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Mike and Cedric interview Deseree Jamison a Pro Boxer out of Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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[, Music ]: what up talking fight fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up female friday special edition? We have desiree jameson in the house with us today.
Folks, you remember, we profiled a couple weeks ago on female friday at four o’clock, and we have her today with us, live for an interview.
So i have to say desiree thank you for taking some time out to come and join me here and chomp it up and have a chat about you and your career you’re welcome.
You’Re, welcome, you’re! Welcome you guys! Let me introduce myself.
I am desiree hollywood.
The champ jameson queen of the ring atlanta zone number one champ baby.
I love it.
I love.
I love your charisma honestly, every time i watch you in that ring, you know you mean business and uh.
You definitely know how to please the fans, man.
You know how to you know how to get it hyped up and ready.
I honestly i love it.
I’M loving it that you’re here so we’re just going to jump right into it.
How did you start boxing? What age? What were the motivations? Well, i wanted to start boxing when i was young, but my grandfather was like it’s not for girls.
It’S not what girls do.
Um you’re gon na do here and you’re gon na do makeup, so i actually got into boxing underground, like in the clubs um.
I started at club crucial in atlanta, okay and, like i was named queen of the ring.
I ended up, um actually wanting to go pro and the coaches were telling me.
No don’t go pro um you need some amateur experience.
So went got me some amateur experience.
I heard you talk about my amateur record, which is like it was awesome.
It was off, it was off.
Okay, correction correction.
Let us know what the amateur record is.
I am a five-time golden globe champion.
I am a sugar bird champion.
I was ranked number three at 152, my first time trying out for team usa.
I was ranked number um two at 1 41 and i won the eastern olympic qualifiers um.
I fought from 165 to 132 um.
I am a beautiful brawlers champion so yeah.
I have you know what honestly, when i was profiling you it was.
It was hard to find some stuff on you, but now that i have you in here and you’re answering these questions.
Wow, you have a lot of uh a great achievements as an amateur.
How long did you actually compete in the amateurs um? I competed in the amateurs from like 2015 to 2019.
I think yeah, okay, so with all that what was what was the motivation to turn pro just uh, you love it.
I just knew i had it.
You know like i just i really knew i had like my first amateur fight.
I went to that fight by myself, no coach in my corner, one um and i just been watching the competition and i’ve been working with a lot of veterans and a lot of world champions, and i’m like i might as well.
You know go ahead and get this out the way i tried out for um the olympics.
They took my weight class out um after i won.
I had to like drop to like 132 in like a week um, so i lost my dreams on going to the olympics.
So i’m, like my girl, turned pro and get this money, i’m an entertainer and i’m what the people want to see.
Yeah.
Definitely definitely i want to see more of you.
I know you’re in camp right now, uh.
What’S what’s what’s that like run us a day through your camp? Let’S hear it so i’m at um, i’m in new york at gleason’s boxing gym um, something i can definitely mark off my bucket list and the ladies.
There are like phenomenal.
I got to work with heather hardy and um ronnie, so i’ve been sparring with them.
Um they’ve been giving me the business.
You know um teaching me at the same time and listen they say if you can make it in new york baby, you can make it anywhere.
So i didn’t check it off my list: excellent excellent yeah.
What the what what was it like spartan with heather hardy? Oh my gosh, like that’s, going to be a huge experience right.
Man like she looks she’s, tough and she’s slick, and she talks to you in the ring like like.
If you hit her with something good she’s like yeah, come on, come on, give me more and she wants you to come in.
You come in you’re gon na get caught with something, but like she’s slick, she’s, nice um, very down to earth um.
I love the irish strongheart spirited like yeah.
That’S that’s great.
I love it uh when when is your next flight coming up? Do you have one? Do you have a next? Do you have a fight scheduled yet um? I supposed to fight we’re, hopefully we’ll fight next month, maybe on the 17th um and then hopefully in october, so i’m trying to stay busy.
You know i want those.
I want to hurry up and hit number one, because i want to hit three divisions: oh wow, that’s wow! Okay, you want to hit three divisions.
So what’s what’s the short term goal? Where do you see yourself in say six months to a year from now number one [ Laughter ]? I love that confidence man, i mean it’s only three people ahead of me.
