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a new jobs report struck a never on wall street, sending stocks to their lowest levels in two weeks. a 2% loss in all three indexes, investors reacting to the troubling news that zero jobs were created in the entire month of august. and former major league pitcher roger clemens is going back to federal court. today a judge set his new trial date for april 17th. >> announcer: the following is a
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presentation of hbo sports. >> good? >> yeah, good. >> rolling. >> rolling. what motivates me? just -- >> the emfamous question, why do i do it. >> just putting the finishing touches on my legacy. >> floyd mayweather was taught to box by those who share his name. now, as his sport's most divisive figure, he is ensuring e ing anyone who ever heard that name will remember it forever. >> wake up every day like, hey, you know what, this isn't half as bad as my youth. >> his kin deserted and forgot him. now, after resurrecting a broken reputation in election ra ifying fashion, he moves straight to boxing's biggest target. >> what got me to this point, 41-0? belief. belief.
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as of today, i'm not content. i'm not happy. i'm just scratching the walls. i'm knocking at the doors. i'm at the foot steps of something big. >> this is the story of one man who claims to have everything he needs. and another who after a long journey has determined exactly what he wants. >> when i see and look into floyd's eyes, i see a kid that just thinks he's god's gift to earth. >> who work harder than me? no athlete work harder than me. fighters. no athlete work harder than me. we're on "24/7" right now. you tell me one athlete right now that's been dominating the game for 16 years straight without a loss. tell me one. tell me just one. that ends it all. i'm gone. >> this is "24/7, mayweather/ortiz."
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>> 60 miles northwest of los angeles in the town of ventura, california, the days often begin before nights are complete. joining the early rising surfers of late, 24-year-old boxer victor ortiz. the biggest fight of his life by far against floyd mayweather is on december 17th. but his approach and that of the team around him is the same. meaning his veteran trainer danny garcia still works the early shift as a truck driver for coca-cola before heading for the gym. assistant trainer mario aginia
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reports to camp only after his work as a greenskeeper at a local golf course is complete. their attitude is blue collar. fighter says that suits him just fine. >> i'm very positive person. which is why i'm surrounded myself and created this alliance. every one of 'em they bust their butts day in and day out with me. i love my team. >> a third and critical member of the team is currently a thousand miles east, deep in the american heartland. timo ortiz, the boxer's brother, is wrapping up a few last-minute pieces of business in his day job as ceo of ortiz trucking in garden city, kansas. >> i love trucking. it's cool. you got to be in the right state of mind to be behind the wheel. you go in there and you go, you know what, i'm gonna have a bad day, then you're gonna have a bad day.
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i was 20, 21, starting my company. now i'm 22. i've done well. i've done okay. >> if the ortiz brothers seem like a successful pair, their tale is all the more remarkable considering its beginnings. amid the bleakness of drugs, gangs and poverty in garden city. >> i grew up pretty poor. very poor. but at the time it was one of those things where i was a little kid. i didn't really care. we definitely didn't have a whole lot. but we had each other. growing up, we're like "the a team." we'd always be together. we were just inseparable. >> for a while, keeping close was a way to have fun. until it became a route to mere survival when their family began to disintegrate around them. >> my mama, she looks at me, she
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goes, what would you do if i leave you guys like one day, like what would you do? and i look at her and i tell her, you know what, you wouldn't do that to me. so she walks to the bus stop. and she looks at me. she gets on one knee. she has tears coming down her face. and she looks at me. and she gives me a kiss. i'm, like, whoa, there's something wrong here. we get home from school one day. my mom's gone. and i'm, like, wow. so she's -- up and leaves, like, like we're nothing, you know. literally, i felt like she reached in to me, into my heart, and just pulled it out. that's how i felt. >> when their mother left, victor was only 7 and temo 5. a few years later, things got even worse when their family abandoned the family as well. leaving the ortiz children alone in this trailer without food or electricity. they fended for themselves for
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three years by staying with nearby friends. until landing in foster care as teenagers. by then, victor was spending most afternoons in a boxing gym at a salvation army youth center. run by a man named bucky avila. >> my husband, he always had something about that, always. he said, i have a dream some day victor will be in lights. i wish my husband would be here because he'd be so proud. >> he was a great man, you know. he was -- for sure. i find myself think about him quite a bit. especially when i'm in big fights or something. it's, like, bucky, you just tell me, you can do this, junior, you're gonna be world champ. i won't stop for nothing. just keep going for it.
