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EPISODE: Episode 1
Mike talks with Brian about his most recent victory and singing a promotional contract with Top Rank
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[, Music, ] foreign thanks for tuning initial episode of knuckle up here and my special guest is Dave, brought the Assassin Junior welcome Brian thanks for taking time to come out of wonderful Victory, uh yeah man and your uh, your recent signing with Top Rank and congratulations On that you’ve worked your ass off to get there uh yeah man, let’s uh.
Let’S, let’s talk about that phone call.
How did you hook up that’ll happen? Uh? Well, my my new management team um.
They are real uh right, so they are.
Those are already talking to you know for a while now and see, look at all the options.
Just because you know they got a close connection.
You know I mean we are on that route, but options and top right seems like the best episode yeah.
Congratulations.
You look like a great fit for it um.
So the last weekend man came in debuted with top rank.
Uh explain you know, let’s, let’s break down that fight man, you know like.
Was it 38 seconds in there and you dropped the guy yeah we’re expecting him to fall that fast uh, but the uh actually boxing move for for a while, but and it rain rust, the the I guess, the nerves or whatever.
I Just Came Out Swinging.
So um I’m still an immature child so that I wasn’t supposed to come out swinging as hard as I did on that right.
So you’re super excited: hey lots of ring Rush yeah.
How many months was it about 13 months or something like that or almost a year you were out of the ring.
When did you uh? When did you think that you shook the ring rust off wrote the third fourth round, you felt comfortable again uh.
Actually it was, I actually glad I was literally in the last round is when I I snapped back into you know I say comfortable again: I got back to um, you know I was cool for the most part I mean I got I got.
I got that comfortable right on so with that win you’ve now uh, you’ve known proved to uh your rank man, it’s 22nd out of 398 in the United States.
You really climb that uh ladder since, since the last time we had you on you’re now ranked 89th out of 2050 in the world.
So uh you know.
Definitely this is the year of Brian Norman you’re.
Definitely gon na make your name out there.
You’Re going to put it out there what’s up, what’s the plans for the year, how like how busy do you want to stay? How many fights you’re looking to get please there we go it’s back Emmy there we go yeah.
So what’s what’s the plan for 2023? Oh, as you said, the ring rust off and now now we can now now we can uh.
Now we can, just you know, go I’m going off my performance, I’m not going to just you know, jump to well, so I can’t really say nothing yet it’s my first fight back.
We got you, we can make it very big like what you said.
20 right.
22 – I didn’t even know that but yeah so, as you see, I’m coming from the ranks fast, so who knows yeah that might be you know, Mission with the belt conversation he’s.
Definitely definitely you’re right.
You know you’re just behind uh, Charles Hadley jihai Tucker um.
You know, and the man sitting at the top of the crowd with the crown is Terence Crawford, and so you know title contention eventually in the next uh I guess two years is uh is is what the plan is, but uh honestly what the I was.
How was the camp? How was the camp going into this fight? How long did you go uh because you’re always in the gym anyway, man you’re you’re, like uh, yeah, you’re, you’re, a gym rat right, so we said this time we was going to be persistent on it.
Yeah no girl, but yeah Monday came.
I was already seen it, you know what be cool just don’t go to gym today, Tuesday came, I didn’t go to the gym Wednesday ready so apparently can’t feel it was good.
You know so um, it’s not really necessarily training camp because we always in the gym.
Anyway, uh perfect good right, so you uh, you have a new management team right, uh who’s who who’s uh your current manager.
At the moment, uh the uh companies called Fighters.
First, okay and uh.
It’S Jolene Jolene mizone right is the one.
That’S uh, representing you, your agent yeah all right on so uh.
How did how did that uh? How did that relationship come about just uh through connections um? No, actually they uh Adrian Clark Down to Georgia um.
You know, because you know he heard about me that I wasn’t fighting like last year.
You know I took the whole year off.
I think it was like a middle of summer, so you’ve seen I wasn’t seeing you know just talking see we see what’s going on and then um he got us through it and then now we were top right.
Everything we met with Jolene, you know they.
They both teammates, so everything is wonderful.
Now, definitely so lots, so lots of Television exposure is what I’m expecting for you this year, man really finding.
Finally, these guys are going to get to put the face to the name.
They’Ve been hearing about throughout the welterweight division.
Yeah, I was kind of nip I’m some kind of uh spoken Legend and Jason with it.
Yeah you’re like it goes, people hear the name, but they don’t know the face yet, but uh, it’s definitely gon na happen.
You know I’ve been pushing you since, since I saw you that one video about that I had to reach out and and then yeah, we started that relationship but yeah man.
Definitely I can’t wait to see 2023.
It’S gon na be a big year for you.
I know you’re gon na put your mark on that welterweight division already climbing the ranks so quick man, so there’s gon na be some big fights in your future for sure as long as these guys can handle the smoke right because because we know because we know You bring the smoke brother, we know you bring the smoke um.
