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The B-Side in boxing.
B-Side shit.
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And the B-Side.
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Back up in your ears.
I'm joined by the one and only.
Was it Alex was the one and only?
Alex, yep.
Yes, sir.
So it's just going to be me and him?
Shannada was out.
Frost is out.
It's all good.
We'll make it work.
On the eighth, UFC 312.
Not a whole lot to say here because I need to look.
See if it's Duplessis.
Duplessis.
Mr. Strickland.
Keeps his title.
He beat Strickland just absolutely convincingly.
Wasn't even a question.
I think the fight of the night was John Guailly beating Tatiana Suarez.
Also domination, but I think that they were, I don't know.
Strickland's more of a striker type.
And Duplessis beat him at his own game.
And Suarez was trying to grapple.
Just did not have anything for her.
It's always a fun fighter to watch.
I'll tell you that.
Yeah, Waley's amazing.
Waley's, yeah, she's one of the greatest for the women in UFC.
She actually made me raise the question of, is it possible?
How would it work to have women, to have a gender neutral pound for pound list?
You know, I've thought about that before.
Honestly, like there's, let me tell you, even with boxing too, there's a lot of women that
I think could be a lot of the men in boxing.
It's very valid.
I was thinking instead of calling it pound for pound, calling it like skill for skill.
Skill for skill, maybe something like that.
Because like Waley, skill for skill can beat the shit out of a lot of guys.
A lot of the male UFC roster.
Clarissa Shields probably could also beat the shit out of a lot of the male boxers.
And I don't even really remember.
I don't. Yeah, I don't mean pulling up like in a way up to 175 or something like that.
Oh, I don't know.
Someone like, let's say like, like Roley or maybe freaking Jake Paul.
Jake Paul. Yeah, honestly.
Skill for skill.
Well, I must say she would lose to him.
I'm saying like if she got paid.
Oh, yeah. She would think she would take the dive.
But you get the note right before you walk out.
Yeah. You're either going to lose or you're going to die.
That's the only that's the only time Jake Paul could ever be undisputed.
Undisputed women's champion. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
But moving on to one coming up, this one's on the 20th.
It's going to be pretty early in the morning.
Zero six on the West Coast.
One FC is having their 171 event in Qatar.
There's a lot of stuff on here.
The only one really worth pointing out to for for non MMA fans.
Like people bitch, like I don't like the grappling.
Jonathan Haggerty, fantastic kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter.
He's fighting Wei Rui, the number one challenger.
Kickboxing and Muay Thai.
If you don't like grappling, I don't know why you're not watching these.
I really don't. They're lost. People are just lost, man.
Yeah. And another one fight night on the 22nd.
This one's Sehud over Song Yedong.
I Edson Barbosa is on it.
He's really exciting to watch.
Brendan Allen should be fun.
Brianna, these always fun.
Yeah. Never bad fight.
But that's it. That's it for that stuff.
It's good to box. Yeah. Yeah.
News. Some new fights have been that I picked up anyway.
I saw them on the Queensbury cart or Queensbury site on the 15th of March.
Nick Ball fights TJ Doheny, WBA featherweight title is going to be on the line.
And first, initial thoughts.
Nick Ball versus Doheny.
First of all, it's what was the last time Nick Ball fought?
Oh, yes.
It was that was I feels pretty recent.
Right. I think so.
I feel like we defined like last month or my driven
Nick Ball, Nick, the wrecking ball.
He fought in October.
OK, October. OK.
Yeah, no, it has been a little bit.
No, that surprising.
It feels like yesterday just fought.
It was a challenge in it, though.
Wasn't that difficult of a fight?
It was a pretty. Yeah.
I remember watching that fight. It was all right.
No, but Nick Ball versus TJ Doheny.
That's that's going to be a big fight.
Yeah, I think that could be a
well, not fight of the year.
That's that's that's that's a bit much.
That's too bold. That's way too bold.
I would say a war for TJ Doheny.
Because the honey, doheny's a
he will put up a fight if you want to.
Scrappy, he can be scrappy, but he can be scrappy if you want.
And because when you have another fighter that's scrappy,
TJ Doheny is going to be scrappy as well.
He likes to match the in a way made him
kind of cower, though.
That's what I think everyone's going to be thinking going into it.
Way to ways anyway, though, that's my thing.
Right. Yeah, that's you're absolutely right.
Like if you take in a way out of the picture,
one twenty two is extremely competitive
because he's at the top of it.
People are going to cower. Right.
So you can really do hope to survive it.
Hope you can survive to the 12th.
We'll see if you can do that with Nick Ball.
Well, Nick Ball is Nick Ball's ferocious man.
I'll tell you, he's he's he's great.
He's great to watch.
I first watched him when he fought Raymond Ford.
And I was surprised that he did that well, especially as a as a British fighter.
I mean, I know I hate to give shit on British fighters, man.
But I a lot of them, they're not any time of the day.
I'll tell you this, they're not they're not like they're no they're no
they're no Isaac Cruz.
There are no Juan Manuel Marquez, you know. Yeah.
But Nick Ball, I would consider him an honorary
honorary Mexican fighter.
I'll tell you that he does.
I can fight that.
He can fight for sure.
OK. He's fun. He's fun to watch.
I'm hoping that Doheny puts up a good fight.
