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EPISODE: Episode 1
Welcome to Knuckle Up with Mike Orr! This week we have the pleasure of speaking with professional female boxer and Tampa, Florida native Jasmine Artiga! At just 5’4″, this bantamweight has had a remarkable career in the ring since she started boxing at age 21. With an undefeated record of 9-0-1 (5KO) as of December of 2022, Artiga has won the National Golden Gloves, Florida State Golden Gloves, and the Florida State PAL, and continues to train in Tampa with her father and brother in her corner. Join us to learn more about Artiga’s incredible story, her success, and her future goals in the world of professional female boxing!
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Foreign [ Music ] thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up, it is female Friday and I have a special one for you today we have a Live guest in the green room, waiting guys and who am I bringing today is Jasmine, the animal artiga.
I profiled her back a little while ago with Cedric.
This super flyweight is ranked three out of 12 in the United States, 36 right now out of 163 in the world, and she is coming off of a wonderful, unanimous decision win and we are going to talk to her about this and what’s coming up for 2023.
So you know what we’re gon na We’re not gon na wait anymore, guys we’re just gon na bring her in right now we’re bringing Jasmine Jasmine welcome thanks for taking the time out to come and talk to us today.
Here at uh talk and fight, it’s gon na be a great little uh great little talk man.
I know you love talk boxing.
I love talking boxing, so we’re definitely just gon na get right into it.
We got some fight clips that we’re gon na show the fans uh of you know you doing what you do best and that’s that’s, laying people down and and winning so I’m excited.
I’M excited.
Thank you for having me on definitely definitely uh.
You know I stumbled upon to you a little while ago I’ve been watching your career um.
You know over the last couple of years and and definitely um.
You did get a lead start into boxing.
Let’S uh, let’s, let’s start there yeah.
So I started boxing at the age of 21 years old um.
I grew up in a boxing household, my dad boxed uh.
When I was a kid and I grew up watching boxing, but it was never.
You know.
Women’S boxing was never something that was big growing up, so I I dabbled in every other sport uh grew up playing um circuit, uh, USDA, tennis uh did dancing ballet tap Jazz as a as a child, and then uh teenage years got into tennis played uh picked Up basketball in high school uh started on the team, didn’t know anything about basketball, but I was fast.
I could steal the ball, so you know they put me on, and uh played flag football from flag football.
I actually went into playing for the lfl.
I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Tampa Breeze, the laundry Football League was on MTV yeah right out of high school and did that for three years, but then I figured you know I wanted to.
I wanted more out of sports and um.
We I just kind of like fell into boxing uh, I sparred a girl and and my dad liked what he saw and from there we kind of like he had he actually texted me when I was.
I was working in the um at Carrabba’s at a restaurant and he told me he’s like I can make you world champion and the one thing about my dad is: he does not lie.
He’Ll, never he’ll, never like blow smoke, you know.
So I know if my dad’s saying I could do something.
This is something that I can do and from day one.
The goal was World titles uh from day one the day we started it was never, let’s see what we could do in boxing.
It was we’re going to be world champion and this is and and we’re just gon na go from there and that’s how we started yeah.
That’S that’s amazing.
I you know you so so you didn’t really have much of an amateur career.
Did you no? I had 10 amateur fights, 10 images yeah a lot of most all my experience comes from sparring in the gyms since day, one since the day I started, I don’t think I’ve ever missed sparring two times a week like we sparked twice a week, fight or no Fight um, yeah yeah, it’s there’s, there’s not it’s Non-Stop and, and you spark you smart, have you have your women too? I’Ve heard you spare the 154.
It’S 160.
yeah.
We we’ve sparred heavier women um, it’s not something we like to do just because it’s a different.
You know it’s a slower Pace, it’s you know it just.
Doesn’T it doesn’t um our sparring we like to do we like to like mimic what I’m gon na see in the actual ring, so you’ll never see me sparring somebody that’s like 5 11.
.
It doesn’t make sense, you know I’ll, never see that at 115 112.
so yeah I’ve been in there.
If it is with uh women, it’s bigger um.
You can never get the smaller ones in there with me and uh, maybe maybe it’s the power.
This is a sparring, but I always say like why not like iron sharpens iron, you know, but you have to teach their own, you know.
So what was so? How did you eventually put these gloves on? Like did you have them on before you were 21 or if it’s like 21, the time that you just I I grew up hitting a heavy bag.
Um yeah I used to go in the garage and hit a heavy bag and uh.
So maybe power was developed through just hitting a bag, but actually like training and uh.
I started at 21.
wow wow, that’s uh! That’S that’s crazy, like what a late start to it um.
So your father was involved in boxing.
He was a pro boxer.
He was an amateur, he never went pro, he uh.
He actually went out to California and, like the Vegas area, he did that for a few years um.
