hard when they get a fight. Me, this is my
full time job. I train six hours a day, six
days a week. I've always been okay.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
So what's your normal day look like?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
My normal day? So long?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
What you wake up?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Start long story sho I wake up. My day starts
at six thirty in the morning. I wake up, I
take my son to school, go to the gym, do
morning conditioning, ab work, go home for two and a
half three hours, eat, shower, go back to the gym
real quick?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Is that your first meal today?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
After your condition from? Yeah, I do casted cardio. Best
way to do it. You know, I don't like to
eat before I do cardio, So I do forty five
minutes to cardio with a little bit of ad work,
go home, eat, replentish, rehydrate, come back to the gym
about three hours later, do a two hour strength and
conditioning work out of a lot of weight training, doing
super sets. Go and pick up my son from school.
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We eat lunch together, I take him to basketball. I
come home, relax for a couple of hours, and go
to training at night from six to nine pm, and
then I come home and do it all over again.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Six you're in the ring.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm in the boxing day.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So the very first two workouts are just morning conditioning
and then shrink training and then boxing at night. So
I do that Monday through Saturday. Sunday is my only
rest day. Cool and then usually in between workouts where
I can kind of find the time suitable, I do
a little bit of recovery every day, whether it's cryo therapy,
seeing my chiropractor, doing massages, all that type of stuff.
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Those full time gig man I.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Can't imagine spending all day every day in the gym.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
People work eight hours a day. I'm spending six hours
a day working out.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I know, but it's so much work.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I know, But.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
What you like, Let's scroll on TikTok, read my book,
watch my shows. Love is Blind is out again, so
you know what I mean. I need my time for that.
I don't want to spend it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And I think all day in the day for a
lot of pro athletes or really anybody that's really trying
to reach a pivotal point in their career, more so
in sports. I don't watch cable. I don't watch TV.
The only TV I watch is maybe Netflix that night
before I'm going to bed. But I never watch TV.
I don't got time for it. My team is devoted
every day, Yeah, to just business, my son, my career, marketing,
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things like that, meeting with sponsors, doing TV interviews. I
don't ever watch TV. I don't got time too.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I get so much more work done when I'm not
on my phone or I'm not on TV. I'm not
watching TV, like if my fiance is out any of
the weekend. Yeah, but like the amount of things I
can go through on my to do list, I'm flying
through them. But as soon as you turn the TV
on or as soon as you open TikTok, like there
goes two three hours of your life.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I mean, yeah, but I think you also have to
have a You can't be go go go go twenty
four to seven all the time like you're gonna. I
feel like anyways me, I would burn out, like I
would get so tired so easily. I need those brain
brought hours to not do anything and just like rely.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Live balance, you know for anything. For me, A lot
of what it comes down to is discipline. Like what
you know you were just talking about. We're constantly surrounded
around distractions. It's all we're surrounded around is constant distractions.
A lot of my friends don't even hit me up
to invite me out no more because they already know
the answer. If it's not on a Saturday night, which
is only night deemed for me to really have some downtime,
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my friends don't even hit me up no more because
they already know the answer. And I'm so focused six
days a week, that's all that I do. I dedicate
my entire life to the craft. But you know, my
work ethic and what I'm doing in the gym before
fights is what allows me to excel on fight night.
But for a lot of pro athletes or a lot
of people in general, they're constantly distracted by all these
(16:53):
distractions that they keep on kind of echine towards and
I just I don't never feed into it. Man.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, when you were you said you were all start
like you were an all athlete type of student.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Right, you ran through a couple of things. You said,
golf and did you say throughout my life? Golf was
the very first sport I started playing when I was
a little kid. I was two years old when I
first learned how to play golf. Then I started playing soccer,
then basketball, then boxing was the last. So I implemented always,
you know, played all four of those at the same
time all throughout my life.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Okay, So for boxing, that was the only sport that
you needed to kind of fit within a certain window
of weight. So I was a wrestler in high school,
and when you had to cut weight, it was the worst.
Are you do you still kind of like get up
the line you need to drop a few pounds before
the fight, or like where do you fluctuate how far
you will know?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
You know?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So my weight category, I fight in a cruise ofweight
division that goes up to two hundred. It's really kind
of like one eighty to two hundred. A lot of
people kind of fluttered.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Big window, a twenty pound window.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Well, yeah, it's just cruiserweight was kind of like an
open window. A lot of people know about boxing. Cruise
ofweight's what they call or consider the natural heavyweight division.
The biggest cruiserweights people remember, but he was a heavyweight,
Rocky Marciana, right, Yeah, way back in the day when
Rocky Marciana fired, he was only one hundred and ninety
five pounds. But that was considered heavyweight back then. But
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over the years, as guys continue to progress and get
so much bigger, they turned heavyweight into cruiserweight. Now the
heavyweight division is really considered super heavyweight. It's two oh
one plus. There's no cat got it. So you'll fight
a guy four hundred pounds and be two hundred and
five pounds. Look at Mike Tyson, you know, Mike Tyson
usually always right weighed around like two hundred and eighteen pounds. Yeah,
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he was only six foot. A lot of the guys
that he was fighting six four sixty five, two seventy plus,
they're big boys, you know. So it's just really knowing
it all really depends on where you feel strong at.
For me, I feel really strong where I'm at. I
always usually walk around up my fight weight. But to
get to your question, if I'm a little over, I
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have like little things that I could do to cut
weight overnight, Like I've cut, you know, twelve pounds overnight
in the hours. There's a different meth.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You know there.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You could do a clean ladies temporary depleting your body
of water right so, you could do a cleanse. You
could do epsin salt bass. You know, in about twenty
minutes you rub abolon all over your body, or a
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sweet sweat opens up your pores, get the bath water
as hot as you can take it, pour EPs and
salt in there. Then ten to fifteen minutes. Usually lose
about four to six pounds every every ten period.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Really yeah, but all these.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Again with you having a wrestling background and fighters, these
are all the methods that they use. They'll go into
asama with a sweatsuit. There's so many ways you could
do it the healthiest way. For me, I'm always dining
for the most part. I always keep an eye on
my weight. So it's like because I walk around up
my fight weight and I'm always constantly training, makes the
transition for me going into the fights a lot stronger.
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There the fight before, you know, four years ago, when
I had the biggest fight of my career on pay
per view of the Mike Tyson Cord, I ended up
cutting twenty pounds overnight for that fight, most way to
ever cut overnight ow overnight, and it definitely took a
ton tool on that.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That doesn't like exhaust you the next day.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Like you know anything about you know, nutrition, anatomy of
the body, it really takes more than twenty four hours
after you weigh in to fight night to replenish, you know.
So when you're cutting that much weight, you're gonna get dehydrated,
you're gonna get cramping, You're not gonna feel as strong
because you're gonna feel really tired. I went through all
of that, but you know, it is what it is.
