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EPISODE: Episode 12
Mike and Cedric discuss rising boxing star Andrei Mikhailovich has fit plenty into his 24 years on earth and he’s channeling all of it into being a world champion.
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What up talking fight fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up at four with mike or i’m a man, cedric ben, in the den doing, what we do best and that’s bringing you the hottest youngest undefeated prospects from around the world.
For you to watch, and we have a new one for you today, guys out of new zealand, andre mikhailovich.
Let’S talk about this kid.
He is 24 years old, with a professional record right now of 17 wins, with no losses and 10 kos he’s 24 5 11 and a half with a 74 and a half inch reach he’s ranked one out of three in the middleweight division in new zealand and He’S ranked 86 out of 1453 in the world, he has just signed a promotional deal along with stablemate jerome pampalone, who will be talking about tomorrow, uh he is signed with uh dean, robert longren uh from mnzm, who is a former professional rugby footballer and uh.
Current events promoter, he is the promoter of jeff, the hornet horn, who won the wbo welter uh world championship against manny pacquiao back in 2017, and he was one of the co-promoters for the david tua versus shane cameron.
Uh fight, so they’ve, been uh.
They’Ve been picked up here, man by uh, by a pretty good promotional company out of new zealand uh.
He is training at peach boxing under under isaac peach who uh we do know to be uh the coach of none other than miyamoto uh, our female champ.
Here that we have, on the show many many times uh, this kid’s got a great story uh before we get really into it.
Uh cedric.
You want to touch on uh on a bit of the way, uh that this man boxes and and the good things that you see about him.
Yeah man, these um, traditional boxer, orthodox stance, um, he doesn’t.
He um.
You know he’s that we like to call a textbook boxer.
He doesn’t really do anything flashy um, but he does.
He does most things uh, good and properly.
You know good job um he’s one of the part of this uh uh um.
I was gon na say he.
I see him do the the mayweather defense with the with the hand down um, and i always say it’s gon na – be interesting to see it’s easy to to do that at the at the lower at the lower ranks.
But it’s gon na be interesting to see to be able to maintain that as your competition um increases, but for the most part he does look good um, obviously he’s undefeated right now, 12 knockouts.
So he has a good power to his punches, he’s good power to his punches and um yeah man and a good educated job, which i’d definitely like to see so yeah.
It’S gon na be interesting to follow his career yeah.
Definitely – and you know, life wasn’t easy for this fighter early on, but he’s defied the odds to become a fully qualified engineer, as well as a national champion in just two years uh.
The rough start was made a little bit easier back in 1999, when he and his twin brother nicola were adopted from a russian orphanage where they were just 18 months old.
His dad is an intensive care paramedic who has worked with the westpac rescue helicopter for decades and while he saved countless lives, mikulovich said no words can describe how thankful he is for the two he rescued 21 years ago.
Um this kid man at the age of 11 was already battling substance, abuse, man, uh drinking and drugs, which yeah at such a young age and uh he’s overcome that and uh you know, ended up with uh with a great career in boxing right now.
Uh boxing found him saved him.
It’S it’s the thing that uh, you know drives the force that keeps on going and honestly, i’m super excited to hear that this kid has now been picked up by a promoter.
That’S going to be able to push him internationally.
He only has fought in new zealand, so it’s the only time we’ll see before we get to see him on that international stage and definitely he’s going to be a kid to watch out for man uh.
He definitely has power in his hand, man, the russian hammer his right hand that right hand from hell, uh, which you know a lot of people mention um guys, you might remember um.
He built an impressive 16-0 record uh, but despite the local success uh, he had his big moment in the limelight just last june on the justice heaney and paul gallon undercard when he settled his rivalry with ozzy alex hannon via a devastating ko uh clip of the Fight has has more than 20 million views on the main event main event, which one that was who again him against him against alex alex hannah uh, the author, okay, yeah, so um this.
This knockout man was so devastating that you know on it.
On the main event, facebook page, it’s got over 20 million views.
Man uh the entire lead up to the fight had been wild uh from the bitter press conference where hannan pointing the gun, the finger gun.
Bro pointed it at him.
During the weigh-in man, i’m gon na get you i’m gon na get you you wan na, see a stomach punch before the fight had ended and begun.
So you know it was uh.
It was a big rivalry.
Man it was.
It was very public and uh.
You know what it shifted him into the next level: man where uh, you know, 20 million views.
That’S a lot.
Man there’s a lot of people to see that devastating knockout and guys, if you haven’t seen it we’re going to try and drop it for you in the comments, so you don’t have to go far to find it.
I know cedric’s watching it right now.
Oh yeah, i’m cece watching it right now, wow.
I know you’re watching it as we speak man.
Yes, yes, yes, he caught him.
He caught him with a check hook that stunned them and then uh just caught him with like two or three punches and uh.
He kind of his opponent, hannan dropped and then stood up and the referee came and called it off and you can see you can see.
Uh andre and his face just spoken.
Yelling we got ta get.
We got ta get him on the show to talk about that, because oh that was really sweet.
If anybody out there listening right now, if you, if you’re in contact with uh andre mr michael michelovich, mikhailovich mikhailovich um, can you please let him know we’re looking for him? We need him on the show.
We need to know about this specific fight with alexander about his career, just in general yeah, but uh.
We need to know, i always love it.
It’S always a good fight.
It doesn’t have to be a title on on the line for it to be a good fight.
It’S a good fight if the two guys, just generally don’t like each other yeah man, yeah man, it makes for some added performance there, usually when they don’t like each other man.
It’S one thing to go in against an opponent that you know you know you you’ve sparred within the past and everything, but it’s different when you step in there and you do have a hatred for this guy and you’re willing to uh get in there and really Bang, bang it out man and uh definitely uh that fight that fight man, 20 million views.
It goes to show that uh, you know he’s very exciting in that ring.
Definitely definitely a great boxer uh.
You know definitely lots ahead of this kid man and he’s overcome.
So much already, you know what i mean to be.
You know drinking and doing drugs at the age of 11 and to overcome that substance abuse to turn your life around to now at 24 years old.
You know be on this world stage for boxing and and be on.
Your way to you know, become international, definitely uh home soil man.
The kids got it 17-0.
Can’T wait.
Man can’t wait to see this kid in action soon.
Uh his last fight he’s fought.
King davidson and that’s coming off a tko in the first round, um that one was back uh, just just uh april 13th, so this was only a little while ago, uh six days ago, he just got picked up by his new promoter, along with his stablemate jerome Pampaloni who we’re going to talk about tomorrow so guys you know what it is man you’re going to join me tomorrow same time same channel new prospect already give you a preview of who it is.
I did preview pampaloni uh last year, sometime uh, it’s back in the archives, we’re going to give you an update on what he’s doing who he signed with when his next fight’s coming up, but for today guys look out for andrea mikolovich uh, also known as the Renegade so be on the lookout for the renegade with his russian hammer, his hands from hell be on the lookout for this cam man, we’ll let you know what he’s getting in the ring again soon until then man, it’s your man mike or at four and man, Cedric ben in the den bringing you the young, hottest undefeated undiscovered prospects from around the world and the only channel out here doing it for you, so that you guys have somebody to watch for the future unboxing man.
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