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

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

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

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Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This

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is Boxing Before Dark. Boxing Before Dark. I,

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uh... Holy shit. We just had... Possibly card

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of the year. Not possibly. I think it just hands

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down is card of the year. So far, I would say

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so. We're not going to be talking about it this

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time, but it was billed as ring three. Berlanga

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versus Shiraz. Shakur Stevenson versus William

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Zepeda. David Morrell versus Imam Kataev. It

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was just overall an incredible card. It was really

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good. Bangers. Yeah, if you didn't get it, if

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you didn't watch it, I'll say, then you missed

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out. Sucks to be you. I think you can purchase

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the pay -per -views after on DAZN as well. And

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honestly, this one might be worth the reduced

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price if you missed it. I think they delay by

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a week. So based on our scheduling, how we do

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it on B -Sides and here on Before Dark, if you

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wanted to wait, you could watch it, I think,

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for free and then catch our recap at that same

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time, within the same week. Nice. That's just

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how the scheduling works out for us. Okay, so

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Francisco Rodriguez, adverse finding in VADA.

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What the shit? They still haven't said what it

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is, and it's going to be fucking hilarious if

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he pops for weed again. Because that's just going

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to make that beating even funnier. Pops for weed

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again? Isn't it Francisco Rodriguez that tested

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positive for weed, or am I being racist? I have

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no idea. I don't know. Give me two seconds. I've

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only known Francisco Rodriguez from his fight

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with Yafai. That's all I know about him. That

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might be confusing to... Rodriguez's. Yeah, I

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mean, it happens. No, all I'm getting is about

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this last one. Adverse finding with Vada, though?

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Yeah. Oh, jeez. Any preliminary... They never

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said anything. No exogenous testosterone or any

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of that sort of stuff. Any particular drug. Yeah.

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Usually they would have released it at this point.

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Yeah, and I still don't see anything saying anything

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specific. It's just adverse findings, which...

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Usually means it's something that could maybe

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be explained away, such as Canelo's, like, tainted

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bee for Fury's wild boar meat or something. Wild

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boar meat. Not that I believe any of those. Right.

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I'm just saying. If they don't specifically say

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what it is, it's usually something that you could

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try and explain away. Man, I can only think that

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he's going to go with the tainted beef situation.

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Again, I kind of hope it's marijuana, which I

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don't think anybody is actually going to say

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is a performance -enhancing drug, and it would

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make me laugh. But it is still banned by VADA.

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Yeah, it's banned. It's a banned substance. So

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there's that. um as far as it being like a performance

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enhancing or like a lot of people think it's

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a performance inhibiting drug if anything yeah

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i don't know about that i just think it would

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be the funniest thing for him to test positive

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for either way though i think like he just put

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that beating on your thigh so it's like a ryan

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garcia and devin haney and like you can't you

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can't undo it yeah yeah nobody's going to unsee

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You getting your ass beat. Yeah, yeah. They can

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take away the L on your record, but it doesn't

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change anything. Man. When I was competitive

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powerlifting, some of the best workouts that

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I ever had, I had smoked weed before. And they

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were just... I can't explain it. It's... something

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you like if you know you know um not everybody

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knows like weed doesn't affect everybody the

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same way um so hard to say yeah well there was

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there was that snowboarder that got his gold

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medal taken away i'm pretty sure it was a canadian

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um because he was just high as fuck at the olympics

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apparently like he didn't test kind of positive

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he tested very positive yeah yeah and like canada

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has a show jumper that's been banned for life

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twice from international competition uh like

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horse jumping but he's just so good they keep

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getting his bands overturned and he always tests

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positive for cocaine and i'm like just just take

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the cocaine away from him like i don't know how

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that helps him jump a horse but and you would

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have to be like like doing it right before the

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event there's yeah there's no way that no he

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is just definitely addicted like no question

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i've had because i know people will make fun

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of it but those show jumpers make like hundreds

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of millions of dollars doing it and he fucks

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up cocaine so often that they've banned him from

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life and overturned it twice if you're gonna

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get caught with it like you have to do it Within,

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like, 12 hours. I think he was doing rails right

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before he got on his horse. Exactly. That's how

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he's getting caught, is because he is straight

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up, like, busting rails and then gets on the

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horse. Yeah, I think so. That is incredibly fucked

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up. I understand that one. Same with, like, David

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Benavidez. popping for cocaine like come on yeah

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like he was just partying a little too hard before

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the uh the random drug tests happened yeah there

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are worse things that you could do with your

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with your time like beating your wife oh shit

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yeah speaking of which gervonta davis gets arrested

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for domestic violence for what is this again

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for the third time I think the third time. And

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rumor on the street, as in rumors on the internet

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that I have no basis for, but his girlfriend,

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wife, whoever, said he crashed out because he

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thinks his kid is gay and the kid's like one.

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Like, Tank is so far in the closet, it's really

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affecting his life. He needs to just admit it

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and stop worrying about everybody else. Very

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deeply furrowed brow. Very deep shrug. I'm trying

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to narrate the reactions that I'm having to this.

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Like, what the fuck is... I don't even know...

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How do you decide a one -year -old is gay? Anyways,

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I don't know if that's true, but rumor on the

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internet is that's what his significant other,

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the mother of the child, said. Who cares, dude?

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Big, who cares? Who the fuck cares? So what?

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So the fuck what? It's still your kid, man. Of

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all the things that you're going to freak out

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about, I would have thought autism, just because

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you never know if they're going to be functional

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or not. High functioning, I should say. Anyways,

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super fucking weird crash out. Very strange.

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If that's true, if that's true. I mean, domestic

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violence crash outs are always uncalled for.

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Doesn't matter what the situation is. Yeah, regardless

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of whether the kid is gay or autistic or whatever

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the fuck. It's a one -year -old. You can't tell

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either of those things. Man. Anyways, in non

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-controversial news, Inouye versus MJ is in Nagoya

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in September. How's that in relation to you?

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It's one of the bullet trains, so it would be

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a little expensive. But I have not been to Nagoya

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yet, and it is one of the cities I want to visit

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now that I've done the major ones, or most of

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the major ones. But it is a ticket lottery. gross

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so that's bullshit i really don't think i'll

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win the lottery but i did get lucky once buying

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a resale ticket so i'm gonna hold out for that

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and the bullet trains you don't have to it's

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not like an airplane you don't have to book ahead

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of time like the price is just the price so i

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am gonna try and go i think i would like to make

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that kind of like a three days two nights weekend

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thing if i can at work oh yeah go see the sights

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right yeah because i've never been to nagoya

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uh i don't know what all's there but i mean there

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must be something it's a big city yeah i haven't

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been around a lot of japan but i have heard of

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nagoya it's halfway between tokyo and uh kyoto

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so anyways i i would really like to do that i

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also noticed that they put it the day after canelo's

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fight again I wonder if they're hoping for another

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Canelo snoozer because in a way got a lot of

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positive press, more positive press than he would

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have otherwise after he saved that Times Square

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Canelo skull weekend. That weekend was just dog

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shit. And yeah, he fucking saved it. Yeah. And

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like Canelo Crawford might be big. It's big,

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but it might be a good fight. I could see it

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being a snoozer. I've been saying I could see

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it being boring as fuck. It can very well be

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boring as fuck. I see the avenues for it to be

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boring compared to, in a way, MJ fight, which

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just, to me, the avenues are far, far fewer.

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Yeah. And I just kind of feel a little bit like

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Inouye's team or top rank or someone might be

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trying to do the, well, we can get positive press

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if Crawford Canelo ends up being a snoozer. We'll

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get that same positive extra boost. Yeah. Or

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maybe I'm just a conspiracy theorist. No, I think

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you're right. I think that they're trying to

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Ben Franklin here. With their key on the kite.

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Yeah. And they're trying to catch it again. Well,

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and like, worst case scenario for them, Crawford

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Canelo is a great fight weekend and people are

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up on boxing and they want to watch Inouye. I

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want more boxing. To keep it going. Yeah, I want

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more. So I think either way, they kind of capitalize.

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But it does suck that they put these big names

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on the same weekend because then it's going to

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be probably a little slow. Although there's lots

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of fights in September, I guess. That's the way

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that you had to put it for the women's card,

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right? Well, and I think I'm right. Like, who's

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left to fight for women in the next six months?

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Mimi. But, I mean, Mimi's not that famous. I

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just like her. Clarissa Shields. Yeah, but her

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fights are usually really one -sided, unfortunately.

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And she's going to have kind of a shit undercard,

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I think. Yeah, she will. So, like, I don't know.

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That women's card was good, though. I know that's

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also next podcast, but I was pleasantly surprised

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by the women's card. That being said, I did not

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watch the main event, which I heard was pretty

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shit. Yeah, that was actually... We were supposed

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to record just before. It started? Yeah. And

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I had something else I had to attend to. So I'll

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have to try to recap as much of that card as

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I can before we get there. But the main event,

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I can say, was... Not great? There have been

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better Taylor Serrano fights. Well, it would

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have been fucking impossible to beat the last

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one, I think. There have been considerably better

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Taylor Serrano fights. Yeah. Man. Shall we get

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into the recamps? Yes. The recent shit. Is this

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up to date? Is that the only recap? It is. And

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I did not update it. Joe Cordina versus Jaret

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Carras. I remember Joe Cordina kind of washing

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it. Man, this is me being very professional.

