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Jermell's coming back?
Yeah, he's back in camp and all that, whatever the fuck.
That means I think we have enough to be getting along with.
Yeah, there's just really nothing happening.
When's the next big fight, the 21st?
I think the 24th, in a way, Sam Goodman.
Oh, Pattaya fights, right?
Yeah, that's this week.
I guess that's this week.
Yes.
All right, let me start the fucking timer,
because I never start it.
We are being professional this year, Leo.
Yeah, that's my fun resolution, is to be professional.
I like that professional is the fun one,
and not the serious one.
I think that's as good a time as any
to get this fucking bitch rolling.
Oh man, do you wanna hear all that fun shit?
Well, you're gonna have to go check out the boxing B-Sides
over on Patreon, because that's...
The Hootenannies and the Hoedowns,
what are those, question mark?
Go find out.
All right, so, boxing B-Sides, we're back, it's 2025,
and we're starting off on a fucking flop.
Holy shit, it's gonna be dry for a little bit.
But we're gonna try our best to make this entertaining.
Shannad, are you ready?
Are you ready to dive into this pool of muck
that is the nothingness on the schedule?
To stretch it out, I have taken notes.
Excellent.
This is my fancy professional podcasting with notes.
As we always do, a little bit of a shout
for ultimate effing casuals.
We did our yearly picks over there,
just like we did here on B-Sides.
There's a lot of interesting ones.
I tried to break out of the mold
and not just pick UFC stuff.
I can't remember them off the top of my head.
Yeah, I listened to it, and there was a lot of people
I'd never heard of.
So everybody can go over there
and tell you how niche your picks are.
Yeah, hipster picks.
But yeah, it was fun.
It was still fun just to chat.
The fucking, the last two, Fight and Fighter,
I saved those just cause MMA is starting off fast.
So they already have cards coming up this week.
Higher profile cards.
I'm jealous.
Yeah, so the Fight and Fighter
are gonna be coming out this week.
So into some news, AJ talking about,
he wants to fight Tyson Fury now.
Obviously we're gonna be talking about Tyson Fury
in a moment in the rematch with Usyk,
but he said he wants to fight Fury and rematch Dubois.
I don't know how I feel about him.
Fury, sure, but I don't know.
I feel like Dubois is riding like a big wave of momentum,
and I think that could carry him through to another win.
Yeah, I still wanna see AJ Fury.
I know a lot of people are like, what's the point now?
Neither one of them have a belt, yada, yada, yada.
I still wanna see it.
But yeah, I don't care about them not having belts.
I think it'll still be, I mean,
we should have saw it years ago,
and neither of them is as good as they were,
but I'm interested to see who is more beaten by their losses.
Yeah, it'll be, like with Fury,
he can say at least that he's only lost to Usyk,
who is the elite heavyweight of the generation,
whereas AJ has the losses to Andy Ruiz and Dubois as well.
But AJ's already come back from losses before.
Fury, we've never seen him really come back.
I mean, this last one was kind of a comeback,
but he had himself convinced
that he hadn't really lost the first one, so.
I would say a good comeback one
that I think it's a legitimate loss that wasn't counted
was the first Wilder fight,
because that dude was fucking dead.
And if that was anyone else, or if it was another referee,
that shit would have been waved off.
That fight. Oh, I agree.
That fight was over, but it turned out that he could get up
after 15 seconds or whatever it was,
but that one, he came back in the second Wilder fight,
and he beat the fuck out of him the second time, so.
I thought that was a good comeback.
Fair, that's a good point.
And as far as AJ calling out Dubois as well,
I don't think AJ should fight Dubois,
but I kinda like that he's calling him out.
He's not avoiding him and being scared.
Like somebody we'll be talking about next time.
Exactly. Yeah.
But fighting Dubois again,
maybe not the best idea. I think that's a bad idea.
Yeah, it's not the best idea.
