How did you end up getting into boxing? Well, you know, I started when I was six years old. You know, my dad got me into boxing when I was six, you know. He always had me fighting in the apartments with other little kids and stuff like that, you know. And he always had me doing like push-ups. You know, I was always doing like five sets of like 50 push-ups at the age of six years old. Do you adjust your fighting style according to who you're fighting with? Yeah, yeah. As for every boxer that steps in the ring, when they're fighting against a style, they got to, you know, if it's a counter punch or if it's a pressure fighter or, you know, or both, you never know what you get. You got to be the one as a fighter in there to adjust to that style. I know there's one thing that you definitely don't like. It's the 11 you like, but the one you probably like, you don't like that as well. However, I often notice people always have a great mentality set back and a comeback where they know that they have a why and so forth as well. When you look back at your loss, how did that impact your mindset and how did you bounce back stronger? The code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. Today, we have a very, very unique guest, special guest, amazing story. He is a professional boxer with the same trainers as Terence Crawford, my favorite boxer right now. It's going to be an interesting interview. We're going to be learning a bit more about like him being in the May with a camp. He's only 21 years of age, born in San Bernardino, California. Without further ado, our amazing guest today in the studio in the City of Angels. We're going to welcome Lolo Harris. How are you doing, brother? I'm doing good. I appreciate you having me. Awesome stuff. Thank you so much, man. I want to get straight into it, man. Like, I mean, 21 years old. I don't know. I thought like, you know, 22 must have been like an era right there. 21 years old, 11 and one record. Personally, where are you right now in your boxing career? Where am I in my boxing career right now? Well, I'm 12, fight 10. You know, I'm only 21 years old. I'm still growing, you know, getting better and better each fight, you know? And we've just taken it step by step right now. Just keep climbing, trying to climb ranks. That's all. Awesome stuff. I mean, you're Lolo Harris. How about you tell a bit of our guests a bit about yourself, like the history? How did you end up getting into boxing? Well, you know, I started when I was six years old. You know, my dad got me into boxing when I was six, you know? He always had me fighting in the apartments with other little kids and stuff like that, you know? And always had me doing like push-ups. You know, I was always doing like five sets of like 50 push-ups at the age of six years old. And so I was always strong, you know, and already like athletic, you know? And then, you know, we just went from there after, you know, fighting with different kids and things like that. And was it year in California, you were in like, when did you start getting trainers and all that kind of stuff? When did you start getting like a professional trainer when you started taking like the sports series? I mean, I always took it serious, you know? But when I say, when I really got like more into it, I would say when I started competing, you know? Or I would say actually when I started sparring, though, which was at kind of like at the age of eight years old. Seeing, you know, my potential, like, oh, I'm really good at this sport, you know? And as I got older and older, you know, I just see seeing that, you know, I can fight. So, say at the age of eight years old, yeah. So, personally for me, I finished high school like in 2010 or so. But looking back in high school, there's a lot of, I would say, just stupid school fights that, you know, I was involved in and stuff with friends. And you get over all the small things, disputes, misunderstandings, and you get over it as well. However, I've noticed many people say a street fight and boxing is completely different. Can you kind of like give the disparities and the differences between the two? Have you been in both, first of all? I would say the last street fight I've been in is probably like middle school. I haven't fought in a street fight in so long. I don't really remember it like that. OK. But it is a big difference. In what way? Well, in street fights, it's like people were just like just trying to take your head off. Although the same thing with boxing. Yeah. I mean, same thing with boxing. I'm like, you want to take the guy's head off, really? So what are you talking about? Well, it's more strategy to it, though. It's more strategy to it when you're when you're boxing inside the ring, you know, then in a street fight, you know, you're not really thinking you're going off of anger. OK. In a street fight, when you're in a boxing ring, you're not really going off of anger. OK. Going off of what you're thinking and thinking, ability and skills and so on. So. And then mentally, what's one of the hardest things when you're doing boxing? Because I noticed people start speaking about like your legs. I once watched a fight actually with your uncle Eva. And