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Hi, I'm Mike Boris, and this is Straight Talk.
All we do is train, eat, sleep,
and this is my first actual interview
that I've done for, you know, months.
George Cambosis, welcome to Straight Talk, mate.
Let's get into it.
So, what's the date in May?
Cambosis Lomachenko doesn't really get bigger than this.
Lomachenko, that's the guy I've wanted for a long time,
a guy that I've always, you know, been obsessed with fighting.
Styles make fights.
I see the mistakes he makes.
I truly believe I can be the first person to stop this guy.
Will you go after him?
I'm going to go after him,
but we have a very good game plan as well.
You're not going to tell me that, are you?
I'm not going to tell you.
George Cambosis, welcome to Straight Talk, mate.
It's good to be back.
Good to see you again, mate.
Looking forward to another great chat.
Yeah, it has been a while, but a lot has happened.
And we're obviously preparing for the next big one.
Let's get into it.
So what's the date in May?
May 12th, RSA Arena, Perth, Australia, another mega fight.
Cambosis, Lomachenko.
It doesn't really get bigger than this.
Obviously, the other big fight when you compare is me and Devin Haney
at Marvel Stadium.
So I've been very, you know, blessed, but I've showed the boxing world
the power that I have to bring these big stars out to Australia.
And it's pretty important from Australia's point of view because we don't,
UFC's done a little bit of it.
They've given us a fight in Perth, one in Sydney.
You've given us a fight in Melbourne, and we want to see the next one in Perth.
I mean, it's really important for Australia to get the content,
like actually to enjoy it.
Why does George Cambosis, why is he so interested in making sure
that Australia gets to see these fights on our own soil?
I think when it all comes down to it, I think it's legacy.
I think for me, when I look at it, I say,
yeah, when it's all said and done, they'll say Cambosis not only fought the best,
but he was able to bring these big megastars.
We're talking megastars.
Lomachenko, future Hall of Famer, megastar.
Devin Haney, another megastar brought him to Australia twice.
So being able to bring these guys to Australia is something that I can look back,
obviously, in the future and say, we brought him here.
But again, it gives Australian boxing a platform.
At the moment, the game is quite messed up.
Again, the big, big fights.
And for me to be able to do this and bring these big stars here
shows Australian boxing still has a lot of respect.
The fans get behind it and they support real boxing.
How hard is it to get the fighters to come here and fight you on your turf,
like in Australia?
I mean, is it a difficult thing?
What's the negotiation look like?
The negotiation, obviously, is always extremely heavy.
I try to take a step back from the negotiation.
My father, manager Jim Cambosis, is when it comes to negotiation,
especially with the Americans, he's a bull.
There is no one better.
He knows how to make these things happen.
He knows how to make sure we get what we want,
but also bring these megastars here.
So it is not an easy thing.
But again, we are very fortunate.
I have a very big name here.
I have a massive fan base.
And from a promoter's perspective, they say, okay,
Cambosis knows how to fill out a stadium or an arena.
Lomachenko or Devin Haney, good big names too.
It just makes sense.
So you talked about legacy a moment ago.
And you've been down.
I remember when you used to fight Luna Park,
when George Cambosis, a real little young fella.
And in fact, me and my sons used to have,
I remember going there many years ago.
And I can't remember who you fought now.
Brandon Ogilvie, Luna Park.
That's right, yeah.
It was a big fight because it was one versus two in Australia.
He was top 10 in the world.
I was top 15 in the world.
So there was a lot of bad blood.
I was top 10 in the world.
I was top 10 in the world.
I was top 10 in the world.
I was top 10 in the world.
I was top 10 in the world.
I was top 10 in the world.
I was top 10 in the world.
We had rivals from the amateurs.
We had fought each other in the amateurs.
So it was the young George Cambosis.
He was very aggressive.
Very aggressive, very hot-headed.
Still very aggressive and hot-headed to a point.
But again, I'm very, I'm smarter now.
I'm wiser, more mature.
But that was, that were fun days too.
You know, I look back and sometimes watch them fights and say,
well, you know, we did that.
We packed out Luna Park.
I think, what, 3,000, 4,000 people?
Yeah, yeah, it was packed.
Some of these shows here in Australia,
with big names, still don't do that kind of number.
So we've always had the numbers.
We've always had the people behind me in the fan base
that want to see Cambosis fight.
And that's one thing.
When George Cambosis fights, it's excitement,
it's entertainment, and people want to see,
okay, this is a real fight.
Can I just, I mean, I just, not everybody's probably heard
our podcast before.
We've done a couple.
But I just quickly want to, for those who haven't heard
about George Cambosis, just talk a little bit about you
Grew up in Sydney.
So whereabouts in Sydney?
Southwest or, oh, it's not quite southwest these days.
I mean, it's around the St. George area.
Tell us where you grew up.
St. George, Sutherland Shire area.
I was bullied, obviously, as a young kid.
You were a bit overweight too?
Yeah, overweight, fairly overweight.
I was about 60 kilos at that 10, 11 years of age.
So used to play park footy, got me grillers.
And we got to the point where the off-season came
and my old man, who's, you know, always in my corner,
been in my corner from young, he said, look.
Jimmy, he goes, we've got to do something in the off-season.
We live close, not too far from Cronulla.
Let's do some nippers.
I think he was just trying to test me.
I said, no, no chance.
He goes, look, you like the Rocky movies?
How about some boxing?
We went down to the PCYC.
From the first day, just fell in love with the sport.
Lost 16 kilos, got down to like 44 kilos.
By the time I lost that weight, my boxing improved,
my rugby league improved.
So Sharks Development Squad came around, made it there,
but also made, started having amateur fights
and made the New South Wales team.
So we got to the point where my father would always say
that crossroads would come and you're going to have to choose
and put all your eggs into one basket.
And when I look back now, I'm very happy
and I know I made the right decision of putting everything
into being a boxer and a professional fighter
and knowing that one day I would become world champion.
It's funny, you know, like you look a lot more scary
I mean, what I mean by that is obviously you're a skilful,
professional sports person and a boxer at that,
which means you know how to handle yourself.
But you've got tats all over you, you know, when you're in the ring,
especially when you're a young kid, you know, boxing at Luna Park,
you're an aggressive bugger.
I mean, I remember seeing you, you know, you used to sort of move
Me and my sons, we used to love seeing him because you brought
a lot of energy to the fight game.
George Cambosis is actually a pretty placid sort of dude,
family man, I love your wife and kids, committed to your craft,
train hard, work hard for your family, make good money
for your family, provide for your family, et cetera.
How does George balance up the George Cambosis you have to be
when you're in the ring, you're fighting, you know,
TfM Lopez, you know, Haney.
You're all really aggressive guys, Vasily Domenchenko, like, you know,
He probably won't be happy with me calling him a veteran, but like,
you know, a veteran fighter.
Not just a boxer, but a fighter.
How do you be that guy in the ring, be that guy when you're training,
sparring, but then be the dad and George Cambosis, the good dude?
