The B-side and boxing.
B-side shit.
B-side.
And the B-side.
You gotta B-side.
The B-side.
B-side.
That B-side thing.
This is the B-Sides boxing podcast.
Time to fucking boogie.
Boxing B-sides.
Does the B in B-side stand for boogie?
The boogie sides?
Drip not on the boogie sides?
I think that's a good one.
Maybe not.
Nice.
Are we back in the 80s?
Yes.
70s.
We're trying to get those disco balls.
Louis in the news.
Man, we're here to talk a whole lot of boxing.
We're going to get ourselves back onto our old rhythm here.
So let's get right into the fucking deal,
because we got a lot.
For now, Conor Ben is cleared to fight in the UK again.
Just thought I'd tell him.
You know, I was thinking about it.
What if Conor Ben had been banished from the UK,
was fighting and living probably, and fighting in the US,
and then people were bitching about egg prices,
and now Conor Ben is leaving, are egg prices going to go down?
Less demand, the supply will be able to cover it now.
Yeah, now that Ben's not here.
Somebody did the math, he had to be eating like 30 eggs a day or whatever.
Not unfeasible, but that's also like kind of dumb.
Fucking gross.
Yeah, he would be massive if he was eating 30 eggs a day.
30 eggs and his cholesterol.
He would smell bad.
Yeah.
Oh, egg farts, bros.
Yep, so Conor Ben cleared to compete again in the UK.
So like good riddance.
Good thing you're going back.
I guess.
Listen, man, he's exciting.
Yeah, I guess.
He's just down to scrap and bang, like no real technique or anything,
just power and throwing punches.
He's an exciting guy to watch.
I think I'll admit that.
Yeah, for sure.
It's just like being matched with the right competition.
It's usually not great.
That's where he shines the most.
I feel like boxing.
He's exciting for boxing.
I'll say that, like as much as he sucks and as annoying as he is,
you just need that one guy who just is down to stand there
and throw punches with power and hope for the best.
Yeah, I would like him a lot more if he wasn't such an ass outside of the ring.
Yeah, I mean, he is kind of a douchebag.
Yeah, that's always that's really the only problem with it is, yes,
you're right, like that type of figure, the in-ring performance type,
even if it's not super high quality, nonetheless, it's entertaining and exciting.
It seems to me that he thinks he's gotten to where he is strictly on his own merits.
And that's absolutely not the case.
That's why I don't like him.
Yeah.
Fucking douchebag riding his father's coattails.
He's such a nepo baby.
Yeah, like dudes that are like one that comes to mind that fits this motif very well
is a while ago, Ruslan Provodnikov.
He was a guy that did not give a shit about anything but punishing you.
That was it. That's all he wanted to do.
And it was great. He's a fan favorite.
Everybody loved him.
He was a little bit of a character out of the ring, but it wasn't, I don't know, of arrogance.
He's still a little eccentric.
So, I don't know, there's, I guess, different types.
Yeah, and sometimes you just don't like people because you don't like people.
Speaking of unlikable people, let's move into some recaps here.
Friday, November 15th.
That's how far back we're going for this one.
This was the Jake Paul Mike Tyson card in Dallas, Texas.
Yes, let's just kick it off here.
This one, I don't recall much, Niraj Goyat, UD over Winterson Nunes.
I remember it being super boring and Niraj being, I don't know, really showy,
even though he wasn't really doing anything.
Yeah, showboating for no reason.
Right. And apparently he has like a lot.
I think he's getting into seven digits of a social media following in India.
So I guess congrats on that.
I don't know, maybe if you're going to box, try being good at it.
Just a suggestion. Yeah.
Moving up, Bruce Carrington, UD over Dana Coolwell.
This was an eight rounder and I was a little bit disappointed with Bruce Carrington's performance.
Given what we have, what I've come to expect of him,
I admit that my expectations are built a little bit on like media hype.
But he did seem to have the goods, right?
There was substance to all of the shit that people were saying about him.
But this one, like question mark, who the fuck is Dana Coolwell?
You're going down to an eight rounder.
You say because you want to be on the Tyson card because you're from the same part of Brooklyn that he is.
