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MENTALITY IT TAKES TO BE A PRO-BOXER || LOLO HARRIS || EPISODE 051

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "MENTALITY IT TAKES TO BE A PRO-BOXER || LOLO HARRIS || EPISODE 051", an episode of Code To Winning published September 2, 2025 (23 min, about 4,526 words). It mentions 12 people, works and ideas, including Lo Harris, Terence Crawford, success, sparring, Code to Winning.

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on the mentality and experiences that shape a professional boxer's journey, focusing on Lo Harris, who began boxing at a young age and emphasizes the importance of adaptability in the ring. Key points include his early training under his father's guidance, the necessity of adjusting fighting styles based on opponents, and insights into overcoming setbacks to cultivate a winning mindset.

Key takeaways

  • Starting boxing at six? That's the kind of childhood training that screams future champion!
  • Adapting your style mid-fight is a boxer's game of chess; a strategy well beyond street brawling.
  • With 12 fights at 21, Lo Harris is climbing ranks faster than most can say 'knockout'!
  • Daddy's tough love includes backyard brawls and 50 push-ups—proof that champions are born, not just made.
  • In boxing, it's not just brute strength; it's thinking on your feet, unlike the chaos of a street fight.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Lo Harris, Code to Winning, sparring, street fighting
  2. – 10:00: Floyd Mayweather, sparring, Terence Crawford, mental strategy
  3. – 15:00: Terence Crawford
  4. – 20:00: Lo Harris, Terence Crawford, sparring, junior welterweight
  5. – 23:16: success, Code to Winning

Notable quotes from "MENTALITY IT TAKES TO BE A PRO-BOXER || LOLO HARRIS || EPISODE 051"

  • Interesting interview. We're going to be learning a bit more about like him being in the Mayweather camp. He's only 21 years of age, born in San Bernardino, California. without…
    about Lo Harris · at
  • 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.
    about sparring · at
  • Well, well, well, it's more strategy to it, though. It's more strategy to it when you're when you're boxing inside the ring, than in a street fight, you're not really thinking. You're going off of u anger.
    about mental strategy · at
  • 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 in Vegas. I got to spar in front of him in Vegas. So.
    about Floyd Mayweather · at
  • My favorite fighter right now would be Terence Crawford.
    about Terence Crawford · at
  • In your opinion, who is going to win the fight of the decade?
    about Canelo Alvarez · at
  • You want to challenge for a title, like do you have to have a certain amount of record or how does that work? What division are you currently in right now?
    about junior welterweight · at
  • Successful. Successful. I would say successful in the next five years.
    about success · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Lo Harris — Person · Main guest · 3 mentions · first at
    He is the featured professional boxer discussing his upbringing, training, mindset, and career trajectory, including sparring experiences and his definition of winning.
  • Terence Crawford — Person · Referenced athlete / key comparison point · 4 mentions · first at
    He is cited as Lo Harris's favorite current fighter and as someone whose trainers Lo shares; the discussion includes a predicted matchup vs Canelo Alvarez.
  • Floyd Mayweather — Person · Referenced legend / influence figure · 2 mentions · first at
    Lo Harris describes meeting Floyd Mayweather and sparring in front of him in Las Vegas, framing Mayweather as a benchmark of greatness and style appreciation.
  • Canelo Alvarez — Person · Referenced opponent in hypothetical/announced mega · 1 mention · first at
    He is positioned as Terence Crawford's opponent in a 'fight of the decade' framing, prompting Lo Harris to predict the winner.
  • Muhammad Ali — Person · Referenced historical boxer (style example) · 1 mention · first at
    Ali is used as an example of a 'boxer-puncher' style and appears in the host's personal Mount Rushmore list.
    Yeah, I would say boxer puncher. Yeah, like Muhammad Ali. That's a good one.

Companies & orgs

  • Code to Winning — Company · Podcast / platform · 3 mentions · first at
    It is the show hosting the interview and frames the conversation around mindset, setbacks, and a definition of winning.
    The code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. Today we have a very unique guest, special guest, amazing story. He is a professional boxer with the same.

