This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
is Boxing Before Dark. I watched the one FC card
last night. Holy shit. Those last three fights
were all fucking amazing. Did they finish or
were they decisions? So the... Okay, three. The
first of the three was a decision and then the
last two were fucking brutal knockouts. I'm gonna
have to peep those. You're gonna have to. Like,
highly recommend. The first one I'm talking about,
I watched the whole card, but those last three
are the ones I would recommend. The first one
there, the one that went to decision, I don't
know how that man kept standing. He was fucking
eating bombs and then he ate like two kicks to
the face. It was crazy. Thai people are different.
Legitimately just built different. Yeah. And
then spinning back fist knockout. Oh, that's
cool. Yeah. What was the last one? The last one
I think was just like a straight right, but he
fucking out cold. It was crazy. Did you see any
knockdown rule stoppages? No. I don't think I
saw any knockdowns that anybody got up from.
Like, if they went down, they were out. The co
-main, I was like, why the fuck are you counting?
Like, get this man to the hospital. The main
event, they did not count. They, like, caught
him mid -air. Like, no, stop. One of the referees
seems like he has bloodlust. Does he just let
everything go, the bald guy? I wasn't paying
that kind of attention, I don't think. If you
keep watching the cards, you'll definitely notice
that he's a little bit more open to let things
continue when they don't really have to. Need
to. Yeah. Now, I was clicking through you next.
I decided to use my free trial. It's the most
expensive of the streamers, but it has boxing
sometimes, and it's got a lot of other combat
sports. That's cool. But it's also got the HBO
stuff. The only problem is if you watch it in
English, it's got hard -coded Japanese subtitles.
It's not the end of the world, but if it's also
on Amazon Prime, I can shut those off sometimes.
Right. Yeah. But it's like... 2 ,000 yen a month.
It's by far the most expensive. That's the most
expensive? Yeah, I know, but like Amazon Prime
is 600 and the DAZN one I have, the Combat Sports
Only, is 1000. It's 10 bucks a month, Canadian.
There's a Combat Sports Only DAZN subscription?
In Japan there is. I don't get any of the, well,
I think I get horse jumping. And I get FIFA World
Cup for some reason. I just got an email saying
they added it for free on my subscription. I
guess trying to get me to pay for soccer. And
I don't get the baseball either. Soccer and baseball,
I think, are the big ones. And they're each kind
of... You can get the total thing, which is probably
$20 a month. Ah, okay. Or you can add baseball
or soccer for an extra $5. I think if here it's
20 for everything and like a lot of it I don't
really want. Yeah. They had the combat sports
only thing and I was like fuck yes please. The
only combat sport they really show is boxing
I think. I haven't seen much for MMA stuff. Alright.
Cool. Canada Day. Yeah. July 1st. July 1st. Yeah.
I just wanted to throw out a happy Canada Day
to everybody. But today is July 4th when we're
recording, isn't it? Yeah, I think this is United
States Day. Yeah, I guess Independence Day makes
sense for you guys because it was actually like
a war type thing. But for Canada, it's just like,
we signed a piece of paper today. Thanks, Dad.
I got my own apartment. Yeah, 4th of July. I
don't know. There's a lot of sales and stuff
going on right now, but I don't know. I don't
really care. I don't really do anything to celebrate.
I like fireworks, so we would always drive to
the fireworks when I was at home. And since my
birthday is so late in June, it was always a
long weekend after my birthday, usually for...
July 1st. Worked out nicely. You know what else
works out nicely? What? This transition. Boxing
before dark. That was really good. Ah! The before
dark. Ryan Garcia has been throwing some shade
at Oscar De La Hoya. I saw he took it down a
few hours after, but he was posting the fishnet
pictures all over his socials again. Why? I think.
Ryan Garcia is in a fight with Oscar. He's mad
that he has whatever left on his contract. That's
not fun. No. Of all the things that you're going
to make fun of him for, make fun of him for being
a shitty businessman or whatever. Call him that
kind of thing. Bad promoter. Well, and especially
in this day and age. And everybody's already
seen them. It's not like it's a secret. This
is nothing new to anyone. What's the point? Yeah.
That's exactly right. If Oscar wants to wear
ladies' clothes in his own time, who gives a
shit? Go for it, buddy. Not my cup of tea, but
you enjoy. Worst things you can do. Yeah. It's
a weird angle to take, but I think Ryan Garcia
is like a conservative type. So to him, this
is like the ultimate emasculation or the ultimate
humiliation. Yeah, I don't know. I don't get
it, but whatever. You know, speaking of things
that I don't get, Jake Paul. Oh, fuck. This made
me sad. Why? Why sad? What's he done? Like, really,
what's he done to be raided by any of the organizations?
Who's he beaten? Tommy Fury? No. He didn't beat
Tommy Fury. Oh, right! He lost to Tommy Fury.
Like, who's he beaten that should get him ranked?