But you're right, it's good to have,
don't leave his name out of the conversation,
even if you don't actually take the fight.
It makes sense.
Well, there's no reason for Dubois to take the fight.
Why would he fight AJ again?
Right.
AJ, either one, if they were to do it again,
the winner's gonna probably fight Usyk,
and of those two, I would rather see Usyk-Dubois two
than AJ-Usyk three.
I would like to see Usyk just retire.
Yeah.
Go out on the best win possible,
but if he fights anyone, I think it should be Dubois.
Go out, beat the best twice, so there's no questions,
and then go home and live a nice life in Ukraine.
Whatever's left of it, anyway.
Well, or somewhere else.
Usyk has money, he could relocate.
He doesn't strike me as a type
that would want to leave, though.
No.
Like the Klitschko brothers are still out there.
Yeah, well, Usyk's actually from Crimea, isn't he?
I think he is from eastern Ukraine, if not Crimea.
So he probably has to relocate,
even if he stays in Ukraine.
Yeah, that's unfortunate.
I wonder, based on what we know,
how Deontay Wilder's career played out,
he's made his retirement official,
for whatever that counts, but I'm curious.
Isaac brought up kind of a good point
that whatever his faults, many as they are,
Wilder's power is unquestionably one touch, like lightning.
Dude puts you out if he touches you.
Is that a problem for Usyk?
Because he can be hit.
I mean, it's a problem for anyone, isn't it?
Yeah, it's just like Usyk is,
when he fought Gassiev in the Super Series,
Gassiev was coming in with that similar aura
of the one touch power,
even though it wasn't really one touch, but still.
And he played it really smart, so I don't know.
Usyk has, I think, the highest boxing IQ,
bar very few, top three of the generation.
I think Usyk could avoid the big straight right, I think.
I mean, shit happens,
but I would bet on Usyk every time.
Absolutely, but that's enough heavyweight talk
for the moment.
Another one coming up, the David vs David on the first.
We'll get into more depth,
but just a rundown of the card really quick.
From the, we'll run up, I guess, from the bottom up.
Jesus Ramos vs Jason Rosario.
That dude just keeps failing upward.
What the hell?
Yeah.
Is it for him, I guess?
Yeah, congrats.
Thank you.
Thanks Al Heyman for keeping these guys working.
But Isaac Cruz vs Angel Fierro.
I'm not too high on Fierro, but Isaac Cruz.
Cruz needs a win, though.
Yeah, he needs a good comeback.
And Angel's a good comeback, so not terrible.
Brandon Figueroa vs Stephen Fulton,
rematch at, this one's at featherweight.
We were talking about this one in Discord,
I think, yesterday.
And a lot of people,
Bali brought up an interesting point
in that the people who are saying
that Fulton is washed or was washed at any point
are the people that are arguing against Fulton being washed.
If that makes sense.
Like they're setting up their own straw man.
And I think it's, the straw man is people
trying to discredit Fulton as kind of like a way
to disparage Inoue, I think.
I think that's what the intention is.
But that's ridiculous, completely ridiculous.
I'm not, I don't know where the fuck you get that idea.
Yeah, that happens with Inoue opponents, though.
They were great and they're gonna be the ones to do it
until they don't.
And then, well, he was never that good anyways.
Inoue needs to fight some real competition.
Boo, these people.
To say Stephen Fulton was never great
or wasn't that good is fucking ridiculous.
The guy was, he was cleaning up 122 at the time,
leading into the Inoue fight.
He had beaten Brendan Figueroa at Figueroa's game.
Like he was in the pocket the majority of the time.
And he beat Angelo Leo.
That win has aged very well.
So I don't know what more you want.
What else do you want?
Stephen Fulton was at the time considered
like top eight to 10.
Maybe you could go like 12, I guess.
But top eight to 12, pound for a pound.
Unified champion, a lot of solid wins.
Goes on to fight Inoue and gets his shit fucking cooked.
It's not Inoue's fault.
