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All right, boxing B-sides.
What's that?
Did Artur Beterbiev -- Bivol just happen?
It sure did, but we're not talking about it this week.
So you'll have to tune in next time on Dragon Ball Z.
It was crazy.
I'm sure it was a wonderful time.
I loved it.
Let's get into...
This one is a recap.
This from UFC, the Fight Night card, Jared Kennanier.
Mm-hmm.
Verso Rodriguez was...
It was fun.
Kennanier, old man, pulls it out.
He's...
You'd love to see it.
He lives where...
He's from the same city that I grew up in.
Really?
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
That's awesome.
For the people who want to stalk Leo here,
I mean, there you go.
Yeah.
See that clip right there.
Yeah, come to my face and come tell me to my face
how casual you think I am.
I'm still fucking fuming about that from last week.
I'm still...
I'm still fucking mixed.
It's okay, bro.
No worries, no worries.
Right, moving to some news here.
We got on the...
Both of these are in May.
One of them is date yet to be determined.
Josh Taylor versus Echo Esuman at welterweight.
I don't really care for...
Welter?
Yeah, I don't care for Josh Taylor, so...
Josh Taylor at welterweight is crazy.
That's not gonna be good, but we'll see.
I'm sure they picked this Esuman guy for a reason.
Oh yeah.
Josh Taylor's with TopRank, right?
He's still with TopRank?
No, he's at Matchroom.
He's at Matchroom now?
Queensberry.
Oh, Queensberry, okay, okay.
Yeah, which they partner with TopRank anyway, so...
Okay, okay, okay.
I remember that one time Bob said,
I don't know if y'all remember,
I will not...
Wait, hold on, I gotta do the Bob voice.
I will not bring another fighter to England ever again.
I remember that.
Do people wanna call and tell me how bad
my impression of Bob Aaron was?
Go ahead.
833luxpods, get in it.
Echo Esuman, whatever.
May 10th, Anthony Kakachi versus Lee Wood,
IBF 130 pound title.
That should be fun.
I expect, I'm hopeful that Lee Wood takes it.
Cause Kakachi's kind of a dirty fighter.
Past the point of, where I usually say
if the ref's not calling it, that means it's legal.
But it's a little bit past that point for Kakachi.
It's bad.
Yeah, it's pretty rough to watch sometimes.
So hopefully, Lee Wood pulls it out.
He's on a resurgence as well.
Let's go.
Hold on, I wanna see.
He fought Mauricio Lara twice.
Lada.
Yeah. Lada.
So between beating the shit out of Michael Conlon,
the two Lada fights, he lost one, he came back
and he boxed one pretty soundly and got the dub anyway.
And Lara missed weight.
And then he beats the shit out of Josh Warrington.
So that just makes me really happy.
Crazy, huh?
Yeah.
This is a great run.
I hope he does, he beats Kakachi as well.
Hopefully.
Recaps, not a whole lot on this one,
but we do have some fun.
Top rank on Valentine's Day.
Sidney Sweeney said no.
When I asked her to go out with me to be my Valentine,
she said no, it's all good.
I, whatever.
Starting off, we had Juanma Lopez.
This is Juanita, excuse me.
He's the son of Juanma Lopez.
That Juanma Lopez gets a stoppage in the first.
Shit wasn't even close.
So that was a little crazy, huh?
Yeah.
Keon Davis, DB3.
One of the- DB3 on me.
One of the Fighting Davis brothers stops Ira Johnson in two.
Congrats.
We're getting into some funny shit right now, huh?
Nico, Ollie Walsh.
Nico, Nico, Nico.
Drops the fucking ball.
Loses the split decision to Juan Carlos Guerra.
Did you guys know, hold up.
Leo, did you know that he's actually related to Muhammad Ali?
Bullshit, that's not possible.
I mean, I can't believe Top Ring has me
talking about that actually.
I'm surprised.
Like ever.
You would think that would be something
they shove down your fucking throat.
I know, huh?
All the time, but they don't.
Fucking Nico.
But he is not like his grandpa at all.
The apple has fallen quite far from the tree.
It's fallen in the river.
Yes.
No.
Like no notes.
I don't wanna dunk on this fellow anymore
than life is already dunking on him.
Moving up.
My last year, I wanna say last year,
prospect of the year.
If not, it was 2023.
TKO for Abdullah Mason gets the win over Manuel James.
That was brutality.
Mason just picked him apart
like a fucking rotisserie chicken from Costco.
That name actually sounds familiar.
I wonder who he's fought.
Manuel James fought Raleigh, I believe.
That's right, that's right.
So for Abdullah Mason to get him out that fast,
which is Rowley.
Yeah, that sounds like something.
Rowley can roll the fuck off.
Because damn, Abdullah Mason is on it.
Yeah, Abdullah Mason is, whatever happened in the last fight,
was it shaky?
Yeah.
Yes, it was.
He got knocked down like three times,
I think twice in one round.
Of course, yeah, that's a really shaky performance,
but let's cut the hyperbole, the negative hyperbole,
and get back on the positive hyperbole,
where Abdullah Mason is the next version,
the reincarnation of Floyd Mayweather.
Pretty boy Floyd.
I believe that, honestly, that Abdullah Mason was robbed
by a prospect of the year.
I love Moza Tama, just like every other guy.
He's got some fun knockouts, and that's it.
That's the only difference.
Yeah.
And he's a heavyweight, and he's British.
He's also Riyadh's guy, too.
Right, exactly.
That's another reason why he won.
He's linked up.
That's the only reason why I think that he was robbed,
was just because of that.
Because I love Moza Tama, too, don't get me wrong.
I think Abdullah Mason deserved it a little more.
