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Heavyweight Hustle w/ Brooklyns own Pryce "The Pryce is Right" Taylor
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You hear “heavyweight” and think spectacle, knockouts, and big paydays. Then Pryce Taylor walks us through the part fans rarely see: the month-to-month grind where training is constant, rent is real, and a lot of fighters only get paid when they fight. From his spot in Brooklyn, Pryce explains why staying active isn’t just ambition, it’s economics, and how trying to hold a regular job can collide with the demands of a serious boxing camp.
We get into the behind-the-scenes world of sparring, including Pryce's time around Deontay Wilder and what it’s like when Wilder feels the opening and starts letting bombs go. That leads to a bigger conversation about heavyweight boxing: how hard it is to find the right sparring, why being able to switch looks can make you valuable in camp, and how adapting your training partners can level up your footwork, head movement, and timing. Pryce also breaks down how Team Combat League experience changes your mindset when every round feels like the last round.
The story gets personal when we talk about Cops And Kids boxing in New York City and why free, legit gyms in underserved neighborhoods produce real talent. Pryce shares how he started boxing later, how hunger and choice shape a fighter’s mentality, and why he embraces entertainment even when critics say he plays around too much. We close with what’s next on his schedule, including his May 9 fight in Georgia, and the kind of momentum he’s chasing this year.
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Welcome And Meet Pryce Taylor
SPEAKER_02It's time for the main event. It's the sparring podcast.
SPEAKER_01We are alive. We are live. We are live. We are here. Welcome to Spartan Boxing Podcast. Puma Willie with Price Taylor, heavyweight accent with the wavy hair. My white ass don't know about that, but uh he's trying to get the waves. What up, man?
SPEAKER_02How you doing, guys? Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, thanks for popping off.
SPEAKER_02Thanks for coming on. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We love talking to the heavyweights, man. Most of you guys are cool.
SPEAKER_02You guys are like the yo, y'all got mad charisma. I ain't gonna lie. Mad charisma.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's easier for us because we we bigger.
SPEAKER_02Okay, I'm gonna talk crazy. Like, y'all not gonna do y'all ain't gonna do nothing to me, right?
SPEAKER_01Where are you at right now, Price? Are you in Brooklyn or Brooklyn?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
Sparring Deontay Wilder Up Close
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. So I I know you you spent some time in Georgia. You had a recent fight announcement. It's not on box rec yet, but uh you you have a fight coming up in Georgia as well, correct?
SPEAKER_04No, I was in Alabama.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh, you and oh, yeah, with Wilder. My baby, yeah, yeah. You were in training camp with Deontay Wilder. Yo, how before we I was gonna go organize, but I always get excited and don't. How'd that go, man? I just gotta ask off the rip.
SPEAKER_04He how he fights, how he spar, you know. Uh wow, when he gets when he feels like he got you, he's gonna try, he knows throw haymakers. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01The power's still there, man. The power's still there with him.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, he's he got that crazy power, bro. Yeah, god damn. Yeah, you in the city for real. He's a real brother, man.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. How what you think about his last fight?
SPEAKER_04Nah, that was actually a good fight. Um, I think he did the right thing with Cesara and uh hold on, sorry. It's all good.
SPEAKER_03Yo, I'm gonna interview.
SPEAKER_02He got the Jones and everybody, yeah. Um we appreciate your Wi-Fi though. Your shit clear. Yeah, yeah, man.
SPEAKER_01We've been having we've been having issues lately with some interviews, and we're like, yo, is it us? I don't think it's us. And now we're two for two.
SPEAKER_04So nah, yeah, it's not it's not y'all, it's them. That's good. Yo, I got the T Mobile. I got the T Mobile Wi-Fi.
SPEAKER_01That's good over there. What other Wi-Fi? Is that what in Brooklyn it's like they have like optimum too, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we got optimum. They got like some crazy shit, some other shit too, right? Some other shit. We got a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_04It's just because I got my own spot, you know. So yeah, it's just it's just a room right now. I just got a room, uh-huh, and it's perfect for me because I is I'm only one using it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So, you know, it's you so you you for a lot of the fighters that we talk to and stuff, like fighters only get paid when they fight. Yeah, so you're over here staying active. We see, as I alluded to, we're starting. Um, you got another fight in May. Uh, you with that you you have your own spot, you're by yourself.
