The B-Side and Boxing.
B-Side shit.
B-Side.
And the B-Side.
You got a B-Side.
The B-Side.
B-Side.
That B-Side thing.
This is the B-Sides Boxing Podcast.
OK.
All right.
Boxing B-Sides, we're back.
We are so back.
It's not Jover.
I think.
Is that how it goes?
It's so Jover.
But it's not quite a bit of box on the horizon.
Is it good?
That depends on how you define good.
But there is plenty of it.
So if you're a sicko out there, then I definitely got you covered this week.
I'm joined today.
Shinada, Isaac, how are we?
We are good.
I get free lunch at work today.
So it's a good day.
Free food always tastes better.
It does.
Yep.
Always.
Yeah.
I wanted to get this figured out.
I should have had this figured out before.
But before we get into all of the boxing news, I wanted to talk quickly on UFC Macau,
which took place a few weeks ago.
I really just wanted to go on that really bad knockout.
Xi Ming sent her previous opponent to the fucking hospital.
And initially, within the first day or two, reports were that she was doing OK.
But I haven't heard anything since.
Yeah, it was a really bad KO.
She was winning the fight, high kick, and just the way she fell and the way her neck was.
You don't really see that that often, even in other regional promotions.
But it was bad, real bad.
Yep.
I'm assuming she's still alive.
I feel like they would have said so.
If she died, they probably would have said something.
Yeah.
So it's not worst case scenario, at least.
Yeah, even I saw that knockout.
The internet has been pissed off at this poor woman for the quote unquote
grounded pound afterwards, and I was like, she hit her once.
And it's the UFC people.
Yeah, until the ref pulls you off, you don't stop.
Yeah.
The same shit happens in boxing.
They're just not on the ground.
Yeah.
This one was just stunning enough that the casuals saw it.
And I'm on Instagram and people were just so uninformed in the comments.
It was crazy.
Typical.
Fucking casuals.
Yeah, same people that were upset about Jake Paul and Mike Tyson
calling it a rigged or whatever.
Or what was it?
Scripted?
Yeah.
Well, this one, I think a lot of the tags or whatever they call them
these days also were female stuff.
So it was a bunch of girls that have probably never watched a fight
in their life commenting as well.
I see.
Embarrassing.
I would have thought that would be, well, maybe when it's that brutal
of a knockout, it might be a little bit off putting.
But because like she is small, she's intelligent.
She went through medical school.
So I think it's a great combo of her being kind of shy or reserved
in her manner while also being brutal.
Yeah.
And it's such an Asian story.
It does sound like something out of one of the comics.
Yeah, I hid that I'm a world class MMA fighter from my parents.
So I could finish medical school and make them proud.
Yep.
Yeah, I'm not able to find any more news on Shao Khan.
But like Isaac said, if something serious, if it got worse,
we probably would have heard by now.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
And coming up on the 14th, we have Colby Covington versus Joaquin Buckley.
We talked about this one more extensively on Ultimate F&Casual,
if you want to head over there.
But for this one, is this would you call this like a boxing fan friendly event
or a fight at least?
I would say probably not, because like Covington, he knows.
I mean, he's not an idiot either.
I don't think he's going to try to stand up.
And he knows wrestling is probably the safest way to try to win
the fight against Buckley.
So it could be a lot of like, you know, like it could be like a
wrestle heavy approach from Covington, just trying to keep Buckley down
so he doesn't have his base.
So I would not say that this is boxing friendly or like friendly to boxing fans.
Yeah.
But there could be a really nice KO.
Buckley has insane power, so potential, potential to see a nice KO at least.
Yeah, because Buckley, the way I described him over there,
and I have a few times on the MMA show was that he the way he moves is
he I'm not saying he is of this same like striking or boxing caliber,
but the way his explosiveness and athleticism are reminiscent of like
prime Tyson, that he's not nearly as refined as Tyson.
Please do not come from me in the comments.
But the way he moves, the way he tries to set up his shots is very much
of that type.
Yeah, I would not want to fight Buckley.
That is a as a unit.
Yeah, that's a unit.
Oh, man, from what I understand, moving into some boxing news,
I heard that Vladimir Klitschko was thinking about coming back to fight
Daniel Dubois and as awesome as Klitschko was in his time,
he's also coming up on 50 and Dubois just demonstrated he is absolutely
not someone to take lightly.
So yeah, I hope this is just a stupid rumor.
