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The B-side in boxing.
B-side shit.
B-side.
And the B-side.
You got a B-side.
The B-side.
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That B-side thing.
This is the B-Sides boxing podcast.
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All right.
The boxing B-sides.
Holy poo poo.
We're back.
Quick turnaround.
Yeah.
And it's still a little bit light coming up.
This weekend's not all that exciting.
Shannada, how are you gassing yourself up
for this really light weekend coming up?
I am not.
It's a weekend to relax.
We need to get ourselves in order.
Yeah.
The big news kind of kills one of the January cards,
even though it was already light.
Yeah, it was already on,
I don't know if Tinter Hooks is right.
It was on life support, it just got pulled.
Yes, life support is correct.
And yeah, so yeah, fuck it, let's kick it off with that.
What Sam Goodman pulls out, certainly this time,
and have you looked into who this young Korean fellow is?
Because I have not.
No, well, I checked his box rec.
It's pretty light.
He's ranked number 11.
I guess short notice, that's probably the best they can do.
Yes, not bad, all things considered.
I mean, I would be fucking devastated if he pulls off
like a Buster Douglas or something.
(*laughs*)
Man, looking at his thing,
he's 21, two and two.
21 wins by, or 13 wins by KO of the 22,
losses have been decisions.
He goes by the Troublemaker slash Packy Weather?
Packy Weather is fucking hilarious and so Korean.
(*laughs*)
What are you doing?
He's a combination of Packy Ow and Mayweather.
Oh, that's what it is.
I was, honestly, I was a little confused.
You didn't get it?
And I love portmanteaus,
so I'm a little disappointed with myself.
I'm surprised you didn't get it.
He has traveled and fought a bit.
Okay.
He's fought in Mexico, America.
Australia, Thailand.
Australia, yeah.
Yeah, he's not a neighborhood good guy,
but at the same time, he's not great either.
Who's he loose to?
Box rec has him at 57th, not great.
This short of notice, and if you called me up
and I was like a serious contender and said,
uh, Sam Goodman's out, do you want to fight in a way?
I would say, like three weeks notice,
that's gonna be a fuck no from me.
I would like to think that I can give myself
a better chance if I have a full camp.
Yeah, I don't think it matters who they called right now,
but you know.
I mean, get on this guy for taking it.
He's also kind of old.
He's not super old.
32, yeah, but in boxing years, that is getting on a bit.
Yeah, he is the most Korean looking man ever,
his box rec.
Looking at him, like yeah, yeah he is.
Yeah, all I can really say, all that can be really said,
I think is congrats on the opportunity.
I would not wish ill upon you or anything,
but fucking good luck, dude.
Yeah.
I'm sure you believe in yourself, of course you do.
You would not have answered the call if you didn't,
but that's a tall ask of anyone, anyone.
Even like fucking Picasso, who they think is good,
or MJ, who we, I think is still a good fight.
That's always hard to ask.
Yeah, I just, three weeks notice isn't enough,
but in a way it has to get away from Goodman.
Goodman has just ruined his chances at his lifetime payday.
By sparring hard with no helmet, like what are you doing, bud?
You're the one that's supposed to be wearing head gear.
If anyone's gonna wear it in your sparring sessions,
it should be you.
You're looking at, yeah, the payday of a lifetime,
and you fucked it up twice.
Well, I don't think they're gonna give him another chance.
I doubt they'll ever negotiate, yeah.
Fuck no, he doesn't deserve it.
I heard he's going and getting plastic surgery
to have the scar tissue removed,
so he's gonna be out for at least six months now.
Oh, wonderful.
So he could just be ready for Nakatani when he moves up.
Yeah, I guess.
Still be a nice-
I don't know.
Nice-ish payday.
Goodman just fucked himself by, I assume, being stupid.
He, the press releases say he was wearing head gear, but-
Oh, he was.
The guys on Discord have convinced me
that he wasn't wearing the right head gear
if he got cut like that.
It was like above his eye, right?
Yeah, like along the eyebrow, like everybody cuts.
Yeah, trying to think of my head gear time.
I don't know what type of head gear you'd have to be wearing
to not have the kind of protection
that he should have had.
This is a really strange thing to happen twice,
and how the fuck did you not learn the first time?
Somebody-
Yeah, I just, I don't get it.
I'm losing, I don't know,
I can't really think of a good way to put it.
That's just a really stupid thing to do.
It's really stupid.
You did it twice.
The risk management is bad.
Right.
It happened once, shit happens.
Inoue and his, like the team, they obviously,
we get it, stuff happens.
You do it again, like, bro, what the fuck?
