The B -Side in boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
Something's weird, but yeah, this is purely for
the money. I mean, he's not coming back for competition
or for like, you know. I mean, this is not going
to lead into something as a continuation of his
boxing career. This is purely a money fight.
Hell no, yeah. But fortunately, I don't know
who's going to watch it. You know? Yeah, I mean,
I don't even know his opponent. It's a Saudi
dude, I'm pretty sure. I have no idea who he
is. But it's not found about Riyadh, though,
right? I mean, I'm assuming so. I think it's
going to be in Saudi, you know? I was assuming
it was a Saudi thing. Yeah. But I guess we don't
have, like, exact details yet. But if he's fighting
a Saudi, like, fighter, I don't know. I think
it was connected to Saudi. So I'm assuming it's
going to be over there. All right. If it's not
the Saudis, it's going to be the Emiratis. Yeah.
One of the two. Anthony Joshua, if you're on
the undercard. Fire. Man. It's going to be weird
seeing him. He's going to look horrendous. He's
going to look horrendous. You never know. He
could make a big comeback. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The last thing to go is powwow. Exactly. 13 -year
ring rust. Yeah. Ricky's power is unmatched,
right, guys? That's what he was known for, right?
That's what he was known for. Now, I wanted to
save this one. This other bit of news, we'll
save it until the end. Just because that's what
we're going to be talking about it anyway. So,
some recaps really quickly. No limit boxing in
Australia. Liam Parrow retires Jonathan Navarro
in the fifth. And Liam Wilson with another fucking
snoozer of a UD. Good stuff. Australian. See
you later. I will say, like, Liam Parra was,
like, clearly way better than Kambosis, though.
Oh, hell yeah. Like, if they're going to get
behind any Australian fighter, they need to get
behind him. Because he is way better than Kambosis.
He's a Kambolution. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah, he's way
better. Way, way better. Kambolution worked.
Kambolution, yeah. That's a very good one. Moving
to... Eye of the Tiger on the 27th of June. This
was a pretty standard Eye of the Tiger event
in that it was a fuckload of one -sided whoopings.
That's pretty much all there are on Eye of the
Tiger events. Stephen Butler, KO4 over Jose de
Jesus Macias. Butler is not very good. So it
probably tells you the caliber of the opponent.
Unfortunate, but that's what it is. Arslanbek
Makhmudov stops Ricardo Brown in the first. Like,
I guess you could call that a fight. I suppose
you could call that boxing. Classic Eye of the
Tiger matchmaking. Yeah, it really was. This
was like dumpy fucking heavyweights. It was a
cream pie card. Yeah, dude, this was bad. I mean,
yeah, and even to the main. They should call
it that. They should call their events the cream
pie series. Yeah. That's what it is. We got to
throw that in there. Christian Mbili with a cream
pie and one over Maciej Sulecki. The interim
WBC. 168 pound title was on the line here. Christian
needs to stop being a big fish in a little pond.
He's only limiting his own potential by doing
this. He looked fine. He has a similar opponent
to Diego Pacheco. I think he fought him in January.
Diego knocked him out, but he knocked him out
with a body shot in the, I think, 6th or 7th
round. It took them a while to get him out of
there. I remember at the time they were saying
that it was a good stoppage because the guy's
never been stopped before, but now you see Mbili
knocking him out in the first. What does that
tell you? Yeah. I need to see Mbili versus someone
real at this point. This entire event was sort
of hilarious. I don't know if you guys saw, but
whenever Selecki was walking out, as he entered
the ring, he went through the middle of the ropes
and his leg got caught and he slipped. And jokingly,
I was talking with Robbie and I was saying, oh,
he's going to get knocked out in the first round.
He twisted his ankle. He's torn. But then he
just immediately got flatlined in the first round.
I was like, oh, man. It sort of worked out. Yeah,
I mean, I need to see him really take a step
up. I mean, I'm trying to think of, like, his
notable fights. I mean, there's not many names
that are coming up. Derevyanchenko is a notable
one. Wasn't he, like, he had, like, one arm?
He was, like, super injured. Yeah, he was. Yeah.
He went life and death. Yeah, he needs, I don't
know. I wonder what the matchmaking next will
be, I mean, because he is... Like, sort of separating
himself from, like, the lower tier of the division.
But I wonder what his next fight will be. According
to Boxer, he's number two. Yeah. I think he's
going to get put on a Riyadh event soon. If there's
a guy that they want to put on a Riyadh event,
it's him. I mean, he has power. He has power.
Yeah, he's got pretty, at least from the buy
test, pretty good power. Yeah. Not bad. Not good.
But we're... He's a fan -friendly fighter, you
know. Yeah, I mean, the knockout was really nice
here. So, I mean, that's definitely what you
want to see whenever you're fighting that level
of competition. Exactly. I want to see him against
K .O. Plant next, if, you know, they can make
that. Oh, yeah. Up and coming in Billy versus
on the downturn to K .O. Plant. You know? That
would be a good name. Yeah. I guess, yeah, I
mean, he needs to fight someone, yeah. An easier
fight to make probably would be Munguia. That
would be hard. That would be a really good fight,
actually. The thing is, like, how long is Munguia
going to be, like, suspended for sometimes? Yeah,
they haven't even decided yet, huh? Well, you
could fight in Canada, right? Yeah. Isn't that,
like, commission shopping? Pretty much. Or, like,
there's some, like, illegality, like, with that,
but... Like, Conor Benn did it. Yeah. Oh, yeah,
he came to the U .S. to fight, no? Yeah, he did.
Yeah. True. But, I mean, Munguia, he's with top
rank now, so they could... I don't understand
his eye of the tiger, but they're affiliated
with top rank, so... I might see something happening
with that. Yeah. I mean, and Billy needs to be
fighting that level of competition now. I mean,
he's pretty highly ranked, and he's been like
that for some time. We could fight the boogeyman,
but they're not going to put him... They're not
going to put up with him. You guys know what
I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. No. I mean, he's
actually right. I think Iglesias is ranked higher
in the ring. They're in the same promotion. Yeah,
but I guess that means that's two of their top
guys that they wouldn't want to put up against.
For sure. They're so scared they won't even mention
his damn name. I mean, Iglesias would ruin him,
Billy. I feel like... I could make a good fight
with him, yeah. I'd like to see Mbili go down
to New York for the upcoming card. Berlanga and
Shiraz. Ooh, that's not a bad show. Yeah, that's
not a bad show. Yeah. He should be there, absolutely.
He should definitely go. He's close enough. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, three -hour flight. No. Well, yeah,
three -hour flight. I think you're right. Might
be a three -hour drive. Yeah. Montreal. Something
like that. Either way. That dude's a boxer. He
got money. Yeah. I want to see him soon. Yeah,
tax write -off. There you go. Yeah. He took no
damage, so we could see him back pretty quickly.
