This shit ain't nothing to me, man. Boxing before
dark. What time is it where you are? Is it dark
there? Zero dark dirty for you? Lux pods. Whatever
the number is. 833. Lux pods. We're here to talk
a whole lot of fucking boxing. And there's a
lot of bit in the news. Here's a fun one. Speaking
of stuff you've never heard of. Kenneth Lover.
Yeah. My new face of the half year has broke
the rankings. I was super excited when I saw.
He's number 9 by the IBF and number 15 by the
WBC. He's definitely not ready for a world title,
but it's cool to see him on the list. What weight
class is he at again? Same as Nakatani. 18. Yeah,
118. So, yeah, I think... 15, he's under Nakatani's
belt. And who has the IVF? Didn't Nakatani just
win that one too? Yeah, I think he's on both
Nakatani's list, which is not good. Yeah, that's
not a place you want to be if you're trying to
contend for legitimacy. I think somebody said
he's also high up on the Asia Pacific stuff.
Which is much more his level. I'm hoping he gets
one of those kind of regional belts soon. I thought
he won the OPBF in his last time out. Did he?
I'm so bad at news. I was trying so hard because
I didn't want to do the same stuff as we did
over on B -Sides. Well, this is coming out first,
so... Well, it doesn't matter which order you
have to listen to me say the same thing twice,
does it? True. Ah, you're right. He did get the
OPV. Interesting. OPVF Phantom Way Champion.
Nice. Maybe that's why he broke the list. Yeah,
getting yourself on those regionals does put
you into the... get you into the world rankings
as well yeah i was thought it was cool to see
that and that tomoya su boy who was my pick last
year he's number 15 uh with the wbo so all right
my yearly picks are good you guys should listen
to me yeah yeah if your people are getting ranked
Those are like gambles, too, because it's people
nobody's ever heard of. Yeah. Pretty obscure
picks, but for me, it's like Emiliano Vargas.
Wow, you really went out on a limb with that
one. I do sometimes think your picks are not
new faces, for sure. Yeah, I should probably
do better about that. It's more fun. This way,
when he wins a title and like... three or four
years, I can be like, I fucking told you guys.
And if he doesn't, everybody forgets that you
ever said anything about him anyway. Yeah, we'll
send a Lux award. Yeah. It'll be like a medallion,
I think. That's what I'm thinking anyway. Rather
than a trophy. Papercraft. Like a small child
makes. Could do. But we've got... I think I could...
Make something moderately nice. You could make
something much better. If I made it, it would
be cardboard on a ribbon. Speaking of hanging
on ribbons, Boxer, the 2X, they find a home at
BBC. What is this about? The bomb linked a couple
stories that they're trying. They're trying to
work something out with BBC and their streaming
service. Are they ITV or something? IFL? I can't
remember now. I think ITV is right. So I guess
they'd probably have, like, some... I guess they'd
have some on, like, regular TV, but then on the...
The iPlayer is what it is. The BBC iPlayer. It's
like Peacock for ABC. So I suspect a lot of it
would probably be on the internet streaming rather
than on actual television. But that would be
kind of cool to get it back on TV, I think. Like,
just boxing in general. Yeah, that seems to be
the direction that parties are taking. He's trying
to get it back onto broadcast television. Or
at least a modern equivalent. Yeah, or at least,
like, less pay -per -view bullshit. Less paywalls.
Yeah. Like, having a... I don't know how England
works, but in Canada, like, everybody gets CBC.
And the streaming for CBC is... free as long
as you're in Canada. But CTV is one where you
have to have a cable subscription or a new version
of a cable subscription, but then you just sign
in and you get a bunch of extra shit. That's
nice. Yeah, actually for Canadian listeners,
I used to watch a bunch of BBC television on
CBC Jam as their streaming thing. Because they
have some sort of two -way deal. You can also
get Aussie TV. Some of that's pretty fun. I think
it's Commonwealth. Maybe that's why there's the
interchangeability. Yeah, it's the government
-owned Commonwealth ones have all made deals.
ABC and CBC. Also, apparently Eubank Jr. has
signed with Boxer. Yeah, he's been signed with
Boxer. Yeah, okay. Old news. Yeah, but we'll
be talking about him in a second. Turkey and
Taken. Not playing nicely. Yeah, so that card
in December was supposed to be Japan versus Mexico.