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This is what happens when we record after big

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cards. Yeah. I know I watched this. I know it

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was a week ago and I have a shit memory. I think

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Cordina kind of won. pretty convincingly didn't

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it was yeah and this was one of those ones that

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was for the wbo global uh yeah this is cordina

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trying to get back into like contention title

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contention yeah it's um it's wbo global versus

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what's the difference between the wbo world i'm

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uh like half face palming For those who are not

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watching. The global is less somehow. Than world.

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Global is less than world. How does that make

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sense? Jack Catterall versus Harlem Eubank. That

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fight was sloppy as shit. That was an ugly fight.

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Yeah. And not fun. Where's Lynn? I need you to

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try to intellectualize this for me. This fight

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was just fucking hot garbage. I did not. But

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Caterall fights are often not fun. Just not fun.

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Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. And, because it ended

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in a head clash in the ninth? They went to the

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cards? Seventh. Seventh. Oh, even earlier. Whatever.

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Still, not good. No. Well, and this is the one

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where the doctor from the other corner stopped

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it for Catterall, right? That's right. I didn't

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understand how that happened. Because Eubank

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did not have a bad enough cut to stop the fight.

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The doctor in Catterall's corner said, yeah,

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he can continue. That is the cut that I assume

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stopped the fight. Should have. But then the

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doctor in Eubank's corner, talked to the ref,

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and the ref waved it off. Yes. Like, it didn't

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make sense to me. And it was a bad cut. But usually

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they will let them go one round, see how it looks,

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whatever. We have seen worse. Way worse. Considerably

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worse that has been allowed to continue beyond

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just a round. But, like, goddamn. The one that

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Harlem Eubank had was not... nothing it was like

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i think i've cut my eye that bad got drunk and

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fell into a door and you slice your eye open

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yeah i'm trying to think like i'm checking my

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eyebrows like um i probably have been cut worse

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than that yeah well and this one people tell

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me i'm making it up but people should go back

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and watch round seven i swear to god catterall

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pulled a tank When he got that cut, he ran to

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his corner and they came up to wipe his eye for

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him. And the ref walked over and was like, what

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the fuck are you doing? You can't do this. And

00:17:47.740 --> 00:17:52.680
nobody has mentioned it. I'm like, why are fighters

00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.039
doing this? It's ridiculous. I mean, if Tank

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is allowed to do it, then... They have set the

00:18:00.299 --> 00:18:06.259
precedent. Yep. And it's bullshit. Because, yeah.

00:18:06.910 --> 00:18:10.710
It was another case of the corner coming up onto

00:18:10.710 --> 00:18:15.309
the apron and doing more than they should. Well,

00:18:15.410 --> 00:18:17.150
they shouldn't be allowed on the apron at all.

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Yeah, exactly. They're not allowed on. Yeah,

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I don't know. I would not recommend this. If

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you missed this one, just leave it. You did better

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things with your time. Yeah, I don't even care

00:18:28.250 --> 00:18:30.569
if you were asleep. It was better things with

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your time. Better use of your time is to sleep.

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And that being the only recap is fucking atrocious.

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That's all we got. All right, let me... We could

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do the cuts different this time because we have

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the half -year picks, right? Yeah, actually,

00:18:51.670 --> 00:18:54.910
that's a good call. Let's get into that since

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it's only the two of us. Stoppage. We have 10

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categories that we use here at Lux. So without

00:19:04.710 --> 00:19:07.190
further ado, stoppage of the year. What do you

00:19:07.190 --> 00:19:11.970
got? Okay, I think pretty clearly KO of the year

00:19:11.970 --> 00:19:15.289
has to be Brian Norman Jr. versus Jin Sasaki.

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Of course. But I do have an honorable mention

00:19:19.089 --> 00:19:27.450
that I thought was that until Norman Jr. Takei

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versus Tang Di. was a really fast really brutal

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knockout and there was also one on an undercard

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i swear to god it was the very first punch of

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the fight thrown knock the guy out about this

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but i can't remember what fight it was and i

00:19:45.980 --> 00:19:49.619
couldn't find it this is not that but that was

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also an honorable mention but i can't remember

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who it was Long -time listeners with better memories

00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.660
will know who I'm talking about. Yeah, if you

00:19:57.660 --> 00:19:59.779
want to go back into the archives, you can probably

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find it. Or just have a memory. Yeah. But anybody

00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:06.900
who remembers, please call in and tell me who

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it was so I can go find the damn thing again.

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833 -589 -7637. I really do think there is only

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one answer to this one. Yeah. We had the same

00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:23.250
outcome on B -Sides, which hasn't... At this

00:20:23.250 --> 00:20:26.029
point, probably hasn't come out yet when you're

00:20:26.029 --> 00:20:30.450
listening to this. But my primary pick, of course,

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Norman over Sasaki. There is nothing else. Yeah,

00:20:34.750 --> 00:20:37.430
there's no other KOs this year. Anywhere close.

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My other stoppage, my honorable mention, just

00:20:40.750 --> 00:20:44.410
to give a secondary pick, was Inoue over Cardenas.

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Just because of how awesome that fight was. Starts

00:20:49.470 --> 00:20:54.039
with a knockdown over Inoue. And he rallies back

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and just, the last few rounds, it's just brutal.

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It's like, we don't need to see anymore. Yeah,

00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.160
which is what Inouye does. When he gets knocked

00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.359
down, he gets up and just beats people. Yeah,

00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:13.180
he gets fucking mad. All right, Master Class

00:21:13.180 --> 00:21:16.180
of the Year. This is a pillar to post -schooling.

00:21:16.819 --> 00:21:21.589
Doesn't necessarily have to be... include knockdowns

00:21:21.589 --> 00:21:27.150
think Shakur Stevenson more than let's say Subaru

00:21:27.150 --> 00:21:31.650
Matias I really struggled with this one and I

00:21:31.650 --> 00:21:35.029
know I'm missing some obvious ones I kind of

00:21:35.029 --> 00:21:37.549
didn't do my homework and was last minuting this

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trying to think of stuff at the festival last

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night but I really really struggled with Masterclass

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all I have is Tio looked fucking great against

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Barbosa, but Barbosa looks so shit. I don't know

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if that counts. That counts perfectly. That was

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my honorable mention. My primary pick was Benavidez

00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:07.160
over Morel. Okay. I can see that one. It's higher

00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.500
weight classes that I don't watch. But Teofimo

00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:14.819
versus Barbosa was my... was one of my picks

00:22:14.819 --> 00:22:18.680
as well. He just... negated barbosa entirely

00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:21.960
that whole fight he didn't do anything his entire

00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:28.720
existence was negated it really was though uh

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villain of the year i'll start here um number

00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:39.099
one canelo signing with riad that uh definitely

00:22:39.099 --> 00:22:45.150
did not tickle my fancy my emeritus pick Whoever

00:22:45.150 --> 00:22:52.210
lets Derek Chisora keep fighting. But my primary

00:22:52.210 --> 00:22:58.190
would be the Davis brothers with their shenanigans.

00:22:58.509 --> 00:23:01.490
Yeah, that's a pretty obvious one. They were

00:23:01.490 --> 00:23:05.789
one of my honorable mentions. So my honorable

00:23:05.789 --> 00:23:09.049
mentions, my first one's going to maybe surprise

00:23:09.049 --> 00:23:12.920
people, maybe not. Junto Nakatani made my villain

00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:16.559
list. I really didn't like how dirty and restly

00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:20.480
he was with Nishida. And he popped out his shoulder

00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:23.440
in one of those weird clinches where he like

00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:26.839
judo through him. I did not like that. Did not

00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.099
like that. And I am a huge Nakatani fan and it

00:23:30.099 --> 00:23:33.640
made me angry. So he's the least of my villains,

00:23:33.740 --> 00:23:37.450
but he's a villain this year. My next villain

00:23:37.450 --> 00:23:41.470
is the whole fucking Reynoso gym. Oh, how did

00:23:41.470 --> 00:23:44.990
I forget? Come on, guys. Everybody's fucking

00:23:44.990 --> 00:23:50.529
popping in the Reynoso gym. At least once. Like,

00:23:50.529 --> 00:23:55.490
so that whole gym is my top honorable mention.

00:23:56.589 --> 00:23:59.289
The Davis brothers, I figured everyone else would

00:23:59.289 --> 00:24:02.710
pick. It's obvious. So I didn't even put them

00:24:02.710 --> 00:24:06.180
on the list. my main villain is the fucking Japanese

00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:09.940
Boxing Commission. The JBC is not looking out

00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:12.880
for their fighters at fucking all, and I am so

00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.740
pissed off that they let Shigeoka back in the

00:24:15.740 --> 00:24:20.920
ring after a skull fracture. Ten months is not

00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:23.059
enough time to heal from a skull fracture. That's

00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:28.490
like a career ender. And I... I'm 90 % sure that

00:24:28.490 --> 00:24:31.609
they aren't going to make Jin Sasaki take any

00:24:31.609 --> 00:24:33.750
extra time off. They're going to let him back

00:24:33.750 --> 00:24:36.089
in the ring like nothing happened because he's

00:24:36.089 --> 00:24:39.609
passing all of his tests. But if you lose six

00:24:39.609 --> 00:24:41.890
weeks of memory, I don't care if you get them

00:24:41.890 --> 00:24:45.710
back, you need to at least get a soft touch coming

00:24:45.710 --> 00:24:50.450
back. And the JBC... just isn't going to even

00:24:50.450 --> 00:24:53.269
try and enforce anything for him. So they are

00:24:53.269 --> 00:24:56.509
my villain of the year so far. I don't think

00:24:56.509 --> 00:24:58.309
they're looking after their fighters. And as

00:24:58.309 --> 00:25:01.670
much as I absolutely love the wars and the banging

00:25:01.670 --> 00:25:05.890
style, you need somebody to look after the fighters.