Maybe Fulton should have tried better.
I was riding with Fulton on that one.
I don't deny it.
Yeah, a bunch of people were.
Yeah, that was to me, that was the lesson
that I should have learned a long time ago.
But Fulton, that to me was like, fuck yeah,
Inoue, this is a generational great right now
that we're watching live.
So enjoy it, enjoy it while you can.
It's awesome.
It is.
It's a beautiful.
It's even better in person.
Oh, ho ho ho ho.
It is.
Man, the one that I got to see,
the dude, I think he was like a Dominican or Puerto Rican.
He's a Caribbean.
And he just stunk it out, survival mode the whole time.
And everyone was booing him.
Inoue, like in the little post fight was like,
look, I'm sorry, I was trying.
I was trying my best, but he didn't want to engage.
Nobody was upset, not with him anyway.
And David versus David, Benavides Morel,
hashtag not my monster.
We're gonna have to do roles for this one.
I think, do you think this is like a house divided
between these two?
I really like both of them.
See, I have no strong feelings about David Morel at all.
I feel like everybody is really, really invested
in this fight, except me.
But they're big guys, so I never get that invested.
But I want David Benavides to just knock him out
because everybody's been making fun of how fat he is.
Oh yeah, they have been.
They're being so mean to Benavides.
Like, dude doesn't look very fit.
I will give them that, but still,
you don't need to make fun of his belly.
He was a chubby kid, became really overweight,
and he worked it off.
Like, what the fuck do you expect?
He does not look like an elite level boxer right now.
So that's, what's the stupid saying online?
Peak male fitness?
Oh yeah, peak male form or whatever, yeah, you're right.
Yeah, yeah.
You may not like it, but this is what it looks like.
Exactly, I think that's gonna be Benavides.
If we do do rules in Discord, I'm riding with Benavides.
Yeah, I can't.
Benavides, he's from the hood, my hood specifically.
I can't ride against him.
I can't.
Feniqueiros he likes to call us.
It's like a mix of cowboys and phoenix.
It's great.
Morel though.
To me, he's, I think he's dark horse kind of figure.
A little underrated maybe.
Overrated by the people who know him,
but underrated by the fandom at large, if that makes sense.
I would be the fandom at large.
Man, that's on the first, that's gonna be in Vegas.
I should try to go to that.
I was just gonna say you should get a ticket.
I should try, yeah.
The undisputed light heavyweight rematch on the 22nd.
Bevo versus BetterBeef.
We'll give that one a lot more depth another time,
but I don't know, I'm feeling Bevo wins it again.
And it's probably gonna be a wider decision.
Yeah, Bevo won the first one.
He's not gonna change anything.
Yeah.
Someone's coming up really soon.
Naoya Inoue, the aforementioned, versus Sam Goodman.
Poor young fellow out of Australia being sent to slaughter.
Again.
Rest in peace.
We hardly knew ya.
Diego Pacheco is back on the 25th.
So that's fun.
Yeah, I like Pacheco.
Me too.
I'm excited to see him.
Yeah, I'm excited to see him keep building up.
Steven Nelson, is this who I think it is?
Because if I'm not mistaken.
Yep, this is the guy at the Bud Madrimov card.
This is a guy who came out in like Tupac cosplay.
It was really weird.
He was wearing his trunks,
the design on his trunks made it look like
he was sagging pants.
Oh, I do remember this.
That drove me nuts, I hated it.
It was really bothering me.
Yeah, it looked like his underwear was above his pants.
Yep.
Sagging to show his red underwear,
because Tupac was blood, or blood affiliated.
Whatever, Steven Nelson.
It's not a bad test for Pacheco.
This is like, I think they're progressing him nicely.
Yeah, I always forget how young Pacheco is.
He seems older to me, because he's what?
23. 23.
Yep.
Because I'm always like, why isn't he fighting,
better people, but then I'm like, oh yeah,
because he's a child.
Pretty much.