Very cool story. But this is not the type of shit you should be taking to decision.
Just my thoughts. Anyone else?
I agree. Yeah, it was disappointing for the hype around Bruce Carrington.
Yeah, I want to I don't want to be too hard on him for it.
It could be jitters. It's very possible.
This is the biggest card he's ever been on.
Got to give him a one time pass. Sure. Yeah.
You have enough night. It happens. It fucking happens to everyone.
So it's fine. Not well.
We'll see how you how you carry on from here.
Well, and he did win. Right. Like convincingly, it's not like it was close.
It was just I was expecting this is the type of shit you should be.
Yeah, you should be ending this early.
It's really what it was. Mm hmm.
This one, I can't recall Shadasha Green split decision over Melinda Wattpool.
Yeah, I don't remember anything about this.
I can't recall that at all.
What's that Lucas body majority decision over Armando Casamonica
coming off of that Ashton Silve knockout, that like scary one where it's weird.
I think that this was it expanded on what was happening in the Silve fight,
which was he was losing until he won.
And it seems like that Armando was able to kind of replicate
that success a little bit that Ashton was having without getting caught,
you know, overextending.
And Lucas doesn't get I don't think he gets a pass for this one.
The writing is on the wall, in my opinion.
It's been written on there, but he's plateauing of it.
I think so. Or showing his limitations.
And they seem pretty steep.
It's not something I think he's going to overcome very, very easily.
I have to admit, I don't remember this one much either.
It's been a while.
There's somebody in Discord that just loves Lucas body.
And I don't know why.
I did.
That's odd person to be a fan of.
Yeah. I mean, we all have our odd fixations.
I have. I get it.
I get it.
I'm a Nick Ball fan.
Well, Nick Ball's crossed into the mainstream, I would say.
I was Nick Ball fan before that.
You remember you were you were all there.
You were all there. We were.
We have the seats.
We have the receipts in the fucking the tapes.
You were there before. It was cool to like Nick Ball.
Man, after the little roundup we did,
we stayed back and talked afterwards about some of these top three fights.
Mario Barrios split draw with Abel Ramos for this was the WBC.
Walter Wey title was on the line.
Barrios like, what the fuck is this very cool to put on a very entertaining fight
and in front of such a big crowd. Awesome.
But if you're supposed to be the welterweight champion,
one of the welterweight champions, like, what the fuck is this?
Abel Ramos is long removed from his best days,
which weren't that great to begin with.
So yeah, I think Barrios has just put a target on his back with this performance.
Everybody's going to want a shot at his belt now.
Unfortunate for him.
He's going to get paid like and he can choose probably between a few people.
Yeah, I was thinking like of the people who should who I think should get priority
would be the other three titleists and Stan Jonas is part of the PBC stable as well.
So that one would be the easiest one.
Brian Norman with top rank and then Boots with match room.
Not so much still.
I also kind of like that this was on this card because it was an all action fight
that was close. Like it's it's a good fight for casuals and Mario Barrios
always has great walkouts.
A few of my casual friends were sending me like, what the fuck is this?
This is awesome type.
Yeah, that's that's how we do it.
That's how Barrios does it anyway.
Sometimes the theatrics are cool if they're done properly.
I always like his walkouts.
Yeah, that's just me.
Makes me think of the the UFC light heavyweight champ, Alex Pajero.
He does like an Amazonian kind of thing.
Yeah, it really reminds me of Camacho.
Good one.
Like I always assumed Mario Barrios was a Camacho fan.
Yeah, that would make a lot of sense in more ways than just the walkout.
Moving up, Katie Taylor gets the UD over Amanda Serrano.
You were both saying you thought Katie Taylor was that was the right decision.
Am I recalling that correctly?
I had Katie winning.
OK.
Like really close.
But I think on my scorecard, it was she won by one round.
Like I agreed with one of the judges.
Yeah, I can't be too hard on the decision, even though it didn't go the way that I thought it should have.
Because like you had said, it was really close.
Katie Taylor getting the nod this time isn't it's not a robbery just because you don't like the decision.
The fight's really close and it's exciting.
And the person that you want to win loses doesn't make it a robbery.
Amanda didn't get robbed.
