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And the B-side.
You got a B-side.
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That B-side thing.
This is the B-Sides Boxing Podcast.
Don't call it a comeback,
because did we?
We didn't fucking leave.
Boxing B-sides bitches all up in your ears.
I've been saying earpokes over on the MMA show lately.
Nice.
So, been a while.
So there's a lot that's going on.
So we're just going to cut straight to business.
This is just a bit of a review of some stuff that's happened.
Quite a bit of it.
But it's going to be mostly top lines.
Nothing too in the weeds here.
So we're going to start Saturday, October 26th.
We're going that far back.
Jack Cattarall versus Regis Progre.
Woof.
Can somebody start?
Because I'm still at a loss for words for this one.
I mean, it wasn't fun.
No.
It's nothing exciting to talk about, which makes it hard.
Yeah.
Do you think Progre's is pretty much done?
Because I kind of thought he was already done,
but he keeps getting these fights.
I think he's a decent gatekeeper.
That's as far as he's going to go now.
Yeah.
The guy's name value, that's pretty much it.
But yeah, he's relegated to the top of the B, bottom of the A tier.
It's unfortunate.
But Cattarall doesn't need to be fighting those guys anymore.
Oh, Cattarall's not much better.
Yeah, I was going to say that's kind of the problem for Cattarall.
He's not a whole lot better than Progre is.
Yeah, he's probably, yeah, probably
going to be the same career, honestly, just two gatekeepers.
Two gatekeepers fighting each other.
Looking at the top of the list for 140,
Devin Haney, whatever his faults may be, still holds the title.
Teofima Lopez has another one.
Again, flawed character, Liam Paro.
Subriel Matias, who we'll talk about in a little, maybe a little bit.
Andy Hiraoka and Arnold Barbosa just had a big night recently.
It's a tough, tough outings for old Jack.
Yeah.
Yeah, I tell people if you miss this one, don't bother with it.
It's a hard sell.
Moving on, Friday, November 1st is in Belfast.
Pro Box debut in the UK.
Patrick McCrory versus Leonard Carrillo and Robbie Debs Jr.
versus Javier Fortuna both got the points decision.
They didn't have judges for this.
I don't understand why when the Brits use the ref
and when they use the judges.
Doesn't make sense.
Pro Box is big enough.
I would assume they could get judges.
And McCrory is not a big name, but I've heard of them before.
Same with Robbie Debs Jr.
If you're a degenerate that keeps up a bit, even a little bit with the British scene,
you know who these two are.
And I expect that they're big names over there.
Interesting.
But Javier Fortuna, maybe because he's, I don't know, like three years retired,
many years removed from his best days.
Yeah.
But yeah, that's that.
Points decision for both of them.
Congrats, I guess.
Saturday, November 2nd at the Turning Stone Resort.
Top rank.
Oh, I only picked the top three for this one.
Top ranks, top three fights.
From the bottom, Ray Morataya stops Jesus Campos in the second.
I don't know if this was like a confidence booster after the really shaky situation with
Tevin Farmer.
But yeah, I got that feeling to like give him a bit of a soft touch.
Yeah, even though he won.
Yeah.
Did he though?
Did he really?
Right.
Abraham Nova split draw with Humberto Galindo.
Man the Golden Chin.
Another one.
That one was actually kind of fun to watch though.
No?
Ah, nah.
That's mid.
Okay.
O'Shaqy Foster reclaims his WBC super featherweight title from Hobson Concesa.
Brazilians use H's instead of R's.
I think only at the beginning of names.
Negative.
They do it.
It's arbitrary as well.
All the time?
It's arbitrary.
It doesn't make sense.
Oh, God.
But this Foster, I guess, I don't know, looked like his usual self.
I guess he did have a bit more of a sense of urgency.
So that's cool.
I thought this one was like a lot closer than the first one.
I think you could give this one to Concesa if you wanted to.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's...
I mean, I'm not gonna call it a robbery, but I do think this one was a lot closer than
the first fight, and I was a little surprised that Foster got it, actually.
Do you remember if he called out anyone?
Because in-house, it would be a Nav Valdez winner.
Seems like it would be the easiest one to make.
Yeah, it's been a while.
I don't remember him calling anyone out.
He did the...
I think he did the...
I'll take on anybody.
Yeah.
