This shit ain't nothing to me, man. Do the thing.
Fucking boxing before dark. Don't take your edibles
just yet, because it's still a light out. Shanada,
how are you doing on this wonderful Saturday
morning for you, right? Yeah, pretty good. I'm
sick, so I don't know if I sound real nasally
today. I sounded like shit yesterday. And it's
raining, so good day to stay inside. Nasally.
Rain. I don't know if that would help. Would
that make it worse? No, it doesn't. But it makes
me feel better about not doing anything. I don't
have to do laundry. I can just relax. Lazy rainy
days. Yeah. Thursday night, I almost drowned
in my own snot. I don't know what I caught, but
it was all in my sinuses. It was disgusting.
I wore a mask to work and I had to leave because...
It was getting full of mucus. Oh, that's not
fun. It was disgusting. I used to wear those.
I had some that I wore. Like, if I just had something
like the sniffles, I would wear a mask to work.
And this was, like, 2016, 2017. And people would
look at me. I had one, one of my supervisors,
she asked, like, what the hell is that on your
face? Like, it's a little mask. Like, I... I'm
not feeling 100%, but not enough to not be here.
Stay home. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to be coughing
on you guys. It's very common here. Some people
just wear them as, like, a fashion accessory.
Like, there was one girl, I don't know how to
say it nicely, but she looked better with a mask
on, and she just wore it all the time. Yeah,
it does seem like a fashion thing as well. It's
just an accessory. Yeah. It's part of some of
the, like, dress cultures. That's not what she
was doing. She was just covering up her weak
jaw. Anyways, I hate them. My glasses fog up.
It's gross. And you can't really sniff in your
snot when you're wearing them, because then it,
like, clinks to your face. Ugh. But I am on the
mend. That's good. You see this picture of Travis
Jr. in Discord? He actually looks like he's taking
it kind of seriously. The thing you sent me?
No. This is in Maine. Oh. Yeah. He's got his
pants hiked up around his ribs. He looks like
he's taking training pretty seriously. He does
look much more fit than he has. In his past few
fights. Yeah. I hope he knocks Jake Paul out.
Highly, highly unlikely. But it would be nice.
Well, let's move into the news. There's not a
lot of it. It's going to be a short one. That's
why we talk about boogers and edibles. Because
we've got to build the time a little bit. Punchburger
is having eye surgery. I think he already did.
So I didn't see any English news about it. I
guess he's not that famous. But I sent an article
to my friend to translate because Google Translate
has trouble with some of the boxing news. And
he said Punchburger has had eye surgery, but
they've made him champion in recess because he
needs to defend soon. So instead, it's going
to be... What did I tell you? Higa versus Vargas?
Yeah. So they're either going to push for the
Higa trilogy or consolidates with whoever the
other guy is. I'm having trouble picturing who
that is right now. Vargas. I am so bad at names.
Yeah. Oh, Antonio Vargas. Are you one of the
brothers? I typed in Vargas boxer and it auto
-filled to Jose Vargas says he's not gay after
explicit same -sex clip circulates online. I
don't know why. All right. So out of pocket.
Okay, sorry. Yeah. That's the hard -hitting reporting
that we're looking for. It's out .com, so...
It's... Huh, Antonio Vargas. Ray Vargas, right?
No, which Vargas is it? Antonio. Antonio Vargas.
I don't... Too many of them. It's a common name.
I don't know where... He's already the interim
champion. So, I guess Daigo Higa. fights for
the interim. I mean, that makes sense. Somebody
was complaining about Higa always getting title
shots, but his last fight was a draw with the
champion. It makes sense that he gets to fight
for the interim after. I think. I think so, too.
I was going to look up, because he has a lot
of close fights with champions. Yoshiki Takei
was super close. He doesn't seem to win very
many of them. I guess is the problem. He's on
the Okinawan side of the judges' decisions. Yeah.
They do seem to treat him better than some of
the other ones, though. He doesn't have that
many losses. Two of them are to current champions.
And Christopher Rosales. I don't know who that
is. I don't either. But yeah, he lost to Nishida
and he lost to Takei. Those are solid losses.