Sorry.
There's a lot of headbutts.
Yes, she did get docked a point for them, though.
So not sure.
What else you want? You want her to get disqualified?
I don't think they were bad enough to get this call.
No, they weren't.
No, I think I said this the other day, but that's how Katie Taylor fights.
Yes.
And like Amanda Serrano was doing nothing to avoid the headbutts.
She was also coming in headfirst constantly.
Katie Taylor must just have the best skin in boxing because I don't think she's ever been cut from a headbutt.
I can't recall if she has off the top of my head.
But yeah, not.
That cut was gross though.
It was.
The Amanda Serrano cut.
Yes.
Cut.
I did not enjoy that.
I really think they probably could have stopped that fight early over that cut.
Yeah, would have ended up going the same way regardless of when it was stopped if it had been.
I think there's two factors at play here that I don't know if they can be compared to.
Here that I don't know if they cancel each other out, but drip one of them that you had mentioned that like a Serrano when when you're not sure who to score how to score it.
People tend to favor whoever is being more aggressive and that might be what why people were upset that Serrano lost.
But on the other hand, people who are cut and bleeding tend to get scored against because the cut the blood looks bad on you.
So I'm not sure what do you make of those two factors?
I mean, they definitely score damage.
But also, I mean that damage from my head.
Was the damage from a head butt or is it accidental?
Like, yeah, that's a head butt, right?
Yeah, I mean, but Taylor definitely targeted it afterwards.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
I mean, any good boxer.
You would.
What did you have to report?
The thing is like Amanda was just hitting leather.
Like she looked like she was doing a lot, but at the end of the day, she wasn't really doing much.
I think the first round where she rocked Kate Taylor that was probably her best round.
But maybe a second was pretty good too, I guess.
But like anything after that, she just walked Kate Taylor would like fell up, you know, cover herself.
And then Katie would explode, flurry Amanda real quick and piece her up.
Then they would clinch and reset.
So even with the point deduction and she still won, it kind of tells you that like Serrano didn't do enough.
Right.
Even though it looks like she did, but she wasn't really doing much at all.
But also you have to look at it from like us, like boxing connoisseurs compared to like the casual viewer.
They just see Serrano pushing back and don't want a lot of punches at Kate Taylor.
But what we're seeing is like, yeah, what we're seeing is like, all right, you're hitting all gloves, hitting arm.
And that's about it.
Those might be a good strategy.
Like Canelo did it to Callum Smith, but that's not those aren't scoring shots.
Yeah, but the thing is like, Canelo Smith didn't flurry and piece up Canelo.
He just ate the shots, didn't really retaliate.
Difference is again, Kate Taylor would back up a few steps, wait until Serrano either threw her, I guess, punches
or she would wait for an opening, just flurry.
And then she pieced her up a lot.
Like I think if you watch her back, you'll see Serrano, she got hit a lot towards the middle and late rounds.
Like she was just getting decked.
Yeah, Katie had her hurt a couple times.
Like Serrano was rocked two or three times in those late rounds.
And I hate that everybody is just talking about the CompuBox numbers.
As like Drip said, half of those didn't land.
I don't think there is no way she landed a hundred more punches than Katie Taylor did.
Even if they did, something to remember is the old Jim Lampley refrain.
Anytime they when the CompuBox numbers were brought up after any fight on an HBO broadcast,
you would say this is academic.
This doesn't fucking count for anything.
It doesn't matter if you get a hundred more punches.
Did they hurt Katie Taylor more than Katie Taylor's punches hurt Serrano?
Probably not. Doesn't seem so anyway.
I think Katie's punches were much more effective.
Like Drip said, she maybe didn't land as many, but they were the ones she landed were doing more damage.
And they were well placed.
They were more effective, which is one of the scoring criteria.
Yeah, definitely. It's yeah, it's I don't know.
Yeah, it didn't go the way I'd hoped, but that shit's not a robbery.
Okay, moving up to the main event.
Jake Paul gets the UD over Mike Tyson.
Eight two-minute rounds.
How was this a professional match?
I know we talked about this before, but what the fuck, Texas?
Yeah, come on.
Nathan, we were talking about it on MMA show.