Nah, you forget about it.
Nevermind.
Maybe you can fight tension.
Junto, whatever.
Yeah.
Disappointment.
Well, is it a disappointment?
Like, it's not that anybody was really expecting
a whole lot out of him.
At least I wasn't.
I know you weren't, and I'm certain
that a lot of the guys in Discord were not either.
Yeah, I didn't even try and get a ticket for this one.
I could not care less to watch Inoue
beat the fuck out of Goodman in person.
Like, I've seen him twice now.
Toms.
Yeah.
I was gonna go, well, and I'll still go,
watch it in the bar in Tokyo with the old men.
But it might be more fun watching him beat up a Korean
just because of the social implications.
The Japanese men might be more excited about that
than the Australian.
All right, moving on.
Ring Magazine had their 2024 picks come out.
I wanted to talk through a couple of them,
just because, just from how they differ from ours.
The event of the year came out as Usyk Fury
with the Ring of Fire title.
That's the first one.
That was the winner.
Yeah, that's the first one.
And that's the winner.
I don't, ugh.
I've never looked at events as a whole.
I guess, yeah, I guess, but.
It was long as fuck, though.
Yeah.
Half the people fell asleep.
Female Fighter of the Year.
It's cool, I get why they do the distinction.
I don't distinguish between the two.
Looking on her credentials, Gabriella Fundura,
the winner, absolutely deserving, beyond deserving,
of being in the conversation of Fighter of the Year.
Fuck, I, how does she not even cross my mind,
is weird thinking on it.
But Gabriella, fucking congrats.
She had an awesome year.
She did, yeah.
Is it worth distinguishing between them?
I don't know, I've given Fighter of the Year,
even over on the MMA side, or even here in boxing,
I give Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year,
to women's fights, or female fighters, all the time.
I've never thought to distinguish them,
because they're all boxers to me.
So, I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, I can see arguments both ways, I guess.
Same.
Because in almost every sport, you have the separation.
Like, you don't have them competing against each other
in the ring, so it's hard to compare them to each other.
I don't know.
It's hard for some of the women to get Fighter of the Year
and stuff, because the fights aren't there.
Yeah, the quality of opponents are not as good
as it is for the men.
I think it was 2020.
I think it's more equality to not split them, but.
Yeah, 2023, I picked, my Fight of the Year was KJ Taylor
and Amanda Serrano, the first one.
And one of my runner-ups was, one in consideration
was the rematch for 2024.
The rematch could have been Fight of the Year this year,
if there wasn't some of the others.
Right.
Yep, Gabby should have been, she deserves to be
in the conversation for Fighter of the Year, just period.
Just in a manner of how much success she had,
her accomplishments and everything.
I don't see any reason to differentiate,
because she is in the conversation,
the same conversation as the men.
So.
Yeah, part of what might make them less memorable
is they're always, or not always,
but usually on the undercard.
Yeah, true.
They're getting better at making some of the women's fights
that are exciting co-main, which is better,
but lots of times they're kind of just stuck
in the middle somewhere.
True.
All right, moving on, male fighter, Usyk, no shit.
Who else could it be?
But my pick, Junto, he was on the mentions, so.
Nice.
I was saying in the chat,
we were watching it together in Discord,
a lot of the guys were, and I was saying,
the Fighter of the Year is Usyk.
There is no fucking question about it.
The runner-up is the, you know,
that's the real argument that we're-
Question.
Yeah, that's what we're gonna be arguing about.
Yeah, Usyk wins, no kidding.
Fight of the Year, I don't know,
Ray Ford, KO12 over Otabek Kolmatov.
What?
Yeah, that's a strange pick.
What?
I don't even remember that fight.
Yeah, I remember it.
I don't remember it being like
Fight of the Year contender at any point.
Not the best pick, but with like his purchasing ring magazine,
this is just like, the picks are,
what does he think is fun, I guess.
Yeah, but why would he think that was fun?
I don't know.
Maybe it was like, of all the cards
that were in Saudi Arabia, that was Fight of the Year.
Maybe.
I don't know.
But I mean, like, I can pick better Saudi fights.
Yeah.
Trainer.
Yeah, same.
Trainer of the Year, Robert Garcia.
This is one that we don't have on our selections,
but before they even started reading out the nominees,
I was already saying Robert Garcia.
So if he has like Bam or Virgil Ortiz or Raymour Tai,
one of his marquee fighters are at the top of the bill.
He has like two, three, four different fighters
all the way down the bill, and all of his guys are winning.
The entire year, all of his guys are winning.
He goes undefeated at cards all the time.