I think it's very important to be able to switch.
You know, you know when you've got to turn it on.
You know when you come to work.
You know when you're doing anything, you've got to, you know,
get to work, you know what you have to do.
But when you get home, you know how to switch off.
Which one's the switch though, George?
Like, is it you switch to George at home or do you switch to George the fighter?
I think I've known boxing more than what I've known being a father.
Obviously, I've got three beautiful kids, but my eldest is Avalia,
who's six and a half, turning seven.
I've been a fighter for nearly 20 years.
So being a fighter is something that's first nature to me.
I think that's first.
When it comes to having to switch to being a father, and no one gives you a plan to,
you know, when you have your first kid or second kid, there's no blueprint.
There's no, this is what you've got to do.
You've just got to kind of just see what works.
And when you're a fighter and you're full-time training two, three times a day,
and you're a big name like a guy like myself, and you've got the social media,
and you've got everything else that's going on, you need to find the right balance.
You've got to have that time management, and you've got to be able to switch.
Now, I think I switch better.
When I go home and I turn everything off, and I try to spend as much time with my kids,
show them what dad does, but as well give them the lessons and how to be disciplined
to achieve something, but again, give them their time as well and show,
listen to them, what they want to do, what games they want to play.
It can't always be boxing.
And I have been, obviously, my worst enemy when it comes to that too.
Sometimes I have brought it home, and things happen on Twitter and social media
I go and write with negotiations, and I bring that home, and these kids don't understand,
but I've learned as I've got older and more mature to try to split both.
When I step inside my gym, it switches.
I go back to what's natural to me as a fighter, as a guy who's relentless.
In the fight game, the way I train, you've seen the way I train, I'm obsessed.
I don't think there's ever been a harder trainer in this country, maybe in the world,
Coaches can't believe the way I train.
But I'm so obsessed and put in that hard work.
This is everything for me, but I'm able to switch back, and it's a good thing when I
Yeah, that balance is really important.
Do you think you could have done that when you were, say, 19, 20, at the age of 19 or
Let's say you had met your wonderful wife, and you decided to have kids at a much earlier
age, not that you're old, but at a much earlier age.
Do you think you would have been in a position to switch?
And what is it that...
How does it help you mature?
What are the things...
Has it been things you've had to overcome that's helped you mature, or is it looking
at your dad and your mom, or as uncles, or is it just the whole Greek cultural thing
about how important family is?
What are the things that have helped you learn how to switch and get that balance right?
I think it's just practice over time.
Obviously, a whole mix of everything, seeing other people, see how they do it, learning
You know, great...
Principles from Matty Pacquiao, when I was with him, that guy would come from the Senate
all day, come and train, then go home and be a family man to his, you know, four or five
You know, learning from different people, you know, seeing how, obviously, my parents
are split now, but seeing how they were back in the day, just learning, but also my own,
you know, mix of things that I've experienced and just seeing what works, you know.
But if you ask a 19, 20-year-old...
George Cambosis, trying to deal with that, it would be a lot different, but we only had
my daughter when I was in 22, 23, so it was just after that fight at Luna Park where we
found that, okay, Mrs. is pregnant, Beck's pregnant, there's a baby on the way, and it
changes everything.
It gives you, for me, a lot of people worried, okay, this might be the end now, this might
be distracting, this might be something that's going to put his, you know, energy on the
baby and being a family, but really, it motivated me even more.
It gave me that extra drive that, okay, now I've got another mouth to feed.
Now, everything I'm doing is not now just for George Cambosis.
It's for George Cambosis, my wife, and my daughter, and obviously, then my two sons
So, being able to look back now and seeing the hard road that I took and being in America
and, you know, there'll be times I took my kids with me, so we could be all together
and, obviously, everyone has a story, or most people do, living in...
Going down places and, you know, struggling to make ends meet, but looking back now and
saying, okay, I did that, it gave me great character to get to where I am and where I
got to, and thank God that I financially paid off as well, where I know that my kids are
set, their kids are set from my hard work and that sacrifice.
So, I think it gave me that extra drive.
You know, when you have kids, it's a whole different level.
You mentioned many back here, and a lot of people forget that you were...
sparring with Manny Pacquiao, and I don't know whether he was your spar partner for
your fights or whether you were his spar partner for his fights.
Maybe you can clear it up, but you spent a lot of time with Manny.
What do you learn from a bloke like him?
What did you learn about boxing I'm talking about?
What did you learn from a bloke like him in terms of, like, dude's a superstar, one of
my favorite fighters of all time because he's a left-hander, but just one of my favorite
fighters of all time.
He's, you know, like, the amount of punches he threw and...
You know, how he moves and his fitness levels and, you know, how he trained, et cetera.
What did you learn from Manny?
Again, yeah, Manny Pacquiao, ultimate legend, you know, massive name in the world of boxing.
And when you look back, yes, I was there as his sparring partner, but I think I was using
him as a sparring partner, too, because I was trying to get as much, you know, knowledge
and lessons from a guy like that, a guy who's done it all, you know, 13 world titles, 80
It's something that I look back and say, wow, that actually happened.
Great experience as well.
Learning from him, obviously, the boxing side, of course, you're going to learn so much from
the way he trains.
One thing he did say is, I love having you with me because the way you train reminds
me of a young Manny Pacquiao.
You train extremely hard like he did back in the day and obviously like he was at that
But time management as well, seeing how he controlled everything the way he was able
to, like I said, go from politics, working all day in the Senate, he's a senator, come
to the gym with his suit and tie.
Take it off, put the wraps on, and then we start training, start sparring, and then early
morning, back on the road, running, get his rest, eat.
And again, he's got so much going on, but he balanced everything really well.
And he would always say it, and people would ask him the same question.
I'm very observant and make sure that I listen to things and try to soak up as much as I
And he would say, time management.
People would ask him, how do you do this, Manny?
You find your time.
He goes, I have the right time management.
I know exactly what works.
And that's what I've been able to do in my career.
Sparring partner's really important.
You know, you've got Vasily Lomachenko coming up in May.
He's a certain...
And people say styles win fights.
He's a certain style of fighter.
Maybe we just dig into that style of fighter that he is now.
Different to Lopez.
Definitely different to Haney.
Haney's like the pretty fighter, you know, not putting him down, but he's a pretty fighter
and he fights different Lomachenko's, I would say, not dirty fighter, but like,
fights to win, you know.
Like, he knows how to wrestle.
He grabs, holds, push around a little bit.
And he's, as you know, as you said before, he's a bit smaller than you, but he sort of
can get under you a little bit.
He's probably going to test your patience.
How do you prepare for that?
Like, where do you get your spar partner?
Because Australia doesn't have a lot of good sparring partners.
I mean, that's the problem.
It's a big problem here.
That's why a lot of fighters have to go to America and stuff like that.
I'm very fortunate in this time of my career.
A career where I have the financials to be able to bring the best guys here.
I've got a very good sparring partner from Russia at the moment here.
We sparred yesterday.
We've been sparring twice a week.