It was that they went to Texas because of how lax their sanctioning is.
The fighter health testing is just like, are you breathing?
Is your heart pumping?
Cool.
All right.
Have fun.
And that's like really it.
And they picked that.
So that's why they were there.
Tyson looked like as far as professional boxing goes, he looked every bit of 60.
Even though he's a few years shy of it.
I'm just rounding it up.
He looked very much like a 60 year old man.
He was in fantastic shape for a 60 year old man, but that shit's not going to even fucking
clown like Jake Paul is going to do better than that.
His upper body movement still fast.
Yes, but the legs are like, oh, does it does even have legs at this point?
I was really waiting for him to like stumble and fall trying to move.
Yeah, it was not a pretty sad state of affairs overall.
Jake Paul looked fucking terrified, which I don't blame him.
It's Mike Tyson.
Yeah, but even at 60 years old, I would probably shit myself walking in like him looking at
me across the ring like, oh my God, what am I doing here?
This is a terrible idea.
I think that's exactly what Jake Paul did.
That's why he stayed 10 feet away at all times.
Yeah, that was one of the things that the I'm going to call them out of towners, the
non boxing media outlets that were covering this.
People were expecting Mike Tyson to be that same scary guy and he might have looked apart,
but he didn't.
He wasn't able to play it anymore.
I stand by Jake Paul being a net positive from what I've heard.
Like I saw reports saying that he's done with this boxing clown show stuff.
That would be good.
I don't know how true that is, but.
He seems like a great promoter.
Yeah, he's a very good promoter.
Oh, fantastic promoter.
I think he's done a lot for boxing, honestly.
Right.
Net positive.
New fans, new eyes.
If he gets 100, we'll just use round numbers, 100 people to watch.
If 10 of those people become more attached to boxing and if one of those becomes like
a hardcore fan, that to me is worth it.
Yeah.
I think he's definitely turned some of the kids on to boxing, as it were.
Be good with the Jake Paul shit.
Sweet man, we put some time on that.
All right.
So let's move into Saturday, November 16th.
This was the Latino night in fucking Saudi Arabia.
Very interesting placement of that.
We talked a bit about these.
They had the dancers.
I really like the folklorico.
Yeah.
Is that the right?
Yeah, I really like them.
So one just from the bottom up, because there's actually quite a few interesting fights.
I have kind of have them out of order here.
But Ziad Al Mayouf gets the majority draw over Juan Carlos Ramirez.
Al Mayouf is a Saudi boxer that they're really trying to shoehorn into the whole scene and
it's not going very well.
This was not a majority draw, but it's in Saudi Arabia.
So yeah.
What can you expect?
Oscar Duarte.
This is the same dude I think got beaten by Ryan Garcia a while back.
Yeah.
First, Botersone Akhmedov.
I thought Duarte looked pretty good in this fight, actually.
He definitely did not look like the same guy who lost to Ryan Garcia.
Seems like he went back to the lab, put some stuff together.
So very cool.
William Zepeda, split decision over Tevin Farmer.
He got knocked down in the seventh with a just beautifully timed shot.
I think Tevin Farmer is back.
Yeah, I was really impressed with Tevin Farmer.
The Tevin Farmer is fucking back.
Just like the Murataya one where I was a little bit more, I don't know, leaning more towards
Murataya.
This time, I'm not so sure that Zepeda got that one.
I'm not sure what to make of it.
Yeah, I think Farmer kind of got fucked, to be honest, which seems to happen to him a
lot.
It's unfortunate.
I hope he's getting paid extra.
That twitch of his still scares the shit out of me, but I guess I have to take it back.
The doctors seem to know what they're doing because he looks good.
But that involuntary twitch is terrifying.
It's unnerving for sure.
It looks like a sign of something very serious, but yeah, apparently it's not that big a deal,
I guess.
He did take two years afterwards before he really fought anybody, so I guess the doctors
and trainers and everybody knows what they're doing.
They are professionals.
I kind of thought Farmer probably won that one, actually.
I think he did, too.
Everybody is saying Zepeda looked like shit.
I don't think that's true.
I didn't think he looked like his usual self.
I just think Farmer looked really good.