I don't know, whatever, whoever my promoters, managers, or whatever they're called.
But it's been a while.
Maybe he called out somebody.
We'll see if Nav, when he beats Oscar Valdez again, if he calls out Foster.
Who do you think wins that one?
Foster or Nav?
Yeah.
I go Nav.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with Nav as well.
Because if Concei Cao can fight you two really close fights, I don't know if you'll be able
to keep Nav off of you.
Yeah, I think Navarretta just kind of swarms him.
I would have before said...
Before this Concei Cao shenanigan stuff, I would have easily said Foster.
I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but not so much anymore.
Moving up, Thursday, November 7th.
This one was in Quebec in Montreal.
Eye of the Tiger.
Only the headliner, Olys Iglesias stops Petro Ivanov in the fifth.
I highlighted this one.
Iglesias was that dark horse in the super middleweight division that people were...
I don't know if they were just not aware of him or what the case is.
But yeah, this is definitely a guy to keep an eye on if you're not already...
Yeah, I missed this one.
I didn't see it at all.
It's fine.
All right, moving on to Saturday, November 7th.
Superreal Matias stops Roberto Ramirez in the second.
Wasn't pretty.
I think Ramirez felt the power and just like, he's like, fuck this.
Yeah.
Do you think Matias is back?
Hard to say.
Two rounds of a guy who was not too keen on being there any longer than he had to be.
Yeah, it's hard to say.
And 140 still, like we were talking about with Caterall.
It's pretty stacked.
And Matias has, I think, Paro showed his limitations or at the old trademark, the blueprint.
So you know, if you're a slick type like Devin Haney or Teofimo, that you can keep Matias
at the end of your reach.
I think that'll be game.
They'll just have him flat footing, plotting all night.
Moving on to the match room card in Philadelphia from the bottom, Austin Williams versus Kian
Garrido.
Austin Williams, we're so back, baby.
He's ammo again.
So that's cool.
No more Tiger?
No, he switched back.
I think maybe a little bit.
Where is the Tiger?
He heard our podcast and how much we hated the nickname change.
Yeah.
And how he puts that tail on also.
Some furry bullshit.
Yeah, I don't know.
Austin Williams has shown his limitations as well.
Sorry, buddy.
You're going to run out of ammo soon.
Ray Ford versus Orlando Gonzalez.
This is Ray Ford's first fight at 130.
He was OK.
The commentators were really trying to push this narrative of Ray Ford being more in himself
full, filled out his frame, not having to cut so much and so that he's more powerful
and blah, blah, blah.
No, I don't think so, because otherwise this would have been a stoppage.
Good effort.
Yes.
A for effort for sure.
Sometimes it takes a couple fights to really get used to the weight.
Could be.
OK.
Bam Rodriguez stops Pedro Guevara in the third.
So good.
Yeah.
Let me.
I'm trying to think of a good pun or something like get get the fucking get the icing out
because I'm about to glaze all the whole time.
Bam is too legit.
Pedro had to quit.
Goodness gracious.
I don't think there's any overstating how fucking special Bam is.
No.
And he looked even more special somehow, like his footwork was on point, his punch selection,
fucking everything.
It was only three rounds, but he looked perfect.
The aggression was dialed up a little bit, I noticed.
I think once he felt what Pedro was throwing at him, eh, no need to worry.
Sonny Edwards hits harder than that.
Man oh man.
I cannot wait for him to get a shot.
Well, I hope Kosei Tanaka gets his rematch with what was it?
Kafu?
I think it was.
Yeah.
So those two and then Martinez and Dioka have to settle their score as well.
But man, like Bam is the complete package.
Honestly, I think Casito would give Bam a harder fight than Martinez would have.
Yeah.
I think Bam just hits too hard for Martinez.
I think Ioka takes more punishment better.
And he offers more than just coming forward like Martinez.
He's a bit of a trademark flatfoot Mexican.
Just a different flavor of Mexican, I guess.
But yeah, Bam.
Tanaka or Kafu, I think they would be fun while it lasts, but it'll be pretty one sided.
Yeah.
Everybody's been talking about Bam moving up, which I think he's going to have to.
I really don't think there's much competition here for him.
118 isn't much better is the unfortunate thing.
I want to see him fight Nakatani.
Oh shit, that's right.