Oh, yeah. And in all honesty, though, like I
know because they were in talks to have a Pacheco
fight. Do you think that fight ever gets materialized
even after this fight? Because they had the same
opponent. I already know that Pacheco was watching
for sure. You know? He's fighting McCombie, right?
He's fighting Trevor McCombie? Yes. On the damn
card? That's Trevor McCombie, though. I don't
want to jinx or anything, but I'm... We'll get
to it when we talk about it in the podcast. But
I think he's going to wash Trevor McCombie, dude.
Dude, hopefully. That would be embarrassing if
he lost there. Oh, yeah. Remember that. Yeah.
That's true, yeah. Well, I mean, we ourselves
got to be rooting for Checo as much as we could
because, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know, I
know. You know the circumstance of that fight,
dude. It's like, it's like symbolic to us. Oh,
shit. I forgot about that. Yeah, you're fucking
right. God. Like, we got, we got Rupert Pacheco.
Yeah, I mean, I think he, he probably will win.
Like, defensively, defensively, he's looked a
lot better. I mean, but like, McCombie does have
power. If he doesn't have anything else, he has
power. So you just need to be careful. But we'll
get to that when we get to it. That's true. But
yeah, if Pacheco is going to be available, I'm
going to fight Pacheco. Yeah. That's a good option.
Moving to... What is this? Legacy Reloaded. In
Wichita, Kansas. Deontay Wilder is back. And
he certainly had a fight. One of the fights ever.
Did you guys buy the pay -per -view? No. I can't
believe it was pay -per -view, to be honest.
I can't either. It's crazy. When they told me,
I thought it was a joke, but it actually was.
Pay -per -view .com. Yeah, that event was, like,
really wild. I remember, like, the running order
was, like, hard to find, and then, like, they
just kept churning out fights before Wilder,
and we never knew when he was up. Somebody, one
of my buddies told me that he's having more fun
with them showing The mayor of Wichita? On the
screen? Instead of the fight? The M. Yeah. Yeah.
A random place for a fight. That's our boy Wilder,
though. Yeah. He might be fighting again kind
of soon. He didn't look all that great here.
I don't know. I really want him to stop before
he gets embarrassed. You're going to put him
against Anderson, right? Oh, jeez. Finally. I
thought this was going to be his last fight.
I thought that's the way they were promoting
it, but as soon as he won, which he won by a
technical knockout in the seventh round, as soon
as he won, he was talking about Anthony Joshua.
I don't know. I thought this was going to be
his last fight. Are we going to be serious about
it? Because I actually kind of do want to...
I think I think I... Make fun of me, but I think
he should fight Derek Chisora. That would be
funny. There's battle of the unks. Derek Chisora?
Did he do something to you? Did he kick your
dog or something? It's washed versus washed.
Come back in a century versus come back in a
century. I actually do struggle to see who would
win that fight. But, like, Chisora will push
Wilder, like, on the back foot. And normally
he does not like that. But, I mean, I don't know.
Wilder was talking about coming back and fighting.
So, like, anything is possible. Anything is possible.
Because, I mean, he still is, like, somewhat
of a big name. Deontay Wilder just knocked out
American heavyweight. All right, guys. Come on.
Anthony Herndon. Yeah, I was joking about it
saying that Wilder had a more recent heavyweight
win than Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. I mean,
yeah, I mean, he got a KO. He got one KO more
than Canelo. That's true. That should at least
show you that. I mean, he's on the come up right
now. Come up is very loose there, but yeah. He's
still riding the plateau. This is like the dip
plateau. Hey, we're bomb squad truth or shit.
I'm fucking riding him. I am, but I just don't
want to see him get laid out again. I just do
not want to see that. I don't want to see him
get embarrassed. If you need to go out on a win,
you got one. What else do you want? Let Jean
fight. Genuinely hurt. Seeing him get done like
that, it was so bad. That actually made me so
sad. I was just staring at the screen for like
two minutes straight. Just mentally just crying.
Yeah. I mean, the dude was sad. He got done real
early. At least he got the win here, though.
That was the funeral of the American heavyweight.
And then Yuri Anderson getting knocked out was
the burial of American heavyweights. Yeah. But
now we have Joshua Edwards and he's Jesus. We'll
talk about it right now. He's rising again. I
saw someone talking about make Wilder versus
Joshua Edwards to pass the torch. That would
be so bad. I mean, hey, he fights a big name
and he can knock him out. There you go. Yeah,
I just, I fear that Wilder, like, most likely
gets completely slept in that fight, but... I
will say, I will say, they could send Wilder
to Probox, get him some tune -up fights there,
right? Wilder on Probox. Hell yeah, that would
be on the Probox pay -per -view, right? You have
him on Probox, get a couple tune -up fights,
and then put him on a real card, main event.
Tell that shit it's pay -per -view. Boom. Come
back to the century. That would be such a...
Come back to this foreman. That would be a wild,
like, turnaround. I mean, Wilder, like, in his
fights with Fury, that was, like, some of the
biggest boxing, or boxing in modern history,
at least. And it would be such a... I would turn
around and see him on pro box. I mean, we already
saw him on BLK front, so it can't get much worse.
That's worse than pro box. That's worse than
pro box. Yeah. Who the fuck watches BLK Prime?
At least we watch Provox. We have to go on...
Provox is a good product. The Magic team is actually
really pristine. Very good fights. Exactly. We
watch Provox. Who the fuck watches BLK Prime?
What the fuck even is BLK Prime? Like, Netflix?
Yeah, I still don't understand it, really. It's
like Netflix, but marketed towards the black
community. It's a similar one, like some years
ago, called Brown Sugar. They had a lot of black
exploitation movies. What? That's like BET Plus.
Yeah. I did not know about this. I did not know
about this. What about Brown Sugar? Yeah, I mean,
was this another boxing promotion? They had some
fights on it. I don't remember who it was. That's
crazy. But yeah. uh brown sugar had uh hosted
a fight or two i think it was when pbc was first
starting out i was like there's no way i missed
this way okay Let's move on to, really quick,
GBM on DAZN. Bradley Rea beats Shaquan Pitters
for the EBU Light Heavyweight title. There you
go. It was a fight. Did you miss anything? No.
I saw that, regretfully. Yeah, I mean... He watched
it. As I'm sitting there watching it... I'm like,
I have a professional obligation to do this.
And as the rounds went on, I'm like, oh my God,
what am I watching? What am I doing with my life?
But yeah, got to persevere. DAZN. Most valuable
promotions at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
Opening the card was Joshua Edwards. KO one over
Dominic Hardy. Thank you for mentioning him.
