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This is the B-Sides Boxing Podcast.
Have you ever said, do you say Merry Christmas?
Because that's what I hear everybody say.
I've been trying to get myself in the habit of saying Happy Christmas.
Because fuck you.
That's really the only reason I have.
Is to piss everyone off?
Yep.
That's the only reason I have.
I said Happy Holidays to someone here?
Confuse the fuck out of them.
They have no idea what that saying means.
There's more than one?
What the fuck does that mean?
Well, they thought I meant have a nice Sunday.
Then I'm gonna just go with Happy, or Merry Christmas.
Yeah.
Let's keep it casual.
The classic.
Yeah.
Man.
Christmas is not a thing here.
My Christmas day, the big event is my boss buys us lunch.
And there is a birthday cake for Jesus.
Really?
Yeah.
It says Merry Christmas, but it's a birthday cake.
And I asked why.
And they're like, well, it's Jesus's birthday today.
Don't you guys all eat birthday cake for Jesus?
I don't think I've ever had anything except fruit cake at Christmas.
Fruit cake.
But it's decorated like a birthday cake.
No.
Not once have I ever had a birthday cake,
even with extended relatives who were pretty religious.
And their little family circle was really religious,
and they didn't have one.
Who the fuck has a birthday cake?
Japan.
It's KFC and birthday cake for Jesus.
I've never seen that before.
Well, sometimes their interpretations are very funny.
I really it.
There's that one scene in Full Metal Jacket
where the drill instructor sings Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus.
That's a joke.
Yeah.
Well, we got it is Christmas Day.
Happy, happy Christmas, you fucks from the Boxing B-Sides,
joined by Shannada Isaac.
Glad you could be with me on such a monumentous birthday day.
Well, as is B-Sides tradition in the spirit of the holidays,
we're going to give a gift to our our compatriots.
We're at the ultimate fucking casuals on December 14th.
Colby Covington versus Joaquin Buckley.
Isaac, very good that you're here.
Thoughts?
Is Colby Covington done?
At the elite level, yes.
And I feel like we might see him fight like one more time,
but no more title shots 100 percent, no more title shots.
And then I don't know, man, the fan base is really not having it
anymore with Colby Covington.
They were chanting Colby sucks.
Yeah, I heard that.
For like an entire round.
I think I think he's done.
He might get I don't think he'll like retire yet or, you know,
you're not going to be cut from the roster, but maybe like one more fight
and that'll be it.
You don't think he'll Anthony Smith it and go on just way too long?
I know I don't see him.
I don't I don't see him doing that.
I mean, losing to Buckley is not bad.
Buckley is like like on a four fight winning streak, maybe even more.
I think actually maybe like six.
He's on a hot streak for sure.
Yeah. So like it's it's not like, oh, he lost to Buckley.
You know, he's a terrible fighter.
It's not like that. But his age, I mean,
he sort of got ran over as well.
I would sort of say the steamroll.
His face was really, really bloody man.
Like eating a lot.
But yeah, I don't know.
I'd say maybe one more fight.
He's got him. I don't know against who, but maybe they could do like that.
He's got beef with a wonder boy.
I can see them trying to do that.
No, like like a loser leaves town or something like that.
That's somewhat of a storyline there.
But yeah, he's done. He's good.
Battle of the hamper men.
Yeah.
I would be crushed if Colby be Wonder Boys.
Well, that actually hurt.
Yeah, I don't know enough about
Stephen Thompson to say, but seeing Colby Covington lose again
would definitely land for that.
100 percent.
Oh, well, given that today that you're hearing this, the 21st,
we know what happened then, but we're not talking about that today.
We're talking about that next time.
So in our recap portion, Saturday, December 14th was a busy day.
Some that we can just glide through, for example, boxer fucking Natasha Jonas
defeats Ivana Havasin for the IBF and WBC titles to unify them.
So congrats to Natasha.
Golden Boy card.
I only pick I cherry pick this one because there's like 15
fucking fights on this and the three that I have listed.
I'm going from the top down.
This is the order of how much I care.
And the drop off from number one to the next is very steep.
So first up, Charles Conwell, KO seven over her, though, Vergara.
It was a fucking Charles Conwell was on the come up.
This guy's legit.
I hope he leaves Golden Boy so you can get some serious fights.
Yeah, we all know Golden Boy is where we're just going to die.
Yeah, we get locked up for hopes and dreams go to fucking die.
So Charles Conwell, I know you're listening, buddy, friend of the show.
When you want to come on and chat, talk about how you're going to leave Golden
Boy, let me know moving down.
This is where the drop off of how much I give a shit is very apparent.
Alexis Rocha majority draw over Raul Curiel.
I just really struggled to care about Alexis Rocha.
You got to be pretty down bad if this is your main event.
Actually, I watched this one.
The fight itself was fine, I guess.
Like they threw a lot of punches.
That's like a for or e for effort.
Thank you.
They hit each other at least.
Yeah, but I mean, that's better than a boring fight that has no punches.
True.
Yeah, I mean, we've seen way worse.
We survived, uh, they go versus Casamiro.
So we've seen way, way worse.
And we, you know, the current Chakur pandemic as well that we've been going through.
So, uh, yeah, I mean, I guess by those standards in comparison, but yeah.
The pillow fist pandemic.
Devin Haney.
It's going to get worse.
Stevenson.
It's going to get worse.
Chakur injured his hands, bro.
Chakur is going to be, he's going to be healing.
He's going to be fighting in winning gloves.
Yeah.
They need to, they're going to need to get him.
Give him some type of handicap, like give Chakur like some, some lighter gloves.
Four ounce gloves.
Give him some MMA gloves out there.
They can get a little bit harder.
Yeah.
Get, get, help him out a little bit.
Eddie needs to work on that.
Whoever he's with.
I don't know if Chakur is.