Movie. Andy Cruz is on that card too.
Is he? Oh, the Pacheco one?
Yeah. Oh, cool.
Good to see Andy's back.
Fucking finally.
Wait, finally, that was August.
It's not that long ago.
I was like, I don't know about finally.
Yeah, so soon, I should say.
But yeah, when you're climbing the ranks, a little older,
spends a little extra time beating up teenagers.
So.
Yeah, but he's a Cuban 29, so who knows what that means.
Yeah, we're probably the same age.
That's it for some news though.
Oh, Jack Cattarall versus Arnold Barbosa on the 15th.
Great fight, very good for Barbosa.
Cattarall also coming off the pro grey win,
so this is what you would want to see
from these B-level guys.
Cattarall is one of those people
I cannot make myself care about.
Like Alexis Rocha?
Yeah.
I just don't give a shit.
I don't either, but if I'm gonna pick,
if I had to pick, I'm going with Barbosa.
Fair enough.
But whatever.
Review time.
There's a grand total of one card to talk about.
That's the Usyk Fury rematch that was on December 21st.
Boy, oh boy.
Just some stuff we're gonna work our way
from the bottom up as usual.
Johnny Fisher split decision question mark over David Allen.
We were talking about this one on the yearly picks
where that was bullshit, number one.
Number two. Yeah.
You robbed my man David Allen, the rhino,
out of being comeback of the year, motherfucker.
They really did.
That was not even close.
No, it wasn't.
I do not understand how, well, I understand how.
It's a robbery, but you can't legitimately score that
for Johnny Fisher.
No, yeah.
There's no way. I don't know how you could do that.
You can't.
Nobody could ever give me a scorecard
that convinced me that Johnny Fisher won that.
I can only hope that he gets mopped up soon,
because go back to eating fucking Chinese takeaways, buddy,
with your dad.
With the controversy, they could have a rematch
and have that headline one of those free Dazon cards
somewhere in England.
People would go watch it.
I'd watch it.
I would too, of course.
Justice for the Rhino.
Yeah.
Andrei Novichki over Edgar Ramirez.
I don't, okay, congrats.
Moses Itoma, TKO1, Dempsey McKean.
I picked, Moses Itoma was my honorable mention for KO,
because very young guy prospect coming up
and fucking sparks this dude.
And it was nasty.
And it was fast.
Yeah.
Yeah, they need to, I know they need to be a little careful
with Itoma, but they need to step him up, I think.
Johnny Fisher.
Oh, that's just.
Johnny Fisher's coming off a big win
over the rugged veteran David Allen.
So he should be able to make easy work of it.
Totally.
Who would you actually put Itoma against though?
Good question.
Let me go to the trusty.
Not yet, but a fight I would like to see in the future.
And I think it goes poorly for my guy,
but I would like to see Richard Torres in the future.
That's actually good.
That's a good matchup.
Just this Hooney, who we'll be talking about in a moment,
is a good one.
Perhaps he could send Kubrat Pulev into retirement.
Pulev needs to just go away.
And I think Itoma's the one to do it.
Maybe.
Dillion White is making his comeback,
and that could be halted early.
Please, Itoma, you've been called to service.
F.A. Adjogba.
Dillion White might be the nose dive of the year.
What's the opposite of a comeback?
Yeah, it's like a fall off, fall from grace.
Nose dive is a good way to put it.
F.A. Adjogba is a good one.
Yeah.
You don't think that's too much of a step up?
No.
Adjogba, whatever air of power or invincibility he had,
it's long since dissipated.
I think Itoma could, it would be a good matchup, I'll say.
Not a wash.
Fabio Wardley.
Fair.
Maybe the guy that Wardley just beat.
Frazier, something or other. Frazier Clark?
Yeah, Frazier Clark.
That's right.
I don't know, Wardley is looking good right now.
That would be a very big step up from Dempsey McKean.
I called him Mick Aussie,
because I can't remember his name.