00:25:06.150 --> 00:25:08.829
Yeah, somebody has to step in on their behalf

00:25:08.829 --> 00:25:12.509
at some point. If it makes you feel better, the

00:25:12.509 --> 00:25:15.849
Junto Nakatani pick, this is for non -fighting.

00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:22.940
Outside of the ring behaviors. Oh, okay. Well,

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:25.299
inside the ring behavior, I think Nakatani's

00:25:25.299 --> 00:25:28.599
my villain this year. So far. And I'll forgive

00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:33.519
him after his next fight. After he does his usual.

00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:39.740
Right now, he's on my shit list. For new face

00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:43.640
of the year, I'll start here. I had two pick.

00:25:44.029 --> 00:25:48.829
Three picks. One was my emeritus. But first,

00:25:49.089 --> 00:25:52.569
Ramon Cardenas. Nobody knew who this guy was

00:25:52.569 --> 00:25:56.190
going into the Inouye fight. And he put on a

00:25:56.190 --> 00:26:00.910
fucking show. Absolutely put on a show. I like

00:26:00.910 --> 00:26:03.190
that pick. He rates that. And then my number

00:26:03.190 --> 00:26:07.849
two was Tara Moana. Does he still count as a

00:26:07.849 --> 00:26:10.509
new face? See, I always struggle with this. Yeah.

00:26:10.509 --> 00:26:12.609
Because if we talked about them last year, they're

00:26:12.609 --> 00:26:16.170
not new to me. I know. And that's why I have

00:26:16.170 --> 00:26:20.390
my emeritus pick, which is Tenshin Asakawa. Oh,

00:26:20.390 --> 00:26:26.069
fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. Yeah.

00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:30.890
But that's, like, it's, like, same thing. Like,

00:26:30.890 --> 00:26:35.019
I talked about him last year. Probably talked

00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:39.640
about him the year before. Yeah. I should probably

00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:43.500
stop at some point, but I'm probably not going

00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:49.980
to. I struggle with this category because I pick

00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:53.599
like really, really new people. Right. So it's

00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.880
not necessarily debutants, but it's like, is

00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.640
Abdullah Mason still a new face? Like he's about

00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:01.759
to fight for a title. I don't think so. Yeah.

00:27:03.369 --> 00:27:06.450
So, I just thought of another one, and I want

00:27:06.450 --> 00:27:15.150
to look up his name, but I can't remember. Who's

00:27:15.150 --> 00:27:19.869
the Filipino boxer that I really talked up? That

00:27:19.869 --> 00:27:24.930
was this last year, right? I think so. What's

00:27:24.930 --> 00:27:30.140
his name? What card was he on? So last year he

00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:32.940
fought on the Nakatani card in Osaka, and that's

00:27:32.940 --> 00:27:35.880
where I saw him live. But he's had at least two

00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:38.140
fights this year, I think, and won them both.

00:27:38.579 --> 00:27:45.059
But I cannot remember his name. Oh, so you're

00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:47.119
going to have to cut some of this. No, it's fine.

00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:54.900
So if I go to Nishida and that card in Osaka.

00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:58.640
I should be able to get his name off the list,

00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:06.119
right? Yeah, that should do it for you. Kenneth

00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:10.299
Lover is going on my list. I knew it was a stupid

00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:14.799
name. I remember that name. So Kenneth Lover

00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:19.079
is my honorable mention. I mean, he's still going

00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:22.339
to need a couple years before he... really becomes

00:28:22.339 --> 00:28:26.980
anything but new face style i i still think he

00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:33.539
makes the mention but makito nakano that was

00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:36.799
on the undercard of inoue cardenas and he got

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:40.720
that stoppage with the five knockdowns yes and

00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:46.400
i believe that was his debut maybe not i gotta

00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:48.299
look that up before i start talking absolute

00:28:48.299 --> 00:28:52.599
shit that sounds about right Not his debut at

00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.180
all. But the first time I'd seen him, so he counts

00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:57.579
as a new face. Yeah, that's exactly what new

00:28:57.579 --> 00:28:59.960
face is. It's just somebody who surprises you.

00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:06.960
Yeah. So he is not that new. He's 13 -0 with

00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:09.960
12 KOs. But I had never seen him before. He's

00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:12.619
my new face of the year so far. I thought that

00:29:12.619 --> 00:29:15.839
was a super impressive performance from somebody

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.519
I'd never heard of. And I follow Japanese boxing

00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:25.920
closer than most people. yes uh moving into fighter

00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:33.940
of the year um i'll start i had number two junto

00:29:33.940 --> 00:29:39.019
nakatani and then my villain is your fighter

00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:42.700
of the year well he had a pretty impressive year

00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:49.470
he did i just thought it was funny yeah and then

00:29:49.470 --> 00:29:53.089
uh brian norman was my number one pick because

00:29:53.089 --> 00:29:57.829
he's had two like boss stoppages yeah yeah two

00:29:57.829 --> 00:30:01.930
real good stoppages i forgot to do this one yeah

00:30:01.930 --> 00:30:09.930
um i'm gonna go with who am i gonna go with i'm

00:30:09.930 --> 00:30:13.180
just gonna pick my favorite With favoritism.

00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:16.960
Sutsumi Seiya. Or Seiya Sutsumi, I guess. That's

00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:20.680
Seiya's name in English. He's my fighter of the

00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:24.259
year. Just because. Awesome fighter. I like him.

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:29.799
Daigo Higa. Yeah. He lined up to fight... What's

00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:35.119
his name? Brain fart. Takei. Next. Yoshiki Takei.

00:30:35.460 --> 00:30:39.549
That's right. I follow him on Instagram and he's

00:30:39.549 --> 00:30:42.130
been... Because he had the surgery and he's having

00:30:42.130 --> 00:30:46.869
time off, he's doing a lot of... Not charity

00:30:46.869 --> 00:30:49.950
work, but kind of charity work. Like, he's going

00:30:49.950 --> 00:30:52.890
to all his favorite stores and doing, like, meet

00:30:52.890 --> 00:30:56.430
and greets and stuff. Oh, okay. Like, guerrilla

00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:59.869
advertising and things. Which has nothing to

00:30:59.869 --> 00:31:01.670
do with fighting. Honestly, I just forgot to

00:31:01.670 --> 00:31:03.970
do this one. But he's my fighter of the year

00:31:03.970 --> 00:31:11.779
because he's my favorite. Let's continue. Ass

00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:14.059
whooping of the year. You had mentioned this

00:31:14.059 --> 00:31:20.640
one was tough for you as well. When did Kim Zoo

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:24.319
get that ass whooping? Oh, shit. With Mortis

00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:34.200
Olive. Yeah, was that this year? No, that was

00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:36.799
last year. Yeah, that was October of last year.

00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:42.799
Shit. I gotta take that off my list then. My

00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:47.039
first pick was Boots over Stanionis. That was

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:49.779
a pretty good ass kick in, yeah. Just completely

00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:54.819
beat his ass. And then Andy Cruz versus Hironori

00:31:54.819 --> 00:32:01.869
Nishido was my second pick. um espinoza versus

00:32:01.869 --> 00:32:06.930
vasquez was my pick oh i was trying to come up

00:32:06.930 --> 00:32:11.609
with an honorable mention but i mean that was

00:32:11.609 --> 00:32:15.269
just an ass kicking start to finish absolutely

00:32:15.269 --> 00:32:21.250
vasquez took quite a bit of damage comeback of

00:32:21.250 --> 00:32:26.130
the year i'll start this one um this doesn't

00:32:26.130 --> 00:32:29.619
necessarily have to be Coming back in the middle

00:32:29.619 --> 00:32:32.400
of a fight over, you know, like, something that

00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.960
was going difficult for them. My first pick was

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:38.740
Stephen Fulton over Brandon Figueroa because,

00:32:38.859 --> 00:32:41.339
like, he got the shit beaten out of him by Inouye.

00:32:42.299 --> 00:32:45.559
The shit was not even pretty. Not even close.

00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:49.539
Yeah. And he comes back and puts a fucking schooling

00:32:49.539 --> 00:32:54.539
on Brandon Figueroa. Unbelievable. Makes Inouye

00:32:54.539 --> 00:32:59.609
look all the more better. yeah it really does

00:32:59.609 --> 00:33:04.069
and then jesus ramos was my uh another career

00:33:04.069 --> 00:33:07.950
comeback like he had he'd been uh he got robbed

00:33:07.950 --> 00:33:10.910
by erickson lubin and then he's been like trying

00:33:10.910 --> 00:33:14.890
to piece put the pieces back together and it's

00:33:14.890 --> 00:33:20.089
been uh it's been going well so so i did one

00:33:20.089 --> 00:33:25.059
of each My career comeback of the year, people

00:33:25.059 --> 00:33:27.400
are going to tell me, is a meme pick, and it's

00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:33.799
not. I picked David Allen. The White Rhino has

00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:38.339
made a resurgence. Is he going to win a world

00:33:38.339 --> 00:33:42.900
title? Probably not. But he's back in the news.

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:45.359
He's going to get a couple big paydays out of

00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.980
these, I think. He got big paydays in Saudi against...

00:33:50.589 --> 00:33:54.250
Johnny Fisher. Yeah. For, like, career comeback,

00:33:54.710 --> 00:33:57.450
Dave Allen, I think, has done very well this

00:33:57.450 --> 00:33:59.230
year. That's a really good pick. So far. It is.