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>> it has been more than 15 month since floyd mayweather last fought in a boxing ring. any impact the hiatus has had on his skills is undetermined. the swagger is untouched. >> i'm happy camp started back. i'm happy 50 is part of the money team. it's not really team mayweather, it's the money team. >> the reflexes is slow. make it miss your head. >> includes friends like super star rapper 50 cent alongside family members and employees. everyone of them excited the boxer is back where he belongs. welcome back i'm back first and foremost, i'd like to thank nas
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change the game a whole lot >> man, we hit so many people on this staff and on this team, i don't know everybody name, first and last name. welcome back this is my story >> of course there are some names that could never be forgot. like that of the boxer's uncle and longtime trainer roger mayweather. >> 26 -- >> people like floyd, roger says scouting the opponent ranks low on his to do list. >> what would i do? i wouldn't know him from another bag of white rice. i wouldn't know nobody. he don't mean nothing to me, period. >> then there's floyd mayweather sr. brother of roger. father of floyd. who has a flair all his own. >> i'm the motivator, innovator, creator of the game.
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see, i'm the one that taught them. it wouldn't never happened for neither brother, any of us. i was the first one that would do this. yes. >> the relationship between mayweather sr. and junior have been strained since roger took over as the boxer's trainer years ago. but that doesn't stop senior from visiting the gym to offer ringside advice. >> at the end of the day, it's just -- it's your blood. blood's thicker than blood. if he wins, i win. his name is floyd mayweather. junior. i'm senior. >> the mayweather family. not your average american success story. but one the 34-year-old boxer says he's made peace with. >> you know, without my uncle roger, without my father, floyd mayweather, you know, i wouldn't be where i'm at today. it all started with both. my dad started me off, you know,
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and left my life at the age of 16. roger came into my life, you know, he welcomed me in from 17 years old, you know, to 34. so roger has -- have worked with me longer. but it all started with my father. >> with his team intact, floyd mayweather relishes the challenge from victor ortiz awaiting him in 21 days. count on plenty of noise out of vegas in the interim. >> two i'ma beat his [ muted ]. three that's an easy word. four i'm so flashy. five i can never be beat. six i'm getting big money. seven i got the most haters. this is "24/7." believe me i'm the best. hello the cereal
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>> work on him today. >> all right. i'll see you, bro. >> trainer garcia reports to camp every day at 5:00, right after he clocks out at coca-cola. >> i love my job, i like my job. the money that i make in my job, coke, is not that much, but i can pay my bills. >> it is an unusual choice for such a well respected trainer. work with just a single fighter and use a second job for health benefits. again, perhaps it reminds garcia that chasing a dream is hardly work at all. [ speaking foreign language ] >> garcia began training ortiz in 2007. the four years since have seen no shortage of highs and lows. fighter was once considered one of boxing's top prospects. in june of 2009, a bout derailed everything.
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>> my mental state wasn't there. i've never been in a locker room and said to myself, i want to go home, while thousands of people are cheering. >> ortiz gets dropped from a big right hand! >> that straight right that put me down, i don't remember anything about the fight, so i have no memory of it till today. >> the survival instinct did eventually kick in, as ortiz knocked down maidana three times in five rounds. going into the sixth, the fight was close on the scorecards. but then after getting floored again, ortiz simply quit. a decision that has shadowed his career but not his conscience ever since. >> why try to go back and watch and study something that in my mind never took place? >> we just saw a moment in a fighter's career that could define his career. ortiz, in a moment of weakness, gave up.