That might be why Zepeda didn't look so great because Tevin Farmer was on point.
Anyways, I think Farmer won the moral victory on that one at the very least.
Yep.
Interim WBC, lightweight titles on the line.
So this puts Zepeda in line, number one in line for Shakur Stevenson.
Gross.
Right.
I was going to ask, Drip, because one of your local boy, Tevin Farmer, was able to make
Zepeda look kind of silly.
Can Shakur Stevenson do the same, given the differences in power disparity, for example?
Oof.
Can Shakur...
Yeah.
Can Shakur replicate Tevin's performance or do better?
Probably do better, if that's got to say, right?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm not so sure.
I don't know, actually.
Yeah.
I would say do better.
I mean, it is Shakur Stevenson.
As much as he is Shakur, the skills are there.
As much as he's Shakur, he's still Shakur.
Yeah.
It sounds silly, but yeah.
I mean, I would say do better, right?
I don't know if he throws as many punches, though.
I really don't know how that fight would go.
I want to say that Zepeda swarms him and eventually catches him with something, and Shakur's chin's
never been tested, and I kind of assume it's not good.
But I have nothing to base that on other than Shakur is boring and I don't want to see him
fight anymore.
Right.
It would be a matter of how much danger is he willing to put himself into to secure the
victory?
I don't think Shakur is going to put himself in danger.
I don't think he ever does.
That's what I was going to go with was he's not the type.
The only time he'll stand in front of you is if he knows you're not going to hurt him.
I don't think he'll do that with Zepeda because I think he knows Zepeda could hurt him.
Right.
But do you think that fight actually happens now?
No.
Zepeda says his hand's broken.
Shakur says his hand was broken.
I don't see those guys fighting next year either.
I was going to say if it's going to happen, it's going to be like late next year.
If it happens next year at all.
I think they're both going to fight other people first for sure.
Exactly.
They're going to get a comebacks first.
All right.
Moving up to Arnold Barbosa gets his respect.
Give him his respect over Jose Ramirez.
That was great.
Barbosa looked better than he did in his Golden Boy debut.
He looked better than he ever has when he was with top rank.
Ramirez, is he on the skid because they were talking about him having trouble making 140.
Might be thinking about moving up.
I don't know.
What are we thinking here?
I honestly had thought Jose Ramirez retired.
I was surprised when they said he was fighting.
I don't know why I thought that.
I just did.
Well then, Arnold, you're also in a pretty stacked division here.
Let me pull up some names because he looked great.
But yeah, Ramirez didn't look like himself.
So I'm not sure how much to make of it.
Jack Cattarall.
I think that's a good name for him.
Yeah.
I think he could beat Cattarall.
I think so too.
But I think Cattarall could also test him as well, which is important if you want to
see how high up the ladder you're going to go.
I got to pull up a picture.
I forget which one is Barbosa.
He's the one with the respect.
The one with all of the respect.
But why with the respect?
Yeah, because he made sure that Sergio Mora gave him his respect.
Which is so fucking random because I don't think Mora ever talks bad about him.
Yeah, he never said anything.
So I don't know.
It's a weird thing.
Weird thing to be, weird time to be mad, I'll say.
Yeah, I think if Ramirez wants to do anything, he needs to go up a weight class.
I wonder if he wasn't a little weight drained.
They were saying that he had been struggling with 140.
So it's possible.
Kind of fought like it.
Moving up, Oscar Goyaso knocks out CP Freshmart in the seventh to unify the WBA and WBO titles
for strawweight.
I'm happy for Colazo, but I'm sad because I really like CP Freshmart.
You can't be champion forever.
And eight years is a long time at strawweight.
And for anyone, for the uninitiated, which is a lot of people when it comes to strawweight,
he wasn't just some dude sitting in Thailand beating up Bangkok fucking taxi drivers.
That's not at all what was happening.
People were coming from all over the world to fight Freshmart and he was beating them
all.
He's starting to look old.
Yeah, he did look his age a bit.
Like not bad, but you have to be so fast at those small weight classes.
And he just he couldn't keep up with it anymore, I think.
Did you watch this one drip?
I didn't.
I missed it.