Yeah, of course. Very good. He's got three and
three. He's a 100 % KO ratio undefeated. What
more do you want? That KO ratio is better than
Canelo, dude. That's all you want. It was a good
knockout, too, by the way. A very good knockout.
Yeah, that was pretty nasty, actually. What was
the sequence? How did you get him? I think it
was a right hand as his opponent was stepping
back. I mean, he just laid him out. You sent
the gif? Yeah. It was... I don't know if... I
thought you rewatched everything. Not this card,
because I watched it. Oh, okay, okay. Let me
see. Boom. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, look at the
very end as well. I was looking up at Jesus.
Yeah. The leg as well got caught. Oh, that leg
getting caught. I have seen this before. The
leg getting caught is brutal. That'll mess up
your knee. This is the second coming of American
Heavyweight Boxing, guys. Correct. I'm a believer.
The hype is high. The hype is high, I believe.
It won't be an auto -balling situation. Yeah,
like, I like Torres Jr. and all, and, like, I'm
going to support him, but, like, Joshua Edwards,
like, I don't know, I feel like I have, like,
genuine faith he could do something. That's the
real deal. Yeah. The only thing I got to say
about Joshua Edwards, if he ever does listen
to this podcast, I will say just keep your hands
close to your, make your guard tight. Because
not everybody's going to be smaller than you.
Yeah, I mean, that is what will be interesting.
Like, you know, his next few fights will be like
upgrading or like, you know, step ups. And it's
going to be real interesting whenever he starts
fighting these like tight weight dudes. Yeah.
You know, serious, serious power. He's got to
realize that he's not going to be protected by
Golden Boy for long. You know, he's going to
have to step up and fight a big fella, you know?
Yeah, I don't want to see him done like Anderson
was. Oh. Just getting laid out like that. Hopefully
he fights a couple years. He'll fight a good
fighter. Step up. Yeah. How old is he? I think
he's like 24. He went to the Olympics. He's young.
He's young. He went to the Olympics. He can build.
There's no need for a massive fight. He's also
a switch hitter. Yeah, dude. His boxing is clean.
Like, his movement is really slick. Like, the
thing is that in the amateurs, when I was watching
him at the Olympics, he was good. But I could
tell right there and then, like, I knew he was
going to become a professional heavyweight because
there was no way. I knew he was not going to
win the Olympics just because of the way he fought
versus, you know, the Ukrainians, the Russians.
I didn't even know who won the heavyweight. Yeah,
it's a different style of amateurs. It's a different
style. It's practically a different sport. Yeah,
completely different. So I knew he was going
to work well in the heavyweight professional.
We had another good knockout. Raul Curiel, KO4
over Victor Rodriguez. That's a nice one. Nice
one, yeah. Holly Holm gets a UD over Yolanda
Ochoa. Made me look bad. I thought Holly Holm
had had it. She's like in her 40s. It was getting
washed over on UFC. And I thought it was it.
I thought this was just like a, I don't know,
Hail Mary. But nope, apparently she's still got
it. Good. Yeah. Do you know who does have it?
Alex, get your gloat ready. Floyd Schofield.
Oh, yeah. KO1 over Tevin fucking Farmer. That
was crazy. I was screaming. I was like, yeah!
Yeah! Dude, I was so hyped because the amount
of shit I've taken from back in Skopje these
last couple months has been crazy. Leo, and you
know, ever since even our first conversation
we had, one of our first podcasts too, I've been
kind of hyping up Floyd Skopje for a while. Now,
I understand it is Tevin Farmer. The guy does
a lot of losses. But you look how he fought against
Zepeda, a guy that's going against Shakur, versus
how Schofield dealt with him. Zepeda couldn't
even hurt him in 24 rounds. Schofield knocked
him out within 30 seconds. What does that tell
you? Either Zepeda's washed or Schofield is the
next coming, the second coming. I wouldn't say
washed, but he wasn't like that big of a puncher.
Not washed. What's the word? Overrated. Overrated.
Yeah, overrated. I mean, I'm going to back my
boys to pay no matter when. I'll go get to that
later on. But the fact that Schofield did that
within 30 seconds. It's pretty impressive. My
God. Pretty damn impressive. Crazy. Crazy. Yeah.
Demolition job. Demolition job. I think I mentioned
this when we talked about it on Ultimate F and
Casuals. But Alex, have you heard of the jar
analogy for boxing or combat sports? What's the
jar analogy? So when you're trying to open a
jar and it's really difficult, you're struggling
and struggling and struggling with it. You're
putting a lot of effort into trying to get it
open and you can't. And then you just hand it
off to someone and they pop it like nothing.
Tevin Farmer is the jar. William Zepeda is the
one that was putting in the elbow grease. And
then Floyd Schofield just pops the lid. Then
the fans are saying, oh, well, I'm going to add
something to this. The fans are also saying that
William Zepeda also loosened the jar. You know
how people say that? Yeah, exactly. I loosened
the jar a little bit, you know, for you. So there's
that. But I highly disagree with that statement.
That was fantastic. That's fantastic. Saul has
been high on Floyd Schofield for some time. We
will let him have this victory. Oh, yeah. This
is your day, man. You celebrate. This is like
when Leo was hyping up Fulton prior to the Brandon
Figueroa fight. And then he showed up. Yeah,
he showed up, yeah. Or I think the Adamas win
too, right? Right, guys? Right? Adamas, yeah.
True. Yeah, another one. I've been getting lucky
this year. I'd like to thank Al Heyman for making
all this possible. Sure. Moving on. Can I say
one more thing real quick? Yeah, go ahead. So
now, officially, Floyd Schofield is contender.
Now what? Who do you guys think you should find
next? See, that's interesting. 135 is so stacked.
So stacked right now. Fuck, that's hard. I've
got to think too because some people have moved
up to 140 as well and it's hard to keep track
of stuff. Keisha's not around anymore, fortunately.
Yeah. I mean, remember... Body. The Canadian
guy. He has power. You can do better than that,
though. I think if whoever wins against Zepeda
Shakur, he takes the loser. That's a good shot.
So Zepeda versus Schofield. You never know. We
never know. We'll talk about it later. I'll make
the case. I'm going to make the case right now.
I'll make the case. All right. I want to hear
that. Later on. Later on. Yeah, we'll get to
the Shakur. And we'll Josh Padley loose in the
jar. There you go. Oh, man. What an analogy,
man. That's a great pull. Fighting Josh Padley
is not a bad one. Yeah, Josh Padley. If he really
wants to, he could fight the next, he could do
a final eliminator, right? For the WBA. A mandatory
for Tank. If he wanted to. I mean, this knockout
does a lot for him. Like, this is a high -profile
knockout. Kevin Farmer, yeah. Especially after
the Payton fight. A lot of people saw it, too.
