The B -Side in boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
Gotta, I gotta do my wind up. It's like, I'm
a pitcher with this one. Lock in. Yeah. We ready
to rock. Fucking roll, baby. Ready to fucking
roll. Boxing B -sides. Back up in your fucking
ears. Joined by the homies. Alex, Josh. The one
and only Alex. How could I have forgotten? One
and only. How we doing fellas? Alex. Come on.
Leave that last podcast. Leave that on the last
podcast. That's a legacy. For all intents and
purposes, I was under the influence of Joshua's
yapping. Yeah. Right, right. Alright guys. Yeah,
you were just flowing. You were weaving. It was
a fuck up. Yeah, we did get a text. We did get
a text on that one from good old Matt saying,
Don King is bad. What the hell? Hey, that's rage
bait. That's a good way to put it. oh man all
right we got a lot to get into so um just really
quick extending the olive branch to our fellows
over at ultimate effing casuals wherever you're
listening to this you can find ultimate effing
casuals there too if you're into mma or you're
mma curious then this week uh it's fucking really
light there's an event on saturday it's not very
good so i just wanted to point this one out really
quick uh on the 30th It's going to be, that's
a Friday. It'll be in the morning, starting around
like 5 .30 on the West Coast. In Thailand, it's
One Friday Fights. That's like their development
prospect hunting series. It's mostly Muay Thai.
So if you like boxing and you're like a purist,
but maybe you want to try it out, Muay Thai is
brutal. There's no grappling allowed. There's
no grabbing. The only way that you can clinch,
you are actively kneeing each other or elbowing
each other. It's the only way you can clinch.
So it's a good sampler if you want to try crossing
the street a little bit. I like Muay Thai, so
I'm always going to promote it the best I can.
Fair enough. The highlights I see on Instagram
are usually pretty fun. It's good. Shanada was
always reticent to try, and then once she did,
it was like, wow, what have I been missing? But
let's move into our recaps here. Wednesday, May
14th, as the Australians are wont to do, they
had their fights. It was started around 1 in
the morning on the West Coast here. A lot of
shit on here, but the only one I really wanted
to point out was Sam Goodman. He gets a pretty
lame UD over the unknown, unheralded Cesar Vaca.
A lot of cuts on Sam Goodman's face. It's unusual.
Yeah, it sounds like pretty standard fare for
a Sam Goodman event. Standard, Sammy? Yeah. Shrug.
Yeah, I just like to point out the people who
like the Contenders. Bro wasted a good couple
months of Inouye's career in his prime, so shrug.
Yeah, fuck San Diego. Saturday, May 17th. There
are a few cards on here. None of them are major,
but there are a lot of good stuff that happens
here. The matchroom one was major. Major outcome.
Yeah. So just two leading up to the main event,
George Liddard, TKO5 over Aaron Sutton, and Kieran
Conway, TKO4 over Jerome Warburton. Shouting
those out for Lynn. She's getting onboarded into
the familia. Yeah, that looks bad. She's coming
on to one of the podcasts? Yeah, it's Boxing
Before Dark. She's going to be the... Brit box,
Brit slop, fucking expert. Brit slop enjoyer.
One day we're going to have him on the show,
dude. I'm going to tell you something. He is
very, very passionate. I know. I kind of want
to go toe -to -toe with her about Berlanga and
Shiraz, dude. I don't know if you guys know about
the Shiraz Berlanga beef that we have. No, I
didn't. I didn't know you had anything going
on. Well, there was one day in the server, and
you can look it up, where I made the claim that
Berlanga was going to kick Shiraz's ass because
Shiraz is ass. Shiraz, right? Yeah. Shiraz. Long,
like, one -page rant about how Berlanga has done
nothing in his career and how Shiraz has done
so much in so little time. And it was like, part
of it that I said was it was kind of rage bait.
To the fans out there, I'm going to tell you
right now, I'm praying at least that Berlanga
KOs to Roz. And I think he can. Maybe. But yeah,
she was really passionate about that. To the
point where she made a bet to everybody in the
server at that time that if she Roz loses, she'll
give $10 to each person in the server. At least
that was active. That is very passionate. Holy
shit. She should buy us several cases of ramen
instead. You might be fucking church of chicken,
dude. I'm like, God, are you that passionate,
dude? I want to speak to you about some boxing.
Like, on the live, on the mic. You know what
I mean? Bring it on here one day. I'm looking
at their resumes and Hamza doesn't have a whole
lot going on here. I'm not sure what... I think
it's just like the personal British bias where...
Oh, yeah. making a big deal out of tyler denny
yeah it's like isaac's canelo bias yeah you guys
know you guys know about number two right you
guys got of course okay yeah he said he's gonna
ko fucking skull sorry you know what say this
again on the mic bro that was wild okay you're
you're my invincible you're my my kishan bro
fair take if you think uh If you hadn't watched
Skull before, fair enough take. If you haven't
seen Canelo in two years, that's a fair enough
take. Skull is shitty enough to get KO'd by Canelo.
