WHAT’S it been like, coming to terms with your first defeat, to Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis in April?
At that time, I wasn’t committed. I wasn’t dedicated. I had a lot of things I was still figuring out in life, and being in that place, I just didn’t care enough. I didn’t care about boxing. I was going through the motions because of all the layoffs, and all the bullshit I was going through. I had to cut so much weight, and I was so frustrated I stopped caring. But I went through with it, even though I did suffer an injury in the gym and suffered so much stuff outside the ring. I just didn’t wanna either pull out or wait for a better time, because boxing was so damn boring. Nobody was boxing each other, and I was tired of that. so I was like, ‘You know what? Let me go through with this and make a lot of money – I don’t even care. I’m gonna do it’, and that’s what I did. It wasn’t tough for me, because I wasn’t shocked. That wasn’t me. I know that wasn’t me. I wasn’t my best. When it happened, I didn’t feel nothing. But about two months later, “Oh, I lost?”. It woke up something else. I haven’t been this focused since when I was coming up in 2019-2020 – I