And that's kind of fallen through. I guess they
don't have enough Mexico -specific competition
for the Japanese boxers they want. so then turkey
has been trying to put together japan versus
the world instead but it sounds like he doesn't
like dealing with honda at taken i assume he's
not bootlicking enough would be the problem so
turkey put out a couple uh veiled Not very veiled
tweets about how unless Taken plays ball nicer,
he might have to scrap Japan versus the world
as well. I don't know. I kind of like Taken not
just bowing the knee. I like it too. Big episode,
Mr. Honda. Yeah. So. I don't know. I do kind
of like when they do... the country rivalries
to an extent, but I could see it being really
bad when Turkey tries to do it. Yeah, because
he's going to want Inoue and Nakatani and other
belt holders, and Mexico doesn't really have
that level of competition, so you're going to
have to go a little lower down the ladder if
you want to have competitive fights. I would
say you'd have to pick some relatively unknown
guys. Yeah, I think Japan versus the world works
right now. It does. There's a few Argentinian
boxers in those lower levels. There's Filipinos.
There's... I don't know who else. But, like,
if you... There's enough Japanese talent right
now to be one side of the cards, I think. Like,
high -level talent. And then you get everybody
else. I think that would be kind of fun, but...
I mean, I also don't want Honda to just be like,
yeah, like everybody else seems to be. Yeah,
like most people, most promoters. Yeah. It does
also appear that Hayato Tsutsumi is getting a
belt shot on that card. I don't think he can
win, but I guess that's cool. How do I know this
Tsutsumi? He's the one that fights on the Ioka
cards. I think he's 130. Yeah, he fights at 130.
So he's ranked number 3 by the WBA. I don't see
him on anybody else's rankings. He's really not
that good. Like, he's not bad, but he's not that
good. Oh shit, you know who else is ranked at
130? Ogawa is up to number two for the WBO belt.
Good. Navarrete kills him, but I would love to
see him. He's also made the WBC rankings again.
Somebody else just called out Nav. I'm trying
to remember who it was. It's the... We'll talk
about him in a little bit. The dude on Probox,
the Mongolian, Sembitar, or Danabot? Oh, yeah,
yeah. Fuck, that'd be a fun fight. I would watch
the shit out of that fight. I think Sembitar
is going to have trouble adapting to the unorthodox
sort of approach that Nav brings to the table.
Oh, yeah. I think... Navarrete probably wins
it, but I just think it'd be a bit of a banger.
Yeah, it would be fun. A lot of fun. Oh, you
know, speaking of fun, and getting a second round
of fun, not happening. Eubank, Ben, the rematch
seems like it's off. Dead in the water. That's
too bad, because the first fight was fucking
incredible. I have to say, I don't really blame
Eubank if they're enforcing the same weight and
the same rehydration clause. Yeah, the same.
Like, if he had made that .05, he wouldn't have
had a rehydration clause. Yeah, but he's not
going to make that .05. And with all the fucking
fines he got and all that stuff, I really...
That's a lot of money to lose. For .05. But they
also fined him for using the sauna. What? He
had to pay a sign for the British Boxing Board
of Commission because saunas aren't allowed in
their rule set. What? He's not the first person
to get fined for this. You're not allowed to...
You're just not allowed to use saunas, I think,
for the weight cut. What? What? This is blowing
my mind. Is this how BBBOC, is this how they
stay open by fining people for using saunas all
the time? Yeah, he's not the first person to
get this fine, like, recently. Yeah, I would
be surprised if he was. This has to be like a
low -level parking ticket. It's like $20 or something.
So he's like, man, fuck. I'm just gonna pay.
Just because I want to avoid the headache. I
can't find how much they fined him for that.
Because he lost 375 ,000 pounds. Not dollars.
Pounds. For the .05 of a pound he was over. He
got fined... 100 ,000 pounds for the egg slap.
That's his own fault. That's his own fault, and
he can avoid that one again. But I'm just saying,
he lost... Like, that's... In American dollars,
that's gotta be well over... Half a mil. Like...
I was gonna say 600 ,000. Plus whatever the fine
for the sauna is. I can't find an amount while
we're talking here, but... But I know he got
fined for that as well. And he's kind of a fucking
idiot for this one because he posted that video
of him trying to make weight that showed him
in a sleeping bag in a sauna. A sleeping sauna?
