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EPISODE: Episode 22
Today Mike is joined in the studio by David Alaverdian, an Armenian-Jewish amateur boxer. He is Champion of Israel, and a European bronze medalist.
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Transcribed:
[ Music, ] hello, there boxing fans around the world thanks for joining us once again on talk and fight for another great episode of knuckle up featuring mike war at four, how you doing mike good man? How are you not bad at all, especially upon seeing who we have lined up in the green room, ready to join us for another great interview uh following his wonderful victory that you sent to me that i saw yesterday is absolutely one of the most classic uh Shots devastating shots, quite frankly, i’ve ever seen and it was great to see it, live and great to see him back in this view, if i’m not mistaken, this is the chap who was being interviewed last time while he was driving along or he was in his Car, yet okay and it was a great interview i really enjoyed listening to it.
I really enjoyed what he had to say and i’m glad you have him back he’s got he’s got a great story.
That’S for sure man.
You know um he’s bouncing back and forth from here in his in his home country and and you know what he’s keeping up these wonderful numbers.
Man he’s got.
This awesome record going on right now, coming off, that wonderful, wonderful body, shot, knockout and and and finish honestly, it was great.
I’M glad he’s come back into the studio and giving us some time um and that’s david alvarez.
I hope i pronounced it right.
I’M pretty sure i did i’ll ask him to make sure, but i believe that’s the pronunciation.
I i checked the last time but uh yeah.
I can’t wait we’re going to talk to him about this wonderful victory, uh.
What he’s got in store for the future and what he’s been up to since the last time we talked to him, yep nope, get to her, don’t don’t don’t make them wait any longer.
Let’S get it! Hey david, hey! What’S up, how are you how’s it going? Man, how are you doing good man they’re good? You look like you’re.
A little rested.
Uh well rested and um enjoying your uh enjoying yourself.
I guess after that awesome victory.
I am definitely so um yeah.
So, what’s uh what’s been new since the last time we talked other than other than this wonderful win uh.
So i just you know i was training all that time.
I prefer for a fight.
Um not much has been new except the fight itself.
It was an awesome trip.
I really love the atmosphere in mexico too.
You know because you look at the fights in the united states and nobody actually comes to see the undercard and over there it’s just packed yeah yeah.
You know, i’ve noticed.
I’Ve noticed that and and i’m a fan of the undercards man, i’m a big fan of the undercards, because you know i get to meet people like you, you know we got to we.
We, you know, form this great relationship over interviews and everything, and then i get to see you rise through your through your career and – and you know you get to watch me rise as a host here and yeah man.
It’S great and these undercard fights man.
They always end up stealing the show man somehow and, and especially like i.
I hope i wonder if we have the video queued up.
I want to show these people um.
I don’t know we’ll have to ask the producer if he had it keyed up, but i definitely want to show people that uh that body shot finish man and uh and and get it going.
Man um eric.
I don’t know if you can hear me uh, do we have the clip? Can we run it? Let me know uh in the meantime um yeah.
Do you want to set us up to that whole uh that whole finish what was going on just before the uh? The finish oh and that i’m still at that stage, where um i fight guys that i most likely will win it’s it’s a more of a question how i win them.
So for me, coming to that fight is uh.
Just thinking to myself.
Okay, i have, i know, i’m gon na win this.
I’M pretty sure i will with this unless something like he catches me with some kind of a whole brand that i uh didn’t see and i go down, but this is it shouldn’t? It shouldn’t happen.
The only thing that goes through my mind is uh.
I need to finish this guy and i was i was searching for a um like a shot to the head knockout something like this because uh i have five fights.
Four of these fights are finishes and all of them are body shots.
So i was like okay, i can’t have.
I can’t have another body shot not this time, but just happened again.
I was like oh [, __ ], but i was still happy because it looked nice honestly, it’s just.
I guess it’s just the uh, your style man and just you know you, you bombard these guys so so hard with these shots.
Like the the first clip we saw of you, you know when you’re filling the guy on the ropes the opportunity right and then he just opens up that body, and i guess you just find that well well placed punch that just ends right right.
Oh man! It’S great, i’m i’m excited man.
I can’t wait to see you in the ring again uh any plans.
What uh, when, when, when do you think you’re gon na be back? So i’m going back to uh israel to see my family friends just a little vacation for about a month, then i come back late november.
The plan is to have a fight in the united states and get somebody who’s ranked way above me, so i can claim the ranks faster, so it’s going to be hopefully in vegas in uh january, which will be very nice if, if uh, if it actually happens, I really hope so.
Okay, awesome, um.
I’Ve been told that this clip is ready.
This clip of your finish that that you sent to me uh, we’re gon na show it so we’re gon na queue it up and let’s uh and let all the viewers out there see this beautiful finish.