Yeah. And Nishida's up for Junto and Nakatani,
right? Yeah. They're fighting soon -ish. Aren't
they? uh june 8th yeah i need to try and get
a ticket for that i don't know i don't know who
to buy the ticket from i think nishida might
have a more fun crowd nakatani has gotten that
mainstream famous enough that it seems to be
all businessmen in his sections yeah they're
boring as hell I would say go with Mashida. Go
with the Osaka hooligans. Yeah, yeah. Should
be more fun. Speaking of hooligans, I have some
stories from the Ioka fight. Well, I'll wait
till we get to the Ioka card. All right. So,
well, I was going to say thinking it should be
more fun. Tank versus Roach, the rematch. Yeah.
Not sure why the champ is giving that bum tank
a rematch. Because we all know who won that fight.
This is going to tie in with the Navarrete thing,
so I don't know if you want to do it now or later,
but if they're changing results after, that Tank
Roach should have been overturned, the whole
result. It should have been a Roach win. If you
can change the outcome of fights based on video
replay after the fight's over, well, it should
have been changed instantly, but Roach won that
fight. Tank took a knee. At the very least, you
take a point for the knee. Yeah. Yeah. It's bullshit.
I'm not sure. No, we'll get to that one later.
But yeah, there was a knee. Fucking Roach won.
Knocked Tank down. With the power of grease,
I guess. Who knows? Also, do you not wash your
fucking hair? I know black hair is different
when it's in braids and stuff, but it should
have at least gotten wet in five days, especially
with training and making a weight cut and all
the sweat. Yeah. I don't claim to be an expert
on braids or anything, but I feel like at some
point they should have at least been rinsed.
That's gross. Or toweled off. Or something. Something.
Something should have happened there. Anyways,
I really hope Roach wins the rematch. I don't
know if he will. I'm not so sure he will. I think
Tank might come in better prepared. Because I
think Tank had a sparring mindset a little bit
in that one. Don't take it too hard. Well, because
they were sparring partners a while ago, but
I think maybe that it didn't really click in
his head that it's a real fight. Hence the taking
a knee and getting toweled off in the corner
mid -fight. Fucking garbage. I have a feeling
that this is going to play out the way a lot
of the... Very few of Floyd Mayweather's rematches.
He always did a lot better in the rematches.
He had done the downloading trademark. Yeah.
I don't know if tank is that... How do I put
it? Like, skilled's not the right word. Technical,
maybe? That the downloading is really going to
help? Like, he's technical, but not in a Mayweather
way. Cerebral. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'm
going to be cheering for Roach again anyways.
I fucking do not like Tank. Mongoloid technician.
Mongoloid technician. I like that. Yeah. What's
the actual puncher? Boxer puncher. Yeah. Yeah.
My dad does not realize that group chats are
group chats. He's telling my mom what to make
for supper in the family chat. Excellent. Very
boomer activities. Now I'm hungry. They're having
side pork, which is something I can't buy here.
Is that side tack? I don't know what that is.
It's like uncured bacon, kind of. I know what
you mean. It's just always been called side pork.
I've never heard it called side pork, but...
Anyways. Yeah. Sorry. Nah, it's fine. That's
all we got in the news. It's a pretty slow week.
Yeah, you know what else I have? I haven't been
keeping up with the... grand prix is it when
is that supposed to continue i have no idea i
rely on you mostly for calendar things the first
four days are complete so that's the first part
of the bracket I think... It's probably a couple
more months, right? Yeah, it'll be a few weeks
at the least. A few more weeks. Moving into some
recent fights. Lee Wood was not lethal. Yeah.
Damn it. I wanted him to win. But Lee Wood is...
the epitome of not very skilled. But he's so
good at being not very skilled. And I don't like
Kakachi. He's kind of dirty. Kind of. He's real
dirty in the clinches. But I don't know. If this
is what Leawood looks like, maybe it's time to
hang him up. He's old. He's our age. Yeah. He's
been in wars. He's been losing wars for years.
But, man, I wanted him to pull out one more big
one. But his corner threw in the towel, I think,
at an appropriate time. But no reason for him
to take more damage. Although with Lee Wood,
you always have that, but maybe the next punch.
Yeah, the next one will be the one that turns
it. Yeah. Damn it, now Kakashi gets to continue.
Yeah. Who's the... Who do you think he'll fight
next? I really... Ford mops the floor with Kikachi,
I think. Yes, I think so too. I think Kikachi
is looking for one big payout though. I think
that's about all he has in him. I don't think
he's that good. He's 36 as well. Yeah, and he's
also old. Charlie Suarez. How's that for a payout?