Like a sauna bag? Yeah, yeah. So... 10 ,000 pounds
for misuse of social media. Is what they... Oh,
come on. They tagged him for that? Sorry, one
second. That's absurd. Chris Eubank Jr. fined
for misuse of social media after sauna controversy
before the Conor Benn fight. He was handed a
10 ,000 pound fine for misuse of social media.
Maybe because of how much he was trying to cut.
It was irresponsible of him to be making it public.
Like the methodology and... I don't know. I'm
trying to rationalize this somehow. I suspect...
I suspect that they can find more for that than
the sauna, perhaps. And they just wanted to tag
him for more money. But I do know the sauna use
is banned by the BBOC. However many B's that
was. Triple B. Yeah. Those guys. Lame. Speaking
of lame. Okay, yeah. That's all I can find. So
maybe they didn't find him for the sauna. They
just find him for social media. Hmm. For broadcasting,
like, irresponsible cutting methods or something,
or dangerous cutting. I mean, for shit that boxers
put on social media, that's pretty tame. Yeah,
it's definitely not the worst thing that you
could be posting. And I know it's not boxing,
but he's not posting his dick with weights on
it. Want to hear more about that? Check out Ultimate
F and Casual. Oh yeah, we'll be talking about
that for sure. Yeah, speaking of lame, Francisco
Rodriguez, remember his adverse pop, adverse
testing? Yeah. His test came back for heptaminal.
I don't know that one. Do you know what it is?
I do. I have it in the notes here. Heptaminal
is a stimulant. That is, in addition to being
used as a masking agent for other BEDs, it in
itself is known to boost athlete stamina, increase
blood flow to muscles, and combat fatigue and
boost alertness. Sounds like popping for real
then. Yeah. So this was, it could have been masking
something worse. Or even in itself. This in itself
is a straight up PED. And all the combat fatigue
and boost alertness. He was beating Yafai's ass.
Yeah. That sucks. I was really hoping it was
going to be weed. Something stupid. Yeah. Like
cough syrup or something. Ridiculous. Yeah. Nah,
that really does put an asterisk on that ass
-beating. Doesn't undo it for Yafai, though.
Yeah, it doesn't undo it for Nova, either. What's
that? You gotta go to Discord to know what that's
about. But, definitely does have to be taken
off the official record. Yeah, no contest, at
least. At least. Do you know how long it's been
since Layla Ali fought? No, but it must be a
long time. It's been a while. I know it has been.
Jeez. 2007. Good lord. So what's that? 18 years?
Yeah. She's been retired for a whole adult? Her
retirement can vote. God damn. If she comes back
and beats Clarissa Shields, that's better than
Manny beating Barrios, hands down. How old is
Layla? Born in 77. This is too much math for
my brain. 1248? So she's older than Pacquiao,
too. Yeah. She does not look that old. Holy shit.
She looks good. But this is that slippery slope
that I was talking about when you just start
letting retired folks come back and fight champions.
It's bullshit. I don't think Clarissa Shields
is gonna hurt Layla Ali, like, life -altering
hurt. Dangerous levels of hurt. But, if they
keep letting people do this, somebody's gonna
get hurt that bad eventually. Yeah, she's almost
50, hasn't competed, like, she hasn't competed
longer than her entire career span. She competed
from 99 to 07. So what, eight years? She's been
retired twice as long. And change. Yeah. I don't
know, man. I don't like it. I don't like it.
Explains why they had her doing the commentary
on the women's card, though. Get her back in
people's minds. Yeah, they were talking about
her putting a huge price tag on her return, and
they were able to secure the money. And so they
kind of called her bluff. Yeah, I can't see her
backing down from... $15 million. Fuck, I'd take
an ass -kicking for $15 million. Yeah, so would
I. I would take a hell of an ass -kicking for
$15 million. I would take an ass -kicking for
less. This is true. Alright, fair play. Like
I said, I don't think she's going to get hurt
that badly. I don't think it's as dangerous as
Pacquiao coming back. No. Clarissa Shields isn't
notorious for putting beatdowns on people. She
schools them up, but doesn't really batter or
knock people out in really heavy ways. Well,
and she's much smaller. Like, what's Clarissa
Shields' 5 '8"? According to BoxRec and Ali...