Moving up, recent acquisition Vito Melnicki
gets a draw with Connor Coyle.
Melnicki was in trouble more often than Connor Coyle was.
Left a lot to be desired from Melnicki,
who was once like one of those hot prospects
on the PBC side of the house.
You always see a top-rank guy go to PBC,
but you never really see a PBC guy go to top rank.
It's one of the few, yeah.
One of the few.
Moving up, Rohan Polanco gets a stoppage in two.
Is this the guy who's from, he's Dominican?
I believe so.
Yeah, because these are the welterweights.
And he's, I'm trying to remember.
Somebody was saying something about him being like,
I put it in the Hall of Fame.
I didn't catch too much of Rohan Polanco's fight.
How did that go?
It was just an ass kicking.
It got stopped in the second.
I do know a lot of people are saying that Rohan Polanco
is going to be the future.
Terrence Crawford's right hook.
I call him a raptor hook in the
pickling.
It's fun.
Polanco is who Benavides fans claim Benavides is.
And then I was there, David.
David. Oh, OK.
Oh, shit. Yeah.
And oh, the response to that was, are you still really on this
after the monster did your boy dirty?
Ted's Ted's crazy.
Yeah, that's actually crazy.
Yeah. What are you talking about, man?
Why? How are you going to say this when Benavides
just beat the ever loving fuck out of David Morell?
Yeah, that's wild to say, actually.
That's actually wild. Yeah, quite.
But seriously, though, Polanco does.
He does look good very much.
Not at all a problem to like get on the hype train now,
you know, by the stock early.
It makes perfect sense. But like, let's chill out with the
he's like better than David Benavides.
That is that as well.
I'm never can agree with that for now.
That's a little too much for now.
Yeah, we'll see.
Moving up, Jared Anderson is back after his loss to
Martin Bacoli,
who you need over Marios Collias.
And it was pretty shitty.
At what one thing I can a good thing,
and this is silver linings that Tim Bradley,
at the very least, was saying Jared Anderson looks like shit.
He wasn't saying, oh, wow, this is like a reborn Jared
Anderson or anything like that.
Man, shut up.
This is the best I've ever seen Jared Anderson.
Yeah, no, none of that.
He was very honest, saying like, I don't know what the hell is wrong with him.
But he needs he needs to he needs to make some changes.
Who is Jared Anderson trade by?
If he wanted to kill me to this, Jared Anderson,
he is the last bashing him and Richard Torres Jr.
But don't even start a road tour.
So I'm going to go on a whole thing.
But he's the last show.
He's my sugar hill. Yeah.
Oh, shit. No, sugar.
Yeah, no, I take that back.
What the hell? No sugar.
Stewart, we're cleaning with Javon Sugarhill.
He does not put the K1 cronk. I'll tell you that.
Jared Anderson does not put the K1 cronk.
He's the nephew of Emmanuel Stewart for the people.
Or should I say now I'm not going to be that ballsy, actually.
That's kind of mean for the people that do not know.
I'll just say that I'm not going to say the word casuals.
But Jared Anderson, yeah, I don't know.
Nothing more to say on it.
He looked like ass. I'm surprised he got the win,
to be honest with you.
Like it was that bad. Beat down Zander.
Fuckin Zayas TK09 over Slava Spomber.
The Spomber's super tough, got his ass beat all nine rounds
when he took eight of them really well.
Solid win. He was undefeated.
Yeah. Up until that point.
It's all right.
Was even dumb ever in his career.
Spomer. Yeah.
Not that I'm seeing.
No, that's that's that's a pretty solid win for Zander.
Yeah, it's all right.
He got he's like a.
Neighborhood good kind of guy.
Only Germany, one fight in Dubai.
Good in the hood. Yeah.
And it's all right, though, still decent when kind of the level
you would want a young guy like Zander to be at.
We'll see what happens with him in a couple of years.
What he should be doing is calling out like Virgil Ortiz or.
He's not that guy or anyone, anyone that's at the elite level.
But you know your role right now.
I love I like when a fighter calls out, you know, obviously the best.
But the thing is, you also got to know where you stand in the world.
A boxing. Yeah.
You got to be realistic. Don't call out a virtual tease.
Maybe while I went before, who's been
who's been kind of had a bad rap lately. Tim Zou.
Maybe he's had a hard time.
She could fight cops and that'd be a good fight with him for him.
A good step up fight.
For Zander Zayas step up.
But I think Bochuk would beat his ass.
Well, Bochuk. Well, that's kind of a yeah.
I would say, yeah, I guess that's a little more of a higher tier.
Yeah, you're right. That is.
Whereas was named Tim Zou's kind of really on the on the
on the downward spiral of his career.
Unfortunately, yeah.
But we'll we'll see what happens with that.
But that would be a good opponent for Zander Zayas.
Brandon Adams and Andreas Katsarakis.
Those two won the overtime tournament last year.
So that's a good one.
Either one of those. Oh, good.
Oh, oh, yeah. That's another one, too.
You wouldn't expect an OTX guy like Bochuk, because Bochuk was on OTX.
Was he right? I don't think that's how you I thought you thought
Brandon Adams on OTX.
No, he fought Brandon Adams at Hollywood Fight Nights, I believe.
It was all Puerto Rico.
To the people watching my casual, my casualness is showing right now.
This was a 360 promotions thing and Kodo promotions as well.
Oh, OK, OK.
Oh, no, I'm thinking of Charles Conwell.
That's why that Chris Colbert.
So we were talking about earlier.
That's why I think Charles Conwell would be a good fight for
for Zander Zayas.
You think Jesus Ramos is out of reach?
I actually know that that him.
Yeah, that's not out of reach at all.