He just didn't even want to be there to get KO'd.
I'm getting rage baited. This isn't even rage
bait. Skull fucking stinks. I think there's more
to the part of Canelo. No, we already had this
discussion. It's just a repeat, bro. This is
going to be a repeat. Yeah, this is going to
be a rehash. All right. Moving into the main
event here. David Allen stops Johnny Fisher in
five. Holy crap. Stops. Capital, all letters.
Stops. Johnny Fisher. Oh, yeah. Johnny Fisher
is the closest he's ever been to an AJ fight
at this point. Is this the end of the Bosch?
No, he's just the new Dave Allen. Oh, he's taking
his place. We talked about this. We've talked
about this. Johnny Fisher is going to get put
in because he sells tickets like Dave Allen did.
Yeah, he's going to be put on the undercards
for stuff that's not selling very well. Yeah,
like the automatic injection of tickets against
like... actually good prospects like if you remember
dave allen dave allen's fought guys like italian
white and luis ortiz and like like he kind of
broke into relevancy when he uh when nick webb
was supposed to be good and it turned out he
wasn't he's gonna be fighting pretty early right
yeah the same for say uh fourth round yeah yeah
he's having but it's gonna be that It's going
to be that type of up and down where he's the
new Dave Allen. Who's Dave Allen now? I don't
know. The guy AJ's going to break in half or
get well -fied. Two fights away from AJ? Yeah.
That's why I said Johnny Fisher's the new Dave
Allen. That's why he's two fights away from AJ
now. He's two fights away from AJ. Dave Allen's
two fights away from Tyson Fury. That's assuming
Tyson Fury comes back. He said he's not coming
back. Yeah, so he says. So he says. Oh, he said.
What could be next for David Allen? Like, legitimately,
I know that we're, like, memeing about AJ and
stuff. No, like an AJ -AJ and, like, a get -well
fight. Because AJ's, like... Oh, he's having
surgery and he's not going to be back. There's
not much for AJ that is, like, 100 % guaranteed
confidence. Can I say something for David Allen?
Fire away. I think he would be the perfect fight
for Moses Aitaba. No, I think Moses is beyond
him. I agree, but also I like Dave Allen. I think
we're going to talk about Moses next week or
this week? I think that's next. I think it's
next week, yeah. Okay, and we'll talk about him
more next time. I like Dave Allen too much. Let
him cash out with an AJ fight. AJ does need a
fight for confidence real bad. I don't think
it's debatable, but any dangerous heavyweight
probably scares AJ into not fighting his best
after what happened with Dubois. You know what?
We'll see. If that happens, we'll see. We'll
see what happens. I think that Itama's a little
bit too early, a little too fresh to be put in
with David Allen. Not that he couldn't win. That's
not what I mean. But he's still not... The metal
isn't hot enough for the David Allen heat, if
that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Someone
who's a little bit further along, like, what's
his name? Fabio Wardley? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That
level of guy, I think, is where you want to have
David Allen next. Assuming Fabio Wardley gets
past Justice Hooney, is it? Yeah. Yeah. Which
he should. He should. He totally should. But
I'm not going to say he should, because I have...
That beef with Lynn, myself. Justice Hooney's
gonna win. I don't even really care that much
about Justice Hooney, but... I was about to say,
Australian heavyweight, like... Yeah. That's
it. That's it. Australian heavyweight. For David
Allen... Isn't Dillian White coming up? Oh, he
actually, I think he beats Dillian Wade. I do
too. Not by knockout or anything, but just by
a decision where David Allen is somehow the less
washed, less fat old man. That would be a pretty
alright fight, I guess. Yeah, I think it'd be
okay. Battle of the washed? Yeah. I don't think
Dave Allen... I think Dave Allen's aged well
in terms of he isn't washed because he kind of
never was, you know? I agree to disagree, I guess.
He never really had a peak. This might be his
peak. Career peak doesn't line up with his physical
peak. Even when he was in shape, though... He
weirdly boxed worse when he was in shape. Like
he's got, he's very, very strange. How he like,
he's either been in shape and had like nothing.
It's like even Lucas Brown pieced him up before
he put Lucas Brown away. But like here, I think
it might be just be Johnny Fisher making him
look good too. But he's displayed some competence
lately that he kind of didn't have prior. Murat
Gassiev. Yeah, that's some expired stock. White.
Yeah, White. I think White. White and then AJ,
if AJ still needs that confidence builder. Depending
on the turnaround time, because AJ's in surgery
and won't be ready until... Around the end of
June. That's why you do White. You do White first,
and then AJ, he probably, he has surgery, but
he also needs time to, like, retrain, basically.
