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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing

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Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.

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Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.

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Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This

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is Boxing Before Dark. I watched the one FC card

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last night. Holy shit. Those last three fights

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were all fucking amazing. Did they finish or

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were they decisions? So the... Okay, three. The

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first of the three was a decision and then the

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last two were fucking brutal knockouts. I'm gonna

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have to peep those. You're gonna have to. Like,

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highly recommend. The first one I'm talking about,

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I watched the whole card, but those last three

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are the ones I would recommend. The first one

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there, the one that went to decision, I don't

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know how that man kept standing. He was fucking

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eating bombs and then he ate like two kicks to

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the face. It was crazy. Thai people are different.

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Legitimately just built different. Yeah. And

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then spinning back fist knockout. Oh, that's

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cool. Yeah. What was the last one? The last one

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I think was just like a straight right, but he

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fucking out cold. It was crazy. Did you see any

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knockdown rule stoppages? No. I don't think I

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saw any knockdowns that anybody got up from.

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Like, if they went down, they were out. The co

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-main, I was like, why the fuck are you counting?

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Like, get this man to the hospital. The main

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event, they did not count. They, like, caught

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him mid -air. Like, no, stop. One of the referees

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seems like he has bloodlust. Does he just let

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everything go, the bald guy? I wasn't paying

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that kind of attention, I don't think. If you

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keep watching the cards, you'll definitely notice

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that he's a little bit more open to let things

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continue when they don't really have to. Need

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to. Yeah. Now, I was clicking through you next.

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I decided to use my free trial. It's the most

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expensive of the streamers, but it has boxing

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sometimes, and it's got a lot of other combat

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sports. That's cool. But it's also got the HBO

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stuff. The only problem is if you watch it in

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English, it's got hard -coded Japanese subtitles.

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It's not the end of the world, but if it's also

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on Amazon Prime, I can shut those off sometimes.

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Right. Yeah. But it's like... 2 ,000 yen a month.

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It's by far the most expensive. That's the most

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expensive? Yeah, I know, but like Amazon Prime

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is 600 and the DAZN one I have, the Combat Sports

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Only, is 1000. It's 10 bucks a month, Canadian.

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There's a Combat Sports Only DAZN subscription?

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In Japan there is. I don't get any of the, well,

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I think I get horse jumping. And I get FIFA World

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Cup for some reason. I just got an email saying

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they added it for free on my subscription. I

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guess trying to get me to pay for soccer. And

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I don't get the baseball either. Soccer and baseball,

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I think, are the big ones. And they're each kind

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of... You can get the total thing, which is probably

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$20 a month. Ah, okay. Or you can add baseball

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or soccer for an extra $5. I think if here it's

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20 for everything and like a lot of it I don't

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really want. Yeah. They had the combat sports

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only thing and I was like fuck yes please. The

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only combat sport they really show is boxing

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I think. I haven't seen much for MMA stuff. Alright.

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Cool. Canada Day. Yeah. July 1st. July 1st. Yeah.

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I just wanted to throw out a happy Canada Day

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to everybody. But today is July 4th when we're

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recording, isn't it? Yeah, I think this is United

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States Day. Yeah, I guess Independence Day makes

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sense for you guys because it was actually like

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a war type thing. But for Canada, it's just like,

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we signed a piece of paper today. Thanks, Dad.

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I got my own apartment. Yeah, 4th of July. I

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don't know. There's a lot of sales and stuff

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going on right now, but I don't know. I don't

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really care. I don't really do anything to celebrate.

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I like fireworks, so we would always drive to

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the fireworks when I was at home. And since my

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birthday is so late in June, it was always a

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long weekend after my birthday, usually for...

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July 1st. Worked out nicely. You know what else

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works out nicely? What? This transition. Boxing

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before dark. That was really good. Ah! The before

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dark. Ryan Garcia has been throwing some shade

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at Oscar De La Hoya. I saw he took it down a

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few hours after, but he was posting the fishnet

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pictures all over his socials again. Why? I think.

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Ryan Garcia is in a fight with Oscar. He's mad

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that he has whatever left on his contract. That's

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not fun. No. Of all the things that you're going

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to make fun of him for, make fun of him for being

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a shitty businessman or whatever. Call him that

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kind of thing. Bad promoter. Well, and especially

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in this day and age. And everybody's already

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seen them. It's not like it's a secret. This

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is nothing new to anyone. What's the point? Yeah.

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That's exactly right. If Oscar wants to wear

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ladies' clothes in his own time, who gives a

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shit? Go for it, buddy. Not my cup of tea, but

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you enjoy. Worst things you can do. Yeah. It's

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a weird angle to take, but I think Ryan Garcia

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is like a conservative type. So to him, this

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is like the ultimate emasculation or the ultimate

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humiliation. Yeah, I don't know. I don't get

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it, but whatever. You know, speaking of things

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that I don't get, Jake Paul. Oh, fuck. This made

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me sad. Why? Why sad? What's he done? Like, really,

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what's he done to be raided by any of the organizations?

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Who's he beaten? Tommy Fury? No. He didn't beat

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Tommy Fury. Oh, right! He lost to Tommy Fury.

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Like, who's he beaten that should get him ranked?

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Yeah. Like, if beating JCC Jr. is getting you

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ranked as a cruiserweight, like, fucking... That's

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sad. I mean, he's winning his fights. Are they

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spectacular? No. Should he be ranked 14th within

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title contention? No. But he's fine. He's winning

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his fights. They put whoever weirdo in front

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of him and he wins. Sure, but that... That shouldn't

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get you ranked. Especially not that highly. If

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they wanted to rank him like 50th or something,

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I don't give a shit. Even top 25, I guess. I

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don't know if I can name 25 cruiserweights, so

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sure. But top 15? No. Like... He should have

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to fight somebody else who's ranked as a cruiserweight

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before he gets in the top 15. On the UFC side

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of things, it's kind of similar, like where you

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climb up towards the top 15 and you don't necessarily

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have to beat someone who is ranked to become

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ranked. I'm not saying he needs to beat somebody

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ranked top 15. I mean like ranked top 30. Oh,

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just anything. In the system. Yeah. Like, I don't

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think he's beaten anybody that is in any ranking

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system in boxing. I don't think so. I don't think

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he has. So, like, to get top 15, I think he should

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have to beat somebody in the system. Yes. Like,

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top 40 even, I don't really care, but beat somebody.

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Like, he has jumped the line fucking madness

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with this for beating... Some old man who doesn't

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want to be there. Yeah. Like... I don't know.

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This pisses me off. The whole ranking system

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pisses me off. Manny Pacquiao is fighting for

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a title, like, in two weeks. Yep. Why? Again,

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he should have to fight somebody that's ranked

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recently. No legacy ranking. Well, like, to some

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extent. Like, if Manny Pacquiao beat somebody

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in the top 40, top 30, sure, I guess let him

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go fight Berrios. But he hasn't even fought a

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fight in, like, four years. And Jake Paul's never

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beaten anybody that's in the boxing system. Like,

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it's bullshit. Yeah, he's money. Yeah, I mean,

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like, I don't like Jake Paul, but if he wants

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to go fight these circus fights or whatever,

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sure. And I do have to say his promotion aspect

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has grown on me. Like, he's putting good fighters

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in getting lots of people watching them. Fine.

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But leave the fucking ranking system out of it.

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Yeah, you're either like a sideshow attraction

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or you're not. And if you don't want to be, that's

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fine. But do it like everybody else does. Like,

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yeah, he's only had whatever it is, 8 or 12 or

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however many boxing matches. But if you want

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to get ranked, start at the bottom. Beat other

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contenders on the ladder on your way up. Yeah,

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that makes sense. Unlike the WBA. Makes too much

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sense for boxing, apparently. Oh, shit. Something

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else that doesn't make sense. Wilder is going

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to keep fighting? What the hell is this about?

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Yeah, so I was just listening to YouTube videos

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and stuff, but it was Dan Raphael said that he

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talked to Wilder's manager. whatever and said

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that they they're looking at another kind of

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tune -up testing the waters fight but this time

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in south korea who the fuck does south korea

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have that's a heavyweight like of any sort uh

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probably none like i just don't maybe he's not

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fighting a korean they just said in south korea

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but It seems really random to me that he would

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go over to Korea. If... I... When I was there,

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there were... There was, like, the... The Korean

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Marines had, like, a basketball team. And we

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used to play against them all the time. And they

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were, like, 6 '3 and stuff. Like, these guys

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are fucking big. But not 6 '7", 250 pounds big.