A lot of people saw that knockout. It went viral.
Yeah, it does a lot for his career. Not just
because of the person he knocked out, but the
card he was on. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I know
it wasn't as big as the Mike Tyson one. Nowhere
near as big, actually. But it still got some
traction, you know, from the casual fan base.
Yeah. So a lot of people are going to watch LaPointe
Scofield and be like, oh my god, his name's Floyd.
He's like Mayweather. You know? There you go.
That's what you just highlighted is one of the
things that I legitimately not... Damn it, what's
the fucking word? Unironically. How the hell
did I not? How ironic. Unironically, I appreciate
about Jake Paul is that he puts youngsters like
Floyd Schofield up the bill. And, like, he sees
potential in people and he gives them a shot.
Yeah. Amanda Serrano, always putting her in the
spotlight. We're going to be talking about her
too right now, huh? Yeah, absolutely. So, moving
up from Floyd Schofield. Gilberto Ramirez. UD
over Yuniel Dorticos. Gross. Dorte Gross. Very...
dirty fighting. Not a flashy win by any means,
but it's a good win. Yeah. A lot of below -the
-belt shots from Dordogos. Zubla got the win.
He won decisively. No controversy. But yeah,
decent win. Is that one of his better wins? Yes.
I would say, yeah, probably resume -wise, yes.
Performance -wise, I would say it's probably
one of his most lackluster, I would say, in my
opinion. Oh, yeah, it was pretty lackluster.
The CBS fight was honestly probably one of his
better performances. I was just going to say
CBS was beautiful. Yeah, that was a perfect fight,
pretty much. But, yeah, this one was sort of
lackluster. But, yeah, man, we'll see what happens
with him. It'll be very interesting. What's Jai
doing? Because he just had that fight with Squeo.
Yeah, I mean, there's nothing on right now. I
don't know if they're in negotiation at the moment,
but Zurdo said in the post -fight interview that
he wants to unify the titles. So, I mean, let's
see that fight, man. That's pretty much the only
fight at Cruiserweight that matters. Four. Or
there's a possibility of a Jake Paul -Zerto fight.
Wouldn't turn down that one. Which means there's
also a possibility of a Jake Paul -Jai fight
if he beats Zerto. Oh, whoa. That would be crazy.
I feel like there's no way he takes the Jai fight.
Oh, hell no. Worst timeline. That would be the
worst timeline. He'd get flatlined real bad.
Real, real bad. I would love to see that, though.
I would pay to be with you. Jai Upataya takes
Badu Jack to get the final belt, but he loses.
And then Jake Paul beats Zurdo. And then they
unify for Undisputed. Jake Paul versus Badu Jack,
Undisputed at Cruiserweight, man. Get me out
of this timeline. Get me out of this timeline,
bro. That was crazy. Get me out of here. That
timeline's probably gonna have Benavidez, Canelo.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get it for sure, man.
2026 is on the way. Trust. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
For sure. For sure. We're gonna see that shit.
That's the unholy timeline, I tell you. We gotta
do this fucked up shit. We're cursed. And the
last one on the bill, Jake Paul does a dance
with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. I say that with as
much scorn as I can put into my voice because
God damn it, that was fucking embarrassing. Again,
how do I keep putting my faith into Chavez? Why
do I keep doing this to myself? I don't understand.
I felt horrible just watching that fight. Yeah.
So, I was about to say, I truly believe that
Chavez was told he was going to get paid off
to take a dive. Because there's no way... He
fought not bad in those last couple rounds. True.
And the fact that... From what I see, the fact
that he was able to fight like that at all, tells
me that he was able to win the fight. But he
just chose not to. He just chose to put off the
pedal and wait until round five, round six, before
he stepped it up. Sad. I think that's just the
thing. Jake Paul also started the guys in the
later rounds. It was pretty clear. But I mean,
bro, Chavez just did not throw in the early rounds.
I don't know if he was just worried about Jake
Paul's power or what. But he, like, was just
showed up and just not throwing anything. I mean,
the stats were insane for, like, the first four
or five rounds. His punch stats were, like, ridiculous.
I mean, he threw nothing. Oh, yeah. It was just
fucking stupid. And it's funny because if it
wasn't rigged, honestly, if it wasn't rigged
at all, I absolutely think that he was scared
to lose to a YouTuber. And that's why he didn't
want to go out and throw. That's what my thinking
was. Yeah, I mean, I think, yeah, I think he
just didn't want to get laid out or knocked down,
which, I mean, I guess he accomplished his goal.
But, I mean, yeah, in like the eighth, ninth,
and tenth round, I mean, he's like, oh, let me
try punching. And it actually worked. Surprise,
surprise. I'll try punching in this boxing match.
I'm actually a boxer. Yeah. For God. And it's
funny that now the biggest curse of this fight
is that now Jake Paul is ranked. That's exactly
where I was going to go with it. All of this
and now he's ranked 14th by the WBA. That's wild.
Probably one of the craziest things I've seen
this year so far. Not even like shock value,
you know? Like what the hell? What other wild
shit has happened so far? In the boxing world?
Yeah. This year? Yeah. That was pretty wild.
Yeah, I am. Nah. That's only a world breaker
for a certain subsect of people. Yeah. Yeah.
for some reason. I'm just trying to think. How
much of the backlash of this is because it's
Jake Paul? Because RGF in the chat, in Discord,
he was putting up the number 13th ranked guy
has yet to have a 10 round fight. And Jake Paul
has already had a few. I mean, eh? Jake Paul's
winning his fights. He's a clown. Absolutely,
he's a clown. But, man, he's the best clown in
the fucking circus right now. With the WBA being
the way it is. Call it as it is. He sells pay
-per -view, you know? See what you want. He does
sell pay -per -view stuff. Yeah. Yeah, he puts
up money, and honestly, I mean, he's not terrible.
I've seen worse boxing than him. He's been doing
it as long as, like, what, Roley, right? At this
point, I just think that maybe he's got a shot
in the future. Maybe not for a title, but to
become a contender, maybe. Because also, Cruiserweight,
if there's a weight class to do this at, it's
for sure Cruiserweight. Heavyweight, too, is
dominated by big dudes. Light heavyweight, you
got people on better beef. But Cruiserweight
is the perfect level of shitty fighters. The
desert. You know what I mean? Yeah, the desert,
dude. There's no disrespect. No disrespect to
the fighters themselves. I mean, they're all
tough in their own ways. You know, they're all
boxes. You know, you got to give respect to each
and every one of them. But I think Jake Paul
can beat a good amount of them. Yeah. Fortunately.