He's getting his rematch. Suarez is tied up.
He is super feather, isn't he? Yes. I'm trying
to think of who his promoter is. He can fight
Joe Cordina. Again? I was just looking for Brits.
Josh Warrington just had a big -ish win. Fuck
Josh Warrington. Actually, those two can fight
each other and see whose head is harder. Just
headbutts in the middle of the ring. They've
got Kenichi Ogawa. listed as number two by the
WBO. I'd like to see Ogawa again. So I'm looking
in Discord in the main chat and they are posting
stuff from this random ass card. Brand Risk,
I think it's called. I can see why it's called
Brand Risk, based on the pictures I'm seeing.
It looks very low production. It's an interesting
event, to say the least. Is that a Confederate
flag on his ass? It is. And is that man black?
He is. Why? We all make mistakes in life. I don't
know. I'm guessing it's part of the flag of where
he's from. I guess that makes sense. America's
weird. Some of the southern states still have
that. They have that branding. Who else was on
this card? There was somebody... Yeah, Sam Noakes.
People were really excited about seeing him again.
Yeah. And by people, I mean Lin. Sam Noakes seems
to be a decent prospect as far as Brits go. Which,
backhanded compliment, I suppose. And he won
by... KO in 30. KO in three. Okay. I don't know
if I actually watched that one. The British cards
are really early in the morning for me. Do you
see, George Cambosos? Do you see how you're supposed
to do it? I don't think anyone else on this card
was really worth mentioning, though. Liam Davies
was there, I guess. Yeah, I guess. Ezra Taylor,
I recognize the name. Yeah, I don't know. Anyways,
I think that might actually be the last time
we see Leewood, and it makes me sad. At least
he went out in a scrap. Yeah, and he had to be
saved from himself, like always. As one thing
nobody can question is Leewood's grit. He always
gets up. Well, almost always. Moving to Fernando
Martinez versus Kazuto Ioka. Yeah, I picked up
last -minute tickets for this, and I got the
cheaper ones, and I ended up in the drunken asshole
section, and it was great. The crowd was actually
really into it. That gymnasium isn't very big.
The only problem was I was behind the boom camera,
so I had to watch on the screen every once in
a while. That's not fun. Yeah, nothing on the
undercard was really all that exciting. And I
don't know why they're pushing Hayato Tsutsumi
so much. He's not that good. Yeah, I was going
to ask about him. He's okay, but I don't think
he's that good. There's nothing special about
him. But Martinez versus Ioka was a really good
fight. If people missed it, you should go find
it. If you search the title in Japanese, like
with the Japanese character, there was a full
replay on YouTube. I don't know if it's still
up. But the whole thing was just fucking great.
Ioka got live wrapped in. by a guy and he was
actually really good and then Fernando Martinez
they brought like the big traditional stand -up
drums and even so during the co -main event you
could hear these drums in the locker room because
the place isn't that big so it's just like that
scene in Lord of the Rings where the drums start
in the mine it's like boom boom but coming from
a distance yeah and then they they carried it
out uh not in the walkout but while he was doing
his walkout they must have carried it up into
the stand so during the fight you could hear
it uh it was straight across from me and martinez
walked out to some argentinian song i don't know
but they had Argentinian flags all over the place
but also umbrellas with the flag that they were
like dancing twirling with the umbrellas during
the walkout the whole thing was great and the
fight was a fucking war again this one was way
more competitive though like I I'm not upset
that Ioka didn't get the nod but he maybe could
have and he knocked Martinez down in I think
the 10th or 11th and everybody jumped up and
was yelling and he went and he did try for the
knockout but he just didn't get it it was crazy
it was a really good fight this one you should
watch it yeah i was gonna say it's on daily motion
you know for people who maybe need replays daily
motion is legit uh so this fight was more competitive
you said Way more competitive, yeah. The last
one was action -packed and fun, but this one
was more competitive. And of course, one of the
scorecards fucked Ioka, because they always do.
I was waiting for a second to slip that in, just
to say, well, of course it was more competitive.
It was 120 to 108. How could you go any lower
than that? Well, one had it 113 -114. And the
other had it 1 .12, 1 .15, and then there was
1 .10, 1 .17. So... Because. 1 .12, 1 .17? There
was a knockdown. That math isn't mathing on the
last one, but... Did I say it wrong? 1 .10, 1
.17? Oh, okay, yeah. That sounds more... Aligned.
