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Breaking My Doctor’s Oath To Fight iDubbbz

a lot of people are asking should a doctor be boxing is that a bad idea [Music] [Music] i think for me as long as i am very consciously aware of the consequences of becoming a pro boxer then i think it's fine i especially as a doctor i'm viscerally aware of the risks that i'm gonna be taking real boxers pro boxers are warriors they're going in there under the risk of true damage being done to not only their facial structures but also their internal organs their liver their kidneys their brain this is legitimately true for me the biggest concern is obviously the concern around chronic traumatic encephalopathy over the course of time repetitive hits to the head can cause damage to your brain and that has been proven true in a lot of contact sports important fact boxing is not the number one offender here but for boxing what we've seen is the ones who have the worst forms of cte are the ones who've taken the most hits to the head constant repetitive hits to the head which i don't plan to do i'm not gonna have a 20 30 40 fight boxing career i definitely want to get in this fight with idubbbz i potentially want to have a few more other fights because this is what i'm passionate about i want to do this dr mike is your fighting what a goofball am i right you're gonna right i don't know man are you so you say he's just handsome you don't think he's a good fighter because he made a video saying he's been boxing for 10 years yeah he's just handsome just and and he he admitted that uh the 10 years isn't 10 years of serious boxing that's just fitness boxing let me explain the 10-year statement i wasn't sparring wasn't training four or five days a week as if i had a fight coming up there were no training camps i was simply doing it to learn about the sport maybe perfect my form a little bit but i wasn't doing it nearly enough to be able to consider myself amateur or even a pro fighter which is why i think idubbbz thought that we are potentially on the same caliber of abilities and i think that's true do i think the 10 years will be my advantage yes i think it comes down to athletic ability and size idubbbz have had to put on nearly 40 50 pounds he said in interviews i've lost 18 pounds for this fight that's gonna be a big difference when we step in the ring the guys that i fight that are in lighter weight i often times have to say i'm only gonna use my jab in this in order to work on my defense because if i was to use my right hand i would just be dominating the sparring session not learning anything i'm just finishing that finish yeah man he got a good right hand i don't know i saw videos of his skinny ass opponent you know me so good luck [Music] [Music] my training regimen has been absolutely brutal not only because i'm training harder than i ever have for anything in my entire life but because it's also happening during the busiest time of my life in addition to training six days a week most of the days twice a day i just completed my tour which i had to plan and prepare for which was way more difficult than i thought it would be i'm also still a practicing physician working two or three days a week i'm teaching residents and i'm precepting residents we're making youtube videos unlike idubbbz i did not put my life on hold for this i am continuing to make content twice a week every wednesday and sunday for youtube as well as content for snapchat for facebook for instagram we do not stop working and this work ethic i think is going to be to our advantage because while idub sees this as a distraction for me it shows our abilities are far superior than anyone that may step in the ring with us we just have more stamina we have more willpower and we have more drive ultimately that's what wins boxing matches come on mike i want perfection watch the footwork don't get sloppy come on this we worked on figure it out my relationship with thomas my trainer has only continued to grow it's grown because of his honesty i always want people around me to not just tell me yes or good job or applaud me for no reason if i did good cool tell me what i did well but he's always finding things that i can improve on constantly tweaking little things telling me to get out of my head you're thinking get out of your head get out of your head just keep your life simple thomas doesn't beat around the bush when he gives me criticism valentine's day over fellas come on snap your and bring your hands back this ain't no street fight man come on you got lazy that's why he knows and i know that that criticism is constructive he wants me to use that criticism to get better and he knows exactly how to motivate me so when he tells me that i'm not controlling my spacing this is this is this is this is i'm not using my jab enough slow it down slow down work the jet i watch back a lot of the footage and i'm in complete agreement with him and every time i implement what he's saying i just have better and better outcomes com perfect perfect good good round go round go around that was big man that was big my trainer is like family i treat his family i trust him with my life just like he trusts me with his family's life which is why i'm doing this event he told me that he has full faith in me to win this match my future in boxing is like this put it this way i care for all my fighters i would not put this man in the ring if i did not think he could handle himself [Music] for those that expected this video for me to be talking smack about idubbbz not happening i in fact very much respect idubbbz for putting on an event of this caliber his team his wife mike justin everyone involved with putting this event together i give them major props and major respect and the biggest respect that i have for idubbbz where we see eye to eye is on the charity angle of this fight we will be donating the profits of the event to charities all the profits are being going to charity yeah yes we're paying our fighters just to cover their like training costs training costs and you know flights any yeah costs associated with sort of putting their you know life life on hold yeah but also for myself the thousands of dollars that i'll be making for showing up to the fight as well as some of the pay-per-view money that will come uh to offset training costs i'm donating all of that as i said to global givings support of ukraine and their current crisis that's a hundred percent happening i'm giving all that money away but what i will say is it's really unfortunate that i have to knock out idubbbz after having so much respect for him but know that idubbbz i'm only knocking you out because of the tremendous respect i have for you i only knock out the ones i love that sounds terrible this card is absolutely stacked lots of fighters lots of influencers your favorite youtubers and streamers i'm impressed with the people we've got can't wait to see michael reeves come out i have no idea how he's gonna perform but he looks solid in his training videos so i'm excited click down below there's like only a handful of tickets still available out of 10 000 so it's going to be a crazy atmosphere buy your pay-per-view tickets now and if you want to check out my video with amanda serrano who recently became the first female boxer to headline madison square garden click here she's a champ wow click here as always stay happy and healthy [Music] you

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