Oh, she's only 5 '10". She always seems so much
bigger. Never mind. I take it back. Hmm. Shields
is 5 '10"? Shields is 5 '8". Layla Ali is listed
as 5 '10 on BoxRec. I always thought she was
6' tall. I guess she probably always wears heels
when I see her on TV. Anyways, don't like it.
This is all setting a bad precedent. Somebody's
gonna end up real hurt. Yeah. You know, speaking
of things that I... that I do like... but it
comes from somebody I don't like. The worst person
you know just made a good point. Turkey. Go ahead.
No more pay -per -views for any card, any ring
or Riyadh season card. That's not what he said,
though. It's not? No, he wants a tiered subscription
system on DAZN. And if you pay for the ring tier
that's more expensive, you don't pay for ring
pay -per -views. Oh, what the fuck? So basically
you're buying a battle pass, is how Damel put
it, and it makes sense. Yes, DLC. But, yeah,
but then the ring just has somebody else promote
the fucking fight. Make it a Queensberry card
and it's pay -per -view again. Yeah. Yeah, no,
what you thought it was is really cool, but that's
not what they're proposing. Or my understanding
is that they want to tier system the Zone subscription
and you get the pay -per -views in your more
expensive subscription. Depending on the price
point, it really could be worth it. And depending
on if it is just ring pay -per -views or if it's
all pay -per -views onto Zone. That is a lot
of questions that need to be answered before
I can say this sucks. Well, it does seem to suck,
but we'll see how badly it sucks. But, like,
let's say you're... I assume it's going to be
a year subscription. I don't understand how they
would do this monthly. So let's say your year
subscription includes the cost of three pay -per
-views. DAZN puts up three pay -per -views a
year that I pay for anyways, realistically. So
then it's still a fine deal because I'm going
to spend that much money at least. But if it's
like the price of six pay -per -views, DAZN does
not put up six pay -per -views that I pay for.
Right. So they've already started doing those
weird packages. They don't do that here in Japan,
but you were saying that you bundled Usyk and
something? When you do pay -per -views, you can
buy more than one at a time. And it's a cost
savings, I assume? Yeah. I mean, that's better
than nothing, I suppose. Yeah. But I did see
something on there like the Club World Cup has
been added to your subscription or whatever.
I got FIFA, I thought. I don't know. That's what
the Club World Cup is, is FIFA. Oh, okay. Shows
how much I know about soccer. But yeah, they
added that to my subscription as well. And I
pay specifically for the combat sports option
in Japan. Which I really like. I wish they did
that in Canada as well. Because it wasn't an
option. In Canada, you just have to pay for the
subscription. But here they have a combat sports
only one, which is kind of treated like the base
one, I think. And then you add on baseball and
soccer and other things as you want them. that's
kind of what i'm thinking ring and yeah turkey
wants to do is an extra the difference is here
in japan it's just way cheaper like my combat
sports one is 990 not 999 just 990 yen a month
not sure why they also don't do the yearly subscription
here um which i I haven't seen that for anything.
So I assume that maybe there's some Japan legislature
that you have to be able to cancel every month.
But that's me guessing. I have no idea. Probably
like a consumer protection thing. Yeah. Oh, man.
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recent shit. Friday, July 11th. MVP. Madison
Square Garden. This was the women's card. I still
have not caught any but the main event. Is there
anything on the undercard that really stood out?
That really stood out? Overall, I was... Tongue
-tied. Pleasantly surprised by the card. We mostly
covered this when I was covering on B -side,
so I don't want to repeat myself too much. Romla
Ali got gifted that unanimous decision. I don't
think she won at all. Shadesia Green versus Savannah
Marshall. I just want to brag about being the
only person calling that upset on the pick league
again. Baumgartner, kind of lackluster performance,
in my opinion, yeah. I expected her to have a
better showing. But she did win, so a win's a
win. Ellie Scottney looked good. Very convincing,
unanimous decision. I kind of thought everybody
knew who Ellie Scottney was, but apparently not.
A lot of people on Discord didn't recognize her.
She's pretty good. I mean, she's a unified champion.
And then I'm the opposite of you. I still haven't
watched the main event because everybody said
it was kind of boring. Kind of. Underwhelming.