when one of the guys was getting up, he's like, oh, look, he's legs, his legs and like, what's the mentality behind that? I don't fully understand. I don't know what I would say is the hardest thing in boxing. For you personally? For me personally, I wouldn't. I can't tell you. I'm kind of like used to used to everything that I do. So I don't know what the hardest thing is. I would say in boxing is. OK. And I mean, you were in the May, May, with a camp. And can you kind of give us a bit of that experience when you met him and like being around there and like, how was it like the feeling with one of the greatest boxes? Man, it's great. It wasn't actually actually it wasn't a camp. OK. It was just I met him when I was 16 years old. That was the first time I met him. And he got to see me spar spar in Vegas. I got to spar in front of him in Vegas. So that was that was crazy. Just him watching me spar. He fell in love with my style and fell in love with, you know, how proud I was as a person, probably. And then went on from there. You know, I came I came back years later when I was 20 years old and and got to spar in front of him again. And he was like, man, you know, you look familiar. I was like, you don't remember me from when you see me spar in 60 years old. And I kind of I guess I refresh his memory like, oh, yeah. Told me his team's been been looking for me, trying to get in contact with me. And yeah, man, we just went from there. I like Floyd. He's a cool guy. I respect him a lot. And for someone who doesn't know what sparring is, like what is sparring? Sparring is basically just practice practice before before a fight or just practice in general. Going against somebody else in the ring. But yeah, just practice practice basically. I grew up watching Floyd. Matter of fact, the the Pekkyo fight. I was in South Africa that time and because of the time zone, I think we had like a big. It was in Vegas. It was in Vegas. It was probably I remember it was in Vegas and time difference between Johannesburg and Las Vegas. I think it was probably nine hours. And so we are watching it in the early hours of the morning. I think like four or five o'clock in the morning. But just looking back at that, what's what's your style of fight? Like what's kind of your style? I would consider myself as a boxer, puncher, boxer, puncher. And what is that? That's being able to box and then being able to punch to with it. Like having some some some snap on your punch. So like Muhammad Ali. Yeah, I would say boxer, puncher. Yeah, like Muhammad Ali. That's a good one. Yeah. One of the things I also noticed, like there's obviously with like your 11 on one record. It's chess. What if you meet like somebody that's got a similar like fighting style to you? What if you meet someone that's a bit more like on the like counter attack? You know what I'm saying? I don't know like what are the certain terms in terms of like striking all that? Like, do you adjust your fighting style according to who you fighting with? Yeah, yeah. As for every boxer that steps in the ring when they're they're fighting against a style, they got to, you know, if it's a counter punch or if it's a pressure fighter or, you know, or both, you never know what you get. You got to be the one as a fighter in there to adjust to that style. You know, so. OK. And then who's your favorite boxer? Like my favorite fighter right now. Yeah. My favorite fighter right now will be Terrence Crawford. OK. So we have a lot in common, right? Yeah. All right. Now, before I kind of get into these other ones, what would you say is probably like in your. Career or I mean, 11 one and the trajectory that you're going at with you, those 11 wins. Who would you say style are you bottling the most after? I don't I wouldn't say anybody style. I actually say I got my own, all right, my own style that I'm that that I fight like that. I was just saying that's just me in my opinion. I got my own style. OK. Boxing. So. All right. And is anyone that is close related to them or is it completely like your kind of style? Completely my style. OK. I love my style. I love that. Yeah. Now, I love the road. There's so much confidence in your fight. Like, I mean, I only saw two of them in the highlight reels, but there's a level of of of of grit and like it's just persist. And you said it's not even your best fight. The one I saw when you were completely like striking the guy like it was just you were relentless, you know. And so that's one of the things I'd say that's different with the street fighters that man's after a few punches, stamina starts like kicking you in. And of course, it's something you do when you're super young. I've never like been involved in that since probably like 2009, 2010. I saw kind of stuff. But like looking back, it's like, you know, the stamina just kicks in. But I know what with boxes, the mentality side of things, a lot of like stamina is involved strategy, understanding the opponent. And so. What does preparation look like for you in like a fight night? Do you have any rituals and mantras, anything that you end up like doing when you prepare for a fight night? Well, we're we can't. Yeah, I can't give away too much. But but I