00:34:00.549 --> 00:34:04.089
And then in fight pick of the year, Fabio Wardley

00:34:04.089 --> 00:34:07.230
was losing every fucking minute of that fight

00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:10.329
until he suddenly won it. Yeah. Yeah, that's...

00:34:10.329 --> 00:34:15.570
That was a good pick. So, those are my two comebacks.

00:34:15.630 --> 00:34:17.949
I don't have any honorable mentions. I couldn't

00:34:17.949 --> 00:34:22.489
think of any others, but... Who did you have

00:34:22.489 --> 00:34:30.630
for upset of the year? My upset of the year is

00:34:30.630 --> 00:34:34.610
Rolly Romero. Everybody made fun of me for that

00:34:34.610 --> 00:34:39.570
one, but I called it. I mean, when I picked it

00:34:39.570 --> 00:34:43.489
in the pick league, everybody was talking shit,

00:34:43.530 --> 00:34:46.010
saying I was just a hater, that Garcia was going

00:34:46.010 --> 00:34:50.190
to knock him out. No. I was probably one of them.

00:34:50.570 --> 00:34:55.309
You were. Yeah. I did not expect that out of

00:34:55.309 --> 00:34:58.469
Raleigh. That's a really good shot. It was a

00:34:58.469 --> 00:35:01.909
good performance. Yeah. Mine was Roach over Tank.

00:35:02.590 --> 00:35:05.289
Even though he didn't get the nod on the cards,

00:35:05.429 --> 00:35:09.409
like, come on, we all know what we saw. Yeah,

00:35:09.449 --> 00:35:11.929
I had that as my honorable mention, but I wasn't

00:35:11.929 --> 00:35:15.210
sure if we were allowing the contentious draw

00:35:15.210 --> 00:35:18.570
to be counted as an upset. Non -official wins.

00:35:19.530 --> 00:35:23.469
Yeah. Yeah. My second pick for upset of the year

00:35:23.469 --> 00:35:28.869
was me. I paid for Fatal Fury City of the fucking

00:35:28.869 --> 00:35:33.309
Wolves. I paid for that shit. And I was treated.

00:35:33.309 --> 00:35:37.590
You got robbed. And I got robbed. I am upset.

00:35:38.269 --> 00:35:41.909
Very upset that I paid for that shit. Rightfully

00:35:41.909 --> 00:35:45.110
so. Nobody should have paid for that shit. They

00:35:45.110 --> 00:35:47.469
should have given everybody their money back.

00:35:49.160 --> 00:35:55.719
Absolutely dog shit of a card. Even bundling

00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:00.139
them together does not make me feel better. Fatal

00:36:00.139 --> 00:36:04.960
Fury was just fucking hot garbage. And so was

00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:08.639
Canelo Skull. Yeah, that's part of the Fatal

00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:13.860
Fury. The third part of Fatal Fury is Eubank

00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:18.739
versus Ben. Those three cards. Yeah, that was

00:36:18.739 --> 00:36:23.360
a good fight, but... The other two. Yeah, the

00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.000
other two. Those are what I mean when I say I'm

00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:31.260
upset about paying for that shit. Yeah. Who do

00:36:31.260 --> 00:36:36.420
you have for hero of the year? Non -boxing. Oh,

00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:39.739
non -boxing. I fucked this up then because I

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:42.239
put Inouye and Cardenas as the heroes of the

00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.280
year for saving that weekend. That dogshit weekend.

00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.059
I'll allow it. I will fucking allow it. I can

00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:52.179
come up with a non -boxing hero. You tell me

00:36:52.179 --> 00:36:57.219
yours and I'll think for 10 seconds. Yeah. Because

00:36:57.219 --> 00:37:00.440
of me just saying how much Fatal Fury just...

00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:06.760
God damn it. I'm so upset. I paid for that. Yeah.

00:37:07.059 --> 00:37:11.340
And so for Inoue and Cardenas, yeah. That's hero

00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:13.960
shit right there. I mean, it wasn't just them.

00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.960
It was that whole card save the weekend. So then

00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:20.420
it would be Top Rank, right? Yeah, I guess Top

00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:26.420
Rank is my boxing hero of the year. I don't really

00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:29.360
like saying that out loud, but Top Rank has been

00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:33.019
providing good matchups when a lot of the other

00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:37.909
promoters don't. I mean... pro box is good pro

00:37:37.909 --> 00:37:40.929
box always has good fights but they're not big

00:37:40.929 --> 00:37:45.210
fights they're just good fights so that yeah

00:37:45.210 --> 00:37:49.190
that's that's couldn't say it better myself um

00:37:49.190 --> 00:37:54.849
for hero my one of my secondary pick was mizuki

00:37:54.849 --> 00:37:59.769
hiruta mimi uh for her dope ring attire just

00:37:59.769 --> 00:38:03.289
everything yeah she seems so fun she seems like

00:38:03.289 --> 00:38:07.300
a like a fun person to hang out with Yeah. My

00:38:07.300 --> 00:38:10.800
emeritus pick was Provox, because Provox is good.

00:38:11.460 --> 00:38:15.639
Provox is good. They put on the good shit. My

00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:19.739
main pick was Al Heyman. We found out about him

00:38:19.739 --> 00:38:23.159
paying for Pritchard. He was taking care of Pritchard

00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:29.019
Colon's family. Yeah. Medical bills, living expenses.

00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:35.730
He's been taking care of them. Nobody knew. yeah

00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:38.929
and like it's still a great thing to do even

00:38:38.929 --> 00:38:42.829
if everybody knows but when you do it quietly

00:38:42.829 --> 00:38:46.469
it means more it really does yeah that's why

00:38:46.469 --> 00:38:51.889
i picked him as my hero like i i am i favor like

00:38:51.889 --> 00:38:56.050
al hayman over the other promoters but that this

00:38:56.050 --> 00:39:00.210
yeah this isn't uh i don't know this is just

00:39:00.210 --> 00:39:02.349
on a different level of like taking care of your

00:39:02.349 --> 00:39:05.519
guys Yeah. And Pritchard Cullen wasn't even one

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.280
of his guys. He just took care of him for the

00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.260
sake of doing it. For the good of the sport.

00:39:12.500 --> 00:39:19.380
Yeah. Yeah. And fight of the year, last pick.

00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:22.860
What do you got? Okay, so I got three. And, of

00:39:22.860 --> 00:39:26.360
course, I'm quite biased always. Everybody likes

00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:31.059
me for my biases, I think. My non -biased. Or

00:39:31.059 --> 00:39:34.000
not because of my bias pick. Eubank versus Ben

00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.420
was a banger. I really did enjoy that. As much

00:39:37.420 --> 00:39:40.739
as it's Brit slop, it's a manufactured fight

00:39:40.739 --> 00:39:43.219
that never should have really happened. It was

00:39:43.219 --> 00:39:47.539
fun as fuck and I liked it. I liked the fight

00:39:47.539 --> 00:39:53.079
itself, like all action, the kind of shit that

00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:56.300
I love, very little defense. But this one I even

00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:59.280
liked the build up a little. I really liked it.

00:39:59.389 --> 00:40:03.610
uh eubank senior chris eubank senior is fucking

00:40:03.610 --> 00:40:06.809
hilarious and such a weird cat he's weird and

00:40:06.809 --> 00:40:13.010
yeah and his his coat his i hate my son he's

00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:16.610
disrespecting the sport he's embarrassing me

00:40:16.610 --> 00:40:19.329
and then showing up on fight night with a shit

00:40:19.329 --> 00:40:22.230
-eating grin of oh yeah you guys all believed

00:40:22.230 --> 00:40:26.750
me in his fucking fur coat everything about it

00:40:26.750 --> 00:40:30.409
was great They nailed the handicap, I think,

00:40:30.409 --> 00:40:34.449
on Eubank size -wise. Like, in all honesty, without

00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:38.530
that weight and that rehydration clause, Eubank

00:40:38.530 --> 00:40:42.610
knocks Ben out. Probably. But they weight -drained

00:40:42.610 --> 00:40:46.469
him and dehydrated him just enough to get a banger

00:40:46.469 --> 00:40:50.889
fight. And they fucked him on .05 of a pound.

00:40:51.389 --> 00:40:56.699
Yeah. That is nuts. Yeah, 0 .05 of a pound. 0

00:40:56.699 --> 00:40:59.820
.05, not half a pound. It was half an ounce.

00:41:00.179 --> 00:41:05.940
Yeah. Yeah, fucking crazy. My other honorable

00:41:05.940 --> 00:41:08.860
mention for fight of the year is Taraji versus

00:41:08.860 --> 00:41:12.699
Akui. Not fight of the year because that was

00:41:12.699 --> 00:41:17.019
a bullshit stoppage and they robbed Akui of his

00:41:17.019 --> 00:41:20.320
upset of the year, in my opinion. That's the

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.139
one where they stopped it in the 12th round.

00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:26.389
He was rocked. But he hadn't gone down. He wasn't

00:41:26.389 --> 00:41:28.210
laying on the ropes. And they didn't even give

00:41:28.210 --> 00:41:32.949
him a count. They waived it. It was crazy. Bullshit.