Yeah. And rehab, so the timeline would line up.
You make White and Allen in, like, July, and
then in the late fall, you give AJ the confidence
builder of the winter. On, like, a Riyadh car
or something? Yeah. Like, AJ just, like, both
guys, like, AJ does both guys dirty. But AJ needs
that confidence so bad. They could probably do
it on the Ben Eubank rematch if they were doing
it. Ben Eubank rematch. You put AJ Allen on the
Ben Eubank. That would sell. That would actually
sell. But, like, oh, boy. How times have changed,
man. Chris Eubanks still not fighting any actual
world beaters. AJ still fighting. He did fight
Conor Benn. Conor Benn is not a world -class
opponent, bro. That was a world -class fight.
I'm not calling it a world -class opponent. I'm
just saying it was a world -class fight. I guess.
That fight was better than most of the fights
this year. And most of the world class fights
this year. This is a slight... That's a negative
for this year. Yeah, I guess you could say that.
That's a negative for this year. I'm not gonna...
No, it's not. Well, you know, there's still been
a lot of good fights this year. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Fair enough. I think it's gotta be unfair to
the year itself. It's not like it was during
the boxing dark ages of a couple years ago. Yeah,
Matchroom Fight Camp, Dark Ages. Those were the
days. Those were the days. Those were dark times.
I actually didn't mind the trailer cards. They
were stupid, but fun. Actually, we're coming
up on that time of the year where we're going
to be picking our best of the year so far. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah. My first award selection. Anything
more for David Allen and Johnny Fisher? Welcome
to British journeyman status, Fisher. He'll be
stuck there until he beats the next Johnny Fisher.
The next Rhino? He's the next Rhino. He's the
even whiter Rhino. Bosh. Bosh. Big John closed
all his Instagram comments down after the loss.
Oh, I'm sure he did. He started getting fucking
trolled on Instagram. It was hilarious. Good.
No, he deserves it. It was hilarious. But he
was getting fucking trolled. We'd love to see
it. Marv Nation, same day, Thunder Studios. Man,
Marv Nation's still around. That's crazy. That's
the real headline. They popped up as, like, a
joke. How many years ago? Like, they're the BLK
Prime of their day, bro. They were a joke. Yeah.
And now here they are promoting some of the Vargas
kids. It's sad. Fernando Vargas should be, like,
you know, probably a golden boy. There's a crazy
amount of Vargases. You can't sign them all.
Yeah. There's so many of them. Top rank is two
out of three with the... Top rank took the good
ones. With the Davis ones. Yeah. But Fernando
Vargas Jr., the oldest, and I think the largest
of the Vargas brothers. He's the least amount
of upside. Unfortunately. Yeah. Nothing wrong
with him. He's still pretty good. It's just like
the other two Vargases are more promising talents.
I disagree. I don't like Amato's. I'm not too
keen on Amato either. I'm not a big fan of his.
I think it goes Amato, Fernando, and Miliano.
Miliano, obviously to Miliano. That's funny because
he's a lot better than the other two. A lot better.
They're both trained by the same guy. All of
them are trained by the same guy. Yeah. I feel
like it's also just age too at some point. Like,
I feel like you can still, like, Amado, at least,
like, he's still got four years. He's four years
younger than Vargas Jr., so I guess if you treat
him like a project guy, you can still work him
up. Yeah, he's still climbing up, and he's doing
better, like, every time. Like, he's a project
guy for sure, but I feel like time's on his side
for top rank. He's going to go the route of Lindolfo.
You know, he might gain some notoriety a little
later on, but I don't think he's going to touch
a title at any time, in my opinion. That's a
business, sadly. Emiliano's the one. Emiliano
is the one, but, I mean, Amato is more deserving
of any kind of push than, what's it, Nico Ali
-Walsh. Is he still getting pushed? Not that.
No, he's done. Finally, they were still pushing
him for a while. I can't believe that. I just
recently figured out that he was related to Muhammad
Ali. I don't believe you. That was the whole
marketing. Barely. I can't believe that. Half
grandnephew six times removed. You know what?
I think if they marketed that, they probably
could have made a million money off that dude.
They did. That's all they said. No, they didn't,
bro. No, they didn't. No, they didn't. I did
not hear that one time. That was Tom Frank's
whole marketing thing. This is news to me, man.
I have no idea where this is. This is news to
me. If they marketed Nico Ali Walsh as fucking
Muhammad Ali's grandson, dude, that would have
been selling stadiums. The issue is that he sucks.
The issue is that he sucks really badly. Like,
you can't. Like, there's not a shred of that.
