"G. Leon, I see Kermit The Frog is on his period this week. As I can see, he really got diarrhea of the mouth and gave me some entertainment to start my day. He is a joke and now he's trying to be a comedian and that gives me a chance to step out of my regular life and come on here to pop a little sh!t. He's on his rag this morning and I guess that the team he has don't know what to do with him because he's a bum. He's acting tough like he's this and that, but I sh!t out turds tougher than this guy. He's shown in the Margarito fights that he has no heart. He's shown his Superman power in the Paul Williams fight by diving out the motherf**king ring. It's just a funny situation. It's not just me who realizes he's a bum. He says he's Puerto Rican, but Puerto Rican people don't even embrace him. In the Puerto Rican culture, they love boxing, so is Kermit Cintron really a Puerto Rican. He's a funny dude. I know his team probably made him come out like this, because this boxing thing is a business, but trying to use these tactics definitely ain't gonna work. Like I said, he could get it and it doesn't matter to me."

GL: Is there anything you want to say to specifically respond to some of the things he said. The invisible man remark, his thoughts on the Rivera and Collazo fights? Anything specific?

Andre Berto: "I didn't read too much of the interview. I saw the headline and laughed. In the Rivera fight you saw young guy get dropped with a flash knockdown at the end of a round and come back to dominate. Everybody has seen me grow so much from that. I mean, there's no need for me to even try and explain nothing to him. That's the situation. Who is Kermit Cintron? I think I'm going to put it on a shirt what the f**k is a Kermit Cintron? I'm going to put it on the shirt and walk around with it and see who the hell knows him. He's just a character like his first name."

GL: This is the first time anybody has ever come at you like that. Couldn't that bad blood effect make the fight bigger from a promotional standpoint?

AB: "I don't think it would make nothing intriguing unless they're talking about some dollars. Other than that, they're not going to make nothing intriguing. We get that in elementary school, in elementary school we handled stuff like that different, this right here is a business."

GL: It was brought to my attention by somebody close to Cintron that Al Haymon called Lou DiBella and told him he wouldn't make the fight because Cintron has power.

AB: "He could believe what he wants to believe. At the end of the day it doesn't matter who is talking, whether it's Lou Dibella, his advisor or anybody else. Nobody. It doesn't matter. People can say what they want to say and act like they're representing me on a promotional aspect and then try and change the direction I need to be in. I don't care who is out there saying this or that or acting like they're making decisions for me and that's not even the case."

GL: In other words, they are acting like Andre Berto isn't the shot caller.

AB: "At the end of the day there's only one source. But with Kermit the frog, I don't know if he wants to fight me or meet me in person. I see he needs some help to forward his career, so if this ranting and raving is for a check, I can employ him to Andre Berto Inc and cut him a check if that's the situation. All this talk and I know his advisor is probably putting him up to it. Me going up there slumping Kermit the frog, it's not going to change anything or make anybody excited. They'd just wash it away like it never happened. He just needs to go find his real roots and real heritage. Right now from what I'm seeing, the Puerto Ricans don't like or support this guy, so he needs to find out where he's from. He probably needs to find another team that can get him a better situation for himself.  This right here is probably going to be my last response to this, I'm not going to keep going back and forth with this guy."

GL: If HBO showed interest in this fight and offered it to you would you accept it?

AB: "Like I said man, if they put the money up I would have no problem going in there and knocking him out. This right here is fun to me and like I said it's going to my last response to this."

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