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>> i don't regret anything. anything i did in my life actually. there are some things i should have changed but i didn't. >> a lot of people was saying that he was scared because he stopped the fight. but i always said he's not a scared fighter. >> i'm young but i don't think i deserve to be, you know, getting beat up like this so i have a lot of thinking to do. >> everybody's talking, talking that victor don't have no heart. i want to say one thing to maidana -- thank you. it was a blessing in disguise. >> i've been through so many adversities. so why is boxing any different? >> if giving up in the ring is the sport's greatest sin, ortiz quickly decided he was willing to atone. he spent two years rebuilding his reputation. and then this past april, moved up in weight to challenge undefeated welterweight titleholder andre burto. entering the ring as a defiant 4-1 underdog. >> there wasn't a doubt in my
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mind that i would not go home without that belt. >> there's a lot of questions about him. we gonna find out what he's made of tonight. >> people could have told me, and they did, you won't win. >> staggered again. berto has a whole new respect for ortiz's punching power. >> you just don't have it. you're not fast enough. you're not strong enough. >> down goes ortiz on a perfect right-hand shot by berto. >> that's called career suicide, victor. yeah, for you guys. not for me. >> this is the sixth round. the round he lost to maidana. >> i knew what i was there for. and that belt was mine. it was mine before the fight even began. >> oh! unbelievable! what a fight! >> i don't really care what anybody has to say about me now a days. >> winner by unanimous decision and new wcb -- >> who's the world champ?
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who's the world champion? >> it's ortiz! it's ortiz! >> good work! perfect. >> whooping time. here it comes. hold up. >> while the past 15 1/2 months have been quiet for floyd mayweather's box career, the same can't be said of his personal life. >> step your game up, rick! >> during his time away from the ring, mayweather has had multiple run-ins with the law. >> i won. told you! >> in all, he's a defendant in six separate pending legal cases. >> you know, as far as with the cases, i'm, like, my mentality is like it's always gonna be. it's gonna be what it's gonna be. if i'm innocent, leave me alone. if i'm guilty, do what you gotta do.
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it's lies, lies, period, lies. i never -- i mean, it's -- when it's all said and done, it's bull [ muted ]. you get the best team you can get. you get the best team money can buy. have i paid a lot of money in lawyer fees? absolutely. millions. but it come with the territory. people money hungry. what else can i say? that's what's been going on the last 15 months. >> floyd. fat boy eating -- >> you supposed to be on a diet. take his food. >> don't touch -- >> here, take that. >> i know you like the raviolis and crackers so i got to make sure you got it at the house. >> you got specific crackers i like too. >> crackers in the green box. the money green box. >> oh, yeah. >> during good times and bad, mayweather is rarely without his
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inner circle. an eclectic group that includes longtime friend 50 cent. >> that's my brother and my best friend. when it come down to it. you find out who your real friends -- your real friends really are. and that's my dude, you know, till the day we d-i-e. good, dude. know what i'm saying, i don't care what it is, i'm always gonna be there for him, i'm always gonna support him. >> and then there's another face who's become a very significant part of the life of floyd mayweather. his fiance. >> i don't got to tell you her name. we call her miss jackson. call her miss jackson, miss mayweather. a lot of different names. a lot of different names. she's just -- she's a strong black woman. behind me 100%. what's that song at the basketball game? kiss me. >> floyd and i met five years
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ago in atlanta. i was in valet waiting on my car. and basically he just came, gave me his number, and the rest is history. floyd proposing to me. honestly, it wasn't the traditional get down on one knee proposal. we just have that mutual understanding for each other. and he just told me one day out of the blue, i want you to be my wife. and basically that was it. and that was all i needed to hear. >> work time, work five work time. work time. imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your mobility and your life. one medicare benefit that, with private insurance, may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it.
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picture perfect mornings in ventura turn the pacific into an irresistible target for local surfers. by consequence, the city streets traffic free for the boxer. flanking ortiz on wheels today, danny garcia, on an off day from coca-cola. also just in from kansas victor's brother temo. temo's time in camp is no free ride. he's charged with handling the small stuff. so the fighter can train without distraction. >> during camp, my job is to oversee everything. i do a little bit of cooking and stuff for him as well. basically like i'm -- i play
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like a personal assistant in his life. >> the strong pillars of support contrast starkly from ortiz's childhood. the origins of his bond with his trainer reveal just howdevotion runs. >> i love danny. my savior in boxing. >> he's getting tired on me. of course, i'm going to pay for it when i get back to the gym, talking all this smack. danny. yes. >> danny garcia comes from a boxing family. his father eduardo, now retired, was a celebrated trainer whose sons followed him into the ring. in fact, it was danny's younger brother robert who discovered ortiz in garden city, kansas. >> he came here when he was 16. my dad brought him. they saw him in a national tournament. they brought him over here. they were training him for a
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couple years. >> but after those few years, the personalities of robert garcia and ortiz began to clash. so the fighter approached his trainer's older brother who by then had traded in his life in the gym for work as a driver. >> i said, coach danny, i know you work and you work nights. but i need someone to be there for me and train me. so please, if you could find it in your heart just, you know, go to the gym with me and tell me what to do here and there. >> in 2007, danny garcia agreed to step in as ortiz's trainer. even though his family considered the change a betrayal and reacted accordingly. >> for a few years my dad and my brother and my whole family, they got mad. i don't know why they got so mad. i love my brother. but i don't know if he loves -- i don't know if he loves me.