I believe he was with the goosans and um uh was like in there with like Michael, not sparring, Michael Nunn, but he uh he trained alongside of Michael Nunn and um, Roger Mayweather and those guys out there.
But you know he.
He came back to Tampa and uh started a family right on.
I truly believe in my heart, if my dad uh he, he was trained by Jimmy Williams, that trained Antonio Tucker um, but I truly believe my heart of the stories and stuff and and just you know, know my dad.
I believe he would have been a great world champion if he would have followed through.
So that’s, that’s, that’s the goal he’s got for you.
He sees it in you.
Um he’s he’s your head trainer right now he’s my yeah he’s my only trainer only trainer excellent um.
So I I I I was reading some articles.
You felt that your your career was kind of like starting to stale out there and you were kind of getting stuck until you met Peter Khan.
Can you can you explain that yeah? Definitely I was doing local shows and um.
You know there’s only so far.
You can go uh when you know you’ve been my dad’s been out of the boxing circles for years, uh like over 20 years, so you know he knew that we needed um.
You know I’m a I’m an elite fighter, so we knew we couldn’t get that job done in Tampa.
So you know, hooking up with Peter Khan has been the best thing for my career, uh, best manager in the game.
You know um, I’m lucky to have him in in uh we’re we’re moving we’re moving accordingly, you know right right.
So, what’s uh what so, what’s the end goal like? What’S the goal for this year, like how many times do you do you want to fight? How many times do you think you’re gon na fight uh by the end of the year? I definitely want the.
I want the WBA title uh.
We were promising mandatory for it.
So uh it’s just a matter of.
Do we take uh, I believe the girl may be lined up to fight in August or so July or August, so um so um we’re looking at I I want to fight before then I don’t want to wait till September to fight so maybe a tune-up fight Or you know something uh to stay fresh uh before before the end of the year, but definitely by the end of the year.
We want that WBA title in our hands and we will have it in our hands.
Yes, I love that conversation not to mention.
I will be the only world champion out of Tampa Florida, actually, the Tampa area.
You know St Pete all that to me that doesn’t count Tampa.
I’M a native Tampa the World Champ.
The world title belt will be here in Tampa, along with all the other ones.
Down the line, I love it, I love it um.
So do you find it? Do you find it hard to find competition at this point or are you fine? Do you find it hard to find fights or um? I don’t that’s not my job to do um, but since working with Peter everything’s gone so smooth, so you know um what he says goes between him and my dad uh they’re, a tight team uh they work great together and you know I focus a lot on The training I try not to get too involved with with the management type of stuff and what they got going on behind closed doors um, you know, so they like to keep my mind straight on Strictly on training.
So I do my part.
They do their part right um.
So you also in your spare time you also uh.
You do classes for kids and stuff like that, yeah yeah, I run a woman’s uh fitness boot camp.
I do fitness programs uh, my kids, um boxing clinics are probably the biggest or to me the most important um.
That’S my that’s my thing with boxing is, I believe, my purpose, unboxing is a lot bigger than just you know.
Stepping in that ring – and it’s all about purpose uh, I believe, living for purpose and being an impact on the youth, because they are our future.
So even after boxing you know, one of my main things is to just.
I just want to be an impact on on the kids because they need they need an influence, especially in this crazy world.
You know right um.
What do you think? The biggest challenge is that you face today in boxing, not only just as like inboxing, because it’s a very political game, but as a woman, what are some of the biggest obstacles that you face so far um.
I try not to focus on obstacles.
To be honest, like I’m loving the journey so like I know, I know, there’s a big thing with, like you know the women’s pay and all that kind of stuff and uh getting the exposure, but I’ve never really out of I don’t care about the pay.
I don’t care about the money.
If it comes, it comes if it doesn’t like.
I said I feel like my purpose is much bigger than boxing in itself um, but I couldn’t.
I don’t know I really I’m loving what I’m doing right now.
You know, like I’m, loving, every step of the way I love.
I love sparring.
I love the hard days.
I don’t know I I never really stopped to think of what the changes are.
You know I get to spend my journey with my dad, my brother’s in my corner.
You know like I’m just I love every single day that I’m training yeah.
I guess you know, I guess when you have family tightly, you know like Titan and family in the corner there, and you know they’re part of your team that can kind of keep you on that straight and narrow and guide you through all the [ __ ].
That you know happens in this boxing League to you know not only to like women, but you know: there’s a there’s a ton of boxers out there that really just you know they get the [ __ ] under the stick.
Sometimes and politics get in the way – and it’s it’s it’s sad to see, but I’m glad that uh, you know it’s working out for you and uh.
You know you got the proper people in your corner and now the great manager behind you pushing you and uh.
You know taking that next level um what uh, what is your day in in training like uh prepping, for a fight? What’S, what’s your Camp, look like how long does it go? When do you start your day when you end it so I every morning whether I’m in Camp or not, um, I wake up every morning, I do four to five miles.