Joe Joyce.
I think.
That might be too much.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I think that might be too much.
I know Joyce has been looking really bad,
but he's still dangerous.
Frank Sanchez?
Mm-hmm.
Maybe.
I could see that one.
Moving up, Lee McGregor, duty over Isaac Lowe.
Congrats, I don't remember a whole lot about it.
This was a fun fight.
It wasn't the highest class boxing, but it was fun.
Daniel Lapine, duty over Dylan Collin.
This is even less memorable.
I forgot this even happened.
Yeah, I don't remember anything about this.
Is Daniel Lapine the Ukrainian?
Yes.
It was boring.
He was way better than the other guy.
I have to add Boxer to his name so I can see his face.
I got some orthodox rabbi.
Let me, yeah, this is a tall, skinny Ukrainian kid.
Yeah, he didn't try to end the fight at all.
It seemed like he could've.
He just needed to step on the gas and just didn't.
Didn't want to?
And that annoys the fuck out of me.
I hate when people just kind of coast to a decision
and he was boring.
Unfortunately, I remember this fight
because it was annoying.
You know what wasn't annoying?
Sergey Bochachev.
Bochachev is never annoying.
No. I love Bochachev.
Big ups to Ishmael Davis for taking this
on really short notice.
That is a huge fight to take up
with only a few days of lead time.
So credit to him for going as far as he did.
Got stopped in the corner.
He didn't want to continue after round six.
Yeah, I don't blame him.
Not at all. He was just taking a beating.
Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be
when you're losing in that fashion.
Just like fucking pull the plug, dude.
You did your best.
You didn't have a camp.
So you have nothing to be ashamed of here.
And Bochachev.
Bochachev just outworks everyone anyways,
even with full camps.
Like what's next for Bochachev here?
Obviously Madryamov, you would want to get that one,
or you want to get the Virgil Ortiz Madryamov winner, right?
Either way.
Yeah.
I think Bochachev could handle either of those guys.
He already handled Ortiz.
Yeah, that's true.
Bochachev Madryamov would be interesting.
Yeah, that one interests me more.
As exciting, like Ortiz Bochachev
was our fight of the year pick for both of us.
And that was, I'd rather see Madryamov first
before seeing Ortiz again.
Yeah, I think so too.
Either way.
But.
A lot of prospects, a lot of upside here.
I'm really happy to see this guy
getting the recognition he deserves.
Yeah, people are finally paying attention to Bochachev.
Mortazaliev, the dude that beat Tim Tzu.
I don't remember him at all.
He's Russian, so I'd like for Bochachev to beat him up.
Nice.
Oh, yes, this guy.
Yeah, I think Bochachev would outwork him
because he doesn't have a belt, right Sergey?
Nope.
Pooh-pooh.
Tim Tzu, if he can get his mind right, I think.
Tim Tzu needs a couple gimmies, I think.
Yes.
Just, that would be one I'd like to see if we could get,
if Tim Tzu can get back to form, that's a great one.
Yeah, I'm worried about Tim Tzu.
I don't know if he's gonna get back to form.
We go into that a little bit more on the year picks,
villain of the year, Tim Tzu's corner.
Go check that out.
The guy that won the overtime, Andreas Katsarakis.
Yeah, I don't usually watch the overtime ones.
I should, they seem fun.
They're all right.
It's a good tournament format to get people up the ladder
and into the title contention.
I also like the idea of the overtime format.
Yes, the round extra.
That no draws is fun, yeah.
Anything more for Bochachev?
Mm-mm.
To the main event, Oleksandr Usyk, UD, over Tyson Fury.
Three, the only belt that was not on the line here
is the IBF that Dubois has, you know, question mark.
But Usyk, it was like eight to four on all three judges.
Yours was eight to four.
Isaac and Nathan both had eight to four.
Seems like that's.
I think that's just the score.
That's just what it is, man.