I expect he's probably going to lose, but hopefully he puts up a good fight.
And so people can it's like Bolton winning against Figueroa.
If you're looking for reasons to shit on Naoya in a way,
you're you're running out.
You're you got to you got to pull stuff off the barrel.
Yeah, you got it. You're going to scrape the bottom of it.
Yeah. And exactly.
It's going to at the end of day, still going to be bullshit, because I mean,
I'm not the glaze anyway, but he he is amazing.
Yeah, I'll tell you that.
Another one, April 5th, Dillion White versus Joe Joyce.
That one, I'm surprised doing my stuff in the game.
Speaking of bottom of the barrel, good job.
Bottom of the barrel. Yeah.
And I'm speaking of. Yeah, exactly, man.
I mean, Dillion White and Joe Joyce guys, I mean, we haven't heard of in
in a minute. Yeah, it's been a while.
Dillion White's been on his rehab plan, fighting in really obscure places
against obscure opponents and still leaving a lot to be desired.
I mean, was this this is the most last time Joe Joyce even fought
so when he got beat by Jeng, I think.
That was that was a long time ago.
It was what a year and a half ago, I think, right?
It was before. February, he lost to Derek Chazora.
Hmm. That's right.
The two Jeng losses, then he fights Kash Ali, gets us
like a really mid performance to get a stoppage.
And he loses to Derek Chazora.
I remember that that was that was crazy.
That's crazy. He has something scheduled for March 1st.
And then this fight on the 5th of April.
That's what you're looking past your opponent.
I. Yeah. Stopped.
I really I hope you lose.
Well, we'll see what happens.
Yeah, we will see what happens.
I mean, the British people watch for sure.
That's I might tune in a little bit, but I do like the I do like cutting in the
juggernaut song.
Big juggernaut, big juggernaut.
It's always fun.
For sure, for sure.
That's all.
That's it. I think for the news, Felix Sturm is still fighting.
What? Who? Exactly.
I'm like Felix.
That's my cousin.
All right. Into some recaps here.
First things first.
On Sunday, February 2nd, we didn't mention a pre-fight.
And previously, the timing just kind of worked out weird.
But here we are.
Salida promotions in Flint, Michigan.
Clarissa Shields beats the ever loving fuck out of Danielle Perkins to be to,
I think, retain her undisputed crown at.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure she retained it.
Yeah, she didn't earn it.
I think her last fight she she won.
Yeah.
Yeah, I believe so.
That Canadian lady.
That's right.
I remember that because the WBO and the other titles,
WBO considers they call it light heavyweight.
Everyone else calls it heavyweight for the women.
Yeah.
I remember that mismatch was kind of weird.
Yeah, it was a little weird, my Goliath.
But there's Clarissa Shields, skill for skill.
It's a considerable portion of the men's ranks.
Well, that's what we're doing now.
We're the spiciest takes that down on BoxingBeeSide.
You have the B-Side takes, which makes the greatest boxing podcast in the world.
Another on the 6th of February.
This was a Thursday.
I have the Tiger up in Montreal.
The only one that I really cared about was Jalalov.
And he got sick or some shit a few days before the fight.
And so he had to pull out.
Yeah, it was just the main event.
B.R. Slanov stops Mimoon.
Yeah, I don't know these guys.
Yeah, I don't either.
I was seriously after the Jalalov fight, which was down the bill.
I was going to turn it off.
Well, you didn't even turn on the first place, huh?
Yep, because I didn't.
Not anymore.
Quickly before we get to the Queensbury card on the 8th.
Pro Box in San Antonio.
I only of all of these, there's a lot of shit on here as Pro Box cards tend to have.
But the only ones I really watched were the top three.
Michael Angeletti stops Judy Flores.
That's a dude from the Philippines.
Name Judy.
Yeah, a guy named Judy.
Whatever works for you, buddy.
So that was KO3.
Moving up, Shavkat Rakhmov gets stopped in eight.
Nobody picked him to lose in our pick week.
Everyone thought he was going to win.
I did, too.
Really?
Yeah, he got beat pillar to post all eight rounds.
He was just getting his ass kicked the whole time.
Dang.
Yeah, I can imagine.
Go on.
I'm saying I can imagine.
That's crazy.
The Mighty Have Fallen used to be an IBF 130 champion.
And yeah, just got his ass kicked.
Nasty, nasty knockout.
He did not look good.
They had to basically carry him to a stretcher.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't catch that one, man.
I didn't see that.
I recommend going back to check on these.
The fights were really good.
The ones that I'm mentioning anyway were really good.
OK, sure.
And Ramon Cardenas, UD over Brian Acosta.
Acosta came into this 20 and 0, and he started off a little slow.
Ramon came out quicker.
Nonetheless, it felt there was a knockdown in the last round.
I believe it was the 10th.
And the scores ended up being 95 to 94, 95, 94.
So that would have been a 6-4 without the knockdown.
And then the other one was 8 to 2.
So it was 97 to 92.
Yeah, absolutely ridiculous.
That is pretty crazy.
They did Acosta dirty there with that one anyway.
Yeah, they always have that one.
The ex-Pexas judges are always like that.
Oh, yeah.
And all right, moving to Manchester, the Co-op Live Arena.
A bunch of shit on here, too.