SPEAKER_04I got my own spot, but it's it's cheap though. It's cheap. Um, I'm not trying to stay here.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but that's good. That's good, man.
SPEAKER_04Shit, temporary. Yeah, it's temporary for sure, 100%.
SPEAKER_02You playing you playing a whole uh fight night video game right now in real life.
SPEAKER_01A little crib and then are you are you putting money away and stuff too? Because I know that's another issue. That's another issue with fighters.
SPEAKER_04I don't even got I can't even afford to put money on the side because you know, like I like you said, I'm the type of fighter that I'm I'm one of those fighters that only get paid when they fight when I fight. Yeah, so because I if I try to get a job, you know what I'm saying, it's hard for me to get a job where I can make money and and actually, you know, train because the job wants me to be with them, you know, like be rely. They want to they need me, and I can't I can't be reliable, you know what I'm saying? Because I'm trying to if I gotta fight, I'm not about to, you know.
SPEAKER_01So you're just strictly training 24-7, right? Like that that's your job. Boxing is your job.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's gonna make you great, though. That's gonna definitely make you great.
SPEAKER_04No, for sure, but it's it's gonna it's tough right now, but you know, I'm just I'm just waiting for that time when I when I gotta shine and show my my truth power, my my true, my true uh skills, you know.
SPEAKER_00Uh you've been shining, you've been shining, man. You charismatic in there.
Amateurs Rivalries And Getting It Back
SPEAKER_02That last fight was fun watching. I ain't gonna lie. That shit was fun. You and him at this yeah, and yeah, fought each other in like the combat game or something like that.
SPEAKER_04No, we never fought each other before. Okay, we we were supposed to fight in the amateurs, but he he ended up losing before early in the tournament. It was a national tournament. We was a nationals, okay. The golden glove nationals, he lost earlier than I did. You know, I went to the end towards the end.
SPEAKER_01Like, uh you won Golden Gloves twice, right?
SPEAKER_04And it was actual Golden Gloves, it wasn't like the real, but that wasn't the national Totem Gloves. Okay, okay. Yeah, I didn't win the National Golden Gloves. I um I lost to uh six I lost to this dude. What's his name? Uh damn, he's gonna be mad at me. I know his name too.
SPEAKER_02But uh we we are bad with so many damn boxers. We do a whole podcast and be like watching the names.
SPEAKER_01I got it written down and shit too, but whatever.
SPEAKER_04Nah, worry. Um but the one who won the nationals, I know his name, his name, Antonio Morales. Yeah, 6'7 Mexican lefty.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03Sheesh.
SPEAKER_01Do you do you as a pro now and and seeing the guys in the nationals, especially the heavyweights, because there's not there's not many of you guys that that go to nationals and stuff like that? I feel like heavyweights are always just in the mix with the pro like in the pro ranks. Do you have do you want like get back? Like trying to get all that shit back. Yeah, like you want to fight them in the pros now.
SPEAKER_04Everybody I lost to that's that's term pro, I'm getting that shit back for sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, that's one of that. Like uh, when you when you were over in Alabama, how long was that camp over there? It's just a week.
SPEAKER_04Um they got me at the end because you know, they didn't really they wasn't my my my my name wasn't really in the uh rotation of sparring partners, you know. I'm not really a spawn partner per se. Yeah, I'm still a top athlete, but um they I did good work with them and they like me. So I told them if they if they end up you know fighting Usik, shit, get me in there. I I know how to fight lefty.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you you recently responded with Jarrell Miller, correct?
SPEAKER_04I'm sure you sparred him before, too. Yeah, yeah, he's getting ready for his fight. I had to help him with I I'll spar him lefty as well. How's that hair doing with him, man?
SPEAKER_01Y'all he got hair. He got hair, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Spray paint on there, yeah, yeah. Knock his top off with a little bit, yeah. It's far.
SPEAKER_04No, no, he he has hair, yeah. It's just uh he had to cut it off and restart everything. Restart it. He turned out. He didn't want to do it too early. He did it too early. He didn't want to do it, yeah. But he got hair, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I heard though, I heard though, like you know, the the local New York circuit sparring with him, and everyone says he's a beast in there sparring engine is crazy. Yeah, uh what about because because you were in camp with with wild uh wilder? You ever sparred with Zhang at all?