Anyways. uh it was a really good really competitive
fight and uh i always ask the security guards
to help me find my seat because they're written
in kanjis so just to make sure and the security
guard showed me my seat and i was sitting there
and part way through somebody came and they're
like you're in my seat and i was like what and
so i got out my ticket and he didn't speak english
and i showed him and he's like no that this is
my seat i was like i don't know where i'm supposed
to go um so i was supposed to be in row 12 seat
11 but i was in row 11 seat 12 so i just had
to go up one oh which is fine but i had already
been talking to the guys who were sitting beside
that seat And so I moved up, and their English
was not good, and my Japanese is not good enough
to explain what was going on. And so one of them
thought I was trying to pick him up, and he told
me that his girlfriend was the ring girl, which
could be true, I don't know, but I thought it
was fucking hilarious. You are speaking to him.
That must mean you're trying to bang him. Well...
I moved seats to sit beside him. Oh, I see. But
that's not why I moved seats. I moved seats because
I was in the wrong seat. But I could not get
that across. Yeah. It was pretty funny. Yeah.
He got really red and then made his friend change
seats with him. The embarrassed Japanese man.
Yeah, and then he thought I didn't understand
any Japanese because I really can't speak it
worth a shit. So he was telling his friend that
he should try and pick me up because clearly
I was looking for a boyfriend. I was like, god
damn it. But, pretty funny. Did you look into
those translator headphones I was telling you
about? Yeah, they don't sell them on Amazon Japan.
Boo. I found something that advertised being
really similar, but all it actually is is paying
a subscription for an app, and then they send
you headphones. Yeah, it doesn't look like a
subscription service. You just pay the one thing
and you get access to the app. No, the ones I
bought headphones. that advertised like that,
but it was like $12 a month or something for
the app. Fuck that. Yeah, so I got my money back.
And they didn't want their headphones back, so
now I have free headphones. Well, that works.
I guess. I didn't really want the headphones.
I was happy to mail them back. But... Yeah. Moral
of the story is, though, Martina Zioka might...
be fight of the year right now. It was that good.
Nobody watched it. As is tradition. Yeah. For
the smaller weights. Well, I couldn't think of
a good segue here. Emmanuel Navarrete versus
Charlie Suarez. Unanimous technical decision
on what was difficult to tell if it was a cut.
At the time. Did they overturn it after? Not
that I've seen. I think they did. That should
be on BoxRec if they did, right? Yes, it should
be. It still was a nav green when I saw it. Hmm.
Yes. Okay. Maybe people were just talking that
they should, and I misunderstood. Yeah, in the
heat of the moment, a lot of people were... It
looked like a punch in the heat of the moment.
There were some weird misgivings around the whole
thing that were kind of... I don't know. I don't
know. It didn't look like it was enough to me
to rule out the punch being causal. So, yeah,
this is something we can discuss, I think. So
the way it works, my understanding, the referee
has to make a decision, and then they can go
to video replay. And it's like most sports where
you need undisputable evidence to overturn the
referee's decision, right? Right. I think that's
the way it should work. The ref needs to make
a decision, and if he's wrong, he's wrong. But
you need a decision made first. Because if you
don't, if you're like, we're just going to go
to the video, and the evidence is bad, like in
this case, everything they showed during the
fight, you couldn't tell. People told me that
after the fight, there was a new angle or something
that came out. espn had a different angle i don't
know but everything they showed during the fight
was inconclusive to me and to everyone else so
they said that the referee's decision had to
stand which i makes sense to me but i mean the
referee has to do it at real time on the spot
I think it was perfectly reasonable for him to
say it was a head clash, even though on super
slow motion, you can see it isn't. Yeah, it did
take a different angle coming out. And it wasn't
like they zoomed in a lot where it got all grainy.