Not a whole lot that I'm going to be pointing out.
Walter Fury of the Fighting Fury Clan.
I guess the points decision.
Are you familiar with points?
Explain it to me.
Because I feel like I am, but I want to listen in.
A points decision in the UK is they don't have judges.
They just have the referee score it.
Oh.
So it's just one card.
That's awesome.
That's great.
It streamlines it a bit.
Yeah, that's great.
And they usually do it for these lower level guys.
Like Joe Hardy, the opponent is 3 and 27.
We know what he's doing there.
So yeah.
Moving up, what else did I see that was fun?
At least that I remember anyway.
Zach Miller versus Masood Abdullah.
Majority decision.
That was a hard, hard fight.
Hard fight, yeah.
And Derek Chisora, UD over Otto Vallein.
I caught this one.
That was, I can't believe it.
I cannot believe it.
I honestly, Derek Chisora is still being around and fighting.
I respect that a lot.
Because that fool lives to see another day.
He honestly, he could probably get wild after this.
He could probably get wilder.
He could probably beat Wilder right now.
And what's the, I don't know.
You got it.
We got to see.
Well, Deontay Wilder's fight is off.
So hey, he might be.
He might actually be fighting Chisora.
You never know.
Could be in Riyadh, too.
He could probably fight in Riyadh.
Maybe Derek Chisora could get one last big check from the Saudis.
Yeah, Wilder too can take that one and fuck off.
If you're not going to be the bronze bomber, dude, don't stop fighting.
I know.
Just right now, he's kind of on an AWOL.
Yeah, kind of AWOL right now.
But he will come back for the money.
He'll come back.
I'm sure.
Yeah, I'm sure he will.
But Derek Chisora keeps coming back after how many times he lost.
I mean, God.
13.
He was coming in 13 losses.
That man does not know what to quit.
He's British Black Rocky.
Black British Rocky.
Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
Ham and Eggr.
We'll have five rice burgers instead.
I'll be honest, I don't care too much for Chisora as a fighter.
But as a man, oh, you know, I don't care too much as a boxer, but as a fighter, I love him.
Yeah.
I respect him.
I'll opt for that.
It was weird that a lot of people got all fucking miffed when I tagged.
So there's two tags that are like reserved for bigger fights.
At Everyone is for Tank Davis, Anthony Joshua.
For the one that you need to watch.
The Canelo, that stuff.
Then there's the D-Jans is for all, just everything.
I'm going to tag you often for everything.
Pro Box.
Yeah, Pro Box TV.
And then for EOT.
Exactly.
Then there's At Here, which only pings people who are actively in the server at the time
that I send it.
And they're actively online.
So it's a considerably smaller number.
But everyone's like, oh, you're tagging.
You're using a big tag for Chisora.
Like, shut up.
You know, you like Del Boy.
It's Chisora.
It's the Del Boy.
Yeah, it's the Del Boy.
Shut up, dude.
Just enjoy it.
Or go or leave.
Enjoy while it lasts.
Yep.
Because Dylan got one more, probably.
Hey, no, we said that last time.
And we said that the time before.
So he's calling it the last dance.
He did this thing at the end that was fun.
He brought out three posters.
And he wanted the crowd to pick who he fights next.
It was AJ, DuBois, and Usyk.
And I don't know which one.
I would say AJ.
If it was my pick, I would say AJ.
No, I disagree.
Who do you think you should fight next time?
I want to see him fight DuBois.
That would be fun.
See you again.
I think Chisora gets beat by DuBois.
I'm going to be completely honest.
OK, of course, DuBois is going to win.
It's Dan DuBois versus Derek Chisora.
But Derek Chisora has the luck of the gods on his hands sometimes.
True.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So I can see an upset happening just for the fucking shits and giggles.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I don't know why, but I can kind of imagine that happening.
Yeah, Ares, the god of wars, like, let's fuck shit up for a little bit.
Let's bring chaos to the world.
Boxing.
DuBois like breaks his hand or something in the middle of round three.
That would be something, huh?
If Derek Chisora beat Daniel DuBois.
That would be wild.
I would cry, honestly.
I would be gutted for DuBois because he's on this high ride right now.
Oh, yeah.
Confidence at an all time high.
He's really feeling himself.
We'll get more into that in a bit, huh?
Yeah, we will.
In a bit.
Yeah, that's right.
So actually...
You're getting me excited, man.
You're getting me excited because I'm going to talk about Daniel DuBois right now.
All right.
Let's get into that one second here.
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Let's knock some other shit out of the way.
Probox, on the 19th, this is Wednesday.
This is, I saw in their last broadcast, they said, this is the last Wednesday night fights
of the year.
Of the year?
Yeah, they're going to Saturdays now.
That's good.
From here out, they're doing Saturdays.
I'd rather do Saturdays.
I kind of like the schtick, the gimmick of it being on a Wednesday.
It was fun.
It's the middle of the week.
Not a whole lot going on.
Oh yeah.
Well, at least we're looking forward to it.
Yeah, exactly.
The boys get together in the server and we just watch some fights.
Yeah, actually, I do like that.
But I've always watched boxing on Saturdays.
I've done that my whole life.
I'm just used to that, you know?
Yeah, those are the big lights.
You're fighting on Saturday.
You probably made it.