So how were the nerves? How were the nerves walking out to that man top rank? You know debut? How did you settle them? Yeah that that’s why I said it’s a comfortable and cool because coming now um um going on because once again in this top ranked ESP yeah matter of fact, the fact that I’m just that people don’t know about uh for real for real.
So you got that uh.
My people come 13 months off it.
It’S a whole bunch of I have to perform to the best of my abilities, literally perfecting.
So that’s where I came out so strong is because I didn’t know how to jump on the guy.
So right right, the lesson learned so today, excellent so um.
What was uh did you have to lose any like? Did you have to cut mad weight to get in or were you like pretty much sitting around? Your fighting weight now include um the whole week of the fight had just lose one pound.
That’S it so yeah [ Laughter, ], that’s awesome! That’S awesome! So um, what’s um like what are you looking to so this year? Uh? How often you like? How often do you want to fight like four or five six times you want to keep it busy, because of course I want to fight um.
I say a good enough four times four times this year, so I already got one down so I said and uh we set to go right on right on so um during the fight um.
What was what was the moment where you knew you knew that uh, you know you you had this in the bag um, you got it so, the first first round as soon as I came out, even though I came out too strong and all that kind of Stuff when I said, even though he survived when I sat down and I started looking at the situation or whatever and like looking at your skills, I got this so instead of trying to you know just straight: keep trying to run just keep the job about this Sticker move just just keep it, keep it puppy, keep it going.
I can do that right, so um, the first round.
That’S when I’ve seen everything I needed to see right on honestly.
It was a great uh, great experience.
Man only the fourth time you’ve been brought.
The distance in your career, correct, yes, yes, um! So so out of the four out of the four times you’ve been brought the distance, which has been the roughest this one um.
Yes, just because the 13 months, you know all the nerves I was dealing with.
So this was definitely the hardest one right on Yo, the 13 months.
You’Re you’re just avoided is that is that what it is you’ve been avoided for so long people don’t want to take? No, they didn’t want no smoke from you right at this time.
I can’t say it was that this time it was, you know, other background situation so uh.
That was that’s what I had to take the whole year off right off right on so you’re feeling good.
What uh? What’S the first thing you did after you got home after the victory, I did like.
Oh guys, it just froze up there.
A little bit we’ll see hold on maybe come up there.
We go it’s back, it’s back, oh yeah.
The first thing I did when I got back was: I went for a 10 mile run um.
I didn’t ask enough so so.
You’Re celebrating your celebration was to go for a 10 mile run.
I did to me so yeah.
You see how I dropped them.
Uh yeah real bad plenty of time, so I I couldn’t finish them so right right.
It was like he was.
He was super tough, but it wasn’t like.
I couldn’t stop him.
So to me it wasn’t really nothing to celebrate that much right, so yeah.
So you’re back in the gym, you’re, like you, know what no next time it’s got to be a finish.
That’S the way it is so yo you’re hard on yourself, eh you’re hard on yourself.
You expect a lot out of yourself.
That’S what it is.
If you get satisfied you get complacent is, is you see the awesome and if you, when you get satisfied, you start trying to maintain.
You can never maintain so um at that point.
So what’s uh, so what’s the the the goal to like conquer conquer the U.
S and then go International or just take it as it comes um I used to want to go Undisputed with uh with the whole bunch of stationery and stuff, like that, so yeah, I’m Gon na just make money yeah I beat the other the Champions, but I won’t take that belt.
So I just vacated – I guess you’ll, say Hey.
You know right on yeah a lot of people.
A lot of people.
Don’T understand man, those those sanctioning bodies; they they want that cake right and uh.
Then it can get.
It can get pricey if you’re fighting for the Undisputed right you got to pay for for saying she need bodies.
What is it three percent of the purse up upwards of 300 Grand? Like that’s big money, man, a lot of people don’t know this, so I I see the new gears sporting uh wolves den uh tell us all about it.
Um, it’s a brand that I came up with um my favorite animals, the wolf I like I like the whole, you never see them in Circus; they can’t they can’t be tamed, so all right, um or whatever.
So you know uh also.
I love wearing my own stuff also, so it’s just a different feeling.
You know it made me feel like a Savage you know, so I came up with them and once again made me feel like it says.
Every time I wear, I work out here even harder.
Now, just because you know I moved and I got ta show out right.
I love it.
I love it.
Um yeah man, so this year is gon na be a huge year.
Um four or five fights that’ll be great to see under your belt uh title title contention, maybe by the end of the year you think so who? Who who right now, would you want to fight in the division um? Like I said, I just got back from 13 months off um.
I don’t think it’s one of my best performances, so um.
I just want to keep going to keep going the route with me to go and we’ll see.