I think he's a free agent.
Oh, I was, I don't even think he knows where he's at the moment.
He just bounced around and he's getting Eddie one day, top ranked the next.
How would you rate.
Rocha Kuriel verse Hitchenson Paro.
I'd rather watch Rocha.
I think.
Goodness gracious.
I too dislike Richardson Hitchens that much.
Clinchins.
Yeah.
And last thing that I wanted to point out on this one, Marlon Esparza,
UD over Areli Musino.
I only point this out because I think Marlon Esparza is pretty cute.
So that's really it.
No other reason to point out.
It, uh, no other reason.
Uh, moving on Marv nation.
There were several fights on this card.
Not very many of them were good.
So the first one to point out, this was the main event.
It was, uh, Fernando Vargas, Jr.
First, Matthew Terry gets stopped at the end of the fourth, beginning of the fifth,
you know, that little, uh, intermission there.
The doctor stopped it on a cut.
And since four rounds had been completed, it went to decision and it was unanimous.
And more importantly for me, this was the main event for me, Mark Maxile
KO two over Brian Mercado.
My only note for this one was levels because there's fucking levels to this game.
And, uh, you're not on Maxiles.
Sorry, Brian.
I really like Megs I.
Oh, I do too.
Yeah.
I've been, I've been on the hype train for him for a while.
I just, he doesn't fight that often.
He's not that affected.
He needs more fights.
No, he does.
It's just that they're against like this Thunder Studios bullshit where he's
fighting like nobodies when he should be in title contention.
His only losses are to Figueroa and Ray Vargas, both of which he was extremely
competitive.
So maybe I just don't see very many of his fights because it's so low level and not fun.
Yeah.
I try to, whenever you see random shit on our outline, like I tried, there are
certain, like if I see a name that is worth mentioning, like Mark Maxile, it's
definitely worth looking into, but I hope he's, I don't know if he's moving up to
lightweight permanently or if he just didn't want to make the, the one 30 cut
for this fight in particular, but one 35 is pretty heavy, pretty stacked.
And I felt like he should, he should have been headlining this.
I mean, I feel like Marvination.
Yeah, they did.
He needs to have him headlining.
He's going to be with them.
I was expecting that it was like when the, as I was kind of panning through, looking
for the particular fights I wanted to see, and I saw Vargas at the end and, or
towards the end.
And then I kind of kept scooching forward.
Like, where's Mark?
I want to see Mark fight.
I don't give a fuck about all of these people.
And he was the first one opening fight.
That's, um, yeah.
What the fuck?
If I had a ticket to this, I would have, like Mark comes out first, fights over.
I'm leaving.
I don't give a fuck about it.
Other people were, yeah, no shit.
I don't want to see this.
Yeah.
But there you go.
Uh, Maxile gets a quick stoppage and still looks good.
Um, but hopefully we, he can still do that against better competition.
All right.
In Monte Carlo, match room, uh, starting from the bottom up, Terra Moana, Terra
Moana, this is his name, uh, stops of a lot of mere cut, sook in the first.
And then he does a Haka afterwards.
It was so cool.
If you haven't seen this, go watch it.
Um, as more and more, I'm finding the Dazon subscription to be more and more
worth its costs as more groups, more promotions and stuff sign onto it as their network.
Yeah.
I've been really enjoying some of the, I don't want to say low level, but less
prestigious Dazon cards, like there's, they're putting together decent mid cards.
If that makes sense.
I think, uh, it's like the old, uh, adage of throwing spaghetti at the wall and
seeing what sticks like sifting through the duds to find the good one.
That's what we do for you.
And with the zone, you can watch it later.
Yeah, that's what, that's why, that's why we're here is to, you don't have to
look through all of this bullshit because we do it for you.
All right.
Moving up Maxie Hughes beats Gary Collie.
The fucking skid continues for Gary losing to two.
Uh, what's the M word for small people?
Uh, Maxie Hughes, very short compared to Gary Collie just kicks his ass all 10
rounds.
Sorry, Gary.
Have you tried being not Irish?
Sorry.
Leonardo Mosquera.
You get to keep your name pal.
Welcome to the winners club.
Uh, split decision over Shavon Clark.
That decision is dog shit.
Shavon Clark got his ass kicked the whole time.
And it was, so there's a problem though with Mr. Mosquera here.
So he's from, born in the Dominican Republic, but he's lived and continues
to fight out of France.
So I'm not going to hold that against you because I'm just going to say you're
Dominican, uh, hermano.
We're in there.
The winning Leo's club, moving on to the next one.
We're in there, the winning Leo's club, moving up Beatrice Fajera, beauty over
Licia Boudersa, IBF lightweight title.
Uh, yeah, enjoy.
And the headline, MJ, more John Akhmedov, TKO three over, uh, Ricardo Espinosa,
the interim WBA 122 belt on the line.
My observations, MJ looked good.
He had this, he was spamming this one technique where he was throwing out a
left straight and kind of leaving it there for, uh, Espinosa to commit to
something and then he would catch him with a hook as he's coming in and he
just kept doing it.
And while it was effective, obviously you got the stoppage, but it's like, bro,
you can't keep doing the same shit.
Somebody is going to pick up on the pattern and that somebody holds the
actual title that you're holding now.
So MJ calling it away and duck, right.
And, uh, in a way it's like hilarious.
Like you lost to Marlon fucking topless.
So shut up.
Yeah.
You don't see in a way clap backs very often, but I thought that one was quite
effective.
Something about saying Japanese is just, it makes it like even more hilarious.
The fact that you have to hit translate.
Translate. Yeah.
Well, cause you don't expect it, or at least for me, I was like, Oh, what does
it away have to say?
It's like, you lost it to palace.
Why would I run from you?
And you're like, Oh, excellent.
I would have expected him to say like what I would have thought.