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yeah but i mean wilder's not that big of a heavyweight

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either he's tall but what's he weigh like 230

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something like that yeah i'm not saying korea

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doesn't have any heavyweight boxers i just mean

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like it seems really random to go over there

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it is for a fight it's a random spot but i think

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it's cool that the koreans are getting something

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kind of big that'll be fun should be fun anyway

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Yeah, that's fair. And this isn't signed or anything.

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This is just what they're looking at. So it might

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not happen. Do I have it on here? Or is that

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for next week? His fight. How he did. Was great.

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I think that's next week. Let me check. Just

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to be sure. Nope, that's this week. And I completely

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forgot to put it on the thing. But it's okay.

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It's Deontay Wilder. I was going to say, he fought

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on the 27th, right? Yes. So we'll get to that

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in a moment. But I'm not impressed. Yeah, I guess

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I didn't put very much thought into what order

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I put these rumors and news down. The flow is

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kind of fucked up. It's all right. We'll make

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it work. I just add stuff as I hear it. What

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the fuck, Devin Haney? Is a wife beater? What

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the shit is this? Apparently. Apparently he pushed

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his... I don't know if they are married, actually.

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They might not be married. But apparently he

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pushed his very pregnant significant other. And

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she has since filed for a restraining order and

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to make sure he doesn't see his daughter. Yikes.

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Yeah. Pretty shitty. What, did she tell him not

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to fight Brian Norman? Well, I was gonna say,

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if you're gonna get beaten by a boxer, Haney's

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probably your best bet. Yeah. Not too much damage.

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Get that bag. But... Yeah, so, uh, Haney is apparently

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fighting Norman. I think Haney might die. I really

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think Brian Norman's gonna whoop his ass. Worse

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than Ryan Garcia did. I think Norman hits harder

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than Garcia. Yes. For sure. I am a little worried

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it's not the right word because I don't care

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that much about either of these two. But I think

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Haney's just going to run. I think it's going

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to be even worse than Jose Ramirez. Is that possible?

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Well, I think Norman's more of a threat. So Haney's

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going to be even more scared to engage. Oh, shit.

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I don't know. Maybe not. But I think this is

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going to be a bad fight. Unless Norman can just

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catch him and knock him the fuck out early. I

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think it's going to be a bad fight. It's going

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to take him a while to catch up anyway. So at

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the very best case scenario, the front half of

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it is going to suck balls. Yeah. I think so.

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That's the best we could hope for. I can't imagine

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this fight actually being, like, good. It's difficult

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to envision it. I don't see a way. Yeah, it's

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difficult to envision it as entertaining. Still,

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I'm happy for Brian Norman. He's getting, like,

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a higher profile opponent. Yeah, everybody was

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talking shit about him coming to Japan to fight

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Sasaki, but that seems to be working out for

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him pretty well, actually. Yeah. That highlight

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KO got him a whole bunch of publicity. People

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are talking about him now. As they should. Yeah,

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it was impressive. I was on the... Living out

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of my truck. My rented truck at the time, so

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we didn't get a chance to talk about it, I don't

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think. Did we? Or did we not? I don't remember.

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I think we did talk about it. I think that was

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the last thing. Because I kind of remember talking

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about Sasaki losing his memories and getting

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them back. That's right. Six months of memory?

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Six weeks. Oh, six weeks. But yeah, he got most

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of it back pretty fast. But when he woke up after

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the knockout, he didn't remember signing the

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fight. So it's pretty bad. Also, absolutely no

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talk of the JBC, like, stopping him from fighting

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again anytime soon. Who, Sasaki? Yeah. Oh, boy.

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He needs to have brain bleeds and needs to be...

00:18:09.289 --> 00:18:13.589
He has to have been comatose for at least a week

00:18:13.589 --> 00:18:18.089
for the JBC to consider pulling his boxing license.

00:18:18.950 --> 00:18:22.660
Gotta be near death. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and apparently,

00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.539
like, actual skull fractures you can fight ten

00:18:25.539 --> 00:18:31.839
months later. That's no worries. Shrug. I'm saying

00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.900
shrug because you all can't see me shrugging.

00:18:35.980 --> 00:18:41.299
It's bad. Man. Is that... I think I'm gonna have

00:18:41.299 --> 00:18:48.200
to start narrating my physical reactions. Go

00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:55.329
old school. Yeah, I was thinking, do you remember

00:18:55.329 --> 00:18:58.150
on the forums, people would put, like, all their

00:18:58.150 --> 00:19:02.269
actions in the little... No? Yeah, I know what

00:19:02.269 --> 00:19:05.710
you're talking about. I think they still do on,

00:19:05.769 --> 00:19:09.470
like, Tumblr. Yeah, they do, and I still do it

00:19:09.470 --> 00:19:13.869
in Discord. Sometimes. We are old. Yeah. We are

00:19:13.869 --> 00:19:17.309
old. I still get shit for using punctuation sometimes.

00:19:17.730 --> 00:19:24.839
Fucking children. Speaking of... No, that's not

00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:31.339
a good one. Hiro Tokyo Gucci. He retires. He

00:19:31.339 --> 00:19:33.640
announced his retirement, I think, on Wednesday.

00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.019
I'm not... I was a little surprised, actually.

00:19:38.059 --> 00:19:42.420
I know he lost his last fight, but he was competitive.

00:19:42.819 --> 00:19:47.460
Right. Like, and he's not that old. I was surprised

00:19:47.460 --> 00:19:51.440
he retired. I guess 31's pretty old for... That

00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.819
weight class. Smaller weights, that's a lot.

00:19:55.819 --> 00:19:59.740
But... I don't know. I'm a little sad. I really

00:19:59.740 --> 00:20:04.059
like Kiyoguchi. Me too. He's very exciting. And

00:20:04.059 --> 00:20:07.299
his Instagram is so fucking cute and wholesome.

00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:09.700
It's just him and his girlfriend and their French

00:20:09.700 --> 00:20:13.559
bulldog doing, like, actual professional photo

00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:18.200
shoots together. Excellent. Amazing. Every spring,

00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.380
they, like, take them out for the cherry blossom

00:20:22.380 --> 00:20:26.200
photos and they were just at the world expo in

00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:30.160
osaka so i will continue to follow him for cute

00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.700
puppy pictures but yeah apparently he has done

00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:37.099
boxing although it did so i was reading it on

00:20:37.099 --> 00:20:41.900
uh like google translate but it sounds like he's

00:20:41.900 --> 00:20:45.000
planning on coaching or something that's because

00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.609
he said He hopes the fans stick with him through

00:20:48.609 --> 00:20:50.750
his next career, but he didn't really say what

00:20:50.750 --> 00:20:54.589
his next career is. But I assume it's boxing.

00:20:55.309 --> 00:20:59.170
Boxing -related, tangential. Yeah, although he

00:20:59.170 --> 00:21:01.609
is really into fashion stuff, so maybe he's going

00:21:01.609 --> 00:21:04.430
to try and model or something. Who knows? Commentary?

00:21:05.990 --> 00:21:10.269
Not to be rude, but he's got kind of a weird

00:21:10.269 --> 00:21:14.049
voice. I don't know if he'd be great at commentary.

00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:19.480
As I shouldn't talk. I have a weird voice and

00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.240
I'm doing a podcast. It's very high -pitched.

00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:26.240
He's got the more high -pitched Japanese accent

00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:31.099
and he's tiny. That's an unfortunate combination.

00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:37.559
Yeah, yeah. That's too bad. Still. Anyways, I

00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:41.079
wish him the best of luck. Absolutely. And I'm

00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:42.920
kind of glad he got out before he got really

00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:47.180
hurt. His style was damaging. He took a lot of

00:21:47.180 --> 00:21:51.859
punishment. Yeah, that's what made him so fun

00:21:51.859 --> 00:21:55.700
to watch, though, was taking fire. He was like

00:21:55.700 --> 00:21:59.160
quintessential Japanese style. Like, if you wanted

00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:02.240
to show somebody, like, what is the Japanese

00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:07.599
boxing archetype? It's Kyoguchi. Yeah, exactly.