SPEAKER_04Nah, Zang, every time I I was he she should have he should have hit me up. What's his name? Um Cabayel. Cabal, yeah, yeah, yeah. He should have hit me up for that. Because I I I talked to him. We we sp we um I sparred one of his uh teammates that be at in in New Jersey and Patterson. Uh-huh. Uh Damien Kabib. Yeah, yeah, Damien.
Finding Heavyweight Sparring And Respect
SPEAKER_01He used to live down the road from us actually. We're on Long Island, but he used to live down the road.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. I'll be sparring him and Zang be there watching me. I think I don't know. I just he didn't want to spar.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was just curious. I like I like to hear like what goes on behind the scenes, who who's working with who and stuff. Like a lot of the fans don't see that. They just see fighters get in the ring, and oh yeah, but that really you guys all kind of spar each other, especially heavyweight in each. Yeah, it's hard to do it.
SPEAKER_02So it's hard to find work, right? Well, definitely heavyweights, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Especially if you gotta if you're trying to go all out, you know, and trying to you know prepare for the fight.
SPEAKER_02You're trying to get better, yeah.
SPEAKER_04You gotta find you know, you get that's why that's why they started that payment shit. So because Mike Tyson was knocking everybody out, he's trying to, you know, that's why that's why you get paid.
SPEAKER_02Imagine getting knocked out knocked out by Mike Tyson for free. You didn't get paid.
SPEAKER_01I would, I would let well, I'm a nobody, so I would let him knock me. I would let any heavyweight knock me out for free, though. Go viral.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, but you wouldn't do a content, yeah.
Viral Body Shots And Basketball Past
SPEAKER_01Speaking, speaking of that though, late and going viral, man. Do you do ab workouts? Like, or are you just born with this? Like, because you were taking some that Ryan Garcia challenge shit, yeah, yeah, yeah. For those that don't know, he he was he was taking, you know, people punch each other in the stomach and stand, but you had like another heavyweight really loading up. I I've never seen that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. No, I I don't know. I was just born with that. I felt like I always had that ability to take punches to the stomach, you know. Uh ever since I was in middle school, we I always do that.
SPEAKER_01That's crazy, man. Because like usually, you know, you see like a smaller guy or whatever.
SPEAKER_04This dude had a a full grown man fucking wailing on just uh what else? Uh because um when I played basketball, yeah, I was the dude that takes charges. Everybody was scared to take charges, right? I was like, what's nigga? All you gotta do is just put your hand hold your nuts. Right, hold your nuts and take that. How much did you weigh in high school when you played bill? Uh in high school, I was over 200 pounds. I was like, I always high freshman year, I think I was like 210. 210. 210 and then senior year, I ended up being 225. Okay, and you could dunk still? I started dunking in eighth grade. Oh my god. Yo, Danny. Yeah, yeah. I was I started. I can't dunk. Nah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't dunk no more. For sure. I was dunking eighth grade. I started dunking eighth grade. Um, and uh, I always twisted my ankles when I was in high school. When I was in high school, that's when I started getting injured. And uh it was harder for me to jump and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01You still play pickup at all, or no?
SPEAKER_04Nah, no more pickup. I ended up hurting my like my leg, and then that's when I was like, nah, no more basketball. Strictly boxing, strictly. Yeah, strictly boxing. If I if anything with basketball, just shooting around, just shooting.
SPEAKER_02Ball ain't life no more. Us two, bro.
SPEAKER_01We play all my knees and shit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, people still thinking ball's life. Yeah, nah.
SPEAKER_01You get old. How old are you now? I'm 29. 29, yeah. So so you're getting up there too. But I'm once you hit 30, man, yeah, shit's downhill. Shit's downhill.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean, he'd be in his prime box, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boxing, yeah. Boxing exercise and basketball exercise is not the same because you gotta work different muscles in your legs, your knees, man. On the hardwood, yeah, the hardwood, that's what it is. Yeah, nah, the concrete was the worst. That's where I popped my Achilles.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you didn't tell your Achilles before, yeah.
Team Combat League Lessons Under Pressure
SPEAKER_04Pop my Achilles playing basketball. This is I my first fight with um uh Demetri and um this is a this is I fought Keishon. Uh what's his name? I think his name was Keishon Davis, too. Yeah, okay. And he was a heavyweight though, but and I was fighting on a bad Achilles injury, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to I think I think I remember that.