Uh, just at first I get a notice notification tweet from Noelle Inouye.
Hit.
I would have expected it to say like, Oh, that was, he looked pretty good.
That'll be a great fight.
We'll have a good, good challenge, uh, in front of us or something like that.
You know, something world sportsman like, I mean, it didn't seem super rude,
but it was definitely like, why would I fight garbage like you?
Why would I be running from the guy who lost to who I knocked out?
That does not make sense to me.
I love to see it.
Love to see.
Right.
So based on this, I still say MJ is a good fight for in a way at 122.
It's not for, I think that's like a kind of a, just to really sweep
everyone that's available.
Yeah.
It is kind of the last guy he hasn't beaten.
I could, I would understand if he doesn't, it makes sense.
Like, I want to see this dude at 126, man.
I, yeah, that's, I want to see him at 126.
I want to see some brisk.
I know not, not all Inoue fans have the sentiment.
No, I don't want my boy to lose.
I want Nakatani to come up.
I think the Japanese super fight would be fucking awesome.
And I think if Inoue goes to 126, it'll never happen.
That would be, I would be down for that.
I would be down for that.
Like that, like you said, the Japanese like Super Bowl, it
would be an amazing fight.
I don't know, man, something about, I mean, I think he could do
well at 126.
I'm like, just, I mean, just thinking about ball versus Inoue.
It would be fireworks, man.
It would, it would be fireworks.
Inoue taller than somebody.
That would be so funny.
Yeah.
I think he'd get, like, I'm not saying like, when I say it, I
don't mean like, oh, Inoue's going to lose if he moves up.
Like, I think he could generally like win and like win titles at 126 too.
So he has the skill for sure.
Yeah.
I just, I like watching him be dominant and I think he'll be normal at 126.
He won't be a superhero.
He won't be a monster anymore.
He'll just be good.
It's, it's like the same reason I don't like Halo ODST.
You're, you're now a stoppable killing machine.
Now I'm going to be an unstoppable.
Yeah.
Bullets hurt me though.
I don't want to worry about him.
I just want to watch him go.
Yeah.
It is risky.
Like, I mean, that's one of the big things about like, you know, boxing in general.
It's sort of fun when you're like, when your guys are winning or the guys or girls are
winning, I don't know something about that risky fight where you don't quite know.
And they actually do this, you know, am I going to see my, my guy get laid out?
With other fighters, I like that.
And just not with Inoue.
He's special to me.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
Like, I like getting those nerves up that, that heart racing a little bit, you know,
with Fury Usek, obviously.
And then I mean, I felt the same, like whenever Canelo fought Vovol, whenever he was doing
his campaign at 168 for all the belts.
And there's that slight, you know, set the back of your mind or like, you know, the night
before you dream, is my guy going to get knocked out?
Is he going to lose?
And it's, I don't know.
It's just, it's part of the fandom.
I don't know.
It's really nice.
Yeah.
I can get behind that with everyone else.
Looking at 126, if he wanted to just like snag a title, Angelo Leo is the, you know,
obvious pick because he's a, he was originally a 122 guy.
So moving up to 126 to fight another guy who moved up as well.
Not a bad pick.
Nick Ball for size.
Yeah.
I also think he could just outclass Nick Ball.
I don't think Nick Ball is going to be able to keep up with Inouye footwork wise.
No, he'll be just chasing after him.
Yeah.
I think, I think he'd actually like end up cracking Ball.
Ball's got power coming Inouye's way as well, but I think he'd be, he'd be
able to catch Ball like pretty badly.
Espinosa is big though for the division, no?
Oh yeah.
He's super tall.
Isn't he like moving up to 130 or something like that?
Oh that actually is going to be interesting because there might be another vacancy at 126.
Six foot one at 126 pounds.
Goodness.
Six foot one, that's almost, well, it's not a foot difference, but like seven, eight
inches difference.
It's a sizable difference.
In a way we'd have to fucking jump to hit him in the face.
Ball versus Espinosa would be hilarious to see in the ring.
Cartoon ass fight.
Yeah, it is.
To bring it back to the Monte Carlo card to wrap it up, which round does MJ knockout
Inouye and why is it four or five?
I imagine you're turning red at the moment.
So moving on, moving on.
I just, MJ is a good fight still, but yeah, there's still plenty of other options.
The two super fights, Junta Nakatani for sure.
That one is like a must and Tenshin Asakawa.
Yeah, I think Inouye makes Tenshin look like a child, but.
I mean, he fucking is.
Doesn't matter how old he is.
He's not.
Yeah, he acts like he's about 17.
Right.
Now moving on, Zanfur promotions in Tijuana.
I'm going to cherry pick on my way up from the bottom.
Sebastian Reyes or Sergio Sosa.
Sebastian wins in the seventh by stoppage.
Alan Picasso, KO3 over Isak Saki.
It's a guy, just a very, very late replacement.
I think like two, two or three days, I know it is maximum.
Stops him in the third.
Yeah, sorry, bud.
So Picasso is very much of the same ilk as Sam Goodman in that they're both going to
just completely outclass in a way.
12 to nothing sort of performance.
He is the one they've been talking about having in a way fight in Vegas.
Right.
Yeah, Picasso.
Yep.
It's he's going to get fucking torn up bad.
Yeah, that's some bad.
Like whoever the matchmakers are for that should feel shameful.
Right.
Yeah.
Sending someone to slaughter is what it is.
That is exactly what it is.
They are sending this kid to fucking slaughter.
This guy's going to die.
His liver will never be the same.
Yep.
Sorry, Alan.
Your name is fun.
And this fight might have been a masterpiece, but it is not.
Don't please don't take this to think that you rate being in the same ring as in a way.
Geez.
What are we doing?
What are we doing to these kids?
Sam Goodman included.
But hey, what are we doing?