Yeah, I think a lot of people skipped the flyweight.
Yeah.
Bangkok flyweight, strawweight fight, which was a mistake because it was exciting.
It was actually very, very good.
Yeah.
I know that the broadcast was shitting on Freshmart a lot.
And I really think if anyone should have been yelling, give me my respect, should have been
Freshmart.
Yeah.
Because even though he lost, you're still looking at a very long time, long tenure champion
who beat a lot of guys, a lot of good competitors.
So give him his respect.
This is a very good win for Oscar, who had a pretty like shaky outing last time.
So good for him.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm really happy for Colazo.
Only problem is, is he is American, right?
Yes.
Nobody in America cares about straw weights.
Nope.
That's the only problem.
Like I liked when CP Freshmart was making people fly to Thailand because the crowds
were fucking awesome if you could find the fights to watch.
Yeah.
Thai crowds are amazing.
Yeah.
And they don't care how small you are.
No.
Like they show up and they show out.
But the downside was they're really hard to find the broadcast.
Oscar, Oscar, Oscar.
Is he the best?
He is the best Puerto Rican fighter right now.
So that's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have to agree.
I don't know.
Matthias looked pretty mid against Paro and then, oh yeah, he got a knockout in his comeback.
But like, who the fuck was that guy anyway?
According to Boxerak, he was born in Jersey.
Yes, he was.
Oh, good old Joyzy.
All right.
I could see why he left.
Hey, well, well, well, Jersey's not that bad of a place.
In the main event, Zerto gets the UD over Chris Billams-Smith to unify.
He picks up the WBO title to add to his WBA.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Holy fuck is CBS a like a juggernaut.
I don't know what the right word is.
Yeah.
Like, how did he not go down?
How did he take that much punishment?
It's pretty wild to see Zerto looking unlike any time we've ever seen him.
He was really light on his feet, pivoting, making angles and stuff, changing up his punch
selection to set up other shots.
It was, I don't know, where has this guy been?
Where the fuck has this Ramirez been?
Because CBS, I don't know too much about him to really knock him.
But that fight against Okoli, like he was able to do something.
He was able to be pretty successful there.
And Okoli, whatever his other faults, wasn't necessarily a slouch either.
Yeah.
I'm not.
Yeah.
Where did this come from?
This is what happens when Gilberto gets to eat all the tacos he wants.
Yeah.
No more weight cuts.
No, I was super impressed with him and I cannot believe that Chris Billams Smith is that tough.
I can't believe any human is that tough.
I was saying during the fight, like this is around like round eight or nine when it looked,
it was pretty obvious for one, CBS is not going to win.
Two, CBS has kind of checked out that then it comes to like, what are we, what more do
we need to see?
What more do we want?
Do we want to watch just watch CBS get his ass kicked for four more rounds?
I agree with you.
But there was also no point where I feel like the ref could have stopped it.
It would have had to have been his corner.
Yeah.
That's what I meant more.
Yeah.
The ref could not have stopped it.
It wasn't that grueling.
But somebody, someone should have said, look, hey Chris, like, dude, what the fuck are we
doing here?
Yeah, I agree.
His corner could have stopped it.
Anytime in the last four rounds, his corner could have stopped it.
Cause I also don't think CBS has the power for that.
Like one shot come back.
He does not.
This was a great fight though.
Anybody who missed it should go find it.
It was good.
I gotta go find it.
Yeah, it's, it's worth it.
So the, the, uh, Zerto has two.
The other two are McAlian, uh, Jai Opataya as well.
I don't, Opataya is the fight to make.
Absolutely.
There, there is nothing else to make besides.
And I think that would be a fucking banger of a fight.
Like I'd be excited for that one.
Absolutely.
I hope, I hope he does it.
Opataya, I mean, I think McAlian should, he's listed as inactive.
He hasn't fought since last year, November of last year.
Um, I'm going to need you to get your ass on a, on a flight to Australia.
Cause who the fuck are you?
You don't get to say, oh, the winner of Opataya and Zerto gets, has the privilege of fighting
me.
Like shut the fuck up.
You don't, you don't get to say that.
So David Benavides was talking about going up to fight Zerto.