Yeah, I don't want to see this.
I'm not trying to see someone like you said, 50 years old almost.
I'm not trying to see. He was already like pretty much.
You know, how we usually say like in the hamper.
Yeah, it's AJ.
Man, this is like years later.
It could be like really, really bad now, especially against Dubois.
Dubois is like young.
I don't know if it's a if hampered is crossed over,
but should not have like hampered is like if someone is a is that they're not
washed yet, but they're in the hamper getting ready to go in the wash.
I see. I see.
A Leo original.
But yeah, Vlad K was definitely hamper status when he fought AJ.
But yeah, that's good. I like that one. Nice.
Yeah, I hope this isn't true.
Just really quickly, Dubois, Usyk, was that a low blow?
Recaps, we only got fucking one card
and there's only just not very many fights on it to talk about
that at least I say it every time.
If you want to talk about British shit, fucking go to the discord.
There are plenty of UK homies over there that can oblige you.
But I got Callum Smith.
Mundo stops Carlos Galvan in the fifth.
This is an eight rounder.
What is happening with Callum Smith?
Yeah. Well, they didn't even announce who he was fighting
until like the day before the fight.
Yeah, it was a last minute pick.
So this is a nothing burger fight.
I think this is just like a like a stepping stone.
Obviously, like stay busy.
News came out about.
Yeah, news came out about him later on about Callum Smith.
But yeah, this was just like a stay busy fight.
Just would have expected it to be better.
Like what's you have their ranking number here, right?
Like the Galvan guy was four hundred and fifty nine.
Yeah, it's those are the numbers that I have on the outline
are there where they're listed on box rec.
So, you know, grain of boxing salt, I suppose.
Yeah, but six versus four hundred and fifty nine is pretty.
Yeah, it's pretty bad.
It's a pretty big step up.
That used to be a joke that we I remember we used a lot
that people used on the Internet a lot when PBC first came out
and they're talking about how Al Hayman's paying them
a whole bunch of money to fight.
Nobody's like page five on box rec four hundred fifty fifth from box rec.
Like, man, like, shut the fuck up.
Your favorites are doing the same thing.
So take it easy. Yeah.
Yeah, I had been excited to see Callum Smith until they didn't
announce who he was fighting until way too late.
I knew this was going to be nothing like weeks ago.
Yeah, we'll definitely be seeing more of him, though.
Of course, Calum Smith on the front, because he moved up and wait, right?
From I'm really bad at remembering.
Yeah, he's at 175.
He got sort of steamrolled by better be a light heavyweight.
That was real bad.
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
There's a terrible one, I guess.
Kind of marking time until better be of disappears.
Got to be soon, right?
Yeah, they've got one last one last hurrah in February.
That's it. I don't know.
I'm a little bit tepid just because, you know, yeah, we have to get the annual
like better be of injury still.
So I could delay moving up here.
Gavin Gwynn, I think, is kind of a thing over on the front.
Is kind of a thing over on the British scene.
But Cameron Blanc, I've been following his career on paper.
So I just wanted to continue the trend here.
Gets the UD still undefeated.
Go for it, Cameron.
I know I've watched this whole card twice and I don't remember any of these fights.
It was not very exciting.
Yeah, these are just ones that I remember on paper, man.
That's it.
It was not that good.
No, this was a really, really bad card.
Headlining said shit to your card.
Sonny Edwards versus Galalia Fye.
I didn't write down the fucking result, but Sonny Edwards just wimped out.
Went out on a I don't know what fucking sad note.
Yeah, it really is the sad note.
At the end of the first round, he's in the corner saying, I don't even want to be here.
Yeah, like I'm not a huge fan of Sonny Edwards, but it just kind of made me sad.
Yeah, they should have almost canceled this fight ahead of time.
Everybody knew that he didn't want to be there.
Like they tried to play it up as Sonny Edwards was being respectful in the buildup.
Because Sonny Edwards usually talks a lot of trash.
It's kind of what he does.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was the first sign that something was wrong.
He just got ran over.
I feel like there's no other way to put it.
He sort of just got ran over in the fight.
And I'm going to be honest, I didn't know who Galalia was.
I have never seen him fight.
And you're not missing a whole lot.
Sonny made him look like, you know, fucking better.
Yeah, it was like what the fuck was up with Sonny Edwards.
He retired immediately afterwards saying like, I'm just not that interested in doing this anymore.