I feel like Jesus would beat his ass.
No, I think that would be a good fight.
A good scrappy fight.
That would be a good test for him.
Him or Brian Mendoza, both of those two.
Brian Mendoza is a fucking gangster.
Too tough for his own good.
I think those two would be damn good fights for for Zander Zayas to try out.
There's this guy from Angola.
He fights out of Portugal now.
His name is Lisa, Lisa Lima.
Oh, Lima. Yeah.
Lima is a good one.
He just beat an Indian prospect
who was undefeated at the time.
Yeah, it will be pretty good.
Lima is a good one.
He has the IBO title.
It's the type of shit that Zander should be getting as he moves up.
Yeah, first, you got to get the IBO.
Yeah, that's your that's like the end of the if you're not going to do the
continental Americas,
uh, I don't know, Easter Island title.
Well, you got to get you got to get you got to get the IBO.
Yeah, you got to go for IBO.
But top rank usually keeps all of their shit.
WBO typically.
Yeah, usually, usually.
I'm sure he would think that's beneath him.
But Josh Kelly's got anybody.
But I think you should start doing the top 10.
Anyone in the top 10, not top 15, actually, not top 15.
Not more to Zaliv, not Madrimov, not both.
No title holders.
No one your title holders.
No, you got to get like the second to final eliminators.
I would go with top 20.
Yeah, top 20 is my bad from the from he's at number five.
So five down to 20.
Yeah, pretty much anyone there is game.
Could fight Nikita's you.
There you go. Beat is beat him and then get Tim fired up.
Exactly. And that would be a good fight in Australia.
They wanted to. So that's there you go.
Speaking of fun, Keishon Davis, that was handling some fucking business.
Now he was the businessman.
Shall we talk about the
the new developments before that fight?
Go ahead.
Um, are we allowed in this?
Say whatever you like. I can cut whatever the rate.
The racist stuff that was.
Yeah, the shit that who depends on who it was.
Do we know who it was?
Well, we keep Keishon said it could have been Teofimo.
At first, he was blaming Baron Shick, but he also said that he apologized.
And I guess he found out it was a Baron Shick for some reason
and that he thinks it's Teofimo.
OK, interesting.
So for the uninitiated, somebody sent a box of bananas and a watermelon
to Keishon before the fight.
He was at a hotel before the fight, and they sent it to him.
And it said, like, and here's a snack for after your height jumps.
Businesswoman businesswoman, which the reason Keishon jumped
to the conclusion was the timing of it.
The press there had just been a press event where
Baron Shick called Keishon businesswoman.
So the timing, I understand why he jumped to that conclusion.
It makes sense to me.
I thought it was Baron Shick or someone from his team.
I thought so, too. At first, that would make sense.
But, well, I don't know.
He's Ukrainian, too. They really.
I've never really seen too much like that.
You know what I mean?
Race is different over there.
They're like a little bit more casual about their racism.
Like, yeah, like Sergey Kovalev back in the day
when he was beefing with a Donna Stevenson.
Yeah. Well, that was he was like, yeah, Stevenson's
a crappy character, but nonetheless, stuff like calling him gorilla
or calling him a monkey.
Yeah, that was some crazy shit.
That's it's kind of like normal for them.
And it's not cool, but.
It's not very nice.
No, it's not at all, but it's just how they are.
Kind of. Oh, yeah.
They need to learn better, but that's how they are.
But there you go.
Keishon handled his business.
Body shot, too.
Oh, body shot chaos are the best.
Mm hmm.
I'll be very underrated, but very beautiful.
Yeah. I'm not sure what else to make of it.
It was a quick stoppage for four rounds.
Like, is Berenshik overrated or is Keishon better than we thought?
I don't think I think that I think Berenshik was scared.
You think so?
I think he was scared because honestly, people call him a bum.
I don't really consider Berenshik a bum because he had to have had the title for a reason.
He beat Navarrete.
Exactly. I mean, well, Navarrete, he's not exactly the best,
but he's still a solid fighter enough to, you know,
he's still enough of a solid fighter to put up a fight.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
Something like that.
But Keishon, oh my God, they gave me the chills when I was watching it because what was the name?
Big Bud? Yeah.
He put into light and it really, I really like it really blew me away when he said that.
It was like watching a young Terrence Crawford because he was right.
I haven't felt like that since watching someone like Terrence Crawford.
Come on up. You know what I mean?
Terrence Crawford at 135 was the beast.
Yeah. How the fuck did he ever make that weight?
I don't know. Considering now he's going to fight Cinnamon.
Oh, yeah. That's what the hell.
Now that that that was that's beautiful.
Yeah, it was an amazing performance.
Yeah. Looking at Boxwreck, of course, take that.
Take it with a grain of salt.
He's at number seven.
Ahead of him, Ray Murataya.
I really like Ray, but Kishon beats him.
I don't know why he's ranked that high, but I mean, yeah, he's a good guy, but he just
come on, you know, he that, you know, that type of guy like Kishon.
William Zepeda.
I disagree with that as well.
I highly disagree.
I think I think Zepeda is like number 10.
I don't you can hate me all you want.
If you want to send.
No, I'm sorry. I'm talking to people.
If they want to call in, tell me how wrong I am.
So Abdullah Mason's at 10.
Shurichio Yoshino is at nine.
That is crazy.
No, no, I disagree with that.
So Zepeda is above those two?
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
I think I think Kishon's above Zepeda and Murataya.
And Abdulayev, I assume as well.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Right now he is.
He has to be.
Top three are Tank, Shakur and LomaChenko.
Well, the thing is Loma is out.
I think he's out.
He's gone.
I think so, too.
He'll be.
They already they're already playing to vacate the title.