Nakatani is there.
Tsutsumi is there.
Fuck yeah, dude.
I mean, Bam would pick Punch Burger apart.
That would just make me sad, I think.
Takuma is still around.
Yeah.
Who else is at 118?
There's that new guy, right?
The one that's fighting in Osaka.
Yeah.
I finally got tickets for that.
Oh, nice.
Or a ticket, I guess.
Yeah.
Literally took me three weeks to figure out how to buy a ticket.
I'm excited to see him.
I will report back on whether I think Bam beats him in five rounds or seven rounds.
Yoshiki Takei needs to be punished for jabbing Daigo Higa.
Yeah.
Bam could do that.
Yes.
Jason Maloney, that would be, I don't know, whatever.
Yeah, mid.
It's a good name, I guess, to pick up, but...
Maybe a test fight at 118?
Emanuel Rodriguez as well.
Those are two good tests.
Alejandro Santiago, the guy who Nakatani got his belt off of.
That's not a bad one.
Oh, shit.
Sri Siket Sirungasai is still fighting.
He's at 118.
You want to get your ass beat again?
We're getting into the territory of where you have to start, like, go higher and higher
and put more and more physical disadvantages just to make the fights competitive.
But I really want to see Bam and Nakatani.
Everybody's been talking about Bam jumping that weight class and fighting in a way, but
he has to fight Nakatani first.
Or at least Takuma, at the very least.
Yeah, I think Bam hurts Takuma.
But you got to set up the story.
Beat up the brother.
Then fucking feed poor Takuma to the wolves.
Sacrifice.
This is your shame for losing.
Yeah, we're looking at a generational guy here.
This is like Chocolatito like 10 years ago.
It's the same type of shit.
Well, that's the other rumor, right?
Yeah.
Bam and Chocolatito?
Yeah.
But I think Roman didn't want to he didn't want to fight Bam until they had like a little
mini camp together for the Estrada fight.
And then he's like, oh, well, that's not so bad.
I think I think Roman gets done pretty dirty, though.
He's he's on the older side.
Yeah.
And moving up to the main event, Jaron Ennis UD over Karen Chukadzian.
I tried to remember that one.
Karen, he wins the story of the night.
Instead of stinking it out and going the distance, he despite being on the very clearly losing
side of it, still had put in a valiant effort and still went the distance with Boots fucking
Ennis.
That is actually saying a lot.
What are your thoughts on this one, Drip?
Isn't Boots your hometown fighter?
Oh, kind of wish he had a better opponent.
Like, I don't know.
I think this fight was really necessary.
But I don't know if you guys saw this is a little off topic, but I think the post fight
pressure Blair Cobbs like tried to crash it, asking for a fight with Boots.
And him and Eddie Hearn got into a little bit.
It was kind of funny.
I was thinking about Boots versus Blair Cobbs would just be unnecessary.
Like for everybody.
It would be unnecessary.
But the Blair Cobbs buildups are always fun.
Remember that random ass.
Wait, was it Blair Cobbs or Rashidi Ellis that was on that random ass card in like Boston?
It had to be Blair Cobbs.
It had to be.
I think it was that would not go well.
I think Karen would turned in a better performance here than Blair Cobbs would against.
Yeah, for sure.
I don't know.
I think for the character, I was kind of just meh.
Nothing.
It's a little dirty.
I'll say that Boots seemed kind of like he was getting frustrated.
Oh, yeah.
Well, maybe your dad was shitting fucking in your ear.
You need to knock him out, bro.
Knock him out, bro.
Yeah.
I know Boots was having a bad night or what, but he seemed a little.
It didn't seem like he was doing that well.
You know what I mean?
As well as you'd expect for Boots, right?
Yeah.
Like you probably should be able to get Karen out there relatively easily.
So I don't know.
The fight to me was kind of just meh.
Nothing.
I was just more taken back how Boots struggled a little bit.
I thought I'd get him out there faster, but I guess that kind of now torches that question
of Boots versus Bud.
How that really goes down.
Yeah, not so much.
Not so interesting anymore.
No.
But like I said, maybe maybe Boots had a bad night.
I'll kind of just give my pass on that.
Everyone has a bad night once in a while.
I mean, for example, Triple G versus Dervachenko had a bad night.
Still won, barely, but just seemed like he had a bad night.