Um, that’s how I start my mornings and then from there midday me and Dad will hit like technical work in the gym.
We do that about four times a week um I Spar, like I said twice a week when I’m in Camp, we up the sparring as rounds.
We have this Farm, we add Saturdays um, so we do three times a week instead of two times a week.
We add Sprints into into our running uh at least twice a week with Sprints and Sprints aren’t fun, I’m not gon na lie.
I was gon na.
Ask you what’s part of? What’S the part of training you don’t like? Okay funny, I was actually talking about this.
One dad yesterday um, if I could take one thing away from training that you told me I don’t ever, have to do.
You’Re gon na laugh.
It’S like probably the jump roping, I hate jump roping.
I really hate jump roping like if you could just take that and throw it away like, but I jump rope 20 to 30 minutes.
So maybe that’s why yeah it’s you know what jumping rope is such an amazing workout.
So people don’t understand like how how key it is to like your boxing fundamentals, like you know, day one in the gym.
It’S like here’s.
Your rope learn how to do that.
Learn how to do that.
It’S not easy! When I tell you when I first started jump roping, I looked like an idiot in the garage and I’d step on that rope.
I would step on that rope literally like every three steps.
I would get so frustrated, but now I get frustrated because it’s like I.
I can go 20 minutes and not even step on it like.
When does it stop? You know yeah, and so it’s like it.
Doesn’T it’s not challenging like you’re, never happy yeah, you never win with jump roping.
That’S just what it is.
No, it’s! It’S an endless game that you never win, that’s what it is um so for for anybody out there that doesn’t really know who you are, which fight would you say out of your 10 wins right now, uh best represents who you are as a fighter wan na Go with none of them because none of them and all of them, because I feel like for each fight, everything is a blueprint.
So I never fight each Fighter the same um, my last fight.
You saw that the little animal me yeah yeah before that you saw the technical, because I had to fight uh a come forward fighter.
So I I set traps for her uh planted throat through two or three punches got out of the way.
So you saw me uh more uh, tactical um, so I don’t know kind of every every fight plays out different and you see a different side of me, which is, which is the part I love the most, because I feel like you haven’t seen everything you know What I mean like all together in one so like when I can fight somebody and, and then all of it gets to come out, because I have to like switch something or you know like.
I think that might be my best performance but yeah the last fight.
I was a little more aggressive, uh yeah yeah Hometown, so I was trying to put a show on uh the fight before that, like I said, a little more technical, Randy um that I just kind of smashed.
That was, we talked a lot of this, so like yeah right.
That was a big animal.
That was a big animals awesome, but um.
You have a lot of styles, you’re, obviously evolving every fight, you’re getting better.
You know, and that usually happens when you don’t have such so much of an amateur career uh.
You know and you do you’re getting better with every fight.
We can see that you know the ring I the ring IQ is starting to match.
You know the skill set which, which is in turn, you know it’s going to make for a great world champion.
Definitely thank you um.
That being said, what do you think it is that you possess that uh helps you be successful in the ring, my athletic ability.
I don’t think there is one female in boxing that is as athletic as me and I’m not talking just in my division right I can.
I can literally play any sport, and probably I think if I picked up any sport and spent because I’m like I say I was pick up Sport and be great at it because, let’s be real, you can’t microwave an elite athlete, no matter how athletic you are.
I believe if I picked up any sport – and you gave me 10 years, I could be elite in any sport.
I picked well, you did.
You did flag football like yeah yeah and that I played Pro um.
You know tackle and all that so yeah, and that was just a few years but, like I said like they’re, I don’t believe even with like Fighters that, like you say like you see, they don’t have much experience or much time and like you’re, like oh they’re, They’Re gon na be great, it’s really hard as hell because it takes 10 000 hours to be great in anything, so I would say athletic ability and um.
Probably my mindset, I’m a very um, calm cool Collective.
I stay I stay to myself.
I don’t I don’t mine um everything, that’s not doesn’t have to do one, but I don’t let things get under my skin right.
You know what I mean, so I think my mindset is very um.
I guess very solid, strong, definitely never paying attention to anything else, but like what I’m doing right, I’m not really worried about anything else, but you know what is Jasmine doing.
What am I doing today to get better for myself and for the the impact that I want to leave behind the Legacy I want to leave behind.
You know what I mean right.
So, okay, let me ask you this: what what do you want to leave behind when, when you’re ready to retire and hang it up uh? What’S the Legacy you want to leave behind, I want an everlasting impact on people uh.
I don’t want to be one of these girls that, like okay, they they get up there, they look, they they show their.
You know everything on TV and they’re flashing, the pan – I don’t want to be this mean like like.
I want to be a genuine.
You know Jasmine wanted Glory uh, she is disciplined, she is um, humble um.
I don’t want to be.
I guess uh.
