Episode Transcript: JRE MMA Show #148 with Bernard Hopkins
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We're here, what's up? Pleasure to meet you, man.
I've been a gigantic fan of yours for a long time, so it's a real pleasure.
That's what I've been hearing, Joe, but you know, I've also been a Kama fan in the last couple of years before you came to Austin.
I go out to LA a lot to do boxing, promoting in West Coast, East Coast, with Golden Boy Promotion.
I'm partner Oscar Delahoye, so good to be met and good to meet you also.
What is it like transitioning from being a fighter to being a promoter?
Because Oscar, yourself, Floyd, only a few fighters have managed to do that successfully like you have.
Well, first of all, it's not just walking into it.
I sort of got groomed in my career based on, I'll say, the last eight, nine years of my 30-year career.
I took on the ownership and responsibility of making the last decisions.
I hired people that can give me the right information.
Not a lot, but just a few people that can give me the right information about this particular fight.
For instance, Kelly Pavlik in Atlantic City, Oscar Delahoye fight in 0607.
And I groomed myself for this moment to be ever to be independent, but also learn the business.
And let me tell you, it is difficult.
It's difficult not doing a job, per se, but it's difficult in the business,
in the structure of the business of boxing.