Summerlin knows that i want her okay, layla mccarter.
I see her at the gym.
All the time i asked for her, i already sparred jessica, mccaskill, okay she’s, the one with all the belts i mean, so i just want that work.
You know give me give me what’s mine, i love it.
So yeah give you what’s yours.
Of course, you go for them um what uh? What what are some, who are some of your like influence to get in the ring and – and you know, turn pro well um my grandfather, trained camacho and camacho junior yeah, wow yeah, one of my favorites one of my favorites.
To be honest, he um actually um.
Well, he has a lot.
He he trained pedro said.
I think it’s syed or saiz um.
He worked with murky sosa um.
He worked with a lot of guys and then i learned today from the owner of gleason jim that he was one of the originals that helped open up the gym, um so yeah.
So you definitely got some boxing history in the family, so yeah yeah.
That’S why you were bit at such a young age to get in there.
Do you remember you remember the first time that you like put on that pair of gloves and got that that smell? You know that that boxer glove smell yeah and how it made you feel.
Do you remember that feeling yeah yeah there was that such a young, your grandfather? Was it your grandfather that made you excited? No, so it was well after hey you’re regretting listen.
I told you i went to my first amateur fight on my own okay, i i had an experience.
While i was telling i’m like i’m ready, i’m ready, i’m ready and he’s always say like dizzy if you’re in condition you’re running out the ring and i’m like i’m thinking of myself, i’m in condition.
You know i got this so i came for a fight.
I’M telling him i’m ready.
I got my book and everything and he’s like you’re, not ready, i’m like i’m going to this fight.
So i went to the fight.
He wasn’t.
You know he wasn’t.
He was more into the males still, but now i mean i get the respect that i deserve definitely definitely uh with with the rise of female boxing right now like um.
Where do you think what do you think female unboxing needs to really really solidify itself in the game? Right now, i always say this: sex and skills sales, it’s gon na sell tickets and it’s gon na bring different crowds along right.
It’S cool to see we women fighting and you know us showing our masculinity, but we got to show our masculine and our femininity at the same time and show some type of sex appeal to go with that skill to keep the people watching because we’re entertainers.
That’S what we are: that’s right, yeah, yeah, yeah, honestly, the great answer.
I love that that was great uh.
What what do you think it is that separates you? What do you have that separates you from everybody else that you get in that ring with i’m hollywood baby.
Look at me, i’m hollywood, who who who’s spitting like this and looks like this.
That looks in the that’s in the boxing game right now.
You have a lot of females that talk that talk yeah, but they ain’t got that look and they talk that talking.
Who can walk that walk and i’m all with it, yeah and and who can twerk like that right, listen and who could twerk right? Who could really get the crowd going and you definitely definitely what the twerk you dropped it after that win what uh? What what why? Let’S hear the? Why so i used to do underground boxing a lot right so like it used to be.
I just posted a pinned, um story on my page, where it was actually young thug’s birthday.
I had little baby in the ring, like all the celebrities and stuff in the ring, so like it’s like a real club atmosphere.
So that’s where i came from and like with the music going all the time it’s a celebration, so you might as well go ahead and show your move about it.
That’S right! I love it.
I love it man, you got such great energy uh dream fight today.
If you can find anybody who to be just with mccaskill nice nice, you want those eh.
I want no bills.
You got ta, ask my dad you’re just right there you’re right there.
You are uh for any of the people out there.
That don’t know who you are um out of your last all of your last fights so which which one best describes you as the fighter.
My last fight, i i really came in as an underdog.
That fight was like a week’s notice um and when i heard the commentators talking after i got to look at the fight, i’m like, oh, they really don’t know who i, oh am don’t know jameson’s really about to come out here.
Serving up these shots right came out there tyson style.
I feel, like 21 punches in 10 seconds to her 10 punches yeah.
Her head got bust open in the first 30 seconds of the fight.
Her back was on the ropes the whole fight.
My back never touched the ropes um.
I threw so many uppercuts that i didn’t even know.
I could throw that many uppercut the arms got tired eh, i’m like is she i’m like they’re, not going to stop this fight as well beat her? That’S awesome, that’s awesome! So your style, your style.
