Season 5: #41 Andre Berto

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The former welterweight world champion talks about not retiring, his aid work in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquakes and why he put his career on hold to help, fighting Floyd Mayweather and how he coped with his first loss (not very well).

Andre Berto was Al Haymon's first fighter that the future Hall of Fame promoter brought through, though Haymon had already worked with Vernon Forrest and Jermain Taylor, and Berto has had a fine career, boxing the likes of Victor Ortiz, Shawn Porter, Robert Guerrero, Juan Urango and many more.

Berto was in fine form, talking about highs and lows with real warmth and honesty.

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0:00.0	That was tough because people didn't wait for any type of explanation, it just came out.
0:08.0	Because it was supposed to be, of course, it was the rematch of the fight of the year.
0:12.0	Everybody was looking forward to it.
0:14.0	And to say that it got canceled because of that and they blasted it everywhere.
0:19.0	It was on ESPN, it was on Sports Center, it was on all the newspapers.
0:24.0	I mean, it was crazy.
0:27.0	It was crazy.
0:30.0	So seeing that pain on TV and, like I said, in the eyes of my parents every day,
0:38.0	it was just something that was just hard for me to just bed.
0:41.0	I just felt like I just had to go.
0:47.0	Of course, I could never really talk about it back then, but now, I speak about a lot to a sense.
0:52.0	When it comes to mental aspect, mentally, I was still right.
0:58.0	You know, from feeling like a King Kong to taking that first loss.
1:06.0	And now you're feeling like your superpower has taken away.
1:09.0	And now you're just second-guessing yourself to left the right.
1:12.0	And now you're trying to find all these different things that you're trying to fix it.
1:16.0	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Kristik.
1:19.0	What happened in the ring after he placed an only good with his child's play compared to that?
1:24.0	Still a goosebumps to this day.
1:27.0	You couldn't even take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, could you?
1:32.0	I know.
1:34.0	He said, well, let's bow you back.
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