will say we're training every day, basically money through Saturday, you know, and sometimes even on Sundays, too. And a lot of running, swimming, strength and conditioning, and boxing, all in just combining that all in one just every single day, you know. So it's no days off in camp. So that's that's how a spider is always come in shape. Now, I love that, man. And now I know there's one thing that you definitely don't like. It's the 11 you like, but the one you probably like. You don't like that as well. However, I often notice people always have a great mentality set back and a comeback where they know that they have a why and so forth. So when you look back at your loss, how did that impact your mindset and how did you bounce back stronger? Well, first off, everything happens for a reason, you know, everything is always in God's God's plan. So, you know, I took the loss when I was 16 due to not knowing how to cut weight. So weight problems, you know, like that. And I bounced back with by getting with the right team, the right team in boxing, you know, the right professional team that's going to know how to cut weight the right way and give me gems and help me out and with things, little things like that. And just not even that, just getting better as a fighter inside the ring. So I will say that. And then what's your what's your ultimate goal, like short term and long term right now in your boxing career? I will I want to be the best best. Lolo, I can be in the sport, you know, going, yeah, going long term. I want to be the best Lolo I can be in this boxing. You know, I want to leave a mark for sure in this sport, you know, and. Yeah. And take care of my family. Me and my family. And obviously, giving I notice a lot of boxes as well. They all is this like a historical background as to why you end up pursuing like the sport. Is was there any upbringing that kind of like led to you to pursue the specific goal and dream to become a professional boxer? Um, no, I wouldn't say so. OK. Zero whatsoever. Just your dad started like being you do 50 push ups and before you knew it, you started training with Terence Crawford. Yeah, praying a lot, you know, praying a lot. I mean, I'm not a pro. I'm not a pro. I'm not a pro. Praying a lot, you know, praying a lot. Yeah, basically, yeah, my dad, get me, get me started. Took off, took off from there. Now, I love that, man. So now, like I'm grateful to hear about the experience, like, you know, training in front of May, whether seeing him meeting him like when you were 16 and older as well. Right now, you have the same trainers as Terence Crawford, you know, and you're in kind of the same camp, right? Yeah, OK. Same camp. And how does it feel knowing that not only you have the same trainer, but you amongst one of the people you look up to on a day to day basis? It feels great, you know, because I feel like my team is not just a team to me or Crawford is not just, you know, just any just just Crawford to me. They're like family, family, family away from home, you know. All my coaches, not even just them, my teammates, everyone is like a family away from home. So. No, and the reason I also like Terence Crawford, it's not the fact that he's such a great boxer, but it's the humility that he has with the record he has and what a relentless like fighter is, which I told you. And I want to ask you this question, the fight, one of the biggest fights of the decades going to be happening. Obviously, you you see him on a base day to day, like on a regular basis. You guys got the same trainer. I don't want you to be biased in the question I'm about to ask you right now. So the fight of the decade is about to happen September. Terence Crawford and Canelo one on one, in your opinion. When I put this out of social media, I'm letting you know. In your opinion, who is going to win the fight of the decade? In my opinion, Terence Crawford. Are you being non bias? Non bias. Why? Because I know who he is in that ring and I know who Terence Crawford is. You know, I've been in camps, been in so many camps with him. I've shared the ring with him myself and I just know what he's capable of of doing in that ring. And I appreciate that, man. I appreciate that. Now, I mean, 21 years old, 11 and one. What's what's the vision and trajectory for Lolo Harris? Me being 21 years old, you know, said the vision. Yes. The vision for me. Just to continue just being me, you know, being me. And to get him better and getting better and better in this sport. And just continue into advance. OK, I liked this one I want to touch on as well. What is the most powerful piece of advice that you've received that you've carried into every fight and training session from mentor, father, figure, dad, who else to be myself? OK, I would say to be myself. I get that a lot from my coach. My coaches and my dad, you know, every time I step in the ring, even if it's just sparring to be myself. So every time I spar or when I step, you know, when I fight in the ring, I was going with that mentality to be myself. Because when I'm when I'm myself in the ring, it's hard for somebody to deal with somebody like me. So. Awesome. And you guys train Monday to Saturday every single day for