Concepts & topics

  • success — Concept · Core theme / definition of winning · 2 mentions · first at
    Lo Harris repeatedly equates winning with being successful, using it as his five-year manifestation and his closing definition of winning.
  • sparring — Concept · Training method (explained and emphasized) · 4 mentions · first at
    Sparring is defined for listeners and is central to Lo Harris's development (starting at age 8) and to his notable experiences sparring in front of Floyd Mayweather.
  • mental strategy — Concept · Core topic (mindset and in-ring thinking) · 1 mention · first at
    The guest emphasizes that boxing requires thinking and strategy rather than anger, and discusses mindset after a loss and the advice to 'be myself' in the ring.
  • street fighting — Concept · Contrast concept (boxing vs real-world fights) · 1 mention · first at
    The guest contrasts street fighting with boxing to highlight the role of strategy, emotional control, and skill execution in the ring.
    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?
  • junior welterweight — Concept · Competitive division context · 1 mention · first at
    Lo Harris states his division as 140 pounds (junior welterweight), which frames ranking progression and title contention requirements.

Places & events

  • San Bernardino — Place · Birthplace / biographical anchor · 1 mention · first at
    It grounds Lo Harris's origin story and identity: he is introduced as born in San Bernardino, California.
    Learning a bit more about like him being in the Mayweather camp. He's only 21 years of age, born in San Bernardino, California. without further ado, our amazing guest today in…

Full transcript with timestamps

How did you end up getting into boxing? Well, you know, um I started when I was 6 years old. You know, my dad got me into boxing when I was when I was six, you know. He always had me um fighting in the apartments with other little kids and stuff like that, you know, and always have me doing like push-ups, you know. I was always doing like five sets and like like 50 push-ups at the age of 6 years old.

Do you adjust your fighting style according to who you're fighting with? Yeah. Yeah. Um, that's for every boxer that steps in the ring when they're they're fighting against um a style, they got to, you know, if it's a counter puncher, 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 setback 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 Terren 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 Mayweather camp. He's only 21 years of age, born in San Bernardino, California. Um, without further ado, our amazing guest today in the studio in the city of angels. We're going to welcome

Lo Harris. How 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 why I thought like, you know, 22 must have been like an era there. 21 years old, 11 and one record. Um, personally, where are you right now in your boxing career?

Where am I in my boxing career right now? Well, um, I'm 12 fights in, you know, I'm only 21 years old. I'm still growing, you know, getting better and better each fight, you know, and um we're just taking it step by step right now. Just keep climbing, trying to climb ranks, that's all.

Awesome stuff. I mean, you're Lo 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, um I started when I was 6 years old. You know, my dad got me into boxing when I was when I was six. you know, he always had me um uh fight in the apartments with other little kids and stuff like that, you know, and um always had me doing like push-ups, you know, I was always doing like five sets of like like 50 push-ups at the age of six years old. And um so I was always strong, you know, and already like athletic, you know, and then uh you know, we just uh went from there after, you know, fighting with different kids and and and um things like that.

And um was it year in California you were in like um when did you start getting trainers and all that um kind of stuff? When did you start getting like a professional trainer? When you when you started taking like the sports serious?

Uh I mean I always just I always took it serious you know but u when I I would say uh when I really got like more into it into it I would say when I started competing.

Okay. You know or I would say actually when I started sparring though uh which was at kind of like at the age of eight years old. um seeing you know my potential like oh I'm I'm really good at this sport you know and as I got uh older and older you know um I just see seeing that you know I can fight so say at the age of 8 years old yeah so I I personally for me um I finished high school like in 2010 or so but um looking back in in high school I there's a lot of I would say just stupid school fights that you know, you know, I was involved in and stuff with friends and you get over it over 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 between the two?

Have you been in both? First of all, I have, but um I would say the last um street fight I've been in probably like middle school. Yeah. I I haven't fought I haven't fought in a street fight in so long. I don't really remember it like that.