00:22:09.439 --> 00:22:13.740
Decent fundamentals, but not enough defense and

00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:17.799
all action. Yeah. And the lack of defense is

00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:23.539
probably by choice. I assume so. With most of

00:22:23.539 --> 00:22:27.440
the Japanese boxers, I kind of assume they choose

00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:36.299
not to learn defense. Is that it? Well, there's

00:22:36.299 --> 00:22:41.000
that last one. Chavez got deported. The day after

00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:43.680
the fight, they put out the warrant the day before

00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:46.460
the fight, but, you know, let him fight so nobody

00:22:46.460 --> 00:22:49.599
loses any money and then deported him for show.

00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:56.259
Because he was going to leave anyway. Yes. It's

00:22:56.259 --> 00:23:00.779
so stupid. Like, if he was there illegally and

00:23:00.779 --> 00:23:02.480
you knew that and you knew where he was going

00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:06.059
to be and you really cared, go fucking arrest

00:23:06.059 --> 00:23:08.940
him before the match. This is the only reason

00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:10.779
I put it on here. I think the whole thing is

00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:13.480
stupid and performative and just to get headlines.

00:23:13.900 --> 00:23:16.700
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Because if they

00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:19.859
could have deported him before the thing at any

00:23:19.859 --> 00:23:22.599
point, they could have walked into the ring while

00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.180
he was fighting. If they were so determined to

00:23:26.180 --> 00:23:28.720
get rid of him, they could have done it. But

00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:34.740
they didn't. It clearly isn't because they were

00:23:34.740 --> 00:23:37.059
actually worried that he was in the country.

00:23:37.180 --> 00:23:39.220
That's the part that pisses me off about the

00:23:39.220 --> 00:23:44.559
whole thing. Like, let's let him do his job that

00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.460
he came here for illegally and then, you know,

00:23:48.460 --> 00:23:51.700
get the headlines afterwards after everybody's

00:23:51.700 --> 00:23:55.079
already made their money. So stupid. We didn't

00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:58.619
know where he was with very thick air quotes.

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:04.059
Yeah, with... 20 fucking cameras on him for the

00:24:04.059 --> 00:24:10.119
last... So they put out the warrant to be...

00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:14.079
I'm stuttering because I'm so frustrated. They

00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:16.980
put out the warrant before the weigh -in. Like,

00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:22.019
oh, we couldn't find him. It's on YouTube. Yeah.

00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:24.740
I don't know what... What do you mean you can't

00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:29.619
find him? Like... Just the whole thing is stupid.

00:24:31.210 --> 00:24:34.509
Makes me angry. Performative is a very good way

00:24:34.509 --> 00:24:38.109
to put it. But, like, let's make sure that we

00:24:38.109 --> 00:24:41.390
don't fuck up Jake Paul and his company making

00:24:41.390 --> 00:24:49.349
money and whoever else. Like... Let the event

00:24:49.349 --> 00:24:54.490
go on. You get to have your media sensation.

00:24:57.210 --> 00:25:01.480
You have a... Because of his contractual obligations,

00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:06.339
you have a pretty strict timeline of where Chavez

00:25:06.339 --> 00:25:10.660
is going to be. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I

00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:13.920
guess they knew he wasn't going to flee and hide

00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:19.640
in America, but that's not really the point,

00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:22.160
or it's not supposed to be the point. Right.

00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:24.960
The point is supposed to be that he's illegal,

00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:30.799
and that is the problem. Well, maybe you shouldn't

00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:37.240
be committing crimes in Mexico. Yeah? Then don't

00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.059
give him the fucking pass to come up in the first

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:43.140
place. Yeah, if he had an arrest warrant in Mexico

00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:45.440
and you knew about it, then why did you give

00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.400
him a visa to begin with? And, like, the border

00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:52.720
should have checked that. I mean, I know people

00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.039
who get refused entry to the United States because

00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:02.130
of DUIs. But they're not famous, so... My dad

00:26:02.130 --> 00:26:04.529
had to get an actual pardon because they wouldn't

00:26:04.529 --> 00:26:10.230
let him cross. For DUIs, I should specify. It

00:26:10.230 --> 00:26:12.869
wasn't, like, anything crazy. He had to get his

00:26:12.869 --> 00:26:18.869
DUIs from the 70s, I think it was, pardoned because

00:26:18.869 --> 00:26:21.250
they wouldn't let him cross the border after,

00:26:21.390 --> 00:26:25.869
I think it was 2007. For some reason. They suddenly

00:26:25.869 --> 00:26:28.690
became a problem. Yeah. That's a really weird

00:26:28.690 --> 00:26:32.210
time to start caring. That's when they put in

00:26:32.210 --> 00:26:35.509
the passports. You couldn't, I think, you couldn't

00:26:35.509 --> 00:26:40.250
cross with just a driver's license anymore. So

00:26:40.250 --> 00:26:42.650
maybe the system changed, but I feel like his

00:26:42.650 --> 00:26:44.269
driver's license should have flagged him for

00:26:44.269 --> 00:26:47.789
DUIs. If anything flags you for DUIs. Absolutely.

00:26:49.370 --> 00:26:52.869
But they were also like 30 -year -old DUIs, so

00:26:52.869 --> 00:26:55.369
who the fuck knows. Those papers are sitting

00:26:55.369 --> 00:27:00.029
in some drawer in a warehouse. Yeah, well, so

00:27:00.029 --> 00:27:03.809
he fucked up bad enough and consistently enough

00:27:03.809 --> 00:27:06.569
in the 70s that he was in jail for two weeks

00:27:06.569 --> 00:27:14.150
for DUIs. Oh. Well. Yeah, I think back in the

00:27:14.150 --> 00:27:16.369
day, if you got like three in one year, you went

00:27:16.369 --> 00:27:21.130
to jail. Instead of just taking your license

00:27:21.130 --> 00:27:29.549
like normal people. But. Is it a good, speaking

00:27:29.549 --> 00:27:34.069
of taking licenses away, moving into some recaps.

00:27:34.069 --> 00:27:40.970
Fucking MVP at the Honda Center in Ontario. Or

00:27:40.970 --> 00:27:46.890
Anaheim, excuse me. Anaheim, California. Raul

00:27:46.890 --> 00:27:49.930
Correal gets a stoppage in four. over victor

00:27:49.930 --> 00:27:53.289
rodriguez so that's cool i thought he looked

00:27:53.289 --> 00:27:58.430
good yeah um holly holm gets the ud over yolanda

00:27:58.430 --> 00:28:03.390
ochoa i did not see that coming i expected no

00:28:03.390 --> 00:28:06.029
i expected holly holm to lose she's like 40 something

00:28:06.029 --> 00:28:11.470
yeah but holly holmes is good and you know she's

00:28:11.470 --> 00:28:14.549
she's gonna come in shape like i don't think

00:28:14.549 --> 00:28:17.069
she would step in the ring if she wasn't in shape

00:28:21.420 --> 00:28:23.779
I think I might have had Holly Holmes by knockout

00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:27.700
on my box picks. I was expecting her to do well.

00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:31.579
I had her losing by decision. That shit wasn't

00:28:31.579 --> 00:28:35.900
even close. You know what else wasn't close?

00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.799
Tevin Farmer getting his ass beat by Floyd Schofield.

00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:44.839
I did not see this one coming. I didn't either.

00:28:44.980 --> 00:28:48.440
I did not expect Farmer to get blown out like

00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:53.759
that. Like my opinion of Schofield has gone way

00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:57.880
up. I think somebody, I don't remember who it

00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:03.000
was, but they would refer to it as the opening

00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.339
the jar where somebody is like busting their

00:29:07.339 --> 00:29:09.299
ass trying to open it and they can't get it open

00:29:09.299 --> 00:29:11.599
and they pass it to someone who gets it on the

00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.640
first try. It's like the first person was the

00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.119
one who did all the work. So Tevin Farmer got.