Robert Garcia is a,
this guy takes amateur standouts
or even just amateur average,
and he turns them into successful pros,
and he does it year after year.
Very deserving.
Yeah, he's definitely one of the few coaches
I actually know their names.
Yeah.
I don't really follow the,
I don't really follow any of the kind of
out of the ring stuff.
I guess coaches are in the ring, but you know what I mean.
Right.
So I honestly don't know who all is coached by who,
but I definitely recognize Robert Garcia's name.
Yeah, he's one of those guys where if you hear
such and such fighter having a little trouble,
and he goes to Robert Garcia,
it's one of those things like,
oh, he can probably improve from here
just because he has the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy
behind him.
Yeah.
All right, prospect.
Moses Italma.
Okay, I think this is recency bias, but it's fine.
I mean, he is a lot of people's prospect of the year.
It's not an out to lunch pick.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Round of the year, Usyk Fury, the first fight, round nine.
I don't pick, I just, I don't keep track of this.
So I don't ever pick round of the year.
I'm sure this one, this one was good.
I went back to watch to make sure.
So I don't know.
Yeah, that's the one where he's wobbled, right?
He's wobbling Fury, and yeah.
I mean, it's definitely the most memorable round
of last year.
I don't know if it's,
I don't know how you pick round of the year.
I don't either.
I don't get it.
Like to me, round of the year is so stupid.
It is.
Because.
There's what, how many hundreds,
if not thousands of fights a year
that are even paid attention,
that we even pay attention to,
let alone how many actually happen.
This is, I don't know why this is a category.
It is, that is the obvious choice though.
Right.
It's the most memorable and the most talked about round
for sure.
And I think.
Like people discuss that round a lot.
Right.
That's what I think it is.
This isn't a matter of,
my thinking for round of the year is back and forth action,
high octane action.
Whereas this is like Usyk,
holy shit, he's about to deck Tyson Fury.
The only guy that we ever thought could do that
is Deontay Wilder.
And Usyk's about to do it.
That's, it's just, yeah, spectacle.
Not necessarily like action or anything like that.
So maybe I don't understand the measurement.
So I don't know.
Yeah, like to me round of the year
is usually a whole bunch of punches
and possibly somebody goes down,
but usually it's just straight action the whole three minutes.
Somebody goes down,
person who goes down comes back and battles back.
Yeah.
And you wonder like, holy shit, is that actually 10-8?
I don't know, cause he fought back so well.
It has to be, but yeah.
All right.
Upset is Saras over Munguia, duh.
Obvious.
Yep.
So the KO of the year, Dubois versus AJ, I guess.
I heard some people saying that one.
I don't think so.
I don't either.
This is similar to like round of the year.
It's like the spectacle of it.
Nobody expected Dubois to do that.
Yeah, well, and AJ struggling to get up
was memed on real hard.
That's right, it was.
And this one, I don't know what the fuck this even means.
Lifetime achievement and you give it to Don King?
Oh fuck, aw.
What achievement are we talking about?
Cause if you're talking about-
The one he stole in?
Right, if you're talking about fucking fighters over,
then yeah, this man's been achieving that shit for decades.
Otherwise, I'm not sure why we're talking about him
in any sort of a positive manner.
Well, and why give it to him this year?
Right.
What did he achieve this year?
I don't know.
Maybe this is like a consolation prize as he heads off
beyond the veil of life.
That's a really weird choice and a bad one.
It is.
What, but one thing that I thought was interesting
was once they finished all the awards,
lifetime achievement was the last one.
And Michael Buffer, he presented this one
and he stopped the entire, whatever, ceremony or event
to congratulate Turkey All All Shake.
Like, oh, whenever we think about boxing,
so few people become mononyms.
He didn't use these exact words,
but like if I say Iron Mike, you know who I'm talking about.
If I say Pac-Man, you know who I'm talking about.
That type of, or who's the real deal?
You know who I'm talking about.
Yeah.
And so he said, I'd like to give my congratulations
to his excellency.
And you all know who I'm talking about.
Are you?
His ass a little harder.
Yeah.
Can you, I don't know, man.
Like when did you lose your gag reflex?
That's fucking, that is very upsetting.
Let's be honest.
Like boxing hasn't had a gag reflex for a very long time.
That's true, yes.
Let's move along here.
Devin Haney is announcing his comeback.
He's in camp, opponent to be determined.
I think there's front runners.
I don't recall off the top of my head who they might be.
I don't follow Devin Haney, especially after.
I am not excited to see him again.
No.
At all, so.
I struggled to be excited to see him to begin with.
All right, Jermell Charlo, the 154 one,
he's on his way back.