Man uh you just here.
We go: oh wow.
What a body shot man? Oh my gosh, yeah he was, he wasn’t getting back up after that.
I think he could have continued.
I don’t! I don’t think i eaten that he just saw but um.
I think if you really wanted to, you could just stood up a second before he just stayed wanted, because that that’s the second round yeah the first round i was just uh, he couldn’t even land, maybe a little one overhand and that’s it like after i got.
He caught with that shot.
I was like i’m not gon na get hit with that and again again and that’s uh, that’s pretty much it yeah.
No, i don’t.
I don’t think he.
I don’t think he wanted to feel the power uh.
Another time you know it sounded great, it was nasty honestly, it hurt my guts when i saw it and uh and graham is a fan of those body shot knockouts man, so it was definitely definitely well received here.
Man, we loved it um.
So the plan the plan is fight uh early next year, um and then you know, i guess, call somebody out who’s higher up in the ranks or do you have an idea? Do you have an idea of who you’re uh you’re looking at uh fighting? To be honest, no, but it has to be somebody from united states, so somebody from the states, uh and my manager is going to get to it.
So that’s a plan, so this would be the first.
This will be the first time you get into the states right in the fight in the states.
Yes, yeah, that’s going to be my first fight in the states um.
How is the atmosphere down in mexico when you fight like? Is it that’s awesome? It’S awesome yeah.
I don’t know um when they hear that i’m from israel they’re a bit surprised, they’re, very, very uh cheerful, and they, i guess they kind of like israel, which feels good, because everybody was uh was very happy with my win, like every all the crowd taking pictures.
Uh um, they asked me to sign stuff.
It was pretty cool, so that’s good! So yeah you enjoyed it.
That’S fine! I can’t lie.
You know it was pretty cool um.
So i seen i’ve seen some training videos, man with uh with with mayweather.
I believe it was yeah uh he’s my uh he’s my head coach.
Now he’s wow wow, that’s pretty crazy wow.
Can you imagine? I just think to myself.
I just think myself.
I come from a little town in israel.
Yeah, the country itself doesn’t have any boxing in it.
I used to train in a bomb.
Shelter like many of the gems in israel are serious.
Most of the gems in israel are amateur, gems are uh, are in bomb shelters except the ones in tel aviv and stuff like that, but the the other parts of the the smaller cities they’re all bomb shelters you come up there.
Then i come to the to train in the mecca of boxing in the united states in las vegas yeah and i’m betrayed by the guy.
I was watching on tv right.
You got ta, be kidding me like i just it just it just blows my mind.
I i don’t believe, what’s happening to me, that’s it’s incredible.
Man uh, you you’re! Definitely making the right moves in your career, uh having somebody like that in your corner and – and you know just running you through your day-to-day drills and everything – it must just be it’s.
It’S got to be intense, first of all and and honestly, the amount of knowledge that he’s given out every word like every word is just knowledge at that point.
What um, what kind of like what kind of trainer is he like for for all the people out there that want to know like? How is he is he hard? Is he? Is he a hard ass? Is he run us through it register it? I wouldn’t say he’s hard: maybe he was when he was a bit younger, but now uh, it does give me a lot of knowledge and he’s uh.
You can see he’s just he’s a master, you know he’s been a great boxer and also a great coach and it’s proven um, but the sessions are pretty that the workouts are pretty uh they’re fun.
I’M not gon na lie.
We we kind of clicked.
You know.
I know what, when we joke around and stuff and uh, you know it’s just being floyd, you know.
Sometimes they try, try and show off and stuff.
It’S like! Oh no.
We had that session where he was like moving the pads for me to hit them for quickness, and i got it a few times and i go like floyd, i’m too fast and he’s like, and then he goes back to being he’s just like.
Believe me.
I’M much faster than you like not mike, come on you’re, not he’s up there too in age too.
Right he’s like 69 he’s 69 now yeah man, so he’s he’s getting up there and he’s still going.
He’S still got the speed and you can see that the [ __ ], the guy is just uh.
It’S floyd, you know yeah yeah, so you must.
You just must be happy happy with uh happy with your training, then yeah.
What’S up? What’S the worst? Okay, what just happened just me: well, you seem to be having some technical difficulties, but i’m sure mike will be joining us just a moment.
Yeah all right, no problem i’ll be waiting.
Do i take over the show now yeah? Can you tell us a little bit about yourself uh, maybe uh continue the conversation for our fans who we have listening.
Oh there we go mike’s back uh, okay, nice [, Music, ].
There we go [, Music ]! Oh man, can you hear me yeah? We can sorry guys my uh, my cat just knocked out the damn [ Laughter ].