Yeah, I was making fun of it
that all the judges had the same score,
but when I watched it back and scored it, it's what I got.
I think when we were talking about AJ's call-outs,
we kind of already touched on a lot of it.
Like Usyk, if you're going to keep fighting,
the only one I want to see is Dubois rematch.
Yeah.
That's really it.
Fury, like do whatever you want pretty much.
Yeah, Fury can just disappear as well.
He could.
I actually, I took a lot of notes on this fight
because it annoyed the fuck out of me.
So number one, Fury looked worried the entire fight to me,
like genuinely not scared, but just nervous.
And he came in with his fucking shorts around his tits.
Did you notice that?
I did.
Yeah, they were like way up like old man style.
Like Fury was doing everything in his power
to cheat without cheating.
Everything's a low blow that's on the body
with your shorts that high.
What the fuck?
I mean, the ref tried to do anything from here,
but I swear to God, the belt was actually above his,
the whole belt was above his navel.
It was.
Yeah.
It's really weird.
Let's see, Usyk I thought was focusing on the body
in the early rounds, which didn't really surprise me,
but was I think different than in the last fight.
Usyk was really trying to work Fury's body
and Fury had this really weird,
sloppy backhand instead of a jab.
Did you notice that?
Yeah, he does that sometimes.
Only time I've ever seen anyone call him on it,
I think it was the second Chasura fight.
The only time anyone ever said anything.
It looks like a backhand to me.
Like I don't think it's a legal boxing punch.
It is a backhand.
That's what he does.
It's so strange.
And I mean, Usyk dealt with it fine,
but it was annoying the hell out of me
when I was watching closely.
So he's doing backhands.
He's got his shorts around his tits.
Trying to clench, Usyk was doing a really good job
of blocking the clench the whole time.
I think Usyk said he did some judo.
Yeah, he was doing wrestling practice
to be able to keep him off him.
The extra weight, Tyson Fury,
this is one of his heaviest weigh-ins.
I was like 285 or some shit.
So that's a big person to try to keep off of you.
That was gonna be the plan.
I knew it.
He was gonna try to lay on him to tire him out.
Yeah, and I think everybody expected that,
but I didn't expect Usyk to be so good at avoiding it.
He was doing this, like he wasn't straight arming him,
but he was getting his elbow in between
so he could push off him
and keep him from actually wrapping him up.
Yeah, you make it like a...
The point of your elbow is the pressure point
that digs into them so that they don't want
to keep putting weight on it.
So you put all the focus of their weight onto the point.
Yeah, I knew everybody knew Fury was gonna try and do that,
and I think Usyk planned for it and trained for it very well.
And I think anybody who's fighting one of those clinching,
like people known for clinching,
should watch this fight and what Usyk does.
Like whoever's fighting Hitchenson next
needs to watch this fight.
And Usyk must just be strong as fuck
because he was pushing Fury around a bit as well.
Especially later in the fight when Fury was getting tired,
Usyk was pushing him back.
And I also noticed when Fury did get a clinch in,
Usyk was doing the shoulder thing,
like a headbutt but with your shoulder under their chin
and like hitting them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The shoulder shove.
It's good.
I was really impressed with Usyk.
I mean, I knew I was gonna be, but just in general,
I was really impressed with Usyk.
And it not like the first fight,
but Fury was wobbled a couple times,
whether he admits it or not.
I wrote down he was a little unsteady
in the sixth round and the 11th round.
Yeah, he did hold up a little better
than he did the first time.
Like practically fell out of the ring,
almost busted the ropes, I think, when he fell into it.
That first time, yeah.
Anyways, that was pretty much all I had to talk about,
but I was just, I was super impressed with Usyk
in the clinch or avoiding the clinch,
I guess is how I should put it.
Because the boxing part of boxing, Usyk is just better.
So it was the not so boxy parts of boxing
that I was worried about in the rematch.
That and just the judges,
I'm a little surprised that Turkey
didn't pay off the judges to make it.