SPEAKER_01Was there was that when you like you like limped? You were limping in the ring. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Um that was crazy, but that just shows that your heart and how how strong you are and and your will to win. Yeah, with with your will to win though, um, you started the TCL league before you you went pro or you had a few pro fights.
SPEAKER_04No, that team combat league started me the pro.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I started pro yeah. That experience you got there because you were fighting like those those fighters and like Joey uh Duenko, whatever the fat white dude that who he could he could move though, bro. He's moving, yeah. I'm like yeah, but like I'm saying the point I'm making. The point I'm making is like there's seasoned veterans over there, like you think that helped you going forward?
SPEAKER_04Like, you have a lot of experience that for sure it helped me out because that that move Joey does, he slipped, he will slip, and then he's it looks like he's about to throw over him, and it comes, it goes so fast, like like you can't you can't because I'm here already. So he slips, he slips under, and he it looks like he's about to throw that that overhand right here. And that should be scary. I'd be like, nah, let me box him out back out of uh out of his range and shit.
SPEAKER_01That that was a cool concept, and I did hear that they paid the fight as well. So I'm sure he was doing good with that.
SPEAKER_02That one round, though, that make you fight different, though.
SPEAKER_04Like for sure. Yeah, it gives you different yeah, different perspectives on how to fight, you know. Uh, especially when you had the you know uh uh uh the last round when it's the last round, right? And and you feel like you gotta give your all that that team combat league gonna come in clutch.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's always the last round, pretty much.
SPEAKER_01I like that low. The New York City attitude logo, too.
SPEAKER_04That little team logo. I like that. Me too. Yeah, that should be fire. Yeah, it was gonna be a skull before. I was like, we was like, nah, hell no, skull, yeah. That's it, that shit bad luck.
SPEAKER_02So with that, did y'all have like team like get together like practic, like uh workouts and stuff?
SPEAKER_04Season one and season two, we all most of us trained together in the same gym. Yeah, we uh had we had workouts. Gym in New York, uh Green Fitness, Green Fitness. Uh, and then uh it's recently been changed to Metamorphous Work uh Fitness. Okay, um change the owners.
SPEAKER_01And you wait, you you you were with cops and kids too, right? I'm still I'm always been with cops and kids, yeah, yeah. I just trained there and the cops and kids. And the you I know they have gyms like all over the city, right? So you you're obviously in Brooklyn.
SPEAKER_04And for those listening, if anybody needs sparring, I'll go wherever, you know. Yeah, because then you know it's awesome for me to get her sparring.
SPEAKER_02Cops and kids and the amateurs, bro, they're taking they be ass. Scamming ass, man.
SPEAKER_01Scamming, man.
SPEAKER_02Every close fight, oh cops and kids.
SPEAKER_01Nah, nah, it's good. Nah, I understand.
SPEAKER_02Privilege, bro.
Cops And Kids And Starting Late
SPEAKER_01Not really, though. Like, they got their gyms are all like in the bottom of the hood.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but they be they always got like fives, tick, fighters, and like, god damn.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they do.
SPEAKER_01But it is a good concept, and for those that are listening that don't know, like out of state guys, Cops and Kids is like a program that started in New York City. It don't really got anything to do with cops, but it's just like they they built gyms like in in less fortunate areas, and the gyms and they're like legit gyms like in the project. And it's great for the kids, you know, that gives them an opportunity. Obviously, that that's how you started, right? Like you just went you were having some issues in school, I guess.
SPEAKER_04And no, um, yeah, I guess yeah, it's the college. I one year, I did one year of college. Uh, you know, college ain't workout, I did all that stuff.
SPEAKER_02Um, and I tried to went away or you was here?
SPEAKER_04I was in New York, I was upstate in uh Corning commit Corning Community College.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, okay. I went to Cobascale somewhere up there. I don't know if that's close. I don't know either. Probably upstate.
SPEAKER_04Probably not. Um yeah, but um after I did I I had to get a job, you know, because I was helping my mother out. Uh staying with my mom for a little bit. Um well, not a little bit, a lot of it. And uh uh that's when I decided to start boxing. Um, because one of my co-works, he was boxing at that gym. And I was like, yo, let me let me uh pull up to the gym one day. He was like, Yo, I was asking how much it was. He said, Shit free. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, when we when black people ain't free, it's for me, right?
SPEAKER_04I came the next day. Uh, and uh that's why cops and kids be doing so well because we got it's free, like kids come from all over, just go to that gym, you know.