He's had over 400 amateur fights, underfoot as a professional as well.
And this guy, Lomachenko 2.0, he's given me fantastic work.
And that's what you've got to do.
You've got to get the right guys.
How do you find him?
I mean, how the hell do you find this guy?
I'm very fortunate.
Again, I have a very good head coach, great lead coach, who I've been working for
Anton Kudushin, who's the head National Olympic coach for Russia.
And this guy knows that style.
That's his bread and butter.
And when it comes to not only knowing the style, but having the right sparring partner,
that's one thing I've lacked in the past where we couldn't get the right sparring partners.
But now, as soon as the fight was obviously getting worked on, straight away,
okay, we need this guy.
And we get the visas ready.
We get the applications done.
And obviously, it's not easy as well.
Jim Cambosis has...
A lot of work behind the scenes to make sure these guys get into the country.
We know that trying to bring someone from Russia with this current stage in the world
that we are is not the easiest thing in the world.
But we get them here.
They're here for a job.
And they give me great work.
So you've got the Russian coach and you've got the Russian sparring partner.
And you've got a Russian opponent coming up.
And they're both...
I've got to apologize for that.
He did pull out of fighting for a while when the war first started.
Well, we were supposed to fight.
When I had all the belts, undisputed champion of the world.
First ever Australian undisputed, four belt.
And then myself, Lomachenko, Devin Haney, we're all in the mix.
Who's going to fight Cambosis, the big fighter in Australia?
Possibly Gervonta Davis.
Obviously, I wanted to fight the best guys.
And that shows the balls that I got.
The guy that Cambosis beats Lopez.
Pound for pound in the world.
Most feared guy in division.
And one of the most feared punches in boxing.
Cambosis goes and shocks the world.
Takes all his belts.
Obviously, my promoter starts to send some names.
Let's fight this guy.
Let's fight that guy.
Let's make some easy money.
I said, no, no, no.
You send these lists back.
These are the three names that I want.
Vasily Lomachenko, Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis.
That's the three names that Cambosis will fight.
Now, Gervonta Davis was never going to come to Australia.
He's on his high horse.
He thinks he's king shit.
But Lomachenko, yes, I'll take the fight.
Devin Haney, yes, I'll take the fight.
And then it went down to negotiating.
And at that stage, Lomachenko's duel was very easy to make.
Being with top rank.
The fight was pretty much set.
And all of a sudden, he had signed his part.
I was about to sign my part.
Woke up early in the morning.
And my phone was going crazy.
I've opened my phone.
And I've sent a million messages, a million phone calls.
And I've sent a photo of Vasily Lomachenko with the army gear.
And everyone's saying that he's gone back to Ukraine to do whatever he did.
Now, at that stage, okay, let's find out what's going on.
Devin Haney jumps in.
So, there was a contract for me and Vasily Lomachenko to fight at Marvel Stadium in front of,
I think, we were probably.
We would have done even bigger numbers than 45,000.
But again, 45,000 was amazing.
And that was the fight to be.
I think style-wise, that fight would have been a different kind of fight.
But again, I'm very blessed to have gone and fought a guy like Devin Haney.
Given him the opportunity to set him up as well.
And being able to, you know, learn things from that fight.
And again, being with such a pure boxer like himself as well.
So, it's funny how things turn around.
And after the Haney fight, I always said to myself,
I pray to God that I get my shot one more time.
I do it 100% right.
And I get Lomachenko.
That's the guy I've wanted for a long time.
A guy that I've always, you know, been obsessed with fighting.
A guy that I really wanted to fight.
And there was even word of me and him fighting back in 2019.
So, third time lucky.
So, how would you describe Lomachenko's style?
Lomachenko's style is quite similar to when it comes to being aggressive, being sharp,
trying to come forward.
Quite similar to myself.
I think my footwork and defense is quite underrated.
And again, I think his defense is quite overrated.
But his footwork is great as well.
Styles make fights.
My team sees the holes.
And this is why I've wanted this fight for a long time.
I see the mistakes he makes.
And I truly believe I can be the first person to stop this guy.
So, you wouldn't...
He's not really a counterpunch, although he does counterpunch.
But he moves forward.
He's more of a mover, but he does dance as well.
He likes to move backwards, bring you on.
He's got that high guard.
But again, he's so...
Been brought up in the amateur system.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Three-time amateur world champion.
Three-division world champion.
Unified champion.
This guy has all the accolades.
This guy is a future Hall of Famer.
So, that's why I've been saying when I beat this guy,
and I have Lopez on my...
Obviously, on my resume, and Lomachenko on my resume,
and then I've gone the distance with Devin Haney.
I've fought the guys like Mickey Bay, Lee Selby,
and all these other guys.
I've cemented my spot into the Hall of Fame in boxing already,
at 30 years of age.
So, we know what Lomachenko brings.
We respect him, but that's where it ends.
When we step inside that ring, it's a whole different story.
And I truly believe, like I said,
I'm going to be the first person to stop him.
Will you go after him?
I'm going to go after him,
but we have a very good game plan as well.
You're not going to tell me that.
I'm not going to talk it to you.
But we have an amazing game plan.
Look, my issue has been,
I've gone into these last few fights,
that Lopez fight had a great game plan.
I had game plan A all the way to the end of the alphabet.
But then I went into the Haney fights with just this ego of,
who's Devin Haney?
I'll knock this guy out.
I'll beat this guy, no problem.
I'll do whatever media.
I'll go see every single media outlet and do my interviews
and let's promote the fight like crazy.
And let's train after that or before that.
And before you know it,
it all leads to something that's not the way you're supposed to prepare for a fight,
the way you're supposed to train for a fight.
So the mistake's been made.
And again, yeah, Devin Haney, he beat me.
He's a great guy.
We talk all the time now.
He's really progressing to that superstar status.
And I'm happy for giving him that opportunity
because a lot of guys didn't want to fight him.
But it's come around full circle where I've been,
I've been blessed with a very good team.
And all we do is train, eat, sleep.
And this is my first actual interview that I've done for months.
Press conference we did, obviously in Perth.
We continued our training over there.
Did what we had to do, come back.
We have not done anything except for train, eat, sleep.
And yeah, this is the first when obviously you and your team reached out.
I said, of course, for Mark, I'll definitely do it.
But we have been very,
you know, obsessed and putting in work.
Because you do strike me, George, as an obsessed sort of person
in terms of your craft.
And by the way, if you're jumping in the ring,
for anyone who's never jumped in the ring,
if you're not obsessed with your preparation,
then you're probably going to get toweled.
Because there's no half measures.
You've got to be 100%.
Look, when we look at my accolades and what I've been able to achieve
and six world titles, you know, every belt in the game,
bring these mega fights here, these big fights, win the big fights.
Obviously, you lost a couple of the big fights,
but we're back in that position.
You have to be obsessed.
And again, at 30 years of age, a lot of people would say,
well, you know what?
Why do you work so hard?
You've done it all.
You've made the money.
You've got the house.