00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:24.259
The jar was Zepeda's, and then Scofield gets

00:29:24.259 --> 00:29:29.039
the praise for it. I don't know how much I believe

00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:35.559
that, to be honest. Maybe. Just a theory. With

00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:41.920
Tevin Farmer and his health concerns... Yeah,

00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.599
I had been defending Farmer once I found out

00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.720
he didn't have brain damage, but... Might be

00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:55.099
time for Farmer to hang it up. Yeah. Still, good

00:29:55.099 --> 00:29:59.299
win for Schofield. To stop Kevin Farmer. That's

00:29:59.299 --> 00:30:02.539
pretty good. And to stop him like that. Like,

00:30:02.539 --> 00:30:05.759
that wasn't just a stoppage. That was a fucking

00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:11.160
train wreck for Kevin Farmer. Sickest beatdown.

00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.380
Schofield looked real good. I was impressed.

00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:22.299
But I don't know who they should line him up

00:30:22.299 --> 00:30:28.759
with next. Like, what's a good follow -up? At

00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:34.940
lightweight? For Floyd Schofield, Sam Noakes

00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:38.859
and Abdullah Mason are busy. Hip hip hurrah.

00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:49.220
Zepeda's fighting this weekend? Or next weekend.

00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.740
Next weekend. But yeah, the timing would work

00:30:51.740 --> 00:30:57.039
out pretty well. Do you think... Schofield versus

00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:01.039
Zepeda? That's tough. It could be a banger. It

00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:05.099
could be. But I know everybody's going to say

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:07.519
that Zepeda looked like shit against Farmer.

00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:12.400
But, I mean, I think he's still a harder test

00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:19.299
than what Farmer gave. Yeah. And depending on

00:31:19.299 --> 00:31:22.759
how Zepeda looks against Shakur. Zepeda's going

00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.000
to look like shit against Shakur. Shittier than

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:31.180
he did with Farmer. What about Magzayo? I haven't

00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:34.240
seen Mark Magzayo in a while. If he's still fighting.

00:31:34.259 --> 00:31:37.500
That could be a banger. He's ranked number four

00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:47.490
by somebody here. The IBF. Maxie Hughes? Maxie

00:31:47.490 --> 00:31:49.549
Hughes doesn't need another beating like that,

00:31:49.630 --> 00:31:53.250
though. That's not a good test for Floyd Schofield.

00:31:53.789 --> 00:31:59.789
Yeah, you're right. That's not a good one. Andy

00:31:59.789 --> 00:32:04.029
Cruz. Josh Padley. Padley would be a good one.

00:32:04.170 --> 00:32:09.589
Josh fucking Padley. That's a good one. All right.

00:32:09.670 --> 00:32:11.829
We need to make some phone calls. Make this happen.

00:32:12.450 --> 00:32:15.410
I'll text. Who the fuck is Floyd Schofield with?

00:32:16.430 --> 00:32:18.430
I don't know. I'll text it. I don't remember.

00:32:22.470 --> 00:32:26.869
Yeah, no, that would be a good one. Speaking

00:32:26.869 --> 00:32:29.829
of good ones, was this one of them? Gilberto

00:32:29.829 --> 00:32:36.190
Ramirez, I guess, UD over Juniel Dorticos. Now,

00:32:36.190 --> 00:32:40.769
it wasn't like a flashy win. No, but it was a

00:32:40.769 --> 00:32:45.950
solid win, I think. Yeah, I think so. I don't

00:32:45.950 --> 00:32:49.710
know. I don't care who Zerdo fights unless it's

00:32:49.710 --> 00:32:52.809
Opitaya. I think that's how it's going to be.

00:32:53.690 --> 00:32:56.769
For a while. Until that fight happens, no one's

00:32:56.769 --> 00:33:01.650
going to care. It's very miniature, scaled down

00:33:01.650 --> 00:33:07.190
to like an atom's worth, but of like Mayweather

00:33:07.190 --> 00:33:10.549
versus Pacquiao. We don't give a shit who your

00:33:10.549 --> 00:33:13.769
opponent is. If it's not the other one, then

00:33:13.769 --> 00:33:17.440
I don't care. Fury AJ, that style. Yeah, exactly.

00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:22.579
I do think Zerto's fighting much stiffer competition

00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:26.500
than Opataya. Like, I think this is... Dordakos'

00:33:26.579 --> 00:33:29.420
win is a better win than Jai's had in a while.

00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:38.839
Isn't that Italian guy? Squeo? Yeah. Squeo. Squeo?

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:46.920
Yeah. Yeah. I think it was Squeo. Yeah. Dordakos

00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:49.960
is always a power threat. So that's always something

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:54.640
you have to be cautious of. And Zerto navigated

00:33:54.640 --> 00:34:01.220
it perfectly. Yeah. It was kind of a boring fight,

00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:05.259
to be honest. Right. Yeah, speaking of boring.

00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:14.440
Jake versus JCC. JCC threw zero punches. Like,

00:34:14.460 --> 00:34:16.360
what the fuck were you doing? For the first,

00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:18.179
like, three or four rounds, he seriously didn't

00:34:18.179 --> 00:34:21.460
throw anything. Like, it would surprise me if

00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:26.340
it was more than zero. He'd walk into range and

00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:32.619
just not do anything. Like, I mean, I'm not a

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:35.880
boxer, but you were a fucking world champion.

00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.320
Like, do better. Right, have some fucking pride.

00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:45.300
Yeah, like... He was out of shape, so that's

00:34:45.300 --> 00:34:47.980
probably the excuse, but he did actually throw

00:34:47.980 --> 00:34:50.659
punches in the last two rounds, and he won them

00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:58.059
both. Yeah. Like, do that. Except more. Yeah,

00:34:58.179 --> 00:35:02.800
just do that the whole time. Yeah. I don't know.

00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:05.400
I don't think it, but this is going to bring

00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:08.960
out the conspiracy theories of they're paid not

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:14.539
to throw punches when they fight Jake Paul. i

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:17.380
hadn't heard the no win clause oh you haven't

00:35:17.380 --> 00:35:22.199
heard the like no win clause no oh so i don't

00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.019
think it's true but the rumors online are that

00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:27.800
like when they signed a fight jake paul they

00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:32.460
have to um throw the fight basically or like

00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:34.920
mike tyson wasn't allowed to throw uppercuts

00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.880
was one of the rumors and that sort of thing

00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.119
and i'm like guys that's not what's happening

00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:48.380
But this isn't going to help that because JCC

00:35:48.380 --> 00:35:52.280
just didn't throw any punches for eight rounds.

00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:56.940
Like, he made sure he was losing the fight and

00:35:56.940 --> 00:35:59.760
then made it look good. Big air quotes on that

00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:06.760
for the last two rounds. I don't know. I don't

00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.059
believe the rumors. I think JCC is just a piece

00:36:09.059 --> 00:36:13.469
of shit. didn't train and is kind of slow, but...

00:36:13.469 --> 00:36:18.769
Yeah, he kept... He finally did something completely

00:36:18.769 --> 00:36:21.469
unrelated to the actual fight, but something

00:36:21.469 --> 00:36:23.610
that I always thought was kind of dumb is he

00:36:23.610 --> 00:36:25.309
always tries to answer interview questions in

00:36:25.309 --> 00:36:29.469
English, and I'm not trying to dunk on the guy

00:36:29.469 --> 00:36:33.110
for being English as a second language, but,

00:36:33.190 --> 00:36:36.590
like, Jesus fucking Christ, bro. Answer in Spanish.

00:36:36.949 --> 00:36:40.309
Everybody... that's involved in this press event

00:36:40.309 --> 00:36:43.889
has some form of translation available to them.

00:36:44.429 --> 00:36:49.269
Yeah. And he finally stopped. It was just one

00:36:49.269 --> 00:36:51.030
question, and he's like, okay, well, I'm gonna

00:36:51.030 --> 00:36:58.550
answer in Spanish. Yeah, thank you. Better performance

00:36:58.550 --> 00:37:03.809
in the interview over the fight. This... The

00:37:03.809 --> 00:37:06.590
undercard was good. Like, legitimately, it was

00:37:06.590 --> 00:37:09.099
a solid undercard. People were giving me some

00:37:09.099 --> 00:37:11.139
shit when I said that before it happened, but

00:37:11.139 --> 00:37:15.059
solid undercard. But I don't give a shit about

00:37:15.059 --> 00:37:19.780
Jake Paul and these circus fights. Like, I just

00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:22.320
don't care. Yeah, Ramirez -Dorticos was the main

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.960
event for me. Jake Paul's just like a fun sideshow

00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:29.639
that happened to be on after. I honestly didn't

00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.980
watch it real close. It didn't miss a whole lot.