It was a pretty clear image where it showed the
blood spatter onto his... the blood spatters
onto the glove of Suarez, which the glove, what
made it work in his favor is that the gloves
were white. Right. So it was easy to tell. But
other than that... Yeah, no, I haven't seen that
angle. The only thing I saw that... people said
was conclusive that i didn't think was very conclusive
was that super zoomed in one where it's so zoomed
in the color gets lost and people are like look
there's two drops of blood on these two frames
and i'm like if that's what you're basing it
on that's you can't fuck with the video that
much yeah might as well light some incense and
put on some shawls and try to decipher the images
of the fucking static overlords But the, I don't
know, I like video replay, but you have to have
rules around it, I think. Like, not in boxing,
I don't think this rule really applies, but in,
like, CFL, Canadian football, the Canadian version
of the NFL, they have to, the replay team has
to watch at full speed to make decisions on,
like, fumbles and stuff did he have control if
you watch it at full speed or early hits like
at full speed can you tell that he hit him before
the ball touched his hands that sort of stuff
and i think with boxing like zooming in is the
equivalent of watching the slow -mo it's like
you can't really start zooming in and fucking
with the video in my opinion there's only so
much zooming in you can do before you lose integrity
of the image Well, and if you have to zoom in
and go frame by frame to overturn something,
that seems bullshit to me. Frame by frame, it's
a little excessive in boxing. But other sports,
I don't know, I think it's alright to have so
you can see exactly when something touched and
what didn't. I mean baseball, it makes sense.
Yeah. So you can have the first base. But, like,
I like that you have to watch it at full speed
for the CFL, because if it is so fucking close
that you're slow -moing to see if it's a penalty,
it's not a penalty. Like, he timed it pretty
good if you have to slow -mo it. And honestly,
with this one, I think it's still weird, because...
The punch opened the cut or started the cut,
but what really made it a bad cut was him pulling,
like rubbing the wrist of his boxing glove over
top of it. That's what really split his eye open,
I think. I think you're right. I would agree
with that. It did look like he did something.
It looked like there was a spot where their heads
maybe rubbed together. Then there's where his
wrist catches on the cut. So there was stuff
going on. That wrist catch, I think, is what
really actually opened it, though. Yeah, I would
say that's definitely the case. I would agree
with that 100%. But if it was caused by a punch,
I guess that's still within the rules. Accidental
cut gouging? It sounds so bad when you put it
that way, though. Yeah, I don't know. This one's
controversial, but everything during the broadcast
made me side with leaving it the ref's decision.
Yeah, it wasn't enough to overturn it. Where
did this other angle come from? I think it was
from the ESPN broadcast crew. Oh, was it? It
wasn't somebody in the crowd or something? No.
It's weird that they didn't have it then. Yeah,
that is weird. I guess they kind of stopped looking
after the video replay ref decided not to overturn
the decision. Eh, well, it's been decided, so
what's really the point? Yeah, I guess. It was
a pretty fun fight up to that point, though.
Navarrete still Navarrete throwing weird -ass
punches from weird -ass angles. Long -ass arms.
And chubby. I don't... I don't understand. I
don't understand how at that weight class he
has, like, love handles. It's always a thing.
I'm trying to remember. It was Josh that brought
it up that either... It's either Navarrete that,
like, dies to make weight or... He looked like
shit trying to make weight and they cut his hair,
I think. Yeah. And it's either that or the opponent
weighs in extra light. Like the example he gave
was Liam Wilson, who has never weighed 126 in
his career. The closest he's weighed is 128.
And he magically comes in at 126. And Nav makes
weight comfortably. That's kind of weird. That's
pretty questionable. That's the only one I'm
seeing on BoxRec that's like that, though. I
think so. But yeah, I know. Nav looked like shit
on the scales. Like... And he had to weigh in
five times or something. And they gave him a
haircut to make the last... ounce or whatever
it is 0 .05 yeah ridiculous maybe he should have
jerked one out that would have gotten you just
over the finish line but um charlie suarez was
looking way better than anyone expected though
like I assume they're doing a rematch. They kind
of have to. As far as I know, they are already.
The tweet was, regardless of how the commission
rules on the cut situation, Suarez and Nav have
already agreed in principle that they're redoing
the... Nice. That's going to have to be a while,
though, I think. That must have been many stitches.
That was a bad one. And it's in a bad spot. It
bled directly into his eye. The cutman in his
corner was doing really good work. He'd have
it stopped by the time they came out of the corner,
but then one punch and then it's blood city.
Yeah. Being covered in someone else's blood.
Not. Not ideal. No, not at all. Had it happen
like on a limited basis, but never like that.