You've got the toys.
You've got your family.
Why do you continue to risk it?
Because one, I love this sport.
I just got so much energy for this sport.
I'm so obsessed by this sport.
I continue to learn every day.
But again, it goes back to the legacy.
And people say, oh, you know, you see people.
Oh, this is a money grab.
This is for him to make some more money or whatever.
And Lomachenko the same.
And I said, no, no.
This is two guys that are really hungry for the next step of their career.
And like I said at the press conference, we've both been there.
We've done it all.
But this is now who moves on to the next spot,
who goes back to number one in the world and gets to call the shots again
and gets to bring more mega fights.
My plan is to beat this guy and bring more big fights here to Australia
or go back to the U.S. like I have.
Go fight back in New York or Las Vegas and beat these great fighters.
It's funny, you know, George, I'm listening to you and I'm watching you
and I'm actually looking.
I'm looking at your eyes.
And one of the things I noticed when you fought Lopez,
one of the things I noticed when you fought Lopez,
when you walked into the ring, I think I might have messaged you,
but I could see it in your eyes.
And I usually, you know, that look is very important.
I mean, I don't want to over-egg it.
I mean, the eye of the tiger, whatever.
But you had a look.
I thought when I saw you walk in the ring, when I saw your eyes,
I thought, he's going to win this.
I didn't know how or whatever.
I didn't know you were going to put the big right on him,
you know, the big overhand, the old Mick Ackaway right-hand bang.
There are lots of blokes who do that.
I've been throwing that shot for many years from the amateurs.
And then we literally, you can land that first shot
and we've seen guys that knock people down in the first round,
second round, and then all of a sudden they go to shit
because it's all they can do.
Well, you kept doing it though.
But then I landed that, but I was also landing my left hooks,
my double, triple jabs.
The little quick left hook was beautiful.
The body shots, the left hooks, everything.
That was landing.
And I just broke this guy down.
Then again, yeah, I lost my composure in that round 10,
but snapped out of it.
And then come 11 and 12, which are probably the two greatest rounds
in Australian boxing where Cambosa showed his real, you know,
strength and honour and who he is and was prepared for anything
and came home and brought them belts back to Australia.
I look at you though, George, and I look at your eyes now.
You're very clear.
You're not very marked up.
I've got the scars, yeah.
But you've had a lot of fights.
You've had a lot of sparring, obviously.
You've had a lot of fights.
But your speech is good.
But what do you put that down to?
Why do you think that, I mean, I've known a lot of fighters
and sometimes at 30, having the amount of fights that you've had,
like you've had a lot of amateur fights.
You've fought for a long time.
They're not quite as articulate as you and or look a bit more marked up.
What do you put that down to?
I mean, how does George keep himself in this sort of good position?
You keep yourself sort of really...
really composed physically and also the way you speak.
I think when Cambosis talks, you see it in the press conferences,
you see it when I do interviews.
I'm very articulate.
I'm very sharp with what I do.
And again, I'm in the ring.
I'm extremely sharp.
You know, my defense is very underrated.
You know, guys that come to spar me for the first time, you know,
can't believe it.
They struggle to hit me.
I glance a lot of shots.
I catch a lot of shots.
I slip and roll a lot of shots.
And, you know, I've taken the big shots as well.
Of course, this is fighting.
There's two guys throwing punches at each other.
You're going to take shots.
But I look after my body very well outside of training.
So what's your regime look like?
So in terms of food, you're talking about what you eat?
I have a lot of infrared sauna at home.
I've got Normatec boots at home.
I've got ice baths at the gym.
I've got everything to make me be at 110%.
Like I've always said, you can't put, you know, basic fuel.
I can't put basic fuel in my supercar.
So I need to make sure that everything is done properly.
And I think sleep is very important.
Do you sleep well?
Even with three kids, I sleep extremely well.
I still have my midday naps.
Once we finish this, I will go home.
I'll eat my scheduled food that I've got to eat.
I'll go sleep for an hour and a half.
I get up, go back to the gym.
I finish training.
I do my recovery, go home, eat well, and then back
to bed, restart in the morning.
And you don't drink?
Outside of your training prep, you don't drink much, or ever?
Once in a blue, once every two years, you know, it's very like to celebrate and just
enjoy, but I don't get no thrill from it, to be honest.
Yeah, my thrill is living a clean life,
training, being obsessed with the sport and winning the big fights.
So if you see me do have one drink or two drinks, it'd be once every
two years or once every three years.
I can't even remember the last time I had a drink.
So that is an important factor.
The right way you eat, you don't do the bad things outside of the sport.
You don't get caught up too much in the lights.
A lot of guys even that say they won't drink, but they want to be out in the
clubs and in the parties and look at me and I'm the champ.
And, you know, I became undisputed and didn't even celebrate.
You know, I went straight back into hard work.
I remember that's a true warrior and there'll be time to
enjoy life, you know, and when I'm thirty four, thirty five, thirty six.
It's OK. It's that the boxing has come to an end.
You can't fall forever.
Now you can look to help the next future.
Obviously, we've got the promotional company.
We've got a lot of big plans.
But again, you can enjoy yourself, you know, sit here and have a drink.
I know you got your new drink, so we could sit here and have a drink.
But for now, it's full focus on one plan of the Tiger and continue to beat these best guys.
And I think it through, George.
I mean, probably a really good example right now is Ryan Garcia.
I mean, like, he's I don't know what the fuck's going on.
I guess it's weirding me out.
Like, I thought to myself initially, maybe, you know, he's just trying to get a bit
of attention, perhaps, perhaps because he's, you know, he's big on his various social
mediums. But then I thought, no, that, you know, like the whatever the equivalent
of the combat commission is over there, they're looking at even postponing and or
doing an examination of his mental health.
Athletics, you know, commission who are extremely strict.
I've gone through their system to fight two times, especially when I fought Lopez.
And they are extremely strict.
So they're seeing all this and say, OK, we'll give you first chance, second chance.
But they see the continuous of it.
And again, yeah, all right, you might be playing it a bit, but there's been points
where it's just like you don't go play that stuff.
You don't go say that stuff.
You don't go do that stuff.
And you don't go do that against a guy like Devon Haney.
You know, I learnt my lesson.
And from training like an animal anyway,
but doing the commitments of the media and trying to really promote a fight.
And again, who was Cambosa at that stage to go and do 45,000?
I'm not in the media every single day.
I'm not, you know, this, you know, mega superstar at that stage to promote a big
fight, but we pushed hard in the media to do it.
But again, I lost my way with that.
Not the training, but Garcia looks terrible.
Do you think he's lost his way?
I think he's lost his way. I think.
Was there pressure?
I think it could be pressure.
I think he's enjoying himself in other things that you do not do.
It looks to me like something like that.
Yeah. And you see the way he's reacting.
You hear things from the fight game and from people over there.
And again, like I said, you don't do that against a guy like Devon Haney.
Devon Haney, like the way he trains, very similar to myself, train like animals.
He will beat him up.