Dervachenko makes everybody have a bad night, though.
Even one armed ancient Dervachenko.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
We'll see what's next for Boots.
Hopefully not Blarcobs.
Preferably not that one.
That would definitely be a step back.
So we'll be talking about this next time, but Mario Barrios recently defended his belt
fucking.
Barnburner a lot more competitive than you would have expected given Abel Ramos.
But so we got Barrios, Staniunis, Brian Norman.
Those are the other three champions.
I don't think any of them I could see Boots stopping.
Brian Norman.
Yes.
Fucking nobody.
He has the WBO belt as tradition.
Yeah, I do not recognize this guy's face at all.
I have no idea who this man is.
He beat Giovanni Sant'Anne to a pulp to win the belt, if I recall correctly.
Looks like on the box rec, really short recap, says Sant'Anne down twice in round 10.
Yep.
I just...
Obviously, I'm a bit of a casual, but I do not recognize this man at all.
I usually recognize the champion's faces.
All right.
This is a bit more of a drip question.
Hello.
Knowing that Drip is a bit of an MMA fan, just as much as boxing, this was a good crossover
question.
I will leave Drip to describe it.
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That would be a banger then.
That would be a really good one.
Barrios would probably get sparked.
So that's cool.
I like Mario Barrios, but he is not the best boxer for sure.
No, not really.
He needs to pay for stealing my woman.
That's it for the Drone NS card, though, unless you have anything else.
No, sir.
Last one.
Guillermo Rigandao.
We're back, baby.
Sparks this guy and one.
Dennis Aguero takes one shot to the fucking liver, crumples like a baby.
Bad, bad, bad, bad.
Safe to say at Super Bansomweight, Rigo sparks everyone.
Oh, I can't see my face.
I was really trying to have like a cheeky expression.
Does Rigo have like face scars from his accident?
I didn't see this.
Yeah, they're not that noticeable, especially with the Vaseline there.
But yes, he does.
Because it seems well, they must have healed up better than they were originally predicting.
But when he first exploded, it was him that exploded the pressure cooker in his face,
right?
Yes.
And burnt his eyes really bad.
They didn't think he was going to be able to see very well afterwards.
Yeah, one of them was they thought he was going to lose it.
Yeah.
And then the next thing I heard was like 80 percent vision in the right eye or something.
Either the doctors aren't doing a very good job, which would not be a surprise, or he
healed up much better than the doctors thought he would.
He's a Cuban 44.
So I don't know what the fuck they're putting in the water down there, but he still looks
like he's 34.
I got out of Cuba.
Yeah, no shit.
Just bring a power generator or some kind.
Hi-yo.
That's it for the recaps.
We got that done a lot quicker than I thought we would.
God damn it, Rigo.
I have a slightly off topic one that maybe isn't going to fit.
But why the fuck is Paro fighting in Puerto Rico?
Where is he fighting?
Yeah, Puerto Rico again.
I don't understand.
They love him there.
I'm sure they do.
You fight where you fight, but it doesn't make any sense to me.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
The way that they're framing it is he's returning to the scene of the crime as if he's robbed
Matias or something.
I don't know if that's the implication that they're trying to give.
But yeah.
Because he didn't.
No, he didn't crime anything.
That was not a robbery.
That was like...
He's just going back there to say he can do it twice.
Send me another one of your champions and I'll beat him too.
Yeah, pretty much.
It seems so weird to me and I feel kind of bad for him.
You should get to fight in front of people that like you.
Sometimes you got to be the villain before you be the hero.
Yeah, that's true.
All right.
Something that we'll be talking about later or next time is actually related to Puerto
Rico.
Matias was their best guy, but has he been usurped ousted by the fucking smallest?
That's it.
I'm going to put the caps here.
I demand somewhere in this, Leo, you play the boys are back in town.
Sure.
I'll play it in the beginning.
One of my favorite songs.
I did a figure skating routine to it when I was a child.
That's great.
Yeah, I really liked Trooper.
My dad had like a cassette, so I did a bunch of figure skating routines to different Trooper
songs.
Do we do we need parting words?
Fucking you know what?
My parting words are is hindsight is 2020.
I always knew Boots was a fucking bum.
Yeah.
Jokes and jokes.
All right, that's it.
We'll see you next time.
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