All these other Joker promotions need to stop.
It's like, dude, I'm not going to watch you over Canelo.
Exactly, yeah.
And one of them is a local one.
And I like watching their stuff.
I like watching my local guys fight.
But it's like, dude, I'm not skipping whatever's on Saturday.
I'm not skipping Tank Roach for you.
Well, not funny.
That card is fucking stacked.
At least I won't know what happens on Pro Box.
Yeah.
We'll talk about that next week.
Yes, that's when we'll be chatting over the upcoming Tank First Roach.
So Pro Box and it's called the Chicken Ranch Casino Resort.
Chicken Ranch?
That sounds like a Taco Bell.
Jamestown, California.
Interesting.
Jamestown.
Yeah.
Where's that at?
Is that an old school?
Is that a weird old western town?
Yeah, old west.
Yeah, like the old west.
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's beautiful, actually.
That's nice.
Jamestown Casino, though.
I didn't know they had a casino.
The Chicken Ranch Casino is on People of the Mountains Road.
Interesting.
And one of Robert's fighters is going to be on there.
Actually, that's exactly who I'm talking about.
He's going to be on there.
Actually, that's exactly who this card is for.
It's being promoted by Robert Garcia.
Oh, this is the Robert Garcia card.
Yeah, this is the Robert Garcia card.
I've been hearing about.
Yep, this is his.
So a lot of them are going to be his.
The Boxing Academy guys.
The only one that I don't know if either of them are signed with him or managed by him
is the main event.
Gabriel Flores, the guy from SAC, SACTOWN, that's not very good.
I love SACTOWN.
Jose Arellano.
Yeah, my favorite band is from SACTOWN.
But there you go.
That's the Pro Box at the Chicken Ranch Casino.
They're calling it like Coming Home to Roost.
That's the name of the event.
Hey, well, that's something, right?
Lean into the chicken.
Lean into it.
The Chicken Bacon Ranch Casino.
There you go.
I'm getting kicked out of this podcast.
No, that's exactly the type of shit that I like.
I'm playing.
Saturday, February 22nd.
First things first, just to get it out of the way, Xanfer.
There's a lot of shit on here.
I'm going to be honest, I don't know who a lot of these guys are.
But headlining, Luis Neri versus Kyonosuke Kameda.
So one of the Fighting Kameda clan.
I don't think he's one of the brothers.
I think he's like a relative, like a cousin, I think he is.
But yeah, I don't know.
Luis Neri, he like punched him at the face off.
I saw that.
Man, like you just are determined to make sure Japan fucking hates you.
Well, they don't hate him right now.
They hate him even more.
Yeah.
They I'm sure they do still, even though in a way beat him up.
They're still upset about the Shinsuke Yamanaka stuff back.
God damn, those like 10 years ago.
Back in the day.
Yeah.
Back in the day.
I'm honestly not.
I'm expecting Luis Neri to win.
He's probably that slap was probably like roid rage.
Luis Neri is not exactly a being a clean fighter.
Yeah, he hasn't been a clean fighter ever.
He's always been on some fuck shit.
But Saturday, February 22nd, the reason that
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the Kingdom Arena,
Archer Better Bia vs. Dimitri Bevil rematch undisputed light heavyweight crown on the line.
We will be starting from the bottom up as usual.
Bradley Rhea vs. Constantin, Constantino Nanga.
That's a 10 round light heavyweight fight.
Joshua Buatzi vs. Callum Smith.
12 rounds for the interim WBO light heavyweight title.
So that's a one of the mandatory slots for the winner of the main.
Gile Zhang vs. Ajit Kabayel.
12 rounds interim WBC heavyweight title.
Moving up, Virgil Ortiz vs. Israel Bandrimov.
Interim WBC 154 pound title on the line.
So that will be mandatory to Fundora.
Carlos Adamas vs. Hamza Sharaz.
WBC middleweight title on the line.
Co-main event, Daniel Dubois vs. Joseph Parker.
IBF heavyweight title.
And the main event, Archer Better Bia vs. Dimitri Bevil.
So, you wanted to start at Joshua Buatzi vs. Callum Smith.
Let it rip.
Well, I honestly think Buatzi is going to win.
I mean, I think a lot of people have that same opinion.
And honestly, I think he's probably going to win my knockout against Callum Smith.
How do you feel about that?
I agree.
It's going to be a stoppage in the mid late.
The third quarter of the rounds.
Shannadath also thinks that Buatzi is probably going to win.
But if you want to hear that conversation, you have to go to Patreon.
She's too good for the Phlebeans.
I believe this is going to be a passing of the torch for the British heavyweights.
A retirement for Callum?
Yeah. Yeah.
I honestly think I don't see Callum fighting after this.
If he loses, I don't see him fighting again.
He just he's not very he used to he used to get by on being like a bit of a weight bully.
And now he can't anymore.
Now that he's up at he's getting older, so he can't cut down as much.
You can't bully guys that are the same size as you really.
You don't have power to back it up.
Yeah, it's easy.
He's at least he made money with Cano.
Yeah.
Yeah. At least he has that going for him.
He fought better.
I'll tell you, he's got to see whatever you want about Councilman.
He's fought a good amount of greats.
Yeah, he's fought good fighters for sure.
He's fought some good fighters, you know, and I got to respect that.