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>> there are no such questions about his partnership with his fighter. a collaboration that resulted in a world title and opportunity against the undefeated mayweather and an air-tight bond of trust. >> i didn't do nothing wrong. i knew he was going to be champion. i always thought he was going to be champion. >> i wanted to be in it for the long haul. in this case, it was coach danny. danny was the only one who believed in me. >> fighting runs in the mayweather blood. which means every day at the boxing club that bears the family name, the rituals completed by the fighter in training are performed innately. in these parts, this clan, combatency is the norm. hostility is expected.
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it is a way of life that has pabed down for generations. and a tradition that continues to endure. >> catch on the body. corner of the body. there you go. like that. >> on days when floyd mayweather sr. visits his son's gym, their climate of competition often extends to rhetorical duels between the two men. like today's argument about a pair of opposing female boxers. but this is the mayweather boxing club. where at any moment amusing and innocuous repertoire can without warning turn dark. >> our training camp is fun. >> our training camp is fine. we gonna stay undefeated.
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>> you were undefeated when you started with your daddy. >> i started with you, didn't i? >> no, you was training him. >> i started -- >> i was training with -- >> you was down here. >> you can't train nobody when you're locked up. you can't train nobody when you're locked up. >> everything this man says what his daddy didn't do, guess what, at the end of the day, you're gonna see about him. >> hey, josie don't get you nowhere. >> what jealousy? >> jealousy don't get you nowhere. >> who the best trainer in. >> you just said you was the best. you're not even close to him. not even close. >> oh, man. >> not even close. >> tell me what you got to do right now. >> okay, let me tell you this. >> okay, you got nothing. >> guess what, guess what, guess what, let me tell you this right here -- >> hey. >> don't no fighter want to be with you. de la ohio don't want to be with you. >> i left de la hoy. >> don't no fighter want to be with you.
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when you got to us, we was already 15, 14 fights. already the title. >> roger's my trainer. roger -- >> ain't nothing wrong. roger ain't made you. >> this is my trainer right here. >> ain't nothing wrong -- >> roger's my trainer. we don't want nobody interfering while we working. we don't want nobody in the way while we working. stop interfering. get out of our way. >> get out your way? >> this is our gym. get out our way. why you here? you don't got to come here. i don't ask you to come here. nobody ask you to come here. nobody ask you to come here. >> you better -- >> nobody better grab me, nobody better do [ muted ] to me. >> you ain't better do [ muted ] to me. >> ain't nobody [ muted ]. [ indistinct arguing ]
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>> come punch me out mother [ muted ]. come punch me, mother [ muted ]. punch me out [ muted ]. punch me out [ muted ]. put me out [ muted ]. >> you guys stop this. >> i beat your [ muted ]. 41-1. you can't fight [ muted ]. you can't fight [ muted ]. you can't fight [ muted ]. >> let me go. let me go. >> come on, go on, go on. come on, come on, come on. >> you ain't [ muted ]. you ain't [ muted ].
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>> come on. go on, go on. listen, listen, floyd, floyd, you already said what you said. listen, you already said what you said. >> they are father and son. that fact will never change. but neither, too, will this sometime, very painful reality. fighting runs in their blood. >> if you the best trainer and the best -- guess what, you should have the best gym. you should have the best gym. regardless to whoever in our gym. i ain't bothering nobody. all my cars is paid for. all my houses is paid for. and like i said before, come september 17th, i'm cashing out on another stupid payday. i'm not bothering nobody. as of right now, i'm not bothering nobody. don't bother me, i don't bother you.