Yeah, because I see he's quick and he's got lots of things going for him.
But the whole mental piece of going into the ring against someone like Devon Haney,
who's just like a surgeon, he just keeps going, going, going, going,
doesn't get hit much, he's a pretty fighter to watch.
Unless Ryan Garcia can put one on him really by surprise.
I just get concerned about Ryan Garcia's ability to go through all the rounds.
Yeah. If that's really his mental state.
That's what I think. I think that the rounds, getting through them rounds and then when he's getting
stopped, it's going to be a whole different story for him.
But again, I look at the outside as well.
So when Ryan's doing, he's put up some shadow boxing, he looks terrible and he's
doing the pads and his feet are everywhere and he's trying to jitter the way he's
throwing his shots, he looks terrible, he looks like a novice.
And I like Ryan. We've spoken in the past.
He actually reached out after my last fight saying, hey, let's do a big, big fight.
But we already had plans with Lomachenko and fighting for another world title.
So I look on the outside and all of a sudden I see his coach, who's an amazing coach.
And I can see the way he's just looking down, he's doing this and he just doesn't
look interested and he's just like, it's like he's stuck.
He's stuck with this guy, he's committed to training the guy for the fight, but he's
just, you know, not interested in knowing what's going to happen.
And that's a guy, Derek James, who's trained a lot of great champions.
Errol Spence as well.
He did help Anthony Joshua.
So this is a very renowned and respected coach.
And I feel like when I see on the outside the way he's looking down and just there's
a lot of things going on.
I've seen it on social media with him showing that he doesn't look as interested.
And, you know, he's probably got the shits with Ryan, the way he's acting.
What does it do for boxing though?
Disrespects, you know, I train a lot of that.
What do you think that does for boxing?
Because, you know, you've got the UFC trying to take boxing down.
I mean, and, you know, they've grown up.
They'll never take us down.
But they're trying, you know, they'd like to own the audience.
what do you think it does for boxing when we see Ryan Garcia sort of talking about all sorts of vision?
And various other things.
I mean, it's a bit out there, which is fair enough.
I mean, everybody's entitled to be how they are.
But do you feel as though, does George Cambosis and, you know,
Lomachenko and others feel as though they have to try and put some sensibility back
into boxing as a sport, generally speaking?
I mean, a good example is we've got Mike Tyson fighting a YouTuber.
Yeah. I mean, does that, you know, I'm going to watch it because I'm just curious.
I'm actually hoping Tyson kicks his ass.
But I'm not sure. Mike's 58 and the other bloke is...
Jake's been, yeah, he's been fighting.
He's been knocking guys out and he takes it seriously.
I know Jake pretty well now.
And he takes it very seriously.
But again, it's a whole, it's a money spin.
That's what it is. It's a money spin.
And I'm sure there's some rules behind the scenes.
I'm sure they said, hey, let's just do this, do that.
Let's, you know, make some big money.
Do you reckon they'll actually have 18 ounce gloves?
From what they said, like other people were saying, but I've seen obviously Jake say no,
there's no 18 ounce gloves.
They'll probably put them in 12s, 10s or 12s.
But yeah, again, it's a money spin.
You know, it works. It makes sense.
But am I going to sit there and watch it?
Possibly. If I've got nothing else to do.
Am I going to enjoy it and say, oh, wow, this is amazing.
This is a Kambo Slomachenko fight or a Usyk Tyson Fury fight or better be a Bivol fight.
They're the big fights. They're the, you know, fights where it's like, wow, that's boxing.
Two warriors, two guys that are prepared for a big fight.
Two champions coming to fight each other.
This other stuff is like, Ryan's a hell of a fighter.
He's a great fighter, very sharp, you know, got that snap and that power.
Just the social media antics to a point, obviously you can do them.
But once it gets over with what he's been doing,
it just makes the fight lesser than what it is because on paper it's a huge fight.
it's been on social media ticket wise, it hasn't been selling at all.
When you look at a fight like myself
and Slomachenko, which is pretty much sold out,
then you can see the real fans enjoy real boxing.
I think if Ryan took a different approach
before, whatever else is going on in his head and just focus, I'm here to win.
I'm here to show that I'm the best guy.
This would have sold out real quick.
So, you know, because for me, I hate to see boxing lose its status as the beautiful art.
To me, that's what it is.
It's art. I mean, and a good example of that is recently
with Anthony Joshua, when he put that right hand on Nagano.
Like, that's the beauty of boxing.
If you know how to box and you can pick
your spot and you see, you know, you're watching what's available for you.
And Anthony Joshua putting it straight on his chin like that,
he hit him a few times, but the big one, the big hit, that's the beauty of boxing.
It was nice as a fighter, as a boxer.
It was as much, I love Nagano's, you know, what he's gone in to do this.
And from the UFC, and I love the UFC guys, obviously close friends, a lot of them.
But there's always that competitive nature
between both, because we're both fighters, but it's two different, different things.
So seeing that was like, OK, stay in your lane.
We stay in our lane.
And that's what it is now.
If Joshua went into the cage, it'd be maybe a different story,
unless he lands that right hand again, but Nagano starts kicking and elbows
him, it's a whole different story.
Well, then that brings me back to Lomachenko.
I've watched a lot of his fights, as I've watched every one of your fights many
times over, he doesn't mind sort of grabbing and pulling and twisting and a little bit
of, let's call it like a little bit of stand-up grappling, like a little bit,
because he did do a lot of wrestling as a kid, like a lot of those people from that
part of the world, they all do it and they're good at it,
which is the reason why those Dagestanis are so bloody good.
They're all coming out of the Soviet environment.
They learn this sort of stuff and Lomachenko's an old man.
His dad was a wrestler or taught him wrestling or something along those lines, something like that.
I believe his dad put him in ballet for the feet.
I'm sure there's been wrestling in there, but like you're saying, you can see when he
gets close and he gets tagged with a few shots and he does hold, he likes to try to
punch from the hold, tries to throw shots.
And again, a lot of them shots go behind the head.
Now, of course, that's one of the things that we are preparing for.
One thing that we know that it's not going to be a shock when he tries to do it.
But again, one thing that we will speak to the commission and the ref and the people
involved saying, hey, if he's going to do this, we're not going to have that.
We'll talk about that for a sec, George.
Pull it up. Yeah, that's important.
Or else I'm going to start getting dirty too and I'm going to start throwing some elbows.
Yeah, but that part's important.
Maybe explain that, because what people, a lot of people don't realise is that there
are like a meeting with the officials and, you know, you can put your point
forward and your coach can put your point forward and say, look,
we want you to be looking out for this ref.
And by the way, if you don't pull it up,
then I'll end up responding, which referees don't want to have because it's a mess.
It creates a commotion.
And then all of a sudden things get out of hand for the referees.
Yet before the fight, there's rules meeting.
There's a meeting with a referee, with both sides.
And they will say Lomachenko's team might have seen something in my fights.
Might say, OK, he does this.
That's not really part
of the rules, shouldn't be throwing it, gets away with it.