00:41:32.989 --> 00:41:37.309
But the fight up to then was a banger. And for

00:41:37.309 --> 00:41:41.269
me, fight of the year is Tsutsumi versus Higa

00:41:41.269 --> 00:41:45.599
2. The one in February. That was excellent. My

00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.300
favorite fighter, my favorite style, they both

00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:50.780
got knocked down. I thought Higa was fucking

00:41:50.780 --> 00:41:54.000
out. He went face first to the canvas and got

00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.280
up. Nobody does that. Nobody goes face first

00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:02.480
and gets back up in time for the count. And it

00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:05.800
also has a soft spot because this was the card

00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:08.599
that my brother was visiting. So the first time

00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:11.780
I've gone to a professional fight with my brother,

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:15.380
his very first card. And yeah, fight of the year

00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:18.900
for me. Oh, he got spoiled. Oh, so spoiled. He

00:42:18.900 --> 00:42:23.079
got spoiled. Yeah, it'll never be matched. But

00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:26.199
in all honesty, he'll probably never go to another

00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:28.280
fight because we live in the middle of nowhere

00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:32.119
and it's just prohibitively expensive. But that's

00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:34.619
my fight of the year. And nobody can say that

00:42:34.619 --> 00:42:38.019
wasn't a banger. They didn't watch it. It ended

00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:40.900
in a draw. It's the only way they could say is

00:42:40.900 --> 00:42:43.260
that they didn't watch it. That's how they could

00:42:43.260 --> 00:42:48.360
say it wasn't banger. My pick, primary pick,

00:42:48.460 --> 00:42:54.460
was B -Volt, Better B of 2. Just had larger implications

00:42:54.460 --> 00:42:59.400
for the sport than... Yeah, if you're counting

00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:03.239
the, like, effect on the sport. Yeah, yeah, for

00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:07.000
sure. Which would have been Tsutsumi Higa, because

00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:13.670
that fight was just excellent. And Isaac Cruz

00:43:13.670 --> 00:43:17.949
versus Angel Fiero, that was another one that

00:43:17.949 --> 00:43:20.969
went under the radar just because it was on a

00:43:20.969 --> 00:43:27.869
bigger card, but it was action -packed from start

00:43:27.869 --> 00:43:33.909
to finish. Yeah, Pitbull's hardly ever in a boring

00:43:33.909 --> 00:43:36.170
fight. I can't think of a single one, really.

00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:44.420
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pretty light as well. Yeah, but we did good with

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instead of bullshit filler. Really looking up

00:50:16.019 --> 00:50:23.360
this card, this is all British stuff. Even the

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co -main, Laurence Acoli versus Kevin Lorena.

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I'm going to struggle through this one, but whatever.

00:50:33.250 --> 00:50:38.449
I'll be watching. Yeah, yeah. I honestly don't

00:50:38.449 --> 00:50:43.150
recognize most of the names on the Usyk -Dubois

00:50:43.150 --> 00:50:47.090
undercard. Yeah, because Usyk -Dubois is really

00:50:47.090 --> 00:50:52.230
the only thing that matters. Two -time Undisputed?

00:50:52.409 --> 00:50:58.519
I don't think so. I mean, I know he dropped a

00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.179
belt, but Usyk's just undisputed. He never lost

00:51:01.179 --> 00:51:07.460
it, in my mind. I do think this is going to be

00:51:07.460 --> 00:51:11.199
an interesting fight, though. I do think Dubois

00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:13.920
is better than the last time they fought. Yeah,

00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:17.500
that's a good point, is that Dubois is better.

00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:21.099
I don't think Usyk has gotten any worse, even

00:51:21.099 --> 00:51:23.719
though he's aged and stuff. I don't think Usyk

00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:28.570
is worse. But I do think Dubois is better. And

00:51:28.570 --> 00:51:30.650
I don't really know how that's going to play

00:51:30.650 --> 00:51:37.510
out. I mean, it makes sense. So, like, Usyk is

00:51:37.510 --> 00:51:41.030
smaller and all that stuff, but he's always been

00:51:41.030 --> 00:51:45.389
at heavyweight. So it really just is, can Dubois

00:51:45.389 --> 00:51:49.010
adjust enough? In my mind, that's the question.

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Usyk's going to come out and do Usyk things.

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And nobody has figured out how to beat Usyk doing

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Usyk things. But Daniel Dubois gave him a really

00:52:00.150 --> 00:52:02.690
good fight the first time. And Dubois is better.

00:52:03.269 --> 00:52:05.909
So is Dubois going to be the first one to crack

00:52:05.909 --> 00:52:11.429
him? I don't think so. I personally don't think

00:52:11.429 --> 00:52:13.769
so. I still think Usyk's going to get the decision.

00:52:15.289 --> 00:52:19.110
I think that's how it's going to go, but I think

00:52:19.110 --> 00:52:21.510
it's much more up for question than it was the

00:52:21.510 --> 00:52:26.469
first time. That I can agree with, yeah. I'm

00:52:26.469 --> 00:52:33.809
not... I'm a... How do you put it? I'm a Daniel

00:52:33.809 --> 00:52:36.369
Dubois truther. I don't think that was a low

00:52:36.369 --> 00:52:40.650
blow. No, it was not a low blow. I think that

00:52:40.650 --> 00:52:46.769
Usyk got caught with a good body shot. Oh, no,

00:52:46.869 --> 00:52:48.710
sorry. Sorry, I said that backwards. That was

00:52:48.710 --> 00:52:50.570
definitely a low blow. It was below the belt.

00:52:50.989 --> 00:52:54.670
It doesn't fucking matter. It was so close and

00:52:54.670 --> 00:52:57.510
the ref called it. It doesn't matter. Yeah, that's

00:52:57.510 --> 00:53:00.829
what I'm saying. I think the ref made a call.

00:53:02.690 --> 00:53:04.929
It's not a bad call. It's not a bad call. Anyone

00:53:04.929 --> 00:53:08.989
who says it's a bad call is on crack. That is

00:53:08.989 --> 00:53:11.929
a perfectly acceptable in the moment call by

00:53:11.929 --> 00:53:15.510
a referee. In that position, like, we have the

00:53:15.510 --> 00:53:19.449
benefit of all sorts of camera angles. And you're

00:53:19.449 --> 00:53:22.210
also, the people who say it wasn't a low blow

00:53:22.210 --> 00:53:27.849
are going by fucking stills. It's not even slow

00:53:27.849 --> 00:53:31.630
motion that you guys are arguing with. It's stills

00:53:31.630 --> 00:53:36.730
from video. I'm trying to give Dubois the benefit

00:53:36.730 --> 00:53:41.320
of the doubt here. I think... So you think he's

00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:43.780
going to target the body? Is that going to be

00:53:43.780 --> 00:53:45.659
the plan? I think Dubois is going to work the

00:53:45.659 --> 00:53:49.619
body again. I'm hopeful that they did the Andrew

00:53:49.619 --> 00:53:54.980
Gulotta sort of like put trunks on the heavy

00:53:54.980 --> 00:54:00.260
bag so that he knows what's low and what's not.

00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:03.139
That's what I'm thinking. That works so well

00:54:03.139 --> 00:54:06.860
for Gulotta. Well, Dubois is also not a fucking

00:54:06.860 --> 00:54:12.579
moron. Isn't he? I mean, that's a strong statement,

00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.820
Leo. In the classical sense. In the classical

00:54:16.820 --> 00:54:21.900
sense, yes, he might be a moron, but no, I think

00:54:21.900 --> 00:54:26.719
he can figure it out. I don't know. I think Usyk

00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:29.420
does Usyk things, and Usyk figures out how to

00:54:29.420 --> 00:54:33.960
win. That's a tough ask. Even if Tyson Fury couldn't

00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:36.219
fucking do it, Anthony Joshua couldn't do it.

00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:42.199
I sincerely doubt, as much as I want to believe

00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:45.559
in him, Deontay Wilder would have never figured

00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:48.679
out these things. No, no. I honestly think Usyk

00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:52.059
might have knocked out Deontay Wilder, even in

00:54:52.059 --> 00:54:55.659
his best. I recall you saying this before. Yeah.

00:54:55.699 --> 00:54:58.699
This is not a new... No, no, this is not a new

00:54:58.699 --> 00:55:03.679
take. No. But that being said, I do think Dubois

00:55:03.679 --> 00:55:06.219
is better, and he gave Usyk a very hard fight

00:55:06.219 --> 00:55:09.340
the first time. And Dubois could be the first

00:55:09.340 --> 00:55:11.900
person to really figure it out. He could be.

00:55:11.940 --> 00:55:15.000
Maybe. But I don't think so. I have faith in

00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.599
Usyk, and I just think he's going to do it again.

00:55:19.739 --> 00:55:22.219
Usyk's going to figure out a way to win. He always

00:55:22.219 --> 00:55:25.280
does. And I just don't think Dubois can handle

00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:27.619
the craftiness and the shiftiness of the little

00:55:27.619 --> 00:55:33.130
rabbit, as Fury says. Rabbits are hard to catch,

00:55:33.170 --> 00:55:35.630
man. And if you can't catch it, you can't kill

00:55:35.630 --> 00:55:41.710
it. Isn't that the Rocky with the chickens? Yeah.

00:55:41.789 --> 00:55:43.789
Chase the chicken around because it's hard to

00:55:43.789 --> 00:55:47.610
catch. But like rabbits are even harder. You

00:55:47.610 --> 00:55:50.530
have to set traps. And I don't think Dubois is

00:55:50.530 --> 00:55:55.769
a trap setter. No, I don't think so either. So.

00:55:57.769 --> 00:56:04.429
Let's move on. Matchroom Boxing at The Star in

00:56:04.429 --> 00:56:08.050
Frisco. Are you skipping the... Yes, I am. Okay,

00:56:08.130 --> 00:56:13.170
okay. I'm excited for this main event. Me too.