I also struggle to care about him.
Yeah.
It's like what, he made the big Canelo pay
and then fucked off for however long.
Man, if you were serious, then you wouldn't have left at all.
Whatever, you moved up two divisions to lose.
OK, then you should have kept fighting after that.
Yeah, anybody who kind of checks out after their big payday,
they're basically done anyways, I think.
I would agree with that, absolutely.
Still fun, I guess, to see another familiar face coming
back into the 154 mold.
There's a lot of talent there.
The Jermell and Crawford rivalries are already there.
Yeah, I know.
I'm so bad at weight classes.
Who's at 154?
Mortazaliev just beat Tim Tzu.
Virgil Ortiz, Madremov, Bohacuk.
I don't know.
I guess we'll have to see how he looks.
But I don't picture Charlo hanging with those guys anymore.
I don't either.
Not after this.
He could have.
But yeah, exactly.
Like, he clearly doesn't have the drive anymore if he's been out this long.
I don't know.
I know he's coming back for a reason.
And even a shitty payday is more money than I make in five years.
So who knows?
Maybe the Puerto Rican pound for pound superstars,
Ander Zayas is going to sort him out.
We'll have to see what he looks like.
Yeah, that's a big question, but he's been gone so long.
Yeah, that's really the big question about it is.
And they both have so much out of the ring drama, right?
Yes, they both do.
Golden Boy versus Matroom in a five versus five.
When I looked this up for originally, there was a list of names that they had in mind.
I don't see this going very well for Golden Boy.
Golden Boy doesn't have much talent.
Yeah, they don't have a lot of people.
So I'm not sure what Oscar's really trying to accomplish.
But apparently, like negotiations are already underway.
Well, I mean, he can't do any worse than Eddie did in the first one.
Like, literally can't do any worse than that.
He lost every fight and there was three knockouts, right?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was three.
Yeah, can't get worse than that.
I don't care about the out of ring stuff, but I bet you the out of ring stuff would
be pretty funny on this one.
Like Oscar talking shit is going to be a whole vibe.
It will be.
The clap back videos that he does should be a good time.
Yeah, if you like that sort of thing.
I bet you this is exciting.
I think that might be the most entertaining part about it is just the antics in the buildup.
Well, I think that's why it's getting made is for the shenanigans.
Yeah, get Oscar on his shit again.
So some options that were put out, Jaron Ennis versus Ryan Garcia.
Are you fucking kidding me?
What is Garcia allowed to fight yet?
When's his thing up?
I expect they're making it so that he'll be able to by this point.
Fair enough.
April is April or May.
I believe it's his when his suspension is up.
Oh, that's closer than I thought.
I was hoping he would stay away longer.
Shakur Stevenson versus Williams Apeyda, that's legitimately a good one.
Jaya Pataya versus Zerto, also a good one.
Yeah, I'm being convinced on that.
Yeah, Jack Cattarall versus Jose Ramirez.
But Jack Cattarall is already fighting Arnold Barbosa.
So I guess we'll see between those two.
This is other than Jaron Ennis versus Ryan Garcia, which I get like on for marquee purposes,
that's pretty damn good.
Yeah, well, and the out of ring shenanigans are going to be high on this card, I think.
Definitely.
Just Ryan Garcia and Shakur Stevenson, pretty much everyone else is going to be kind of
sitting like, what the hell is happening as they look around?
Yeah, but you've got Oscar, Eddie, Ryan and Shakur all doing PR bullshit.
There's going to be a big buildup of some sort.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, it's not bad, I guess.
There's a couple fights I'm excited about.
If those are the fights.
Jaya versus Zerto, it stands out to me.
Yeah, yeah, I want that fight to happen.
And Shakur and Apeyda, I would like to see that as well.
Oh, he changed his flag.
He's now from Kazakhstan.
Sergey Lipinets is back on February 1st at Wembley Arena.
OK.
Who the fuck else is on this?
Oh, it's a boxer card.
Never mind.
So yeah, nobody's going to watch this shit, especially with a at the same day, there's
going to be a big UFC card at the same time.
Yeah, this is nobody's going to watch this.
I'm sorry, Sergey.
They also have nothing on Boxrec yet.
Right.
It doesn't matter if they do or don't.
Boxer does not have a whole lot to offer.
Who's Lipinets fighting?
Adam Azim.
I don't know who that is.
No, me neither.
He's listed as the ace side.
He's the boxer fighter.
Lipinets is not.
That's really it.
Yeah, that's not exciting.
No, it's not.
I mean, this is one for the nostalgic sickos.
Lipinets is the old guard kind of.