SPEAKER_01Why pay for a gym when you can just go and then train for and again, you it it it has like the best talent, like so many athletes live in these these areas, like blessed athletes with great great gifts, and it gives them an opportunity to honestly use it.
SPEAKER_04Honestly, the best athletes come become are poor. Best athletes are poor, and you won't find them if we have to pay. You know, if you have to pay for everything, you're not gonna find good athletes.
SPEAKER_01And yeah, that the the hunger is there, and that's why he he just fought actually. So he's on my mind. But like Connor Ben, he said something once that that was kind of it kind of made sense to me. He was like, No, no, like like the because you know his dad was rich and everything comes from that failure. He's like, I want to do this, that's why that's my hunger. So it's kind of like a different different no, it's different, yeah. When you want to do it too.
SPEAKER_04Because when you when you poor and you want to do it, that's when you that's when the dog comes out of you. That's when you that's what's easier for you to be to become great because you're not forced to do it, you know. Some people are forced to do it, that's why they don't they don't got that that dog in them.
Learning Control After Hard Sparring
SPEAKER_01Yep, and when you want to do that shit, when yeah, like like yo, my I'm not gonna lie, me when I I'm 0-1 as an amateur, so uh my my dad pulled me aside. He was like, Yo, you don't need this, like these kids need this, want this, they're they're dogs. He was like, You don't need this, man. And he was right, my ass was getting plucked, as Willie would say. I just I just love boxing and I just stayed with it. I was I was that's it, I'm just a fan. No, for sure. But um, dude, was it hard like being a heavyweight in the amateurs, like finding sparring?
SPEAKER_04Because you know it's like safety, like first because I wasn't good, it was easy to get sparring, you know. Oh, once I started.
SPEAKER_02What age you started at?
SPEAKER_04I started 21. 21. Oh, so you were yeah, you were you were grown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was grown. So at first, at first I was 21 or maybe 20. I was yeah, my birthday late is in October, so okay. Yeah, but um first it was easy to get sparring, right? Then once I started knocking everybody out, right? Because I was I just had the I just had natural talent to a fight, you know. Yeah, I'm dropping everybody, everybody in sparring boom, over me. So I'm just trying to get them out of there. Cause I'm you know, I'm just I don't know, I just know for boxing to be, you know, brute force, you know, strong, knocking people out. So that's what I was doing. Once, once nobody wanted to spar me no more. That shit was it was like three years. I didn't get no sparring. It's crazy, yeah. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, shit. You didn't have no sparring etiquette, like uh see no, that's when I learned that's yeah, hard sparring.
SPEAKER_04Hard sparring, there's three years for me to get hard sparring, right? But uh, I'll get light sparring. You know, I had to learn I had to work on be uh sparring lighter dudes, you know, just to get my technique so I can still keep my, you know, my uh what's it called? Still have my you know my rhythms. Swagger. Yeah, exactly. You know, um, but that's when that's sparring the sparring the smaller guys helped me a lot with my head movement, my learning how to be fast on my feet, fast with my hands, and great head movement. I I worked on my head movement with smaller dudes, yeah, because I was you know, I get hit, but they now hit they don't hit as hard as a heavyweight, you know. But just eating it. So I just gotta work on not getting hit. Shit. That's all that and I felt like I feel like when I sparse smaller guys, when I do get hit, I feel like it's gonna, it's like when I when I rest, my my my my skin gets thicker, you know. The membrane around my brain gets thicker, it's it's it's easier. Yeah, like I can take better, I could take punches now.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, so because you heal faster, so it's like, yeah, I'm getting okay. Right, and I'm healing faster because it's not really hurting, right?
SPEAKER_04It's not heavyweight punches, but they still punches. This that's you know, it's it's breaking something in my in my mind. So now it's now they're building stronger, it's everything is building stronger.
SPEAKER_01I think it's making you like you're thinking too. Because you know, you're not getting knocked out, you're thinking, oh, I just got hit with that shit. That's yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything, everything connects, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you act, yeah. That's how you um you was talking about it was working on your speed instead of being quicker, your jab is nice. You have a nice jab.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Um, I can say for that one, I'll give you I'll give I'll give the um I get the T up. You know, uh that one. If you ever watched Never Back Down 2, you ever seen that movie? No. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Uh wait, which one is I might have seen that.