What's that payday, man?
I guess.
Feeding.
That's why you describe it.
Feeding.
You're eating a lot.
Kudratillo Kudratillo, because he's from Uzbekistan.
Abdukakarov.
UD loss to who?
Question mark.
Yes, Jorge Perez.
Abdukakarov is done.
Pack it up, boys.
Go home, because that was garbage.
Absolute garbage.
I feel like a principal skinner with a pathetic head shake.
I felt secondhand embarrassment watching that happen.
I'm not.
I missed this one.
I was on the train.
Uzbekistan.
The Punisher.
Whatever.
I don't know what else to say about it.
This is it for him.
He's he lost.
That's right.
He lost the overtime, the semifinal.
Fucking loser.
That's so mean.
I don't know.
It's just like the way that he was being such like a fucking pansy in the ring about everything,
complaining about everything, throwing like cheap shots like behind the head and other
just like why your little asshole.
Just stop fighting, please.
Not all Uzbeks can join the winning train.
They're having a little bit of a surgency at the moment, but not all of them are aboard
the winning train.
I would also like to put a caveat there.
Hashtag not all Uzbeks.
Not all Uzbeks.
Yeah, not all Uzbeks.
It's true.
Like Madrimov, solid Akhmedov.
He's good.
There's a ton of there's a ton of Uzbeks.
They won like a ton of gold medals, right?
Fuck yeah.
They've been coming out of the like I swear they swept a lot of the upper like upper weight
divisions.
I mean, I don't know, man.
That's that's a country we're going to be watching in the next decade.
I mean, a lot of a lot of their fighters come to the pros since about I think the 2016 Olympics
is when they had their most they had a lot of success there and they've been coming into
the pro ranks since then and they've been tearing it up like fast.
Yeah, definitely a country to watch.
And last, I don't know what the song is to play.
What's a good what's what's a really sad one?
Do you know that that meme voice thing and it's like, that's my boy.
Oh, my boy.
That's what.
Yeah, we're going to whip out the funeral.
I have to whip out like the funeral trumpets for this one.
Like, yeah, we have to whip it out because, man, this was this was wow.
I'm not gonna lie.
Right.
So, you know, Bruno Brunello, the nickname, Sir Ross stops Jaime Mugia in the sixth.
It would look like I legit did not believe this.
Like, I was on my way to Osaka and the guys tagged me on Discord and they're like, did
you see Mungia got knocked out?
And I was like, you're fucking with me.
There's no way this is true.
It took a lot of people to convince me it actually happened.
I could not believe Mungia got iced.
Ridiculous.
Yeah.
Bruno comes into this, he was 25 and 0 with four knockouts, like four.
Yes, four knockouts.
Had only fought in France, right?
He had never fought outside of France.
He was only four knockouts against Frenchmen.
Uh huh.
Comes into this.
I remember, Isaac, you were here for the preview and we're like, we were having a good laugh.
Like, welcome to TJ, bitch.
But absolutely not the case.
Oh my goodness.
Stops in the sixth.
He gets, he was, looked like to me he was doing, he was winning pretty handily.
Jaime Mugia was like, he was in control of the situation until he gets, I don't know if he got overconfident or he got lazy or he was tired or what.
But he's let his, he's letting his hands drop and Bruno backs up into the ropes as he had been doing most of the rounds and Mugia throws a shot and he counters over the top of it.
And that was it.
He was like out, laid out, tries to get up and falls into the ropes, right?
If he had, if the ropes weren't there, he would have fallen over again.
And so he gets waved off.
In the, in the immediate aftermath, he's sitting on the stool and they're, they have the camera on his face with like kick a guy while he's down, but he's, they're like, they're talking to him and he's responsive and everything so that's good.
And he was just saying like, yeah, no, he just, he hit me with a really good shot.
Like, no, I'm okay.
He just, he, he hit me with a fucking hard punch.
Two words have never been spoken, mate.
Yeah, that boy got caught clean as hell.
That, that, that gift of him eating the straight, right?
Has been circulating like all over the internet.
It is perfect.
The way he got caught was outrageous. His head completely spun around.
I mean, Mugia has a chin and all that, but like this is, it's, it's, it's, it's a reminder in boxing that you can, if you get caught in a certain way, you know, doesn't matter if you're known for your chin.
If you try to roll, if you, if you try to play games, you're going to get laid out.
You're going to get laid out bad.
And it happened Mugia. And like you even saw it like, yes, he was dominating the fight and he had even knocked down Bruno.
But he was like in the second, it was second round. I want to say, but it was early on.
Round two.
He was dominating, but he, I said this in the chat.
Mugia started bullshitting too much.
Yep.
Started bullshitting way too much.
And like, I mean, he just got caught and that's just one of those shots you can't eat.
And he had been toying with it in the rounds prior to it.
You know, he had gotten caught, I think, like on the temple one or two rounds before the actual knockout.
And, you know, he escaped that time unscathed, but in the six, he rolled the dice and it did not go well for him.
He got laid out bad.
Yeah. I mean, he, he got stopped. This is an embarrassing loss.
Very embarrassing. This is an embarrassing, very embarrassing loss.
This is like one of those cataclysmic for your career, I want to say.
Because he just got, I mean, not just, but like very recently fought Canelo.
And then you're going to lose to Bruno or Siras, whatever this French dude is called, number 51.
And it leads to a Frenchman in your hometown.
Come on, bro. In front of Julio Cesar Chavez Senior?
Come on, man.
This is an L. And I was saying this is an L, not just for him, but for Mexico, man.
This is outrageous. Like, I don't know when the last time this has happened, but you don't see this.
A Frenchman doesn't beat a Mexican woman. You don't see this.
This is crazy. I was saddened. I mean, I can't justify this. I mean, there's no good explanation.
He just lost. He just lost and lost badly.