I'll leave blood in him. I could not believe
it. He sucks. He sucks so much. Under the top
-ranked protection program, he's 10 -2. Isn't
it 10 -2 -1? Because he got that lucky draw.
He got that draw, and then it got changed to
a no contest because his opponent did some weed.
Oh, that doesn't count. That counts as a win
for the opponent. Are you kidding me? You handicap
yourself like that. Oh, Pauno was smoking weed
and got popped for it. So that's, I mean, 10
-2 -1 in the top -ranked protection program is
crazy. Yeah. He must have not really been that
good of a fighter. No, like, because they fed
him, like, club fighters exclusively. But, like,
not even the, like, not seasoned ones, like,
just club fighters. If he was a PBC, he would
have gotten a title by now. I guarantee you.
I don't dare. I think PBC would have put him
with a trainer who can actually train. Yeah.
Instead of just the top -ranked gym. You think
Fernando Vargas could have beat Niko? Yes. Yeah.
A million times, yes. Niko's so bad. Yeah. Niko's
so bad. Niko is actually ass. He's so bad. Yeah,
he's a commentator now. I really like his commentary.
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised that his commentary
is pretty good. He's still growing into himself
with it. Moving to 360 promotions. There's only
three that I wanted to point out here. Omar Trinidad
gets a UD over Alexander Espinosa. Another kind
of boring decision for Omar. Nah, he'll get a
shot someday. Right. He's got a WBC trinket.
He'll work his way up. Especially in featherweight,
it's pretty open. Mizuki Hiruta, UD over Carla
Marino. WBO super flyweight title was on the
line. Not even close. No, one -sided beatdown.
Not even close. Mizuki's on the... Collision
course with Gabby Fundora. I don't think it goes
well for her. For Mizuki, I mean. No, but she'll
still be a good opponent for... It would be a
good fight. I think it would be a good fight,
for sure. The best you can hope is that it's
competitive here and we're not just watching
Gabby waste away with subpar opposition. It's
good that good opponents are coming up the challenge.
Is it subpar competition or is it the lack of
competition as well? It's both. It's both. Well,
the thing is that you want her to fight good
opponents, but if she makes them look bad, there's
nothing wrong with that. So it's good that there's
good opponents coming up. If they don't match
up to her, that's fine. The issue is when you
run into a Clarissa Shields moment where you
don't have good opponents and they're just beneath
you. You'd make them look like fools to begin
with. Yeah, Clarissa Shields is kind of cooked.
No, she has no good competition ever Any like
realistic weight class I mean it's better it's
better than it used to be it used to be like
you'd get to two fighters in the sport period
yeah who are any good like here at least it's
like Like, the fact that we got Katie Taylor
and Amanda Serrano in the same vicinity of weight
classes is pretty good. Yeah, lucky. Clarissa
Shields in the upper weight classes, hopefully
that gets more people in there. And, of course,
Gabby Fundura is going to fry people in the lower
weight classes. But, again, there's going to
be good opponents coming up, which is, like,
again, there used to be, like, two good women
in the sport, period. And maybe they'd fight
each other with one making, like, severe concessions
in the weight class department. We'll see what
happens with her. Yeah, yeah. Again, at the very
least, it's going to be a good fight on paper.
Sure. Well, Mizuki is still fun. She's got her
fun little ring attire. Does this big reveal
every time. It's still pretty enjoyable. What
was not? quite as enjoyable. Sergei Bochuk versus
Michael Fox. Yeah, Bochuk kind of got away with
that one. Yeah, it was a bit of a stinker. A
little bit. I'll tell you, it's funny how fast
the boxing fans switch up because of the server,
dude. It went from, oh my god, Bochuk is must
-watch television to he's overrated, he's washed.
He's a bum. I don't know about all that. Jesus.
I don't know, but that's always how online discourse
is, though. That's what I'm saying. I'm just
saying how I saw this already. I'm an NBA Twitter
fiend. It's the same thing. Seven game series,
but one game it's a super team and the other
game it's a... Oh, man. They'd lose to college
teams. Yeah, like the... Here's the list of WNBA
players I'd rather have. That being said, BoJack
definitely got away with this one. Michael Fox
employed a good game plan. I don't know. It might
have been a style thing too, honestly. Yeah.
made it kind of boring but you know what i mean
i i i just think it's it is one fight dude always
had some you know decent fights yeah i don't
mind i just think this is way too close than
what it should have been yeah of course again
one but one bad night but i mean i guess this
might be good for bojack overall might convince
someone to take him as an opponent I hope so.