00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:40.579
Yeah. Is that more time than that fight fucking

00:37:40.579 --> 00:37:45.719
deserves? Probably. Probably. So, moving to Friday,

00:37:45.860 --> 00:37:51.820
June 27th, Eye of the Tiger in Quebec City. This

00:37:51.820 --> 00:37:57.480
was not a good card. No, it was not. As Eye of

00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:02.219
the Tiger is wont to do, there's a lot of one

00:38:02.219 --> 00:38:07.300
-sided beatdowns, knockouts. Yeah, never bet

00:38:07.300 --> 00:38:10.659
on the B -side for Eye of the Tiger fights. Ever.

00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:13.260
I don't know if I've ever seen an upset on any

00:38:13.260 --> 00:38:15.579
of their cards. The only time you bet on the

00:38:15.579 --> 00:38:19.739
B -side is when it comes to your podcasts. And

00:38:19.739 --> 00:38:23.599
you go with the boxing B -sides. Or pro box.

00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:25.960
Wherever it is that you're listening to this.

00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:31.639
Gets a little bit more nerdy over there. Different

00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:36.630
kind of nerdy, I'll say. Stephen Butler KO4 over

00:38:36.630 --> 00:38:42.849
Jose Macias. Fine. Stephen Butler moves up to

00:38:42.849 --> 00:38:47.869
168. Does not have a great opponent. So, it's

00:38:47.869 --> 00:38:51.449
hard to say. It's not going to translate to anything

00:38:51.449 --> 00:38:54.349
meaningful. I don't think he's going to have

00:38:54.349 --> 00:39:00.010
a career resurgence here at 168. Dude never fights

00:39:00.010 --> 00:39:02.469
outside of Canada. You're never going to get...

00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:05.380
much of a career if you only fight in canada

00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:09.320
i hate to say it but nobody cares about wins

00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:13.159
in canada yeah that's it would be the same as

00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:16.059
getting like being having a 22 and 0 prospect

00:39:16.059 --> 00:39:18.460
that's just coming out of the regional scene

00:39:18.460 --> 00:39:23.179
like yeah nobody really but like a region that

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:27.699
isn't very good like 22 and 0 out of mexico means

00:39:27.699 --> 00:39:33.130
something 22 and 0 out of russia maybe, but like

00:39:33.130 --> 00:39:39.050
22 -0 out of Italy, nobody cares. Right. Canada's

00:39:39.050 --> 00:39:42.269
boxing is better than Italy's, but it's not very

00:39:42.269 --> 00:39:47.710
good. You know who else, or what else isn't very

00:39:47.710 --> 00:39:51.110
good? Arslanbek Makhmudov. It's not good. TKO

00:39:51.110 --> 00:39:55.869
won over Ricardo Brown. That, uh, I guess you

00:39:55.869 --> 00:39:59.789
can call that a fight. A waste of time. Yeah.

00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:04.480
moving along. Christian Mbili, main reason I'm

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:10.820
here. TKO1 over Maciej Sulecki. Mbili looked

00:40:10.820 --> 00:40:15.420
good, I guess. His usual self. This is a career

00:40:15.420 --> 00:40:23.400
154 guy moving up to 168. It's a name. Go fight

00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:26.840
outside of Canada. Seriously, dude. You can fight

00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:32.099
in Cameroon. Or France. And you're staying in

00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:37.079
Canada. Fucking go fight in the States. I mean,

00:40:37.099 --> 00:40:40.500
Montreal's an hour drive from the border. Go

00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:44.960
fight in New York. It's a super short trip. Yeah.

00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:50.079
He's a big fish, little pond situation. But you

00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:52.780
can't tell how good he is because he fights nobodies.

00:40:54.500 --> 00:40:59.969
Or... Derevyanchenko way past his prime. Yeah,

00:41:00.050 --> 00:41:02.989
but he looked like shit against Derevyanchenko.

00:41:03.309 --> 00:41:06.769
A one -armed Derevyanchenko almost beat him.

00:41:07.309 --> 00:41:12.989
Like, two -armed old man Derev kicks Mbili's

00:41:12.989 --> 00:41:16.449
ass and I will stand on that every day. If he

00:41:16.449 --> 00:41:19.070
hadn't busted his arm, he'd have won that fight.

00:41:20.050 --> 00:41:23.869
I don't know. Mbili needs to just go fight somebody.

00:41:24.590 --> 00:41:27.329
Somebody better. Yeah, he needs to step up his

00:41:27.329 --> 00:41:33.969
game for sure. Oh, man. Speaking of stepping

00:41:33.969 --> 00:41:37.289
up games. I was going to say, this is where the

00:41:37.289 --> 00:41:41.190
Wilder fight should fall under. Yes, that is

00:41:41.190 --> 00:41:44.949
correct. Speaking of stepping up games, Deontay

00:41:44.949 --> 00:41:49.650
Wilder needs to change games. That was not the

00:41:49.650 --> 00:41:54.219
Deontay Wilder of old. That Deontay Wilder's

00:41:54.219 --> 00:41:56.840
never coming back, though. I know. I can only

00:41:56.840 --> 00:42:01.900
hope. I do kind of like that he seems to be trying

00:42:01.900 --> 00:42:06.820
new things since... Like, he threw jabs. He threw

00:42:06.820 --> 00:42:10.880
lots of jabs this fight. They weren't great,

00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:14.860
but, I mean, he's not just trying to line up

00:42:14.860 --> 00:42:20.150
that right hand anymore. He was throwing it a

00:42:20.150 --> 00:42:22.369
lot, though. He was throwing it like a looping

00:42:22.369 --> 00:42:27.329
sort of overhand. And it wasn't really landing

00:42:27.329 --> 00:42:28.989
at all. It's like he was aiming for the temple,

00:42:29.150 --> 00:42:31.429
trying to get around the guard to hit the temple.

00:42:31.929 --> 00:42:36.789
And it was a little disheartening to see him

00:42:36.789 --> 00:42:39.110
continue to do it for, what, like seven fucking

00:42:39.110 --> 00:42:44.369
rounds? Yeah. Yeah, he didn't look good. I was

00:42:44.369 --> 00:42:46.550
trying to be optimistic. He did not look good.

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.800
And he should not have taken seven rounds to

00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.599
knock out Herndon if he was going to do anything,

00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:57.500
like, in the future. I don't know, man. I think

00:42:57.500 --> 00:43:01.340
he's still chasing the AJ fight, and he should,

00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:09.219
but Wilder's not beating AJ. Not now. AJ's also

00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:14.019
looking kind of shit, but I don't see AJ being

00:43:14.019 --> 00:43:19.750
as washed as Wilder. That's what my befuddled,

00:43:19.750 --> 00:43:22.949
bemused look was. I don't know, because AJ looks

00:43:22.949 --> 00:43:27.150
pretty ass right now. Right, but he looked less

00:43:27.150 --> 00:43:35.909
ass than fucking that. Yes, that is true. Anything

00:43:35.909 --> 00:43:42.909
more for the recaps? I don't think so. Well...

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Yeah. This week is not super great. No, it's

00:50:26.059 --> 00:50:33.360
pretty light. First thing on the 11th, we have

00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:38.940
Katie Taylor Amanda Serrano Trilogy. Looks like

00:50:38.940 --> 00:50:42.340
this is an all -women's card. And I know there's

00:50:42.340 --> 00:50:44.880
those types of people that are just not going

00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:50.440
to watch it because of that. I'm... I hate when

00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:53.800
they make all women's cards, and it sounds terrible,

00:50:54.039 --> 00:50:56.980
but I absolutely hate it. I like when the women

00:50:56.980 --> 00:50:59.880
are kind of mixed in with everything else on

00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:05.920
a good card. Yeah. Because, like, they're blowing

00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:09.639
all of the good women's fights for the next six

00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:12.699
months on this card, number one. So you're not

00:51:12.699 --> 00:51:15.300
going to hear about women's boxing now for, like,

00:51:15.380 --> 00:51:19.320
at least half a year. Nothing meaningful. Number

00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:24.500
two, people who are on the fence or just against

00:51:24.500 --> 00:51:26.960
women's boxing aren't even going to tune in,

00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:30.500
but they might check it out if it's in between

00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:33.579
two male fights, and they might be surprised

00:51:33.579 --> 00:51:37.699
at how good the fight is and then watch again.

