 Toxatay was here at Ty Schmidt, at Boston Conner is here, one half of the hammer. Dad! Cowboys, tone digs is here. And I know why you're antsy, AJ, because just like you, I'm excited to chitchat with our next guest. First time joining us, and also a part of the first time women have made a vented headline, Madison Square Garden next weekend. 42 fights, 41, one. And one, that'll be 43, I guess. 66% knockout rate, baddest woman of all time, ladies and gentlemen, Amanda Serrano. Yeah! What's up? Hi guys! How are you? I'm great, it's an honor to be here. Thank you so much for having me. No, no, we are lucky to have you on here. Shout out to Fandle, shout out. Shout out. Fandle. Yes, yes. Hey, we're two weeks out right now, about a week and a half out. Where's your head space at? Where's your mindset at? We know you're from Puerto Rico, by way of Brooklyn, so hey, Madison Square Garden, let's go. This is a fucking big deal. How are we feeling? How's the head space? I'm feeling anxious. I want to get it over with. I'm looking forward to mate first, being the under spirit champion, and having this fight done with. I'm excited, I'm ready, I'm pumped, and I just can't wait for the 30th. Do you care how you win, and what it looks like, or do you just want to get a victory? Nope, a win is a win, no matter how. I'm going over, Katie Taylor is a great accomplishment. She's on the spute and undefeated, so I'm going to get the win by any means necessary. How did you get into boxing? Because I feel like boxing is getting a massive resurgence, because of a person you do business with, and his brother, the Paul brothers, have really brought boxing back, I think, into the main frame. You've been doing this, obviously, for a long time, and been dominant for a long time. How'd you get into boxing, and how do you feel about the state of boxing right now? Well, I got into boxing because my sister, she started, she's also a former world champion, and she started, and I was her number one fan, I was a babysitter, I worked at the gym, my brother-in-law, which is my trainer, he introduced us to boxing, and it took me a while to get into it. I saw the struggle she had, female boxing wasn't, it just started making noise, and I decided when I was 18, I said, you know what, let me try it, and I did, and they tried to discourage me, not to do it, but it blew up in their face, because look at me now. That's amazing. I'm excited, the way women's boxing is growing so much, we have a tremendous talent in this sport right now, and look, we're breaking barriers, you have two of the best pound-for-pound females going at it, April 30th, first time MSG, headlining, so I'm excited. You're fighting Katie Taylor out of Ireland, I believe, and Eddie Hearn described this as, Mayweather Pacquiao for the women's fighting division. What are you expecting from her? Are you guys friends? Were you friends before? Do you know each other? How is the relationship, and what are you expecting from her? No, we're good friends. You know, the difference between me and Katie Taylor, we respect the sport of boxing. This is not an easy sport. We know it's a business, we understand it's a business. So me and Katie are like the two girls that don't talk bad about any of our opponents. Like, we will shake each other's hand and we acknowledge each other. We have nothing bad to say about each other. We're both accomplished fighters. So I just, on April 30th, I'm gonna dislike her very much. You know, I just wanted to be over with, but I'm pretty sure she's thinking the same thing. And yeah, I know, but I'm excited, you know, and I know she's excited too. You know, finally, two both pound-for-pound fighters, it's been years in the making and it's happened in April 30th. Do you ever have moments during fights where you just, I would assume amateur boxers that aren't very good. Do they just lose it and they freak out and they get mad and they start throwing wildly? Do you ever have any moments like that, maybe when you were younger? Oh yeah, I was known as a water boy when I first started boxing. That was my nickname, my trainer and my sister. It was like, oh, you know, you look just like the water boy. Because once I get hit, I go, we're all like, like, bobbling and saying. But I mean, I've learned as a professional that you have to, you know, maintain everything. I mean, there's times where I still want to do it, but then my coach is like, you know, just relax, relax. Yeah, what do you try, what's the headspace before the fight? We listen to music, we're having a good time. Are we trying to get super angry because we hate this woman that we actually like in person? What do you do before the fight? Well, I'm listening to the music. I have my team there, you