I just want to be a personality, you know because these personalities they come and they go and that’s not something I I want.
I don’t want to be forgotten, like let’s be real, like Ronda Rousey, but it’s like now you’re saying and you and you you talk about ronda’s like oh, do you remember Ronda Rousey yeah, you know like.
I want to be a name that you never forget yeah.
If that makes you know, yeah no, no yo, you wan na you wan na you wan na ink your mark in in the history book, so that you’re always talked about you know in every way like in not just not just Jasmine’s aggressive in the ring Jasmine’s.
An animal in the ring I want to leave an impact outside of the ring as well like like pure humanitarian.
You can just go up to her and talk to her she’s humble you know, like that’s, that’s the Legacy I want to leave behind that.
I don’t you don’t have to be this mean you don’t have to be this certain person to be a boxer.
You know it’s just a sport like you, don’t have to be this tough person to be a boxer.
What do you think the biggest challenge? Uh? Is that women are facing today in boxing um, I guess like just getting the respect right, putting the respect from people that are like oh uh, women shouldn’t be hitting each other in the face, and this that and the other, and it’s like if you, if you Watch the women, though, if you watch this fight and it’s it’s, I feel like it’s taken a turn, though, like with you know: you’re Michaela, mayor and Alicia Baumgardner fight, uh, your Clarissa shields on and um Savannah Marshall like it’s like whoa.
These girls are coming and they’re coming to fight and uh.
You know from opening bell and I’m gon na I’m gon na, say it right now, I’m gon na say it right now, man, a lot of these women fights, have been way more exciting to watch.
It’S like there’s, no there’s no quit, there’s no like there’s no Qui, it’s always exciting, and I know a lot of people are gunning for like the the three minute rounds, but I personally like the two minute because I feel like it brings a quicker Pace right, Like you got to get the job done and and let’s be real, if you have knockout power, you can do it in two minutes.
Exactly exactly I mean you, have you have a big Pockets? She’S got 40-some fights in 30, 30 Knockouts yeah.
So it’s like.
If you have the power you’re gon na put them to sleep, you’re gon na put them down.
You know what I mean yeah, what um, so you want to be loved, or do you want to be feared? Probably both okay, okay, all right, I’m gon na be feared by my opponents.
If I want to be loaded okay, I love it love the answer.
How did you get the nickname, the animal yeah? Yes? Yes, yes, I have, and shortly we’re going to show a clip of you putting some people on their ass.
So uh, you know what the animal probably like it was.
It was something given to me through, like sparring and stuff and and the amateurs like people would say: oh she’s, a beast she’s an animal, but then I took it and I was like I wanted more meaning, and I just think animals can be so diverse.
Like animals can be beautiful, they can be aggressive, they can be Sleek, they can be fast, they can be smart, uh like animals, I’m not limited to like.
Let me be one animal like I’m a lion, you can adapt, you can adapt there, you go.
That’S it! That’S it, you could adapt very well, and you know you have many different styles of fighting.
What’S your style of fighting that you like the most that that Comfort aggressiveness, or do you like fighting off the back foot more, what’s uh, what’s more like, were you more comfortable at probably uh, being a boxer puncher being able to Showcase my boxing skills but um You know each each shot, I will say you know, I’m not you’ll see I’m not a great volume puncher.
I don’t.
I don’t like to waste punches, um, probably being an aggressor, either always being aggressive, but my counter is mean so I mean yeah yeah.
It is yeah, it is.
It definitely is it’s hard when you have so much to choose from you know what I mean like like yeah yeah.
It is I I firm, like I just believe like I don’t know how Fighters can just have one style and be okay with that.
I don’t know like how can you just be like a a brawler or or how can you just be a a a swift boxer like why, wouldn’t you want to be everything and learn everything, or maybe you can’t maybe you’re not capable? I don’t know right.
I I feel the minute that you stop learning it’s over, for you right, yeah, the minute, the minute that you go into the gym, and you believe that you know you have nothing left to learn.
You know, that’s that’s! That’S where your career is going to take a downward spiral, and you know it’s going to be over quickly because you know you Got ta, Be You got to be open-minded, you got to be ever evolving.
The game is Ever Changing.
You know training is ever changing your athletes standing on the ring on the other side is ever changing.
It’S all.
It’S all evolving um.
What the? What? What’S your favorite part about training? I had this conversation yesterday too sparring.
I love sparring like, if you told me, oh, you can’t you’re not gon na spar today, because whatever whatever like I’d, be like, I love sparring, awesome all right, so we’re gon na we’re gon na bring one of these clips on uh this one.
This one, I’m pretty sure, is the one you drop in um dropping around her ass, the fourth round and seventh round.
Oh we’ll see in a minute we’ll see in a minute we’ll let we’ll let it play and uh and we’ll go from there.
Oh here it is oh yeah yeah that that was a big that was a big big shot.