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At certain times of the game. You gotta do what
you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I know who I need to ask address tomorrow. What
do I do?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So what's the timeline Because like just for the average
person that never gets in the ring, we watch these
big fights and we watched the weigh in on like Friday,
and then we watched the fight on Saturday. So you
cut weight to make way in and then can you
immediately put weight back on before you get in the
ring or to get to maintain that weight?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Fights For most people to watch fighting, most fights are
usually on Saturday. Ok for example, Right, So weigh ins
are twenty four hours a day before on Friday, four hours,
so you'll cut weight Thursday night because you'll usually weigh
in around lunch time on Friday. Okay, right, So as
soon as you weigh in, you can start putting on
as much weight as you want. But the cap to
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that is if you're fighting for a world title, they
have weight requirements that you can't exceed. So it's usually
within like eight to twelve pounds, depending on whatever's in
the contract. So if you're fighting for a world title,
after you weigh in, there's gonna be a weight cap
that you can't replenish and rehydrate past a certain amount
of weight. Okay, that's for you for a world title.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But for you when you dropped twenty if you were
if you were world titling that day, you can't put
all twenty back on. You can put like eight to
ten more back on Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Usually it dictates whatever's in the contract. But if you're
not fighting for a world title, guys can cut. Usually
most guys walk around fifteen to thirty pounds over their
weight category of what they fight at. So throughout camp
and cutting weight before the fight, that's usually what they
cut down to just to make the weight. The average
person puts on about fifteen to twenty pounds before they fight.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I don't know you could drop that much that fast.
I know, wrestling, we were working with like two to
three pounds, like hey, put on a bunch of hoodies,
run around the track, spin like in high school too
super unhealthy.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Pa.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Game's changed now though, you know, ask you he just
got ranked as one of the he's the top one
wrestling his weight category. Not I even't talked to him
too much, but he's usually cutting probably like ten pounds
roughly to make weight. I think he fights like wrestlers
at one to seventy four, but he's usually walking around
I think around one ninety. You know, so the game
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has changed and evolved over the years.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know, dude, I was my freshman year because everybody
asked me like, hey, you know you always said, you
were small in high school? Like, what was it like?
I know that I was eighty nine pounds my freshman
year and I was five foot one.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
They go eighty nine pounds.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
They're like, how do you know, I said, because wrestling
was a fall sport. It was the first it was
the first sport of the of the year. I know
I was eighty nine pounds because I went to my
first wrestling class or uh not class. Yeah, it's class wrestling,
no practice, sorry, wrestling practice. Go to my first wrestling practice. Afterwards,
the coach is like, all right, every locker room stripped
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down your underwear, like we're gonna get on the scale
and like we're gonna put you whatever in your category.
So I get on and he goes, you're eighty nine pounds.
You have to gain five pounds for me to legally
let you on the team. I go what He's like,
you need to go gain weight. You can't be on
the team at eighty nine pounds. I had to gain
five pounds for them to even let me on the team.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Weight gainer, weight gainer meat.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And then when I got I think I was wrestling
one oh three's and I went to one twelves, which
I know weight classes have changed, but when I was
at one twelve, there was a couple of times I'd
have to drop players some weight where the players will
drop some weight to fit in the one twelves. But
I was eighty nine pounds my fres year.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Bro, I was tiny.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
That's my I'm five to one.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, I was your height, but I'm not any So
let's talk about the fight then. March eighth. We've been
to Thunder Valley that We've been to the venue at
Thunder Valley a million times for all.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Sorts of concert venue.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's a great venue.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'm trying to picture how they're going to bring the
world of boxing into that venue.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So the promoter, which is a very well recognized promoter,
has been promoting and Sacramento ever since I was a
little kid. He's been at it probably thirty plus years,
Naston Navaroni. He's the promoter that is working with Thunder
Valley to now do these fights at their venue. Okay,
so we had the very first fight about four months ago.
It was the co main event, pretty good turnout, very
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first one. It was around two thousand people. Now the
second time I'm back headlining the whole venue. I think
there's my fight plus eight or nine others, so there'll
be about nine or ten fights and the whole venue
is almost already completely sold out.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Nice and how did the layout work?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Which was gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
So if you guys have been there, you know, we
got the stage. You come out and there's normally all
the floor seating, so you still have the floor seating,
but you probably lose about maybe one hundred hundred to
two hundred seats in the very middle because they have
like another stage come off of the main stage that
brings you out the ring.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh yeah, so the stage I'm sorry, the ring isn't
on the stage, No, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
In the middle of the floor seats. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So you just lose a little bit of a seating
on the floor and the ring goes literally in the
middle of like where the stages just center right there
on the.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Like right before where the stairs are to go up
to like that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's a nice amazing I've never even been to that
venue where I've been out in the audience because every
time I've been there is other friends performing, you know,
comedian acts. I've always been backstage like when she watched out. Now,
all the Dougs in Harmony like people friends of mine
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that I've met throughout the industry. So every time I've
been to that specific venue, I've always been backstage, but
I've seen pictures of people that have been out in
the venue. It's a beautiful venue, man, that's beautiful, and
it holds around four thousand people.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And before they built it, we were out in the
parking lot in the in the Remember I got all.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Those summer jams way back when Lizette and I were talking,
when Big Al used to work for iHeart Rest Peace.
I know, restling piece of big Al and uh Man.
I used to be backstage with big Al, hanging out
with One twelve and all the R and B groups.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Men.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It just it was a great time. But you know,
the transition from the parking lot now to this upscale
venue it.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Getting cooked down.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
No, dude, I would look like a lobster after being
out of the concerts.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That Scottish blood doesn't do us well in the summer.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Hey, why very well? Irish is not tan We do not.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I was going to ask you about I had it.
I don't want to interrupt you. It was we were talking.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
About the venue, venue and the layout.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
What's your walkout song?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's what?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Do you have a walkout.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Song for this song or for this fight? I do
usually always change it up this one. I want to
give any spoilers, just say every time I walk out,
because of my military background, I always have soldiers walking
me out carrying the American flag. Nice and I have
very upbeat, lively music that's going to get people interactive
with the song and with my insurance. Okay, get you know.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
What.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hey, you know one song I've always want to walk
out to and it might be funny, but it's the classic.
I'm gonna wait to get back on TV to do
it again. Ice Ice, Baby, Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That would be funny. That would be funny.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's only funny to you guys.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, how many times does somebody call you that? Growing up?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Vanilla Ice? Never oh.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Never write yeah, you're right, Blake, you're right. Me and
the piece it was funny.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I was a little kid.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Everybody used to always calling me eminem Bro because I
was always the skinny white kid wearing baggy clothes. But yeah, man,
my music is definitely something that gets the crowd interactive
with my entns and gets people out of the seat.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
That's one of the most important parts is the walkout song.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You gotta get him on your team. So, yeah, So
who you're fighting on March eighth? Do you know this dude?
Are you tracking his career? You watch him, film on.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Him, personally know him. I just know that he's out
of New York. I'll be in New York named Sean Miller.
I believe he's uh uh seventeen and six and one
seventeen wins, six lost, one draw. Okay, so he's got
a good record and there's a decent opponent. And outside
of that, I don't ever watch footage or tape on
none of my fight the people. I'm going to fight
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any of my opponents and let my team do that.