He's a high action type of fighter, so should be entertaining at the very least.
I mean, I'll watch it.
Is his nickname the Samurai?
Hold on a second.
It is on Boxrec.
It used to be the Union Samurai.
They dropped the Union.
Yeah, I think because he used to have Russia as his nationality.
Right.
So, I think they dropped it for that purpose.
Fair enough.
On the 24th of February, we have Junto Nakatani headlining at the Ariake Arena.
Yeah.
Tenshin Nasukawa is on this one versus Jason Maloney.
RIP Jason Maloney.
You can't hate him.
Jason Maloney is on this card, I'm 100% sure, because him and Tsutsumi are friends.
He goes and trains with them in Australia.
Really?
Yeah.
So, it's really funny because the Tsutsumi cheer section always cheers for the Maloney's
because they're friends.
Makes sense.
I'm going to stick out.
Although it is Tenshin, so maybe I can cheer against Tenshin.
That's fine.
Yeah.
I'm sure you haven't latched onto the anime main character that is Tenshin Nasukawa.
Fuck, he's so annoying and his fans.
If I had been in the same arenas or venues that you have, I would probably not like him
either.
I'm just watching from a distance.
He's not terrible, but it's just such main character syndrome and everybody feeds it.
He gets pop-up stores at Harajuku.
Why?
My appreciation started with his growth, maturation as a boxer and how much better he has gotten
that I've seen, that I've been able to observe.
And I've been trying to dissect because I was wanting him to kind of fall on his face.
I mean, he was like a kickboxing karate guy coming into boxing.
I wanted him to fail.
I did.
But seeing his growth, but I don't know.
All of the way he acts and the way he talks, the way he speaks, I know he acts like a douchebag.
I know this.
Well, and again, he acts like a Japanese douchebag.
He's not doing anything bad.
It's just his entire attitude and persona.
I don't think it's a persona.
No, he's cocky.
He's super annoyingly cocky and it pisses me off that it works because nobody's been
able to really do anything about it.
Yeah, it took Mayweather picking him off as a teenager.
Yeah.
Well, I don't think that really counts.
I don't either.
It's just going to take like Inoue or Nakatani to do something about this.
Yeah.
He's the fighter I like to hate, to be honest.
I don't wish any actual ill on him.
I just want somebody to beat him.
Yeah.
Humble him a little bit.
Yeah.
Moving up, these are all bantamweight cards too.
That's really cool.
Sayasuzumi, the WBA bantamweight champion is fighting Daigo Higa.
This is an excellent first defense of your title.
Daigo Higa, battle tested.
My man's been on the wrong side of decisions.
You could argue like one or two of his losses the other way, but nonetheless, both of these
guys come to rumble.
This is going to be a high action fight.
This is not going to be a boxing masterclass.
Definitely not.
I am so excited for this one.
Yeah, absolutely.
I guess I haven't said yet, but I bought tickets to this one.
It's actually while my brother's visiting.
This is going to be my brother's first live boxing event.
He's so spoiled.
This is a good one to start with.
Yeah.
And I bought us tickets in the Tsutsumi cheer section again.
They are actually fairly loud for the Tokyo crowds, the Tsutsumi guys.
So hopefully we're in that upper tier, but the lower upper tier.
I don't know how to say that.
I know what you mean.
Yeah.
The first raised seats.
And I am really hoping that his squad of red leather jackets is in front of us again because
those guys were entertaining as hell.
We turned around and like yell at the crowd to cheer for him after every round when he
was fighting Takuma.
We might need to look into a merch design for like a...
For Punch Burger.
Yeah, for a banner so that you could take it with you and for the Tsutsumi section,
you just hand it to the fanboys and have them do the waving and all that.
That would be amazing.
Yeah.
I have no idea how I would organize that, but I'm super excited.
I think this is going to be a hell of a fight.
Absolutely.
Like, just stand in the center of the ring and throw punches.
I would bet the under for going the distance.
This is not...
They're both tough though.
Exactly.
Oh, you're right.
I know that's what's fucking rough is it's just that they're both willing to stand there.
Like Takuma will box, whereas Tsutsumi will not.
Daigo Higa won't either.
It's like just how much can they possibly take?
And Daigo Higa is getting on in years and more wars, more fights.
But like Higa's only been stopped once.
Yeah.
And that was a long time ago.
True dat.
Like seven years ago.
2018?
April?
I don't know who could...
I don't know.
I might throw a pizza bet on Seiya getting the KO.
But I don't think Tsutsumi is a real big puncher.
It's just a million punches.
Yeah.
Although he does have a lot of TKOs.