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this is my gym when it's all said and done. like i said before, roger mayweather made the mayweather name. roger mayweather made the mayweather name and i took it to the next level. when it's all said and done, there's only two [ muted ] mayweathers that count, roger mayweather and floyd mayweather. not no junior.
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on september 17th, live, from the mgm in las vegas, nevada, the return of the biggest moneymaker in boxing, floyd mayweather. he steps into the ring against a southpaw with real hand speed and punching power, coming off a win in a fight of the year-type brawl. not manny pacquiao. vicious victor ortiz. gentlemen. floyd, the boxing world's been waiting. what took so long? >> i don't know why i had the fans waiting so long.
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i'm just happy to be back in the sport of boxing. i can't wait to get out there september 17th and do what i do best. that's perform for the fans. >> having taken a long layoff and having seen your fight, which was spectacular win, saw a bigdown strong welterweight in his prime, when it was announced you were fighting victor ortiz, the boxing world said, whoa, i guess floyd is not taking a soft touch for his first fight back. why victor ortiz? >> young strong lion. that's what we want to fight. he's one of the best guys in the sport of boxing today. and this fight, this fight right here with victor ortiz, the sport of boxing needs this fight. a young strong champion against a future hall of famer. >> now, you are bigger than him. you're a lot younger. you are a southpaw. we've seen floyd with some troubles with southpaw, in the past. why did you open a 7-1 underdog? >> i'm always the underdog, man.
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every -- in everything i do, you know. so it doesn't really bother me anymore. i'm at the point where yourself, along with many in this world, said you have no courage, you have nothing. you're never gonna be anything. and then the moment you sat back and you did that to me, man, you ripped that heart right of me, you stomped all over it. and i said, thanks, max. and you know what -- >> i didn't put it exactly that way but i hear you. >> you said -- i can clearly quote you but, you know, rather not. come on, man. >> now, considering you had guys like me criticizing you after the maidana fight. >> it's all forgiven. it just hurt for a while. >> what did it mean to you to have that fight against andre berto? >> as far as berto, i was like, berto, no, no, it's pacquiao. it ain't berto. for you guys it was. i agreed to strongly disagree.
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>> pivotal moment in the fight, he comes in for the kill and you stand your ground and fight him off. what were you thinking at that moment? >> said, there's no way, you ain't taking this from me, man. this is mine. i didn't take no for an answer. i've been down for too long. and i'm just one of the greats of all time. and that to me, that's bad ass. >> floyd, what do you have at stake if you lose? >> i got everything to lose. he takes my fan base. he takes the throne. >> you got everything to lose. >> i got everything to lose every fight. >> he's got nothing to lose. he has everything to win. is that an advantage for him? >> it is an advantage because with every victory i'm never gonna get props i truly deserve anyway. i'm never gonna get the props i truly deserve. >> you keep fighting shane moseley after the win and vikt victor ortiz, what can they say? >> i'm being honest for the people at home.
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where they at? when i fought shane moseley, after that, they said it's the best he's looked. when i fight oscar, we're both in our 30s. they rated this guy number two powerful paw. i didn't rate him. he calleded me up. >> usually if a fighter keeps fighting good fighters for long enough, he runs into somebody, it's not his night, he gets older. how do you avoid falling into that trap? >> i always find a way to get the job done. i was born for this. i was born to be on this level. i was born to handle this. >> i just don't really care, with all due respect, bro. i was born to do this as well. >> don't worry about it. that's what they all say. i say september 17th, you'll see. >> i always find a way to get see. >>...got even easier? affirmative.
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>> i'll just tell him this, it's different at this level. i'm gonna be at his best. bring his best. he don't have to worry about me boxing or moving because i'm not gonna do it. he ain't got to worry about me moving. >> why is that, because your leggings are a little older or you're just changing your style up? >> i don't have to do that. >> do you believe him when he says he's going to stand in front of you? not with his hands down but standing in front of you? >> it's going to be war. and i'm taking this thing with me to the grave. >> just say the title -- >> you know what, it's great, i could be the green hornet. you know, when he put on that ring. all different type of power. money. >> must have felt at some point watching floyd, this is how i would fight him, this is what i would do. ever have that opinion? >> i tell you this, i tell every fighter this, it looks different when you're on the outside.