I just kind of go through the game plan and
prepare my mind being ready for anything.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Have you ever been knocked out?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Never?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I was gonna ask if it was scary. Have you
ever knocked someone else out?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah? Multiple times?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Do you feel bad at all?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
No, that's that's the game. You know, you knocked.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Somebody out and they're just laying there. You're not. You're
not like they.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Get the knockout you know, it's like for me, I'm
in a professional sport and it's not like I'm just
going out here fighting people on the streets and I'm
going to cause a lot of bodily harm. But people
get hurt and killed in this industry all the time, man,
So it's like for me, that's why I trained really
hard so that the fights are easy. But whenever I
knock somebody out in the moment, I'm happy. But after
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I know that I won, and.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
There they walk over and give them a little kicks, I.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Go, I don't give them the kiss, but and I'll
go on and check on. I want to make sure
they're okay and just show the right sportsmanship. You know,
at the end of the day, we're all out here
trying to push ourselves to be the best, and I
want to show that that respect, that sportsmanship, and the
most important thing is that we're both going home door
families at the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, if you if you can't answer this question honestly,
and you need to kind of toe some politically correct line,
I understand, But as a professional boxer, someone who really
does this for a living, you put in the work,
you get in the ring, how do you feel about
these Jake Paul might Tyson type?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Fight is good?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We don't even got to finish. Thank you, Jake Paul.
I was supposed to fight them as team's afraid to
fight me. I wish they would send me a friend,
because I would retire that cat from ever even showing
his face in a boxing ring. I would make that
cat a meme. I can't stand in these YouTubers. Stay
in the lane and leave this ship to the professionals.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Because these want to be a.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yes. Don't try to come out of YouTube because you
got a fan base, think that you're gonna come into it.
People like me in this industry are really trained killers.
We came from poverty, we came from having absolutely nothing.
We've come from the trenches. And you want to try
to go up against somebody that was born with the
silver spoon in their mouth, to go up against somebody
like me, I'm gonna chew you up and spit you out,
as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But you don't think he could also be doing all everything.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I don't care about none of that. That dude is
a fraudster. He's fake. He is not a real fighter.
All these YouTubers alike, they're not real fighters. You want
to be a real fighter, cool compete with other YouTubers.
You'll never try to call out another pro.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And what was frustrating to me is a lot of
these YouTubers that come out and call out these guys
to fight, They're calling out retired fighters that are far
surpast their prime. Look, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, that was
a gimmick. Anybody I saw it knew it was a gimmick.
It was a payday, you know what I mean. It
was a nationwide, worldwide robbery, and a lot of people
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fed into it. But I never would.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's like the WWE version of whatever his definition of
boxing is. I feel it's scripted. I feel it's determined prior. Hey,
it's a good show. It's like Britney Spears lip syncing.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You gonna you're.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Gonna go to a Britney Spears concert. She's got a
lip sync, but she's gonna put on a good show.
So I think that's the Jake Paul fights. Hey, we're
gonna pretend this is boxing. We're just gonna give you
a good show.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
But it's fraud.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Man it's so fraud.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I can't stand it. Bro Nothing about me is a
fraud that you cannot pay me enough money to take
a fall for no, man, you know what I mean.
And for me, I just I don't respect it. You know.
And a lot of people are going through the conversations. Oh,
they're bringing a lot of newer eyes to boxing. Okay,
that's cool, But it's newer eyes that are being persuaded
in the wrong way, seeing not the correct boxing. They're
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not real.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Fights, uneducated eyes.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
And it's usually young, good generation. Look at Jake Paul
is his fan base is a bunch of fourteen year olds. Yeah,
you know what I mean. They know nothing about life,
let alone boxing.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, your fan bases are adults.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Most of them.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
We're all grown. We're grown a bunch of kids. Hear that,
Jake Paul?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Hear that?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
So, uh, the beast, you're the You're the headliner for
the fight March eighth, the venue at Thunder Valley. We
know you have sponsors that take care of you. Do
you need to shout any of them out right now?
I want to make sure I give you an opportunity
to do so.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I appreciate it, man, you know my biggest sponsor. He's
a huge developer, very well respected in a Sacramento surrounding
area areas Beyonce untillet developers. Anybody's looking to get a
custom home build or get their dream home built, definitely
look into them. Let them build your custom home all right.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
People can follow you in your boxing journey where give
me the socials the website.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Can follow me on Instagram at Blake the Beast and
then on Facebook at Blake McKernan.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Say, okay, wait, how old is your son? How old
is tyson?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
My son just said, see fourteen? Yeah, okay, Hooper, man,
he's good, really good.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Is he going to stay with basketball or is gonna
get the ring.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
A little bit? So?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You know, I invest a lot of time and money
into his basketball right now. So for me, you know,
I'm trying to implement my son learning that you'll never
be able to capitalize anything in life without hard work.
So dude, you know, I go and pick up my
son after this interview we eat, I take him to
the basketball gym for four and a half five hours
a day.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
What you gotta dout that work though?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah and a half five hours a day and Monday
through Thursday. Take him to hardwood out in Rockland or Lincoln.
Friday nights he hoops with all the old guys over
at twenty four hour and then he has games every weekend,
Saturday and Sunday. So my spen seven days a week
and he loves it. You know, I'm pushing him. But
if he has certain days where he's like which it
doesn't really happen because he loves the game so much. Yeah, Dad,
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you know, I'm really sorry. Okay, if you're not gonna
be here, you're gonna stay home, take a day off,
You're gonna be watching film. You're gonna be watching film
on college basketball, You're gonna be watching film on the NBA.
You have to transition yourself from knowing what you're seeing
and transition that into your game. So I'm just really
trying to implement to show my son, like, if you
want to make to the NBA, I'm gonna tell you
that it's impossible, but it's gonna be really hard. You
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don't have to work for it, you know, So I
make sure that he works for it. Gym every day.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Your son is doing the same thing, but with online
video gaming. Yeah, he's putting eight hours a day.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
He wants to be a streamer, and I told him,
you know, I'm not going to say it's impossible, but
it's gonna be a lot of hard work of playing games,
playing video games and practicing. So he got really good
at fortnite.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, Fortnite.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
He loves roadblocks and and he has the the Quest,
the VR, the Oculus thing and so he'd be playing
like soccer on there and stuff. Oh he's getting real good.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Crazy too, man, how much technology is taken over society nowadays.
You know, there's different strokes for different folks. You know,
her son wants to get into streaming. I think a
lot of the younger generation is doing that. Me personally,
just from my son, because I know where his vision is.
I don't let him get on no technology Monday through Thursday.
None smart academics and sports. That's all you got time for.
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No electronics.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
See, I wish I could.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I love that. I need Blake to be my dad.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Put the phone down, you raise my son?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Also, before I let you go, what is your favorite
give me like your favorite punch? You're gonna hit somebody?
What's the what you're talking? Your location what's the Is
it right? Is it left?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Like? Is it upper? Is it right?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
In the know? What's your favorite? One's always been really strong?
That is my left hook. It's left, really strong left
hook to the jaw, to the matter. Wherever your favorite one,
whe wherever, wherever it touches, it's gonna hurt. I face
your body. I've dropped so many people with my left hook,
it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I think you too, should spar my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
My last fight, I thought this big Columbian, he was
like six three, two hundred and thirty five pounds. It
was going into the fourth round, just into the fourth round,
I threw it like I throwaway punches, where you throw
away a punch and not really trying to land it
to set up a big shot. So I threw like
a right hand, came back to the hard left hook,
hit him center in the face. Brown, he buckled. It
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was over. So I'm coming off the two back to
back fourth round knockouts. Man, We're gonna come up with
the third one this next fight.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Till we wish you all the best. So after this
fight March eighth, do you even know what your next
one is going to be?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Things lined up. I'm not going to give out no spoilers.