That was big.
She was a good fighter, though yeah.
Let’S, let’s talk about that fight, so he’s a good fighter.
She gives she gives anybody a hard time in there.
She uh she has very good skills.
She has very good head movement she’s.
She wasn’t a sitting Target to hit um.
She grew a lot from her last fight um.
You know.
Obviously I wanted to put her down for for good uh.
I don’t you know, but she she was tough.
She was.
She was a good out.
She was a good test for anybody, so that shot uh um run us up to like that point of the fight.
How was it going just before that shot? What um yeah, so it kind of we knew we knew we were going to put her down because she swears up so in Camp.
We practiced that a lot as soon as we see that she she makes that square move and she brings her back foot over boom.
Uh hit her in the chest was the the goal.
You know Clipper right there and uh we’re gon na put her down.
So it was that that was actually planned uh we knew that was gon na happen.
Um.
I believe my dad even told my brother watch Jasmine gon na Jasmine’s gon na catch her twice and and put her down twice in this fight, which is crazy because he like predicted it so yeah.
I knew as soon as I see her square up boom uh go for that chin aim at the chest because she did have good head movement, but it caught her right on the chin.
It caught her right on the button right on the button.
The same the same punch both times one, I believe, uh, I I um started it with a hook and then she she went back and then I saw her Square boom.
That’S when I heard her, I think the first one was set up with the jab and then moments later it was that one shot, so we got some.
We got some people here in the uh in the comments um.
Have you ever sparked with anybody? Famous famous I’ve sparred with um Melissa, Odessa, I’ve sparred with tiara Brown, uh great sparring, both both Tierra Brown uh me and her.
You know we chop it up all the time: yeah she’s a she’s, a great, a great role model for women in boxing.
You know also also a police officer, police officer.
That’S awesome.
That’S amazing! That’S a full-time job right there on top of boxing she’s, actually dedicated she’s, definitely dedicated.
I I believe she’s she’s, very avoided, most definitely she’s a she’s she’s she’s, one of those top girls um, and you know it’s sad when you get when you get Fighters that are avoided like look at Gary Russell like come on.
Such talent he’s great and it’s like nobody wants to fight him he’s fast.
I know I know he’s so he’s so quick.
His highlights are just you know it’s.
It’S swift man, Swift execution of of great of great boxing skills man.
Well, you know what Tara um, you know.
I know it’s probably frustrating, but I believe she’s gon na get her chance.
She’S gon na get her opportunity and I and I know she’s gon na make the best of it and she’s she’s gon na she’s gon na show out uh she’s just got to be patient and you know: she’s a she’s, a smart woman right, she’s and she’s Disciplined and and and uh driven, so I believe, she’ll get her she’ll get her chance.
I believe so too.
I’Ve been I’ve been pumping her for you know years as well pushing getting behind her.
I get behind all these women here and I push you guys out on this show because I believe that, like you, guys need to be out there.
People need to see what you guys are doing, because you know in in these, like small areas around the United States in the world.
There’S all these women just like you who like got super amounts of talent.
That should be like.
Imagine imagine in the future when these girls are it’s okay to box and they’re, starting at eight and nine years old.
Imagine the tunnel, then it’s gon na be crazy.
It’S gon na be it’s gon na, be incredible.
It’S gon na be incredible and uh.
You know we’re on the verge of just calling it boxing.
You know they’re, eventually they’re, eventually going to take that women out of the title, and it’s just gon na be boxing.
You know you guys.
Women are already heading up their own cards, they’re, making Leaps and Bounds over in you know the Middle East uh with you know, Dubai and all sorts of things UK is phenomenal.
Uk is huge for women’s boxing.
I know that they definitely get behind and support their women a ton.
What uh? What do you think the United States needs to do to get behind to get behind their Fighters? Put us on the big shows like Eddie Hearn is headlining.
You know big big cards and doing all all female cards um.
I believe we I mean we could do it in the U.
S.
Why not right um? Are you? We have another question? Are you familiar with Creator clash in Tampa? No, I’m not okay! Creator Clash was a bunch of these uh YouTuber, guys, okay um, putting together this uh.
This kind of tournament uh to raise money for charity and uh a bunch of them got together raised a whole bunch of money.
Uh there was over a billion followers, uh Collective uh between all these guys.
What what do you think? What do you think this whole new YouTube style is doing for boxing? Do you think it’s doing harm, or do you think it’s doing it good by introducing boxing to a younger generation that might not have been turned onto boxing? I think it’s good that it’s bringing ice unboxing.
I think it’s bad because it’s it’s making boxing look like it’s easier than what it is, and it’s it’s not it’s.
Not two percent of the world can actually get in there and do it so like when you get guy when you get guys fighting each other, that both of them can’t fight.
That’S not boxing like right.