know. Oh, what music? What music? What music we listen to? What music? Oh, I'm listening to reggaeton, to sasa, to hip hop. The old stuff that gets me going. And I have my trainer. My trainer, he's super like intense and he gets angry really easy. So I feel off of him. Like during fight nine, fight week, he gets really like intense. And I'm like, I feel off of it. I feel off of it. And then I go in there and I go like a crazy woman and I get victory. Well, Jesus. Yeah. I just go into a crazy woman. I beat the hell out of people. I knock them out 66% of the time. Have you boxed in the Oculus yet? Have you done any boxing in the Oculus? No, no, I haven't, I haven't. No, that's the game, right? Yeah. Do you think if this guy does like the Oculus, he thinks he's a boxer. And he thinks he can go into a gym and start. That is not true. That is not true. But you're an amazing wrestler. You are an amazing wrestler. I saw you. Congratulations at WrestleMania. Thank you. You did a hell of a job. Thank you. Yeah. Fuck you. Thank you. That was not to you. That was to over top of you. You beat the guy's name right off of him. Well, it's good. Yeah, he did. And I was just theory, by the way. Thank you for that love champ. Thank you for that love. Love, father. I appreciate that. No, there's like, everybody I think is interested in boxing now. Much more people are getting interested in boxing, both for cardio reasons and because of like content game. There's a lot of boxing happening in the content world. We live in a content world. So the Oculus has this fight game where I'm in there throwing like 500 punches against some British guy who happens to be the champion. He just has to fucking eat a writer or something. But I feel like the workout is insane. I just wanted to know if there's any similarities to that in actually having the fear of getting punched in the actual face, which I do not have in the Oculus. It's a big difference when you're getting punched right back and you feel those punches. Yeah, yeah, that's a thing. But against the workout, the workout is that I've done it with the PlayStation, with the VR and you know, you get tired and you think you're going in there and trying to knock the person out for real. But it's a big difference when you're getting punched in the face. How's training? Do you get after it in sparring sessions? Do you have? Oh, all the time. I spar with men, predominantly men. I mean, the only girl on sparring I get is with my sister and she's just as tough as me. And she's like, you know, be still my little sister. So she still tries to give me the business. But I'm always sparring with men. I hired, I brought someone down from Puerto Rico, Jason Vales. He was giving me the business for three weeks. And yeah, it's never easy in sparring. I love fighting because when there's a girl in front of me, I'm like, you're not the boys. You're not the men. Oh, okay. Makes you feel a lot more confidence going in there. Are you fighting today? How often do you fight? What is all the way up until fight night next weekend? Well, I had one more sparring session. I believe that's tomorrow and then and that's it. And then until fight night. Okay. Hey, let's beat the shit out of this tomorrow night. Let's go ahead and beat the hell out of him. So we're flying high. Go ahead, Ty. Amanda, you've only lost once and that was, you know, several years ago. I'm curious, like when was the last time in the ring you thought like, oh, I might be in trouble here a little bit. Obviously you expect to win every fight, but does that happen to you very often where like you're actually fighting here. Like, oh, shit. I'm actually kind of in deep water here. No, no, never, never. Even when I, even with that loss, I don't think I lost the fight. I mean, it wasn't the girls hometown. It was just, oh, judges. Oh, this bullshit. We hate it. We hate it. But, you know, I mean, we train hard, you know, in the gym, there's times where you're like, okay, you're supposed to feel that way in the gym. In a fight, you're supposed to go 100% confident. Know you put in the work and just make sure that you just secure that victory. What do you think it's going to feel like making that walk at MSG? Come fight night? Yeah. It's going to be overwhelming. But I'm super blessed that I was able to have my last two fights on the card of Jake Paul because those two nights were sold out crowds and it was amazing. The crowd was amazing. So I was able to feel that once again. And once I go to the garden, you're going to have your people there. You're going to have hard people there booing me. But it's just going to be something incredible. And you feed off the crowd. So it's going to be something really fun. I think that's quite