I'm working on some things right now. I'm working with NASA,
the promoter for this event, on getting some more televised
fights and doing some more fights, so you.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Know, stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
However, at a time, man. You know, once I get
through this fight, take a couple of days off, get
back in the gym, start working on whatever it is
you know meant to come up next.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, all right, it's gonna go crazy, all right, Blake
the Beast everybody, and if you don't have tickets, best
place to get tickets for the fight on March eighth.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
People can message me on Instagram at Blake the Beasts
or on Facebook at Blake mccernan to get discount of tickets.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Boom. All right.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
You can follow us on Instagram at Strawberry and Lazette.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I'm at Lazette lov l A C E T T
E l O v E. I didn't feel like spelling it.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Strawberry Very Radio. Thank you for podcasting with us. We'll
talk to you next time.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Peace.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Bye,
Episode fifty three of the Strawberry and Lazette Mexican Ginger Podcast.
We had pro boxer Blake mccernon with us, talking about
losing twenty pounds in a night, calling out Jake Paul,
and battling sunburns as white guys. All that and more
coming up next. It's podcast time. It's the Strawberry AND's
that Mexican Ginger podcast. Not suitable for a younger audience. Right,
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we have a fighter in the studio with us right now. Blake,
what is what's your fighting name?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Blake, Blake the Beast mccernan.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Blake the mc mccurnay.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Are you Irish?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Scottish and Irish?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Ay?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I knew it lighting in my blood, it's right.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I don't think i've ever heard you talk before. And
so when I saw your last name was like mix something,
I was like, oh, he's got to be Irish or
something like that. And I and I thought of who's
the other fighter, the famous one.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Don't say Conor McGregor.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You know the way he talks. So I was expecting
you to come in talking.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Like that, all right, lad yeh.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I go to the front door and he's like, hey,
is that nice to need you finally.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Call your normal.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, it totally caught me off guard, but it gets funny.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
People always, I always catch them off guard with my
deep voice, so like, oh, I didn't know what you
sounded like.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Right, Yeah, that's a nice way to say, Oh, I
don't know you were white. That's a nice way of.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Saying No, I knew he was white, but I just
found out today you're Irish and Irish. I thought you
were going to talk like that an accident.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Where is the Scottish from? Where's the Scottish from? And
where's the Irish from Irish?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
By the way, my parents were never married. My dad
and my mom were never married, so obviously when I
was born, I got a little bit of everything. So
I'm a little bit, uh, Cherokee, Indian, Scottish and Irish.
So I got a little bit of everything in me.
But wow, I don't know if you could tell I
really don't look Cherokee Indian.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Have you ever been to Ireland or Scotland?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Not yet, but my siblings have, you know, have family
and Gladsgow of Scotland.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
With the capital beautiful out there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I always wanted to go out there, just haven't made
it yet, but I planned on going out to Europe
later this year.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's so fun. And the way they talk Irish people
and Scottish people, like generally they'll sound the same to people,
but like the Scottish people sound like really really drunk
people at a bar, Like they're like the way they
slur their words is different than the way that Irish
people slur their words the same to me, That's what
I'm saying. People think it's the same, but when you
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get out there and you go to Ireland and Scotland
and you compare talking to different people.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Like kilts are kilts.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's hard, hard to communicate in Scotland.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So we got to think a normal day out there
is going to the bar, drinking a pint, going to
a soccer game, getting in a few fights and then
going home for the night.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, the day, you know, the the most fun people
I've ever met though, hanging out in Ireland in Scotland.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Has anyone ever told you that? When you cause, the
first time we met was at one of our shows
at Thunder Valley. I can't remember which one summer Jam
and Blake, like a long time ago. It was briefly yeah,
And I kept seeing you, like around backstage and stuff.
I'm like, who is that guy?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
He looks like Pib, Like Blake goes back there wearing
a suit probably white, with sunglasses and he's and he's bald.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I was like, that guy looks like Pible. That can't
be Piple though he's way too tall.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Everybody always says that whenever I dressed up, They're like,
oh my god, that I was.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Going to have worldwide I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I get it all the times, making bald headed more
fashionable now, So shout out the for that.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I've been bald my whole life. Man, I've never had hair,
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Why?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I've just been the military.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I always shaved my head, and then obviously when I
joined the military, I didn't really have to change your
hair stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Okay, what branch I was in the Army.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I was infantry. I was a machine gunner. So I
was in the military for three and a half fun overseas.
Do I wrack for a year and then came back
stateside and my contract, you know, enlistment was over, So
I got out and started pursuing boxing.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you start fighting in the military.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Before before Yeah, So I tried to join the military. Initially,
you always have to have a job, so I was
always going to be infantry. But once I got out
of basic train and I was supposed to be sent
to Colorado Springs that try out for the Army boxing team.
But because I got caught up in the deployment rotation
and getting ready to deploy, I actually got stationed with
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one of the most rapid deployment units in every branch
of the military. With have OK, so I had no
chance to go in there. So I just had to
kind of get through my time toward duty and then
you know, pursue boxing again once I got out. But
I started boxing when I was ten years old.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Wow, that's what I was going to ask. Because I've
done boxing as like group classes and stuff like that,
or like I've gone that title and like I've worked out.
I've only gotten in the ring a few times and
it was with headgear. I'm pretty sure I had headgear on,
so nobody like put like fists in my face. But
to take that step from a group class into I'm
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in the ring and so one was trying to beat
me in like that's a big step to take and
I didn't know when you started taking that step because
when I was ten years old, I was playing soccer, right,
you were punching people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh, it was all around athlete and I always played basketball, soccer, golf.
Got into the boxing when I was ten years old,
and it just was something that as soon as I
did it, I was like hooked to it. He didn't
know I was going to do that for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
My son did boxing for a little while and he
like he really wanted to do it, so we put
him in there and then he got bored really fast
because it was a group setting and he was with
other kids and it was just the same routines that
he's running through over and over and over again, and
he got bored.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No sparring, right, there was no sparring. Punched the bag,
punched the bag.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, he was practicing like with the instructor, so like
all the kids would be in the ring and they
would be lined up, and then he would teach them
like okay, one, two, one, two, three, like whatever that's called.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, there's certain levels too, though, you know, you got
to go through learning the basic combinations of footwork things,
doing the group classes for kids. You know, a lot
of times if it's a bunch of like minded kids
are always goofing off. So yeah, really really dictates, you know,
how much training they're gonna get, depending on how strict
the coaches. But in the same time, you got to
let the kids enjoy it and have a good time,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, yeah, anyways, he doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He got dog, he got boxing and batter sports are
made for everybody. You know, it's it could be really
hard if you stay disciplined and you know, do it
all the way. But either way, you know, a lot
of people I think are intimidated by combative sports or boxing.