If only Jacob was here, he'd be telling us about
Chernika. Johnson, the Australian fighter that
went for Undisputed and won. Nice. Very cool.
Where are you, Jacob? Wherefore art thou? Yeah,
no. Overall, good card. I still think that you
don't need these gendered cards. Yeah, it didn't
have to be an all -women's event to have women
headlining. Yeah. I don't know. I've mentioned
that a few times as well. I don't think I have
anything else to add, really. Unless we want
to try and do some future matchups. But I really
don't know enough about the women's boxing to
do a good job of that. No, it really does work
out the way that you had put it originally leading
up to this, is that now that all of these women
have fought, They don't really... There are no
good women's fights to put on. Like, Clarissa
Shields fights soon. Cool. But that's it. That's
all we got. Mimi fights in August, but she's
not a big name yet. She's just somebody that
we like. Yeah. But... And... Kind of derailing
again. But... Why is she on UFC Fight Pass all
the time? I don't get it. It's 360 Promotions.
That's where they have their broadcast deal.
Oh. Well, that sucks. It does. I don't like it.
I want her on actual, like... Something I can
watch. Good boxing cards that, yeah, I can watch
the way I like to watch boxing. DAZN, YouTube,
fucking... I don't really care. Just not UFC
Fight Pass. Yeah, ESPN. Yeah. I still like ESPN,
but... I just don't want to give UFC money. No,
me neither. Terrible organization. Quickly on
the main event, it was boring. It was a bit of
a letdown because you have the... The shadow
of the first two fights and just how action -packed
those were, you have that shadow hanging over
this one. So this one was, I think, was always
destined to be a little bit of a letdown. I mean,
generally, the third of any of the really close
trilogies is the worst fight. Yeah. I think.
Like, that's pretty historically how it goes.
I was... You're always hoping it's gonna be as
good as the other ones, but, like, I mean, Gaddy
Ward 3 was kinda shit. In all honesty. Like,
it wasn't great until Gaddy broke his hand. Um,
what other trilogies do we got? Pacquiao Marquez.
Uh, the third one was not so great for Pacquiao,
after two really solid performances. Um, Fury
Wilder. Number three was pretty much a beatdown.
Usually by the third fight, somebody's figured
somebody out. Like I said, I didn't watch it,
but it kind of sounds like Katie Taylor figured
out how to negate Serrano a little bit. Yeah,
Serrano didn't really have any adaptations throughout
any of the fight. It's just like her plan was
to continue to come forward. tried to pressure
Katie Taylor when she could never just get in
range to do any pressuring. It's kind of... Katie
Taylor's a good boxer. Yeah. She has that yodeling
sort of voice break. Yeah, yeah. I don't want
to make fun of her because she had a brilliant
performance. I'm not going to make fun. Moving
to the 12th Golden Boy. I think it was marketed
as Golden Boy on DAZN. This was Ring 3. A lot
of shit on here that we talked about on B -Sides.
That'll be coming out later this week. So kind
of going to gloss over. Reito Tsutsumi gets a
stoppage in two over Michael Ruiz. This guy's
signed to the ring. He's like a ring promoted
fighter. Which is kind of weird. It is very weird.
I think. It's also kind of weird that they chose
him. I don't know. Sometimes I just don't understand
the random choices. Is this guy related to Hayato?
It's his little brother. Okay. Yeah. But not
related to Rey. No, Saya's... Oh, Saya. Saya's
different. Different entirely. I don't think
there's any relation at all. Speaking of no relations,
David Morrell had no relation to this victory.
He should be... He should be counting his lucky
stars that he got the decision. He was coming
on in the end, but... As we had talked about
on B -Sides, like, it's... He was a victim of
his own hubris, and it doesn't seem like he took
Kataev as seriously as he should have. Yeah.
I'm still... Because this is the one where Kataev
had the... He popped a long time ago, and they're
just suspending him now, right? It was something
weird. So, I don't know. I don't understand how
any of that worked out. But... Anyways. The fight
was actually pretty fun. I liked this one. It
was enjoyable. Just, man, David Merrill was fighting
like a fucking moron at times. It was frustrating.
Different styles and everything else, but it
reminded me of how much Beck the Bully pisses
me off. Same stupid decisions. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a very good way to put it. Why do you keep doing
this? Why are you doing this to me? I don't understand.