I mean, I don't know. You take it from here, though. I was saddened by this. It was a lot to take in.
The bullshitting part is exactly right, because he had been working.
He had been like bull rushing Bruno.
At the opening of everyone, he would drive him into the ropes and he'd unload to the body and open up shots to the head and everything.
But he kept doing it. He kept doing the same thing.
And Bruno, like, I wish that they had a fucking French translator, because I would love to hear what the coroner was telling him.
Because clearly they made the adjustments.
Eric Morales and Freddie Roach, were they bickering over what to do?
Because there was a lot of questions immediately.
Like, who the fuck was coaching him and why were they not directing him properly?
Because this is... how do you fucking explain this?
You got knocked the fuck out by a like a neighborhood good nobody. Jesus.
Yeah, with no knockouts. That's the other thing.
The guy has apparently no power and you let him knock you out in your hometown.
Yeah, this was this was like set up for Munguia to win.
Like everything aligned with I'm going to say it was supposed to be can crushing.
It was a soft touch. Yeah, like, you know, it's his hometown.
Munguia, you know, just signed the top rank.
They were going to, you know, oh, his first showing.
You know, he's going to do well.
They lined him up with someone or someone ranked number 51.
No knockouts. French. I mean, come on.
Like, how much more can they stack it in your favor?
There's historical storyline too.
The French really, really... sorry.
Exactly. The French really, really makes it worse.
Yes, yes. It does.
Yes, I can't really explain. I mean, like Leo just said,
historically, there's precedent between Mexico and France.
So it makes it way worse. I'm not going to lie.
Munguia, he has to rematch this dude. I don't need beat him. Knock him out.
I sort of want that in France. Yeah, go to Marseille.
Fight in Marseille. Yeah.
I feel like you have to find some type of redemption here.
Like that is some type of reputation.
Yeah, like this can't slide. You can't let this slide.
Like the first three rounds of some nobody fight.
And then he rematched him and beat the shit out of him.
Yeah. I make this in Munguia.
I mean, first of all, they have to do this rematch.
You can't just ignore this. But he already called up the rematch clause.
Like that's done. Good. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm glad he did it, you know, same week almost.
But he not only has to beat this dude, it has to be a demolition.
The demolition. Yeah. Or he's cooked.
Like if he goes to like a decision against Bruno,
might as well hang up the gloves because, you know, it's raps for you.
He needs an in a way donair too. Yeah.
Yes. A steamroll. It has to be a steamroll.
Silence the critics. Like that was a fucking fluke.
He caught me. He caught me. Yeah. But he got fucking lucky.
That was like, I'm not going to say lucky, but he caught lightning in a bottle.
And that shit ain't going to happen again.
Or that it did not happen again. And I corrected it the second time.
I hope you all were right. That's what it down.
Yeah. That's what people have to leave the rematch within their mind.
They're like, oh, I guess he just got caught then. That's what it really was.
Just kind of just got, you know, got tagged. It'll be too careless. Yeah.
It happens. Hometown jitters, really big stage.
Like you're fucking home your childhood favorites, right?
Ringside watching you. I would probably shit my pants as well. Yeah.
I mean, you don't get paid millions of dollars. I don't.
To do something. I don't.
The reaction is some of the fans like in this, in the crowd in Tijuana.
It was hilarious because like in round six, you saw like right before the knockout,
some people were on their phones, not even looking at the fight.
They're like, you know, Mingi, Mingi has, you know, got this in the bag.
He's going to win. Not even paying attention.
And when Mingi falls, those people put their hands on their head like they can't believe what they just saw.
Oh, man. I even, what made this hilarious for me as well
is that I was watching the UFC simultaneously and I had the Mingi feed muted.
So I was hearing like the UFC audio, but I was also watching the Mingi fight.
I didn't hear anything, but I just looked over and saw Mingi like on the ground, like struggling to get up.
I'm like, what just happened? Yeah. And then like, and then they showed the replay and he just got cooked.
He got cooked. I mean, our chat was exploding, man, whenever, whenever that happened.
No one could be, we were watching it and no one could believe what we were seeing.
I really thought the guys were just fucking with me because they knew I couldn't watch that I was on a train somewhere.
Man, I was hands on the head in disbelief.
The what's the like the meme gif of like the basketball coach who's just staring in disbelief, just blinking.
Like what the fuck just happened? Sweat pouring down his face.
Yeah, that's that's kind of without the sweat, though, like that's that was me hands on the head.
Like what the what? You're kidding me. Yeah, this is this isn't happening.
This is I'm I'm asleep. This is not happening.
Massive, though, massive.
One thing I do want to give Bruno his flowers because that was a solid, solid win.
Assuming the rematch is next, depending on how that goes, like if Bruno gets stopped in the rematch, do they do it a third time or do they move on from it?
I don't think Bruno will get the luxury of a trilogy if he loses a rematch.
He won't get a rematch clause. No, maybe.
Maybe I'm underestimating, but I don't think monkey is going to sign a fight with a rematch clause.
It's like one of those like Cambos is esc wins, though, like he has sort of made his career off this win now.
Oh, 100 percent. Nobody knew who the hell this man was.
And he is going to get fight after this.
And it's purely because because of the fact he has a win over Munguia and knockout win.
Yeah, he can catch this and set him up.
I would also I want to point out one other thing that I forgot to mention before is Bruno campaigns at middleweight, not super middleweight.
They pulled them up even. I didn't know that.
They pulled up a pillow hand and got knocked out for it.
I guess that is something.
That's wild, man.
I love when cherry picks go wrong, but I like Munguia, so I'm very torn about this because it's objectively hilarious.
But yeah, I mean, I like Munguia and everything, too.
You know, I've even said in the past, Munguia is going to be like, you know, not quite to the same level as Canelo, like not actually not anywhere near it.