Okay. But it is a big difference. In what way? Um well in street street fights it's like um people people are just like just trying to take your head off,

you know. Although the same thing with boxing, man. Yeah. I mean, same last fight. You wanted to take the guy's head off, bro.

So, what are you talking about? Well, well, well, it's more strategy to it, though. It's more strategy to it when you're uh when you're boxing inside the ring, you know, than in a street fight, you know, you're not really thinking. You're going off of u anger.

Okay. In a street fight, when you're in a boxing ring, you're not really going off of anger.

Okay. 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? Cuz I noticed people start speaking about like your legs. I once watched a fight actually with your uncle Levi and when one of the guy was getting knocked, it's like, "Oh, look, his legs. His legs." And like what's the mentality behind that? I don't fully understand.

Um I don't know what um what I would say is the the hardest thing in boxing um for you personally.

For me personally, I'm 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 what the hardest thing is I would say in boxing is.

Okay. And um I mean you were in the May May weather 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 that the feeling with one of the greatest boxers?

Oh man, it's great. Um it wasn't actually actually it wasn't a um a camp. Okay.

It was just um I met him when I was 16 years old. That was the first time I met him. Um and um

um he got to see me spar in Vegas. I got to spar in front of him in Vegas. So um that was that was crazy. And um uh just him watching me spar, he he fell in love with my style and fell in love with um you know how proud I was as a person probably. And then um went on from there, you know, I I came I came back um years later when I was 20 years old and and and got to spar in front of him again. And he was like, "Man, um you know, you look familiar." I was like, "You don't remember me from when you see me sparring six at 16 years old?" And I kind of I guess I refreshed his memory like, "Oh, yeah." um told me his team's been been looking for me, trying to get in contact with me, and um yeah, man. Um we just went from there. I like Floyd.

He's a cool guy. I 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 um before before a fight or just practice in general.

Um um going against um somebody else in the ring, but uh yeah, just pract practice basically. Yeah,

I grew up watching Freud. Matter of fact, uh the the Pacquiao fight, I was in South Africa at that time and because of the time zone, um I think we had like a big um it was in Vegas. Yeah, 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 9 hours. And so we were watching it in the early hours of the morning. I think like 4 or 5:00 in the morning. But um just looking back at that um what what's what's your style of fight? Like what's kind of like your style?

Uh I would consider myself as a a boxer puncher. Okay. Boxer puncher. Um and what is that?

That's um being able to box and then being able to punch too 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.

Okay. One of the things I also noticed like there's um obviously with like your 11 and1 record. Um 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 counterattack? 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. Um that's for every boxer that steps in the ring when they're they're fighting against um a style, they got to, you know, if it's a counter puncher, if it's a 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 to that style.

Mhm. You know, so Okay. And then who's your favorite boxer? Like my favorite fighter right now?

Yeah. Uh my favorite fighter right now would be Terence Crawford. Okay. Yeah. So we have a lot in common, right? Yeah. Oh yeah.

All right. Now, before I kind of get into the other these other ones, um what would you say is probably like in your um uh career or I mean 11 and one and you like the trajectory that you're going at with those 11 wins. Um who would you say style are you modeling the most after?

I don't I wouldn't say um anybody style actually. I would say I got my own my own style that I'm

that uh that I fight like that's I was just say that's just me in my opinion. I got my own style in boxing. So

all right. And is there anyone that it's closely related to then or is it completely like your kind of style?

Um completely my style. Okay. Completely my style. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. Now I love the there's so much confidence in your like I mean I only saw two of them um in the highlight reels but there's a level 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 and 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 fight is that man after a few punches stamina starts like kicking you and of course it's something you do when you're super young. I've never like um been involved in that since probably like 2009 2010 high school kind of stuff. But like um looking back it's like yo the stamina just kicks in. But I know like with boxes the mentality side of things a lot of like stamina is involved strategy understanding the opponent. Um and so

what does preparation look like for you in like a fight night? Do you have any rituals? Any mantras? anything that you end up like doing as you prepare for a fight night?