Yeah. Like, if beating JCC Jr. is getting you
ranked as a cruiserweight, like, fucking... That's
sad. I mean, he's winning his fights. Are they
spectacular? No. Should he be ranked 14th within
title contention? No. But he's fine. He's winning
his fights. They put whoever weirdo in front
of him and he wins. Sure, but that... That shouldn't
get you ranked. Especially not that highly. If
they wanted to rank him like 50th or something,
I don't give a shit. Even top 25, I guess. I
don't know if I can name 25 cruiserweights, so
sure. But top 15? No. Like... He should have
to fight somebody else who's ranked as a cruiserweight
before he gets in the top 15. On the UFC side
of things, it's kind of similar, like where you
climb up towards the top 15 and you don't necessarily
have to beat someone who is ranked to become
ranked. I'm not saying he needs to beat somebody
ranked top 15. I mean like ranked top 30. Oh,
just anything. In the system. Yeah. Like, I don't
think he's beaten anybody that is in any ranking
system in boxing. I don't think so. I don't think
he has. So, like, to get top 15, I think he should
have to beat somebody in the system. Yes. Like,
top 40 even, I don't really care, but beat somebody.
Like, he has jumped the line fucking madness
with this for beating... Some old man who doesn't
want to be there. Yeah. Like... I don't know.
This pisses me off. The whole ranking system
pisses me off. Manny Pacquiao is fighting for
a title, like, in two weeks. Yep. Why? Again,
he should have to fight somebody that's ranked
recently. No legacy ranking. Well, like, to some
extent. Like, if Manny Pacquiao beat somebody
in the top 40, top 30, sure, I guess let him
go fight Berrios. But he hasn't even fought a
fight in, like, four years. And Jake Paul's never
beaten anybody that's in the boxing system. Like,
it's bullshit. Yeah, he's money. Yeah, I mean,
like, I don't like Jake Paul, but if he wants
to go fight these circus fights or whatever,
sure. And I do have to say his promotion aspect
has grown on me. Like, he's putting good fighters
in getting lots of people watching them. Fine.
But leave the fucking ranking system out of it.
Yeah, you're either like a sideshow attraction
or you're not. And if you don't want to be, that's
fine. But do it like everybody else does. Like,
yeah, he's only had whatever it is, 8 or 12 or
however many boxing matches. But if you want
to get ranked, start at the bottom. Beat other
contenders on the ladder on your way up. Yeah,
that makes sense. Unlike the WBA. Makes too much
sense for boxing, apparently. Oh, shit. Something
else that doesn't make sense. Wilder is going
to keep fighting? What the hell is this about?
Yeah, so I was just listening to YouTube videos
and stuff, but it was Dan Raphael said that he
talked to Wilder's manager. whatever and said
that they they're looking at another kind of
tune -up testing the waters fight but this time
in south korea who the fuck does south korea
have that's a heavyweight like of any sort uh
probably none like i just don't maybe he's not
fighting a korean they just said in south korea
but It seems really random to me that he would
go over to Korea. If... I... When I was there,
there were... There was, like, the... The Korean
Marines had, like, a basketball team. And we
used to play against them all the time. And they
were, like, 6 '3 and stuff. Like, these guys
are fucking big. But not 6 '7", 250 pounds big.
yeah but i mean wilder's not that big of a heavyweight
either he's tall but what's he weigh like 230
something like that yeah i'm not saying korea
doesn't have any heavyweight boxers i just mean
like it seems really random to go over there
it is for a fight it's a random spot but i think
it's cool that the koreans are getting something
kind of big that'll be fun should be fun anyway
Yeah, that's fair. And this isn't signed or anything.
This is just what they're looking at. So it might
not happen. Do I have it on here? Or is that
for next week? His fight. How he did. Was great.
I think that's next week. Let me check. Just
to be sure. Nope, that's this week. And I completely
forgot to put it on the thing. But it's okay.
It's Deontay Wilder. I was going to say, he fought
on the 27th, right? Yes. So we'll get to that
in a moment. But I'm not impressed. Yeah, I guess
I didn't put very much thought into what order
I put these rumors and news down. The flow is
kind of fucked up. It's all right. We'll make
it work. I just add stuff as I hear it. What
the fuck, Devin Haney? Is a wife beater? What
the shit is this? Apparently. Apparently he pushed
his... I don't know if they are married, actually.
They might not be married. But apparently he
pushed his very pregnant significant other. And
she has since filed for a restraining order and
to make sure he doesn't see his daughter. Yikes.
Yeah. Pretty shitty. What, did she tell him not
to fight Brian Norman? Well, I was gonna say,
if you're gonna get beaten by a boxer, Haney's
probably your best bet. Yeah. Not too much damage.
Get that bag. But... Yeah, so, uh, Haney is apparently
fighting Norman. I think Haney might die. I really
think Brian Norman's gonna whoop his ass. Worse
than Ryan Garcia did. I think Norman hits harder
than Garcia. Yes. For sure. I am a little worried
it's not the right word because I don't care
that much about either of these two. But I think
Haney's just going to run. I think it's going
to be even worse than Jose Ramirez. Is that possible?
Well, I think Norman's more of a threat. So Haney's
going to be even more scared to engage. Oh, shit.
I don't know. Maybe not. But I think this is
going to be a bad fight. Unless Norman can just
catch him and knock him the fuck out early. I
think it's going to be a bad fight. It's going
to take him a while to catch up anyway. So at
the very best case scenario, the front half of
it is going to suck balls. Yeah. I think so.