Get him off of UFC Fight Pass, hopefully. Bo
Chuck is low reward, very high risk, but now
with this performance being kind of shitty, the
risk is definitely down. Not as much risk. It
was hard to find that stream, too. I cannot understand
this UFC Fight Pass shit. Oh, man, that's just
what it is. I love how UFC Fight Pass is part
of the UFC. It's Dana White, right? It is. So
why the fuck are they trying to do fucking TKO
then? Well, they're trying to do that with Turkey
Al -Ashiq. Why didn't Turkey buy out UFC Fight
Pass itself? Or something? I think it's easier
to start your own promotion than to buy out an
American promotion. Buying a 360. That one shouldn't
be as hard because they're not very big, but
still, it would be easier to start your own.
I guess. I mean, it's not even a promotion. It's
going to be a fucking league, apparently. I don't
believe that. It doesn't look like it's going
to be much of anything after Turkey seems a little
pulled out. Oh, yeah. The drama with Las Vegas.
Paris Crawford and Canelo are going to be on
Saturday again. Once again. They're going to
be competing with the UFC. Oh, well, hopefully.
I remember Canelo Kovalev had a nice nap before
the fight. Oh, yeah. This fight is going to dominate
that weekend for sure. Legendary screenshot.
Both of them laying down and chilling. Gloves
already on. Yeah. So what... We were talking
about low -risk or low -reward, high -risk for
Bohochuk. What could be next for him? Honestly,
like, any of the... Someone who thinks... Someone
who needs to take that jump for a title shot
probably takes a fight with Bohochuk now. Just
on risk -reward. Not boots. Did you see that
Brian Norman rejected... $1 .3 million to fight
Boots? No, I didn't. $1 .3 million? I see that.
Yeah. They rejected a good deal to fight Boots
saying they weren't paying him enough, and I'm
like, I mean, I get it. They're overpaying you
right now, buddy. Yeah, $1 .3 million is overpaying.
Hearn alleges more, but also, like, take that
with a grain of salt. How much did Arastadionis
make? Probably about the same, honestly. It was
a Riaj event. Still, like, a million dollars
for Brian Norman is a good deal. Yeah. Have a
duck, bro. Like, I get it. You probably want
to cash... Like, if you're negotiating with Boots,
you definitely want to cash out with a Riage
card fight to make it a bid at least worth your
time. Because I don't think... I think Boots
beats his ass real bad. But, I mean... if we're
like that's why that's what i mean that like
turkeys ruin this ship because everyone like
a cash out would be a cash out should be like
a billion dollars for a fighter who isn't on
who honestly doesn't sell that good but now we're
in the what the where's my 20 million dollar
paycheck from turkey when it's like that's what
i mean by turkeys ruin the uh the economy of
a cash out fights honestly even then I mean,
as much as you hate Turkey, bro, at the same
time, even if Turkey wasn't involved, I feel
like he probably still wouldn't take that fight.
He wouldn't take it, but I'm saying, like, it
wouldn't be for, you couldn't just say, it is,
like, you can't hide behind Turkey Alashik isn't
paying me $20 million like she did this other
guy. from other people yeah because it like like
like the inflation would be like hey maybe uh
like you know that that overvaluation would be
like hey give me two million instead instead
of give me tens of millions of dollars to lose
yeah yeah no you're right you're right right
it's just the it's just the inflation of the
sport here we're like like by and i mean Even
with the fact that we got to this point where
people are expecting Eddie Hearn to give out
even anything above a million, it happened because
of Matchroom America. If you remember that era
when we were giving Demetrius Andrade and Tevin
Farmer $10 million. The good old days. We were
giving them millions of dollars to fight Liam
Williams and Jono Carroll. I still find that
egregious. I still think it's so fucking egregious.
That fucking Demetrius, out of all the boxers
that they could have given millions of dollars
to, it had to be Kevin Farmer and Demetrius.
Devin Haney and Demetrius Andrade. Yeah, that
was the other one, was Devin Haney. Yeah, like,
Devin Haney getting his, like, getting an actual
knockout and breaking his hand into, like, 20
pieces on a Logan Paul KSI undercard for, like,
$2 million. Like, it's ridiculous. And Haney
got the dog in him, at least. It's ridiculous.
He got that dog in him at the time. Billy Joe
Saunders also got paid way too much. Billy Joe
Saunders, man. He's a Brit. Lots of guys. He
was on Matchroom America. He was on their payroll.
So he got paid way too much. Matchroom USA? Yeah,
it was the thing when DAZN first broke out into
the boxing scene. Leonard Blatnovic. I know Billy
Joe Saunders was part of that payroll. That's
crazy. He's a Brit guy, but he fought on, like,
the Logan Paul undercard. And even then, he's
had the Matchroom USA branding. Yeah. It's a
lot of, like, that's what I mean. Eddie Hearn
has basically gone from blank check to blank
check, and it's ruined, like, these fighters
that, like, maybe when they're cashing out, they'd
see a million bucks. Instead, now everyone makes
a million bucks and we're stuck with guys being
able to duck fights and price themselves out
by asking for 20 million when, like, come on,
man, when was the last time you sold above 10
,000 pay -per -views? It sounds like you're kind
of an inverse... I don't know the fucking word.