an advantage, right? Because there's maybe an adrenaline dump there that could add to a little bit of exhaustion and boxing. That's a big deal. I think you having that experience is a huge deal, right? I honestly believe it. Yeah. I thank Jake Paul for putting me on his card twice because that crowd was crazy. He was crazy. Well, I'm sure it's going to be the same exact way. Next Saturday, go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Amanda. Are you watching film of Katie leading up to the fight? And also how often do you have to change your styles almost? Because she's also studying you going into the fight. Yeah, you know what? The styles makes fights. So she's never fought a girl like me. I've really never fought a girl like Katie. But I don't watch her. My team watch her fight a couple of times. My sparring partners, they watch her fights more than me so they can imitate her. And they'll bring that in the ring so I can capitalize on it or so we can work on it. But I watch her fights live when they're happening, but I never go back and watch them again. Oh, I feel like that's an interesting game. It's worked, by the way. Is that how that's how you've been against everybody? Yeah. Yeah, why would we ever change anything? Yeah, they change because she's training different for me. And I'm going to be training a certain way for her. So it's just, you never know. And then like Mike Tyson said, everything changes when you get punched in the face, so. Yeah. Mike Tyson punched a guy in the face today. You know, it's Mike Tyson. Guy learned. I mean, a guy had a plan on that plan. He was going to get drunk and he was going to say a lot of stuff, the guy in front of him. Maybe getting autographed. Maybe getting punched. The game changed. Game changed Mike Tyson today. Do you look ahead on your career and think about anything else? Are you always in the moment just thinking about this fight? Do you have a number in your head on how many wins you want to get to? What you want to accomplish? What you want to do? Have you already done that? Or is that not something you would even think about? No, I believe this is, I got about a year, a year left. I've been a professional for 13 years. Been fighting for 15 years. I think this is the cap of the fight, like fighting Katie Taylor, who do you fight next? Making the money, I'm making with Katie Taylor. Who is going to give me that amount of money again? So it's, I see myself another year. I'm hoping to one day step in your shoes and become a WWE star. Oh, let's go. Let's go, dude. So that's something I'm looking forward to. I've trained a little bit with amazing red. So I mean, I've dabbled in wrestling. I trained a couple of days, so that was pretty cool. Do they know this at WWE? They have to. WWE knows this, right, from you? Well, I mean, I did an interview with the champion, Uncle Belair, and that's all I said. I wouldn't mind doing a tag team with you. Oh, here we go. So WWE's hearing this, and they are very excited. Amanda, you got, yeah, this is good news for everybody, including the WWE. We have one last question for you, if that's OK. Go ahead. Go ahead, Tom. Amanda, obviously, headlining MSG. Are you going to come out dressed as the Empire State Building, or do we not do that anymore after Deontay Wilder said things were just too heavy for his entrance? No, no, no, no, no. I got my outfit getting ready, getting done, and it's just not such a liberty. All right, well, you're going to kill it. Congrats on an incredible 15-year fighting, 13-year professional career. We can't wait to watch you blow the roof off of Madison Square Garden. Yes. You deserve it. Make sure to get your tickets, msg.com. They almost sold out, and if you can't make it live, make sure you watch it on the zone. If you don't, if you, it's free. If you're a member, if not, go and subscribe right now. You don't want to miss this fight. It's going to be amazing. Hey, you almost sold out Madison fucking Square Garden, dude. Think about that. That's awesome. Two women, two women. Let's go. Congrats. That's amazing. Congratulations. Congratulations. And a big shout out to Fandall. Hell, yes. Always that. We appreciate you. Good luck. Enjoy yourself. And we can't wait to watch. Ladies and gentlemen, Amanda Serrano. That was a good promo. I was cutting her off. That's all me. I didn't know if she was going to continue to go. That is awesome. I'm very happy for her. And she wants to go into wrestling, too. Yeah, they're going to love that. They're going to love to hear that. Does Bob Backlund still train anybody? All right. For real, he's fundamentally sound on. He is fundamentally sound. She'll be knee-walking into MSG. Bob Backlund and all that. Let's get to a break, please.