That's the best we could hope for. I can't imagine
this fight actually being, like, good. It's difficult
to envision it. I don't see a way. Yeah, it's
difficult to envision it as entertaining. Still,
I'm happy for Brian Norman. He's getting, like,
a higher profile opponent. Yeah, everybody was
talking shit about him coming to Japan to fight
Sasaki, but that seems to be working out for
him pretty well, actually. Yeah. That highlight
KO got him a whole bunch of publicity. People
are talking about him now. As they should. Yeah,
it was impressive. I was on the... Living out
of my truck. My rented truck at the time, so
we didn't get a chance to talk about it, I don't
think. Did we? Or did we not? I don't remember.
I think we did talk about it. I think that was
the last thing. Because I kind of remember talking
about Sasaki losing his memories and getting
them back. That's right. Six months of memory?
Six weeks. Oh, six weeks. But yeah, he got most
of it back pretty fast. But when he woke up after
the knockout, he didn't remember signing the
fight. So it's pretty bad. Also, absolutely no
talk of the JBC, like, stopping him from fighting
again anytime soon. Who, Sasaki? Yeah. Oh, boy.
He needs to have brain bleeds and needs to be...
He has to have been comatose for at least a week
for the JBC to consider pulling his boxing license.
Gotta be near death. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and apparently,
like, actual skull fractures you can fight ten
months later. That's no worries. Shrug. I'm saying
shrug because you all can't see me shrugging.
It's bad. Man. Is that... I think I'm gonna have
to start narrating my physical reactions. Go
old school. Yeah, I was thinking, do you remember
on the forums, people would put, like, all their
actions in the little... No? Yeah, I know what
you're talking about. I think they still do on,
like, Tumblr. Yeah, they do, and I still do it
in Discord. Sometimes. We are old. Yeah. We are
old. I still get shit for using punctuation sometimes.
Fucking children. Speaking of... No, that's not
a good one. Hiro Tokyo Gucci. He retires. He
announced his retirement, I think, on Wednesday.
I'm not... I was a little surprised, actually.
I know he lost his last fight, but he was competitive.
Right. Like, and he's not that old. I was surprised
he retired. I guess 31's pretty old for... That
weight class. Smaller weights, that's a lot.
But... I don't know. I'm a little sad. I really
like Kiyoguchi. Me too. He's very exciting. And
his Instagram is so fucking cute and wholesome.
It's just him and his girlfriend and their French
bulldog doing, like, actual professional photo
shoots together. Excellent. Amazing. Every spring,
they, like, take them out for the cherry blossom
photos and they were just at the world expo in
osaka so i will continue to follow him for cute
puppy pictures but yeah apparently he has done
boxing although it did so i was reading it on
uh like google translate but it sounds like he's
planning on coaching or something that's because
he said He hopes the fans stick with him through
his next career, but he didn't really say what
his next career is. But I assume it's boxing.
Boxing -related, tangential. Yeah, although he
is really into fashion stuff, so maybe he's going
to try and model or something. Who knows? Commentary?
Not to be rude, but he's got kind of a weird
voice. I don't know if he'd be great at commentary.
As I shouldn't talk. I have a weird voice and
I'm doing a podcast. It's very high -pitched.
He's got the more high -pitched Japanese accent
and he's tiny. That's an unfortunate combination.
Yeah, yeah. That's too bad. Still. Anyways, I
wish him the best of luck. Absolutely. And I'm
kind of glad he got out before he got really
hurt. His style was damaging. He took a lot of
punishment. Yeah, that's what made him so fun
to watch, though, was taking fire. He was like
quintessential Japanese style. Like, if you wanted
to show somebody, like, what is the Japanese
boxing archetype? It's Kyoguchi. Yeah, exactly.
Decent fundamentals, but not enough defense and
all action. Yeah. And the lack of defense is
probably by choice. I assume so. With most of
the Japanese boxers, I kind of assume they choose
not to learn defense. Is that it? Well, there's
that last one. Chavez got deported. The day after
the fight, they put out the warrant the day before
the fight, but, you know, let him fight so nobody
loses any money and then deported him for show.
Because he was going to leave anyway. Yes. It's
so stupid. Like, if he was there illegally and
you knew that and you knew where he was going
to be and you really cared, go fucking arrest
him before the match. This is the only reason
I put it on here. I think the whole thing is
stupid and performative and just to get headlines.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Because if they
could have deported him before the thing at any
point, they could have walked into the ring while
he was fighting. If they were so determined to
get rid of him, they could have done it. But
they didn't. It clearly isn't because they were
actually worried that he was in the country.
That's the part that pisses me off about the
whole thing. Like, let's let him do his job that
he came here for illegally and then, you know,
get the headlines afterwards after everybody's
already made their money. So stupid. We didn't
know where he was with very thick air quotes.
Yeah, with... 20 fucking cameras on him for the
last... So they put out the warrant to be...
I'm stuttering because I'm so frustrated. They
put out the warrant before the weigh -in. Like,
oh, we couldn't find him. It's on YouTube. Yeah.