SPEAKER_04Never back down to is the one with the wrestler he wanted to fight MMA with Michael J. White. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Michael J. White ended up training him. And since he was already a wrestler, he already knew how to wrestle. So, right, he wanted to do the kid wanted to do MMA. So Michael J. White started training him in boxing. He wanted to teach him how to fight, you know, with his hands. And um Michael J. White, he gave him uh what's it called? So basically it was like a uh piece of paper, right? Piece of paper. This is thick as fuck, but a piece of paper, and what he had to do was he had to punch, he had to punch the paper and just put a hole through the like there would be a hole in that motherfucker like this. Okay, like that. And until he do that, that's when he can go on to the next to the next uh drill. And you did that? No.
SPEAKER_03He told him the whole story.
SPEAKER_02He didn't tell him the whole story like that's me.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna tell you why I didn't do that. I'm gonna tell you why. Because I didn't have the the He had he had a certain setup, and I couldn't do I couldn't I couldn't imitate that setup. Okay. So I did something different. I I learned on how to I seen I seen Ameri Khan. Uh it was I don't know if it was AR or real, but he punched out some he punched the candles. The candle, yeah, that one. Yeah, yeah. My old Instagram got hacked, bro. I was tight. Oh shit. But um I got some videos of me punching the punching the candle. I punched the candle out, and the flame, the flame goes, you know. I I punched the flame out. That's what I would do. Right. And I got up, I was able to get it up to two two candles back to back. So I punched the both the flames out. That's sick though. That's cool.
SPEAKER_02Where was you doing this at? That's in my house. Yeah, it was in the house. I was in the house.
SPEAKER_01It's gonna be like, oh, you see the news? If you look at like 19 or 2010, the news, a project burnt down because I punched the candle.
SPEAKER_04No, no, yo.
SPEAKER_02The funny thing you doing?
SPEAKER_04Nah, the funny thing is my mom was the one that gave me the candles. Yeah, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_02It wasn't with the candles that had Jesus on it.
SPEAKER_04I had I had a um, it was secure, so I had a glass, I had a glass, everything. It was and if it did fall, it wouldn't fall or nothing. It would, it was good.
SPEAKER_01So I made sure those little those little tricks and stuff do go like a long way. Obviously, you got to train and stuff, but there's a story with Joe Lewis where like when he first wanted to start boxing, his trainer was like, whoever it was, I forget the name, but he was like, Oh, when you come back and when you catch a fly out of the air, then you're ready to box or whatever. And he came back with two flies in his hand. That's funny. Yeah, I don't know if it's like a rumor, but it sounded good. So he got on he has on Bruce Leroy.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, for real. That's the same thing like uh this this anime show I I watched. It was called How'd you know epo. They told him they told him to catch leaves, catch 10 leaves in one hand. Boom. Okay, and you should have you should have well, he taught him five, actually. It was five, it was supposed to be five in each hand, but he ended up doing ten in the in one hand. Okay, he did it, he did it better than the dude asked him to do it.
SPEAKER_01So usick usick does all that stuff too, like the coins and stuff. Yeah, he does that with the coins, he does all those tricks, yeah. Yeah, and like even Lomachenko was doing all that stuff, like juggling those little things help, man.
SPEAKER_04They had like the same trainer, right? Yeah, his dad, yeah, yeah, same trainer, yeah. That's why.
Staying Active And The May 9 Fight
SPEAKER_01But I felt for heavyweights, man. Yeah, yeah, especially for for heavyweights, man. That that those little things are good. Uh damn, man. So so how many times a year are you trying to fight? I know you've been active. You just it feels like you just fought yesterday, and and now uh in May it's coming up again.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'm trying to fight as as much as possible. Uh how many is this? This is probably gonna be I think it for this year.
SPEAKER_01I think you're almost at three.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01Right, I think, yeah. Yeah, I did I did fight, um, I did fight Michael Coffee in the beginning. Yeah, that was yeah, that was in December. So this would be your third. Okay, okay. So yeah, it's like again, that's you're fighting like every two months almost, two, three months, like old school. I'm trying to do that, I'm trying to fight every week, man.