I'm pretty sure.
Right.
He's got three months and it'll be a year out.
I personally want to take to fight Loma.
That's never going to happen.
Honestly, I think Tanks going out the door to you think soon.
I think he is.
I think he's going to have one more fight in him.
We'll see how he talks after the Roach fight.
Hopefully he fights someone noteworthy.
He's not fighting Shakur.
He probably won't fight Kishon.
I don't know who's going to fight, but he needs to fight someone good.
He's not fighting Ryan.
I know people have been talking about that recently.
Kishon and Ryan?
No, no.
Tank and Ryan rematch.
Oh, no.
Before the Haney stuff came out.
I know they were mentioning that again.
Nobody needs to see that, but I don't know who Tanks going to fight.
Tank and Ryan.
I think Kishon, if he wanted a big fight, the biggest fight he could have would probably
be with Kishon.
But other than that, Shakur, but she's not going to fight Shakur because Shakur doesn't
want to fight him.
Oh, they're stable mates, aren't they?
Yeah, Shakur and Kishon are stable mates.
Yeah, they're like friends or whatever.
They don't want to fight.
Yeah, they can't.
That'd be wrong.
It would be.
I can't see BOMAC running across the ring.
I can't see BOMAC running.
I can't see.
Yeah, BOMAC can't run.
So looking at the other title holders, Kishon with WBO, Lobachenko has IBF, probably going
to get vacated.
Shakur WBC, Tank WBA.
Let me pull up the IBF possibles.
I'm pretty sure it was Murtaj and then it was named like Zaur.
Zaur Abdulayev, who is just above Kishon in the rankings.
Yeah, I don't agree with that either.
But yeah, those two of the the way that the IBF works, they always have their one and
two spots vacant.
They do this so that they don't have to order mandatories.
And basically number three is where the rankings begin.
But Abdulayev is in number two, so he has to he's he's a mandatory now.
And if Lomachenko doesn't take it, then he's going to be stripped of the title.
Well, we'll see what happens with that.
We'll see if Lomachenko comes back, which again, I doubt.
I don't think he's coming back either.
Like the according to top rank and PBC people, like spokespeople, negotiations for Tank and
Lomachenko were going really well.
They just pulled out out of nowhere.
So he probably just doesn't have any more.
He probably I think a good that was a good I guess last fight against Kambosis.
It was a big champion last time, but it would have been really crazy to see him fight Tank,
you know.
Yeah.
And Tank, I think that could have been a big pretty good pay per view.
Really big.
I would have loved it.
Yeah.
Life disappoints all the time.
You know.
Yeah.
Makes you want to cry.
So he's in the number two slot as a man for mandatory number three, four and five are
Andy Cruz, Murataya and Mark McSio.
Oh, actually, that's a good fight in the future.
Key John versus Andy Cruz rematch.
Oh, yeah, of course.
That's that's always been on the books as a possibility because it's three.
How you beat him.
What?
Three times in the amateurs.
So and Andy Cruz keeps calling him out like you.
He wants to continue humiliating you.
Are you going to stand for that?
Because you've adapted to the pro game a lot better than he has so far.
I think he could not go any cruise.
I think he could beat Andy Cruz because he's if you're go if you're bloodlusted to use
the discord term, then that's that's a different type of game right there.
And pros is totally different from the amateurs.
Exactly.
Frank Martin is at number seven.
OK, I think they'll probably be the most realistic fight next for Keisha Davis.
Some like framework.
Oh, but that's like across the street.
And yeah, Topper doesn't do that.
They well both try not to.
Yeah.
Try to keep things in house.
Yeah.
Raymore, I think is with Topper.
Yeah, which I mean, if they want to put that fight on with with Keisha, they can.
But I don't think they are.
Yeah, they're just going to give Keisha.
I think they're going to give Keisha the teal female route now.
They're just going to let him fight some shitters for a while, maybe fight for another title.
I don't know what that was up at Topper recently.
They just like to have their fighters fight shitters.
They just like to let them go.
Yeah, like like Janabek.
They do the same thing with Janabek.
They do the same thing with Teal female.
I mean, we'll see what happens with Loma if he ever comes back.
But Topper doesn't, you know, they don't do the fighters like that.
They don't give their fighters that much challenge until like Riyadh.
So they have to they have to for the money.
Like Jerry Anderson, I guess if you're looking back on it, he did not belong in Riyadh.
Like something like that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So the top rank ESPN deal is about to run out.
Yeah, that's that's going to be in a couple months.
Yeah.
So there it sounds like.
Well, they're already aligned with Riyadh season.
I wonder where where they're going to go.
They're probably going to have to go to the daisien.
They have to.
Who else is going to take them?
Nobody else wants them.
Nobody else really.
PPSPB already had a problem with that.
Looking for someone.
They got picked up by Prime.
Yeah.
And the only reason why I think Prime picked them up was because they have big name fighters,
big pay per view fighters.
Right.
That's the only thing keeping PBC up right now is Tank and Canelo.
And now David Benavides a little bit.
Well, Canelo just left for Riyadh.
Well, yeah, now he's gone for Riyadh.
So where close do they have Tank and David?
They can put on maybe not name brands events, but they have a good stable of fighters that
can make, you know, two doubleheader, tripleheaders that are really worth paying for.
Well, I would pay for David if he fought a good fighter.
I wouldn't pay for some of Tank's fights.
I wouldn't pay for some of David's fights.
They would need to fight good fighters.
Yeah.
As well.
Other than that, I really don't see anybody pay per view worthy on PBC side.
You know what I mean?
People need to readjust their price points.
$80 is not realistic anymore.