I don't know what... What do you mean you can't
find him? Like... Just the whole thing is stupid.
Makes me angry. Performative is a very good way
to put it. But, like, let's make sure that we
don't fuck up Jake Paul and his company making
money and whoever else. Like... Let the event
go on. You get to have your media sensation.
You have a... Because of his contractual obligations,
you have a pretty strict timeline of where Chavez
is going to be. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I
guess they knew he wasn't going to flee and hide
in America, but that's not really the point,
or it's not supposed to be the point. Right.
The point is supposed to be that he's illegal,
and that is the problem. Well, maybe you shouldn't
be committing crimes in Mexico. Yeah? Then don't
give him the fucking pass to come up in the first
place. Yeah, if he had an arrest warrant in Mexico
and you knew about it, then why did you give
him a visa to begin with? And, like, the border
should have checked that. I mean, I know people
who get refused entry to the United States because
of DUIs. But they're not famous, so... My dad
had to get an actual pardon because they wouldn't
let him cross. For DUIs, I should specify. It
wasn't, like, anything crazy. He had to get his
DUIs from the 70s, I think it was, pardoned because
they wouldn't let him cross the border after,
I think it was 2007. For some reason. They suddenly
became a problem. Yeah. That's a really weird
time to start caring. That's when they put in
the passports. You couldn't, I think, you couldn't
cross with just a driver's license anymore. So
maybe the system changed, but I feel like his
driver's license should have flagged him for
DUIs. If anything flags you for DUIs. Absolutely.
But they were also like 30 -year -old DUIs, so
who the fuck knows. Those papers are sitting
in some drawer in a warehouse. Yeah, well, so
he fucked up bad enough and consistently enough
in the 70s that he was in jail for two weeks
for DUIs. Oh. Well. Yeah, I think back in the
day, if you got like three in one year, you went
to jail. Instead of just taking your license
like normal people. But. Is it a good, speaking
of taking licenses away, moving into some recaps.
Fucking MVP at the Honda Center in Ontario. Or
Anaheim, excuse me. Anaheim, California. Raul
Correal gets a stoppage in four. over victor
rodriguez so that's cool i thought he looked
good yeah um holly holm gets the ud over yolanda
ochoa i did not see that coming i expected no
i expected holly holm to lose she's like 40 something
yeah but holly holmes is good and you know she's
she's gonna come in shape like i don't think
she would step in the ring if she wasn't in shape
I think I might have had Holly Holmes by knockout
on my box picks. I was expecting her to do well.
I had her losing by decision. That shit wasn't
even close. You know what else wasn't close?
Tevin Farmer getting his ass beat by Floyd Schofield.
I did not see this one coming. I didn't either.
I did not expect Farmer to get blown out like
that. Like my opinion of Schofield has gone way
up. I think somebody, I don't remember who it
was, but they would refer to it as the opening
the jar where somebody is like busting their
ass trying to open it and they can't get it open
and they pass it to someone who gets it on the
first try. It's like the first person was the
one who did all the work. So Tevin Farmer got.
The jar was Zepeda's, and then Scofield gets
the praise for it. I don't know how much I believe
that, to be honest. Maybe. Just a theory. With
Tevin Farmer and his health concerns... Yeah,
I had been defending Farmer once I found out
he didn't have brain damage, but... Might be
time for Farmer to hang it up. Yeah. Still, good
win for Schofield. To stop Kevin Farmer. That's
pretty good. And to stop him like that. Like,
that wasn't just a stoppage. That was a fucking
train wreck for Kevin Farmer. Sickest beatdown.
Schofield looked real good. I was impressed.
But I don't know who they should line him up
with next. Like, what's a good follow -up? At
lightweight? For Floyd Schofield, Sam Noakes
and Abdullah Mason are busy. Hip hip hurrah.
Zepeda's fighting this weekend? Or next weekend.
Next weekend. But yeah, the timing would work
out pretty well. Do you think... Schofield versus
Zepeda? That's tough. It could be a banger. It
could be. But I know everybody's going to say
that Zepeda looked like shit against Farmer.
But, I mean, I think he's still a harder test
than what Farmer gave. Yeah. And depending on
how Zepeda looks against Shakur. Zepeda's going
to look like shit against Shakur. Shittier than
he did with Farmer. What about Magzayo? I haven't
seen Mark Magzayo in a while. If he's still fighting.
That could be a banger. He's ranked number four
by somebody here. The IBF. Maxie Hughes? Maxie
Hughes doesn't need another beating like that,
though. That's not a good test for Floyd Schofield.
Yeah, you're right. That's not a good one. Andy
Cruz. Josh Padley. Padley would be a good one.
Josh fucking Padley. That's a good one. All right.
We need to make some phone calls. Make this happen.
I'll text. Who the fuck is Floyd Schofield with?
I don't know. I'll text it. I don't remember.
Yeah, no, that would be a good one. Speaking
of good ones, was this one of them? Gilberto
Ramirez, I guess, UD over Juniel Dorticos. Now,
it wasn't like a flashy win. No, but it was a
solid win, I think. Yeah, I think so. I don't
know. I don't care who Zerdo fights unless it's
Opitaya. I think that's how it's going to be.