Well, when we're in camp, yeah, um I I I can't give away too much, but but I will say uh we're training um um every day basically Monday through Saturday, you know, and sometimes even on Sundays, too. Um man, a lot of running, swimming, um strength conditioning, and boxing all in just combining that all in one just uh every single day, you know. So, um it's no days off in camp. So, that's that's how um us fighters always come in shape.

No, 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 setback 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?

Um, well, first off, uh, everything happens for a reason, you know. Um, everything is always in God's God's plan. So, you know, I I took the loss when I was uh 16 um due to um not knowing how to cut weight, so weight problems, you know, like that. And um I bounced back with um by getting with the right team, the right team in boxing, you know, the right uh professional team that's going to know how to cut weight the right way and and give me gems and and help me out and with things, little things like that.

And just not even that, just um getting better as a fighter um inside the ring. So, um I would say yeah, that.

And then what's your what's your ultimate goal like um shortterm and longterm right now in your boxing career?

Oh, well, um I want to be the best best uh Lolo I can be in the sport, you know. Um going um yeah, going longterm, I want to I want to be the the the best Lolo I can be in this boxing, you I want to leave a mark for sure in this sport, you know, and um yeah, and and take care of my family, me and my family.

And obviously giving I notice a lot of boxers as well. They all is there like a historical background as to why you end up pursuing like the sport. Um 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, uh, nah, I wouldn't say so.

Okay. I wouldn't say so. Zero whatsoever. Just your dad started like making you do 50 push-ups and before you knew it, you started training with Terrence Crawford.

Yeah. Praying a lot, you know, praying a lot and yeah, basically, yeah, my dad getting me getting me started. Just took off took off from there. So no, I love that, man. So now like I I'm grateful like to hear about your experience like you know um training in front of Mayweather, seeing him, meeting him like when you were 16 and and older as well. Right now you have the same trainers as Terren Crawford, you know, and you in kind of the same camp, right?

Okay. Same camp. And how does it feel knowing that not only do you have the same trainer, but you're amongst one of the people you look up to on a day-to-day basis?

It feels great, you know, cuz um I feel like my team is not just a team to me or um Crawford is not just, you know, just any just just Crawford to me. Um they're like family family away from home, you know. um all my coaches, my not even just them, uh my teammates, everyone is like a a family away from home. So, you know, and and the reason why 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 he is, which I told you. Um and I want to ask you this question, the fight, one of the biggest fights of the decade is going to be happening.

Obviously you you see him on a bas 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. Terren Crawford and Canelo

one-on-one. In your opinion, I'm going to put this out on 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-biased? Nonbias. Why? Because I know who he is in that ring and I know who Terence Crawford is. You know, I um been in camps been in so many camps with him. I've I've shared the ring with him myself and u I just know what he's capable of of doing in that ring.

No, man. And I appreciate that, man. I appreciate that. Now, um I mean 21 years old, um 11 and one, what's what's the vision and trajectory for Lo Harris?

Me being 21 years old, you know, um you said the vision. Yes. the vision for me um just to continue just being me, you know, being me and um and getting better, getting better and better in this sport and just um continuing to advance.

Okay. And I liked this one I want to uh 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. Okay. I would say to be myself. Um I get that a lot from my um my coach um my coaches and and my dad, you know, every time I step in the ring. Um even if it's just sparring um to be myself. So every time I spar or when I step, you know, when I fight in the ring, I always go in with that mentality to um to be myself because when I'm my when I'm myself in the ring, it's hard for somebody to to deal with somebody like me. So

Awesome. And you guys train Monday to Saturday every single day for how many hours?

Oh man. Total? Total? Yes. Uh, per like seven, eight total? A day? A day? Okay. And is it in California?