Fortunately, unfortunately, whatever you want
to say. I mean, he's got a shot. Maybe even bottle
jack. It's probably the most. Yeah. This is the
thing. We've known about this. Like, Jake Paul.
Like, he produces numbers whenever it comes to,
like, making fights or, like, making events.
He does numbers. So, I mean, that's always going
to matter in the boxing world just because it's
an entertainment business. And the boxing organizations
see this. So they're going to want their sanctioning
fees. They're going to want, you know, their
piece of the pie whenever it comes to these fights.
So that's why they put him in the rankings. But,
I mean, yeah, I'm not too pressed about it, to
be honest. Jake Paul, he won't hold a belt. So
boxing fans can rejoice about that. I don't think
he'll hold a belt. But I'm not too impressed
about him being ranked, at least. Yep. You're
putting weirdos, whatever weird fights in front
of them, he's winning. It's what you're supposed
to do to climb up the ladder. It would be nice
for him to fight other ranked contenders. instead
of just doing circus fights. But, I mean, that's
not really for me to say, I guess, with, uh,
what Jake Paul does with his time and money.
Well, I know he did deal with money. He didn't
give, uh, police officer Chavez his cut, probably.
As we know what happened. Oh, shit. Uh, Jake,
uh, Chavez got deported. like immediately after
the fight jake paul pike called it called the
ice on his ass hey this guy's illegal this guy's
connected he's in a little cartel pick him out
yeah that was wild to hear i thought that was
like a post dude i'm not even lying i i honestly
thought i didn't post until i saw the video i
was like what it would have been like a good
like boxing centel post yeah but uh yeah it was
all to see it was all to see Like, bro, what?
I mean, that just makes me think, like, it's
not even a coincidence, dude. It just has to
be, like, a connection, you know? I mean, from
what I was hearing, like, apparently they had
been, like, sort of tracking him since he entered
the country. And they had had a warrant for him.
But I'm like, bro, why would you wait until after
the fight if you think this guy's a threat? Right.
I'm glad, dude. That's the part that didn't really
make sense to me. I'm okay with everything else,
but, like... Why wait? Why give him a visa in
the first place? Exactly, yeah. If this guy's
on a list, then how did he get in? Exactly. They
probably pulled a couple favors. So there's a
warrant out for his arrest. They give him a visa
anyway. You can't say you didn't know where he
was. He was doing a bunch of media events. There
were like 50 cameras pointed at him at all times.
He's live on fucking YouTube Live for the weigh
-in. You know where he is. Why don't you go get
him if you have a problem with it? If you have
a problem with him being here? Just performative.
They had to let Jake Paul beat him up. I guess.
If it was anything, I'd say Jake Paul went to
bat on his behalf. It's like, hey, why don't
you guys... Let me handle this one. I mean, I
just feel like he probably called him in just
to not pay his ass. I feel like Jake Paul would
use this shot, I guess. Twisted shit. You beat
me up in the 10th round, get your ass deported.
Why even deport him if you're going to wait until
after the fight anyway when he has to leave regardless?
What the fuck, man? Really dumb. What was he
even doing, dude? What the hell was that guy
even doing? Get his ass... I don't even think
he was connected that hard, huh? Probably not.
He probably just knows mid -level guys just because
of his family name. Yeah. Anything more for the
Jake Paul Chavez card? let me put a bow on this
this section anyway uh wherever you're listening
what okay can i say one more thing yeah of course
because uh we haven't we haven't done this in
weeks huh so i want i want to mention one fight
and one fight only and then i just want to sneak
it in i want to i don't know if we mentioned
this last podcast last podcast but Brian Norman
Jr. versus Jen Psaki? Oh, shit. I don't think
we talked about it. It's been like three weeks
since her last pod. Yeah. I think this one, at
least there's a little bit of a squeeze in. Beautiful
knockout. It was phenomenal. Yeah. Phenomenal.
That was insane, man. I waited until four in
the morning for that shit. I didn't wait, but
I did see the fight afterward, man. It was demolition
jawline. He knocked him down in the first round
twice. Or something like that. I mean, it was
immediate. Juntosaki, to his credit, he tried
to fight. He came back trying to throw something
towards Norman Jr., but it just was not enough.
Norman looked good, man. He's got power. He's
fast. I mean, he's young. He looked phenomenal.
Yeah. Now that Boots is gone, I don't think he
can really make this his division. I think it
is his division at this point. Yeah. Is Norman
beating Boots allegations? They're not so far
-fetched, huh? Not so much anymore. It's arguable,
but I still think Boots would have won. Oh, maybe.
We'll never know. Unless Norman moves up, but
we'll see. Because right now, Norman, he in the
division right now. He got Roley. You got Barrios,
soon to be Pac -Man. Talk about the next week.
And then you got another vacant title. There
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right, coming up this week on the 11th, that
is Friday, MVP, Most Valuable Promotions on Netflix.
This will be at Madison Square. Katie Taylor's
Serrano 3. This is one of those all -women's
cards that happen from time to time. I'm hopeful
that they won't do ring girls for this because
that'd be kind of silly to have an all -women's
card with ring girls. It's always fun. I think
it's funny when there's ring boys. Those are
always hilarious to me. So I'm hopeful that they
pull out all the stops for the ladies on this
card. Ladies night. Yeah, it is. That's what
it is. Ring boys? Yeah, it's just like hunky
dudes in shorts. And they do the ring cards.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So here's some notable names.
Savannah Marshall, if you're familiar with the
Brit scene, she's fighting Shadesha Green for
unifying the IBF and WBO super middleweight titles.
Sharnika Johnson is the WBA C &O champion doing
the undisputed thing with IBF champ Sharetta
Metcalf. I think Neeks is Australian. And Alicia
Baumgartner. Fucking my queen. Versus Jennifer
Miranda. Undisputed super featherweight champ
in Baumgartner. This is her first fight with
MVP, right? Yes, I believe so. All right. That'd
be cool. It's a nice event to get on. Ellie Scottney
versus Yamileth Mercado. Scottney is the IBF
champ. Mercado is the... Scottney is IBF and
WBO. Mercado is WBC, and they're unifying. And
capping it off, Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano.
Undisputed 140 -pound championship. Woof. I'm
actually interested to see or to hear about this.
Who do you guys have winning this fight, this
main event? I'm going with Serrano again. Method,
decision, KO. What do you think? What did I put?
Let me pull up my picks up. I put Serrano by
KO this time. Crazy. Crazy. I have Serrano by
decision. I agree with Leo's decision as well.
See, I was actually... The last two fights, I
backed up Katie Taylor by decision. But this
fight, man, I don't know. In the second fight,
Katie Taylor almost got blasted at the end of
the first few rounds by Serrano. If those were
three -minute fights, I think she was honestly
out of there. But, I mean, I don't know, man.