00:51:38.340 --> 00:51:42.239
I hate these all -women's cards. I know it's

00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:45.380
supposed to be promoting women's boxing, but

00:51:45.380 --> 00:51:48.650
I think it has the exact opposite effect. And

00:51:48.650 --> 00:51:53.610
it just seems, I don't know, like, performative

00:51:53.610 --> 00:51:57.989
and stupid. Right. It is like an empowerment

00:51:57.989 --> 00:52:04.210
kind of thing. I see the logic, but yeah. I don't.

00:52:04.210 --> 00:52:08.030
I don't get it. Like, why separate it? That's

00:52:08.030 --> 00:52:10.130
exactly what the point I was going to get to.

00:52:11.190 --> 00:52:14.070
Separate but equal? Like, fuck off. Fuck that.

00:52:14.190 --> 00:52:18.199
No. Having these all -women's cards, I... Like,

00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:23.820
I get it, but you're... The idea is that we're

00:52:23.820 --> 00:52:27.780
trying to promote it as being at least comparable

00:52:27.780 --> 00:52:30.920
to men's fights and it's not needing to be separated.

00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:36.360
Yeah, like, MMA never does all women's cards

00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.519
that you hear about. Or maybe they do and I just

00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:40.519
don't hear about it, but... None that I've heard

00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:45.420
of. No, and no... Well, people... shitty people

00:52:45.420 --> 00:52:49.159
exist, but I mean, like, most fans don't bitch

00:52:49.159 --> 00:52:53.500
about women's MMA, because it's good. Like, it

00:52:53.500 --> 00:52:57.599
is comparably as exciting to the men's. And boxing

00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.719
at the top level is as well, but if you make

00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:03.719
people sit through these first, like, five fights

00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:08.059
that aren't great, and then watch three main

00:53:08.059 --> 00:53:11.780
events that are pretty good, but, you know...

00:53:12.030 --> 00:53:13.750
Two of them are probably going to be decisions.

00:53:14.369 --> 00:53:18.090
And I will say Katie Taylor, Amanda Serrano 3

00:53:18.090 --> 00:53:20.829
should be a banger unless Katie Taylor suddenly

00:53:20.829 --> 00:53:23.570
got old, which could happen. I've been expecting

00:53:23.570 --> 00:53:27.090
that to happen every fight. And it just doesn't.

00:53:27.090 --> 00:53:31.250
Yeah. But like, I just, I don't get it. Just

00:53:31.250 --> 00:53:33.650
put the good women's fights at the top of the

00:53:33.650 --> 00:53:37.510
cards between men's fights. You'll get more people

00:53:37.510 --> 00:53:41.130
watching it. Or as the main, Katie Taylor, Amanda

00:53:41.130 --> 00:53:43.670
Serrano can be the main on any fucking card.

00:53:43.869 --> 00:53:48.590
Yeah, it absolutely could. But, like, I hate

00:53:48.590 --> 00:53:51.329
these all -women's cards. You don't get any new

00:53:51.329 --> 00:53:53.550
fans. You're only getting people who already

00:53:53.550 --> 00:54:00.489
watch women's boxing. I will say, if it's going

00:54:00.489 --> 00:54:04.110
to be an all -women's card, they better not have

00:54:04.110 --> 00:54:07.320
ring girls. That would be fucking ridiculous.

00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:12.500
Well, the last time they did this, they had ring

00:54:12.500 --> 00:54:15.559
boys, which is even more performative and stupid.

00:54:15.780 --> 00:54:20.599
I've seen cards that have ring boys. This is

00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:23.920
great. Fucking humiliate them. This is good.

00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:30.679
I just... Why are you marketing women's boxing

00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:35.559
to women? Women don't watch boxing very often.

00:54:36.110 --> 00:54:38.230
That's not who is going to be your main audience

00:54:38.230 --> 00:54:46.090
ever. It just isn't. Like, I don't know. Maybe

00:54:46.090 --> 00:54:48.349
I'm just a Debbie Downer, but I think this is

00:54:48.349 --> 00:54:53.329
stupid. That being said, I will probably watch

00:54:53.329 --> 00:54:56.710
at least the last four fights. There are some

00:54:56.710 --> 00:54:59.929
good ones on here. But that's my point. There's

00:54:59.929 --> 00:55:02.570
going to be no good women's boxing for six months

00:55:02.570 --> 00:55:05.920
now. Right, that you could throw on as a co -main

00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:11.019
or third from the top of another card. Or, like,

00:55:11.059 --> 00:55:14.280
some of these other ones could be the mains on,

00:55:14.420 --> 00:55:19.199
you know, regular cards. Main event worthy. Savannah

00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:23.420
Marshall in the UK. Chantel Cameron as well.

00:55:24.139 --> 00:55:28.659
Maybe not Chantel Cameron, but... But she could

00:55:28.659 --> 00:55:35.420
be, like, third. Yeah, definitely. Anyways, we

00:55:35.420 --> 00:55:37.440
should talk about the actual matchups, I suppose.

00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:42.599
I'm honestly not expecting... Well, no. Savannah

00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.619
Marshall versus Shadesia Green should be enjoyable.

00:55:48.019 --> 00:55:52.639
Don't expect... I guess women's basketball versus

00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:55.599
men's. Don't expect high -flying dunks or anything

00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:00.619
like that. Baumgartner is a beast. Maybe she

00:56:00.619 --> 00:56:05.619
might get a stoppage. I don't... Should I know

00:56:05.619 --> 00:56:08.739
who Jennifer Miranda is? I don't think so. I

00:56:08.739 --> 00:56:12.599
don't know who it is. No. Some Spanish lady.

00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:16.400
She might get a knockout. I mean, Baumgardner

00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:18.960
might get a knockout. I don't know who this lady

00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:25.219
is. She's 38. And she's from Spain. And has never

00:56:25.219 --> 00:56:29.159
fought outside of Spain. You might see a knockout

00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:35.739
in this one. RJ Tagovil for that one. Yeah. For

00:56:35.739 --> 00:56:39.139
Jennifer Miranda. For both. Probably both of

00:56:39.139 --> 00:56:44.360
them, I was going to say. I don't know if this

00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:46.699
is the proper running order, but Ellie Scottney

00:56:46.699 --> 00:56:50.579
versus Yamileth Mercado. They're unifying three

00:56:50.579 --> 00:56:55.480
of the four major titles. I believe the WBA is

00:56:55.480 --> 00:57:04.639
not on the line here. Oh, I do recognize Mercado.

00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:08.039
This could be a bit of a banger. Although, Ellie

00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:12.280
Scottney is more of a boxer than a fighter. What

00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:17.519
class is this? Superbantam? Yeah, the WBA champ

00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:23.340
is not involved in this. Oh, this is the lady

00:57:23.340 --> 00:57:28.320
who beat Ramla Ali last time out. Ramla Ali is

00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:32.289
down the bill. Yeah, sorry, but this Mexican

00:57:32.289 --> 00:57:36.010
lady, Yamilis Mercado, she's the one who beat

00:57:36.010 --> 00:57:40.949
her. Nice. This could be a hidden banger, maybe,

00:57:41.090 --> 00:57:43.969
but I kind of expect Scottney to box on the outside

00:57:43.969 --> 00:57:51.030
and make it boring. You know what's not going

00:57:51.030 --> 00:57:53.150
to be boring? Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano.

00:57:53.829 --> 00:57:56.750
Nope, never boring. They've delivered fireworks

00:57:56.750 --> 00:58:04.440
twice now. I expect it to be similar. Yeah. Possibly

00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.860
even more blood this time somehow. Because that

00:58:07.860 --> 00:58:10.800
last fight was a bloody fight. They were both

00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:14.320
cut bad. Katie Taylor, was she... I don't know

00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:16.679
if she was getting frustrated and started headbutting

00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:19.500
or if she just leads with her head. She just

00:58:19.500 --> 00:58:21.719
leads with her head, I think. I don't think it's

00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.219
intentional. I think that's just... Just how

00:58:24.219 --> 00:58:27.949
she is. The way she fights. Yeah. Oh, wow. It's

00:58:27.949 --> 00:58:34.070
kind of an Irish bad habits, isn't it? Like,

00:58:34.090 --> 00:58:36.250
don't Irish boxers always kind of jump in like

00:58:36.250 --> 00:58:39.670
that? Kind of. The ones that I've seen, yes.