00:56:13.730 --> 00:56:21.170
Two cards coming up. Arturo Popoca. I recognize

00:56:21.170 --> 00:56:25.369
that name, but Nishant Dev. That's the Indian

00:56:25.369 --> 00:56:32.199
Olympian. I don't watch the Olympics. I don't

00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:38.139
recognize Nishant Dev. Yeah, he's still 2 -0,

00:56:38.300 --> 00:56:40.400
so there's not a whole lot to really recognize

00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:51.960
here. Fighting Omar Rosales at 9 -5? 9 -5 is

00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:55.860
a pretty good step up when you're 2 -0. Yeah,

00:56:55.860 --> 00:56:59.940
no, I just meant, like, it's... A very reasonable

00:56:59.940 --> 00:57:06.639
opponent. Yes. You usually just read both names.

00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:13.280
Good point. Diego Pacheco versus Trevor McCombie.

00:57:13.579 --> 00:57:19.239
This is going to be interesting. Yeah. McCombie

00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.619
really impressed me against Plant. And I don't

00:57:22.619 --> 00:57:25.519
know that Diego Pacheco has had a very good test

00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:31.670
yet. It'll be interesting. I can't think of who

00:57:31.670 --> 00:57:39.070
Pacheco's toughest opponent was. Let's... Steven

00:57:39.070 --> 00:57:44.409
Nelson? Who's Steven Nelson? I just don't know

00:57:44.409 --> 00:57:48.309
who it is. He came in with the jean shorts, the

00:57:48.309 --> 00:57:51.769
sagging jean shorts trunks. You remember that?

00:57:51.909 --> 00:57:55.610
I remember the trunks, but I don't remember the

00:57:55.610 --> 00:57:58.909
fight. I don't remember the fight at all. I remember

00:57:58.909 --> 00:58:01.989
the trunks and being angry. It was a tough battle

00:58:01.989 --> 00:58:06.510
for Pacheco. Okay. But do you think that's a

00:58:06.510 --> 00:58:10.929
bigger test than McCombie? No. I think it's a

00:58:10.929 --> 00:58:16.849
comparable test to McCombie. Okay. Like I said,

00:58:16.909 --> 00:58:19.349
McCombie really impressed me against Plant. Yeah.

00:58:19.429 --> 00:58:22.570
I was surprised. So I'm excited for this fight.

00:58:22.929 --> 00:58:26.429
I do think Pacheco's just good, though. But I

00:58:26.429 --> 00:58:29.170
don't think we've seen how good Pacheco is yet.

00:58:29.489 --> 00:58:34.789
Like, I don't think he's had a really hard fight

00:58:34.789 --> 00:58:39.250
where we see what he's really made of. You know

00:58:39.250 --> 00:58:43.030
what I mean? Yeah, yeah. He might be a bit of

00:58:43.030 --> 00:58:45.250
a hype job, and I'm just drinking the Kool -Aid.

00:58:45.349 --> 00:58:48.050
I don't know. If you're drinking the Kool -Aid,

00:58:48.090 --> 00:58:50.809
so am I. I'm thinking that Diego Pacheco is going

00:58:50.809 --> 00:58:55.960
to make better, easier work of this than... Caleb

00:58:55.960 --> 00:59:01.440
Plant did. Yeah. That's a low bar to get over.

00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:04.659
I don't think it's that low a bar. Caleb Plant

00:59:04.659 --> 00:59:07.699
is a very good boxer. He's on the downside of

00:59:07.699 --> 00:59:11.699
his career. But Caleb Plant is a very good boxer.

00:59:11.900 --> 00:59:14.280
And if McCombie put hands on Plant like that,

00:59:14.420 --> 00:59:20.179
you have to be a good boxer to beat him. Is all

00:59:20.179 --> 00:59:23.340
I'm saying. I'm not saying that this means Pacheco...

00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:26.579
obviously beats everybody at the weight or anything.

00:59:26.739 --> 00:59:29.519
I'm just saying if Pacheco can convincingly beat

00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:32.820
McCombie, I think it really... It says a lot.

00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:36.199
...puts him up at that kind of world -class level.

00:59:36.300 --> 00:59:39.460
And he's young. He's only 24. He's still got

00:59:39.460 --> 00:59:44.280
lots of time. So I'm excited for this. I'm excited

00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:47.920
to see how Pacheco handles it because apparently

00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:50.780
McCombie has a bit of power and he's got the

00:59:50.780 --> 00:59:56.199
skills to land it. Sometimes, at least. Like

00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:58.139
I said, Caleb Plant's on the downside of his

00:59:58.139 --> 01:00:00.960
career, I think. But at the height of his career,

01:00:01.099 --> 01:00:06.320
people were talking like he was real good. A

01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:11.079
Canelo beater, even. And he gave Canelo a hard

01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:17.159
fight. I don't know. I'm excited for this one.

01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:19.960
I think it's going to show us a little bit more

01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:25.480
of what Pacheco's made of. Speaking of being

01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:28.460
young and having plenty of time, Austin Williams

01:00:28.460 --> 01:00:34.659
has none of that. He's at 29. He's facing Etinosa

01:00:34.659 --> 01:00:40.019
Olija. I don't know who that is. I don't either.

01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:43.179
I'm expecting this is a soft touch for Austin

01:00:43.179 --> 01:00:49.630
Williams. He's from Italy. He's 21 and 9. And

01:00:49.630 --> 01:00:51.929
it looks like he's only ever fought in Italy

01:00:51.929 --> 01:00:56.789
and Germany. So I don't have very high expectations.

01:00:57.369 --> 01:01:02.289
Yeah. This does look like a soft touch for Austin

01:01:02.289 --> 01:01:07.210
Williams. Relatively speaking, is this a soft

01:01:07.210 --> 01:01:10.869
touch? Jesse Rodriguez versus Pumelele Kafu.

01:01:11.469 --> 01:01:14.869
No. Not a soft touch? Kafu, not a soft touch.

01:01:14.949 --> 01:01:18.659
Kafu is better than people think. I know nobody

01:01:18.659 --> 01:01:23.300
knows who he is, but I watched his fight against

01:01:23.300 --> 01:01:26.079
Tanaka, and it was good. He gave him hell. He

01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:29.739
gave him hell that fight. Yeah, that was a really

01:01:29.739 --> 01:01:32.400
good fight. Everybody should watch that fight,

01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:35.719
number one. Number two, I still think Bam wins.

01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:40.980
And Bam's not going to get the credit for finally

01:01:40.980 --> 01:01:45.039
beating a world -class opponent that isn't over

01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:48.989
the hill. This is going to be that fight. This

01:01:48.989 --> 01:01:51.369
is going to be the fight where Bam finally beats

01:01:51.369 --> 01:01:55.010
somebody in their prime who is that good. A contemporary.

01:01:55.889 --> 01:01:59.210
Yeah, Bam's going to get no credit because Kafu's

01:01:59.210 --> 01:02:02.690
from South Africa and nobody except the diehards

01:02:02.690 --> 01:02:06.030
like me know who he is. But this is going to

01:02:06.030 --> 01:02:09.010
be that fight. And if Kafu upsets Bam, I will

01:02:09.010 --> 01:02:12.650
be shocked. But I'm not putting it at a zero.

01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:17.719
Like, there's like a 15 % chance. Maybe. Yeah.

01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:21.679
10 % chance. Like, it's low. But this is going

01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:25.179
to be the hardest test Bam's ever had. I'm saying

01:02:25.179 --> 01:02:30.480
it right now. Yeah. Like you said, people who

01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:33.940
listen to Boxing Before Dark, you've heard of

01:02:33.940 --> 01:02:37.320
Kafu, if nothing else, because we mentioned him.

01:02:38.420 --> 01:02:42.559
Yeah. Yeah, this is going to be a good... I don't

01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.340
know if it's going to be his hardest test or

01:02:45.340 --> 01:02:50.599
his best test, but it is a test. Well, in my

01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:53.420
opinion, Kafu's a harder test than Sonny Edwards.

01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:58.320
But people knew who Sonny Edwards was. I think

01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:01.500
Kafu beat Sonny Edwards if he had fought him

01:03:01.500 --> 01:03:08.019
at the time that Bam fought him. That is interesting.

01:03:10.619 --> 01:03:14.260
maybe contentious but i'm just saying i think

01:03:14.260 --> 01:03:17.300
i think kafu is at least as hard to test as sunny

01:03:17.300 --> 01:03:22.239
edwards yeah i could put it in that category

01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:25.360
like everybody thinks right now that bam is just

01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:30.920
like a old man old man killer yeah yeah no this

01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.579
this is good just because you haven't heard of

01:03:34.579 --> 01:03:37.659
him you may not have heard of him does not mean

01:03:37.659 --> 01:03:40.739
that he's not good His fight with Kosei Tanaka

01:03:40.739 --> 01:03:46.300
was impressive. Pumelele Kafu, check him out.

01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:51.239
You would do yourself a service to do a little

01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:55.880
film study here. Yeah, he's legit fun, exciting,

01:03:55.880 --> 01:04:00.139
and skilled. Yeah. But he hadn't fought outside

01:04:00.139 --> 01:04:05.599
South Africa before Tanaka, I don't think. And

01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:08.099
so nobody knew who he was. But I went and found

01:04:08.099 --> 01:04:10.500
some highlights before that. And his opponents

01:04:10.500 --> 01:04:14.099
were maybe not so great. But Kafu's the real

01:04:14.099 --> 01:04:19.880
deal. Not as real as Bam. Like, Bam's going to

01:04:19.880 --> 01:04:24.639
win this. I'm 90 % sure Bam's going to win this.