So the fact that her son was getting implemented into it,
I think it's something great for everybody to do because
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it's a good way to take out your frustration. Answer
you help time. Hey, you got kids, you know picking
on you at school, go to the gym. Your boyfriend
or your girlfriend's pissing you off. Let me go to
the boxing gym and aunt least some frustration, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Exactly, speaking of bullies, have a morality test for you
before Before we get to the test, uh, Blake, plug
the fight real quick.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We're gonna come back to it again, but plug a
fight thunder Valley Next Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I'll be headlining the first time, headlining at thunder Valley
Casino at the new concert venue called the Venue, Saturday,
March eighth, seven pm. Got it, and it's going to
be a sold out event. Man, So if people haven't
gotten tickets yet, get them because it will definitely be
sold out.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, I want to talk more about the fight, but
I know Zette wants to kind of set the tone
with this morality test. It's perfect with the bullying, right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I was going to do this first as like an
ice breaker.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Just walked in.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, people left, He walked in the left is real quick.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He's not wearing his glasses. Put your glasses on.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh I gotta put on the glass.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And then take your hat off.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Bring for everybody watching on YouTube. People walked in and
he walked right back on.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Look.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Okay, back to the morality test. Okay, so you have
a son, right, so maybe you can actually put yourself
in this position and really think a little harder about
it than other people have. So your son, you find
out your son has been getting bullied at school, he
comes home and he's like he comes home upset. He
doesn't want to talk about it. Sometimes he's like a
little you can see he's been pushed around or whatever.
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And one day at the end of the week he
tells you and your wife like, I've been getting picked
on at school, Like that's why i haven't been, you know,
too happy. When I come home and you guys sit
him down and you're like, you got to stand up
to your bully, Like that's the only way they're going
to stop is you kind of got to put him
in their place. And your son's like, okay, I'll do
that next time. I'll try. Thanks whatever. It's the weekend,
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and he's like, I want to go to the store
and get a snack, So you give him a few bucks.
He walks to the store to go get some snacks,
and then like ten fifteen minutes later, he comes running
back in the door and you're like, what's going on,
Like what happened? And he's again like visibly shaken up.
He says, I ran into my bully when I was
at the store, and I did what you guys said.
He was picking on me again. I stood up to
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him and I kind of like pushed him because he
was pushing up on me, so I pushed him back.
He tripped and he fell and he hit his head
and he just laid there and I freaked out and
left and ran home. So everyone's like, it's like, is
he okay? Kids like, I don't know. I just left.
I got scared. Wife is like, let me go down
there and check it out, right, Wife goes down to
the store to like scope out the scene and see
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if the kid's okay. When she gets there, there's a
whole bunch of neighbors out there, cops, paramedics, everyone. Kid
is dead, fell hit his head, died. So the wife
goes back home and it's like, ok the kid died,
Like what should we do? So what would you do
in that situation?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Would I do? Or what would the average person?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What would you do to you me?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yes, I've raised my son in the boxing gym. His
name is Tyson, after Mike Tyson. So I've raised my
son to never be a bully, but also to never
be a punching bag. And I've always raised and taught
my son that you better not ever pick on anybody.
But if you're getting picked on, you have every right
to defend yourself because you're not just going to be
a human punching bag with people. So if a situation
like that were to happen, my son came home, and
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you know, the relationship I have with my son is
probably a lot different than most people. My son talks
to me about it everything. He would tell me exactly
what happened. My very first question to him would be
to ask him if he's okay. He's okay, once we
get through that, and be like, all right, let's go
down there and figure out what happened. Obviously, they're more
likely beyond camera, so I wouldn't worry too much about it,
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but I would make sure to do the right thing.
You know, I'm a man of honor and integrity. You know,
it's something that's always been deep rooted inside of me
even before the military, and the military just kind of
enhanced it a lot. So I was believing doing the
right thing and the truth se'll set you free, you know.
So I would definitely take him down there to address
the situation. But you would go down there, you would
talk over the cops, but they're not going to interview
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my son like I've raised them now. They will never
interview my son without me or his attorney being president. Ever,
I'll always protect my son and look out.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
For You have to be the first person who was like, Okay,
I know exactly what I'm going to do here is
it's going to happen. Boom boom boom. Everyone else is like,
oh man, I don't know. Do we flee the country.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Said that we were goodling non extradition countries like but
then for.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
The rest of your life you're always worried about the outcome,
the calm and looking over your shoulder. I don't deal
in address situations like that in my life. If there's
a situation, let's go tackle it head on. You know,
it's probably not going to be the most pleasant thing
to do, but at least you can sleep better at night. Yeah,
that's what matters to me.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I like that. I like how you raise your son.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You have every right to defend yourself and you are
not going to be the bully. Nobody's are out there,
but you're not one of them.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I love that, But you've never to offend himself. You know,
my son has been raised in a boxing gym. Obviously,
the way I've raised my son in the relationship I
have my son is probably far different than most people,
especially in today's society. I feel like technology is raising
people's children, not them.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Know my son, my son was born right before I
got out of the military. So as soon as I
got out of the army two months later, I was
back here. I started boxing. So I used to bring
my son to the gym with me every single day
of his life. In the car seat. He watched me
train his whole life. You know, So I've raised That's.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Probably something he was like excited to get into and
ask me.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, question my son. I've raised him and taught him
how to defend himself and how to fight, you know.
But my son is not a fighter, but he can
if he needs to.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, my son grew up in the studio, so he's
a little Yeah, he's a little sensitive.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That would bring the car seat in the studio, put
it on.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
The court, I would bring the play pen. I would
set it up. He would want the snacks and the
Mickey Mouse, and I'd be right over here working to.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Do some How I raised my son, though, I still think,
like what we were talking about earlier, I think it's
amazing for a lot of people, especially at a younger age,
to learn about how to go through the responsibility to respect,
the discipline, the strength and endurance of knowing how to
challenge yourself and learn how to fight. I think it's
something that could never hurt anybody. You should always know
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how to defend yourself, men or women.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, so I agree with your fight coming up on
the eighth. What kind of things do you do to
like prepare for a fight? Like, what's your schedule? What's
your daily routine? Your diet?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Does everything change?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know for me, most people only start training really
hard when they get a fight. Me, this is my
full time job. I train six hours a day, six
days a week. I've always been okay.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
So what's your normal day look like?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
My normal day? So long?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
What you wake up?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Start long story sho I wake up. My day starts
at six thirty in the morning. I wake up, I
take my son to school, go to the gym, do
morning conditioning, ab work, go home for two and a
half three hours, eat, shower, go back to the gym
real quick?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Is that your first meal today?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
After your condition from? Yeah, I do casted cardio. Best
way to do it. You know, I don't like to
eat before I do cardio, So I do forty five
minutes to cardio with a little bit of ad work,
go home, eat, replentish, rehydrate, come back to the gym
about three hours later, do a two hour strength and
conditioning work out of a lot of weight training, doing
super sets. Go and pick up my son from school.
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We eat lunch together, I take him to basketball. I
come home, relax for a couple of hours, and go
to training at night from six to nine pm, and
then I come home and do it all over again.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Six you're in the ring.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm in the boxing day.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So the very first two workouts are just morning conditioning
and then shrink training and then boxing at night. So
I do that Monday through Saturday. Sunday is my only
rest day. Cool and then usually in between workouts where
I can kind of find the time suitable, I do
a little bit of recovery every day, whether it's cryo therapy,
seeing my chiropractor, doing massages, all that type of stuff.