Just stop being dumb. Here's an interesting one.
Subaru Matias, coming into this eighth rated
in the WBC versus Alberto Pueyo, the champion.
Wins the majority of the decision. Super close
fight. Kind of a tale of two halves? Two, three,
or thirds? What do you think? Because Matias,
his pressure was solid in the beginning. Pueyo
was having spots of success. You could say he
won a round or two, maybe. But all the middle
rounds were all Matias. And then Pueyo came back
at the end. Yeah. Yeah, the... Kind of three
to seven, I think, was mostly Matthias. Yeah.
And then, you know, depending on which other
couples you gave them or didn't. I thought the
judging was pretty fair. Yeah, it was close.
I don't think it's a robbery or anything. No,
definitely. It's really hard to call it a robbery
when one had it a draw and the other two had...
had matthias winning by one round yeah so it's
a good fight uh i like that i liked it but i
don't know matthias is just i want him to be
good but he's not that good he's just a power
puncher he's not just a power puncher but he's
mostly just a power puncher he's mostly a pressure
fighter that has Extreme power. Yeah. Yeah. And
he does not deviate from the plan. He does not
adjust. Yeah. Yeah. Which is what I think made
the fight much closer towards the end, was Pueo
was able to make adjustments, even though he
struggled to find the adjustment throughout the
middle of it. Well, all three judges did give
Pueo the last two rounds. A little too late.
Yeah, I think if they fought again, Pueyo wins,
but who knows. Yeah, conventional thinking, just
because Pueyo's the type that can make adjustments,
and because he lost, Matias has the mentality
like, I won. I don't have to do anything differently.
I just have to do the same thing. Yeah, well,
and like you said, I don't think Matias really
does anything differently ever. Yeah, he doesn't
do it anyway. Speaking of doing something differently,
Shakur Stevenson gets the... Actually put on
an exciting fight. Yep, he put on a fucking clinic
over William Zepeda. At least the cards would
have you think it's a clinic, being, what, 11
-1 and 10 -2? I don't think those are good cards.
Shakur definitely won, but not that wide. I don't
think. I think Zapata won at least three rounds.
Maybe four. At least three. Yeah. You don't think
so? Four is a stretch for me. Three, I can see
that. But I don't see that as having been a very
close fight. Ah, no, I said it wasn't close,
but he won more than one round. Yeah, yeah, he
did. Definitely did. Two or three. I mean, it
makes no difference, but... Zepeda seemed to
have the same... He had the same problem that
we were just talking about with Subaru Matias.
He doesn't do anything differently. But we know
that about Zepeda. Yeah. That's not a surprise.
I do think Zepeda did better than people were
expecting. Yes. Like, not that that really matters,
but I kind of think it does. I think maybe people's
opinion of Zepeda slightly got raised by putting
on a good fight with Shakur. Yeah, but how well
are you going to perform in what you're walking
into? Essentially, you're walking into a loss
here. Just probably the way the styles play out,
like unless Shakur gets hurt and he can't fight
back or you just lightning in a bottle. Those
are pretty much your two hopes here. But the
Peta didn't give up either. No, he tried to win
that fight the whole time. Yes, he did. but shakira
is just too good i think i probably said this
already too but it pisses me off to know that
he can fight like this and be exciting and be
somebody i would want to watch and he just chooses
not to yeah yeah a lot of people were saying
like look you see he can do it like yeah no i
always knew he could do it like i knew he could
but now i have proof that he can and he just
he said himself that he doesn't want to do that
again like he doesn't want to have to fight like
that again i think his his it's not a direct
quote but i think he used the words i took too
much damage that fight i'm like yeah you pro
like he took more damage than he usually does
100 but like you get paid millions of dollars
to do this Like, at least make it exciting for
the people who want to watch you. But I am not
his target audience. So other people love the
absolute boxing lessons, I guess. I generally
think Shakur fights are a little boring. But
he did put on a very exciting fight this time.
He chose to make it exciting, and it was. Speaking
of exciting, Hamza Shiraz knocks out Edgar Berlenga.
Holy fuck. I did not expect that to go like that
that quickly. I was shocked. Everything in my
body told me don't back Berlenga. Do not do it.