For a while. Until that fight happens, no one's
going to care. It's very miniature, scaled down
to like an atom's worth, but of like Mayweather
versus Pacquiao. We don't give a shit who your
opponent is. If it's not the other one, then
I don't care. Fury AJ, that style. Yeah, exactly.
I do think Zerto's fighting much stiffer competition
than Opataya. Like, I think this is... Dordakos'
win is a better win than Jai's had in a while.
Isn't that Italian guy? Squeo? Yeah. Squeo. Squeo?
Yeah. Yeah. I think it was Squeo. Yeah. Dordakos
is always a power threat. So that's always something
you have to be cautious of. And Zerto navigated
it perfectly. Yeah. It was kind of a boring fight,
to be honest. Right. Yeah, speaking of boring.
Jake versus JCC. JCC threw zero punches. Like,
what the fuck were you doing? For the first,
like, three or four rounds, he seriously didn't
throw anything. Like, it would surprise me if
it was more than zero. He'd walk into range and
just not do anything. Like, I mean, I'm not a
boxer, but you were a fucking world champion.
Like, do better. Right, have some fucking pride.
Yeah, like... He was out of shape, so that's
probably the excuse, but he did actually throw
punches in the last two rounds, and he won them
both. Yeah. Like, do that. Except more. Yeah,
just do that the whole time. Yeah. I don't know.
I don't think it, but this is going to bring
out the conspiracy theories of they're paid not
to throw punches when they fight Jake Paul. i
hadn't heard the no win clause oh you haven't
heard the like no win clause no oh so i don't
think it's true but the rumors online are that
like when they signed a fight jake paul they
have to um throw the fight basically or like
mike tyson wasn't allowed to throw uppercuts
was one of the rumors and that sort of thing
and i'm like guys that's not what's happening
But this isn't going to help that because JCC
just didn't throw any punches for eight rounds.
Like, he made sure he was losing the fight and
then made it look good. Big air quotes on that
for the last two rounds. I don't know. I don't
believe the rumors. I think JCC is just a piece
of shit. didn't train and is kind of slow, but...
Yeah, he kept... He finally did something completely
unrelated to the actual fight, but something
that I always thought was kind of dumb is he
always tries to answer interview questions in
English, and I'm not trying to dunk on the guy
for being English as a second language, but,
like, Jesus fucking Christ, bro. Answer in Spanish.
Everybody... that's involved in this press event
has some form of translation available to them.
Yeah. And he finally stopped. It was just one
question, and he's like, okay, well, I'm gonna
answer in Spanish. Yeah, thank you. Better performance
in the interview over the fight. This... The
undercard was good. Like, legitimately, it was
a solid undercard. People were giving me some
shit when I said that before it happened, but
solid undercard. But I don't give a shit about
Jake Paul and these circus fights. Like, I just
don't care. Yeah, Ramirez -Dorticos was the main
event for me. Jake Paul's just like a fun sideshow
that happened to be on after. I honestly didn't
watch it real close. It didn't miss a whole lot.
Yeah. Is that more time than that fight fucking
deserves? Probably. Probably. So, moving to Friday,
June 27th, Eye of the Tiger in Quebec City. This
was not a good card. No, it was not. As Eye of
the Tiger is wont to do, there's a lot of one
-sided beatdowns, knockouts. Yeah, never bet
on the B -side for Eye of the Tiger fights. Ever.
I don't know if I've ever seen an upset on any
of their cards. The only time you bet on the
B -side is when it comes to your podcasts. And
you go with the boxing B -sides. Or pro box.
Wherever it is that you're listening to this.
Gets a little bit more nerdy over there. Different
kind of nerdy, I'll say. Stephen Butler KO4 over
Jose Macias. Fine. Stephen Butler moves up to
168. Does not have a great opponent. So, it's
hard to say. It's not going to translate to anything
meaningful. I don't think he's going to have
a career resurgence here at 168. Dude never fights
outside of Canada. You're never going to get...
much of a career if you only fight in canada
i hate to say it but nobody cares about wins
in canada yeah that's it would be the same as
getting like being having a 22 and 0 prospect
that's just coming out of the regional scene
like yeah nobody really but like a region that
isn't very good like 22 and 0 out of mexico means
something 22 and 0 out of russia maybe, but like
22 -0 out of Italy, nobody cares. Right. Canada's
boxing is better than Italy's, but it's not very
good. You know who else, or what else isn't very
good? Arslanbek Makhmudov. It's not good. TKO
won over Ricardo Brown. That, uh, I guess you
can call that a fight. A waste of time. Yeah.
moving along. Christian Mbili, main reason I'm
here. TKO1 over Maciej Sulecki. Mbili looked
good, I guess. His usual self. This is a career
154 guy moving up to 168. It's a name. Go fight
outside of Canada. Seriously, dude. You can fight
in Cameroon. Or France. And you're staying in
Canada. Fucking go fight in the States. I mean,
Montreal's an hour drive from the border. Go
fight in New York. It's a super short trip. Yeah.
He's a big fish, little pond situation. But you
can't tell how good he is because he fights nobodies.
Or... Derevyanchenko way past his prime. Yeah,
but he looked like shit against Derevyanchenko.