What who would you say you molded it after or is it yours personally my style, i’m more of like a tyson um.
I want to be like a camacho, but he moves very fast, but for my weight class i feel like i can let off them hooks real, quick, like camacho and come back counter counter to counter you know and really fight in the inside um as he did And off of the ropes um a haggler, you know um yeah, like i’m a real.
I can really stand in that box with you.
You know yeah and get down.
Are you going to do it? If you want me to, and i can go on backwards, you’re! All you’re, rounded, then you’re you’re, well-rounded, but see i like.
I like i, like your style uh, i’m i like that brawling mike tyson get in there get get down, get dirty trying to take you out.
I like that style, and i think that some of the women divisions are lacking, that kind of style of fighter and it’s nice to see a fresh face coming out here and doing that because you know what it makes for exciting fights and you’re.
Definitely an exciting person to watch in that ring.
I can’t wait to see you uh.
You know shine and definitely put those belts around your waist from mccaskill.
I can’t wait to see that one um any any plans go international.
I don’t know um.
I actually wanted to go over to london and watch the girls fight.
You know i have got some interviews.
Um, maybe called out some people over there, but i don’t know whatever my manager want to do we’re going to move with what she wants to do.
She’S, making the best moves for me and that’s excellent, who is managing you right now, should give her a shout out: therefina, hey seraphina, that’s awesome! So she’s been with you since the beginning, i guess um well, no, we actually just met um.
Well, we didn’t just me, i kind of manifested it.
You know, okay, sit back and i watched and i think, she’s a great asset to the team.
You know she has like impressed me with her work, so she’s a great asset and i’m rolling with her right now.
It’S you know your team.
You got the team and it’s working, so you know what, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it right right, um.
What uh, what what do you think? The biggest lesson is that you’ve learned in boxing and how has learning that lesson? Helped you improve in the ring um? Well, what i’ve learned is discipline and to control your emotions like that.
Help me in the ring and outside the ring um, because we all know like a lot of boxers and a lot of people go through mental health.
You know um and having an outlet to let go of that anger and to help you control that anger or those feelings or those emotions it helps like so that boxing has taught me that to control my emotions, that’s just that’s great, that’s great uh! What what do you think the biggest obstacle is that you’ve faced so far, not only as a fighter but as a woman fighter getting people to respect you, you know um and to take you serious and to sometimes women fighters are better than male fighters, and we Have to prove that you know we fight harder like like we’re real warriors and we put on a show like we come when we come to fight.
We come to fight we’re, not walking around no ring we in there going toe to toe.
So i just feel like us having to prove that to the community and to men.
That’S one of the biggest obstacles.
You know what it is.
It is a pretty big obstacle, but i can honestly say with watching all the women fights in the last.
You know couple of years, you know they aren’t, you guys are bringing it more than the men.
Honestly, i can say it like i’ve seen women in there doing battle to the point where you know you know the towel would have got thrown in long time ago.
From you know, a male fight, it would have happened.
Uh prime example, shannon courtney ebony bridges that swole and i i think that really made a statement for women’s boxing to show that you guys are here and you’re, not you’re, not taking.
No, no, no we’re here to say we’re here to say, like listen, there’s another generation, that’s about to come along off of team usa um.
We just had the olympic class graduate and you know some of them turned pro, but it’s a lot of other females.
That’S kind of like me, you know that’s coming out the amateurs i was doing their hair and makeup and stuff in the emergency room they’re coming along.
That’S so the new generate.
What what advice would you give to them right now? Stay busy stay busy stay committed.
Never give up on your dreams and goals, keep your confidence high, never let nobody break it and you do the [ __ ], no matter what all right.
We have a question that came in from one of the viewers.
That’S watching right now who would you fight right now on eddie, hearn’s roster? Would i fight one of eddie hearns, boxers yeah, oh yeah? Who who would you want to fight i’ll fight, casey, taylor um? Who else does he have as a female? Does he have um? He doesn’t have amanda um right now.
All i know about is katie really or does he have sarah french uh? I think so.
I think he does um anybody.
Anybody can get it.
I got the heart i got.
I got.
I got a real big heart.
I may be five foot, but i got a big heart: baby, yeah, five foot and packs a big punch.