But you're kind of supporting the Dana White
argument. That sounds like it. No, but they should
get paid what they're valued. Leo, I think we
gotta... Dana White good? No, this isn't Dana
White good. Dana White gives these guys scraps.
It's not the same. It's not the same. I literally
wrote an article about how Dana White's a cancer.
Yeah. I have the paper trail. I have the paper
trail. I think Dana White's a cancer. But I think
people should get paid what they're worth. This
doesn't mean pay them $20 million more than what
they're worth. And it doesn't mean pay them less
than a line cook either. If you sell good, you
should get paid for what you sell. If you don't
sell good, you should still get paid. But not,
like, all the wealth in the world. All jokes
aside, you're totally right. You should not be
paying $10 million to run around the ring with
those emails. Like, the excuse should not be,
you are not paying me all the wealth in Fort
Knox. The excuse should just be, I don't think
I'm ready for this guy. Like, you're just giving
guys an excuse. And I hate saying fucking because,
honestly, it's Eddie Hearn. There's probably
six different terms that probably went right
against Brian Norman. You know how promoters
always are. I would rather say that they're actually
not ready for a fight than say that they weren't
paid how much they were worth. You know what
I mean? Yeah, because I know, like, I don't want
to fight boots for a blank reason is way easier
than... You're only paying me $1 .3 million.
All right. We've got to keep moving. We've got
to keep moving. That was a heavy tangent. It
was. But, I mean, if you want to hear the whole
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Friday, May 30th. Matchroom in Guadalajara at
the Domo Alcalde. This one's headlined by Manuel
Gallegos versus Khalil Coe. This is apparently
a rematch. Yes. For a light heavyweight trinket
in the WBC. But the real attraction here to me
is Murojan Akhmadaliev, a .k .a. MJ, versus Luis
Castillo. This should be fun. I'm looking forward
to this. That one should be fun. Khalil Coe.
I kind of rate Khalil Coe, but, like, he's very
much someone who, like, yeah, you met someone
your size, finally. Because his career up to
now, up to the last loss against Gallegos, was,
like, guys who were technically light heavyweights,
but definitely undersized. Like... Like, 168ers
who definitely moved up or just don't belong.
Like, they don't want to cut. Oh, yeah, they
don't want to cut. That makes sense. Yeah, like,
Bunit Bisla fights, like, near his weight. And
you could just see the size difference when he
got in the ring with Khalil. Khalil, I'll tell
you, man. The Legos is actually his size. For
the first couple rounds of that fight, he was
fighting pretty good. Khalil. Yeah. But again,
someone his own size. He just can't bully this
guy, though. Exactly. He's just too small for
him. He's a huge 175, but I mean, 175 is already
kind of a land of giants anyways. Remember Zerdo
175? Apparently. Hey, are you waiting for Bivol?
Fight Day Wait was at like 220 for Bivol. Yeah.
Like Land of Giants. Yeah, Land of Giants at
this point. Anything more for this one before
we move on to the other card that's on at the
same time? Nope. All right. Golden Boy in Las
Vegas. This card's pretty light. This is a lot
of prospects. Headline is pretty good, though.
Darius Fulgham versus Bektamir Melikuziev, a
.k .a. Beck the Bully. Eric Priest in the co
-main versus Luis Arias. That's a pretty good
fight. Eric Priest is on the come -up. He's pretty
solid. I'm not saying he's going to be a world
champion or anything, but he's solid. And Luis
Arias is a good test. So that should be a good
one. But yeah, Darius Fulgham versus Bektamir.
Should be all right. Hopefully. I think Bektamir
gets it done. Even though he got rocked by Gabe
Rosado. Late stage Gabe Rosado. I still rate
Beck as a pretty decent opponent. Or a pretty
decent fighter. He's a good brother. He's a good...
Oh, yeah. That's why it's a good fight. But Beck's
a good offensive fighter. But if he doesn't get
going, he kind of... He just doesn't get going
much. Very limited. Very limited if he can't
land his body shots. We'll see what happens to
that fight. Yeah. Should be good. And the main
reason we are here... Alright, looking good on
time. Alright, PVC on Prime at the Michelob Ultra
Arena in Las Vegas. Holy shit, this is more information
for a PVC card than I usually have. It's a great
card. Good PVC card, too. A lot of stuff going
on here. And it's free. Oh, that's right. If
you have Prime, it's... it's free on prime you
should you should you should just have prime
to begin with this is in the year of our lord
2025 like whatever the other faults of amazon
as a company prime is a good service to pay for
it like it's worth the money yeah it definitely
gets me yeah like like just like the fact that
you get music streaming uh cheap shipping Invincible.