We are worried and that's our case.
And then we will say the same thing.
Well, this is our case.
We don't want you throwing this shot.
If you do, this is going to be a retaliation and things get out of the way.
So the ref is aware of it.
The commission is aware of it.
Again, there's also gloves, making sure the gloves are right.
They come fully sealed.
His team will check, we will check.
And there's a lot of things that go on behind the scenes
before the fight.
the fight is billed, obviously, Lomachenko-Cambosis.
But again, when it comes to who's going to walk out first or second, it hasn't been.
It hasn't been decided yet.
I think it's going to come down to possibly a coin toss and we'll go from there.
But, you know, he's got his, I'm a legend.
I've done this well, I've done a lot in the sport, too.
You know, this is my country.
I'm bringing the IBA world title, even though it's not
one of the top, top four, the IBFs on the line, I'm rated higher than you in the IBF.
I'm going to walk out second.
So I think it's fair.
We do, you know, the coin and whoever walks.
And then it leaves the fans, who's going to walk out?
Who's going first, who's going second?
And you hear the music and it's time to go.
Why is that important to you?
It's not important to a point of, oh, it's going to make or break the fight.
But I feel like it adds another
dimension to the fans, who's going to walk out first or second, creates a little bit more excitement.
But as well, it's an edge.
It's like, well, I'm not going to give you, you know, everything.
You know, you're going to obviously we're
going to have to see who goes first or second.
It's fair, you know.
So it's kind of like not an ego thing.
It's like trying to get one on them.
These are the 1%.
Little battles, less than 1%.
It's the little battles.
It's like the small battles you saw in the press conference when he said, oh,
you had two chances at Devon Haynie. OK, yeah, correct.
But you had a chance.
You did your best to become undisputed.
You didn't do it. And I did.
So there's always these little tits for tats,
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Yes, it's a mental game.
This is not just boxing, it's not just physical.
It's mental, spiritual, emotional.
You've got to control your emotions, too.
That's one of the big things in this camp that I've been able to work on with my
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Obviously, you're well and truly past the adrenaline drain,
like which you would have had when you were ammortified.
You know, the adrenaline can actually gas you.
It doesn't matter how fit you are, your legs can go on you because of adrenaline.
But how do you control your emotions before the game?
What's the sort of stuff that you do?
Do you pray? Do you meditate?
What do you do the night before?
Because I mean, you want to get a good night's sleep.
What does George Kambosa do?
Just obviously you hydrate well, you eat well, and you're just there with your team
and you just obviously talk game plans, but then you're trying to switch off.
Watch a movie, you know, relax, have a laugh.
You know, you don't want to too much,
you know, make your brain go crazy and just overthink it.
If you're trying to overthink the fight
right then and there, you have not put in the hard work in preparation.
The game plan should be ready.
Now, I'm nearly seven weeks this Sunday out from the fight.
My game plan's ready.
If they told me, OK, hey, Lomachenko's outside ready to fight, I'm ready.
I have game plans A all the way to the end of the alphabet.
So you just try to stay relaxed, eat well.
Obviously, you have to rehydrate yourself back up to a good, solid weight.
You're feeling good. Make sure the recovery is good.
Obviously, put the Normatec boots on,
do a quick ice bath, shock the muscles and just enjoy, relax.
So that the next day, it's time for battle.
You've got a battle, you've got a war.
How much does George can both walk around it?
Because you don't really struggle on the weight that much.
You're pretty good on making weight.
Weight's always good for me.
I have been able to.
And one of the things we worked on leading, obviously, before the fight was
announced, was trying to get a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger, add some more
muscle and I've been able to do that.
So the weight is sitting a little bit heavier than what it has in the past.
But I've got a proper dietitian, proper team where it's like, this is perfect.
This is where we want you.
Next week, we want you around here.
The week after, we want you around here,
where it's not going to be too grueling to cut down that weight.
And again, I'm the ultimate pro when it comes to doing, you know, everything right.
You know, for me, I don't like to leave any stone unturned.
I'll do my road work in the morning and then I go home and put the Normatec boots
on and do the recovery and watch fight tape and eat well and make sure everything's done right.
So do you go to this, do you go and get a Dexil?
Do you, let's say, when did your prep start, 14 weeks out?
We've been preparing
since, yeah, since January.
Yeah. So it's five months.
But even before that, you know, after my last fight, we started preparation.
We built up, we did like a mini camp and then we pulled it back over the New Year's.
It was the first time ever I was able to, not by choice.
I like to train every day, twice a day if I can, when I'm out of camp.
First time, obviously, Anton,
head coach said, no, no, no, this period, one week, one and a half weeks, nothing.
Anton, I'll go for a run.
I'll do, no, sit down and do nothing.
Relax, go for a fish, enjoy time with your kids and family, go down, holidays, nothing.
So, OK, he goes, please listen to me.
So I did. And I came back to the gym.
Incredible, fired up, hungry.
And that first time in my career, having that rest, you know, gave me that extra
boost. So, you know, you got to do everything correct.
And then when you get into that proper last 12 weeks of camp, that's where we've
been training, we've done the pre-camps, we've done the, you know, the build up.
And then 12 weeks.
That's full time hard work.
At what point did you do the DEXA?
So at the beginning of the 12th week?
We did. No, no, no.
We've done the DEXA.
It was late January, late January, early February.
Right, so that gives you your distribution of fat and muscle.
Yeah, we check everything, get sent to the dietitian, checks it.
OK, we know where we're at.
Then obviously he'll come as well, do skin check, physical check.
And so, OK, this is the plan. Bloods?
See what's what we're deficient in, what we need more of, what we can add.
And then from there we say, OK, let's put the program tested.
Obviously, because we're not still in that 12 weeks camp.
Some things might not work for me.
I might say, look, I don't feel good with this.
I'm too much of this.
Let's take that out and we find the right balance.
And by the time we get to that 12 weeks, everything's pinpoint.
You're already in great shape.
You already got the game plans.
You're already conditioned.
And there's no need to change anything of the structure when it comes to your
meals and anything that you're putting into your body.
why it's so important to have your legs right?
Because everybody thinks the boxing is being up here mostly.
But I don't mean in terms of footwork, but I'm just talking about having good
legs in terms of when I take a punch, you know, get the 12 rounds out.
And what do you do to get your legs right?
Apart from low work.
Legs are extremely important, like
to a point where you said you did not have the legs right movement.
But that, again, is the most important part of boxing.
And I've been really able to work, especially in that pre-camp,
15 rounds of constant drills, movement.
This is the most footwork and leg work that I've done ever in my career.
This is the most I've ran.
In my career, you know, four or five times a week we are running.
I came up in the obviously that Russian Soviet style as an amateur.
And then I went to America and built my way over there and, you know,
give a couple of different trainers and now to come back to a guy that is such
high level Russian trainer, Soviet style and have all this plus more.
It's been refreshing.
It takes me back to what I used to do and it's brought, you know, so much more to my
game. You know, everything is perfect.