But like he's going to be another guy that Mexicans start backing after this, man.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
I think it's feeling is sort of evident here because like, you know, I feel like Canelo could be 45.
He's not losing to Bruno. He's not losing to Bruno.
It's just sort of this lets us know like a little bit more of Munguia's like relative level.
I mean, he got caught, but it shouldn't have happened.
Well, and you mentioned Canelo.
What does this do to Canelo's legacy?
Because like his wins have not been looking good lately.
They have not. They all have aged poorly.
Yeah, I'm an avid Canelo supporter, but this this ain't looking good, Chief.
This is not good. We need we need some serious wins.
As soon as as soon as Munguia got knocked out within like five, ten minutes, I was like, we need that.
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It's like who's the best fighter on the planet? Who would you want to represent us?
Sure ain't going to be Munguia.
No.
Does Bruno stay at 168?
I think he should go back to 160 and try to use his fame here and get some get some title shots or something out of it.
I mean, if he beats Munguia twice.
Oof.
Oh, hell no. Munguia loses citizenship.
He does this.
Man.
Hell no.
That's it for this one, unless you have anything more.
No, I think we should add Munguia enough.
Yeah.
To try to what I how I've been coping with this is my favorite book of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo.
It's based in Marseille.
So that's how I've been coping.
Bruno is like a I don't know centuries old port city hooligan.
And that's why he's that's why he's tough.
All right. That's yeah.
That's enough Munguia bashing.
Moving on. Sunday, December 15th.
First things before we get to the the card in Osaka.
Quickly, Mike Perrette, this was the platform sports Europa, Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar, where Dillion White fought Ebenezer Tete.
What how fitting Ebenezer on on the Christmas episode.
Ebenezer Scrooge.
It was stopped at the end of six going into seven.
Tete did just didn't want to come out.
He had been like he was he looked pretty poor.
Dillion White was just just good enough to beat him like every round.
Yeah. Dillion White did not look good, though.
He did not.
He looked fat and out of shape.
Yeah, definitely.
It was a funny fight just from like the I mean, the whole the whole thing was just funny.
Yes, it's like one of those events.
It's so bad that it's good type type of thing.
That's coming walking out in a polo.
I mean, Dillion Dillion White like crab walk into the ring.
I mean, I don't know.
The whole thing just had like like an aura to it was just hilarious to watch.
White White almost like or White knocking himself down because he threw a hook too strong.
This fight was just hilarious, man.
I did check out some of Ebenezer's other fights and like, yeah, four in the morning outside.
Yeah, outside the ring is it's not even like what's the usual like six, 18 or 20 by 20.
This was like 10 feet by 10 feet that in a fucking park like a public park.
Yeah, it was it looked the ring looked like it was being held together by hopes and dreams.
That's how fucking destitute the situation was.
Like, I know that, you know, life in different African nations can be really rough.
But yeah, that was I don't think Ghana is that rough considered in Africa and Accra of all places.
Some of some of the people are talking about this prior and we were talking about how we had exchanged clips of some African boxing events.
One in particular, they had like wood floor boxing rings.
People like boxing over hardwood.
Yeah, there's like videos on YouTube that we had found like genuine boxing, like sanctioned boxing events where they were fighting over hardwood.
But like Tetsa, this was this is not like yeah, this was a little bit below.
I want to say can crush or at least intended to be Ebenezer.
Tetsa was not like some elite opponent.
Dillian White was meant to crush him.
And I mean, he did. He did.
But not very convincingly.
Yeah, I mean, I got to say White was hitting Tetsa with some shots.
This dude just his chin is sort of crazy because he got hit clean a good amount of times.
He had like a thick neck absorbing all that impact.
But we all agree that Dillian White is not elite anymore, right?
Like, well, but people talked about him.
That's right. Talking about Dillian White like a Deontay Wilder can't beat Dillian White, then he shouldn't be fighting AJ.
Yeah, like there was a time where he was talked about in those like top five people and just disappeared.
I don't know. Dillian White is one of those ones.
I don't understand why his career tanked so badly.
The AJ and White fight is just iconic though.
How funny it was.
The conversation surrounding White was always hilarious though, because he I mean,
I think one of the biggest things after the AJ fight was him versus Wilder.
I feel like that fight would have gone terribly for White.
Yeah. Oh, 100 percent. Absolutely.
I think he would have gotten laid out and Wilder might have even looked, you know, genuinely good, not just a power puncher type performance.
But yeah, White is really I hate to say this because I'm sure I don't know, you know, how White is in person.
But White has sort of been there historically, at least supported by data, just to get knocked out by elite fighters.
Just in general. I sort of got flamed.
So elite fighters.
I got flamed for saying that was great KO by Pavekkin.
The ring or the little ring piece that he fell on whenever he landed.
I was I got flamed for saying that White would win against Chisora.
He I don't think it would be easy.
I don't think it would be easy for White.
I got flamed for saying this in the chat.
You're told Chisora is terrible, Chisora is washed, but White is too.
I don't know. I feel like at this age and with how White has been recently, I feel like he would struggle against Chisora.
And I say that they fought before.
I say that with Chess. Yeah.
I feel like if they did that now this year, 2025 calendar year.
Yeah, they did. Chisora.
I don't know. Chisora has got more of a gas tank than White.
Chisora might just outwork White.
It's called petrol tank.
Sorry. Sorry.
Oh, man.
The way Chisora was hilarious about like Chisora has more experience being washed than like other fighters.
And that was just such a perfect description. Such a perfect description for Chisora.
That's the rationale.
Yeah, he has more experience being washed.
And it's, I never thought of it, but when someone said that, I was like, oh, this makes perfect sense.
That does make sense.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
That was a lot more time than I had planned for Dillion White.
But there you have it.
So maybe we'll breeze over this one more quickly. Andrew Maloney is back, baby.