So...
Yeah, if he gets enough damage going, if the ref pulls the plug.
I would probably put...I don't know which, but I would put a pizza on the under for going
the distance.
Fair.
Yeah.
I'm so excited for this one.
It's really good.
This is a really good fight.
I know that there's going to be a lot of people like, eh, well, whatever.
It's just some random Japanese people.
So like who cares?
But a couple random midgets.
Right.
But it's going to be great.
I used to call them JP midges.
That feels racist.
It does.
Or Asian midges.
And it felt wrong, so I stopped using it.
But I felt it was endearing because I appreciate what I'm watching.
But I can see why that sounds...
It all depends on how you say it.
Context matters.
And yeah.
All right.
Last one on this card.
Junto Nakatani.
Junto Nakatani is fighting David Guiyar.
I do not recognize this guy.
WBC bantamweight title on the line here.
I expect the winners of this are going to face off with the expectation being that it's
going to be both of the Japanese fighters.
Yeah, I guess.
Daigo Higa doesn't count for a Japanese fighter in this context, unfortunately for him.
Yeah.
If the ref leans anyway in that fight, he's going to lean towards Tsutsumi for sure.
Yeah, I don't know who this Mexican guy is.
I kind of assumed you'd recognize him.
28 wins, 18 KOs, no losses, no draws.
Never fought outside of Mexico.
With certain nations, you can say that and it doesn't mean as much for others.
Yeah.
I mean, Mexico has a lot of good competitive boxing, but I just mean also he's...
Never left Mexico.
...hasn't encountered too much difference in styles.
And to go with the type of Japanese fighter who typically is not too dissimilar from the
Mexican style of fighting, but this particular Japanese boxer is not cut from the same cloth
as everyone else.
Yeah, Nakatani is not a typical Japanese style.
I don't know enough of a Japanese style to bait Koyar into committing and getting counterpunched.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm much more excited for the co-main on this one, to be honest.
Same.
I'm hopeful that at least Koyar is going to give a good enough performance to get his
name out there because Nakatani is not going to be at 118 forever.
So having another name in the mix is always good, I feel.
Well, and I want to see Nakatani put in some rounds.
I've been to a couple of his fights and I've seen what, like five rounds?
Yeah, five or six.
Yep.
It's not very many.
Moving on, Tank, Gervonta Davis versus Lamont Roach.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Is it Abdul Waheed?
I think is his chosen name.
Is it like he said that for a week?
Yeah, he doesn't go by it.
So I don't know.
Just wanted to throw it out there.
I don't expect a lot out of Lamont Roach here.
I understand completely why you're going to take it, but I don't expect a lot out of you
here.
Sorry.
This is another one I'm just not very excited for.
Yeah, I'm not expecting a lot.
I expect that Frank Martin will have had a better performance than Lamont Roach puts
in.
March 15th, Nick Ball versus TJ Doheny.
Last time we saw Doheny, he was having back problems because he's a shitty old man.
So who knows what Nick Ball is going to do to him?
Yeah, I like Nick Ball, so I won't say it's what I actually want, but it would be fucking
hilarious if Doheny beats him and maybe it'll shut up some of the haters.
Oh, for the Innoway haters, right?
Yeah, Innoway haters.
Yeah, that's unlikely, but I can see why you would want that outcome.
I mean, I like Nick Ball, so I want him to win.
That's a good consolation prize.
If Nick Ball loses, some of the Innoway haters are going to have to admit that Doheny wasn't
a terrible opponent.
They have to double check their work a little bit.
I like Nick Ball because Drip likes Nick Ball.
He sold me on Nick Ball.
Well, that's pretty much it.
Yeah, Drip gets so excited.
But that's it that we have upcoming for new stuff.
Like I said, this is a light weekend, so we spend a lot more time here.
In our recaps, the one we have, December 31st, Lifetime at the Otashi Gym in Tokyo.
Main event was fucking canceled.
Garbage.
Fernando Martinez versus Casito Ioka.
I started to look into it and I don't know where the Jesse…
I know where it came from.
It was me trying to read Japanese.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, no, I fucked up.
That was entirely me trying to read a Japanese newspaper.
What got me was it's the same date in the same location, but a different year in the
Japanese calendar and it just messed me up.
Well, we still… the boys, we all rallied and we watched the card anyway.
It was pretty mid.
The card was not great.
The arena was half empty.
It was not worth staying up.
Also, did you say that the commentators said that Tsutsumi is related to Punch Burger?
I don't remember how I got that, but yes, I did.
I know I did say that.
As far as I can tell, they're not related at all.
No.
It's just the same last name.