But again, when it comes to your legs,
your legs got to be conditioned very well as well.
But maybe you could explain because like
maybe those who have never experienced it, like when you get hit, especially if you get
flush, your legs go and you saw it in the Lopez fight round 10 when I got caught
with a shot in the back of the head and kind of just...
I got very nervous when I saw that.
That was the point where it's like, OK, does he call it a day and he's done good enough?
Or does he get back up like a warrior?
And I got up and the legs for about a minute, minute and a bit were all over the place.
And as much as your senses are there and you can see what's going on and you're
fully awake, it's your legs, they're not responding and they're a bit all...
It's like after you've been on a ride and
your legs are all, you know, spinning around 20 times, 30 times, you're off balance.
That's what it feels like.
So you got to just be patient and try to hold on and control yourself to get them back.
And by doing the hard work in the gym and making sure your legs are fresh and putting
in the hard work on your legs, it gives you better conditioning to take a shot.
When you take a shot and say it does, you know, you feel it, your legs are more
conditioned to recover if you get to that point.
And a lot of less experienced fighters forget about this.
But how important is it, George, maybe you just talk to me about this.
But then when someone, when they, if, hopefully not, but they get a good one on
the ground, how important is it to understand that, just go and hold on?
And like, because that's part of boxing.
It's not being weak.
Part of boxing is you're going to take a shot, you're going to survive the rest of the round and get back to the corner.
This is a, you got to...
Because everyone can get a shot.
It's a man to man fight, you know, and we all fighters, we all have this ego of, ah,
you got me in that round, I'm going to kill you now.
Or you hit me with a good shot, I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to come and, you know, try to get my shot back.
It's an ego thing.
you could be driving here, someone takes your car spot, you know,
I'm going to get you back on, that's my car spot.
You know, it's just, I think, a man thing.
But you have to stay controlled, keep your cool.
And that's what I've been able to really learn in this camp is, OK,
you got me with a couple of good shots, this is a 12 round fight.
You might have got round two, round three, but I know in the end I'm going to get you.
So you got to stay controlled, keep your cool.
And that's one thing I've been able to learn more and more in this preparation of, hit me with a good shot.
You're not going to give me that shot again.
I've learned my lesson.
I'm going to come and check out, I'm sure he'll land a shot here and there.
It's a fight, but I'm going to land my shots too.
Let's see how he reacts when I land my sharp shots, my explosive shots.
And when I make him miss his shots and I come back with my shots.
So let's see how he reacts, let's see how I react.
And ultimately, it's who can dance better on the night,
who can keep the cool on the night and let their hands go and perfect the game plan on the night.
He will have his game plan.
I will have my game plan.
you know, we will see, may 12th.
It's and it's not just about how you train, how you're prepped and it's not always,
it's not all about your mental state, but there's the other side is your corner.
Explain how important the corner is.
You know, like you come back,
there's not much, it's hard to take stuff in at the end of the round,
especially if you copped a couple.
How does your corner, your new coach, how will he deal with the corner?
Like, is it like just to say a few words?
Does he just say, start breathing?
What's his process?
Do you know, have you experienced it yet?
Yeah, we've been experiencing it in our training and then obviously our sparring.
He's very cool, calm, collected.
He's the one that's making me more cool, calm, collected and stay controlled.
So he's always very, you know, controlled.
He's been doing this for a long time.
He's had Olympic champions, Olympic medalists, you know, very good pro fighters.
for him, this is his bread and butter.
This is what he does. This is not a second job or he goes
and works, you know, all day and then he comes to the boxing.
No, he's in the boxing gym 24-7, lives and breathes it.
So for him, he's cool, calm, collected.
I come to the corner, I've made a mistake in the round.
He doesn't need to explain it too much
because our training, our pads, our work has already been explained throughout
the course of our training camp. He's got to say a couple of words and say,
OK, you know the move, you know this shot, let's get to that.
This is now plan B, plan C.
You don't want a corner, you see a lot of corners get in the face of fighters.
Screaming and the poor fighters just sitting there and.
But you don't take it in anyway.
You don't take it in. The fighters just like, whatever.
Small little key words, things that motivate you
and remembering the game plan and go out and do it.
You know, it sounds simple, but in a fight when you're taking shots,
it's not as simple and then you've got, you know, 45,000 people there as well.
And it's not as simple.
There's a lot of pressure, but you've got to be composed.
And that's what I'm learning more and more
to be composed. Come back to that corner.
Listen to his advice. Listen to what he saw.
Use your eyes. Then get your motivation from a guy like my father.
Motivate him like crazy.
See what the other assistant has seen.
Go out there and win that round.
Come back and do it again.
George, can I ask you,
how important is spirituality to you as a man, as a father, as a fighter, as a son?
How important is spirituality
You know, spiritual with, you say, religion is to a point, but again,
it's more spiritual of who I am as a warrior, as a fighter, as a father figure,
as a figure to a lot of young kids and a lot of men and women as well where,
you know, I get so many social media messages, you know, you inspire me.
Thank you so much.
I've had people reach out and say, I was going to kill myself.
And I've seen you inspire me and motivate
me and, you know, you've given me a purpose to say, you know what, I want to train hard.
I give that, you know, that push and motivation to someone.
So that there is very important, but mostly for my kids,
you know, my two sons, my daughter, you know, and I try to slowly put it into them.
Like my father did to me.
I slowly, you know, like yesterday, my son's playing his iPad,
he's playing a game and he's getting frustrated playing this
game on there and he's getting angry because he's losing.
I said, he goes, I can't win. I can't win.
I go, hey, relax.
OK, keep trying. Keep doing it.
You'll get it. Don't give up.
He kept doing it, kept doing it so he can get it.
And that's little things where to him he doesn't understand it.
He just said, don't give up, win.
But then again, I give him the flip side as well where I say,
are you really going to quit? You can't do it.
And he goes, I'm going to do it.
Well, don't quit. Go.
And just give him that little edge already.
He's only four, five years old.
This is Leonidas.
But I don't know, I can see that the eyes, he's got that eye as well,
the eye of the tiger and he likes to throw them as well.
He's got a bit of aggression.
So I don't know, maybe in the future, talking about a future champion.
But for now, I install little bits into him.
My daughter's obviously year one.
Always ask her how her day is at school and keep trying hard.
Keep asking as many questions as you can
to the teacher and never be shy to, you know, to learn more and more.
And obviously my baby's my baby.
He's only little.
But these are the little things where people don't see.
They see Cambosis fighter, aggressive tats,
you know, warrior and go to war.
And yes, that's that's one side.
But then flip to the other side is
very important for me to be that figure to my kids, my family,
financially support my kids, but also spiritually support them
and mentally give them the best that I can.
But again, as well to the public, give them, you know, as much motivation.
You know, like I said, if I can help inspire one person or,
you know, go and visit, you know, I want to visit a young, sick, you know, girl.
I did put on my social media who is battling really hard.
And father reached out actually on a comment on Facebook and got a million comments.