Oh, does he want to look even more flabby?
Well that, and I don't think it's a good idea.
I think Benavides would get his ass kicked.
Yeah.
He's got smoked.
Yeah.
It's not a good move for him.
If you can't stop, uh, Vosdick, not sure what you're going to do.
Uh, 25 pounds higher.
Anything more for this, for this card?
All right.
Uh, one quick one I wanted to mention motherfucking Mickey Scala.
He's a local, local guy for me.
He gets a win over Luis Ramos.
It's a six rounder in New York.
So enjoy.
If you don't want me to talk about Mickey Scala, then maybe call in and let me know
why.
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Wow.
What a plugin.
I know I'm really good at this.
So December 7th, pro hardware day.
There are so many fights.
There's four cards.
Yeah.
This is fucking massive on the pro box one.
Jesus.
Four cards.
Um, so pro box recently aligned with Conlin boxing, the Conlin brothers, Conlin family.
So that's what this card is.
A lot of these are lower level guys.
Some people making their debuts.
The only name I recognize on this whole thing is Tyrone McKenna in the main event versus
Dylan Moran.
That's all I got.
It should be pretty good.
That one.
I think, I think they're probably pretty even.
Yeah.
I would say that would be a good, it wouldn't be bad to tune in for that.
So that's on Saturday, December 7th.
Because it's in, it's in Waterford in Ireland, it'll be on around the same time as the Queensbury
card.
I really hope pro box staggers it so that they're not competing because they're probably
going to not do as well as Queensbury.
Pro box being on YouTube and free might help them.
True that.
Actually, good point.
And you can always watch it after.
There's one thing I really like about the pro box is like, you don't have to watch it
live.
Okay.
For the Queensbury card, this one's at the Wembley Arena.
Bit of stuff on here.
I'll just, whatever has some intrigue.
It's really just from, what is it?
One, two, it's like the fifth fight from the top.
Sean Noakes versus Matthew Rennie.
It's welterweight, the British, the pride belt, the rainbow one that the Brits like.
Sean Noakes versus Matthew Rennie for that.
Lawrence Okoli debuting at heavyweight versus Hussein Muhammad.
Yeah, Okoli's back, baby.
Solomon Dakers versus David Adelaide.
This is the pride heavyweight belt.
That's fun.
Brad Pauls versus Denzel Bentley.
This one's actually should be good.
Denzel Bentley.
That is the snootiest name I have heard in a while.
This is a 12 rounder.
The previous ones were 10.
So the WBO International and the British middleweight titles on the line here.
And at the top of the bill, Sam Noakes versus Ryan Walsh, 12 rounds, the British and WBO
International lightweight belts will be on the line.
So there you go.
That's all of the stuff happening in Europe.
Yeah, I didn't recognize very many of those names.
I recognize these from on paper.
Just the Noakes brothers on the Queensberry one.
Okoli.
Yeah.
All right, moving on.
In Puerto Rico, Matchroom is returning to the scene of the crime, as they keep saying,
for whatever the fuck reason.
I do not understand why this is in Puerto Rico.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
I don't know.
There's a bunch of shit on it that I'm going to skip.
Yanquil Figueroa versus Angel Gonzalez.
This is WBC Silver and WBO Intercontinental flyweights.
Is that another one of the Figueroas?
Is he related to the other ones?
No.
Not that I know of anyway.
I guess it's not that uncommon of a last name.
That's pretty common.
Oh, no, yeah.
Figueroa is.
Henry Lebron.
He is the doctor.
The little doctor?
El doctorcito?
Doctor Dolittle?
His nickname on BoxRec is El doctorcito.
Yeah, the little doctor.
Hilarious.
Doctor Dolittle.
Henry Lebron versus Christopher Diaz.
IBF Latin America and ABO.
Superfeathers Mark Castro versus Agustin Kitana.
Mark Castro is the Elon Musk lookalike.
Ten round lightweights.
And Liam Parrow versus Richardson Hitchens for the IBF super lightweight title.
I really hope that Richardson Hitchens is stopped in a brutal fashion that makes him
reconsider his career.
Please.
Yeah, I'm going to jump on the Liam Parrow bandwagon too.