A one -armed Derevyanchenko almost beat him.
Like, two -armed old man Derev kicks Mbili's
ass and I will stand on that every day. If he
hadn't busted his arm, he'd have won that fight.
I don't know. Mbili needs to just go fight somebody.
Somebody better. Yeah, he needs to step up his
game for sure. Oh, man. Speaking of stepping
up games. I was going to say, this is where the
Wilder fight should fall under. Yes, that is
correct. Speaking of stepping up games, Deontay
Wilder needs to change games. That was not the
Deontay Wilder of old. That Deontay Wilder's
never coming back, though. I know. I can only
hope. I do kind of like that he seems to be trying
new things since... Like, he threw jabs. He threw
lots of jabs this fight. They weren't great,
but, I mean, he's not just trying to line up
that right hand anymore. He was throwing it a
lot, though. He was throwing it like a looping
sort of overhand. And it wasn't really landing
at all. It's like he was aiming for the temple,
trying to get around the guard to hit the temple.
And it was a little disheartening to see him
continue to do it for, what, like seven fucking
rounds? Yeah. Yeah, he didn't look good. I was
trying to be optimistic. He did not look good.
And he should not have taken seven rounds to
knock out Herndon if he was going to do anything,
like, in the future. I don't know, man. I think
he's still chasing the AJ fight, and he should,
but Wilder's not beating AJ. Not now. AJ's also
looking kind of shit, but I don't see AJ being
as washed as Wilder. That's what my befuddled,
bemused look was. I don't know, because AJ looks
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Yeah. This week is not super great. No, it's
pretty light. First thing on the 11th, we have
Katie Taylor Amanda Serrano Trilogy. Looks like
this is an all -women's card. And I know there's
those types of people that are just not going
to watch it because of that. I'm... I hate when
they make all women's cards, and it sounds terrible,
but I absolutely hate it. I like when the women
are kind of mixed in with everything else on
a good card. Yeah. Because, like, they're blowing
all of the good women's fights for the next six
months on this card, number one. So you're not
going to hear about women's boxing now for, like,
at least half a year. Nothing meaningful. Number
two, people who are on the fence or just against
women's boxing aren't even going to tune in,
but they might check it out if it's in between
two male fights, and they might be surprised
at how good the fight is and then watch again.
I hate these all -women's cards. I know it's
supposed to be promoting women's boxing, but
I think it has the exact opposite effect. And
it just seems, I don't know, like, performative
and stupid. Right. It is like an empowerment
kind of thing. I see the logic, but yeah. I don't.
I don't get it. Like, why separate it? That's
exactly what the point I was going to get to.
Separate but equal? Like, fuck off. Fuck that.
No. Having these all -women's cards, I... Like,
I get it, but you're... The idea is that we're
trying to promote it as being at least comparable
to men's fights and it's not needing to be separated.
Yeah, like, MMA never does all women's cards
that you hear about. Or maybe they do and I just
don't hear about it, but... None that I've heard
of. No, and no... Well, people... shitty people
exist, but I mean, like, most fans don't bitch
about women's MMA, because it's good. Like, it
is comparably as exciting to the men's. And boxing
at the top level is as well, but if you make
people sit through these first, like, five fights
that aren't great, and then watch three main
events that are pretty good, but, you know...
Two of them are probably going to be decisions.
And I will say Katie Taylor, Amanda Serrano 3
should be a banger unless Katie Taylor suddenly
got old, which could happen. I've been expecting
that to happen every fight. And it just doesn't.
Yeah. But like, I just, I don't get it. Just
put the good women's fights at the top of the
cards between men's fights. You'll get more people
watching it. Or as the main, Katie Taylor, Amanda
Serrano can be the main on any fucking card.
Yeah, it absolutely could. But, like, I hate
these all -women's cards. You don't get any new
fans. You're only getting people who already
watch women's boxing. I will say, if it's going
to be an all -women's card, they better not have
ring girls. That would be fucking ridiculous.
Well, the last time they did this, they had ring
boys, which is even more performative and stupid.
I've seen cards that have ring boys. This is
great. Fucking humiliate them. This is good.
I just... Why are you marketing women's boxing
to women? Women don't watch boxing very often.
That's not who is going to be your main audience
ever. It just isn't. Like, I don't know. Maybe
I'm just a Debbie Downer, but I think this is
stupid. That being said, I will probably watch
at least the last four fights. There are some
good ones on here. But that's my point. There's
going to be no good women's boxing for six months
now. Right, that you could throw on as a co -main
or third from the top of another card. Or, like,
some of these other ones could be the mains on,
you know, regular cards. Main event worthy. Savannah
Marshall in the UK. Chantel Cameron as well.
Maybe not Chantel Cameron, but... But she could
be, like, third. Yeah, definitely. Anyways, we
should talk about the actual matchups, I suppose.
I'm honestly not expecting... Well, no. Savannah
Marshall versus Shadesia Green should be enjoyable.
Don't expect... I guess women's basketball versus
men's. Don't expect high -flying dunks or anything
like that. Baumgartner is a beast. Maybe she
might get a stoppage. I don't... Should I know
who Jennifer Miranda is? I don't think so. I
don't know who it is. No. Some Spanish lady.