And I think they have a deal where you either
get Dash Pass or whatever, like delivery services
close to you. Yeah. Really? I'll have to look
into it. It's sadly, like, yeah, Amazon is definitely
an evil corporation, but at the very least, they
give you a service worth your dollar. They're
kind of evil. They're still evil. They're an
evil corporation for sure. But they're not scamming.
They're not scamming you. Prime, please sponsor
ProBucks. Well, the ProBucks fights, you can
watch on Prime, so. I think ProBucks is good.
ProBucks is good, always. Yeah, you actually
can. Amazon and Roku, or just on the ProBucks
app. Very nice. This is a good PVC card. Any
highlights you want to highlight? Yeah, a few
coming up from the bottom. Kermel Moten versus
Miyamate Mastropa. Rennie Miyamate Mastropa.
Another step -up fight? Another one for... I
don't know. Is this a step -up fight? No, this
is just like a nice... Still a stay -busy. Again,
he's a fresh 18 -year -old with seven fights.
Seven and oh, yeah. This is a good... Are you
using the wrong verbal? I used the wrong wording.
I meant like, you know. Keep it stepping. I believe.
Rather than step up. Yeah. Yeah, keep it up.
I do believe in Kermel, but this is very much
we're going to continue putting him in front
of a camera while he develops. Yeah. Because
he's still easy. Despite his immense talent,
he's still a project guy. He can still get better.
For you. There's a lot of things you can do.
that you think Ruban could make him a star of
the future. Yeah. Isaac Lucero versus Luis Valenzuela.
I'm not sure who these guys are, to be honest
with you. I've seen their names before, but it's
two undefeated guys, so that should be fun. Yeah,
always fun. The only Hernandez. Versus Kyron
Davis. Honestly, this is the one I'm looking
forward to the most on the card. No disrespect
to Kyron Davis, but Hernandez, Cuban who can
punch, never a boring watch. I'm going to be
honest, dude. I think this one can go either
way. It is very early in Hernandez's pro career,
so you're right. It's also 27, which is the Cuban
40. The Chiron dude, Chiron, he's not bad. Not
bad at all. I think if he wanted to, I think
he could take it. I wouldn't count him out if
I were you. Oh, no, not counting him out at all.
No. Had a draw with Anthony Durrell. Not bad.
Got his ass kicked by David Benavidez. That lasted
longer than I expected. Yeah, that's to be expected,
honestly. And Elijah Garcia, he... That should
not have been a split decision. No, that was
not a split. He took him to school on that one.
He's a good opponent. The Cuban school, the new
version of it, the puncher type, like Luis Ortiz,
Yuri Orkuskembo, David Morel. Even Lara Ish when
he wants to. In the latter stages. Heirs Lady.
Heirs Lady Alvarez. It's going to be. Moving
up, Jermall Charlo versus Tommy LaManna. Where
have I seen Tommy LaManna? If Jermall isn't washed,
he kind of wipes out LaManna. Portionally. But
Jermall might be very washed, though. That's
exactly what I was going to say. I don't know
how strongly I feel in saying that he's not washed.
How washed is he? I was going to say, he didn't
even look good against Montiel or Benavidez Jr.,
and that was two and four years ago, respectively.
That was kind of funny seeing Benavidez Jr. lose.
He looked kind of washed against Benavidez Jr.,
so. We'll see. He might be. Might be good. LaMana
lost to Jorge Cota, the demon, his name. He got
his ass beat by Sebastian Fandora, Jermel Charlo,
Jason Rosario, Erickson Lubin. Not a good name.
That loss has aged poorly. He lost to Brian Mendoza.
who we all know, Bo Hachuk, Tim Su, Fundora,
he beat Fundora. Lost to Jesus Ramos. Also has
not aged very well. Yeah. Like, if Charlo's washed,
it's going to be a very long night. Yeah. Even
if La Mana is fragile. But, like, I don't know.
Charlo works his best when he's boxing because
the stoppages kind of just come when he's boxing.
When he tries too hard, he gases. He looks like
shit. That's the seventh round. If he goes past
seven rounds, he looks bad. No, because he kept
his gas with Dervychenko. But he was boxing the
whole time. He boxes. When he boxes, he looks
great. I'm talking about the last couple of years.
Oh, yeah. No, he looks like shit. As I'm saying,
no. I'm talking about, like, recently. I'm not
talking about, like, before. Like, recently.
Recently in, like, quotation marks. His last
two fights have been... Oh, he looked like dog
shit against Montiel. After... Yeah. Recent as
in four years. Recent if it was four years ago,
so... I can't imagine his... I don't know. Charlo
feels very wasted talent. Bad but true. Got sick.