At one point, age has to... Like, I know Serrano's
old, too, but... It has to start affecting Taylor.
I mean, she's been in some wars. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, we'll see.
Should be a good fight. We'll see how much...
We'll see how much fool Mattrum has this time
around. I feel like... I feel like this time
Amanda Serrano's gonna get the decision. I don't
think she's gonna be able to get a knockout this
time around just because, like, what you said,
the age. She might... He's slowing down just
a little bit. It's been a while. That last fight
was a war, I will say. We don't know how much
that kind of put on her body. We'll see. I truly
think she's going to get this time around. Do
you think we see headbutts from Katie Taylor?
Oh, hell yeah. That's a Katie Taylor special
right there. Yeah, I was going to say. It's a
matter of if Serrano has... kind of figured out
how to deal with those. Because when she gets
the cuts and then Taylor starts targeting them.
Yeah. It just looks worse optically. It's grimy
and it's kind of a dirty way of fighting. I don't
really like it. Yeah. I would like for Taylor
to get her comeuppance. Yeah. I think Toronto
will get it done this time. Yeah. Hopefully.
The only way that this card would be better is
if it had Gabi Pandora. Oh, shit. That would
have been really sad. That would be a lot. That
would be... The way Shinata put it on Boxing
Before Dark was like, this is the... Fucking...
What is it? All of the good women's fights are
on this card. And now we're not going to have
it for like six months. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like Jake's the turkey all chic for the
women. Yeah, all of them are on here. I will
say this though, I think it probably wouldn't
be a good idea for Gabby from the world of hot
promotional companies to go to MVP. Yeah, Jake's
taking care of them. Yeah, he's doing a pretty
good job too. Absolutely. From his promotional,
like purely from his promotional standing. He's
done incredible work for boxing. I mean, especially
Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor, they've reached
a new level under his promotion to MVP. It's
really nice to see. Yeah. Hasn't been this much
buzz for a female fighter since probably the
coal miner's daughter. Yeah. It's been real nice,
man. And the Katie Taylor fight and Amanda Serrano
fight, this trilogy has been really, really good.
Yeah. It's definitely the best trilogy for women.
Yeah, that I can remember, yeah. Yeah, that's
something I say about Jake Paul. As much of a
clown as he is in promoting his own fights, when
it comes to promoting other people's fights,
he's a fucking solid businessman. He's doing
great work with Serrano. I'd like to see him
try to do the same for some of the smaller weight
classes on the men's side. Just because they
don't get a lot of love either. That would be
a lot harder to do. Probably. That's possible.
I wonder of how Christy Martin has, like, how
she's reacted to MVP. I wonder if she, like,
supports it, you know? You know what I mean?
I'd like to see Holly Holm come over to MVP.
Not with MVP? No. Wait. No, no. Oh, wait. She
was on the card, right? That was a Golden Boy
card, wasn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe
it's both. But I don't think she's with MVP.
I'll look into it because I'm curious. Anything
more for the ladies card? Solid event. No, that's
all I got. Yeah, it's not a bad Friday night.
If you're not doing anything else, this is a
good one to watch. Fantastic appetizer. For Riyadh,
the ring three at the Louis Armstrong Stadium
in Central Park, New York. I don't have the exact
running order. But all the fights that I have
listed here are all pretty solid and worth stopping
to talk about. So first, why, Alex, do you have
Hamza Shiraz beating the shit out of Edgar Berlingo?
What? I know you love Shiraz. What? Dude, that's
crazy. That's crazy whatever said it to me. That
is crazy. Okay, this is bait. This is such bait
here. I'm going to fall for it. I'm going to
fall for it. Of course it's bait. I'll tell you
this. Ooh, I don't want to say this because I
don't want to please the Brit fighters. Or not
Brit fighters, but the Brit fans because I've
been talking a lot of shit about them. Let me
tell you this, okay? Hamza is ass, but this whole
fight is going to go down to who's more ass,
you know? The battle of ass. Yeah, the battle
of ass. The ass battle. Bumlonga or fucking Shiraz,
you know? And the thing is, I want Bumlonga to
win. I want Berlanga to win so bad just to see
Turkey's face just melt down, you know? We need
the Saudi invasion to end. We cannot have Hamza
Shiraz fighting Canelo next. We need something
better than that. I'd much rather watch a Bubing
fight with Canelo than a Shiraz fight with Canelo.
What about Mbili? I would love to see that too.
I would love to see that too. That is like a
real contender, I guess. But I, I, I, you guys
know that I've been on the Shiraz. Hate train.
Andy Shiraz train. Yeah. Andy Shiraz train for,
for a while, dude. I mean, again, he's not a
bad fighter. I just don't like the amount of
push he's been giving or he's been getting, you
know, and the fact that he's got a Canelo, Canelo
fight lined up pissed me off, you know? Yeah.
I will say. Second fight, second fight at 168.
I mean, come on. Crazy. Yeah. I also don't like
Edgar Berlanga. A lot of it is his old shtick.
The man celebrated like he won undisputed after
losing to Canelo. He was in the streets with
a whole car parade. I don't like Berlanga, but
we do need him to win here. If Shiraz wins, the
Canelo fight is pretty much locked up. And I
say this as someone that is an ex -Shiraz supporter.
After he let me down versus Carlos Adames, I
had to hop off the train. I know there's the
whole thing with his, you know, the injury in
his hand. But I just cannot support. And I really
don't want this kind of fight to happen. But,
yeah, man, I hope Berlanga can get it done. Yeah,
I mean, we'll see. We'll see. The thing with
Berlanga, too, is that if he can just go in there
and just fight him in the pocket, you know, just
get in there and just be nasty with him. Smart
but nasty, you know what I mean? If he can do
that, I think he'd win. He has to make him uncomfortable,
yeah. Exactly, yeah. And the thing is, we also
don't know how Shiraz's power goes up to 168,
and we also don't know how his chin transfers
up to 168, because he's been down before. His
brother's been down before. I don't even think
it was 168, I think it was 154, right? I don't
remember exactly what way. But Ammo Williams
also hurt him bad. Yeah, and he's not really
known as a power puncher, Ammo Williams. No?