She might get a knockout. I mean, Baumgardner
might get a knockout. I don't know who this lady
is. She's 38. And she's from Spain. And has never
fought outside of Spain. You might see a knockout
in this one. RJ Tagovil for that one. Yeah. For
Jennifer Miranda. For both. Probably both of
them, I was going to say. I don't know if this
is the proper running order, but Ellie Scottney
versus Yamileth Mercado. They're unifying three
of the four major titles. I believe the WBA is
not on the line here. Oh, I do recognize Mercado.
This could be a bit of a banger. Although, Ellie
Scottney is more of a boxer than a fighter. What
class is this? Superbantam? Yeah, the WBA champ
is not involved in this. Oh, this is the lady
who beat Ramla Ali last time out. Ramla Ali is
down the bill. Yeah, sorry, but this Mexican
lady, Yamilis Mercado, she's the one who beat
her. Nice. This could be a hidden banger, maybe,
but I kind of expect Scottney to box on the outside
and make it boring. You know what's not going
to be boring? Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano.
Nope, never boring. They've delivered fireworks
twice now. I expect it to be similar. Yeah. Possibly
even more blood this time somehow. Because that
last fight was a bloody fight. They were both
cut bad. Katie Taylor, was she... I don't know
if she was getting frustrated and started headbutting
or if she just leads with her head. She just
leads with her head, I think. I don't think it's
intentional. I think that's just... Just how
she is. The way she fights. Yeah. Oh, wow. It's
kind of an Irish bad habits, isn't it? Like,
don't Irish boxers always kind of jump in like
that? Kind of. The ones that I've seen, yes.
But, Katie Taylor is 39. Katie Taylor is getting
old. And I've said it her last, like, six fights.
But eventually, she is just going to be too old
to be taking this much damage. Serrano's 36.
Yeah, but she's taken way less damage in her
career, I feel. Like, the only real war she's
been in is with Katie Taylor. Yeah, that's true.
But Katie Taylor has taken some ass kickings.
Even when she wins, sometimes she takes an ass
kicking, and I don't understand how that works,
but... Thinking about ass kickings, it was Amanda
Serrano beating the shit out of Heather Hardy.
Her eyes got swollen up her forehead. And she
had fucking bug eyes that were giant bruises.
It was gross. But that was one of my go -to's.
Women's fights are boring. Have you seen Serrano?
Are you kidding me? Yeah, well, and nobody can
say Serrano -Taylor, either of those. Nobody
can say those were boring. So, I do expect the
main event to be a banger. I just, I hate that
they're blowing all of these good women's fights
in one night, and then women's boxing's gonna
disappear for months. Yep. Oh, well. It is what
it is. Let's... Keep it rolling here. The next
day in Central Park at the Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Fuck, that is a big -ass park. I never think
about it. But they have a whole -ass stadium
inside of it. That's fucking wild. This isn't
the exact running order. I haven't found one
that I liked. Like a reliable one that I liked.
So I'm just going to go with picking fights off
the list. Hamza Shiraz versus Edgar Berlanga
at super middleweight. Fun stuff. Please beat
the shit out of each other. That would just be
fantastic for me. No favorites in this one? No.
I kind of want Berlanga to lose. Just because?
I have no valid reason for it. Fair enough. I
have no strong opinion on this one either, but
I'll cheer for Belanga just because it's in New
York. That's his hometown, right? Yeah, it is.
Although, I have no idea where Shiraz is from.
Is he British? Yes. I think his heritage is Palestinian?
Or Lebanese? It says he's born in Berkshire.
Ah, well. So, I don't know. Anyways, this is
kind of a lose -lose, though. Do I cheer for
a Brit or do I cheer for an American? Yeah, let's
just go with I hope they punch each other a lot.
Yeah, that's really it. I hope they beat each
other up. David Morrell versus Imam Kataev. I
don't know who this is. He's 10 -0 at light heavy.
I'm assuming this is a get back for David Morrell.
It looks like it's some Russian -Australian that's
only fought in Russia, Australia, and Canada.
Probably not that good. Serbia, one time. I just
skipped that one because I didn't know where
it was. Nowhere noteworthy, we'll say. He is
10 -0 with nine knockouts. Looks like a threat
on paper. So, like I said, this is a get back
for David Morrell. Yeah. Moving up, Alberto Pueyo.
The WBC super lightweight champion. Who am I
thinking of with Gary Antoine Russell? Won the
WBA. Versus Subaru Matias. Pueyo is the champ.
Subaru Matias is rated eighth in the WBC. Cool.
This one should be fun, I think. This is a classic
boxer versus puncher scenario. Matias, his reputation
precedes him. And Pueyo's a boxer? I don't think
I recognize Pueyo, to be honest. I know you saw
his fight with Sandor Martin. Maybe it's just
a bad picture on BoxRec. I definitely watched
a couple of these fights. Because he beat Gary
Anton Russell, too. I would have watched that
one. Yeah, that was for the interim title. And
he got emailed the full thing. And he robbed
Sandor Martins. It wasn't a robbery. I will say
that it was, just because. Me and Mark Constantino
think so. Mark Constantino? He was the judge
that gave it to Sandor. Anyways, that one should
be fun. I hope. I think so. And what won't be
fun? Shakur Stevenson. Never fun. The WBC lightweight
champion versus William Zepeda. The interim champion.