how many hours? I mean, total, total. Yes. For like seven, eight total. A day, a day. OK. And as a kind of form session. OK, what are the what do you guys focus on in the trainings? I mean, you can only so much, but like. Well, and what in boxing? Yeah. And we focus on every little thing, you know, we focus on, you know, the highs and the lows, the weaknesses, everything we focus on, on all of that. Because I think today we're getting better, you know, we're trying to get better in this in this boxing. So. OK. And then right now. When's your next fight? I don't got an official date yet, but it's looking like maybe maybe in mid August, mid August, right before you potentially know you mean you smiling right now, do you potentially know who your your your next fighters might be? No, I don't I don't I don't know yet. OK. And how does that work? So who who who who who gets the fights? Is it like a manager, your trainer? How does how does it work behind the scenes? Like when cards are created, I've always been curious about that. The manager of one fighter for send send opponents. OK. Send different different opponents, you know, and then we choose we choose out of those opponents who we fight. OK. You know, so. Was it both sets you guys meet? Both managers meet for two camps. So how does that work? Because I know it's different to what the YouTube boxing is, where people call each other out on Twitter. There's like a main event, KSI Logan Paul. That is different from that. Trash talk the entire time. So I was like, I've always just trying to figure it out, like how does it work behind the scenes? Well, I don't know from the other part. OK. I know from my part would be we're sent different opponents and we choose that one. You know, then they go back, manager goes back and tells that person, you know, you guys want to fight. Charles Harris, you know, you guys want to fight him. And then it comes in agreement. You know, the rest is history, signing the papers and all that. So. OK. OK, that kind of takes to the table. All right. But then how does it work when you become like a contender? When you want to challenge for a title, like do you have to have a certain amount of record? How does that work? What division are you currently in right now, actually? I fight in 140. OK. Junior World Touring. OK. And if you want to challenge for the championship, like what do you have to do for that? I just got to keep winning. OK. I keep winning and building up, going up in ranks first before before that, before the contender, the champion and all that. I got to just focus right now. My focus on is one fight at a time and it's to keep winning. OK. So you're 21 right now in about five years time, you're going to be 26. Co-twinning is going to be one of the biggest podcasts at that one time. Right. So we do another interview by then. What or where do you think you're going to be in the next five years when I interview you? The next five years. You're going to manifest this to the universe. So you be careful what you say right now. Successful. Successful. I would say successful in the next five, five years. That's powerful. Successful. That's the key word. I like that. I like that a lot. A second last question before we conclude. I always I mean, if we're going to be talking about boxing, I need to know. All time, give me a four Mount Rashbo greatest boxes of all time. Of all time, I'm talking like even freaking 1945 straight after the World War Two, brother. All time. You know, it's crazy. I never really watched old school boxing. So you didn't watch like Ali? No, like I never really got into got into old school boxing like that. OK, no go for it. Get into maybe like Old Florida or stuff like that or Marvin Hagler. But I never really watched a lot of old school. OK. Yeah. So. All right. Let me just give you mine then. What was your? Ali, Tyson, Floyd has to be there. OK. Floyd has to be there. And it's so hard to put the fourth one because it's like Sugar Ray. Lenin, there's like I'm not. No, I wouldn't even say Lenox Lewis is a few other people like Floyd has to be there. I think the fourth spot could potentially be a Lolo Harris one day. So that's why I'm leaving that. I appreciate that. So as we conclude right now, I ask each guest this towards the end because the podcast is called the Code to Winning Insights Unit Today to Seize the World Tomorrow. In your definition, like Lolo Harris today, what is your definition of winning? My definition of winning. I would say my definition of winning is the same as what I just said before, being successful. I would say. I mean, there's no other way to put it. Just being successful. Awesome stuff, brother. If you could let our viewers know if I don't know if they want to get a hold of you for promotional purposes or anything like an email address or like IG and so forth as well, just let us know by looking at the camera. You guys can follow me on Instagram, Matt Lolo, the code is underscore one. I don't really be on any other social media like no Twitter. You guys could follow me on Instagram. Awesome. The Code to Winning Insights Unit Today to Seize the World Tomorrow. Lolo Harris, thank you very much, brother. Appreciate your time.