Because... He's definitely... I found him to
be the... Like, when he's boxing, the better
Charlo, because he's not as... He just has the
better hand -eye coordination in finding spots,
where Jermel is a little hesitant sometimes.
But, I mean, two fights and... Three fights in
five years is rough. The thing is that I feel
like... curse of planning a future fight between
the two double -headers. You know what I mean?
Someone's got to lose. As it happens. I think
Charlo's more prone to lose here. I was about
to say, yeah, Charlo's going to be more prone
to lose. He's got fucking, what, two years since,
almost two years since Benavidez. Fuck, dude.
It's going to be rough. I also just like Plant.
I also just like Caleb Plant a lot more. Caleb
Plant also has cardio issues, but he doesn't
lose his boxing ability when he gasses either.
He just gasses. The guy who's fighting Resendez,
he's not a horrible fighter. He's not terrible.
He's not bad. Yeah, he's not bad at all. I think
that's going to be a good scrap for Caleb Plant.
It's a good stay -busy fight, I got to say. But
if they're playing to put Jamal, Charlo, and
Kilo playing in the future, I don't know. Every
time they do those stupid double -headers where
in the future they're going to fight, something
always goes wrong. This is a fight that's been
in the works since COVID, basically. When it
happens, it'll be fun. It's going to happen.
This is just more or less, oh shit, we still
have this storyline to play out. Especially because
if Charlo comes back not washed, what a perfect
way to get back into the mix at 168. With Caleb
Plant too. Especially if you stop him. Benavidez
did not stop him. Benavidez put belt to ass on
him later in the fight. Which, I'll tell you,
that was a fun fight, too. Well, that was a good
fight. Plant had that fucking dog in him, dude.
Yeah, he did. Like that Trevor McCombie fight.
Trevor McCombie versus Plant, dude. Oh, my God.
That was fun. I love that fight. Even the Durrell
fight. Oh, that was iconic. Like, Plant's legs
might not last all 12, but fuck his heart. His
heart gives you everything. Even his... Against
Katsugari, his title fight, his first one, he
gassed so late. He gassed late. He gassed late,
but he didn't even go down. And Jose was putting
Bell to ass, too, in the last couple rounds.
The funniest thing is that with Caleb Plant,
his biggest audience, his fan base, is the Hispanic
community. It's funny. What's because of the
Canelo fight? Like, you saw the other two fights
that Canelo had, his title fights at 168. Like,
Callum Smith shriveled away and just kind of
accepted it. Yeah. Saunders quit. On his stool.
Basically. As soon as the adversity came, basically.
No, I'll give anyone a pass for a broken orbital
except for Saunders. Except BJS. I want to say,
yeah. He gets no pass considering. Dubois had
the same shit, and he's like, I'd never quit
on my stool. I'd have to die out there. Next
fight. Breaks his orbital, quits on his stool.
And he's going to come back? Fight on a bench?
Or Chris Eubank? What, at the 170? 175? I don't
fucking know. Fuck, have you seen those? He looks
like a medicine ball. Fuck yeah, dude. But anyways,
back to Caleb playing, dude. He was the one.
That gave Canelo the hardest fight. With the
most heart. Exactly. That was a fun fight, dude.
That was a fun -ass fight, too. Even when Canelo
cracked him, Canelo still had to go and finish
him. Oh, yeah. He got up the first knockdown.
He didn't fold. Canelo had to fucking hunt him.
Fun as fuck. That was Canelo's last good fight.
Don't remind me. But Caleb Plant, I think he
takes out Resendiz. Oh, yeah. Not that Resendiz
is any bad. It's got to be early. It's got to
be early. Caleb definitely, especially with Charlo
on the card, is going to look great early. If
it goes late, it's not going to look as great.
Yeah. He's not going to look very great if they
go late. What are you thinking right now? What
are you thinking? Oh, I'm thinking Caleb Plant.
Probably going to end this pretty quickly. Resendiz
is okay. I wouldn't write home about this fight.
This isn't one where I'd be like, hey, casual
sports friends, check this out. This wouldn't
be it. This is something I get the hardcores
over for a nice couple beers and some snacks.
You get the hardcores in. Yeah, the people who
know the Charlo plant, the history to that. That
would be... Yeah, people... Yeah. Like, most
you're gonna see are, like, the highlights and,
uh, Kermel's fight on social media, and honestly,
that might be all you need to watch if you're
casual. Yeah, unless you... Well, just the highlights
is pretty much all you're gonna see from these.
Unless... Unless he looks like that's KO, of
course. That's gonna be a highlight on its own.
That's a highlight. I know. I mean, like, he's
gonna be, like... Like, that's gonna be the main,
like, highlight, bro. Oh, right. The main one.
Main, main one. You know? Oh, yeah. That's all
I had, though. For the whole card in general.
I think that's it for this week, huh? It is.
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