It sounds like he's got like other jobs lined up and stuff.
Yeah, I think he was going to be a commentator.
Commentary, yeah, at some level.
And he's got like new kids, like infants.
I kind of wonder if that bad cut didn't sort of set this whole thing off.
The one with his in his last fight.
Yeah, like that left a really bad scar, too.
I just wonder if, you know, if I got cut like that, I wouldn't want to go back to boxing.
And he had other things lined up and he probably didn't train all that great and his head wasn't in the right space.
He is like fully retired now, right?
So he says we're not going to see him again.
I mean, I did see like Eddie Hearn put something out second.
Oh, it's not over yet or something.
I don't know.
The Eddie Hearn thing was was about other parts of boxing.
Like, I think the commentating and that sort of thing, because he's like, you still have a future in the sport or something.
Yeah, he's not retiring from the sport completely, just retiring from in-ring activity.
Yeah, OK. He should not be allowed to fight anymore.
That's how bad this was.
I don't like any of the Yifis either.
But I mean, Golal Yifai came out really fast.
Steamrolled them, like you said.
But I don't know if this performance says anything about Yifai.
Yeah, I'm sure we get a decent name.
We were talking about matching him up.
How about Yifai, like his next matchup?
Taraji? Yeah, Taraji.
Taraji eats him for lunch.
Yeah, that's the conclusion we came to.
But like, I mean, it's one of those.
This is like one of those fake performances.
Yeah, people are going to make more of it than it really is.
Yeah, yeah.
And they always talk up his gold medal so much.
And like gold medals are impressive.
Don't get me wrong, but I don't think it really matters in the professionals.
Yeah, I mean, amateurs are different.
It's a cool achievement, but amateurs are.
It's a different, practically different sport.
Yeah, Jilala is going to get fraud checked in the pros.
Fucking Yoko got fraud checked pretty quickly.
Kyoguchi would be a good one.
Kyoguchi is small for 112, which I see how funny that would seem.
But he's not like very heavy handed.
It's not.
Jilala would not be at risk of getting knocked out or anything
while still having a respectable opponent.
I just like Kyoguchi.
Me too.
I think he would probably beat Yafai, so I'm all for it.
Yeah, I didn't want to play that card right away.
It's like, how many losses can we give Yafai here before he fucks off?
Well, that's it for the fucking card in Birmingham.
Leon Edwards was there, so that's fun.
It's going to be a UFC card in London, I think.
Yeah, confirmed he will be there, but we don't know against who yet.
But that's it for reviews.
There's a lot of stuff, but it's not.
How you define good will determine how good this week is going to be.
Starting on Wednesday, December 11th, a match room in Australia
at the Fortitude Music Hall in Queensland.
There's a few on here.
I picked up three of them.
Tyler Blizzard versus Cheng Cheng Yang, because that name is excellent.
I was just going to say which name though.
They're both excellent.
It's just a wonderful name match up there.
Justice Hooney, he's coming back out versus Leandro Robuti.
And this, I think Connor Wallace is a match room, another match room guy.
Like Justice Hooney is a match room promoted guy.
And I think Connor Wallace is as well versus Acemale Wellem.
Those are light heavyweights.
I have not heard of these people.
I know of Justice Hooney.
Yeah, I've heard of him.
I meant the main event.
Cheng Cheng is like Tonga, Tonga, Tonga.
Same shit.
Fucking I love you.
I don't even know you, but you're the best.
Moving on in the US, Pro Box.
Even though you may not know who these people are,
chances are likely that there's going to be some solid match ups here.
Pro Box does that very well.
They always have competitive fights.
That Japanese guy in the...
Ko-Mane?
Yeah.
He fought on Pro Box before and got that really surprising knockout
because I don't think he'd ever had a knockout before.
He just overworked the guy and it was totally accumulation
and he stopped him in I think like the second last round.
So I'm excited to see him again.
Pro Box has these hidden gems, right?
And you know, it's on a Wednesday, of course, we welcome it.
And it's free.
Yeah, free on YouTube.
That's right.
Jesus Rubio was the guy he stopped.
This guy's from LA or he grew up in LA.
I think in a really Mexican neighborhood
because his nickname is the Japanese firework, El Cuete Japonesito.
Nice.
Oh my God.
That's fantastic.
So there you go.
He's, if nothing else, that should be a good fight in the Ko-Mane.