Yeah, it would be just the same as anybody having the same last name as me.
It's uncommon, yes, but it's not rare.
I also don't know how uncommon Tsutsumi is.
It's not one of the top five, but I don't think it's that uncommon.
Seiya was there because his gym mate was fighting.
I tried my best to stalk him and get a signature, but they don't really do that here in Japan,
I don't think.
All the important people leave out a different door and they have security all around.
You can't get anywhere close.
That was disappointing.
I was really hoping…
I have gotten zero autographs since I came here.
I think that if they wanted to, they would give out autographs because the same here
in the US.
If they want to leave out the side door, they can and they have security covering the whole
thing.
But typically, they choose to stay to do autographs and some…
Yeah, I don't think that's as much of a thing here.
It doesn't seem to be so.
It seems like you're the only one that's trying to get any autographs.
Yeah, well, I'm not trying super hard either.
I stay a little late or if I see them, I try and angle towards there, but they almost always
leave out a different door.
The only people I've seen giving autographs and taking pictures and stuff are old retired
guys.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Which is fair.
I mean, they don't owe me an autograph or anything, but it's also kind of fun to try
and get one.
Man, hold on a second.
Getting back to the lifetime card, did anything stand out to you?
Nakata KO2 over Yamashiro Aiko Yuki?
To be honest, nothing stood out to me.
The fights were pretty mid.
Yeah, the Hayato Tsutsumi TKO8 over Rene Alvarado was okay, but Rene Alvarado is also very much
on in years.
It's more surprising that it took Hayato 8 to finish it more than anything.
Yeah.
That Ko-Mane was two old Japanese guys that just stood in the center and banged, but nothing
exciting happened on this card.
I didn't see any new guys that I was like, oh, this guy's going to be something.
Well, yeah, I got you.
I mean, you watched it.
I don't remember a lot about it.
Exactly.
It was very forgettable, even in person.
The arena was half empty.
I don't know.
I honestly probably should have just got my money back, but I didn't want to sit at home
on New Year's Eve.
I spent more time looking for you in the crowd than I did watching the fights.
Hey.
Okay.
So that's it.
That's all we got for the previews.
Or the reviews, excuse me, going into the previews.
There is like fucking nothing, dude.
I'm serious.
Just to fill it up, Friday, January 17th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, King's Promotions.
This is like a regional thing up in the Northeast.
I know the names that I do know is really just the main event, Kadir Albright versus
Damien Rodriguez.
Those are just names I recognize.
These aren't people that I necessarily follow very closely.
I do not recognize these names.
Moving into Santa Ines.
This is 360 Promotions.
I know the name, this is third from the top, I think.
I'm not sure.
Ali Akhmedov versus Malcolm Jones at Super Middleweight.
Mizuki Hiruta versus Maribel Ramirez WBO Super Flyweight title.
And then Omar Trinidad versus Mike Blania at Featherweight.
This one's not terrible.
360 Promotions is on UFC Fight Pass.
I have a personal rule against giving UFC my money.
Ah, fair.
So yeah, if you want to watch these cards, particularly the 360 promos, you're going
to have to go to Discord, lvxmedia.net at the very top.
Hit the Discord button.
Yeah, I don't recognize the two women that are fighting for a title, do you?
No, I don't.
Because we should recognize them if they're fighting for a title.
Right, because we do keep up with this shit.
Oh, Maribel.
Oh, this might be me being slightly racist.
Maribel Ramirez's face looks very familiar.
I was about to say that Mizuki Hiruta's name does too.
She's the champ.
She's fighting.
She's always fought in Korokuin Hall.
Yeah, I have never seen a women's fight.
They're usually on like a Tuesday.
I've noticed that.
The women don't get to be on the undercard very often.
I shouldn't say I've never seen one.
I think there was one on one card.
It's a rarity.
But she seems fun in just Googling her.
She has the colorful hair and the crazy walkout.
Yeah, she makes herself seen.
Yeah.
Ramirez 15, 10 and 4.
Three wins by knockout, four losses by KO.
She's a journeyman.
She's 38.
It's pretty clear what this is.
Yeah, but I think I've seen her fight before.
Probably seen her lose.
Yeah, with that resume, I'm certain I have too.
But still, Mizuki at super flyweight.
She's been out for over a year because she's listed as inactive.
Oh, it says her last fight was a year ago yesterday.
Yeah, so it's just the automatic thing on Boxerick.
She does seem like she only fights once a year.
She's weird.
Marlin Esparza is a champ here.
This is where I point out.
I only ever keep up with Marlin because she's cute.
Erina.