SPEAKER_04Shit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that pain ain't be crazy.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, uh, but yeah, I'm trying to fight as soon as possible. I'm trying to get on the June card. I'm trying to fight in June. Uh in Brooklyn, somewhere, wherever. Shit, yeah. Yeah, Brooklyn would be nice though. I don't want to. I got a lot of fans out here. Yeah, and that the NS card, right? Yeah, I would love to get on that card. That would be great if they could give me some reasonable. You got a promotion, yeah, yeah. Salita promotions. Yep, yeah. But he but he, if he if I was to fight on that card, he wouldn't help me with that shit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's that's kind of like the problem with the promotion side, the business side of it. Yeah, they want their own stuff, like for sure, yeah. Yeah, but whatever. I mean, Salita's good, he's a he's a big name, and again, you this this is a big card in Georgia that you're on. Uh, so it'll get a lot of eyes over there. But what um, so so when do you do you go into like the state? Like you're going to Georgia, you have a fight in Georgia May, what is that? May 17th, I think it is. May nine, May 9th, 9th, May 9th. I'm actually going, by the way. So you bought the tickets?
SPEAKER_04Who you bought the tickets by?
SPEAKER_01Um, so uh Norr, Matthew Noor. He's I'm just being honest, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, bro. He puts a bar name. No, he's really gonna knock me out. Yeah, but like you know, we interview him too, so we make a lot of friends here. I can't I usually have I have a ticket broker, I usually go through, so I usually go through him, but but this time I was like, oh, whatever, you know. So I'm going, man. So you'll you'll hear me there. You're gonna hear me.
SPEAKER_04You're gonna see some good face. I wish I could go.
Wilder’s Wild Quote And Studying Greats
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he's about to be uh Willie, Willie's about to hit his girl pregnant, so he's about to be a daddy again. Again, tight shit. Yeah, yeah, and uh good job. Did you I gotta ask you something though? Because you you speaking of daddy stuff, like you heard what Wilder said, right?
SPEAKER_04No, I honestly didn't hear, I was hearing everybody else say what he said, but I didn't hear what he said.
SPEAKER_01He always he talking like crazy in camp. I'm just curious because he wasn't always this, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but he mad cool. He talks to us, he he don't just he don't just spar us and then tell us get out, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, he hangs out with us and all that shit, but he was telling us some some stories, you know what I'm saying? I can't tell him that's not my job to tell him.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I got because you know he's yeah, what'd you think about the turkey basis thing he was doing that girl? What are you talking about? Well go ahead, he uh he uh you know he ejaculated on her back, and then she ran in the bathroom on the towel, ran the bathroom, got pregnant.
SPEAKER_01He said that's how he got pregnant, how his girl got pregnant. I think you were sparring him a little too hard, man.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he was bugging with that one.
SPEAKER_01You sure he said that? The towel? Oh, he said it. Oh, he said it.
SPEAKER_04Pierce Morgan, he said, you sure he said that you got a film, I gotta see that shit. Hold on. He's on Pierce Morgan, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You can just Google it. You might get some other shit up, bro.
SPEAKER_02He talked about on the towel, and then she ran at the bathroom and then got impregnated like that. I'm like, bro, you know, pre-com to do that shit, right?
SPEAKER_01You know, but uh, but yeah, anyway, we we talked about that last episode. Uh you know, heavyweights, man. Y'all say some crazy shit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so I get I guess he's not getting that fight with AJ because AJ, it looked like AJ trying to uh he might fight um Fury.
SPEAKER_01Did you watch? Did you watch the Fury fight?
SPEAKER_04I didn't get to, no, but it's on Netflix, so I'll be able to watch that shit. I like to rewatch fights all the time, anyways.
SPEAKER_01So and you you're a student, right? You study you study all these fighters and stuff, yeah, exactly. Um that's awesome.
SPEAKER_04But if they get boring, I I don't study them no more. I study back in the day fighters that I never heard of before. I study those guys, and it'd be it'd be the they be the best fighters. You people never heard of them.
Nicknames Charisma And Ring Critics
SPEAKER_01Yep, you're right. Back in the gl the glory days of boxing. Who who is one who is one of your favorite heavyweights? Heavyweights? Past heavyweight. I'm about to start playing some prices right music while we wait.
SPEAKER_02Is that your real nickname, though? That's your nickname, or they're the best thing.