And headlining it is Jonathan Cardoso versus Eduardo Ramirez.
Ten round lightweights.
That's your Wednesday.
Thursday, December 12th.
Salida Promotions in Flint, Michigan.
There's only two fights on this card that I wanted to point out.
And there's Joey Spencer.
He's still campaigning at middleweight.
He's fighting Miguel Hernandez.
And headlining this one is local favorite, Ardriel Holmes
versus Edwin Humane, Super Welters.
So Ardriel still climbing his way up the ladder.
Just someone to keep on your radar.
This one I don't have a whole lot of info on
because I don't know who these guys are.
This is United Fight Promotions or something like that.
This one's in Toronto.
The headliner is IBF or IBO 154 pounds.
So this is a fringe title, but it's still this guy's climbing up the ranks as well.
Sukhdeep Bhatti versus Uesma Lima.
It's not a bad matchup from what I've been able to gather about those two.
So that's fun.
And there you go.
That's Thursday.
How you watch these Salida will be on the zone.
I'm pretty sure.
And the United one, I'm not sure how to watch that yet.
But if you're in discord, I can definitely make sure you're aware when it starts.
Okay, moving on.
Friday, December 13th.
Very good friend of mine's birthday.
Happy birthday.
Yeah. Happy birthday.
Doubt she's going to listen to this, but whatever.
Put it out there for her.
In Santa Inez, California at the Chumash Casino.
Carlos Balderas is the only one that I'm bringing up
because I don't really know who the other ones are.
First, Cesar Villarraga.
Balderas was an Olympian.
I don't think he...he's not a gold medalist.
I don't even think he medaled, but he still was an American Olympian.
Came in with a lot of hype and it looked like things were going really well for him
until I think he got stopped.
It was a really bad stoppage and he had trouble rebounding from it.
Yeah, I don't recognize this guy's face either.
Also, same day at the Caribe Royale in Orlando.
The promoter's box lab, whatever the fuck that is,
but this is Most Valuable Promotions.
This is their prospect series.
Oh, yeah.
Looking at some of the fighters now, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm hopeful that they're matching up their guys pretty well.
The headliner, Antonio Vargas, 18-1 vs. Winston Guerrero, 22-0.
Not a bad matchup.
Giovanni Estella, 14-1 vs. Jackson Blanco, 7-0.
So, all pretty good, I think.
Is that one ESPN?
No, Dazone.
Ah, nice.
Yeah.
Let me start with Saturday, December 14th.
This is a matchroom card, so it'll be on Dazone.
Chavon Clark vs. Leonardo Mosqueda.
Chances are likely that he got picked for a reason,
but if you lose, you have to change your name.
You motherfucker, you better not lose.
Fucking making me look bad.
Chavon Clark is whatever, but EBU cruiserweight title is on the line there.
MJ Akhmadaliev in the co-main.
It's not that he's back, because he already had a comeback fight against, I think, a 22-0 guy.
Then he won that on the Sonny Edwards vs. Bam undercard.
I like MJ.
Yeah.
People say he's boring, but I think he's fun to watch.
He's fine.
Yeah, I still think MJ's a good fight for her, in a way.
Yeah, I think he's about the only one left at that weight class that anyone cares about.
Pretty much.
So that's the matchroom card in Monte Carlo.
Gary Cooley vs. Maxie Hughes is on it.
Beatrice Fajera vs. Alicia Boudersa.
Boudersa, I think it is.
IBF lightweights.
Not bad.
Not a bad night.
Now, boxer in Liverpool.
This one's being headlined by Natasha Jonas, unifying her belt with Ivana Habazin.
Those are welterweights.
And then I picked up Stephen McKenna vs. Lee Cutler.
WBC International Silver.
That's like three steps removed from being remotely worth anything.
But I know the name McKenna.
He's being pushed a little bit, I think, McKenna.
Probably.
But that's the boxer card.
Those two are starting about the same time.
So I would probably watch the Monte Carlo one over this.
Let's move on to fucking Marv Nation.
This one I am trying to find.
There's a lot of TVA's on this.
Yes, there are.
But this one, there were two I wanted to point out.
Fernando Vargas Jr.
Another one of the Fighting Vargas brothers vs. Matthew Terry.
And Mark McSio is on it.
Opponent yet to be determined.
We interrupt our program to bring you this important message.
Like a day or so after we recorded this, the opponent for Mark McSio was announced.