Yeah, I mean, he hurt him bad. But that's what
I'm saying. It's possible. I mean, I will say
this. We've seen photos of Shiraz standing next
to the likes of Bivol. He's bigger than Bivol
by a decent margin. He is tall. We'll see more
when we get to the face -offs. But, yeah, I mean,
just the fact that he's been knocked down at
those lower weights, I feel like I just got to
go Berlanga. But it's just, I mean, Berlanga
could also just completely shit the bed. But
we'll see. We'll see. I will guarantee you this,
though, that Berlanga is going to get knocked
down once. I can almost guarantee that. It's
possible. And then I'm also going to guarantee
when he gets knocked, he's going to smack his
hands together and get back up. Yeah, he always
does it. He always does that shit, yeah. He's
going to get back up and fight. We'll see. We'll
see how bad he gets rocked. You know? His recovery
is pretty nice, yeah. Like, he... Whenever Canelo
knocked him down with that hook, like, I mean,
he immediately, like you said, he slapped his
hands and then immediately got back up. His recovery
is pretty nice. Well, I mean, we'll see what
happens. I mean, he's definitely... For as long
as a weight bully himself. And I can't believe
I'm rooting for a weight bully like him. But,
man, I just... I can't have Baxter Ross, dude.
Just the love he gets, you know? I'm not trying
to be a hater. Well, I don't know. I just think
that the fact that he's getting a Canelo, the
route to Canelo, when he had a perfect... He
could have fought anybody else at 160. He could
have stayed at 165. Jannebeck, he ducked him.
Fought Carlos Adamas for an easy title, quote
-unquote. He lost to him. I mean, come on. The
hand... Do you guys really believe the hand injury,
too? Do you guys really believe that? Yeah, me
neither. I mean, there was nothing... He looked
different, but we didn't really see any follow
-up after that. Oh, yeah. I doubt it was a hand
injury. I think that's an old excuse in the boxing
book. If you really wanted to prove it, he could
have just rematched Adonis. If it really was
a hand injury, then rematch and beat him. Exactly.
But he knows that he's going to get that fight
with Canelo. They signed Canelo, I think, Did
they sign Canelo after the last contract or before?
I don't know. After what? Did they sign Canelo
after or before February? The February card.
After, I think. I think we... Yeah, we had heard
rumors about it, but I don't think anything was
said until after. Because I feel like... I just
got a theory that Shiraz moved up just purely
because they want... They want him to fight Canelo.
That's the thing. I have this big theory, dude.
I have this big, grand theory of how Canelo's
four -fight deal is going to play out. He's going
to beat Crawford, quote -unquote, on the cards.
And then he's going to fight Shiraz if Shiraz
wins. Even if he doesn't win, he might still
get the fight. But he's going to fight Shiraz.
That's going to go to the cards for sure. And
they're going to give Shiraz the titles. You
guys saw, like, Turkey. I thought when I first
saw this, I was like, oh, this is, you know,
someone from Reddit or someone online on Twitter
is just, like, making a joke. But this was, like,
actually real. This happened. Turkey Al -Ashiq
put a tweet out saying that he would be very
disappointed if Shiraz and Shakur lost because
that would mess up his plans. He made a tweet
saying that. I remember that. Clear favoritism.
towards certain results. I mean, it's astounding
that he would even consider posting that because
it's, it's just, if I'm trying to, like, you
know, if I have favoritism, that's okay and everything,
but I'm not going to put it out there for everyone
to see it. I mean, that's crazy. I don't know,
yeah. That's the thing, Berlanga really needs
to, there's no way Berlanga can get one of the
cards. He needs to knock them out. He absolutely
needs to knock them out. Yeah. Even if it's a
shot, even if it's a masterclass, like, her level
fighting, you know, in the pocket and, you know,
Fucking Floyd Mayweather type fucking role. I'll
tell you, dude, he's still going to lose unless
he knocks him out. Yeah, dude, I put Berlanga
down by KO. Hopefully it happens, but we'll see.
Yeah. And if it doesn't happen, oh my God. They're
going to, I already know on the server, they're
going to be talking about. Dude, it's over for
us all. If that doesn't, it's over for us. My
reputation's on the line, dude. Yeah, you are
more like, I'm going to get grilled a little
bit, but you're going to get crucified. You're
an evangelist for anti -charades. You're going
to get crucified. I'm going to get cream -piped
by everybody. That's pretty good. Yeah, it's
bad. That's going to be horrible, dude. I have
to pay some music. In the pick league, I put
draw. Because I don't want either of them to
win. That's valid. That's valid. His last fight
was a draw. You know who's wasn't a draw? David
Murrell. I think this is a big get back for my
man here. Versus Imam Kataev. Looked into this
guy's record. He's 10 and 0. I think it's all
knockouts. It's either 9 or 10 knockouts. But
he's never fought outside of Eastern Europe.
This is a get -back with a guy who looks like
a puncher on paper. Yeah. I remember hearing
about him, Kotev, some time ago, but nothing
really came from it. I remember there was some
hype behind him a few years ago. But like you
said, he hasn't really done much, but this is
his first big fight. Yeah. I think Morel is going
to get it done. He looked really good. I mean,
we knew, or we knew, like, going into the Benavidez
fight in real, we had seen him before. He was
a devastating puncher, like a new -gen Cuban.
But it was, you know, he's sort of early for
him. And we saw, I mean, he sort of got outclassed
by Benavidez. But I think he'll take that experience.
Yeah, I think he'll take that experience with
Benavidez. And hopefully he's been in the lab
working on his skills, his craft, and he can
get this win done or down. I don't think it's
going to be an easy fight. I think he's going
to take his time. I think he's going to get a
late stoppage. He's going to get a late stoppage
for sure. Yeah, I think he has to be careful
in this fight still. From what I remember, back
when Kotev's hype was sort of high, he was decent.
So you've got to be careful with these Russian
dudes. Oh yeah, I have a span. Yeah. Gotta be
very careful. They will fuck up a hype train.
That's like the... What's the word? That's the
point where that determines your worth as a fighter.
Can you beat him? Can you beat him decisively?
Or will you lose? Virgil crossed that line. I
gotta throw him in there. Virgil crossed that
line. He passed the test. Hopefully Morel's passed
that test too. Yeah, we'll see how he comes back.
From his first loss. He should be fine. Moving
up. Alberto Puello versus Gabriel Matias. The
WBC Super Lightweight Championship on the line
here. Puello is the champ. Matias is coming in
rated 8th. I guess he ditched the IBF. Too many
final eliminators. But this is a wild fight.
Yeah, this is. This is interesting, man. I gotta
say. Matias, he still has his... Actually, I
was about to ask if he still has his 100 % KO
ratio, but I saw it posted earlier today. We
know Matias has some serious power. What? Pueyo
has that. I mean, he's like this super long range
fighter. His arms are really long, if I remember
correctly. So it's gonna be interesting. Yeah,
I'm gonna be... This is definitely one of the
fights to watch. We're hoping it'll be good,
but we know Matias is going to... I mean, he
goes out there to put people down. So, yeah.