Let me try and reload this, maybe maybe i should be a new host for real time for a new host, hey guys, i’m here and every mike over joining us.
Welcome to david snow uh david toast today, sorry guys, sorry, everybody out there watching man uh the cat just hit my uh, my cable knocked it out of my laptop.
I was very upset.
I’M gon na have to scale the calendar.
So, yes, we were talking about floyd um.
You know lots of experience, lots of things going on in your life.
So much.
How many times did you fight this year? [, Music ]? For now it’s uh three fights just three fights, but you know it’s because of covet and stuff.
I hopefully i’ll be way more active next year, because i want to climb the ranks, and i personally want to fight for a title on maybe end of uh next year.
That would be a dream, if not in 2023, early 2023 that’d be nice.
That would be nice so, with that being said, what’s up what’s the worst part about training man? What do you hate in these days? You hate any of it like? Is there something that you dread when you wake up and you’re like damn today is this day? Oh, i love everything except running, hitting the bag pad work, uh conditioning, that’s all i hate and i like sparring though so you so you hate the writing.
The kid, the machine, the pad work, the bags, but you love the sparring.
That’S it exactly um when you guys um, when you guys start you’re just sparring, are you sparring people from your own team sparring people from your gym? Are you traveling to spa like some, i travel everywhere yeah, i travel everywhere any gym.
I can get work at um.
I just go there really so um.
What’S the furthest, you’ve traveled for spring? Oh, no! It’S all around the gems in vegas! There’S plenty of sparring in vegas.
You know it’s! It’S freaking! Vegas! It’S not! You know exactly! Do you find it do you find it hard to um to keep focused, sometimes because of where, like being in vegas, do you find that it’s hard or is it hard for some of boxers? No, maybe it’s hard for other guys, but not for me because i don’t party i don’t drink.
I don’t do any of that stupid stuff, so um.
For me it’s pretty easy um to stay focused, but the problem is uh the you know.
Everybody deals with motivation.
Problems like you, don’t sometimes you don’t feel motivated, but then again, you’re gon na be disciplined which uh i have plenty of.
I know that i need to do it, even if i don’t want to do it, and i still do it.
That’S why i never balloon.
After fights, i never gained too much weight.
I always i always have to cut just few pounds to be on my weight class and i can be if i’ve been.
I get an opportunity um, let’s say next week, right i’ll i’ll, make the way easily and i’ll be in in shape to fight anyway, because i’m always in shape you’re, always so you’re always sitting around 115-ish 120 in around there.
So i fight i fight 112 now and i walk around like 119 at most at most 120.
Sometimes i’m really lighter.
I can be 118 117.
uh any plans to fight heavier weight uh later on in the future.
Yes, definitely yeah.
I would like to fight 112.
115 and maybe end my career 118.
in the career 118, what’s up, how much of a difference is it? You know, while fighting say 112 to 118, like what? What kind of like what kind of differences are there in your training? If there are any or is it just like, uh stamina, really um, i don’t when i spar guys that are heavier with me, the 118.
I don’t, i might feel me that have they have might just have maybe a little bit of more power but uh.
I don’t really struggle right.
The thing is uh sparring and fighting is completely different, so i can, i don’t know until i actually do it.
You know right right.
Spring spring is a lot different than fighting um exactly yeah.
You know a lot of a lot of people, don’t know, but a lot of injuries happen in sparring, uh more than in the ring.
Have you have you dealt with any injuries in your sparring um in the recent years uh.
I mostly struggle with the shoulder injuries.
Like i always have problems with my shoulders, sometimes in clinches, sometimes when i fight uh, when i switch stances all the time.
So i fight something softball and and for some reason, whenever i uh switch his stance and we clinch with somebody who’s, uh orthodox or maybe the opposite.
Some somehow i get a injury with my shoulder.
Oh wow um any any drills that you’re using to kind of work through that, or is it just mainly like stretching and well? I stretch a lot and i do a lot of resistant band exercises like physiotherapy stuff and it does help it does help a lot.
That’S good man, i don’t even know like there’s, there’s people that you know they get those chronic injuries and stuff like that, and sometimes it just can’t work through it.
It’S nice to hear that you’re able to stretch it out and work through it and everything and not let it affect your performance man because honestly you’re, you’re racking up this honest, uh, awesome, win uh, win loss, racial right now, [, Music, ], i’m enjoying it man.
I can’t wait to see in the ring uh next year, man and and honestly uh your vacation home.
Hopefully it’s uh, it’s a great one, uh lots of lots of rest lots of uh lots of catching up with your friends.
I know they’re, probably gon na get you to sign some autographs and stuff.
No, no, i don’t think so.