01:04:24.699 --> 01:04:28.099
You're never 100 % in boxing, really. Especially

01:04:28.099 --> 01:04:30.960
when you have a sleeper like Kafu. Like, you

01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:34.780
don't want to... lean too hard in in the bam

01:04:34.780 --> 01:04:39.119
direction which i was thinking like this is like

01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:44.559
a 95 yeah no it's it's hard in the bam direction

01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:50.219
like i'm not saying it's not but when bam beats

01:04:50.219 --> 01:04:52.940
kafu people need to give him his flower yeah

01:04:52.940 --> 01:04:56.420
that's a good way to put it that's actually the

01:04:56.420 --> 01:04:59.679
perfect way to to cap it off is when bam beats

01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:02.809
kafu Give him his flowers, because Kofu's legit.

01:05:03.449 --> 01:05:08.630
Yeah. But I see Bam winning, and maybe making

01:05:08.630 --> 01:05:11.469
it look easy, because Bam's just that good, and

01:05:11.469 --> 01:05:14.429
everybody's gonna be like, he fights old men

01:05:14.429 --> 01:05:18.489
and fucking nobodies. Is what everyone's gonna

01:05:18.489 --> 01:05:22.550
say. I can hear it already. And anybody who says

01:05:22.550 --> 01:05:24.849
that can meet me in a field, and I will fight

01:05:24.849 --> 01:05:31.650
your ass. Speaking of Old Man Slayer, In, where

01:05:31.650 --> 01:05:35.949
is this at? The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las

01:05:35.949 --> 01:05:38.670
Vegas, Nevada. Mario Barrios. I don't even want

01:05:38.670 --> 01:05:41.429
to watch this. Versus Manny Pacquiao. If this

01:05:41.429 --> 01:05:46.750
is pay -per -view. It's going to be pay -per

01:05:46.750 --> 01:05:49.710
-view. It has to be. I'm definitely paying for

01:05:49.710 --> 01:05:53.710
it. I'm definitely going to pay for it. I'm not

01:05:53.710 --> 01:05:58.909
going to pay for it. Fuck that. I might because

01:05:58.909 --> 01:06:01.349
it's basically free in Japan because it comes

01:06:01.349 --> 01:06:06.889
on at like 4 a .m. There are some good fights

01:06:06.889 --> 01:06:10.030
though here. Brandon Figueroa versus Joette Gonzalez.

01:06:10.670 --> 01:06:14.869
That's a good fight. Joette is unheralded, but

01:06:14.869 --> 01:06:20.050
tough. Really tough. I like Joette. I think he

01:06:20.050 --> 01:06:21.829
loses, but I do like him. He's going to lose

01:06:21.829 --> 01:06:26.309
because he's going to stand and bang. And standing

01:06:26.309 --> 01:06:28.590
and fucking trading with Brandon Figueroa was

01:06:28.590 --> 01:06:33.510
just like a really bad idea. But he has to stand

01:06:33.510 --> 01:06:36.030
and trade because he's giving up three inches

01:06:36.030 --> 01:06:39.489
of height and probably three inches of reach,

01:06:39.590 --> 01:06:44.710
I assume. Yeah, close. Close to that. So, like,

01:06:44.829 --> 01:06:48.269
what's your plan if it's not to get to the inside

01:06:48.269 --> 01:06:51.349
and bang? But the problem is Brandon Figueroa

01:06:51.349 --> 01:06:54.789
is good at inside fighting. Yeah, pretty much

01:06:54.789 --> 01:06:58.349
if your name isn't Stephen Fulton, getting on

01:06:58.349 --> 01:07:01.889
the inside of Brandon Figueroa is a really bad

01:07:01.889 --> 01:07:07.369
idea. But staying on the outside isn't going

01:07:07.369 --> 01:07:10.469
to work for Gonzalez, so what the fuck's he supposed

01:07:10.469 --> 01:07:12.630
to do? Yeah, I guess you're going to have to

01:07:12.630 --> 01:07:18.039
try to dive in and make it work. I do think it's

01:07:18.039 --> 01:07:19.880
going to be fun to watch, though. As much as

01:07:19.880 --> 01:07:21.780
we're saying this is going to be a one -sided

01:07:21.780 --> 01:07:26.099
beating, I don't think it's going to be uninteresting.

01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:33.559
It'll be entertaining. It might be beating of

01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:39.760
the latter half. Yeah, I could see the damage

01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:43.039
accumulating, but I think it's going to be a

01:07:43.039 --> 01:07:47.440
fun fight to watch while it lasts. Speaking of

01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:50.280
fun fights to watch, Isaac Cruz versus Angel

01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:53.920
Fierro, the rematch. This was one of my shouts,

01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:58.940
like we already did, for fight of the year. Yeah,

01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:00.699
I'm going to watch this. This will be good. No

01:08:00.699 --> 01:08:04.960
chance I'm missing this. As much as we're talking

01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:07.420
shit about the main event, this card might be

01:08:07.420 --> 01:08:10.889
worth pay -per -view prices. The undercard is

01:08:10.889 --> 01:08:15.030
stacked. I might have to retract my really forced

01:08:15.030 --> 01:08:18.970
grunt of not paying for this. Because I would

01:08:18.970 --> 01:08:21.949
pay for these three fights. Yeah. These three

01:08:21.949 --> 01:08:25.489
alone are... Oh, but if they put it at like a

01:08:25.489 --> 01:08:28.770
high dollar value here in the US... No, yeah.

01:08:29.109 --> 01:08:33.489
Yeah, maybe not like... Maybe not $80 US, but

01:08:33.489 --> 01:08:37.960
if it's like $50 US. Yeah, that I can... I can

01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:42.079
handle that. Sebastian Fundora versus Tim Zhu,

01:08:42.380 --> 01:08:47.640
the rematch. I am so nervous for Tim Zhu. You

01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:50.659
don't think he's over it? I don't think he's

01:08:50.659 --> 01:08:53.220
over it. I do not think he's over it. I think

01:08:53.220 --> 01:08:55.520
he's going to get in the ring with Fundora and

01:08:55.520 --> 01:09:00.460
he's going to have Vietnam flashbacks. Did you

01:09:00.460 --> 01:09:03.819
watch the little, like, I don't know what they

01:09:03.819 --> 01:09:07.750
call them, but it's not a hype video. But the,

01:09:07.789 --> 01:09:09.869
like, background video they did for this one?

01:09:10.350 --> 01:09:13.010
I haven't seen it. Okay, you should watch it.

01:09:13.149 --> 01:09:15.970
Tim Zhu talking about that cut, you can hear

01:09:15.970 --> 01:09:18.890
it in his voice still. That it's still bothering

01:09:18.890 --> 01:09:22.569
him? It's still bothering him. 100%, it's still

01:09:22.569 --> 01:09:26.409
bothering him. Because Zhu was winning that fight

01:09:26.409 --> 01:09:29.090
until the cut. Hands down, he was winning that

01:09:29.090 --> 01:09:31.989
fight. I know it's only two rounds, but he was

01:09:31.989 --> 01:09:34.430
putting a beating on him for those two rounds.

01:09:35.609 --> 01:09:39.380
Okay, yeah. And then even right after the cut,

01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:42.159
he was still putting a beating on him. But as

01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:45.100
the fight went on, it stopped. More and more

01:09:45.100 --> 01:09:48.979
blood. Yeah. I swear to God, he must have been

01:09:48.979 --> 01:09:51.500
getting lightheaded. He lost so much blood in

01:09:51.500 --> 01:09:55.939
that fight. Like, legitimately blood loss, I

01:09:55.939 --> 01:09:58.600
think, was... I was thinking the same thing as

01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:00.460
they were going into the later rounds. Like,

01:10:00.500 --> 01:10:05.829
why are we still doing this? He's lost a pint

01:10:05.829 --> 01:10:09.050
and a half of blood. Right. He's a liter low

01:10:09.050 --> 01:10:12.529
right now. What do you think about maybe pulling

01:10:12.529 --> 01:10:15.850
the plug here? No, I know people are probably

01:10:15.850 --> 01:10:18.470
going to be like, oh, you're overreacting and

01:10:18.470 --> 01:10:20.890
you're exaggerating and stuff. I think he lost

01:10:20.890 --> 01:10:23.170
enough blood that he was probably starting to

01:10:23.170 --> 01:10:25.510
get a little light -handed and a little woozy.

01:10:25.670 --> 01:10:31.069
That was a lot of blood. That was bad. I don't

01:10:31.069 --> 01:10:33.479
know. I'm nervous for Tim Zhu. If he's over it,

01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:36.460
I think he outboxes Fundora. I think Tim Zhu,

01:10:36.659 --> 01:10:42.060
mentally on point, beats Fundora pretty easily

01:10:42.060 --> 01:10:45.779
without any cuts. I don't know if Tim Zhu's mentally

01:10:45.779 --> 01:10:51.760
on point. They put out two YouTube episode things.

01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:57.880
One was Pacquiao and Barrios. And the other is

01:10:57.880 --> 01:11:01.000
Tim Zhu and Fundora. And both are actually pretty

01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:03.699
well done. Like, both are worth a watch. But

01:11:03.699 --> 01:11:06.859
the Pacquiao one made me sad. Because he's just

01:11:06.859 --> 01:11:10.260
an old man trying to not be an old man. But the

01:11:10.260 --> 01:11:12.920
Tim Zhu one made me worried. The Fundora one,

01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:15.500
I'm like, fuck, I still like Fundora. It's not

01:11:15.500 --> 01:11:19.300
that I don't like Fundora. He's a fun character.