Nobody wants to pay, especially in this economy, nobody wants to pay $80 for a damn fight to
see Tim Zue versus Keith Thurman.
I don't want to pay.
I'm not paying to see that.
And I know it's free on Prime if you have a Prime membership.
And you know what?
I want to be honest.
I pay for the $25 Riyadh events.
I pay for those.
I watch those.
I have a Dazone subscription.
Just more and more smaller time promotions that I really want to see.
So you're for a prospect scouting.
They're moving to Dazone.
And there's another service I just came across.
It's BXNGTV.com.
They have a lot of local smokies.
Like the one that I said, like they put their fights on on Saturdays.
And like I'm not going to skip something else that's actually kind of important to the landscape
to watch this.
But I can go back and watch replays.
And that's always been a fucking problem with these people.
It's like, I don't know where to find your stuff.
But now they're on one place, which I like.
A lot of people don't like that's all in Dazium, but I do like that.
I do, too.
I do.
I don't like something RJ from in Discord, he always points out that they broadcast their
broadcasts are in 720p.
Yeah, that's another thing today.
Yeah, that's bullshit.
Poor quality.
We're primed.
Really poor quality.
It's 4K.
If your device can support 4K.
Which I mean, they need to upgrade their equipment.
Yeah.
Dazone.
I don't know why they don't have 4K.
Or at the very least 1080.
1080, yeah.
It's like the base, that's the base of HD at this point.
Yeah, 720 is like the old school.
Right.
You know, but we're going to get into that now.
We're into the semantics, huh?
Well, yeah, we'll see how much of that makes the makes the public release.
Yeah.
Anything more for Kishan and Berencic?
I can't wait to see what happens with Kishan in the future.
I am excited for him.
Because I kind of was like reluctant at first.
Is he that good?
Because he didn't seem to be that good.
And then the weed thing happened.
It turns out.
Yeah, he actually can be pretty explosive.
So when he stopped, I think that's when everything became better is when he stopped, stopped
with the marijuana smoking so much.
Moving on to the 15th in Manchester again at the Co Live Coop Live.
The fucking bunch of shit on here that I don't care about.
Arnold Barbosa split decision over Jack Cattarall interim WBO 140 pound title.
Did you think you'd get the decision out there?
No, no, not at all.
Not at all.
I didn't either.
I was surprised.
I was expecting a Jack Cattarall unanimous decision.
So was I.
There he was in a in a foreign land with surrounded by people that were booing him.
I mean, they cut it out, but they were booing the hell out of him.
Everybody was against Arnold Barbosa.
But somehow Golden Boy made the fucking gods help Arnold Barbosa get the decision this
time around.
I was surprised.
Now, was it a good fight?
It's all right.
It was all right.
Yeah, it was all right.
Not bad.
Like I actually expected it to be.
But you know, it was not bad to watch.
Am I going to follow Arnold Barbosa's career in the future?
I will.
I will watch him on the undercards and I will sometimes talk about him.
I'll think about him every now and then.
But other than that, no, I'm not paying attention to him that much.
It'll it'll come up on here anyway.
Just.
Yeah.
The state that he's at now.
And oh, what's what's what was your take about this fight right here, though?
About I liked it.
I'm I was happy with Barbosa's last performance against Ramirez at the Latino night in Riyadh.
Dumbest shit ever.
But nonetheless, I'm hopeful that he gets to fight for the actual title because it's
either he's going to fight to a female who he was chasing when they were both at top
rank and not going to be fighting anymore and ever again.
It's probably not going to happen.
But if he gets the full title, he joins a crop of solid, solid names.
So I'm who are his contemporaries?
Mother fucking Richardson Hitchens has the I.B.F.
O'Fimo has a WBO, Devin Haney has WBC and.
Ryo has WBA.
Well, you have two Devin Haney's in there.
One pretty good fighter.
Was the name of Issa Pueblo.
Well, yeah, he's he's OK.
He's a bad.
And Ryo.
Good scalp.
You have.
Yeah, yes.
You have two boxers.
So a pretty aggressive guy and then kind of a mix between those two.
And in Ryo, there's other options that are around to show Subaru Matias fighting soon.
That's a good name.
Fucking Andy Hiraoka.
He's pretty.
I would put him in the boxing theory.
Boxing laundry.
I'd have him at ironed.
Yeah, I agree.
He's good.
He's he still shows.
Maybe there's like a little bit of somebody that's elite in their prime and stuff can
exploit it.
But otherwise, like a lot of people are going to have trouble with this athleticism.
Yeah, I agree.
Adam Azim just beat fucking Lippen yet.
I think Adam Azim.
I think Azim might be on the hanger.
Because Lippen yet wasn't ever really that good to begin with.
So him being in the hamper, it's not not a not very good.
Yeah.
Oh, I don't know.
We can.
I'm excited to see Barbosa.
So far, not too keen on him as a fighter, but I do enjoy his personality.
I like him.
I like the guy.
Yeah, I can't hate the guy.
He's a he's a really humble guy.
He is.
I love humble fighters.
It's just I just do.
I just can't watch.
Yeah, it's not that aesthetically pleasing in the ring.
Exactly.
But still, another Chicano kid going up.
Can't hate it.
But anything more for the matchroom card?
No.
All right.
One quick one in Mongolia.
I have not been able to find any footage of this, but Sembatar Erdembat, he's been he's
fought on pro box a handful of times and it's been pretty good.
Pretty exciting.
Mongolians always come to rumble.
Always.
They always come to fight.
So in the rare times you see him fight, they always come to fight.
Yeah.
So I was hoping to get more info, but he gets the win stoppage in six of 10.
So congrats to Erdembat.
Wait, I think you're missing a card.
Which golden boy?