What’S next right on yeah I mean you’re gon na you still got a long time left in this game, but man you’re only 22 rocking a 23-0 record.
Like that’s huge, you know, there’s not too many people that can say that they’ve, you know stepped in the ring with 23 men and then come up with Victor that many times honestly uh you, you are a blue chip Prospect is what they call them bro and I think this year this year moving into Contender for sure because uh you know you definitely definitely, after even after a year man, you still you still look good in the ring.
You still, you know, you’re still able to get in there and get the job done.
Honestly, I was screaming when you knocked him down, because I was like oh there there’s that knockout of the week award coming yeah.
I was supposed to finish them, but I’m supposed to finish them.
It’S already sorry.
He came through with the w and that’s all that matters man.
To be honest.
So as long as that happens, we’re good we’re good, the next one, the next one you can win The Knockout of the week Award right.
Yeah, that’s awesome! So what’s um, so you back back in the gym right away.
No, no taking breaks off nothing like that! Eh um! That’S a two or three days! I mean I think, that’s enough! That’S good! That’S good! So that’s good! At least at least, you had somewhat of a break man, so so now it’s just you’re gon na stay in the gym, stay consistent right now to the next fight.
Do you even know uh when you’re looking for your next uh next fight when it’s gon na be messages yet but um? My guess would be like around April and May good time to get back.
Okay, yeah like right now watching the fight a lot to see all the small stuff.
I need to work on so now, I’m back in the mirror.
Pretty much everything gets perfect.
I feel like, if you take our professions of what you did, so you know, what’s up, what’s one thing that you uh, that you noticed in the uh in the fight now that you’ve gone back and watched tape that you that you’re gon na work on um Two main things they’re too straight so like even if um I I wan na snap, a punch.
I can’t do it because my legs are not red, so just simply billionaires.
I was so square like that was.
I was wide.
I didn’t.
I didn’t like that.
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My position wasn’t in the right place right on so what so? So? What would be some of the tech like what would be some of the drills to help you help you work on that for, like you know, people that are maybe having the same trouble with uh with some kind of tricks you can.
You can do to kind of you know loosen that up, I’m at right now, and it’s saying I know what my my feet supposed to be.
It’S just that I for me, like I said I’m in the mirror, I’m Shadow Boxing.
So now I can actually look at what’s going on in this Edition.
I can look at it but like um, let’s say you’re a beginner or whatever and get you some tape right here.
I have one foot in your front: foot on one side, the back from the other side and just sit it’s back and forth step step.
You do the same thing with the tape um like a triangle right, so yeah a lot.
A lot of people don’t understand how important the Shadow Boxing is to the to the game right.
It really shows a lot, really shows you, where you’re at um, what uh, what uh did you do a lot of sparring before this match before before you got in the ring? Oh I’m NADA, but we but we’d go up to 50 film uh boots um drawing any stuff.
Oh yeah.
How was that yeah? It was.
It was real good work, but that that’s what that’s? What we’re going to over emphasize getting to get a lot of rounds, then um ring against someone who want to kill me so right on right on.
Well, you know Brian, you know it is Saturday man, I’m not going to keep you too much longer brother um.
Definitely thanks for coming out man thanks for jumping on the show, always a pleasure to speak to you.
I can’t wait to watch you climb.
These ranks.
Man, like I said you’re now ranked 22nd out of 398.
.
This is according to BoxRec in the United States, and you are ranked 89th out of 2050 in the world right now.
So this is the year of Brian Norman Junior man.
2023 people are gon na know the name they’re gon na be cheering you on.
Just like I’ve, been cheering you on and telling all these people for time.
You’Re the man bro you’re the man at 147, and I can’t wait.
I can’t wait to see you.
I can’t wait to see that big belt that you deserve it’s gon na, be on your way soon enough.
You know that for sure, but uh.
Definitely thanks for coming over man I’ll be in touch.
You know I’ll be watching.
Let me know when the next fights happen: it’ll definitely be tuning in and uh yeah man we’ll get you on again.
Definitely before or after the next fight we can do both we can do both Excellence sounds good to me.
Bro sounds good to me.
So, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for tuning in to this special episode of Knuckle Up with Mike Orr and my special guest today, Brian the Assassin to Norman Junior straight off his victory and being signed to top rank yo.
Congratulations again, man! You deserve everything that you [, __, ], that you’ve worked for.
Man.
You’Ve worked your ass off to get there and I can’t wait to see that knockout of the week where it comes to your way.
I don’t care I’m gon na fight.
That’S on the train.
As hard as I care getting there all right, all right, all right sounds good.
Brother sounds good.
Well, talking fight fans thanks for tuning in to this episode, man, you know what it is.
We’Ll see you next time, it’s your man, Mike Sanyo, knuckle up and fighting solves everything.
You know what it is: peace,
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