He's had a good run.
Good.
Very good run in the I guess in the British context.
Yeah.
There about in the British context.
Yeah.
He's he's all right.
But yeah, this is it.
What he he's he's the guy taking the crown here.
He's young, too.
He's 31.
Smith is 34.
I thought you bought what he was 25.
Oh, I was looking the wrong one.
I've been around for a minute.
He has been around for a minute.
I was looking at the wrong stat.
That's my bad.
Anything more for Boatse?
No, I'm all good with that.
Anything for John Cabello?
I have Cabello winning this one on youth.
Oh, OK.
Youth and skill.
Jang, you want super powerful.
Yes.
Nobody's doubting that.
We're going to go.
We're going to go against this one, buddy.
Yeah, that's that's fine.
That's what we're here for.
And I think he's got the skills to not let Jane connect with anything too damaging.
Jang can't is not very mobile.
He's not very limber.
We saw that against Joseph Parker.
So I think I can replicate the same success that Parker did.
Well, I'll tell you this.
I think Julie Jong is going to win the fight.
I honestly think he's I think he's mainly going to win mainly because of the power.
I mean, I'm honest.
Cabello, his chin, has it really been tested?
Not that I can recall.
He's fought a lot.
I mean, yeah, you could say he's a he's he's a good boxer.
He's a good boxer.
He's he's pretty mobile.
You know, he's got some power.
You know what I mean?
But has he really received power in a fight is my point.
You know what I mean?
And typically what I've seen with Julie Jong, the example being Joseph Parker.
OK, he in my opinion, if he pressed the action after the knockdown and I think he could have won the fight.
He can knock them out.
Joseph Parker, he was on he was on some wobbly legs.
He was he was on some wobbly legs.
But but Julie Jong, he just he didn't press the action after that.
So that's the only thing that I could that's the only way I could see Julie Jong losing is because of that.
If he if he lets his foot off the gas, I don't I didn't see him do that really with with Wilder.
I feel like he improved a little bit on that.
Yeah, he did.
So I mean, I don't know, maybe I could I could also see Cabell winning because again, I'm not trying to take a side too much because it is a 50-50 fight, honestly.
You know what I mean?
But I got my boy Big Bang Jang win the fight.
It's the only concern I have is his age.
And yeah, is he going to show his age because Wilder being able to stock down Wilder, not quite as impressive of a feat as it used to be.
So that's true.
That's true.
The power threat's always there, though, with with Jang.
He's Big Bang.
They don't call him that for no reason.
For no reason. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, remember George Foreman, man.
He was he was big and fat.
Yep. Big fat old man.
But you know what? He still knocked everybody out.
So I mean, I'm not trying to compare Big Bang to George Foreman by no means.
But I'll tell you this, that power can make a difference.
It's a good analog, though.
It's a good analog.
It's a good frame of reference, I think, for people.
Maybe they don't know who Jang is.
They're not sure what to think of this, like, 40 year old man, 40 going on 42.
Not sure what to think about that.
And you got some Big Bang in there.
I'll tell you that. Yeah.
Hey, so we recorded this before the Floyd Schofield gets sick situation came about. So we didn't really talk over the Shakur Stevenson with his new opponent.
But if you want to hear the conversation as it was before I cut it down, then go to Patreon.LVX.BE.
So my parlay to the people that are listening, Carlos Dames, Daniel Dubois, Joshua Boizzi, Jirle Zhang, my Big Bang, and obviously Archer Better Beef.
And I'll get into that a little later.
But that is a six leg parlay I'm going to do for $50.
Let's see if I can get rich.
Now, actually, I don't want to tell the story on here, but maybe another time.
But I could have made 30 grand off a parlay when Fundora and Tim Zufat on a fight.
I never told you that story, Leo.
I could have made 30 grand. Your picks were all landed.
Yeah, but I was too sissy to put them all down.
Roli got knocked out.
I picked the round Roli got knocked out and then I put Fundora winning and then I put Aris Landi Lara and then I actually picked that one for the knock it as well.
Yeah.
I mean, what was the dude?
Was it Michael Zarafa? Yeah. Not very good.
But I think it's because I picked the rounds.
Oh, I see.
Oh, so these weren't just straight picks?
No, they were that pick the rounds that they were going to.
And they all ended up happening.
And when I hit the parlay, the people were calling in.
You could tell me whatever you want. Yeah.
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All right. Moving up.
Virgil Ortiz versus Israel Madrimov fucking Virgil bros up.
I am eager for to see what he does against Madrimov because Madrimov can present them with.
Some looks that he hasn't seen yet.
So.
I'm not expecting it to go very far for Madrimov.
I.E. that fight. I'm going to win.
But I'm surprised you kind of don't put Madrimov too highly.
I honestly I feel like you would put him up like up there in the one fifty four rankings.
I can appreciate his skill for sure.
Sure. Yeah.
He's mad about me. Fuck Crawford.
I mean, a lot of people argue below a lot of people think he won.
Really?
There's this guy I talked to you about.
He made a whole argument with me about how Madrimov actually won the fight and not to get into old things, but he's a he's a big he's a big Bud fan.
I'm this guy.
And he was saying that Bud lost the fight, which I was surprised.
I mean, I've always been a big Bud fan too.
But it was close.