Oh, to get the third?
Yeah, to make it a trilogy.
I'm glad he didn't.
And I think the scorecards were correct,
but I'm just a little surprised.
Yeah, when I was watching it,
and even when I watched it back,
the way I was thinking about it was,
I'm trying to look for ways that,
how can I spin this for Fury?
If you want, if you were trying to pay off someone
to give a result that you want,
and that was gonna be how they set it up to do the third,
just because it's a money spinner.
Yeah, I'm glad they didn't.
I don't think we need a third.
I think Usyk showed he was just better.
Yeah, same with the AJ fight.
I don't need a third.
He's just better than you, dog.
Yeah. It's not his fault.
I am interested in the Dubois rematch
because Dubois has been looking better.
Yes, considerably.
Yeah, so if Usyk doesn't retire undisputed,
and it doesn't sound like he wants to,
the Dubois fight's the only fight to make.
I would not be interested in any other fight.
Yeah, nothing else is interesting to me either.
Man, oh man, that's it.
Oh, previews, what am I thinking about?
Jokes.
Do you have anything more for Usyk?
No, I think I covered it.
He's just so fucking good.
Yeah.
That sums it up.
Usyk is just so fucking good.
Anyways, previews.
Yes.
The one major one this week,
January 8th, that is a Wednesday,
starting at zero one on the West Coast.
It's probably like prime time for you.
Yeah, I think that's probably about 6 p.m.
Motherfucking match room is in the building.
There's a whole lot of shit on here.
I don't see Tonga on here and that bothers me.
No respect for my guy.
There's a bunch of shit on here.
I don't know who these people are,
so I don't really want to speak on them
because I don't know.
Is the Mahoney related to the other Mahonies?
Maloney, are you thinking of those?
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm thinking of the Malonies.
I did this on Discord too, I think.
Fuck.
All right, so the few that...
There's a Letty Letty.
Did you notice him?
There you go, that's Letty Letty.
Anyone with fun names, you're going to get some shine.
Moving into the parts, like the main stuff.
Terra Moana, apparently that's like his only name,
is Terra Moana, but for the purposes of legal distinction,
he's Terra Moana, Terra Moana.
Yeah, whatever.
Nice.
But he just fought not too long ago.
This opponent, Osasu Otobo,
I don't know who this guy is, honestly.
11-1-1, not bad.
Terra Moana...
Never fought outside Germany.
Terra Moana just fought on the 14th.
That is a quick fucking turnaround,
but he got a first round knockout.
He spent more time doing the haka than he did fighting.
Excellent.
Yeah, so for that reason,
this dude goes on the permanent watch list.
I'm going to keep tabs on him, just because it's fun.
That type of stuff is fun for me.
Yes.
Justice Huni, also on a pretty quick turnaround.
He fought on the 11th of December, and now he's back.
He got a second round KO versus Leandro Robuti.
He's fighting Sean Potgieter.
I don't know how to say that.
Yeah, I think you nailed it.
Who is 10-1 South African fellow.
Holy shit.
Never fought outside of South Africa.
Nope.
Huni, though, he's on his way up, so that's fun.
I'm surprised he fights at heavyweight.
Well, he's Joseph Parker size, so all right.
Never mind.
Yeah, he's weighing in over 230 most of the time.
Yeah, it's the height thing,
because Richard Torres is like 6'1 or 6'2, weighs the same.
But at 6'1, you can probably shave off a little bit of that.
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Yeah.
And main event, IBF cruiserweight.
Wait a second.
Justice Huni, Sean Potgieter, IBF Pan Pacific heavyweight.
That's cool.
There's a lot of these on this entire card,
a lot of IBF Pan Pacific stuff.
WBO global heavyweight title.
I didn't even know that was a thing.
What the fuck does that mean?
OK, I'm not the only one who thinks it's fucking weird.
If it's global, why isn't it just the real belt?
Why is it not the world?