Oh, fuck.
I keep forgetting about this one.
I think you forgot the last time, too.
I did.
God damn it.
What is wrong with me?
At the same time, it's not really that important.
We just, you know.
Yeah, I'm pulling it up.
This one was in Oxnard or Anaheim.
Not Oxnard.
There's not very many here that are all that important to me.
Oscar Duarte headlining.
Yeah.
And he was awesome.
Just some quick ones.
Kenny Sims Jr. UD over Kendo Castaneda.
There was somebody else in the stable.
Alexis Rocha.
They were talking about them fighting.
I just am struggling to care about that.
Yeah, I don't care for Alex Rocha or even Curiel.
Darius Fuljum gets the win in four over Winfred Harris.
Winfred very clearly did not want to be there.
Hopefully he got paid at least.
And main event Miguel Madueno comes to rumble, gets stopped in seven.
Oscar Duarte gets the win.
Very cool fight.
I liked it.
It was really fun.
You love to see this guy.
It's they're not the Mexican styles evolving a bit.
They're starting to become more more technical prowess involved, like seeing the likes of
Marquez Canelo.
They're stepping away from the quote unquote flat foot brawler.
Well, I don't know if Oscar really falls into the category of being technical.
He has more technique to his brawl.
He's not like people.
I'll tell you that.
He's definitely more technical than Pitbull.
Pitbull is like modern.
That's the classic.
Yeah, he's modern class style.
Yeah.
But Duarte is a little bit more technical than that.
Whereas like Canelo, like half his career was like Pitbull and half his career is kind
of a little more refined, technically refined.
He became the way my the delineage for me.
What is the Canelo years and then the dinero years?
Yeah, that's perfect.
Actually.
Yeah.
Saul dinero.
Miguel.
No, Miguel Madueno.
He has options because that outing was fantastic.
He had just lost to Keyshawn.
And I know they were making a big stink about that on the broadcast saying that Keyshawn
couldn't stop them.
But look who did.
Yeah, but is that really fair?
I don't.
That's not fair at all.
I don't think it's fair.
Now is that two different weight classes?
Yep.
With two different style fighters.
Very different.
For Keyshawn to like box you box you up.
Yeah, that's that's what he does.
But what if he stays at 135?
There are still options for him.
He could go up to 140.
He didn't look terrible.
Honestly, I think if he wants to stay 135, Yoshino would be a good fight.
Good one.
Yeah.
This is one of those ones where their stock went up.
I was happy to see how well he did.
But for Oscar, he's at 140.
He lost to Ryan Garcia.
Yeah.
Keo.
Another loss back in the day.
And then Jojo, you want to get Jojo Diaz?
That's Jojo Diaz though.
Jojo Akhmedov.
Have I seen you before?
This was on the Latino Night.
Yeah.
It was OK.
Doodoo Night.
Eh.
Man.
I have to have to look into that a little bit more because throwing we were talking
about with Arnold Barbosa and like all of the possibilities that exist at 140.
I think just put Oscar into that same conversation.
It's the same thing.
Yeah.
Same exact thing.
Yeah.
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Friday, February 28th, Yvonne Michel has a fucking dealio in Quebec.
Eduardo Hernandez versus Rene Telles.
That's the headline.
That's the guy that Scofield fought.
Oh, yeah.
He is, isn't he?
Yeah.
That's the one that he went to rumble with.
And came out the victor.
Moving to March 1st, got a couple to throw out.
No limit in Brisbane.
Liam Wilson.
We've got Oscar Valdez versus Yousef Dib.
This is a rematch.
So enjoy that.
It's going to be at like fucking one in the morning, midnight on the West Coast, I think.
Yeah.
Matchroom in Northern Ireland, Lewis Crocker versus Patti Donovan as the headline.
Craig Richards versus Patrick McCrory is your co-main.
He's moving back down to super middle.
Queensborough.
In Burnham.
I don't really know who any of these people are.
Oh, Joe Joyce.
Joe Joyce.
That's right.
Joe Joyce versus Patrick Cortes.
This is the one.
He has this fight and then he has Dillion White in a month.
In a month.
Yeah, that's wild.
That's a really bad idea, dude.
I just I've seen that go bad so many times.
I don't even know exactly.
That's going to give him bad luck.
I hope so.
So badly.
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.
Hold on a second.
Karol Itama.
He is indeed related to Moses.
Yeah, he is fighting Michael Ludwigak.
I think I got that one.
But there you go.
Those are pretty much the only two.
This Itama is at light heavyweight.
He's 12 and 1.
Lost by KO in the fifth.
His only loss.
That was a while ago.
Long long time ago.
So that's it for the Queensburg card.
Salida Promotions in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Only one really worth pointing out.
Subaru Almentias for Gabriel Valenzuela.
So that's fun.
It'll be on the zone.
Why do I have that there?
All right.
Whatever.
Subaru Almentias is going back in pretty quick turnaround.
All right.
Back up to the top.
Pollo Versandro Martín, the BBC super lightweight.
I don't know.
I like Sandra Martín a lot.
But I don't know.
Sandra Martin.
I think he could probably win the fight if he fought the right way.
Yeah, that's if you don't come correct, then he'll kick you.
He'll be in the bar.
Yeah.
So picking up Jose Valenzuela, Rio versus Gary Antoine Russell.
Just call the Russell brothers by their middle names.
Jose Valenzuela.
I'm hopeful that Ryo wins.
Pulls it out.
I want Ryo to win too.
I want him to keep that title.
Yeah.
Because GAR is.
He's OK.
He's OK if I had a watch.
I like my man, Rio.
Can't spell garbage without.
GAR.
There you go.
Antoine's fine.