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Those full time gig man I.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Can't imagine spending all day every day in the gym.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
People work eight hours a day. I'm spending six hours
a day working out.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I know, but it's so much work.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I know, But.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
What you like, Let's scroll on TikTok, read my book,
watch my shows. Love is Blind is out again, so
you know what I mean. I need my time for that.
I don't want to spend it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And I think all day in the day for a
lot of pro athletes or really anybody that's really trying
to reach a pivotal point in their career, more so
in sports. I don't watch cable. I don't watch TV.
The only TV I watch is maybe Netflix that night
before I'm going to bed. But I never watch TV.
I don't got time for it. My team is devoted
every day, Yeah, to just business, my son, my career, marketing,
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things like that, meeting with sponsors, doing TV interviews. I
don't ever watch TV. I don't got time too.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I get so much more work done when I'm not
on my phone or I'm not on TV. I'm not
watching TV, like if my fiance is out any of
the weekend. Yeah, but like the amount of things I
can go through on my to do list, I'm flying
through them. But as soon as you turn the TV
on or as soon as you open TikTok, like there
goes two three hours of your life.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I mean, yeah, but I think you also have to
have a You can't be go go go go twenty
four to seven all the time like you're gonna. I
feel like anyways me, I would burn out, like I
would get so tired so easily. I need those brain
brought hours to not do anything and just like rely.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Live balance, you know for anything. For me, A lot
of what it comes down to is discipline. Like what
you know you were just talking about. We're constantly surrounded
around distractions. It's all we're surrounded around is constant distractions.
A lot of my friends don't even hit me up
to invite me out no more because they already know
the answer. If it's not on a Saturday night, which
is only night deemed for me to really have some downtime,
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my friends don't even hit me up no more because
they already know the answer. And I'm so focused six
days a week, that's all that I do. I dedicate
my entire life to the craft. But you know, my
work ethic and what I'm doing in the gym before
fights is what allows me to excel on fight night.
But for a lot of pro athletes or a lot
of people in general, they're constantly distracted by all these
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distractions that they keep on kind of echine towards and
I just I don't never feed into it. Man.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, when you were you said you were all start
like you were an all athlete type of student.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Right, you ran through a couple of things. You said,
golf and did you say throughout my life? Golf was
the very first sport I started playing when I was
a little kid. I was two years old when I
first learned how to play golf. Then I started playing soccer,
then basketball, then boxing was the last. So I implemented always,
you know, played all four of those at the same
time all throughout my life.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Okay, So for boxing, that was the only sport that
you needed to kind of fit within a certain window
of weight. So I was a wrestler in high school,
and when you had to cut weight, it was the worst.
Are you do you still kind of like get up
the line you need to drop a few pounds before
the fight, or like where do you fluctuate how far
you will know?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
You know?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So my weight category, I fight in a cruise ofweight
division that goes up to two hundred. It's really kind
of like one eighty to two hundred. A lot of
people kind of fluttered.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Big window, a twenty pound window.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Well, yeah, it's just cruiserweight was kind of like an
open window. A lot of people know about boxing. Cruise
ofweight's what they call or consider the natural heavyweight division.
The biggest cruiserweights people remember, but he was a heavyweight,
Rocky Marciana, right, Yeah, way back in the day when
Rocky Marciana fired, he was only one hundred and ninety
five pounds. But that was considered heavyweight back then. But
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over the years, as guys continue to progress and get
so much bigger, they turned heavyweight into cruiserweight. Now the
heavyweight division is really considered super heavyweight. It's two oh
one plus. There's no cat got it. So you'll fight
a guy four hundred pounds and be two hundred and
five pounds. Look at Mike Tyson, you know, Mike Tyson
usually always right weighed around like two hundred and eighteen pounds. Yeah,
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he was only six foot. A lot of the guys
that he was fighting six four sixty five, two seventy plus,
they're big boys, you know. So it's just really knowing
it all really depends on where you feel strong at.
For me, I feel really strong where I'm at. I
always usually walk around up my fight weight. But to
get to your question, if I'm a little over, I
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have like little things that I could do to cut
weight overnight, Like I've cut, you know, twelve pounds overnight
in the hours. There's a different meth.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You know there.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You could do a clean ladies temporary depleting your body
of water right so, you could do a cleanse. You
could do epsin salt bass. You know, in about twenty
minutes you rub abolon all over your body, or a
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sweet sweat opens up your pores, get the bath water
as hot as you can take it, pour EPs and
salt in there. Then ten to fifteen minutes. Usually lose
about four to six pounds every every ten period.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Really yeah, but all these.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Again with you having a wrestling background and fighters, these
are all the methods that they use. They'll go into
asama with a sweatsuit. There's so many ways you could
do it the healthiest way. For me, I'm always dining
for the most part. I always keep an eye on
my weight. So it's like because I walk around up
my fight weight and I'm always constantly training, makes the
transition for me going into the fights a lot stronger.
(19:59):
There the fight before, you know, four years ago, when
I had the biggest fight of my career on pay
per view of the Mike Tyson Cord, I ended up
cutting twenty pounds overnight for that fight, most way to
ever cut overnight ow overnight, and it definitely took a
ton tool on that.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That doesn't like exhaust you the next day.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Like you know anything about you know, nutrition, anatomy of
the body, it really takes more than twenty four hours
after you weigh in to fight night to replenish, you know.
So when you're cutting that much weight, you're gonna get dehydrated,
you're gonna get cramping, You're not gonna feel as strong
because you're gonna feel really tired. I went through all
of that, but you know, it is what it is.
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At certain times of the game. You gotta do what
you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I know who I need to ask address tomorrow. What
do I do?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So what's the timeline Because like just for the average
person that never gets in the ring, we watch these
big fights and we watched the weigh in on like Friday,
and then we watched the fight on Saturday. So you
cut weight to make way in and then can you
immediately put weight back on before you get in the
ring or to get to maintain that weight?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Fights For most people to watch fighting, most fights are
usually on Saturday. Ok for example, Right, So weigh ins
are twenty four hours a day before on Friday, four hours,
so you'll cut weight Thursday night because you'll usually weigh
in around lunch time on Friday. Okay, right, So as
soon as you weigh in, you can start putting on
as much weight as you want. But the cap to
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that is if you're fighting for a world title, they
have weight requirements that you can't exceed. So it's usually
within like eight to twelve pounds, depending on whatever's in
the contract. So if you're fighting for a world title,
after you weigh in, there's gonna be a weight cap
that you can't replenish and rehydrate past a certain amount
of weight. Okay, that's for you for a world title.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But for you when you dropped twenty if you were
if you were world titling that day, you can't put
all twenty back on. You can put like eight to
ten more back on Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Usually it dictates whatever's in the contract. But if you're
not fighting for a world title, guys can cut. Usually
most guys walk around fifteen to thirty pounds over their
weight category of what they fight at. So throughout camp
and cutting weight before the fight, that's usually what they
cut down to just to make the weight. The average
person puts on about fifteen to twenty pounds before they fight.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I don't know you could drop that much that fast.