Gross. Yeah. Oh, just a PSA for anyone who does
get in bar fights. Go get tested for hepatitis
C. Afterwards. Especially if you're in Saskatoon.
Is that a common thing? Well, you can catch Hepatitis
C from getting blood on you. Just from getting
it on you? It's pretty low chances, but yeah.
Like, if you have an open cut and somebody else's
blood gets in you, you can catch Hepatitis C.
Ray Murataya secures the IBF. I don't even want
to say interim. It's because Lomachenko's gone.
It's time to accept it. Yeah, he needs to make
that official. He's holding things up. Could
make him like a champion in recess. Then if he
comes back, then he fights whoever's holding
the belt. He's not coming back. No, he's not,
but just thought it would be a good way to still
give him his props, you know, for being himself,
being who he is, but also keeping things moving
along. Fair enough. Being political. Yeah. Moritaya
looked good, or I thought he looked good. He
did, and Abdullayev also looked like ass. I'm
not sure what his deal was. I was expecting better.
Yeah, I don't remember a whole bunch of that
fight, to be honest. I just remember Moritaya
really schooled him. 118 -110 and two 119 -109s.
Yeah, that's pretty schooled. That's well schooled.
With this, though, I think he's number one to
Keyshawn Davis. Is he? Yeah, I think he's the
number one in the IBO in addition to having the
IBF belt. I'm curious. Who are his others? Shakur
Stevenson with WBC. And, uh, is it Gary Antoine?
No, he is at 140. Oh, right, Tank. Tank Roach.
Yeah, I don't know... I don't know who I'd have
him fight next, I guess. Everybody's kind of
tied up in that division. Yeah, it'll be someone
in the top rank ecosystem. Yeah. As is tradition.
Top rank does put on, like, decent cards, but
everything's always really one -sided. They hardly
ever have, like, really close fights. Yeah, that's...
Not their forte. Their matchmaking is very protective
of their fighters. Yeah, that's what Josh calls
a top -rank protection system. Jared Anderson
was one who tried to break out of it. Thought
he was ready. He was not. He was not ready. I
think that's enough about those guys. What do
we got coming up, Leo? Oh, boy. It's just a treasure
trove of good honest -to -goodness fucking maple
leaf red, white, and blue and green boxing. Like,
just like mom used to make. What? I don't know.
I don't know what I was trying to do there. Trying
to make it, like, hometown -y, like, small -town
-y kind of feel. Maxie Hughes versus Archie Sharp.
And who's on this one? Oh, well, Terry Harper.
Terry Harper, yeah. Versus Natalia Zimmerman.
If that's what you think it is. She might get
the RJ tag. Yeah, I could see that. I also think
she's going to get her ass beat. I don't know.
Taryn probably seems really old to me, but she's
not. Yeah. This Zimmerman is 42. Yeah, and she
mostly fights in Germany. This is not about to
go well. No, she's going to get her ass kicked.
The closest an opponent has had to a winning
record for her is one and one. Yeah, it's not
good. tune in for a slaughter yeah yeah that's
not gonna be competitive this one this might
be one you could bet on a knockout in a women's
fight though yeah doesn't go the distance should
be good i should see what the uh what the odds
are on the not going the distance Oh, one that
does get the RJ tag, I assume, is Ebony Jones.
Oh, right. Forgot about her. Yeah, I don't know.
I've never heard of this lady she's fighting,
but... Ticey Gallagher? Is that like a women's
version of Tyson? I've never heard Ticey as a
name. I haven't either. Gallagher made me laugh
because of that TV show. Shameless. Aren't they
the Gallaghers? I couldn't tell you. She kind
of looks like she could be on that show. Anyways,
that one might be competitive. 6 -0 versus 9
-2 should be. Moving to Angelo Leo versus Tomoki
Kameda. I wanted to go to this one, and it's
just too far away on a Sunday. Would you have
to have taken the early morning? yeah it's in
Osaka so I would have to wake up and get like
the first bullet train and then try and get to
work so wake up at like 5 take the train for
3 hours get to my house and then go to work I
don't want to do that yeah but in uh Kind of
fun news. One of the guys from the bar is a trainer.
He has a boxing gym, and Angelo Leo's been coming
in and working out with some of his guys. So
he's got pictures and autographs and stuff. It's
kind of fun. That's cool. Probably put it up
on the wall. Probably, yeah. Kvade is getting
pretty old, though, isn't he? Mileage. He's not
that old. No. Age -wise. He's like 32? 33. But
he's been fighting for a while. Yeah. He's got
42 wins and 4 losses. That's a lot of fights.