It was close, but he didn't lose the fight at all.
It was it was close.
No, he didn't get his ass burned.
Yeah, he was in it.
But I got Virgil Ortiz winning by knockout.
I think he has to win my knockout.
Actually, I if it goes to UD, I don't think Israel I don't think he's going to be Israel Madrimov on skill.
In my opinion, Madrimov's a tricky fighter.
If someone like Crawford had problems with Madrimov and Crawford is it's the Bud is King Bud, you know, if Bud had problems Madrimov, I think Ortiz is going to have an even harder night where he's going to have to go back to his old ways and bang it out Madrimov.
He's going to be losing until he wins kind of thing.
Yeah, I think so.
Because I don't think that Ortiz can win on points unless it's a war in the middle of the ring in the center of the ring and he obviously is going to look more powerful.
Yes.
The thing with that the thing with that whole fight.
It really depends on who has more power.
That's if Ortiz respects Madrimov's power Madrimov's winning.
If Madrimov respects Ortiz's power Ortiz is winning.
But Ortiz wins by knockout.
There's I don't see any other way.
I was thinking it would be more Virgil Ortiz pushing the envelope where Madrimov tries to fights off his back foot and Ortiz putting the with the forward pressure is going to sway the judges more than the the technical prowess of Madrimov.
So I was thinking it goes to close decision that Virgil Ortiz pulls off just landing cleaner harder punches.
I'll tell you this man I truly truly believe I said this for the Benavides fight too which I was wrong but I truly believe this fight there's going to be a knockdown.
There has to be a knockdown this fight whether it be Virgil Ortiz or Madrimov.
Someone's getting knocked down and honestly I I see Virgil Ortiz getting knocked down in this fight.
I can see that because if you see I've seen Virgil Ortiz fight for years I've I've I've followed his career for a while now.
He is not the greatest defensive boxer out of no more than out of the 154 pounders.
And if Mad if Madrimov does his weird overhand that's not going to be good at all.
That's going to be a hard night Ortiz if he gets caught because Ortiz has already been down by Boa Chuck right.
He got knocked down by Boa Chuck.
Yeah and he was twice twice yes twice by Boa Chuck and then he got I'm pretty sure he was down by Mean Machine.
I don't know if you remember that I think I'm pretty sure he was down by Mean Machine.
He's been down before that before Boa Chuck once and I'm pretty sure that was Mean Machine.
I need to amend what I said I don't think it's going to be that Virgil's landing the cleaner punches but he's going to be landing the volume.
Oh for sure yeah volume.
Oh yeah and they're going to be heavy heavy heavy.
Yeah it really it really just depends on on if Madrimov respects Ortiz's power or not.
Yeah that's because at the same time with 154 Ortiz is kind of still in the in the fraud watch.
Not so much like as a boxer but just like power wise you know what I mean.
Yes I don't know what I forgot the word but Boa Chuck was knocked out by what was it Brandon Adams.
Yeah it's kind of a flash freakish kind of thing but it was a flash freakish knock yeah but the thing was with it still happened right.
For Ortiz not that I mean Ortiz at 147 had a lot of power but we don't know if that carried up to 154.
Not yet.
Not yet we don't know I think in this fight if if he knocks out Madrimov or at least gets him down we can kind of gauge how much power Ortiz has.
You know what I mean. Yeah this is actually the proving time for Ortiz.
I think another natural like a natural 154 guy not pulling up a different guy.
Exactly I think this fight potentially can break Virgil Ortiz his what's the word he's kind of fun that he's been in these last couple years.
You know what I mean. Yeah I mean he had a great fight with Boa Chuck but he was supposed to fight Tim Zou.
I don't even remember that he was supposed to fight Tim Zou. I thought that was going to be his breakout of funk fight but this is going to be the one that's going to break him out for sure.
You see what I mean. Yeah I do. I got my boy Ortiz I'm a Virgil bro man. I got to stick with my boy I've been with him for years.
Yeah no Isaac's another Virgil guy. So anything more for Virgil? No just that I want to win. I love my boy.
Virgil bro's up hopefully. Knock on wood. And moving up to Carlos Adames. This one I'm going to need you to defend your take on here.
Because you're picking him to win in your parlay. So I'm assuming you're going to have him in the pick league.
Yeah I am. Why are you picking him? Well let me ask you this. Let me ask you a question actually. Why are you picking Holmes as your rise?
Oh I would say that he's demonstrated most recently in his last few fights he's really shown a new level to his game.
He's taller he's naturally bigger. Those two are I think a really big factor. He can get a lot more physical with Adames.
And Adames has left a lot to be desired in his last few outings. Okay I don't know. Let me tell you this.
I believe Carlos Adames is going to win. And I'm going to be honest with you on my reason why.
Is I honestly think that Holmes as your rise is a horrible fighter on the inside. True because he's longer and he doesn't fight that way. He's lanky.
He doesn't fight that way. He cannot fight on the inside. Now for Carlos Adames. You've seen his last couple fights right? Yes.
He. I kind of. I do have to agree with you. His last couple fights have been. What's the word? Lackluster.
Yeah lackluster, mediocre, anticlimactic. But I still think he has it in him. I think when he has a good opponent put in front of him. He can take it home.