It's Brian Mercado.
He's 11, 6, and 1.
It's going to be six rounds at 135.
So lightweight.
Not sure if this is a permanent move for Mark, but we'll see.
And just a fun bit of trivia.
Mercado is a number 666 on box reg.
So that's fun.
There you go.
That's Marv Nation.
Marv.
Marv Nation is such a hilarious name.
That's great.
Okay.
Golden Boy.
The undercard is already announced, but like, well.
Alexis Rocha is headlining against Raul Curiel.
Fun.
Tomorrow.
You'll see.
Tomorrow.
Okay.
Still, we're still on December 14th.
Motherfucking Zanfur.
Oh my god.
This is what dreams are made of.
I am so excited.
Alan Picasso versus Isak Saki.
Super bantams.
Picasso.
Sorry, buddy.
Like you're going to get turned into a Picasso if you step your competition up.
There's only one direction that you can go when it comes to title aspirations.
Do they legitimately have him ranked number four?
Box reg.
ELO.
You know, just the points system.
I don't know what whatever.
I hope you don't get yourself into a title shot anytime soon.
It's not going to go very well.
I mean, Sam Goodman is getting a shot.
It's not honestly, I think Sam Goodman and Picasso here are about similar in what level
they're at.
All right.
Comane.
Carlos Castillo versus Juan Ramon Guzman.
Those are welters and headlining Jaime Munguia versus Bruno.
Cannot figure out if it's Soros, Sorosi, Sorosay, Sorach.
Soracha.
Fuck yeah.
I have no idea.
No.
Why is this happening?
Kakachi turned out to be the thing.
So we're going with it.
Bruno Sorachi.
I don't know much about Bruno's, which I think is really telling.
I've never seen him.
Yeah.
I didn't know who he was.
I don't know what Munguia is doing.
Having a fight at home?
Yeah.
I mean, he already has fought at home a few times.
I sort of understand.
I feel like this sort of takes away the steam from what he had going after Canelo.
And he just came off a pretty decent fight.
With Bazinian.
Yeah, yeah.
That was actually a decent performance for him.
It was.
But I don't know what he's doing.
I mean, I guess this is just like a stay busy fight.
But I don't know.
I mean, there's better fights to make it 168.
I sort of don't know what he's doing.
He's beating up a Frenchman is what he's doing, which I'm all for.
I hadn't realized this guy's...
Is he French?
Yeah, he's from France.
He's never fought outside of France.
Holy shit.
According to Boxrec.
And he's going to be in for a culture shock in Tijuana.
He's not going to know what to do.
Marseille is a port city.
So there's probably hooligans there, but I don't know if it's the same as TJ.
He's going to find out.
I don't know, man.
McGee has to...
It's all right.
They're trying to boost that win record or whatever, but we got to start getting some of these fights.
Then at 168.
There is a lot still at 168 for him to do.
Like Berlenga, I think is still a good fight for Munguia to take.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people.
I mean, there's Pacheco, Plant.
Embilie, Glisias.
Yeah, there's a lot here.
And this isn't the move.
Where's this guy at?
51.
Could you at least keep it in the top 25?
Being the dude's a favor here.
Yeah, he's going to knock this dude out immediately.
Yeah, he fucking better.
He better.
He has to.
He's undefeated, but he's 25 wins, four knockouts.
This was a very pointed decision to fight him.
Very low risk.
Yeah, looks good on paper, though.
Maybe he didn't want to take a real fight and potentially miss out on making the next fight.
Do you know what I mean?
Like you need a no injuries fight just to stay busy.
I guess, yeah, like a low risk, stay busy fight.
Trying to get to 45 wins as well.
I said it's better for promotion.
Yeah, I don't know.
This isn't what we want to be seeing.
I like Munguia.
This isn't what we want to see.
Yeah, for sure.
I've come around on Munguia as well.
But yeah, this is disappointing.
I'll give him a pass on this one saying it's your promoter, your manager, not you.
Yeah, I can't imagine that Munguia really says much about who he's fighting.
I mean, he's not making that much money.
He could make way more money fighting the other dudes.
I guess he got a taste of that kind of money, but yeah, this is not it.
But there you go.
That's December 14th.
It's a big day of boxing.
Not a whole lot of headline marquee stuff.
And this December 15th is the day we're going to be recording.
So we're not going to...
These will have happened by the time we sit down.