I was there for the postal fight.
They post.
Yeah, they stopped him in the 10th round and postals just stood there like, what the fuck
is going on?
I like everything.
I remember that.
Yeah, they were trying to keep Antoine's 100 percent K.O. ratio.
Yeah.
That was kind of BS.
Quite.
And moving up, WBA lightweight title, Gervonta Davis versus Roach.
We have to talk about it.
What round?
Six.
I was going to six as well.
Yeah, I'm thinking six.
And if it's not the six, then it's got to be a late stoppage.
You think you think it'll go later?
No.
I honestly I think it's going to go six rounds tops.
And the thing is that if by chance, if Lamont Roach makes to the end, Gervonta Davis still
winning no matter what.
It's a kangaroo court type of fight.
They're not going to let Davis lose the fight no matter what.
Even if Lamont Roach fights like hell, like if he fights like we've all that fight and
he for some reason, he lasts against Gervonta Davis.
He still doesn't get it.
He still doesn't get the damn win because you know how politics work in boxing, man.
Of course, they're going to keep it in house.
Only reason why they took away Canelo's always because I mean, it's Canelo.
He always hops around.
You know, I think that was the end of that was the end of his as his time with the Asian,
right?
It was his last fight with matchroom.
Actually, I think I think that was the second to last fight with with matchroom.
Yeah, it was triple G.
Yeah, I was at the last one.
Yeah, but but either way, they're they're not going to take away Gervonta Davis's own
no matter what.
I don't care what anybody says, not even a fucking draw.
I mean, I don't want to get into it, dude.
I really do want one again to Gervonta Davis here right now on the call.
We don't have to get into him.
So yeah, what I liked is that I just said what round and you already knew exactly what
I was talking about.
That's crazy.
We both knew the same exact round.
You're right.
I'm thinking just for the sake of variety, I'm going to go third quarter seven, eight
or six, seven, eight or nine.
That's valid.
I like that.
Wait, I kind of do want to see my opinion about think.
Go for it.
I know, but I feel like this is going to be like a little too controversial.
Well, the unedited versions only go behind a paywall.
OK, that's the only place you could get them.
So if you want, I can cut it out.
What's that bad?
It's not controversial, like crazy bad.
It's like it's like it's like the Floyd Schofield.
Oh, that's not bad.
That's actually not as bad as Floyd Schofield.
But I honestly think Gervonta Davis, from what I'm hearing, if you were to retire after
this fight, he's not going to remember that well.
He's going to remember it as much as Julian the Hot Jackson, if not even less.
If he were to leave now.
Yeah, Gervonta Davis to me has not done anything to support no worthy besides fighting Ryan
Garcia.
He was gifted a title at 135.
And don't get me wrong, he's a great fighter.
He's a great he's amazing fighter, but he didn't earn that title at 135.
He's done some work at, you know, the weight classes below.
But I mean, does anybody remember his 130 run?
How much does anybody remember his 120?
You remember much sickos do I do?
I'm saying like the general like like public, you know, I mean, oh, absolutely not.
Exactly.
Maybe they remember Pedraza and that's it.
But they remember him now and think of him as that he was the same way back then.
Exactly.
Which he wasn't at all.
But doesn't matter.
Another one.
Gamboa maybe.
But he didn't fight anybody else of the four princes.
He had not fight Devin Haney or Teofimo, who he should have fought.
He should have gone up in weight, but he didn't.
And if this is really Les last fight, so be it.
Rest in peace, Tank Davis.
But I don't know, man.
Retire with you.
Oh, but that doesn't mean shit to me.
He's fighting minority in the conversation of Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, never
Ray Leonard.
If anything, you want to be even more controversial?
Sure.
I think Devin Haney is going to be remembered more than Jervonta Davis, maybe not remembered
like, OK, yeah, he was a better fighter, but he'll be remembered more.
You know, I mean, yeah, you'd be more fondly remembered than Jervonta.
Name recognition.
Yeah.
Because he's still going to be fighting and what he fought Ryan, he fought Ryan at 20
was 26.
Right.
Yeah.
Twenty six, 25 tanks, 30 years old.
And he hasn't fought anybody.
No worthy.
Actually, I said this in the chat the other day.
He's the only fighter at 135 right now that actually fought for a title.
Shakur and Edward Santos fought for a vacated title.
Davis was given was an email champ.
And then Lomachenko was also for a vacated title with Lomachenko.
Or not Lomachenko.
Loma was vacated, vacated, fighting for the vacated title with Ken Boses.
That's it.
I don't know.
You could hate me for my Jervonta Davis.
I don't get me wrong.
The reason why I'm so hard on him is because he is such a great fighter.
I think Jervonta Davis potentially could have became undisputed when if he followed
him earlier.
But I mean, that's neither here nor there.
How do you feel about my opinion?
No, Devin Haney is 26.
Yeah, he fought Brian Garcia, 26, 26.
He's still got time to to build up more.
Exactly.
And the tank, I mean, who else has he fought besides Ryan?
You know, we know we fought.
We obviously know we fought.
But who like who was of note that he fought?
Who was noteworthy, noteworthy name that he really fought in that resume as aged well?
Besides Ryan, I was going to say Leo Santa Cruz, but I don't know how well that's aged.
He brought him up.
He brought him up and wait.
Yes, he did.
And he's basically out of the sport now.
He is out of the sport now.
OK.
Only one I could think of is Mario Barrios is the only other.
That's that's actually a really notable win in my opinion.
Was it aged well, though?
Because yeah, he has a title, but he looked like shit against Abel Ramos.
Yeah, I agree with you.
But the only thing is that in my opinion, the reason why it's so noteworthy is because
he's now a welterweight.