00:58:41.710 --> 00:58:45.829
But, Katie Taylor is 39. Katie Taylor is getting

00:58:45.829 --> 00:58:49.250
old. And I've said it her last, like, six fights.

00:58:49.449 --> 00:58:52.949
But eventually, she is just going to be too old

00:58:52.949 --> 00:58:57.489
to be taking this much damage. Serrano's 36.

00:58:58.690 --> 00:59:01.210
Yeah, but she's taken way less damage in her

00:59:01.210 --> 00:59:05.349
career, I feel. Like, the only real war she's

00:59:05.349 --> 00:59:08.449
been in is with Katie Taylor. Yeah, that's true.

00:59:08.949 --> 00:59:12.550
But Katie Taylor has taken some ass kickings.

00:59:13.610 --> 00:59:16.550
Even when she wins, sometimes she takes an ass

00:59:16.550 --> 00:59:18.610
kicking, and I don't understand how that works,

00:59:18.670 --> 00:59:26.400
but... Thinking about ass kickings, it was Amanda

00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:28.360
Serrano beating the shit out of Heather Hardy.

00:59:29.940 --> 00:59:35.380
Her eyes got swollen up her forehead. And she

00:59:35.380 --> 00:59:39.059
had fucking bug eyes that were giant bruises.

00:59:39.059 --> 00:59:46.039
It was gross. But that was one of my go -to's.

00:59:46.500 --> 00:59:49.300
Women's fights are boring. Have you seen Serrano?

00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:53.880
Are you kidding me? Yeah, well, and nobody can

00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:56.320
say Serrano -Taylor, either of those. Nobody

00:59:56.320 --> 01:00:01.940
can say those were boring. So, I do expect the

01:00:01.940 --> 01:00:04.679
main event to be a banger. I just, I hate that

01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.960
they're blowing all of these good women's fights

01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:10.519
in one night, and then women's boxing's gonna

01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:17.780
disappear for months. Yep. Oh, well. It is what

01:00:17.780 --> 01:00:24.420
it is. Let's... Keep it rolling here. The next

01:00:24.420 --> 01:00:30.260
day in Central Park at the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

01:00:32.300 --> 01:00:36.960
Fuck, that is a big -ass park. I never think

01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:39.579
about it. But they have a whole -ass stadium

01:00:39.579 --> 01:00:45.340
inside of it. That's fucking wild. This isn't

01:00:45.340 --> 01:00:48.400
the exact running order. I haven't found one

01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:53.019
that I liked. Like a reliable one that I liked.

01:00:53.179 --> 01:00:55.760
So I'm just going to go with picking fights off

01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:57.980
the list. Hamza Shiraz versus Edgar Berlanga

01:00:57.980 --> 01:01:05.179
at super middleweight. Fun stuff. Please beat

01:01:05.179 --> 01:01:07.280
the shit out of each other. That would just be

01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:12.260
fantastic for me. No favorites in this one? No.

01:01:13.579 --> 01:01:18.719
I kind of want Berlanga to lose. Just because?

01:01:19.019 --> 01:01:24.480
I have no valid reason for it. Fair enough. I

01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:27.719
have no strong opinion on this one either, but

01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:30.840
I'll cheer for Belanga just because it's in New

01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:32.960
York. That's his hometown, right? Yeah, it is.

01:01:33.679 --> 01:01:36.019
Although, I have no idea where Shiraz is from.

01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:43.780
Is he British? Yes. I think his heritage is Palestinian?

01:01:48.029 --> 01:01:53.230
Or Lebanese? It says he's born in Berkshire.

01:01:53.809 --> 01:01:59.889
Ah, well. So, I don't know. Anyways, this is

01:01:59.889 --> 01:02:02.030
kind of a lose -lose, though. Do I cheer for

01:02:02.030 --> 01:02:08.190
a Brit or do I cheer for an American? Yeah, let's

01:02:08.190 --> 01:02:10.929
just go with I hope they punch each other a lot.

01:02:11.190 --> 01:02:13.889
Yeah, that's really it. I hope they beat each

01:02:13.889 --> 01:02:19.880
other up. David Morrell versus Imam Kataev. I

01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:23.400
don't know who this is. He's 10 -0 at light heavy.

01:02:23.860 --> 01:02:27.380
I'm assuming this is a get back for David Morrell.

01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:33.360
It looks like it's some Russian -Australian that's

01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:36.440
only fought in Russia, Australia, and Canada.

01:02:36.900 --> 01:02:43.860
Probably not that good. Serbia, one time. I just

01:02:43.860 --> 01:02:45.460
skipped that one because I didn't know where

01:02:45.460 --> 01:02:54.079
it was. Nowhere noteworthy, we'll say. He is

01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:59.659
10 -0 with nine knockouts. Looks like a threat

01:02:59.659 --> 01:03:03.199
on paper. So, like I said, this is a get back

01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:10.659
for David Morrell. Yeah. Moving up, Alberto Pueyo.

01:03:11.820 --> 01:03:19.900
The WBC super lightweight champion. Who am I

01:03:19.900 --> 01:03:23.280
thinking of with Gary Antoine Russell? Won the

01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:27.679
WBA. Versus Subaru Matias. Pueyo is the champ.

01:03:27.860 --> 01:03:32.860
Subaru Matias is rated eighth in the WBC. Cool.

01:03:33.079 --> 01:03:37.579
This one should be fun, I think. This is a classic

01:03:37.579 --> 01:03:44.699
boxer versus puncher scenario. Matias, his reputation

01:03:44.699 --> 01:03:50.059
precedes him. And Pueyo's a boxer? I don't think

01:03:50.059 --> 01:03:55.340
I recognize Pueyo, to be honest. I know you saw

01:03:55.340 --> 01:04:00.039
his fight with Sandor Martin. Maybe it's just

01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:03.940
a bad picture on BoxRec. I definitely watched

01:04:03.940 --> 01:04:06.539
a couple of these fights. Because he beat Gary

01:04:06.539 --> 01:04:08.380
Anton Russell, too. I would have watched that

01:04:08.380 --> 01:04:13.380
one. Yeah, that was for the interim title. And

01:04:13.380 --> 01:04:18.980
he got emailed the full thing. And he robbed

01:04:18.980 --> 01:04:23.500
Sandor Martins. It wasn't a robbery. I will say

01:04:23.500 --> 01:04:31.019
that it was, just because. Me and Mark Constantino

01:04:31.019 --> 01:04:37.119
think so. Mark Constantino? He was the judge

01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:43.059
that gave it to Sandor. Anyways, that one should

01:04:43.059 --> 01:04:50.099
be fun. I hope. I think so. And what won't be

01:04:50.099 --> 01:04:56.280
fun? Shakur Stevenson. Never fun. The WBC lightweight

01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:59.719
champion versus William Zepeda. The interim champion.

01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:04.500
They are consolidating their titles. Fucking

01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:08.320
good. That's how it's supposed to be. These fucking

01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:10.880
interim shits need to go away. Shakur Stevenson.

01:05:15.050 --> 01:05:24.570
Is boring as fuck. Always. He is. But. God. Can't

01:05:24.570 --> 01:05:28.610
deny the skills. But god damn. The bills that

01:05:28.610 --> 01:05:30.869
are getting. It's like paying your bills. In

01:05:30.869 --> 01:05:33.849
fucking pennies. That's what skills paying the

01:05:33.849 --> 01:05:37.010
bills is here. Like Jesus Christ. I gotta count

01:05:37.010 --> 01:05:42.769
all this shit. Yeah. He is very skillful. I can't

01:05:42.769 --> 01:05:48.280
say he's not. But I have one small hope, very

01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:51.260
small hope, that Shakur just breaks his fucking

01:05:51.260 --> 01:05:55.280
hand on Zepeda's big Mexican head and Zepeda

01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:59.880
can swarm him somehow. I really don't think Shakur

01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:02.179
can hit him hard enough to keep him off, but

01:06:02.179 --> 01:06:04.420
I just don't think Zepeda's gonna catch him either.