Different sessions. Okay. What are the What do you guys focus on in the trainings? I mean, you can I know you can review only so much, but like

Well, in what in boxing? Yeah. And we focus on every little thing, you know. We focus on, you know, um the highs and the lows, the weaknesses, everything. We focus on on all of that because at the end of the day, we're getting better, you know, we're trying to get better in this in this boxing. So,

okay. And then, um right now, um when's your next fight? Uh I don't got an official date yet, but um it's looking like maybe maybe um in in mid August. mid August

right before it. Do you potentially know you mean you're 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. I don't know yet. And how does that work though? Who who who who gets the fights? Is it like a manager? Is it your your trainer? How does how does how does it work behind the scenes like when cards are created?

I've always been curious about that. The manager of um who I'm fighting for um send send u opponents.

Okay. you know, send different different opponents, you know, and then um we choose we choose out of those opponents who who we fight.

Okay. You know, so was it both sets you guys meet? Both managers meet for two camps. So, how does that work? Cuz I know it's different to what YouTube boxing is where people call each other out on Twitter. There's like a main event KSI Logan Paul.

Yeah, it's diff it's 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 cuz

well I don't know from the other part but I know from my part um we be we're um sent different opponents and if we choose that one you know then um 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 um it comes in agreement and you know the rest is history signing the papers and all of that. So,

okay. Okay. That kind of takes two to tangle. 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 or how does that work? What division are you currently in right now? Actually,

I fight in 140 junior welterweight. Okay. And if you want to challenge for the championship, like what do you have to do for that?

Well, I just got to keep winning. Okay. I got to keep winning and and um building up um going up in ranks first before before that before the contender thing and the the um the uh champion and all that. I got to just f right now my focus on is um one fight at a time and just to keep winning.

Okay. So So you're 21 right now. In about five years time you're going to be 26. Code to winning 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 gonna be in the next five years when I interview you? The

next five years. You got to manifest this to the universe. So you be careful what you say right now.

Successful. Successful. I would say successful in the next um five five years. That's powerful.

Successful. That's the key word. I like that, man. I like that a lot. A second last question before we conclude. Um, I always, um, I mean, if we're going to be talking about boxing, I need to know all time. Give me your four Mount Rashmore greatest boxes of all time. Of all time. I'm talking like even freaking 1945, straight after the World War II, brother.

Of all time. You know, it's crazy. I never really um watched old school boxing like

So, you didn't watch like Ali? No, like I never really got in got into um old school um boxing like that. I'll maybe get into maybe like u um old Floyd or um stuff like that or Marvin Haggler, but I I never really watched a lot of old school.

Okay. Yeah. So, all right. Let me just give you mine then. You know, that's not

What was yours then? Ali. Okay. Tyson. Floyd has to be there. Okay. Floyd has to be there. And it's so hard to put the fourth one because it's like Sugar Ray uh um Lenin. There's like I I'm not No, I wouldn't even say Lenox Lewis. There's 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 you need today to seize the world tomorrow. in your definition like BLO Harris today. What is your definition of winning?

My definition of winning um I would say my definition of winning is um the same at what I just said before. Um being successful. I would say I mean there's no other way to put it. Just being success successful.

Awesome stuff, brother. if you could let our our viewers know if um I don't know if they'll want to get a hold of you for promotional purposes or anything like an email address or like um IG and so forth as well. Just let us know by looking at the camera.

Uh you guys can follow me um on Instagram at lolois_1. Um I don't really be on um any other social medias like no Twitter, no none of that. So you guys could could follow me on Instagram.

Awesome. The code towinning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. Lolo Harris, thank you very much, brother. Appreciate your time.

Thank you.

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Lolo Harris (Guest), Unknown Host (Host).

What is "MENTALITY IT TAKES TO BE A PRO-BOXER || LOLO HARRIS || EPISODE 051" about?

The discussion centers on the mentality and experiences that shape a professional boxer's journey, focusing on Lo Harris, who began boxing at a young age and emphasizes the importance of adaptability in the ring. Key points include his early training under his father's guidance, the necessity of adjusting fighting styles based on opponents, and insights into overcoming setbacks to cultivate a…

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The episode runs 23 min; the transcript is about 4,526 words in 90 timestamped sections.

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