Yeah, it is. He looks like an Osaka thug. In
an anime, in his box rec, he's got the hair and
stuff. Oh, the hooligan? Yeah, the kind of like
up and swooshed a little. Pompadour? Not that
bad, but... No, yeah, Tomoki doesn't have a pompadour,
but usually that's the hairstyle they have. Yeah,
yeah. I don't know, I assume Angelo Leo's gonna
win this one. Yeah. Just a good fight to put
on. It should be fun, though. Yeah. Well, hopefully.
Hopefully it's entertaining. I don't really recognize
these other two you have on here. Josh Taylor
and Echo Esserman? No, on this fight on your
calendar. Oh. I just put them on there. Jinjiro
Shigeoka. I feel like I've seen him before, but
I don't know who Pedro Tadurin is. I only picked
this one up because it's for a title. That's
really the only reason. Yeah. No, I wanted to
go to this one, but I just couldn't justify it
with the train tickets and everything. Hotel
room. Meh. It becomes expensive. Flying from
one end of Korea to the other, you could get...
There were flights that ran regularly for like
$75. And buses that ran for like $35. It's tourist
season here, though, now. Oh. So the price of
everything has jumped. Actually, the price of
things in Japan has just kind of jumped in general
in the last few months. I think I priced it out
and it would be about $400 in train tickets.
And I can usually find a hotel for like 50 bucks
if it's just a shit hotel. And then food and
stuff. It would have cost me like $700 to go
see this fight. I don't know if Angelo Leos versus
Tomoki Kameda is worth 700 bucks. No. No, I don't.
I don't think so. Nah, I'll probably go into
Tokyo and watch it on the TV with the guys. Spend
50 bucks instead. Yeah, that should be fun. Especially
if Kaneko comes, he'll be cheering for Leo, which
will be funny. The guy with the boxing gym. Well,
the Kamedas are Osaka boys, so wouldn't they
cheer against them anyway? It might be a little
split. Usually they just cheer for any Japanese
person if it's Japan versus someone else. Yeah.
But there will definitely be a few Leo fans if
people got to meet him. Yeah, they'll be the
gym faithful. Yeah, yeah. Are you going to be
on the Angelo Leo side? Yeah, for sure. I like
Leo. Him in his mop top. He looks like such a
stereotype, like just greasy Hispanic stereotype.
I could see him being real bad at picking up
women. No faith. Oh, I bet you it works, but
I just mean, like, real cheesy. I bet you he
can dance, though. All right, and Josh Taylor
is back. I miss this, mostly because I don't
care. Yeah, he's fighting at full 147, and it's...
I'm struggling to care as well. If I recall correctly,
the card isn't even very good. I do not recognize...
Oh, Moses Atalma's on it. Oh, that's right. Moses
Atalma. I always forget him. Versus Mike Belogan?
That's a weird name. Lee McGregor? Didn't we
see him in... We saw him in Saudi. And he put
on a hell of a fight. Yeah, he could be fun.
I don't know who... He's fighting Nathaniel Collins.
I don't recognize him. I don't either. There's
a lot of vacant bullshit belts on the line on
this card, it seems. The British... British Boxing
Board of Control. The Scottish Middle Region.
Regional title. The WBC Silver Feather. Josh
Taylor's fighting for something too. International
Welter. The WBO International Welterweight. Oh.
They just... Sound like bullshit things to me.
I don't know, I mean, I'll probably watch this
one, but I'm not excited about anything on this
card. Yeah, Moses Atalma, that's about it. The
guy he's fighting is 21 -1. That's a decent record,
but I don't know who he is, so I assume Atalma's
gonna win. Yeah, he's been inactive. He would
take like one fight a year. For a while. One
loss to Murat Gassiev. That's a decent name,
I guess. Ish. Kinda. Could be worse. Yeah, this
week's not looking super exciting. I'm excited
for the Leo Kameda card, I guess. Yeah, it's
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.net. So, we're heading into a pretty bleak week.