Yeah, it's something that happens a lot more often on the MMA show.
You're familiar with RJ from Discord?
Yeah.
Yeah, so he's always the one for the people who don't know.
In the middle of the week, it's Pro Box or Eye of the Tiger, just these random ass cars
that happen in the middle of the week.
The fights aren't great, right?
We're watching prospects build up or whatever random.
But sometimes the fights are great because they're two perfectly matched mid guys.
It's regional stuff.
When they're perfectly matched, then it ends up being really exciting.
But RJ, to his credit, tries to entertain the fellas with pointing out, oh, look.
Look at this lovely woman in the crowd.
Or look at the ring girls.
Look at how attractive they are.
See?
This is entertaining because you like good looking women, which is absolutely true.
So anytime there's the RJ tag and there's a good looking woman that's fighting.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
I'm still waiting for him to acknowledge that this is your namesake, man.
This is your legacy.
You could just fuck off out of Discord and combat sports in general and live your life.
I'm going to continue using RJ as the tag.
It's just always going to happen.
It's just how it is at this point.
RJ has some legacy.
Could be worse.
Yes.
All right.
Last thing on this session of ours.
Saturday, January 18th.
This is in Quezon City, the metro Manila area of the Philippines.
Many Pacquiao promotions.
Yes.
There are so many fights on this car.
There are a lot of them, yes.
But this is regional stuff, just like anything else.
The one at the top, the main event, Alvin Lagumbay versus Pepito Mazancay.
This is-
Pepito.
That's such a cute name.
Yeah.
Pepito is his name.
So this dude's name for all intents and purposes is Little Joseph.
Little Joe.
Yeah, Little Joe.
That's not bad.
No, it's not actually.
So that's the top of the bill.
Because the Philippines, like Boxing Federation, I think that they're trying to replicate the
JBC sort of structure.
So I expect that we're going to be seeing whoever wins here graduate up to the OPBF
level.
So it's something.
But is it great?
No.
This is a really unfortunate weekend for boxing.
If you're a double sport fan, then I would suggest checking out Ultimate F'ing Casuals.
There's actually like a big card coming up this same weekend that promises more entertainment.
Yeah.
January is pretty light this year for boxing.
It's usually December.
I think it is most years.
It is because typically like the Japanese pack up December from Christmas Eve all the
way up to New Year's.
Yeah.
Christmas Eve got canceled, the New Year's got canceled.
Everything got canceled this year.
The 26th when Ryan Garcia was supposed to fight that Ryzen guy.
That shit got canceled too.
Yeah.
I should have went to the New Year's Ryzen card.
It sounded like it was pretty fun.
All of the fight festival that Japan puts on, it seems like they save a lot of their
good stuff for that.
Even like a New Japan pro wrestling puts on big stuff at that time.
I am considering getting us tickets to a professional wrestling match in Korokuen when my brother's
here because I think pro wrestling is something you have to do in a group.
Grab his dick and twist it, I think is the go-to.
It's going to be great.
Yeah, that would be fun.
Just an empty week.
It is not the best week for boxing.
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Alright, that's where the outro shit's gonna go.
So heading into the... this is not a bottomless pit because this...
We're gonna get out of it.
It's just like a really...
I don't know.
Is this like a dark forest weekend for boxing?
We just gotta work our way through it.
Just gotta keep walking.
Yep.
It's not gonna help you to stop and look around, see what the fuck is coming because there
isn't anything around that's gonna make you feel better.
Unless you're a double sport fan, in which case, yeah.
I am not.
Yeah, go do that.
But if you're a boxing purist, it's gonna be a rough one.
Yeah, well and even like the next little while is gonna be rough.
Oh shit.
With Goodman.
Because I was looking forward to the Inouye fight.
Inouye Goodman, yeah.
That was supposed to be the saving grace.
But Goodman dropping out, that fucks the end of January too.
I will be sending him a strongly worded letter.
Such a dumbass move.
How do you do it twice?
Twice.
Like what?
What the fuck?
Alright, that's the end of man, we're gonna do our best.
We're gonna carry you through this.
If nothing else, for entertainment purposes, ultimate effing casual, just because there's
stuff going on over there, it's just fun banter about the sport, even if you don't know what
the fuck we're talking about, it's still fun.
I can tell you that much.
Yeah, I listen to it even though I don't know any of the fighters and I have no interest
in watching UFC.
A good entertaining hour of your time.
So there you go.
Otherwise, you stay locked in here with the BoxingBeeSides and we're gonna stay locked
in with you.
Because us sickos have to stick together.
Alright, we will see you next time.
Bye.
Thanks for watching.