KO3 over Jock Crowe.
Ty, dude. Yeah.
KO3. I cannot find any clips of this, not even like highlights.
I didn't even know this happened.
Yeah, it was tough to find the details for this.
But there you have it. Andrew Maloney is back.
Still competing at 115. I expect he's going to try to get himself back into the title picture, given that we're about to talk about it in a moment.
Super Flyway is pretty hot right now for like the lower weights.
So moving on to Osaka at the Sumiyoshi Sports Center.
Shannara, you were there. Take us through this.
Yeah, it's a fucking gymnasium, which is hilarious to me. And I had a slight fuck up.
I thought I was buying stand tickets. I bought floor tickets, but it was great. Got there early.
There was no concession stand. It was like small town hockey rink, buckets of ice with cans of beer in it.
Loved it. On a Sunday.
That was a pretty nice Sunday.
Yeah, that was a good Sunday. I had to wake up at 5 a.m. to catch the first train back to Tokyo and then to Chiba to make it to work.
So my boss didn't know that I went to Osaka.
But yeah, no, it was a good weekend. The fights were exciting, but the Japanese fights are always exciting.
There's not that many people that I think anyone would have heard of.
Yeah, I don't know who any of these people are except for Nishida.
Yeah. So the co-main was a Filipino guy, Kenneth Lover versus I think the guy was...
Tulio De Canarudo.
Yeah, I guess he's Japanese. Not a very Japanese name.
Anyways, Kenneth Lover really impressed me. I had never heard of him.
And he came out and fucking steamrolled this guy. Like, as soon as he started moving in the ring,
you could tell he was too good to be fighting people at this level.
Yeah. Yeah, I think I sent a clip in Discord. I don't know if you saw it, but I really think...
I think people should look up who Kenneth Lover is. He's very new.
Or well, not very new, I guess. He's got 12 fights. But I think people should look this kid up.
I think he might be good.
I'm gonna put him on my prospect list for the year after seeing him once.
So it was a really fast knockout. I think it was like 45 seconds.
Woof.
Yeah. And then the main event was also really good. Worth a watch.
Yeah, if I could find it. You next is impossible to get onto if you're not Japanese.
Yeah. Oh, I was thinking about that, Leo, and we can talk later.
But I think in the first thing, you don't use Katakana. You use Hiragana for foreign names.
And then the second line will be Katakana.
Yeah, that's... Yep, of course. How did I not...
Yeah. No. And I might be wrong. They might just not take foreign names. I don't know.
Anyways, Nishida got the KO by beautiful fucking liver shot.
Just tore his liver out in the seventh round.
All right. It was hard as hell to find highlights for this fight.
You had to go on like Twitter, like random, some random page.
Like phone, up with those phones, uploading. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It was real good. Yeah. So I don't think Muto is a very big promotion.
No, that's the name of the gym.
I don't think Osaka is set up for world title fights at all.
I don't think Nishida was supposed to get this belt, and he had contracts in place with a couple places for at least one more fight.
And that's why this Sunday defense happened.
Osaka was fun, though. I will say there were almost no men in suits.
It was people who actually like boxing and they were quite a bit louder.
Excellent. One of the corners was high, and they quite often make kind of a very specific noise when their fighter lands a punch.
Yeah, I know. I heard it. I've heard it.
You hear it. Yeah, I hear it. Yeah.
Yeah. So this is the first time I've heard Japanese people being assholes in a crowd.
There was one guy that would make a goat noise afterwards every time.
Yeah, I guess they thought it sounded like a sheep or something.
First time I have seen like that kind of disrespectful in Japan.
But overall, crowd was really good. At one point in between fights, some guy stood up and gave like a 30 to 40 second speech, just screamed it in the gymnasium up in the stands.
Not anybody like important.
And the announcers and everyone waited for him to finish before they announced the next ring walk.
So that was something. What?
I have no idea what he was yelling, but the entire crowd went silent, waited for him to finish his speech. It was clearly something he had memorized.
I didn't really recognize any of the words.
There was like a little bit of a golf clap afterwards and then the announcer announced the next walk out.
They had a t-shirt cannon and the ring girls changed clothes twice throughout the night. Big production values.
And clothes. Yeah.
Outfit changes.
Yeah.
They started out in these blue dresses that were very sporty, I think is how I would describe them.
And then they changed into red with like sparkly silver.
There was another one in between, but the red was for the main event.
They really classed up the ring girls for the main event.
So yeah, Osaka was an experience and I'm glad I went.
I did not like being on the floor, though.
I'm sure fights are not very fun.
I think I might have fucked up and bought floor tickets for the Yoko fight as well because I can't read.
Right. So I was just buying.
Yeah, but I'm just buying the third cheapest tickets.
And I think in these small gymnasium fights, that's the floor.
There's only two prices of stand tickets instead of four like there is in the stadiums.
Might have fucked up. Might be on the floor for New Year's Eve.
We'll see.
Let some details for Kenneth Lover versus Tulio De Canarudo.
Ruto. Sorry. Sorry, buddy.
That was for the interim OPBF bantamweight title.
In that organization has its own rankings that are separate from the WBC, the parent org.
So Kenneth Lover is the number one contender to Keita Kurihara.
So who knows when they'll reconcile that.
But yeah, this is the type of belt that you get when you're on your way up.
Yeah, I think the the Oriental Pacific belts are pretty well respected.
Yeah. That's a big milestone in the careers.
It is from what I can tell.
Like the Japanese boxing commission title and then OPBF and Ryusuke Nishida, KO7, IBF bantamweight title.
Well, hopefully we get to.
Yeah, I don't know who they line up for him next.
I would like to see a unification at this weight.
All the titles are Japanese right now.
I feel like they should be able to start unifying some of them.
For Nishida, all the other people are Japanese.