I think he's a situation where he matches his opponent. Fights to the level of the opponent. Yeah. Yeah you know how Teo Fimo. Like something like Teo Fimo.
Guillermo Rigondal is another example. Yeah. Guillermo Rigondal. I mean his fight with his. What was his name? Carlos Adames fight with Sergei Guillermo.
That was. Have you seen the fight? No. I don't remember if I did. I don't think so.
Oh okay. It would be kind of hard to talk about it too much. But I mean that fight was. That was a hard fought fight. But that fight proves me that Carlos Adames has it in him to bring it.
That boy can bring it. I feel like Carlos Adames will bring it to fucking Hamza Shiraz. And I think Hamza Shiraz. If he can fight on the inside.
If Carlos Adames can fight on the inside then I think Shiraz is going to lose. Now the thing is with Emma Williams. Again this is kind of a. I'm trying to argue my point.
But the thing is I kind of do see Hamza Shiraz winning. But I also really. Also see Carlos Adames winning too. It really depends on how they fight. You know what I mean? Yeah.
With Carlos Adames' game plan he needs to get in the pocket. And he needs to swap. Because he's got power. Carlos Adames does have power. Hamza Shiraz he has to fight like Tommy Hearns to win. In my opinion.
Yeah that's a good way to put it. Yeah absolutely. He needs to keep him at the end of his reach. Otherwise he's going to be more compact on the inside than you can be. So he's going to beat you to the punch every time.
And if fighting to the level of the opponent is what Adames does then Shiraz really bringing his A game is just going to bring the best out of Adames.
And another thing too is that Hamza. They've both been out. They've both been down. Hamza Shiraz wasn't knocked out but they both kind of have a chin. That fight I also see one knocked down as well.
Knockout possible. It's very possible in that fight. It could go either way in my opinion. It really depends on who has more power. I mean you've got to agree with me that Carlos Adames does have power. He still has power.
He's a 75% knockout rate. Exactly. He's got some power. Okay. Another thing too Hamza Shiraz is a little more green. A little bit.
I mean Carlos Adames is a veteran at the world stage. Yes. Carlos Adames is kind of a veteran of the game. He's fought a lot of opposition. Good opposition.
He got knocked out by a guy that Hamza Shiraz knocked out. Tashira? Yeah. Patrick. The UD. Oh he got UD by Patrick. And 7 though.
Oh I thought he got knocked out. Okay. Well he was down but he wasn't out. Okay. Now Hamza was knocked down as well. I believe he was knocked down by which fighter was that? Liam Williams?
Liam Williams. Not Liam Williams. Francisco Torres down in the third. Now Francisco Torres look at him. Look at him. 17-4-1. He fought Jose Benavides to a draw.
Is this post gunshot? Anyways for this fight I can see a good move boys. Hate on me. I don't care. Y'all can call the line and tell me how wrong I am. Yeah. Go ahead.
Tell me as many times as you want how wrong I am. Cause honestly I don't see it.
Man I try to tell everybody like the shit's anonymous dude. I don't know who you are if you don't tell me. You know what you can tell me to go fuck myself. Right.
And everybody has a fucking opinion until it's time to put their name on it or put their voice on it. Exactly. Man. 833 Lux Pods. Why don't you just stop being a candy ass little punk.
Anything more for Adamas Shiraz? No. That's all I got. You laid out a very compelling argument. I'm still going with Shiraz. Yeah well I'm going with Carlos Adamas. We'll see. We'll see who wins.
Alright. Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker. This is fun. I'm thinking that the momentum behind Dubois is going to carry him through. Parker is also on a momentum wave and he's been turning in some classic vintage performances. I just think Dubois is going to be able to put it together.
I disagree about your opinion on Joe Parker. That he's putting together, he's putting in vintage performance?
The thing is he's putting some good performances on. Don't get me wrong. Yeah. The thing with Joseph Parker however is that those performances that he's been putting up. Look who they are.
Jung and Wilder. Jung and Wilder. My main problem with Jung is that Jung could have won that fight. If he pressed the action and he had a good amount of stamina, he could have won that fight and knocked him out.
With Yonty Wilder, his head was in it. His head was just not in it and he couldn't knock him out. He outboxed him. That fight.
He's got a 66% knockout ratio. Against? That's a Parker's. And his knockouts are against not very good people. Yeah. And he lost by a knockout to Joe Joyce.
True. I think Daniel Dubois is going to kill Joe Parker. You think so? I think so. I'm not saying Joe Parker doesn't have it in him because he could outbox Daniel Dubois.
If there's a way for Joseph Parker to win, he's going to outbox him if he wins. But Daniel Dubois is going to knock him out.
So you're just a little bit more emphatic on Dubois than I am. Yeah. Still Dubois wins. I don't know. There are not a lot of avenues for Parker to win. Dubois has more pathways to victory than Parker does.
Exactly. I agree. And the main thing is, Arch for Better Bia vs. Dimitri Bevold, we are opposed on this one as well. Oh yeah. I'm team yellow and you're on red.
Well, the thing is, I'm still mixed on it. I'm team red. But there's a reason why. Go on. I mainly want Better Bia to win to see a better, I want to see a Benavides fight. Ooh. I want to see him fight Benavides. That's good.