So to preview them is to first platform sports.
It's going to be in Gibraltar at the Europa Point Sports Complex.
Dillion White versus Ebenezer Tete.
This is just wonderful.
Keep doing this, Dillion White.
I hope there's no fans allowed in this one too.
No fucking fans allowed in Dillion White fights anymore.
His comeback.
Second comeback.
Rain at Heavyweight.
I just can't think of White anymore without imagining Pavek laying him out.
I know he pissed hot and everything, but it was still hilarious.
Yeah, it's the same thing as Devin Haney with Ryan Garcia.
So what if he fucking pissed hot?
He still laid you on your ass.
Yeah, he got deleted.
This Tete guys gone and they're usually half...
Yeah, the fighting countries that we all know of like Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria,
Senegal to an extent.
I saw one of his fights in Africa, man.
It looked rough.
White should win this, but if he loses, it's time to hang him up.
It's time to hang him up.
Yeah, they're being really delicate with his rebuild.
If you scroll down far enough on this Tete guys box wreck, he fought at the prison canteen in Accra.
Oh, I'm telling you, you need to search up one of his fights on YouTube, man.
It's like straight up...
There were spectators there, but it was only the ones on their bikes going on their way to work.
It was pretty funny.
Yeah, one fight at Seaward Fishing Park.
That sounds like they just put a ring up in a park.
I will have you...
I will mention though that I've had that happen nearby me.
I think it was Oscar Valdez that fought there as the headline.
Oh, shit.
That would be interesting.
It was kind of like you can walk up and you can watch from the street.
Kind of if you find the right angle because of the bleachers or whatever.
But it was...
I'm trying to remember what it was.
I think it was like in October or November.
And it was the park that they were at was...
It's like the Veterans Memorial Park or some shit.
So I think it was one of those extra discounts for veterans and family.
Okay.
And Oscar Valdez put on a show for us.
Nice.
This Tete dude fought Daniel Dubois.
Got knocked out in the first round.
His only loss, he's 23 and 1.
His only loss is to Dubois.
He's only been beaten by elite heavyweights.
This is true.
Which means White should lose.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
Oh, man.
Dillion White.
I remember hearing a lot of how Deontay Wilder does not rate a fight with AJ
if he can't beat Dillion White.
That Dillion White should have first shot at Wilder.
I remember Dillion White being like a deal for a while.
And then Povetkin happened.
Completely erased any semblance of hype.
And he came back to stop Povetkin in the next one.
But it doesn't change what happened.
The way he just had his soul uppercutted out of his body.
That was such a movie scene.
It really is.
The way he landed as well was sort of comical.
It was all a brown real bad.
And then Fury did him in too.
It was just, yeah.
I forgot he even fought Fury, to be honest.
Again, you got uppercutted to hell too there, right?
Yeah, I think so.
I stand by this just because it's fun to poke at the Fury fans.
But if you see it, if you play it back, you'll see Tyson Fury hits the shot that puts
Dillion White's lights out, he's very clearly out of it.
But Fury kind of pushes him.
And that's where he falls, is from the push.
He was rocked.
He was dead.
He was straight up dead on his feet.
The push is what put him to the ground.
Yeah.
Doesn't change it.
Dillion White got his ass kicked.
It's just fun for poking fun at Fury fans.
That's it for that card.
I don't know what else is on it, and I honestly don't care.
I'm having trouble caring about Dillion White being on it, but I'll get there eventually.
I kind of feel bad for him now.
I wonder how much he's getting paid for this.
Yes.
The free travel accommodation and accommodations are covered plus 25% off breakfast buffet.
He gets Wi-Fi?
Yeah, you get Wi-Fi included as well.
All right.
Moving on.
Same day.
This one starts at like 1 in the morning on the West Coast on Sunday, December 15th.
So it's a Japanese card in Osaka.
I got a ticket to this one.
Yeah.
I'm not sure who all I'm looking at here.
I don't recognize any of the names.
Okay, cool.
The only one we really want to talk about then is Ryosuke Nishida, the IBF Bantamweight Champion versus Anuchai Donsua, who's rated 14th in the IBF.
I don't think this counts as a mandatory.
No.
I just wanted to see Nishida, and I wanted to go to a fight in Osaka because everybody tells me that the crowd is very rowdy in Osaka.
I have my doubts, but...
Yeah, because it's going to be Sunday.
Yeah, I don't know that that matters a whole bunch.