IBF still has Takuma listed for the WBA slot.
X. Assholes.
Nishida versus Tsutsumi would be a fun fight, I think.
How does Nishida fight?
How does he carry himself?
He's very Japanese style.
OK, that makes sense.
More of a boxer, like a Japanese boxer rather than a Japanese brawler.
I don't know how else because the boxers still brawl a lot.
But more outside brawling than inside brawling.
Nakatani?
Not that much boxing. Maybe Takuma.
OK, got it.
Yoshiki Takei?
Yeah, kind of that style.
He does fight southpaw, which is a little unusual in Japan, I think.
And even southpaw, he still has a really good left hook, which I also feel is a bit of a rarity.
Usually you hook with your lead hand.
So it's kind of a unique style, but very Japanese at the same time.
I think he's exciting.
I've only seen a couple fights because I didn't know who the hell he was before he got the belt either.
Yeah, he wasn't supposed to win.
No, he was not supposed to win.
And like you said, it's impossible to find clips of him because he's only ever been in these small promotion fights.
Even searching his name in Japanese and getting my coworkers to help me look, there's very little online about him, which is why I paid money to go to Osaka.
I would say that Nishida was to Emanuel Rodriguez as Bruno Seras was to Jaime Munguia, except there's a title on the line.
Yeah, I mean, Nishida has more knockouts, I think.
Oh, no, he has two.
He has less.
So I am wrong.
He has less knockouts.
Anything more for this Muto card?
No, it was a fun experience.
But yeah, Osaka is not set up for big fights.
I can see why everything happens in Tokyo.
All right.
Last thing on the recaps before we get into the one card for preview on Tuesday, December 17th.
Boxing Insider at the Sony Hall in New York.
Boxing Insider promotions.
You can't, my guy Kurt Scooby.
His name is Scooby.
How and why would you not have him fight on your card?
That is the dumbest shit ever.
Kurt Scooby.
Scooby is his fucking name.
That's all.
That's all I got for that one.
Tuesday, December 31st.
I found this as lifetime promotions.
I don't know if that's what it actually is, but at the Otashi Gym in Tokyo, Fernando Martinez will be rematching Kazuto Ioka.
What? IBF and WBA titles?
It's definitely two titles.
I'm not sure which two.
I'm pretty sure.
I think so.
Yeah.
Right.
Bunch of shit that I don't know leading all the way up.
I don't really know.
Let me have a quick look here.
Yeah, I don't recognize any of the names.
I think Renee Alvarado.
I don't know.
So I got a look at his face.
I do not recognize that face.
He is not a handsome man.
Is he worse than Ray Vargas?
Similar.
Yeah.
His ears are smaller, but his lips are weirdly fish like.
Oh, I've seen this Sato.
I think Sato is a pretty common last name here.
But Tsuyoshi.
Yeah, I saw him at Korokuen Hall in one of the undercards.
I think.
Yeah, I got tickets for this one because I was at the first fight and it was a banger.
And New Year's Eve combat sports in Japan is a very big thing.
So yeah, they make it.
This is like a they do two dates that are really awesome for boxing specifically.
December 26th, Boxing Day.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Get it.
And then December 31st.
Sometimes they have stuff on the 30th as well.
I have seen that.
But I think from the 26th to the 31st is like a combat sports fucking festival.
They do every.
Yeah, there's like wrestling.
One has a big card.
Ryzen has a big card.
Pro wrestling cards to what card was Garcia supposed to fight on?
I think the 26th rising card.
Yeah, yeah.
Not anymore.
Yeah, yeah, that got canceled.
Well, and obviously the in a way fight was supposed to be on Christmas Eve.
But that's on Christmas Eve.
That's the gift that Goodman would be unwrapping is piecing apart.
Oh, yeah. In a way in the ring to become undisputed champion.
And we got lucky.
But save.
Yeah, but this this lifetime card, I don't really recognize anyone except Eoka.
But I am a big Eoka fan and the first fight was fireworks.
So hopefully we get New Year's Eve fireworks this time would be nice.
I am hoping for Eoka as well.
Underdog.
So it's fun.
And plus Martinez from Argentina.
So there's that.
Yeah, that's yeah, that's all we got for until the end of the year.
It's fucking pretty light.
But I mean, everybody's kind of busy and most of the big things got canceled.
That's true.
A lot of good things got canceled.
We could have had Tank versus Roach.
I heard that got canceled and Campbell Hatton was going to step in.
Yeah. Yeah.
I would have been honestly the people's main event.
People's fight of the year.
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Is Daigo Higa at 118?
Uh, I thought he was one below that.
No, he's at 118. He lost to Takei for the WBO title.
That's right. They did my man Higa dirty.
My fellow Ura-Soe bro.
Ura-Soe? Is that? Does that work?
I guess.
Yeah, the little part of the little town of Okinawa that he's from,
that's where I was stationed, the same spot.
So we're basically best friends.
And then there was the guy on the UFC Macau.
His hometown was the city in Korea I was stationed in.
So we are also best friends.
Which city is that, that you were in Korea?
Pohang. Spelled Po-hang.
Ah, yes. I knew that.
Anyways, I miss Norwegians.
Let me tie the bow on here.
Oh, wait, shouldn't we be untying the bow?
Because it's a present.
Yeah, I'm really good at this.
Fucking happy Christmas, you fucks.
Check out all the socials, interactions with the posts really help.
Fucking, even if you just press share and don't actually send it to anyone, still helps.
Yeah, but if you have any comments on the fights,
like you got my number bitch, if you think I'm stupid, then tell me.
Call me and tell me. I want to hear about it.
I want to hear about how dumb I am to you.
Alright, let's fucking boogie. Boxing V-sides.
We'll see you on the other side of the new year with fucking picks.
Best of the year awards.
We'll see you then.
Bye.