Well, it's bleak on this side just because the
only good card is going to be at like 1 in the
morning on Saturday. Yeah. I'll get to go into
Tokyo and have a day. Should be fun. Otherwise,
it's a rather bleak weekend. Parting words. What
do you got? I forgot to think up some parting
words. I'm not going to mention the NHL because
that blew up in my face last time. Fucking dumbasses.
Uh, parting words. Don't forget to brush your
teeth. I've been grinding my teeth really bad
because I was sick and they hurt. Oh, mine are
usually pretty sore. I have one of the mouth
guard things and it really does help a lot, but
when I decide to really grind my teeth, it doesn't
matter. What about you, Leo? What are your parting
words? Man, I've chewed through every shield
that they've tried to give me. I've just royally
fucked it up. Yeah, they usually last me about
two years, and then I completely snap off the
backs. My parting words from my favorite author,
Alexandre Dumas. All human wisdom is summed up
in two words. Wait and hope. So this weekend
might suck. But you just gotta keep just wait
it out. Can't stop time. Very hopeful. Time is
a bitch. Terrible one. But that is it. Sun's
going down. I gotta get the Mars Discovery rover.
It's getting dark. That's too sad. Why do humans
do shit like that? Yeah. I'm trying to remember
what exactly it said, but yeah, it was a little
robot. telling you like hey I'm dying by the
way yeah after it lived like 10 years longer
than it was supposed to I can find it yeah it's
last data transmission was my battery is low
and it is getting dark and he used to sing himself
Happy birthday. Yep. Oh, fuck. You got me sad
over a robot. Ridiculous. Well, you there. Are
you sad about robots? 833 -589 -7637. It's very
topical for Boxing Before Dark. Oh, I do have
parting words. I... I missed it last time because
I didn't realize how much shit the guys were
talking. I listened to B -Sides while I was working
and missed all the hate on my calls. What the
fuck? I told you guys Raleigh was going to beat
Ryan. Nobody believed me. They were talking about
how crazy it was. Absolutely ridiculous. I need
to send Josh my address so I can get my flowers.
Are they going to move through Canadian Post
now? Flowers? Yeah. I just assumed he would order
them in Japan and have them delivered. Oh, yeah.
Why would you order them in Canada? Why would
you try to mail flowers from Canada? That makes
perfect sense. Fucking brilliant. Go me. Speaking
of deliveries, I'm fucking being so lazy. I ordered
five kilograms of rice carried to my door so
I didn't have to carry it from the store. And
I was like, well, if they're delivering rice,
they might as well deliver beer too. So I ordered
24 cans of the Sapporo with the Attack on Titan
branding. It's going to be great. Are you going
to save one of each? Probably not, no. I have
been trying to drink less, so I've only been
buying six beer at a time. Having 24 in the house
might go off the rails. Hopefully on a weekend.
Is this a Canadianism to say, I think it's, I'm
done with beer? Oh, no. So those are two different
things. I'm done my beer, and I'm done with...
I'm done my beer means you've finished it. But
if you say I'm done with my beer, it still has
beer in it. You just don't want it anymore. Okay.
Do Americans not say I'm done? Like I'm done
my dinner? No. I'm done with my dinner. Even
if you've eaten it all? Yeah. No, no. If you're
done with it, it's still there. I'm done my dinner?
Yeah. I have not heard that before. Before today.
Really? Huh. No, but those are two different
things. Being done a beer means you finished
it. Being done with a beer means you're just
not going to finish it. Like, I'm, well, I mean,
you sound a little redneck -y when you use it,
but I'm done my book. means you finished it.
I'm done with this book. It's like, this book
sucks. I see. Yeah. Like, I'm done with the fucking
Maple Leaf blowing leads all the time. So would
we say we're done with podcasts? I'm done with
podcasts? I'm done my podcasts. Well, we're done
this podcast. We're done this podcast. But if
you're done... with podcasts you're not gonna
make anymore that's not what's happening damn
no yeah yeah no yeah we're done this episode
okay yeah i'm gonna get that one i'm gonna learn
learn to use it properly all right if you finish
something it's done if you're done with something
you don't want to do it anymore finish you yeah
yeah If you're done with it, part of it still
exists, but you're not interacting anymore. Well,
on that lovely note of Canadianisms, boxing before
dark. My batteries are low, and it's getting
dark. Yeah, we need the... What? What was the
video game? Portal. You need the Portal voice.
Oh, the cake. Saying that. Yeah, yeah. I used
to love to do that.