01:11:21.020 --> 01:11:25.619
He's so dorky and lovable. I don't know how else

01:11:25.619 --> 01:11:27.380
to put it. Like, him and his sister are such

01:11:27.380 --> 01:11:34.180
geeks. Yeah, that's what I liked about her. No,

01:11:34.220 --> 01:11:37.279
but they're very likable. Honest to God, like,

01:11:37.340 --> 01:11:42.079
I'm not cheering against anyone here, but I am

01:11:42.079 --> 01:11:47.279
cheering for Tim Zhu to be over his PTSD. Fingers

01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:51.279
crossed. Even if he loses, but looks like he's

01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:58.369
not scared, I'll be happy. Main event. Mario

01:11:58.369 --> 01:12:01.529
Barrios vs. Manny Pacquiao. I don't have a lot

01:12:01.529 --> 01:12:05.449
of positive things to say about this. I think

01:12:05.449 --> 01:12:09.270
this is a huge waste of time. The three fights

01:12:09.270 --> 01:12:15.470
before are good, but this... Yeah, this is a

01:12:15.470 --> 01:12:18.149
waste of everybody's time. I don't know why they're

01:12:18.149 --> 01:12:22.069
doing this. I've said this before. We don't have

01:12:22.069 --> 01:12:24.729
to spend very much time on it. But if Pacquiao

01:12:24.729 --> 01:12:30.149
wins, what happens to the division? Is he going

01:12:30.149 --> 01:12:33.289
to fight Brian Norman? Don't fucking think so.

01:12:33.869 --> 01:12:36.670
But Pacquiao's not going to walk away a belt

01:12:36.670 --> 01:12:39.930
holder. Pacquiao is going to take another fight.

01:12:41.449 --> 01:12:44.609
There is no fucking chance he retires while he's

01:12:44.609 --> 01:12:48.449
holding a belt. Yeah, it's just a matter of who's

01:12:48.449 --> 01:12:52.319
it going to be. But I don't want to see him fight

01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:56.000
any of them. I don't either. Like, this is what

01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:59.199
I mean. Like, best case scenario, if Pacquiao

01:12:59.199 --> 01:13:02.279
wins, he retires. And the belt is just vacant.

01:13:04.399 --> 01:13:08.600
Waste of time for the division. When Barrios

01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:11.199
beats Pacquiao, because Pacquiao's fucking 47

01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:14.319
and has no speed and his whole style is based

01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:18.600
around speed, we're back where we started. Why

01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:25.350
are we doing this? throwing my hands up in like

01:13:25.350 --> 01:13:30.010
i just i don't get it no idea why why are we

01:13:30.010 --> 01:13:33.649
doing this all i want is for pacquiao to lose

01:13:33.649 --> 01:13:37.390
and not get hurt badly that's what i want that's

01:13:37.390 --> 01:13:40.670
the best we can hope for which puts us exactly

01:13:40.670 --> 01:13:43.069
where we are right now in the division with the

01:13:43.069 --> 01:13:45.390
belts and everything a huge fucking waste of

01:13:45.390 --> 01:13:48.350
time mario barrios is the weakest champion and

01:13:48.350 --> 01:13:51.260
he's stalling for time before he has to face

01:13:51.260 --> 01:13:55.460
anybody who actually matters well and like getting

01:13:55.460 --> 01:13:58.279
big money and everything else i understand why

01:13:58.279 --> 01:14:03.060
barrios is doing this and i kind of understand

01:14:03.060 --> 01:14:05.520
why pacquiao is doing this as much as i think

01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:09.239
it's super stupid but i don't understand why

01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:11.859
the commission is letting this happen i don't

01:14:11.859 --> 01:14:16.020
know it's money like i guess i understand it's

01:14:16.020 --> 01:14:22.550
money but God damn, it's so stupid and unethical

01:14:22.550 --> 01:14:27.310
and a waste of time for the sport. And God forbid

01:14:27.310 --> 01:14:30.609
Pacquiao actually fucking gets real hurt. Imagine

01:14:30.609 --> 01:14:37.130
if Barrios kills Pacquiao. That's not something

01:14:37.130 --> 01:14:39.170
to laugh at. No, that's not something to laugh

01:14:39.170 --> 01:14:43.949
at. I mean, it is a possibility. It is. And imagine

01:14:43.949 --> 01:14:49.170
how bad for boxing that is. Yeah. That's what

01:14:49.170 --> 01:14:52.649
I'm laughing at. How fucking terrible. It's...

01:14:52.649 --> 01:14:57.390
I don't have words. I don't have words. Heaven

01:14:57.390 --> 01:15:00.710
fucking forbid that happens. It would be terrible.

01:15:00.949 --> 01:15:04.510
It's not out of the realm of possibility. I don't

01:15:04.510 --> 01:15:06.510
want to jinx anything, and if it does happen,

01:15:06.630 --> 01:15:09.569
nobody come at me for jinxing it. But I just...

01:15:09.569 --> 01:15:12.970
I don't think the risk -reward is enough on this

01:15:12.970 --> 01:15:15.170
one. Yeah, they're gonna make a bunch of money.

01:15:16.210 --> 01:15:20.869
But the fucking... downside of the bad outcome

01:15:20.869 --> 01:15:26.930
is not worth it to me i guess fucking suleiman

01:15:26.930 --> 01:15:30.689
doesn't give a shit but barrios just imagine

01:15:30.689 --> 01:15:35.470
the press if pacquiao dies in the ring the only

01:15:35.470 --> 01:15:38.989
thing my saving grace here and this is just like

01:15:38.989 --> 01:15:42.170
a small glimmer of hope is that barrios fucking

01:15:42.170 --> 01:15:47.449
sucks barrios does kind of suck and that's everybody's

01:15:47.449 --> 01:15:51.949
glimmer of hope like but is it really worth the

01:15:51.949 --> 01:15:56.569
risk no to me it's not of course like i don't

01:15:56.569 --> 01:16:00.510
i don't who is this this is the wbc yeah the

01:16:00.510 --> 01:16:03.750
wbc is the greediest of the fucking organizations

01:16:03.750 --> 01:16:08.449
in my opinion they make the most money -centric

01:16:08.449 --> 01:16:12.470
risk reward assessments like money weighs more

01:16:12.470 --> 01:16:16.289
to them Than it does to a reasonable human being.

01:16:16.329 --> 01:16:19.550
For risk reward assessment. I wonder if they're

01:16:19.550 --> 01:16:25.229
related to the JBC. The fucking JBC. Is a different

01:16:25.229 --> 01:16:34.810
matter. The JBC is. Cultural bullshit. But. Anything

01:16:34.810 --> 01:16:37.229
I say now. I'm just going to sound racist. So

01:16:37.229 --> 01:16:41.850
I will stop. But the JBC is all about the. We

01:16:41.850 --> 01:16:45.510
need to showcase the Japanese warrior spirit.

01:16:46.210 --> 01:16:48.850
And who are we to stop people who want to make

01:16:48.850 --> 01:16:51.130
bad decisions? You're the fucking commission.

01:16:51.329 --> 01:16:53.470
You're the safety commission. It's your fucking

01:16:53.470 --> 01:16:55.729
job to stop people from making bad decisions.

01:16:55.729 --> 01:16:57.250
You're the one that's supposed to stop people

01:16:57.250 --> 01:17:05.369
from making terrible decisions. But... No unnecessary

01:17:05.369 --> 01:17:11.149
rants today. Alright. Anything more for the upcoming

01:17:11.149 --> 01:17:15.350
cards? No, I don't think so. I am not excited

01:17:15.350 --> 01:17:19.789
for Barrio's Pacquiao. Fortunately, the weekend

01:17:19.789 --> 01:17:21.470
is good. That undercard is pretty stacked. Yeah,

01:17:21.529 --> 01:17:25.130
the weekend is good. All right, let me do this.

01:17:29.210 --> 01:17:31.270
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so we're heading into Usyk Dubois, Bam Kafu,

01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:51.859
Barrios Pacquiao. Parting words. I am most excited

01:18:51.859 --> 01:18:58.939
for Bam Kafu. That is my fight of the weekend.

01:18:58.979 --> 01:19:01.680
Yeah, that's my main event of the weekend. For

01:19:01.680 --> 01:19:06.520
sure. Fortunately, Usyk and Dubois line up in

01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:10.659
such a way that you won't miss Bam Kafu. Anybody

01:19:10.659 --> 01:19:16.520
who's in the West, the timing should work out

01:19:16.520 --> 01:19:22.899
well. That is lucky. For you, Usyk, Dubois will

01:19:22.899 --> 01:19:26.180
be in the middle of the night, and then Bam Kafu

01:19:26.180 --> 01:19:29.079
even later, or more further into the morning?

01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:35.319
Yeah, I think the so the British cards usually

01:19:35.319 --> 01:19:38.680
start at about 4 a .m. So the main events usually

01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:42.520
like six, which sometimes I just don't wake up

01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:44.340
for them. This one I'll wake up for to watch

01:19:44.340 --> 01:19:46.560
live and hang out with people on Discord. But

01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:50.180
and then the American main events are usually

01:19:50.180 --> 01:19:54.720
like 10 a .m. Not terrible. No, no, that's not

01:19:54.720 --> 01:19:56.779
terrible. But if I want to watch the American

01:19:56.779 --> 01:19:58.779
undercards, I got to wake up for like seven.

01:20:00.489 --> 01:20:07.710
Which sucks on a Saturday. Quite. Alright, let's

01:20:07.710 --> 01:20:11.109
leave it there. That's it for this edition of

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Boxing Before Dark. What's the thing? It is getting

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dark and my batteries are low. My battery is

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getting low. I looked it up. It's a single battery.

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It's getting dark and my battery is getting low.