I know, wrestling, we were working with like two to
three pounds, like hey, put on a bunch of hoodies,
run around the track, spin like in high school too
super unhealthy.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Pa.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Game's changed now though, you know, ask you he just
got ranked as one of the he's the top one
wrestling his weight category. Not I even't talked to him
too much, but he's usually cutting probably like ten pounds
roughly to make weight. I think he fights like wrestlers
at one to seventy four, but he's usually walking around
I think around one ninety. You know, so the game
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has changed and evolved over the years.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know, dude, I was my freshman year because everybody
asked me like, hey, you know you always said, you
were small in high school? Like, what was it like?
I know that I was eighty nine pounds my freshman
year and I was five foot one.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
They go eighty nine pounds.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
They're like, how do you know, I said, because wrestling
was a fall sport. It was the first it was
the first sport of the of the year. I know
I was eighty nine pounds because I went to my
first wrestling class or uh not class. Yeah, it's class wrestling,
no practice, sorry, wrestling practice. Go to my first wrestling practice. Afterwards,
the coach is like, all right, every locker room stripped
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down your underwear, like we're gonna get on the scale
and like we're gonna put you whatever in your category.
So I get on and he goes, you're eighty nine pounds.
You have to gain five pounds for me to legally
let you on the team. I go what He's like,
you need to go gain weight. You can't be on
the team at eighty nine pounds. I had to gain
five pounds for them to even let me on the team.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Weight gainer, weight gainer meat.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And then when I got I think I was wrestling
one oh three's and I went to one twelves, which
I know weight classes have changed, but when I was
at one twelve, there was a couple of times I'd
have to drop players some weight where the players will
drop some weight to fit in the one twelves. But
I was eighty nine pounds my fres year.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Bro, I was tiny.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
That's my I'm five to one.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, I was your height, but I'm not any So
let's talk about the fight then. March eighth. We've been
to Thunder Valley that We've been to the venue at
Thunder Valley a million times for all.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Sorts of concert venue.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's a great venue.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'm trying to picture how they're going to bring the
world of boxing into that venue.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So the promoter, which is a very well recognized promoter,
has been promoting and Sacramento ever since I was a
little kid. He's been at it probably thirty plus years,
Naston Navaroni. He's the promoter that is working with Thunder
Valley to now do these fights at their venue. Okay,
so we had the very first fight about four months ago.
It was the co main event, pretty good turnout, very
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first one. It was around two thousand people. Now the
second time I'm back headlining the whole venue. I think
there's my fight plus eight or nine others, so there'll
be about nine or ten fights and the whole venue
is almost already completely sold out.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Nice and how did the layout work?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Which was gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
So if you guys have been there, you know, we
got the stage. You come out and there's normally all
the floor seating, so you still have the floor seating,
but you probably lose about maybe one hundred hundred to
two hundred seats in the very middle because they have
like another stage come off of the main stage that
brings you out the ring.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh yeah, so the stage I'm sorry, the ring isn't
on the stage, No, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
In the middle of the floor seats. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So you just lose a little bit of a seating
on the floor and the ring goes literally in the
middle of like where the stages just center right there
on the.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Like right before where the stairs are to go up
to like that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's a nice amazing I've never even been to that
venue where I've been out in the audience because every
time I've been there is other friends performing, you know,
comedian acts. I've always been backstage like when she watched out. Now,
all the Dougs in Harmony like people friends of mine
(26:18):
that I've met throughout the industry. So every time I've
been to that specific venue, I've always been backstage, but
I've seen pictures of people that have been out in
the venue. It's a beautiful venue, man, that's beautiful, and
it holds around four thousand people.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And before they built it, we were out in the
parking lot in the in the Remember I got all.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Those summer jams way back when Lizette and I were talking,
when Big Al used to work for iHeart Rest Peace.
I know, restling piece of big Al and uh Man.
I used to be backstage with big Al, hanging out
with One twelve and all the R and B groups.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Men.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It just it was a great time. But you know,
the transition from the parking lot now to this upscale
venue it.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Getting cooked down.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
No, dude, I would look like a lobster after being
out of the concerts.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That Scottish blood doesn't do us well in the summer.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Hey, why very well? Irish is not tan We do not.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I was going to ask you about I had it.
I don't want to interrupt you. It was we were talking.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
About the venue, venue and the layout.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
What's your walkout song?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's what?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Do you have a walkout.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Song for this song or for this fight? I do
usually always change it up this one. I want to
give any spoilers, just say every time I walk out,
because of my military background, I always have soldiers walking
me out carrying the American flag. Nice and I have
very upbeat, lively music that's going to get people interactive
with the song and with my insurance. Okay, get you know.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
What.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hey, you know one song I've always want to walk
out to and it might be funny, but it's the classic.
I'm gonna wait to get back on TV to do
it again. Ice Ice, Baby, Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That would be funny. That would be funny.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's only funny to you guys.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, how many times does somebody call you that? Growing up?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Vanilla Ice? Never oh.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Never write yeah, you're right, Blake, you're right. Me and
the piece it was funny.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I was a little kid.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Everybody used to always calling me eminem Bro because I
was always the skinny white kid wearing baggy clothes. But yeah, man,
my music is definitely something that gets the crowd interactive
with my entns and gets people out of the seat.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
That's one of the most important parts is the walkout song.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You gotta get him on your team. So, yeah, So
who you're fighting on March eighth? Do you know this dude?
Are you tracking his career? You watch him, film on.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Him, personally know him. I just know that he's out
of New York. I'll be in New York named Sean Miller.
I believe he's uh uh seventeen and six and one
seventeen wins, six lost, one draw. Okay, so he's got
a good record and there's a decent opponent. And outside
of that, I don't ever watch footage or tape on
none of my fight the people. I'm going to fight
(29:10):
any of my opponents and let my team do that.
I just kind of go through the game plan and
prepare my mind being ready for anything.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Have you ever been knocked out?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Never?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I was gonna ask if it was scary. Have you
ever knocked someone else out?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah? Multiple times?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Do you feel bad at all?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
No, that's that's the game. You know, you knocked.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Somebody out and they're just laying there. You're not. You're
not like they.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Get the knockout you know, it's like for me, I'm
in a professional sport and it's not like I'm just
going out here fighting people on the streets and I'm
going to cause a lot of bodily harm. But people
get hurt and killed in this industry all the time, man,
So it's like for me, that's why I trained really
hard so that the fights are easy. But whenever I
knock somebody out in the moment, I'm happy. But after
(29:55):
I know that I won, and.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
There they walk over and give them a little kicks, I.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Go, I don't give them the kiss, but and I'll
go on and check on. I want to make sure
they're okay and just show the right sportsmanship. You know,
at the end of the day, we're all out here
trying to push ourselves to be the best, and I
want to show that that respect, that sportsmanship, and the
most important thing is that we're both going home door
families at the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, if you if you can't answer this question honestly,
and you need to kind of toe some politically correct line,
I understand, But as a professional boxer, someone who really
does this for a living, you put in the work,
you get in the ring, how do you feel about
these Jake Paul might Tyson type?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Fight is good?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We don't even got to finish. Thank you, Jake Paul.