SPEAKER_04Like somebody gave it to you, or you just yeah, somebody did give it to me, but I always used to watch that show. So every time in high school or in middle school, every time I get like an answer right, I will always say that shit. I always be like, yo, the price is right. Yeah, that's funny, yeah. Right? But my nickname was gonna be the berserker. Oh, the berserker, it was gonna be the berserker at first, right? And then everybody just kept saying, Yo, the price is right. And I just like I'm like, Yeah, and then my manager, my manager ended up making in my alias without even asking me. I'm like, damn.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because I'm listening watching your fight and shit. I'm watching your fight. I'm like, he said it. It sounded corny when the announcer said it, but it's like when you say it sounds ill, like you know what I'm saying? It depends who's saying it, I guess. Yeah, you got swag.
SPEAKER_01Nah, it's definitely with your name, man. I think it's one of the better names in the game, and you got the theme music already, yeah.
SPEAKER_04For real, and my last name Taylor. So when I when I talk to the girls, they think I'm hitting on them, right? So I'll be like, yo, my name Price, you know, the price is right, and then I tell them my last name, Taylor, Taylor May.
SPEAKER_00They call them the cops and shit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got or man.
SPEAKER_01You got man, you listen, you you're you're well spoken, you're you have charisma, you're you're all about it, but but with that charisma, right? And we'll let you go shortly. I don't want to take up too much of your time again. With with that charisma, right? There comes the critics, right? And now some of the critics say you you play around too much in the in the ring. I'm sure you've heard that. Yeah, you've heard that before, right? It's true. Like, do you do your coaches get mad at you?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. At the end of the day, I'm fighting, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I don't want to be bored. Why the fuck I'm fighting and being bored? I that's not, you know what I'm saying? Your job is to train me and make sure I'm in shape. You know, my job is to win. Simple. As long as I'm winning, I'm good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, you're you're right. I'm just saying, you know, like no, no, I know I know what you mean.
SPEAKER_04I know what you mean.
SPEAKER_01That there's always gonna be critics no matter what.
The Jerk Dance And Closing Plans
SPEAKER_04But listen, at the end of the day, it's entertainment, right? I'm entertaining the fans. I'm not entertaining you are. I gotta make the money, I'm gonna make the money a certain way, right? All the all the people in the in the crowd, they love when I dancing. As long as I'm knocking them out, I can do whatever I want. Honestly, you're right. Hey, my next one, I'm doing a jerk.
SPEAKER_02You know how to do the jerk?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I could. That's the only dance I know how to do.
SPEAKER_01I can't do any other dance.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's the only one. Yeah, one day Putin's gonna pull out his move one day. Well, probably, yeah. Yeah, show me something.
SPEAKER_01Well, Willie's a dancer, bro. So whenever we go to the fights, man, he's always dancing. I'm just the token white guy. I can't fucking dance.
SPEAKER_04I was like, nah, just do the jerk and then make it easy. That's all I can do.
SPEAKER_00I gotta keep I gotta keep it surprised, right? I can't show you all my moves, man.
SPEAKER_01Well, you gotta do the jerk right now. I got I got crops, I got crocs on my move. I mean I'm not trying to put it. I'm not trying to put hold on, I'm gonna do the jerk.
SPEAKER_02Let's go, let's go. Let's do that right there, no, right there where the chair is at. No, no, no. No, no, wait, wait, no, you just scream he pumping. He pumping us. Oh man, he pumped it.
SPEAKER_01Yo, yo, listen, I'll I'll be I'll be ringside at your fight, man. You win, come see me. I'll do the jerk with you, man.
SPEAKER_04I'll do it. I'm gonna jump in. Y'all better get a clip. Y'all better get a clip. Hey, I'm not gonna forget, I swear to God.
SPEAKER_01Nah, we'll be there, we'll be there.
SPEAKER_04Let's do it again.
SPEAKER_01That that's what May 9th, right? We said May 9th. May 9th in Georgia. Um Gateway, Gateway Center Arena. Yeah, Gateway Center Arena, right? Right next to the airport, too, which is good. So we're just gonna get up out of here, yeah. Nah, but you know, like um and out. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm coming. We're we're coming down Friday, so we'll be there Friday and Saturday, yeah. But Sunday, yeah, I gotta get out of there, man. Yeah, uh but all right, man. Yo, thanks for the time again. Uh once you knock his ass out, see me come see me brings up. I got you, man. I got you. Appreciate that. Yeah. Thanks for having me, man. Yo, yo, thank you. Thank you, man. Again, and looking forward looking forward to your fight and the future, man.
SPEAKER_02Hell yeah. Appreciate my guy. I don't know.