If he fights Benavides, I will give him all my love. It's a fight. I've been wanting Benavides to get a title shot. Not a title shot, an undisputed shot. A shot undisputed for years. Ever since, you know, he who shall not be named in this damn podcast.
It's like Ginger fucking Menace. Cinnamon. Mr. Cinnamon. Either way, I still kind of do see Better Bia winning because, I mean, it's kind of hard to explain. But have you seen Bevold's new training videos? His recent training videos? And what he's been saying? No.
He's been talking about wanting to get more aggressive. And from what I've seen in his sparring videos and in his training, he's planning to get me more in the pocket.
That's just really inadvisable.
Which, that's not Bevold's style. That is not Bevold's way of fighting. Bevold is a boxer. I think he might do that for the first couple rounds. But, I mean, in my opinion, I don't think he's going to stay like that the whole fight.
But Better B is going to get the first couple rounds if he does that. That's just really inadvisable. And honestly, if he does do that, I can potentially see a Better B knockout if he does that. If not, then Better B is not going to knock him out.
If I brace myself hard enough, I can withstand a sledgehammer to the face. It's exactly what Bevold's thinking right now. Yeah.
The thing is that the only way to be Better B is boxing. Yeah. So for you to... Exactly. And honestly, arguably, and people can call into and tell me how wrong I am. I think Bevold won the fight last time.
I thought Bevold won the first fight too. That's been the position of everyone I've spoken to.
Just wanted to make sure. Yeah. But I think he's going to lose this fight if he does some dumb shit like fighting in the pocket. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Standing in trading with one of the craziest punchers in recent years. Shoot, probably in the last... in this century. Yeah, so far. Yeah.
I mean, shoot. Better B is scary, man. Better B is one of the scariest boxes I've ever laid my eyes on. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's just so menacing.
Like, he just makes me scared. Just to look at him. I mean, it's not because he's ugly or anything, but it's just because he's menacing. He has that aura. Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, he's like a Terminator.
Yeah, he's like the Terminator. Exactly. Remember that fight with... what was that fight with... what's his name? Marcus Brown? Yeah, Marcus Brown. Oh my God. That cut? That cut, dude.
That gave me chills when he was boxing Marcus in the corner, dude. Oh my God. I will never forget watching that live, dude. That was crazy. Yeah. He was all bloodied up. That was nasty.
Massive split across his forehead. Or just going down his forehead. Yeah. Oh yeah. But that was obviously some gangbusters fight. That was a gangbusters fight there.
Bevil is like the... he's not a Terminator. He's like a boxing robot. Just stick to the plan. If you taught a robot, do perfect boxing, it would be what Bevil does.
I have a crazy take about Bevil. Go on. I think Bevil is one of the best technical boxers within the century. Maybe even one of the best technicians within the century. Maybe even in the last... shoot, even 50 years.
I would say Price... since Sweepee. In my opinion. Yeah. He's the best since then? One of the best. Okay. Alright. I'm not going to say the best because there's a lot of those guys out there.
The best technicians, yeah of course. Yeah. But Bevil, oh my god. He is a perfect boxer. He can box a perfect fight. I honestly did not... I thought he was going to get knocked out last fight because I really couldn't believe someone boxing perfect enough to not get knocked out by BetterBeef.
But he made me shut the fuck up. Yeah. Now honestly, that fight with BetterBeef... people like to say it was not really the most exciting fight they've seen in their life. It was a chess match. But in my opinion, I think it was one of the best chess matches of boxing I have actually ever seen.
That was one of... if someone were to ask like what is world level boxing or elite boxing look like, this... I would show them this. This is what an elite fight looks like. Two extremely talented... talented at like opposed... diametrically opposed things that one can cancel out the other. It's just a matter of who gets there first.
Exactly. Yeah. And the thing is what made it entertaining was the feints and the little things that they were doing, you know. Just watching them do that was perfect. You know what I mean? Yeah. It was awesome. I loved it. And I think I'm going to love this fight too.
There are plenty of people who can oblige you if you want to see like Chavez style fights. There are plenty of people who can hook you up. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, dude. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's it though. That's that's all we got. Huh? All right. Let me do this real quick.
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Phone number is gonna be put in there again. Why am I wrong? Why am I a fucking casual? You just have to let me know how casual you think I am. After having heard all of the most obscure shit that I throw out here, and you still want to call me casual, please do. I always need a good laugh.
People still call you casual? Yes. It happens a bit. That's interesting. That is surprising actually. Yeah, well.
Everybody's a fucking box casual in my opinion. You're always a casual. You're always a casual in boxing. That's my parting words. You're always a fucking casual. It doesn't matter. And the only people I've noticed, the only people who call other people casuals are casuals.
Yeah, that's valid. That's actually very valid. Insecure casuals. Exactly. Like, I watched a Pro Box card one time. That means I'm not casual anymore. No, you're still casual. Okay, that's what does it for you. Go watch Floyd Patterson fight.
Oh, did you hear Sweet Pea earlier and you don't know who we're talking about? Maybe you should rethink who you're calling a casual. Exactly. But do you have any parting words to throw out? I say this. I've said this every week. I'm going to say it again.
Let's go Carlos D'Adamis. Let's go Big Bang Zhang. Let's go Joshua Boazzi. Let's go Daniel Dubois. And let's go Arthur Petterbieff. We'll see you next week.
Alrighty, we're out of here.