Name: What George Kambosos Jr. Learned from Training with Manny Pacquiao
Uploaded: 2021-12-08T18:13:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What George Kambosos Jr. Learned from Training with Manny Pacquiao' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What George Kambosos Jr. Learned from Training with Manny Pacquiao' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-08. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience having trained with Manny Pacquiao had to be a huge
asset for you because even though Bay was probably your biggest name opponent
up until then you know you'd been how many rounds had you done with Manny 250
rounds over three world total campaigns so so it started with the Jeff Horn
fight
it did yeah when when Jeff got obviously the fight with Manny Pacquiao I was in
Los Angeles and I was sparring he's sparring ex-sparring partners Jose Ramirez
and Ray Beltran I was doing five and five and these guys are good fighters
former world champions and Freddie come over and goes goes you know Manny's got
the Jeff Horn fight so yeah I'm hearing about it he goes well you're sparring
he's sparring partners how would you like to go against your countrymen and
help
Manny prepare I said Freddie I'm all in you know
you know I know he's my countrymen but this opportunity of a lifetime Manny's
my idol
you can't pass that so um I had a fight uh
before a couple weeks after the sparring sessions that I impressed
and got the opportunity so I still had to win that fight
against uh Camille Barla you know in New Zealand and in between that fight I
got a
really bad cut in my eye and the first thing that went to my head was I got to
sparring with Manny Pacquiao in a week and a half
okay now this cut might stop it so I wasn't even thinking about the opponent or
thinking about the fight I knew I was going to win this fight by any means but
I was
thinking about my opportunity against Manny Pacquiao but you know we got there
did you super glue it?
uh we got the stitches yeah a week after the stitches came out I was putting so
much vitamin
e-cream and every bit of you know theory that I could find on the internet to
make sure it
closed up good and wasn't going to give me an issue and I went into that first
sparring
session with Manny and it was okay with it with a cut
did you know Jeff Horne?
I did know Jeff yeah yeah we were in the amateurs together
how did he feel about you training with Manny?
yeah he wasn't happy at that stage you know but um yeah he's a good guy he's
actually a good
guy of the sport and at that stage he had come out and said um you know why is
he going
against me he's a country man why couldn't he give me a phone call and me being
me you
know I turned around him being a school teacher and said I've never asked for
permission you
know from a school teacher ever so I'm gonna I'm gonna go do my thing with Pacquiao
no matter
what I think he's got to understand that you had to and I think he does I think
he does
now yeah he had to um and to be able to have an opportunity like that to spar
250 rounds
with one of the greatest of all time I mean what he won world titles in what
eight
division eight divisions 13 or 14 world titles it crazy it would never be done
again crazy and as
much as uh you want to see records broken and you know I want to I want to
break records that man
is a one of one he's a one of one I mean when he knocked down Thurman in that
fight I was like
this is crazy yeah this guy's 40 years old and still can crack and still as
fast as lightning yeah
look the power that he possesses but it's not a thumping power it's that
explosive speed
that explosive power the full work he gets in position and all of a sudden he's
landed three
four five shots and then he's angled off a lot like I did in my fight against
Lopez you know a lot of that
you know sparring paid off and it did shape me and I know he did put out a
tweet as well
saying that I hope the sparring we did you know helped you in this fight and
straight away
that's amazing and I was also excited he's a legend of the sport he is a legend
and he's a he's such an
unusual guy you know what's crazy about him is his calves yeah when you look at
that they're giant
they're like a thigh and I know the reason why why because in general Santos
the mountains that he runs
and that steep hill that's why they're so big because he's always constantly
running
mountains and I was doing the mountain runs with him yeah my calf started
getting bigger and bigger
but I understand yeah why his calves are huge but he's always bouncing he's
always moving around
yes you know he'll bounce for like 20 something rounds you know he'll do his
pads and he's jumping up
and down and you know he really is an unbelievable person unbelievable athlete
and uh you know legend
of the sport I think as time progresses people are really gonna you know
appreciate his greatness
yeah and and coming back from defeats too I mean he's a guy that's had his
downs he's had his ups
and his downs and you know he always I mean he always smiling and always
friendly to people it's like
he's so admirable just as a human being and it shows too that um defeats you
know I love how the UFC is
you know losses are losses yeah and that boxing has this this stereotype where
the zero is is so
important I'm undefeated but would you rather rather see the best fight in the
best you're gonna get
competitive fights and great fights but unfortunately boxing it's not like that
well the biggest draw in
the sport is Canelo and Canelo is not undefeated that's right that's one way of
looking at it you
know he lost to Floyd yeah um when you know Manny is also like a world-class
pool player well he's got
the pool um tables yeah at his mansion in his house yeah so he's yeah not like
he plays like a professional
and he's and he loves his basketball yeah he's great at basketball shooting threes
it's it's unbelievable
wow he's a serious athlete yeah did did training with him um did you make any
changes to the way you approach
fights or the way you prepare for fights after training with him I did I
learned the one percenters
the the extra bit to do the extra rounds you know usually before the sparring
with Manny Pacquiao
you know you do your eight rounds or your ten rounds of pads and you're sparring
but that's it
you do your work and you finish with him he does his pad work he does his spine
but then he's on the bag
he's on the uh the shadow boxing he's there doing the the pad work so the extra
rounds just builds
that that conditioning and that stamina and that's what I just found that push
more rounds you know if
your body can keep going push more and more that's what I learned from him