Definitely good things come in small packages and you keep proving that every time you get in the ring definitely look.
Definitely especially that last site.
Oh yeah.
Definitely you know what we’re gon na get.
I’M gon na get my producer to post a link directly to that fight in the comments, so that uh these viewers out here watching you just click and play just so they don’t even have to look for you uh.
So i know you know training’s hard.
We all know it.
It’S.
You know long days when you’re, when you’re in camp, is there one thing about training that you absolutely hate um? No, you just love it all.
I mean if you don’t love it.
Why are you doing it? I love it.
I can’t say i don’t love it like.
I love the bad days.
I love the good days and it’s really no bad days.
It’S just learning days.
You know, so i love it all, because i’m learning every minute right.
What um excuse me um nutrition? Do you dieting plan? How do you find that? Is it? Is it rough for you to to make weight or oh no, it’s your own.
I had no problem right yeah.
I have no problem cutting weight at all um there.
My manager actually wants me to go lower because um she feels like i can take over 140 135 um because i’m 147.
, you know i walk around at 150.
, okay, okay, like literally so you know um.
I just try and stay away from the carbs, but i love starch um, a lot of greens salmon water, pineapples yeah.
That’S a good hey! It sounds all delicious to me.
Huh that sounds good yeah yeah! I don’t have to eat like blame food or nothing like that.
That’S good! That’S good! So um with uh, with the fights coming up your next fight coming up, um! What’S up! What’S like, say the long term goal here.
I know you said within six months to a year number one.
What’S the long term say five years from now, where you at i want three divisions, give me 147, 140 and 135.
I want it all.
That’S what i want.
That’S what i want.
That’S what i’m going to get um, i will be the face of female boxing.
I will be the new version of mike tyson mixed with a little bit of terence crawford sean porter like i am a dog and i’m here to stay in five years.
From now.
The whole world will know my name and it’s going to be young girls who want to be like me.
Definitely honestly, you’re you’re definitely going to be wearing championship gold.
That’S for sure.
I can see it already just watching just watching you in the ring for the little time that i’ve stumbled onto your career, to be honest, yeah, i could see it.
I can see gold in your future.
It’S coming uh with with all the uh sorry, my phone’s ringing.
In the background there i don’t know who the hell’s calling but uh with with all the boxing going on.
What’S up end goal like when you’re ready to hang it up and uh, you know walk away from the sport.
What’S uh, what do you want to be remembered for? I couldn’t really hear you, i’m sorry, sorry, when you’re ready to walk away from the sport and hang up the gloves.
What do you want to be remembered for um? What do i want to be remembered for entertaining the people twerking, of course, but actually putting females down? You know, quick like i want to be known for knockouts like um.
I want to be known for my personality for helping the younger generation.
You know i have a plan to open my own gym on my reservation and help my young apaches grow and be the fighters that they were born to be.
I love it.
I love it.
It’S such great heart.
You definitely have a big heart.
I can’t wait to see you back in the ring.
I’M going to ask you one more question here: it is love or feared.
What do you want to be by your opponents and the people? Love our fear say it one more time you want to be loved or do you want to be feared? Do i want to be loved, or do i want to be feared both really i mean in this game.
They’Re gon na love me and the females are gon na fear me when they, when they get in the ring with me.
You know like they’re, going to fear me like we’re in the game of boxing, and i came in the ring to do a job so and i’m going to handle that job and the crowd’s going to love me because they’re going to want to see their entertainment.
I already love it honestly.
I love your energy.
I think you’re going to do great.
I can’t wait to see you back in the ring.
I want to thank you very much for coming out and joining me today.
Um definitely want to have you back in the future as you progress uh, you know maybe leading up to your next fight, we’ll definitely get you on and uh.
You know we’ll chop it up again because, honestly, i love talking to you.
I love having you in here.
You got great energy and uh yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you to all the taco fight fans, thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up female friday with hollywood, the champ desiree jameson, you know what it is.
I love it.
Man uh just stick around uh when we sign off so i can.
You know talk to you afterwards, fellow talking fight fans, thanks for tuning in to today’s episode.
You know what it is man we’ll see you next week, four o’clock on this channel new prospect knuckle up.
Yeah, baby
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