BT: What's up, Bertooooo?
AB: Whaddup, whaddup, whaddup.
BT: You tell me! It sounds like you might be hitting that Mayweather Sweepstakes.
AB: I'm trying to see what that ticket looking like. They keep talking about the fight; I'm trying to see what the damn lottery ticket looking like. shyt, that's what I'm trying to see what's happening.
BT: (Laughing) No doubt. Were you surprised when Mayweather mentioned you as a possible opponent for his September fight? It seemed like that announcement kind of came out of the blue.
AB: You know what, man? Not really, because you know what? Me and Floyd go way back and me and Floyd were supposed to do it back in the day before I fought Ortiz. Everybody knows that I was supposed to be next up right before he fought Ortiz, but of course me just being young and not giving a fukk and not really training, you know, that situation with Ortiz happened and you see Ortiz got the fight. Same thing with Guerrero. That's the way Floyd works. Anybody that he feels has that potential of being next up, if they get beat, you know, that's who he takes on.
I'm not really surprised because I believe me and his situation runs a little bit deeper than boxing, you know what I'm saying. Me and him, we carry a little personal situation here and there, so I'm not too surprised by it.
BT: In 2010, you were scheduled to fight Shane Mosley. You pulled out of that fight shortly after the disaster in Haiti and 4 months later, Mayweather ends up fighting Mosley. You've had some crazy twists and turns in your career, but now five years later, you're in position to get that shot at Floyd again. Does it feel like it's all coming full circle?
AB: It's all coming full circle, man. To be realistic, everything was coming so fast when I was younger. Of course I was having a good time with it. You know, I was getting a lot of money at an early age. He knows I fukked off a lot, didn't take a lot of shyt seriously, and I pretty much probably had to go through shyt I had to go through within these past 3 or 4 years because that shyt was like a whirlwind. Injuries, the beats, blahzay, blahzay; I didn't know what the fukk was going on, but at the same time, all that shyt comes back full circle, man. I'm a different animal right now, you know what I mean. I'm focused, I'm older, I'm hungrier. Within my last two performances, man, they just show that and it's just going to continue to get better whatever the case may be, if it's Floyd or anybody else. You can ask Virg. I'm dialed in, you know what I'm saying, so I don't care about nothing else or what anybody is saying or whatever the situation may be. If you get in there with me, you're going to see what time it is.
So if you ain't tyring to do it, stop saying my name and keep my name all out your mouth. If you trying to bump, let's go ahead and bump, but if you ain't, keep my name up out your mouth, man.
BT: Wooooooo...Dre ain't playing. It sounds like you don't plan on showing your next opponent any respect, whether it's Floyd Mayweather or not.
AB: Nah! I mean, as a fighter, Floyd, of course, he's proven that he's one of the best, but
at the end of the day, as a man, you know, we've been cut from two different cloths. I don't care nothing about that when it's time to step to Dre. You ball your fists up just like I ball my fists up, bro. In the end, if we get in there, we just gotta see what it is. You know, I got too much pride.
He knows me pretty well. He knows how I move, you know what I mean. I ain't going to step in no ring just for no fukking check; I'm stepping in the ring to make history, you know what I mean. That's what it's going to be.
BT: When Floyd did say your name, for whatever reason, some media and fans assumed he was just kidding. Were you offended by that at all?
AB: Man, you know, at the end of the day, they got me fukked up first off. They got me fukked up about the whole situation, but you already know how it is when it comes to fight fans. You're only as good as your last fight. They hop off your dikk one fight, and the next fight, they'll hop right back on; trust me. So like I say, when it comes to the fight fans, it's no disrespect to them. You know, they might want to see this or they might want to see that, but, you know, it is what it is. That's what comes with the territory, but Floyd is his own man and he's going to choose who he wants to fight.
And at the end of the day, when it comes to me, man, they already know what time it is. Every time I go in there, I don't give a damn who you are, I'ma go in there and go balls out and I'ma try to get in your ass and that's it!
BT: The one thing people can't say about you is that you're a boring fighter. I don't think Andre Berto has ever been in a boring fight.
AB: Never! Never! I'ma come and get it. Every chance I get, I'ma come and get it. That's one thing that they know. But like I said, it is what it is. You know, if the fight goes down, I'm gonna go in here and bust my ass, have the training camp of my life, and I'ma go in there and I'ma see him just like I see everybody else. We gonna have to make it do what it do.
BT: In the five years since you were on the verge of facing him, have you seen any changes in him? Has he shown any signs of slippage inside the ring?
AB: I mean, Floyd's getting older, of course, but he's still sharp. You gotta give him that credit. He's not the type of fighter that I believe that people might always question where he stands when it comes to his standing in history. He's very into himself. He's just worried about coming out with a win and that's it. I believe that that's something that kind of shook the public when it came to the Pacquiao fight and other fights before. He doesn't care what you think and he doesn't care how the performance looks. I'ma move around, dance around, I'ma tap you, tap you, tap you, I'ma win each round, dance a little more, get my check and go home. That's Floyd and that's definitely worked for him throughout the years. But of course you see him slowing down and I see him slowing down as well, but he's still sharp.
BT: Do you think that's the difference between you and him, the fact that you're willing to get into exchanges and give the fans what they like to call a "crowd-pleasing" fight?
AB: Always! Always, man! That's just how I've been raised and that's how I've been bred. I'm a fighter at the end of the day. I'ma test you every bit as a man and if you show me any type of lax, I'ma take that up out of you. I need to go get all of it.
BT: Andre Berto coming for that throne.
AB:
Listen, man, if they want to make it happen, we can make it happen. If you don't want to make it happen, stop saying my name, man. And please, tell this nikka please stop getting these people, stop telling his friend, or whoever they are, all his people, to call my phone and ask me questions about his bytch too. Tell him stop doing that shyt. I hear his voice on the other line. I hear him breathing on the other end of the phone. I know these people that you getting to call me. Most of them are friends of mine, so I know what they doing because they informing me what's going on. Stop calling me about your bytch, man. And at the end of the day, he knows which one I'm talking about.
BT: Daaaamn! Sounds like there's more than just a little personal situation between you two. There definitely won't be any respect if you get the fight.
AB:
A lot of these cats, they want to be so respectful. That's cool, but me and him, like I said, we go back a little bit and like I said, I know what it is. I know what the situation is. It's been a few years of that, you know what I'm saying. It's a lot more to it, but I know what it is. I've always been that cat that, yeah, I'm not as big as you, you got money, but all these same celebrities, all these same bytches, they fukk with me heavy, bro, and it's for a reason. It's always been something. He's always told some of his friends, "Man, listen, before I go, me and that nikka got to do it. I gotta get this nikka." You know what I mean. It go a little deeper than that, so it's all good.
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