Everybody just goes to work hung over here all the time.
Also, I think the fight starts at like 2 in the afternoon, so you'll have time to sober up.
Starts at 2.
Oh, yeah, the card starts at 2 in the afternoon.
But yeah, main event is a little while later.
Yeah, yeah.
But no, I'm excited, but I don't recognize any of these people.
I think Nishida is fighting in Osaka because he had some deal before he got that world title that he was not supposed to win.
That's right.
No, I think this should be pretty good.
I don't think I complained on the podcast.
So Inoue versus Goodman is over twice as expensive as all the other Inoue fights have been, I guess because it's Christmas Eve.
So my reserved seating A is what I usually buy, and it's usually 33,000 yen.
But this time it's 77,000 yen.
So I don't know if I'm even going to bother.
That is a lot of fucking money.
I don't give a shit to watch Inoue beat up some Australian guy again.
I did last time.
Pretty no hoper is really the problem.
Yeah, and even like the undercard, there's nobody that I haven't already seen.
So I think I might just pass on that one, especially since with train tickets in a hotel and stuff, this Osaka fight is going to be kind of expensive.
And I really want to get a ticket to Martina Zioka.
Oh, yeah, that rematch.
I hope the judges are better this time.
Yeah, everybody on Discord was like, Ioka didn't win a round and stuff.
And I was like, guys, I was there live, but like it's different live and I'm very biased, but I thought it was a really close fight.
I thought it was at the very least more competitive than 12 to nothing.
Yeah.
Well, I'm exaggerating for a fact.
People were, I don't know, didn't disagree too much.
Yeah.
One 16, 112.
Eh, probably.
But whatever.
Ioka Osaka boy got done dirty.
Yeah.
Yeah, this sports complex thing that they're in doesn't look very big either.
So it should be really good seats.
Nishida lives in Osaka.
I don't think that's where he's from.
Says he's from Nara.
Yeah.
Which isn't very far, I don't think.
Man, that's so yeah.
That's it for the Japanese car.
Muto Promotions.
Right.
Muto, the boxing gym.
Muto is putting it on.
Yeah.
I forgot they do that.
Yeah, I looked up this place and all I got, I was trying to get a picture of the venue
and all I got was like how to walk there and what to look for because it's apparently,
it doesn't stand out that much.
Yeah.
And it's like really on the outskirts of Osaka.
Yeah.
I might get very lost.
It also sounds like it's just like a community center.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
This looks like a YMCA.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah.
Which is why I'm kind of excited like this.
I'm going to be so close.
You could throw a pewter at him.
I bought those reserved seating A again, which is usually the front of the bleachers.
Like it's not ringside, but it's the next thing.
And I picked up my ticket yesterday and I'm in like row two again.
So it's going to be awesome.
Which is going to be like KFC.
Classic.
Yeah.
I forgot they do that.
I fucking hate.
They taste awful.
Well, well, well, how much of that shit is going to make the final?
Do you want to know about that stuff?
Man, you should probably check out Patreon.
It'd be a really good idea for you.
Or one last thing before we get out of here.
The fucking February 22nd in Riyadh better be a people rematch.
It's another crazy stacked card subject to change in case, you know, better be
his fucking leg explodes again.
Who knows?
But let's just really quickly from the bottom based on the box reckless anyway.
G. Lee Jung, Big Bang vs Ajit Kabir for the WBC interim heavyweight title.
Very cool.
Shakur Stevenson vs Floyd Schofield for the WBC lightweight.
Yeah.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I think this is going to be a boring ass fight.
This is fine. This is like the time to go refill your drinks.
Joshua Boazzi vs Callum Smith.
Oh, that's why he was.
He had like a little bit of a snoozer for this WBC interim light heavyweight on
the line here for I think Boazzi already holds that one.
Yeah, I want Callum Smith to win this one, but I don't I don't think he will.
I don't think he'll get steamrolled, but I do think Boazzi will win.
Yeah, I've been saying it his entire career.
The old Mr. Burns thing.
Are they saying boo?
No, they're saying boo earns.
Yeah, they're saying booz.
Virgil Ortiz vs Israel Madrimov interim WBC Super Welter.
Very cool. Very, very good fight.
They cooked.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Moving up Carlos Adamas vs Hamza Shiraz WBC title on the line.
Middleweights.
Adamas is the champ.
Hamza Shiraz has been the number one contender for quite some time.