You know there’s there’s people that are dedicating their lives to this Sport and you could they wouldn’t even dare step foot in those gyms with those with those Fighters.
So it’s like it’s it’s almost like a fake.
It’S giving of.
I don’t know I’m not a big fan of the YouTube uh.
I was asked a question about Jake Paul um.
In my last interview and um, I think he’s he’s great for bringing the eyes of boxing.
I love what he’s doing and what I love most about.
Jake is that he’s he’s trying to amp up the women yeah that he took money out of his purse and gave it to man astronomical he’s, creating opportunities for Amanda Serrano, which is so much deserving of it, but um like I like I pointed out.
I don’t like that, he he tries to um, you know say like don’t bully like that, he was bullied and don’t bully and he tries to advocate for for bullied kids, but then he goes and Bullies every person he fights and like to the point.
Where he’s harassing them online – and it’s like that’s, not that’s not giving the kids something to look up to like like what you did with YouTube and how you grew.
Your base is something to give the kids look up to.
But when you’re sitting here like like trashing your opponent and just being disrespectful like to me, that’s not that’s, not something the kids need to see it’s just it’s it’s right, I’m not a fan of it.
So who do you got Tommy, Fury or Jake Paul? Then? I’M going to say, Tommy Fury, edges it and I I believe it’s a 50 50 kite, though I I I’m gon na, say this for Jake Paul being a boxer, I’m not there, I’m not I’m, not, I’m, not I’m not.
At that point.
You know anybody can go, buy themselves a license, but can he box sure because money will get you the training that you want he’s got an unlimited bank account he can hire.
The right trainers put the right people in his corner.
He is learning as he goes as he goes.
Yeah he’s learning on the job, but he’s a Green Fighter he’s a very Green Fighter, so he gets in there with the boy that has 56 amateur fights.
They beat him even less than that.
Um he’s fighting not boxers, uh he’s growing uh, but he’s dedicating himself uh that we see uh.
But I don’t know it’s it’s.
It’S all weird edges home.
Just because I know Tommy Fury is going to go in there with a game plan because of his trainer.
Being his dad and and his brother, like you, know, they’re going in there with with more of a plan, so I believe uh.
That plan is what’s gon na, make the difference in the fight um right when it comes he’s, getting a lot of pressure on his back too we’re gon na.
Remember that, like Tommy Tommy can’t can’t lose this one like no.
No, you know this is but everybody in the boxing world.
That knows they know.
Tommy, isn’t one of those Elite he’s not an elite fighter? No, I know right, you know what I mean he’s a great Pro with a few fights so yeah.
I don’t know much about his amateur career, though so I I honestly his popularity was from reality TV really yeah.
I don’t know much about his aimer.
I think it’s a 50 50 fight.
I think Tommy edges that unless he gets paid off, but I don’t think that family would take money honestly, I don’t think Big.
John Fury would uh allow Tommy to be part of the family anymore.
Definitely not.
He goes way too big.
Oh yeah, oh yeah! It’S crazy: it’s crazy um! So with Jake Paul Odyssey fighter e promoter, I think he’s doing wonderful things.
Yeah.
You know great great promoter, Tunisia, green great signing! You know: Amanda Serrano, put a million in her bank account.
You know uh Ashton Sylvie another up-and-coming guy um.
I think he’s going to solidify himself in boxing more as a promoter than he will himself as a fighter, because he’s never said yeah as he should, as he should once he gets in there.
If he ever does get in there with a real boxer shows over, you know, yeah yeah, we we know that’s gon na happen.
That’S probably not gon na happen.
We’Re probably saying he’ll probably come up with I’m retired, like what is retired.
It’S like I go to the gym and the guys they’ll be like yeah I used to box.
I’M like use a box.
You can’t consider yourself a boxer you’ve not been in that ring over 400 times and sparring.
You know what I mean like you’re, not a boxer.
I just that’s how I feel about it.
It’S hours, man hours, make you the boxer, I’m telling you ten thousand hours.
It’S like this is how I compare it um, even with my career, it’s like when you turn pro it’s like getting, not even when you turn pro, but eight eight to ten years right.
You’Ve been in the game for eight to ten years.
At that point, you’re going through all your schooling, it’s like becoming a doctor, then 10 years you become a doctor.
You went through all that schooling.
You know all that, and then you get somebody like like to me.
Jake Paul is like a nurse, so you can you have this terminology that you can use with the doctor, but you’re, not the surgeon.
You know what I mean, but then you get your 10 years of of learning and becoming a doctor now as a pro where, where I’m at I’ve been in the game for 10 years now, it’s like okay, I’m a surgeon, but now you get the experience of How many surgeries have you done so now? How comfortable are you in that ring? How how how comfortable are you in that in that heart surgery versus somebody that has a first heart surgery or someone who has their 100th heart surgery? So now, that’s I’m! That’S where I’m at you know now we’re each each surgery makes us calmer makes us better makes us more experienced, makes us more more Elite and that’s kind of that’s kind of how I that’s kind of how I see the boxing world the same the same in Any field it doesn’t even have to be a doctor, a boxer or in any field of work, an artist anything you know you just you aren’t born with ring IQ.