Friends or friends, man, they’re gon na give me some uh some they’re gon na be annoying as they always are.
They don’t care yeah, yeah, they’re gon na bust.
Your balls, they’re gon na, be like oh yeah, yeah, the pro the pro calm down, especially my family.
Oh yeah, you ain’t, [, __ ] come on! Let’S fight! Let’S start now, do you find they do that? A lot they wan na they wan na play fight with you, nah, just just joking, around okay, just being annoying.
What’S up, what’s up, what’s the first thing you’re looking forward to when you get back home? Oh for i want to see my nephews man, i families everything.
You know my nephews, my mom, my dad, my grandparents, my brothers, my brother, sorry um, yeah, family family is the first and then uh see my friends um and everything else.
You know see some girls yeah, not some girls.
I don’t see one girl yeah.
She seems very nice yeah, that’s good! That’S good! That’S good! I know i’m super stoked man, i’m happy for you to to get back in the ring man and um.
You know what honestly i’m glad you reached back out and came back on man.
Much love! You know we love having you on here.
We’Re definitely going to have you on here many many times in the future.
Man – and i can i can see – i can see it being a a long relationship – that’s being built here, which is great man.
We love your talk and fight man.
We really appreciate the fact that you take your time to come out here and talk with us man and uh.
You know what and and send us these clips that are just brilliant man.
Honestly, i want to watch it one more time.
I want to watch it one more time, so i want to get the producer to queue it up.
Let me know when it’s ready to go, so we can see this uh, this brilliant body shot one more time for all the fans out there that might have missed it.
That tuned in late we’re gon na check this shot out again and uh yeah.
Just just walk us through it man and uh we’re ready to go so we’re gon na queue it up.
Now.
At that point, there’s not much to say you know just pushing him around.
That was the rpg shot.
Just at that point, just just bullying, you know he was trying for in the first round.
I was trying for for a few seconds but just different levels.
I got ta step up the competition and then uh it’s gon na be more interesting.
I believe that once i find better guys, i can show way more of my skill set uh my angles, my speed, my uh technique, everything.
So so we we’ve yet to see the best of you in, and you know what every time i’ve seen you in the ring so far with every performance, it gets better and better.
Every time i see it um you know, and i i’m excited man, i’m excited to see you get in there with some competition.
That’S gon na you know show that your expertise, man super stoked, um yeah.
I can’t be happier for you, man.
I can’t wait to see this competition.
I can’t wait to hear you challenge these people um any any any uh talks.
Who who did we call it? Who did you call it? The last time? Was it sunny? I didn’t call him out because he’s a world champion now i told you i’m uh yeah, i got ta, give responsible respect as you, but once i claim in the ranks i’ll i’ll be calling him yeah he’s the one and uh, because you know the other champions.
Don’T even speak english, it’s not not interesting right right! That won’t be an interesting thing for me, but with him i think we can make it a pretty big.
I think both of you together on social media.
You know um gearing it up and getting ready for a fight together.
I think you guys would be able to be able to make it uh.
You know one of these anticipated fights that everybody’s waiting to watch – man – yeah man – hey, hey, you know what you’re gon na have to fight him.
Eventually he’s in your way.
Isn’T he? Yes, he is yeah he’s ranked number one at the moment when i, when i had a little bit of a beef with him before he was in that world champ at that time, so he was just um at that point.
So i i allow myself to talk trash, but now i don’t like doing it because i’m not i rank way way far behind them, so it would just look stupid if i really do that, you know so, i’m i’m staying quiet until the time comes yeah.
Just by yo sit and wait invite your time until uh, it’s the right time exactly.
Yes, all right, david, i’m going to uh, i’m going to start signing off here, but yeah stick around for a few minutes, uh! Yes, man, much love, much respect! Thank you for coming out again man.
I will definitely keep in touch.
Um yo go, go, enjoy your much deserved.
Vacation, brilliant, brilliant body shot uh victory there and we’re definitely going to get you back in the studio again off your next win or before your next fight after your next fight.
Whenever, whenever you feel like coming back on any anytime brother um, yes, so knuckle up fans watching around the world.
Thanks for tuning in we’re here with our men david, it’s albert dean, alavedian, aloe verde.
There we go there, we go that’s the way it’s pronounced, ella verdian, so yes, david thanks again man thanks for coming out man, much love, much respect, we’ll see you soon, you for having me fans out there thanks for tuning in it’s been a slice we’ll see You tomorrow we got uh brandon darrod coming in for an interview tomorrow.
I don’t know if you’ve heard of him have you have you heard of this guy, no another another up-and-comer, just like yourself, man um.
Yes, so we got that going on tomorrow, but today it’s another day david thanks again much love, much respect, knuckle up.
Brother yeah,
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