And I try my best to get back to everybody.
And also I see this comment.
So I messaged him and said, send me a DM right now, say DM me.
And straight away I said, where's your daughter?
Sydney Children's Hospital.
OK, when's the right time for me to come?
Straight away, I went out there and they couldn't believe it.
Like from a Facebook message, I saw it, went out there and
from me trying to inspire her, she actually inspired me how positive this girl is.
And this girl is life support.
She doesn't know if she's going to
make it the next day, but she's so positive and so inspiring that it actually
benefited me to a point where it's like, what am I to worry about?
This young girl is fighting for her life and she's so inspiring and she's so positive.
you know, again, we pray for her and hope she gets through this.
And I'm sure she's got that warrior spirit that she will, little Dazel.
So, you know, that's the little things that make a difference.
What do you want to say to her?
Tell her, say something.
I told her already at the hospital.
But again, just keep fighting hard.
I know you're doing it tough all the time, but you're a true warrior.
You've inspired me. Keep fighting hard.
Man, I can't get, I can't finish off without talking about the Mighty Roosters.
We both are Roosters supporters.
And we both, we're not, neither one of us are born Roosters supporters,
but we both happen to support the Roosters.
And the team loves you.
And because they sort of bask to some extent in your achievements and your
successes and you've been out there to speak to them.
And I know you, you know, you follow them
religiously, but a lot of times you can't get to see the games.
I would have loved to go to Vegas.
If I wasn't in camp, I said, I told my old man, my old man spewing teak, we're in camp now.
I go, you know, if we weren't in camp, we would have been in Vegas.
I've been to Vegas so many times.
I said we would have been there with the boys.
And, you know, hopefully next year.
But if we go to Vegas next year, I mean,
hopefully they build some rules up that allow us to qualify in the rules.
Hopefully Uncle Nick can sort something out, that with Peter Volandis.
But how important is, is it to you and as a
Roosters supporter, as a rugby league supporter, how important is it to you, like the way people look up to
George Cambosis to win in the fights and they follow you.
How important is it for you to, for the Roosters to do really well,
relative to what your, this is your pastime, one of your pastimes,
one of your great hobbies, watching a rugby league.
How important is that to you?
It's really important because for me, you know, that's like you said,
it's something that I do outside of boxing.
That's something I go home and it's Friday.
And obviously tomorrow we've got a big, big game.
I know it's Hargraves 300.
And Souths, obviously, you know, it's that ride.
And, you know, Latrell Mitchell and there's just so much, you know, going on.
And, you know, I know that, of course, you can't go to the game because I'm in camp
and training and I don't want to be around too many people.
And, you know, chance of getting sick and stuff, especially as winter's coming.
But finish training, go home, sit down, put the Norma Tech boots on and
just sit there and enjoy the game.
And that's for me, it gives me that, you know, bit of downtime.
But again, it's like I'm having a fight
watching the game because I'm pumped up and also the boys, you know, do well and win, you know.
Every single game, if they can, and bring that trophy back to the East
League club and to Bondi and, you know, celebrate.
So, like, do you sit down there with your
littlest boys, probably way too little, but your five-year-old boy and your daughter?
Yeah, they love it. They got their Roosters jersey and it was cool.
Does Jimmy come around?
Sometimes we watch the Las Vegas game together at my house.
He still likes to go to the games, still a member and stuff.
So he tries to get to the games as well.
My daughter had, they do jersey day at school and you've got to bring a jersey.
So she left the last minute to tell us she's coming.
She goes, I've got jersey day in two days.
I said, OK, what jersey do you want to wear? Rooster's jersey.
So we went to Red Bull to try to find a jersey.
Couldn't find a jersey her size.
So we got online and my wife got online quickly.
We've done Express and we got one and she was so happy to wear it.
But then my son started, I want a jersey.
Why is she getting a jersey? I want a Rooster's jersey.
I want to get him a jersey as well.
So it's good, you know, like I got, you know, pushed as a young age.
Your Rooster's, that's it.
And taken to the games as a little kid with my dad and got to see it all.
Obviously, Jimmy and a couple of beers and I'm there, this young five, six year old
and, you know, watching them scream and then I'm screaming as well.
And, you know, it was some good times, good fun times.
And I won't say too much of, you know, a bit of biff, you know, with the old man,
But I learnt, you know, from a young age, you know, that footy kind of, you know, feeling.
George, one of the things, I'm getting wound up over here from my producer,
but I do want to ask you, I mean, I have to ask you this as a fellow Greek.
How important is your Greek heritage to you?
I mean, you know, you've got, I know you've got a tattoo.
I can't remember what it says or something about.
Greek blood, Greek pride.
Yeah, it's extremely important.
You know, my heritage, where I come from.
You know, my family's heritage is extremely important as well as where I'm born,
where I live, you know, both flags, both, you know, I'll spill blood for both flags.
You know, so it's important to have that heritage behind you,
but also be important to where you live and then where you're born.
And, you know, I go out and fight, you know, for both.
I can't remember now, but you've never fought in Greece, have you?
You have, I just don't recall you did have a fight.
2019, I had a fight.
I had a fight there before I fought Mickey Bay in Massachusetts Garden.
My promoter, Lou DiBella, reached out and said, hey, there's a fight in Greece.
They're doing a big show.
They want you a part of it.
They want you to go there and fight.
At that stage, my career was still, you know, on the edges of trying to get
somewhere, try to contend the status. I said, yeah, of course.
This has always been a dream of mine to fight there.
Let's do it. Went there.
I was only a very small person.
It was more the experience of going to fight in Greece, seeing the Greek fans.
They all came out to the arena.
It was actually quite a decent arena, one of the old arenas they used for the
Olympics in 2000, I think 2000, 2004.
So it was, you know, experience where we did that.
But it's something that I'd like to do again.
You know, beat Lomachenko, get that world
title and maybe go back there and do a big, big fight.
Then bring a big fight to Sydney as well.
I want to bring a big fight to Sydney and all these other
athletes are getting the fights.
It's only fair Sydney gets behind me.
Well, George, thanks very much, mate.
I will be there in Perth on May 12.
Don't worry about that, mate. I'll be yelling and screaming.
You won't be able to hear me.
It's pretty good. It's a great stadium.
The arena's amazing. I went and saw it.
Obviously, Vogue fought there with Islam and they reckon the atmosphere was
incredible going there and seeing it and knowing how packed it's going to be sold out.
It's going to be incredible.
The atmosphere's going to be crazy.
And I can't wait.
This is very focused to win this fight.
We're going to win this fight.
George, I wish you the best of luck, particularly in your prep, because it's
all about the prep, what happens between here and the next seven weeks.
I feel I feel quite good about seeing you.
Like, I mean, it's not a great opportunity to have this interview with you, but
probably more importantly, what it's done for me as a George Kambosis fan,
which I am and always have been, is the look I'm getting from your eyes.
You look relaxed, but you look sharp and you look really well.
I'll see you on May 12th.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Always good to catch up with you and bring on May 12th.
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