Sorry, no, no, no, no, no you’re, not born with with the ring IQ.
So I always told myself when my my ring IQ and my skill can match.
My athleticism is game over for everyone in my division.
You know what I mean exactly you.
Have you have no trouble going rounds for sure right, like yeah, you go rounds all day like you, you must have a gas tank on you that just doesn’t quit because uh yeah, you know yeah, but see that kind comes from sparring and conditioning and being comfortable.
Like, for instance, you can get a fighter, that’s running, that’s that’s has very little amateur um, you know experience and they’re running every day and then they get in that ring, and this is where a trainer that’s never been in the ring and a trainer that that’s Been in the ring is the difference and why I feel like if you’ve never really been in the ring.
How can you train, how can you teach somebody and know what they’re feeling so you you’re running you’re doing all this, this road work and then you get in that ring and you’re gassed in three rounds and you’re saying, but how? If I’ve done all this road work, it’s not your! It’S, not your conditioning right! It’S your nerves, yeah! It’S your nerves, you’re not used to it! You’Re you’re in uh, unknown territory.
You know what I mean.
So it’s it’s.
It comes in time like learning how to relax and that’s why you start when you’re a pro you start with four rounds.
Then you get your few fights with your four rounds and you go to six rounds.
Then you gradually go to eight rounds and then finally, you can get to 10 rounds and then 12 rounds.
Yep well 10 for us, but you know yeah get that work done shorter right, yeah! You don’t work overtime.
What um? What? What do you believe to be? Uh one of your weaknesses right now, and what do you currently do to improving it? Drinking Cherry Coke, oh yeah, okay, so which I’m being good right now you see me is that coconut water? No! It’S green, tea, diet! Okay! I thought it was a little coconut water.
Okay, green tea is good one, so so fast food, you love the fast food today I love fast food.
I eat it three times but you’re shredded, so how many push-ups you have to do to like work off a burger? It’S honestly, probably it’s genetics, it’s genetics and running it’s running and genetics like come on.
I’Ve been running even before boxing when I was 17 years old, I was in the gym, so yeah like you’ve been you’ve been living in that gym.
Since you were, since you were an adolescent, definitely that that’s awesome uh when, when you think you’re gon na be back in the ring when’s the next fight, I’m hoping uh sometime like late spring uh, you know uh.
We should be getting invite news soon.
So once I get that you know I’ll drop it and definitely something definitely something before summer, if not in the summer spring around that time, uh name on The Hit List Right Now, who uh? Who would you fight? Who would you like to pick off the list right now? I want the WBA vote, so I’m gon na go with Clara La Clara or I don’t know how to pronounce her last name she’s from Argentina, she’s holding WBA.
That’S what I want.
I don’t really go based off of names.
Like I told you um, I don’t.
I don’t fight off emotions, I don’t.
I don’t get tied up in this who likes who and who’s talking about who I don’t care.
I don’t care who the girl is.
If you got the belt, that’s who I want? Okay, I love it.
I love it um.
What’S um, sorry what um to the end game, it’s gon na be world champion.
Are we gon na see? Are we gon na see it by the end of the year? Is that what you’re hoping? Yes, yes, definitely one belt by the end of the year and then I’m going for WBC next, whatever is next from that and whoever’s holding it at that time.
You know only time can tell um and then from collecting all the belts defending all the belts.
You know my favorite, my all-time favorite fighter is okay.
Let’S hear it, Marvin Hagler yeah, I loved how he he defended the belts uh.
Was it 12 times um? You know he he got the belt.
He kept.
The belts took him a long time to get there.
Yes, before avoiding him, yeah 40-some fights, I believe, but um.
What was it a a draw on on his first attempt? Yeah, that’s not gon na happen, but I like the fact that you know he was avoided.
He was humble he’s not uh he’s soft-spoken, but um.
No Nonsense right yeah from inside of the Ring to outside the ring, he’s an all-time favorite fighter.
You know I I work closely with his son uh James Hagler, yeah and um.
We were, we were talking and he was telling a story about his dad and and when he does his road work and uh he runs.
He runs 15 miles, not 10.
and they asked why he would run 15 miles because when you get to 10, it’s all mental.
You still got another five to go.
That’S why that man was so dangerous in that ring, because he could he was Unstoppable mentally which made him Unstoppable in the ring.
You know he was.
He was challenging himself every time he got on that road and uh.
You know it’s it’s it’s it’s all here.
A lot of it is here which a lot of people don’t understand.
You know anybody can get in there and throw their fists, but it takes a real smart person to you know, work their way around that ring and come up with that Victory.