They are consolidating their titles. Fucking
good. That's how it's supposed to be. These fucking
interim shits need to go away. Shakur Stevenson.
Is boring as fuck. Always. He is. But. God. Can't
deny the skills. But god damn. The bills that
are getting. It's like paying your bills. In
fucking pennies. That's what skills paying the
bills is here. Like Jesus Christ. I gotta count
all this shit. Yeah. He is very skillful. I can't
say he's not. But I have one small hope, very
small hope, that Shakur just breaks his fucking
hand on Zepeda's big Mexican head and Zepeda
can swarm him somehow. I really don't think Shakur
can hit him hard enough to keep him off, but
I just don't think Zepeda's gonna catch him either.
It's not too far out of the realm of possibility
that Shakur breaks a hand, either. Yeah, but
if he breaks a hand, can Zepeda actually catch
him? Oh, before he takes off on a bike? Yeah.
Like, I can kind of see Shaker just outboxing
him so badly one -handed that Zepeda still loses.
But my hope is that Shakira breaks his hand and
Zepeda somehow swarms him and catches him and
knocks him out. And that would be the best timeline,
in my opinion. Do I think it's going to happen?
Probably not. But I can hope and dream until
it doesn't happen. I think Pueyo -Matias is going
to be the real main event on this one. Like,
the most exciting fight. I'm hopeful that Kataev
is going to be what his resume says he is. And
that'll make him and David Morel like a dogfight.
That would be fun. I just... He... Katiev has
fought fucking nowhere against nobodies. I think
that hope is probably pretty misplaced. Yeah.
Well, not much you can do but hope. That's what
a lot of this watching shit is. Just hoping something
turns out good when you watch it. When you watch
as many fucking cards throughout the week as
I do. And this is in two sports, mind you. It's
a lot of fucking hoping. And otherwise, it's
like I have it on the monitor to my left, and
then I'm doing my work with the monitor right
in front of me. I do that a lot. Yeah. Because
sometimes they're just not fucking doing anything
like Morel and Kataev are liable to do. And it's
like, God damn it. I don't have time for this
shit. I don't have time to sit here and watch
you all not punch each other. No. I have a feeling
that's what the Stevenson Zapata fight's going
to be, too. Damn. Well, anything more for the
fights coming up? No. I don't think so. Cool.
Only two cards this week. That's kind of shitty.
Yeah. Taylor Serrano should be fireworks. At
least the main event should be. There's some
hidden gems, I think, on the undercard. I'm definitely
going to tune in for at least the last three
fights. Probably the last four fights. Savannah
Marshall is usually pretty fun, too. Those first
three that are listed, probably going to skip
them. The listeners shouldn't. They should watch
it and then call in and tell me what I missed.
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Friday and boys' night on Saturday. Parting words.
Yeah, this makes my point. There's no girls'
fights on the stupid men's card because they're
all... busy uh parting words i bought my ticket
for ryzen nice so not nosebleed nosebleeds those
were sold out but second nosebleeds way farther
back than i ever am for the boxing but should
be fun i am busy studying japanese i realized
this week that i'm a fucking idiot because i
studied a bunch of questions To ask the people
beside me, like, which fighter should I cheer
for? And that sort of thing. Studied none of
the possible answers. Oh, shit. Their names.
Well, like, that was a bad example because it's
just a name. But, like, why do you like this
fighter? I totally forgot to study any possible
answers. Like, yeah. Anything more difficult
than somebody's name or a yes and a no. I'm fucked.
So this week I need to study answers. Are you
going to try the lottery for 1FC? I'm going to
try, but I have very low hopes. I've never really
won any of those lotteries. I got one for Inouye
when I was able to... I didn't win the lottery,
but I was able to buy a resale ticket. I don't
think 1FC will sell out. I don't know. I watched
the 1FC. I don't know if I said this before you
started recording, but I watched the 1FC Friday
Night Fights. That was fucking lit. I was told
that this was particularly good, but the 1FC
Muay Thai has slightly different rules, and it's
way more fun. The no clinching is big. Yeah.
You can clinch, but... Big butt is you have to
be actively attacking the person that you're
clinching. Like, you can't just grab on and hold
on. Like, no, if you clinch onto them, you have
to be kneeing their body or something. I don't
know. The announcers just said no clinching,
and they broke them up almost immediately every
time. You're right. If somebody was, like, throwing
a knee, the ref didn't step in, but once the
knee landed and... all four feet were on the
ground, the ref would break them up. Yeah. Anyways,
it was great. Highly recommend it. And I did
watch one, the very first fight was one of those
submission grappling specific things. You're
right. It is more fun than UFC. Or at least this
one was. It was a lot more dynamic. It's fun
when it's the only thing they're doing. And they're
not worried about anything else happening but
other grappling techniques. Yeah. I still probably
wouldn't watch it as the point of watching it,
but it being one fight on this card was fine.
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