01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:07.059
It's not too far out of the realm of possibility

01:06:07.059 --> 01:06:11.050
that Shakur breaks a hand, either. Yeah, but

01:06:11.050 --> 01:06:13.710
if he breaks a hand, can Zepeda actually catch

01:06:13.710 --> 01:06:19.070
him? Oh, before he takes off on a bike? Yeah.

01:06:20.949 --> 01:06:25.329
Like, I can kind of see Shaker just outboxing

01:06:25.329 --> 01:06:28.369
him so badly one -handed that Zepeda still loses.

01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:33.960
But my hope is that Shakira breaks his hand and

01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:36.380
Zepeda somehow swarms him and catches him and

01:06:36.380 --> 01:06:39.059
knocks him out. And that would be the best timeline,

01:06:39.260 --> 01:06:47.199
in my opinion. Do I think it's going to happen?

01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:53.800
Probably not. But I can hope and dream until

01:06:53.800 --> 01:07:00.210
it doesn't happen. I think Pueyo -Matias is going

01:07:00.210 --> 01:07:04.610
to be the real main event on this one. Like,

01:07:04.610 --> 01:07:11.690
the most exciting fight. I'm hopeful that Kataev

01:07:11.690 --> 01:07:16.190
is going to be what his resume says he is. And

01:07:16.190 --> 01:07:18.670
that'll make him and David Morel like a dogfight.

01:07:20.070 --> 01:07:27.139
That would be fun. I just... He... Katiev has

01:07:27.139 --> 01:07:32.619
fought fucking nowhere against nobodies. I think

01:07:32.619 --> 01:07:38.000
that hope is probably pretty misplaced. Yeah.

01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:44.380
Well, not much you can do but hope. That's what

01:07:44.380 --> 01:07:48.940
a lot of this watching shit is. Just hoping something

01:07:48.940 --> 01:07:51.539
turns out good when you watch it. When you watch

01:07:51.539 --> 01:07:53.480
as many fucking cards throughout the week as

01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:58.179
I do. And this is in two sports, mind you. It's

01:07:58.179 --> 01:08:01.519
a lot of fucking hoping. And otherwise, it's

01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:04.980
like I have it on the monitor to my left, and

01:08:04.980 --> 01:08:07.079
then I'm doing my work with the monitor right

01:08:07.079 --> 01:08:11.179
in front of me. I do that a lot. Yeah. Because

01:08:11.179 --> 01:08:15.639
sometimes they're just not fucking doing anything

01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:20.420
like Morel and Kataev are liable to do. And it's

01:08:20.420 --> 01:08:23.279
like, God damn it. I don't have time for this

01:08:23.279 --> 01:08:26.130
shit. I don't have time to sit here and watch

01:08:26.130 --> 01:08:29.930
you all not punch each other. No. I have a feeling

01:08:29.930 --> 01:08:33.390
that's what the Stevenson Zapata fight's going

01:08:33.390 --> 01:08:42.189
to be, too. Damn. Well, anything more for the

01:08:42.189 --> 01:08:47.729
fights coming up? No. I don't think so. Cool.

01:08:47.890 --> 01:08:51.329
Only two cards this week. That's kind of shitty.

01:08:51.510 --> 01:08:56.180
Yeah. Taylor Serrano should be fireworks. At

01:08:56.180 --> 01:08:59.340
least the main event should be. There's some

01:08:59.340 --> 01:09:04.140
hidden gems, I think, on the undercard. I'm definitely

01:09:04.140 --> 01:09:09.000
going to tune in for at least the last three

01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:11.579
fights. Probably the last four fights. Savannah

01:09:11.579 --> 01:09:16.199
Marshall is usually pretty fun, too. Those first

01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:19.680
three that are listed, probably going to skip

01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:24.140
them. The listeners shouldn't. They should watch

01:09:24.140 --> 01:09:25.979
it and then call in and tell me what I missed.

01:09:26.260 --> 01:09:31.659
Yeah. 833 Lux Ponds. All right. Let me do this.

01:09:31.779 --> 01:09:34.739
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01:09:34.739 --> 01:09:38.220
to say that that works on WhatsApp too. That

01:09:38.220 --> 01:09:41.659
phone number. Yeah. You told me to point that

01:09:41.659 --> 01:09:45.840
out more. It's a good thing to... Well, I'm old

01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:48.920
and I was like, nobody's going to call you because

01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:52.119
it's long distance charges. But... WhatsApp is

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free. True. If you want to call, if you want

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is something the kids are doing these days, I

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can cut your audio in. Or if you don't want that,

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the traditional phone line. Text works either

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01:11:29.560 --> 01:11:31.939
the one you just listened to, go to lvxmedia

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.net. So, we're heading into girls' night on

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Friday and boys' night on Saturday. Parting words.

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Yeah, this makes my point. There's no girls'

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fights on the stupid men's card because they're

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all... busy uh parting words i bought my ticket

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for ryzen nice so not nosebleed nosebleeds those

01:11:58.939 --> 01:12:02.039
were sold out but second nosebleeds way farther

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back than i ever am for the boxing but should

01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:10.220
be fun i am busy studying japanese i realized

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this week that i'm a fucking idiot because i

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studied a bunch of questions To ask the people

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beside me, like, which fighter should I cheer

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for? And that sort of thing. Studied none of

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the possible answers. Oh, shit. Their names.

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Well, like, that was a bad example because it's

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just a name. But, like, why do you like this

01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:37.060
fighter? I totally forgot to study any possible

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answers. Like, yeah. Anything more difficult

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than somebody's name or a yes and a no. I'm fucked.

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So this week I need to study answers. Are you

01:12:48.930 --> 01:12:53.689
going to try the lottery for 1FC? I'm going to

01:12:53.689 --> 01:12:58.409
try, but I have very low hopes. I've never really

01:12:58.409 --> 01:13:02.229
won any of those lotteries. I got one for Inouye

01:13:02.229 --> 01:13:05.789
when I was able to... I didn't win the lottery,

01:13:05.890 --> 01:13:09.890
but I was able to buy a resale ticket. I don't

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think 1FC will sell out. I don't know. I watched

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the 1FC. I don't know if I said this before you

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started recording, but I watched the 1FC Friday

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Night Fights. That was fucking lit. I was told

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that this was particularly good, but the 1FC

01:13:27.340 --> 01:13:29.920
Muay Thai has slightly different rules, and it's

01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:34.220
way more fun. The no clinching is big. Yeah.

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You can clinch, but... Big butt is you have to

01:13:38.609 --> 01:13:42.010
be actively attacking the person that you're

01:13:42.010 --> 01:13:44.489
clinching. Like, you can't just grab on and hold

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on. Like, no, if you clinch onto them, you have

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to be kneeing their body or something. I don't

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know. The announcers just said no clinching,

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and they broke them up almost immediately every

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time. You're right. If somebody was, like, throwing

01:14:00.609 --> 01:14:03.270
a knee, the ref didn't step in, but once the

01:14:03.270 --> 01:14:05.699
knee landed and... all four feet were on the

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ground, the ref would break them up. Yeah. Anyways,

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it was great. Highly recommend it. And I did

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watch one, the very first fight was one of those

01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:20.359
submission grappling specific things. You're

01:14:20.359 --> 01:14:23.319
right. It is more fun than UFC. Or at least this

01:14:23.319 --> 01:14:26.439
one was. It was a lot more dynamic. It's fun

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when it's the only thing they're doing. And they're

01:14:30.350 --> 01:14:32.470
not worried about anything else happening but

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other grappling techniques. Yeah. I still probably

01:14:36.529 --> 01:14:41.369
wouldn't watch it as the point of watching it,

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but it being one fight on this card was fine.

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Parting words from me. Join the Discord. LVX

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.BE slash Discord. It's fun. Chat a lot of shit.

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And if you want the special role, you gotta go

01:14:56.609 --> 01:15:01.350
through Patreon. Deal with it. Alright, that's

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it for Boxing Before Dark. I forgot the line

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again. What? It's getting dark and my batteries

01:15:11.529 --> 01:15:15.750
are low. My batteries are low and it is getting

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dark. Damn it. I'm getting there. I'm gonna get

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it. I gotta actually check that I have it right

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because I'm doing it from memory.