So about time they settled that.
I'm excited.
Yeah, I'm not sure how Adamas is going to fare with this one.
Hamza is a fucking unit for middleweight.
Yeah, Hamza should win.
I was honestly a little bit pissed at Hamza with the whole like negotiations with
Johnny Beck falling through, but this is like this is still good.
Honestly, it might even be better.
Better for Hamza.
If I were to.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
If I were Hamza and I was looking at Adamas or Johnny Beck, I'd pick Adamas too.
Yeah, this is just make the Johnny Beck fight.
Better.
That much bigger.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, co-main Daniel Dubois defends his IBF title versus Joseph Parker.
Man, that guy continues to get the shots.
Yeah, a lot of people have been talking shit about Parker getting this fight, but.
It's fine.
I think he's.
Yeah, I think he's.
He's not undeserving.
Yeah, he's worked his way back up to the top.
Right.
I mean, he beat Wilder.
He beat Jang.
Yeah, I mean, Jang is like one win away from, you know, deserving a title shot.
Yes.
WBC interim.
Parker has decent wins.
This is not undeserved.
But I favor Dubois, but I'm not going to be like super shocked if Parker wins either.
But Dubois should win.
Same way with.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
Wouldn't surprise me if Parker was able to turn in a vintage performance.
Yeah.
Arthur Petrovich, the undisputed question mark light heavyweight champion versus Demetri Bevil.
Very disputed.
Right.
The disputed heavyweight champion versus Demetri Bevil.
Bevil won that first fight.
I don't care what anybody says.
Same.
Yeah, I don't.
I'm going to quote Mickey from Rocky, Rocky 2 right at the beginning.
I don't care what those judges said.
This is the man that won the fight.
Yeah, I was shocked when they announced that one.
The whole bar was shocked when they announced that one.
That's always fun when the entire world goes, what the fuck?
And yeah, Lone Voice and Riyadh.
Arthur Petrovich saying, yeah, I did it.
He was shocked.
He didn't think he did it either.
Yeah.
I think the idea of black magic is what that was.
Yeah, I was watching in the bar in Tokyo with, they're generally old men and a lot of them
don't understand English.
So they have to, they can't understand the guy announcing so they wait to see whose hand
get raised.
But I reacted first because of course I can understand what they're saying and they all
looked at me and did the like, huh?
Nani?
Yeah.
I was shocked.
Especially after hearing the scorecards too.
I thought the whole pretty much had it made.
Yeah.
But we'll see.
I don't know.
This second one better because it's gonna be older.
I mean, we'll see if he even makes it to fight night.
I'm sure an injury might even delay the fight.
But regardless, this card is very good.
Yeah.
If you took out the undisputed fight, it's still a really good card.
Yeah.
I said it before in the chat, like you could take out two of these fights.
It's still like part one of the best cards in recent history.
Yep.
Absolutely.
Apparently, Turkey had two other fights he wanted to put on this card and the promoter
said no.
Put them on the Firi Usik card.
But I guess, I guess the Firi Usik like purses were already outrageous.
So they didn't want to do that.
Yeah.
That's one of those fights that you don't have to really have an undercard.
Yeah.
But it's a great card, though.
Great card.
Yeah.
That's all we got.
That's a lot of stuff.
It is.
It's a lot of shit coming up this week.
A lot of shit coming down the pipe as well.
Yeah.
As the year winds down.
Yeah.
No kidding.
Okay.
Maybe eating them.
Let me make some noise.
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What do we want to call this?
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Yeah, so parting words.
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Man, I feel personally attacked here.
I'm going to say thank you to Al Hayman for his help that he's given.
Oh, right.
I want to say that just because I feel like I really do think he's like one of the only promoters that would have done that.
Yeah, I'm out of the loop.
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's just come out that Al Hayman has been paying Prichard Colon's all of his rehab, all of his medical bills, helping the family with living expenses, everything.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Good for him.
Not a fucking peep about it until recently.
There's no YouTube video, nothing.
No IFL interview like climbing up on his cross saying, oh, whoa, whoa, is me taking care of my fucking people.
Eddie would have sent that to the T-shirt and that would have been it.
Yeah.
Right.
I don't know.
I imagine I do imagine that Bob Arum would a little bit, but not to the extent that we're hearing Hayman has.
I think he would do a little bit, though.
All right. So thank you, Al Hayman.
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