It’S not everybody can do it.
Like you said no yeah, I’m surprised, I’m surprised with all the sports that you played you jumped into it so late and honestly, you’re, you’re, you’re, developing so fast and so quick and it’s got to be because of the athleticism that you have definitely yes and the Brains behind my Camp, my dad is not only a trainer he’s, a teacher when I tell you my father day in and day out, it drives my mom nuts he’s on this computer looking at fights looking at, so he can go back in time and tell historically Tell you if I’m fighting a girl, he could literally be like well.
This matchup is like this matchup in the past.
Come on History repeats itself, uh this fighter.
One beat this fighter because of this, this style and styles make fights so he’d go back into his memory bank and all the fights he’s watched and up close and personal too you’ve seen these fights live and he can literally dissect every fight.
So a big strength of mine is my corner.
Is is the knowledge that I have like when you have a trainer or a teacher that can tell you how to be somebody easy and not make it hard, and if you can go in there and um execute that you know like it makes all the difference.
In the world now you he could tell me, and if I don’t follow his Direction, then that’s all me, you know what I mean but yeah, I believe, having uh having a solid Corner.
That knows what they’re talking about is huge.
You have to trust that they’re telling you the right thing and because that’s the only way, you’re gon na do it yourself.
If you get Fighters all the time that their Corner says something they go out there, they don’t do what, because they trust themselves more than the corner prime example Anthony Joshua in the first fight against USIC.
He didn’t listen to his corner at all.
They kept telling him and then he would go out there and revert back to the same crap that he was doing the round.
Before I heard he does that I heard I saw it somewhere was it when he uh when he uh was gon na train uh Robert Garcia, and he wants to do what he wants to do like I get it man, you made a lot of money and You’Re making a lot of money but like what got you there, you have to remember what got you there, yeah being hungry, like uh, starving and and and wanting to make it big.
For whatever reason it is, you got ta, you got ta go back to what your.
Why was, but when you lose that you’re trying to get it back, yeah the problem with Fighters that just can’t remain humble after achieving this success.
Look at cfma Lopez like come on.
I don’t even know what to say about that.
One yeah, it’s true uh, one of our uh, one of our viewers, uh, wants to know with three minute rounds, make your fights different.
Maybe they I mean they might go.
They might go to sleep quicker, [, Laughter, ], yes, yes, they might get knocked out in the third instead of the fifth right, probably yeah, excellent excellent.
I love it um.
You know We’re Not Gon na Keep too much honor.
Just gon na.
Ask you one more question: um.
What what advice would you give to Young upcoming women right now who are looking to become pugilists and follow in your footsteps? What kind of advice could you give them right now? The number one thing is be patient, be patient and just trust the process.
I know it sounds so cliche and corny, but all your great successful people say the same thing.
You have to be patient.
Wake up every day, love what you do the day you the morning you wake up and you don’t love what you do.
You probably won’t be successful at it.
So just just stay patient and and enjoy enjoy the journey.
It’S fun.
You know even the bad times.
Even the even the days you don’t feel like training, it’s like when you, when you finish you’re like okay, which I can tell you.
I there’s not often that I say I don’t feel like training, because I do love what I do or like, like.
Even my work, training, kids and training women, like I love doing that, so I don’t work a day in my life.
I really don’t, and it was probably the best decision I’ve ever did was to you know, quit working a regular job and taking orders from somebody and do my own thing because to me it’s um greatness, isn’t what you have, but it’s what you give right and There’S so many fighters that are out there and they they have all this knowledge, but they’re not doing nothing with it, but keeping it to themselves.
How can you do that? You have all this knowledge and you’re, just let me get to the top.
Let me no like give it back, give it back, give it to somebody that needs it.
Boxing has saved so many lives, you know yeah or that it saves lives.
So why not give it back to to the kids you know or women, or anybody or or a young guy, that needs guidance.
So definitely I love it.
Um one of one of our viewers loves you shared destruction.
End of story equals dad.
I like that cool.
I I just caught it too.
I caught it myself.
I thought it was pretty cute, but uh yeah man um Jasmine, I’m not going to keep you too much longer.
Thank you for coming in today.
Definitely please, please let all the viewers know where they can find.
You find your social media.
What your handles are.
Yes, my main uh, I’m most active on Instagram, so you finally find me um at animal dot boxing, keep it real simple.
On Facebook, I have two separate pages.
I have my you.
Can just Google my name Jasmine artiga on Facebook, and I pop up, I think it’s the animal fan, page, okay and then also my personal page – is jazz j, a z and then art.
I kept it sure.
I just shortened both my first and last name, uh, easy.
I I just you probably find me typing in both.
To be honest, definitely all right! Well, thank you.
Jasmine.
It’S been a pleasure, just uh stick around and we’ll sign off and then I’ll talk to you afterwards, uh.
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