I see what you mean.
And you want to see how how crazy.
Not crazy, what's the word?
That kind of shows you the greatest tank.
What the greatest tank like the difference in levels in the game, I guess, in terms of
greatness.
People wanted Terrence Crawford to fight Canelo, right?
Yeah.
But who was really calling for Tank to fight Terrence Crawford or Boots?
People want anyway to go up and fight Tank.
But who is asking for Tank to move up?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I see.
Nobody wants Tank to move up.
No, I have not heard one opinion about Tank moving up and fighting Moots.
And again, that's a silly opinion.
It's a really silly thing to do, kind of.
But it's just the matter that you're in that kind of conversation.
Exactly.
Like you hear you.
I mean, you hear all the time about Boots and Canelo, not Boots, Canelo and Crawford.
And Crawford was a welterweight.
He started at 135.
Yeah.
And moving up to 168.
OK.
But you don't hear anybody talking about Tank moving up a couple weight classes.
Why?
Why is that?
We just want him to fight at all.
Just period.
Exactly.
Just somebody.
Of note.
Yeah.
Find somebody who fucking matters that's in your weight class.
Like you're pulling up Lamont Roach just as well.
Frank Martin, you sniped him early.
And Hector Garcia, you pulled him up.
The only thing is that what I wish Tank could have done was go up to 140 with everybody
else.
That would have been legendary and fought everybody.
Like when Teofimo and Devin Haney and them.
Everybody moved up.
The thing with that is that Tank really could have fought them all at 140 and became undisputed.
I know becoming undisputed obviously is not the be all end all for boxing.
But at the same time it's like well at one point Devin Haney and Matias and Pitbull were
all title holders right?
He could have gone up and shaken the division up and became undisputed when all those guys
were up there.
And I think that if he had an undisputed run at that weight class like that with all those
guys no doubt about it he would be remembered just for that.
But he's done nothing like of note.
Something like you know what I mean?
He hasn't done anything like that.
He hasn't reached out for greatness.
He stayed comfortable.
833 Lux Pods.
Oh.
Tell me why you disagree.
Oh because that it's a spicy take yes and it's one that I'm sure that there's a certain
subset of fans that don't want to hear it.
Specifically like Tank stands.
But yeah looking at his resume it's not looking great.
He's not going to be remembered fondly as you put it.
No.
And honestly like I think like so many other guys that if Tank fought him he would have
been remembered more.
But now these other guys are going to be remembered way more than him.
And the argument that I've always seen with Tank fans is that he makes more money.
So what?
Yeah.
So what?
That's not just because you make more money doesn't mean you're greater.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Yeah your pay per view splits nobody fucking cares.
Only you care of course because that's your wallet.
But the rest of us like I don't give a shit.
Okay.
About how much your pay per view buys.
I don't get paid for that.
I exactly paying for it.
So I want to see maybe one of yeah maybe one to pay for your damn pay per view buys.
Right.
Yeah we were saying that about PBC.
Yeah.
And their new deal with whoever.
Well Tank Davis just do better.
Hopefully you don't retire after this fight.
If you do then you're going to fade into obscurity.
I think that he'll be remembered in the same like through the same lens as Julian Jackson
like because of that stupid power.
But not remotely remembered fondly.
Right for winning taking the hard fights.
Win or lose.
Yeah.
Great.
Wow.
Bold takes over here man.
I tell you.
That's what the B and B side stands for is bold.
Bold.
Old slides.
That's all we got though.
That's it for the March 1st.
It's a busy day.
Not a whole lot of it is actually very good.
If you want to be just completely disgusting you can watch No Limit.
That'll take you.
Then you can have a power nap that'll take you into the matchroom and or Queensbury.
Then you can double screen Salida and PBC.
Yeah.
Oh man.
That's I'm probably going to end up doing that.
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CARTING WORDS.
You go first man.
Oh shit.
One that I've been trying to do, trying to give something positive to think about.
Positive New Year's resolutions for example.
Instead of like eating better, exercising more, like no shit.
Drinking less alcohol of course.
They're not quite as fun.
So those are the ones people usually give up on.
So try to do a positive.
Trying to do a positive one.
I'm still on it.
I'm like, how far are we?
We're like six weeks into the year and I'm like on week five of uh, I've been doing vocal
coaching and fucking exercises to get better, taking my singing more seriously.
So that's fun.
I've been doing that.
And some positive parting words.
This is from Walt Whitman.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
That's beautiful.
Yeah.
I like that.
Oh shit.
I just came across another one.
This one's from JFK and it just really, I think it underlines everything I was saying
about the positive or the fun resolutions.
So JFK.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not
to utter words, but to live by them.
That's even better actually.
Why are you doing me like this?
That's fucking crazy, man.
Yeah.
Crazy.
You want to see my last words?
Yeah.
Parting words.
What do you got?
Parting words.
I am a casual.
I love boxing.
But make me pay for this shit.
Give me a reason.
Reason for what?
To pay.
To pay?
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Give me a reason to pay.
Give me a reason.
You know, seeing Lamont, Roach and Javon to tank Davis, it's a waste of money.
It's a waste of money.
And I hate saying that.
Honestly, I think Ryo versus JR is going to be better.
So in the future, I hope there's better fights.
I love boxing.
But man, I hate when promotional companies do this shit with the fighters.
I hate when fighters do this.
You know?
Yeah.
So we'll see what happens with Tank in the future.
And I hope, I wish him the best.
I wish all the fighters the best.
I say it all the time.
I just hope everyone's having fun.
Yes, I agree.
All right.
That's it.
We'll see you on the other side of Tank.
And we'll be talking about the Riyadh card next time.
We'll see you next week.