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>> oh, yeah it does. >> it looks totally different on the outside. >> i can't hit him, i thought he was right in front of me. >> exactly. >> you must have some opinion about that. you think you can impose your size on him, your youth? >> doesn't really matter. youth now a days doesn't matter. take bernard hopkins for example. >> them prada shoes? >> floyd mayweather spot prada shoes under a steel desk in a dark room. >> at the end of the day, throw down. >> what about the hand speed? >> power is all right. my speed's decent. >> how are you able to beat berto with okay power and decent hand speed? >> i'm a bad ass. >> that's your desire? >> definitely. >> i don't mean to cut you off. the difference between the victory with berto, he looks tremendous. berto got speed and power, but there's certain angles and certain things that i use that, you know, i break my opponent down.
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and before you know it, you look up and you say, damn, i'm down on the scorecard, you understand, you may be down 4-0. it may not even go four. just don't know. >> that's what i said too. >> everything you see on outside you say, i can do this, or can land this shot. if you make any mistakes, you have to pay. make any mistakes, you have to pay. >> what was that? >> that's what i'm gonna say about you too. >> yeah. he gotta do what he gotta do september 17th. i've been here before. i know what it takes. it's just another day for me. >> right, it is just another day for him. but it's not for you. can you talk about that? >> no, it's not another day for me, but it is my first time defending my title. i'm going to see to it i keep it just like he did for 15 years. >> why is that funny to you? >> i mean, heard it before. heard a lot of times. since i'm 19.
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i'm at the top of the game. it took me a year to become champion. i know what it takes. >> do you wonder what that's going to be like anticipating the spotlight? >> it's not the same. it's not the same. it's not the same. i'm telling you. >> i realize it's in a different world. maybe in a different dimension. but i don't really care. you taught me that. you taught me that as well. >> the same old thing, i don't worry about it. same old thing. make it happen. cut the check. okay, make it happen.
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when you look at floyd's confidence, do you think you have that kind of confidence? >> i know i do. if i didn't a year or two ago, i know i do now. after you crush me in the media and everybody else too and took that heart of mine and shoved it where the sun don't shine, finally broke me to point where i stopped caring. >> do you have to have don't care attitude against floyd? >> definitely.
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>> how will you deal with the fact he is a southpaw? we've seen you get hit more than we're used to seeing you get hit against southpaws. against some guys who don't seem like they're in your league. here's a southpaw with real hand speed and punching power. >> well, it comes with the territory, what else can i say? true champion take a shot and bounce back. >> your last fight, every moment of the fight, had shane moseley. except for one in the second round. help caught you with the right hand. shake you up? >> i still was coming forward. >> did it shake you up? >> yeah, it was a good shot. >> do you worry -- >> know what i told shane? it was a good shot but you gotta kill me, i'ma keep coming. i don't worry about no opponent that's fast. i don't worry about no opponent that's a southpaw. put him in front of me, see what he can do. i don't think i can lose. you can be this, that, be the
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king of the world. but i aim the new king. so i don't care. >> do you believe him when he says that? >> what he say, i was looking over there. >> that he's the new king, that he just doesn't care? >> they have to come up with a game plan to beat me. there's no game for him to beat me. >> so he cares? >> he has to. >> when he says that, he's fronting. >> i ain't gonna say he's fronting but there's no game plan on how to beat me. pacquiao, there's a game plan how to beat him. there's no way to beat me yet. >> what do you think when you see floyd hold court like that and do his thing? is there anything you want to tell him you haven't said already? >> no. >> tell me about september 17th. tell me. >> i'm gonna take my belt, man. >> tell me the game plan. >> well, i'm gonna brutalize you for 12 rounds. >> finish telling me. >> okay, i'll knock you out. i'm gonna do what travis did to >> roger, come on. >> roger mayweather, 1985, you
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know. >> hey. what else? tell me some more. >> i'll just show you. >> okay. he a good little fighter. all i gotta say is one thing. 41 in front of me. 41 came up short. >> not this one. >> i'm gonna destroy this kid. >> told you to shut up, man, that's kind of messed up. >> we gonna see blood, sweat and tears. >> announcer: tune in tomorrow night for the next "24/7," and don't miss fight, mayweather versus ortiz, saturday september 17th live on hbo pay-per-view.
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