Is the globe and the world, are they not the same thing?
This is the flat earth or not flat earth.
Yeah.
WBO global, that one really fucking gets my goat.
I don't know what the hell is happening here.
Yeah.
They just need extra belts to give people
so they can charge more money.
Yeah, pretty much.
Just to collect sanctioning fees.
WBO global?
Like dog, what?
What?
Are you?
I'm going to send them a strongly worded letter.
All right, main event, IBF world cruiserweight title.
This isn't the IBF fucking global title.
Whatever the fuck that would mean.
Anyway, Jayapataya, the champ, fights David Naika.
He's Kiwi, cruiserweight.
So he's like, he's not that great.
I've seen a few of his fights.
It's Kiwi versus Aussie.
So that's pretty.
That's always fun.
Yeah, that's what this is.
This is like, I guess, a friendly rivalry.
I think, yeah, I think Opataya is going to.
Easy work.
But I'm going to cheer for the underdog just to piss off people.
Would you say that you're cheering for the B side?
Yes.
Yes, I would.
Cue that sound effect.
Also, did you see on Boxerak his aliases, the nice guy?
I did.
I didn't want to mention it because it's really stupid.
Well, this time nice guys are going to finish first.
All right, canceled my sound effect.
That's what's going to get it right there.
It's better than Opataya.
Opataya doesn't even have an alias.
Yeah, I don't know what he would want to.
How do you have a world title belt and no nickname?
That's lame.
But that's it for the matchroom card.
Other than that, it's just two little ones getting
to the bottom of the barrel here.
That's how far down I had to go to get these.
These are pretty degenerate cards.
They are quite.
There is on the 10th, that's Friday,
at Club Cherry in Don Torquato, Buenos Aires.
The only reason I picked this one up
is because it's promoted by Marcos Maidana.
That's really it.
But Kevin Munoz and Brian Arguello,
they're decent prospects, it seems.
I don't know that much about them.
I mean, it's probably hard to get info on Argentinians.
Yeah, random Argentines out of nowhere.
Yeah.
And I had to find this on pretty short notice.
It was honestly kind of difficult to get the name
of the venue, but whatever.
But that's Marcos Maidana's card.
How fun.
Saturday, the 11th.
Boxer.
Club Cherry, do you think it's in a strip club?
Oh.
It's kind of got strip club vibes.
It kind of does have that kind of name.
It might be.
With the magic of editing,
I'm gonna get this found out real quick.
Club Cherry.
It looks like it's just a- It is a nightclub.
Yeah, it's just like a dance party club.
All right, on the 11th, boxer.
At the Park Community Arena in Sheffield.
The only ones really worth pointing out.
Caroline Dubois versus Jessica Kamara.
WBC lightweight titles on the line here.
So I expect Caroline's gonna keep it.
And Callum Simpson versus Steed Woodall
for the British and Commonwealth super middleweight titles.
That's it for this one.
Really tried to fill it in there.
Now outro shit where it goes.
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And heading into Steed Weekend.
Club cherry parties with Steed.
Oh, that is a terrible sentence.
It is.
I know.
Awful.
What are my parting words this week?
I really miss Drip, his my parting words.
Yeah.
He was really good at this and getting them started
and giving me time to think.
Maybe that's my New Year's resolution.
I will write down my parting words before we do this
and they're going to be insightful and funny.
Nice.
Oof.
If we're going to go to club cherry this weekend,
then my advice for my parting words to anyone
is drink responsibly.
If you're drinking, you don't drive.
If you're driving, you're not drinking.
What's the, if you can't be smart, be safe.
Yeah.
I think that's what my dad told me every weekend
when I left the house.
Mine, the one I got from like my platoon sergeant
was there's a right way to do the wrong thing.
Fair enough.
Let me throw in some other platoon sergeant gems here.
Don't marry a stripper.
No, she doesn't actually like you.
That's it for this one.
We will see you on the other side.
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