I think it'll be fun to watch. I will say it's
either going to be a really exciting fight or
a really boring fight. Yeah. Yeah, it could just
be at distance the entire fight. Oh, yeah. Because
it could be likely on Paro. It could be like
that type of performance that Matias has. Or
he just knocks him out. Yeah, I don't know. I
feel like it's either there's two ways I could
say going. A Pueo decision or Matias knockout.
You know? Because Matias is not so much a crafty
fighter. Like, not crafty. What's the word? He
doesn't get decisions, you know? Yeah, I mean,
he's purely going in there to, like, dominate
his opponent and get him out of there. Yeah.
I wish it is. I did think that Boyo lost his
last fight against Sandor Martin. But, I mean,
he got the win. We'll see. Normally, boxing has
a way when, like, we saw it in the Conceição
versus Foster fight. Whenever Conceição, he took
the belt from Oshaki Foster, which a lot of people
thought it was a robbery in the first fight.
But then in the second fight, in the rematch,
it was the opposite way where everyone thought
Conceição. uh won the fight but it went to foster
so that boxing has this weird way of like sort
of getting you back like you get you get the
the fight you deserve normally uh we'll see we'll
see what happens whale's not going to be protected
by the pbc this time around so i think if even
if it goes to decision you know we never know
this is a tough fight in my opinion this is kind
of hard to tell yeah yeah i'm not i'm not super
sure either way It's a classic boxer versus puncher.
Yeah. It's a very good matchmaking. This card's
nice. It's a fight that I wouldn't even think
that would have gotten made, you know? It was
random. This is probably one of the most random
fights of the year. I mean, it's a good fight.
No doubt about it, I think. But it's just random.
I get the feeling that Pueyo has what it takes
to win. Because Matias has been beaten. in a
way that does fit in Pueyo's wheelhouse. So that's
why I'm kind of leaning towards Pueyo. But Matias
is a machine. That's not somebody I would want
across the ring for me. He's scary, yeah. Yeah.
And last, moving up to Shakur Stevenson. versus
William Zepeda. They're consolidating the WBC
lightweight title. What round does Shakur hurt
his hand and then the fight becomes competitive?
Man, I know some people were... I've seen very
few people... It is out there. The time Zepeda's
going to finish Shakur, but man, I... I just
feel like this is going to be a domination by
Shakur. Zepeda, what we saw in that farmer fight,
was not convincing to me at all. Maybe prior
to those two fights, I could have been persuaded
that Zepeda has a chance, as I'm sure Saul will
try to convince us soon. But I just feel like
Shakur, just purely the eye test, a way, way
better boxer. Outside of a fluke punch. that
Shakur doesn't see, which, I mean, we know his
defense is rock solid, so very unlikely. But
outside of that, I think he just goes to, like,
a pretty wide, unanimous decision. Yeah. I don't
know if I want to start, but... Yeah, go ahead.
I'm going to put a disclaimer out there, because
I agree with everything Isaac said. I honestly
think Shakur's going to win. Like, 100%. Like,
well, not 100%. I think, like, 98 % sure that
he's going to win. Because there's got to go
to the car, sure. If, you know, the pay doesn't
fight correctly. But I'll get to that right now.
But I just want to put out there, I think Shakur
is winning the fight. However, there's way too
many, like, Shakur glazers to where I have to
fucking, I have to be the evil, I have to be
the evil opinion. You know, I have to say, like,
I have to kind of... I think you're good. I mean,
hey. Hey. I'll tell you this, too. This guy,
this is his only shining light in this fight
is that he's got a shit ton of volume. A whole
bunch of volume. He's going to be throwing no
matter what. And the thing is that Shakur, from
what we know, doesn't have much power. And I
don't know. I just feel like if he could just
overload Shakur this crazy amount, he just doesn't
care about... whatever's coming back to him.
I think you can maybe hurt him once and possibly
even get the knockout. Never know. And the thing
is that Shakur's chin has also never been tested.
Can we agree on that? Is that agreeable? Yeah,
I think so. I'm trying to think. I don't recall
a time he's been caught, really. And also, they're
also the same height, too. And I think they have
similar reach as well. I don't know if that's
correct. Shakur is a 68 reach. Zepeda, 69 and
a half. Oh, so he has a long reach. There you
go. There's that, right, guys? I mean, come on.
It's not like it's going to be like a baby in
a hydrogen bomb, you know? I mean, I feel like,
I just feel like, you know, Zepeda has a chance.
And I'm going to be rooting for him. As much
as I want to see Shakur fight Tank, I think it's
more possible if Shakur loses this fight. To
fight Tank, you know? There's that. There's that
too. This is hard. This is really hard. I can't.
I don't know. I just think there's a possibility.
And I'm rooting for Sabita. I mean, if he can
get Shakur out, that would be funny as hell.
That would be funny as hell. Come on. I mean,
that would genuinely, like, boxing Twitter would
be insane if Zepeda was the one to beat Shakur.
It would be, I mean, that'd be probably one of
the biggest upsets this year in boxing if that
were to actually happen. But I just think it's
one of these things, it's a possibility I'm not
even considering, to be honest. But, I mean,
we'll see. Boxing has a way of humbling the fans
at that time. I mean, hey, we didn't think Roche
was going to win against Hank. I mean, he didn't
win, but he won in our eyes. So, I mean, there's
always that chance. I know the debate is not
a skill, but, man, that volume. If he can overwhelm
Shakur from a distance, I mean, the punch is
not going to stop. I'll tell you that. The pain
is going to bring the fight. And if it's really
true what they said about... The shrinking ring,
I don't know if that's bad. Oh, that's bullshit.
I don't know if that's bullshit or not, but I
will say, if that's real, then Zepeda has got
a real shot there. You know? Well, I never know.
Big if, yeah, it's a big if. The thing is, I
do want Zepeda to win. I really do. Oof. I'm
sold. I'm changing my pick. No, that's crazy.
I didn't sell for sure. I didn't sell myself.
I didn't sell myself. That was hard as hell.
It was way easier to make a Floyd Schofield.
I remember when they were going to fight, Floyd
Schofield and Shakur. No, this was hard. That
was kind of rough. Because even I myself don't
even believe it. But I do want to pay her to
win. That would be the funniest thing to see.
That would be the funniest thing to see. Yeah.
Woof. That's it. Anything more for the... This
is a Golden Boy card, right? Yeah. Good card.
Good card. I'm excited. All right. Just really
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So we're heading into ladies' night on Friday
and then boys' night on Saturday. Parting words.
Let's go, Floyd. Let's go. I think boxing's coming
back. We're so back. For me, I'm going to say
join us in the server. Very good time. Just some
nice events coming on. Man, combat sports is
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two weeks? Oh, yeah. These next two weeks are
wild. All right. Well, we'll see you on the other
side of Shakur Stevenson and Zepeda.