I think Parrow is a dog.
Please.
I want him to be good now.
Riddus of his company, Parrow.
The world needs you.
You've been called to service.
Liam Parrow is him.
Yeah, I guess.
All right.
Moving to top rank in Phoenix.
Did you get a ticket for this one?
I did not.
I got snipped.
That's all right, though.
Demmler Zamora.
I'm going to fucking skip all this shit.
Giovanna Santian versus Frederick Lawson.
Walter Waits.
Santian's coming back after Brian Norman beat him bloody.
It's a pretty rough one.
And then I'm going to skip this.
Then Doful Delgado.
Whatever.
Richard Torres versus Isaac Munoz.
Eight round heavies.
Interesting.
I thought it's not bad.
It's not a bad step up, actually.
18-1-1 for Isaac.
Pretty good.
I like Richard Torres.
Do I think he's going to be world champion?
Probably not.
Do I want him to be?
Yes.
I would like for him to go to cruiserweight if he's going to go anywhere.
Do you think he's not that heavy, I guess?
No, he would have to probably have to cut a little bit of muscle mass to get to the 200.
What's the weird one?
Bridger?
That only exists.
Yeah.
Oh, Bridgerweight?
Yeah.
Which is unfortunate.
That's the weight he comes in at pretty much every fight night he comes in around Bridger.
Yeah.
And he's not yoked, but I don't think he has enough fat that he could make cruiserweight
by just cutting fat.
In the co-main, Rafael Espinosa is rematching Robesy Ramirez, WBO featherweight title on
the line.
I like Espinosa a lot, so I really hope that he gets this one more convincingly because
Robesy is still pretty good.
Yeah, me too.
I don't think it's a frog check for Robesy, but I think it's a ceiling check.
And in the main, Nav Emanuel Navarrete versus Oscar Valdez, WBO super feather.
This is consolidating the interim title while Nav went up to 135 to test the waters.
So there you go.
I'm not expecting a whole lot to be different than their first one.
No, I'm excited though.
The first one was good.
Yes, exciting.
Like Valdez always, always, always comes to scrap.
Always.
I can't, can't ever fault him for that, for not trying, not having heart or grit or toughness
or whatever word you want to use.
Nav is, I don't know, just a little bit too much, too much, too unorthodox for Valdez,
who's a little bit more by the book in how he fights.
Yeah, not sure if this is going to go much better.
If I would be more than happy to eat my words, Valdez.
He grew up in Tucson, not too far from here in Phoenix.
So we're basically best friends at this point since we're like next door neighbors pretty
much.
But yeah, I really like both these guys.
I don't care who wins.
Yeah, it comes to nothing.
I hope everybody has a good day.
Oh no, not one of those.
We want to see a winner, damn it.
Yeah, it only comes to one thing for me and that's, yeah, I like them both.
They're both fun fighters, both put on exciting fights every time they come out pretty much.
So all I got is Valdez grew up in Arizona.
So that's it.
I got nothing else.
It's the only thing that sets them apart.
Who are you picking, Drip?
I'll go with Valdez.
I like Arizona.
Nice.
Well, if you guys are both cheering for Valdez, I guess I'll have to cheer for Navarrete.
OK, come on now.
Come on.
Oh, well, that's it for this portion.
On the next portion, before I head out, can we just make a quick section talking about
that trailer for Usyk Fury 2?
Because fuck me, that was awesome.
I haven't seen it.
I seriously I haven't.
That was a great noise.
Dude, you got to go watch it.
Take the time right now to go watch it.
I'm pulling it up.
So hold on a second.
Let me.
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So we're heading into a day which will live in infamy, December 7th.
It's a busy day.
Parting words for December 7th.
Stay warm if you're anywhere that's not in a warm country or state.
Put up your Christmas trees if you celebrate.
And yeah, stay hydrated.
And don't forget the overnight bakery.
Jesus.
I don't know what I got for parting words.
I guess it is December now, isn't it?
It is indeed.
Oh, I know.
It is meat pie season.
I wanted a meat pie so badly and I cannot find them here anywhere and it makes me sad.
So everybody in the parts of the world with ovens, please enjoy meat pies for me.
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