I was supposed to fight them as team's afraid to
fight me. I wish they would send me a friend,
because I would retire that cat from ever even showing
his face in a boxing ring. I would make that
cat a meme. I can't stand in these YouTubers. Stay
in the lane and leave this ship to the professionals.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Because these want to be a.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yes. Don't try to come out of YouTube because you
got a fan base, think that you're gonna come into it.
People like me in this industry are really trained killers.
We came from poverty, we came from having absolutely nothing.
We've come from the trenches. And you want to try
to go up against somebody that was born with the
silver spoon in their mouth, to go up against somebody
like me, I'm gonna chew you up and spit you out,
as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But you don't think he could also be doing all everything.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I don't care about none of that. That dude is
a fraudster. He's fake. He is not a real fighter.
All these YouTubers alike, they're not real fighters. You want
to be a real fighter, cool compete with other YouTubers.
You'll never try to call out another pro.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And what was frustrating to me is a lot of
these YouTubers that come out and call out these guys
to fight, They're calling out retired fighters that are far
surpast their prime. Look, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, that was
a gimmick. Anybody I saw it knew it was a gimmick.
It was a payday, you know what I mean. It
was a nationwide, worldwide robbery, and a lot of people
(31:54):
fed into it. But I never would.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's like the WWE version of whatever his definition of
boxing is. I feel it's scripted. I feel it's determined prior. Hey,
it's a good show. It's like Britney Spears lip syncing.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You gonna you're.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Gonna go to a Britney Spears concert. She's got a
lip sync, but she's gonna put on a good show.
So I think that's the Jake Paul fights. Hey, we're
gonna pretend this is boxing. We're just gonna give you
a good show.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
But it's fraud.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Man it's so fraud.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I can't stand it. Bro Nothing about me is a
fraud that you cannot pay me enough money to take
a fall for no, man, you know what I mean.
And for me, I just I don't respect it. You know.
And a lot of people are going through the conversations. Oh,
they're bringing a lot of newer eyes to boxing. Okay,
that's cool, But it's newer eyes that are being persuaded
in the wrong way, seeing not the correct boxing. They're
(32:41):
not real.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Fights, uneducated eyes.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
And it's usually young, good generation. Look at Jake Paul
is his fan base is a bunch of fourteen year olds. Yeah,
you know what I mean. They know nothing about life,
let alone boxing.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, your fan bases are adults.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Most of them.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
We're all grown. We're grown a bunch of kids. Hear that,
Jake Paul?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Hear that?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
So, uh, the beast, you're the You're the headliner for
the fight March eighth, the venue at Thunder Valley. We
know you have sponsors that take care of you. Do
you need to shout any of them out right now?
I want to make sure I give you an opportunity
to do so.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I appreciate it, man, you know my biggest sponsor. He's
a huge developer, very well respected in a Sacramento surrounding
area areas Beyonce untillet developers. Anybody's looking to get a
custom home build or get their dream home built, definitely
look into them. Let them build your custom home all right.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
People can follow you in your boxing journey where give
me the socials the website.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Can follow me on Instagram at Blake the Beast and
then on Facebook at Blake McKernan.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Say, okay, wait, how old is your son? How old
is tyson?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
My son just said, see fourteen? Yeah, okay, Hooper, man,
he's good, really good.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Is he going to stay with basketball or is gonna
get the ring.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
A little bit? So?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You know, I invest a lot of time and money
into his basketball right now. So for me, you know,
I'm trying to implement my son learning that you'll never
be able to capitalize anything in life without hard work.
So dude, you know, I go and pick up my
son after this interview we eat, I take him to
the basketball gym for four and a half five hours
a day.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
What you gotta dout that work though?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah and a half five hours a day and Monday
through Thursday. Take him to hardwood out in Rockland or Lincoln.
Friday nights he hoops with all the old guys over
at twenty four hour and then he has games every weekend,
Saturday and Sunday. So my spen seven days a week
and he loves it. You know, I'm pushing him. But
if he has certain days where he's like which it
doesn't really happen because he loves the game so much. Yeah, Dad,
(34:35):
you know, I'm really sorry. Okay, if you're not gonna
be here, you're gonna stay home, take a day off,
You're gonna be watching film. You're gonna be watching film
on college basketball, You're gonna be watching film on the NBA.
You have to transition yourself from knowing what you're seeing
and transition that into your game. So I'm just really
trying to implement to show my son, like, if you
want to make to the NBA, I'm gonna tell you
that it's impossible, but it's gonna be really hard. You
(34:56):
don't have to work for it, you know, So I
make sure that he works for it. Gym every day.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Your son is doing the same thing, but with online
video gaming. Yeah, he's putting eight hours a day.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
He wants to be a streamer, and I told him,
you know, I'm not going to say it's impossible, but
it's gonna be a lot of hard work of playing games,
playing video games and practicing. So he got really good
at fortnite.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, Fortnite.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
He loves roadblocks and and he has the the Quest,
the VR, the Oculus thing and so he'd be playing
like soccer on there and stuff. Oh he's getting real good.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Crazy too, man, how much technology is taken over society nowadays.
You know, there's different strokes for different folks. You know,
her son wants to get into streaming. I think a
lot of the younger generation is doing that. Me personally,
just from my son, because I know where his vision is.
I don't let him get on no technology Monday through Thursday.
None smart academics and sports. That's all you got time for.
(35:55):
No electronics.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
See, I wish I could.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I love that. I need Blake to be my dad.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Put the phone down, you raise my son?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Also, before I let you go, what is your favorite
give me like your favorite punch? You're gonna hit somebody?
What's the what you're talking? Your location what's the Is
it right? Is it left?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Like? Is it upper? Is it right?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
In the know? What's your favorite? One's always been really strong?
That is my left hook. It's left, really strong left
hook to the jaw, to the matter. Wherever your favorite one,
whe wherever, wherever it touches, it's gonna hurt. I face
your body. I've dropped so many people with my left hook,
it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I think you too, should spar my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
My last fight, I thought this big Columbian, he was
like six three, two hundred and thirty five pounds. It
was going into the fourth round, just into the fourth round,
I threw it like I throwaway punches, where you throw
away a punch and not really trying to land it
to set up a big shot. So I threw like
a right hand, came back to the hard left hook,
hit him center in the face. Brown, he buckled. It
(37:01):
was over. So I'm coming off the two back to
back fourth round knockouts. Man, We're gonna come up with
the third one this next fight.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Till we wish you all the best. So after this
fight March eighth, do you even know what your next
one is going to be?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Things lined up. I'm not going to give out no spoilers.
I'm working on some things right now. I'm working with NASA,
the promoter for this event, on getting some more televised
fights and doing some more fights, so you.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Know, stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
However, at a time, man. You know, once I get
through this fight, take a couple of days off, get
back in the gym, start working on whatever it is
you know meant to come up next.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, all right, it's gonna go crazy, all right, Blake
the Beast everybody, and if you don't have tickets, best
place to get tickets for the fight on March eighth.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
People can message me on Instagram at Blake the Beasts
or on Facebook at Blake mccernan to get discount of tickets.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Boom. All right.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
You can follow us on Instagram at Strawberry and Lazette.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I'm at Lazette lov l A C E T T
E l O v E. I didn't feel like spelling it.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Strawberry Very Radio. Thank you for podcasting with us. We'll
talk to you next time.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Peace.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Bye,
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