The guy's a fucking moron. Do not put your name
in the Berlenga hat. And what did I do? I put
my name in the Berlinga hat. Yeah. Like a fucking
idiot. Yeah. Big ups to Shiraz. That was a domination
from start to finish. That was a good performance.
And Shiraz looks so big in the ring. Yeah. He's
a fucking giant. I don't know how the fuck. How
was he making 160? That's crazy. Somebody said
he used to fight at 154. That must have been
a while ago. Yeah, he had to have been like a
teenager or something. Let's see. 2021 was his
last 154. How old is he now? 26. So, 22. Yeah.
But... No, I was really impressed with Shiraz.
And everybody's saying, well, he knocked out
Berlanga. Berlanga sucks. But, I mean, the way
he knocked him out was pretty impressive. He
took a bum to fucking school and beat his ass
and knocked him out. I mean, this is what you
want to happen when you have a quality fighter
who can't get the quality matchups. So you keep
having to feed him shit. So you make the shit
look shit. Yeah. What else do you want? What
more do you want from the guy? Goddamn Shiraz.
Now he's going to fight Canelo, they're saying?
I think he makes that legitimate. Well, he's
better than people Canelo has been fighting,
obviously. Yes. And anytime you fight somebody
and beat them better... than the person you want
to fight, I think that makes your name legitimate
in the discussion. I think Shiraz has put himself
where he is a legitimate Canelo opponent now.
I don't think Canelo fights him, though. No,
if Canelo's going to fight anybody who's a little
bit on the unheralded side, I think it'll be
Christian Mbili, just because Mbili's like a
one -trick pony. Yeah, well, and... It's... How
do I put it? Mbili's never had to show us how
good he really is, because he fights cans. I
don't think anybody really knows how good Mbili
is. So, I think he's less scary to Canelo. Because
Mbili just has power, mostly, as far as we can
tell. And Canelo's got a fucking all -time chin.
Like... Yeah. For the sake of time, if you want
to hear about the Pro Box card, you'll have to
wait for B -Sides because we talk about it there.
Unless you have anything you want to point out
in particular? No. All right. I don't think so.
All right. So moving into the previews, there
are two. There's Salida. It's headlined by Clarissa
Shields, Rosalani Daniels. Undisputed heavyweight
title fight. That's cool. Yeah. And Tony Harrison
is back on the undercard. Fucking top rank at
the theater at Madison Square Garden. There's
good stuff kind of sprinkled throughout. Juan
Mita Lopez is on towards the beginning. Emiliano
Vargas is going to be probably towards the end
of the prelims. Back out here, Jalalov. Jalalov's
a weird cat. I can't decide if I like him or
not. I mean, I usually always cheer for people
from these smaller countries, but I just can't
decide if I like this guy or not. He's fine.
He's talented, but he fights to the level of
his opposition, and it's unfortunately not that
good. So he doesn't seem to be all that great.
Yeah. Maybe that's kind of my problem with him.
He never looks outstanding. Yep. Never has to.
That's true. Moving up, Rohan Polanco. Heavy
-handed welterweight. Someone to keep an eye
on. This might have been the good new face, because
nobody really knows who Polanco is. Bruce Carrington
vs. Mateus Heita. Yeah. I don't really like Carrington
very much. Seems like a good dude, but yeah,
I don't really care for his fights. Yes, I don't
like his style very much is what I should say.
Yeah. Oh, is this for an interim belt? Yeah,
interim WBC. The full champion is Stephen Fulton.
That would probably be a little boring. Yeah,
that style matchup doesn't seem... There would
not be a lot of action. Yeah. And Fulton is the
type that will stay in the pocket with you if
he knows he's going to be able to make you look
dumb. So to his credit, he does stand with people.
But he needs somebody to engage for him to do
that. Like Brandon Figueroa, the perfect foil.
Yeah. Bruce Carrington, best of luck to you.
Mateus is 14 -0, so it looks good. It looks like
it's a good win, but I'm not too keen. Yeah,
he's only ever fought in Nambia. I don't know
how good his competition is for that 14. Yikes.
And Xander Zayas versus Jorge Perez. Perez, you
may remember, he just beat Charles Conwell on
the Golden Boy card. And now here he is. About
to win the fucking WBO super welterweight title.
Yeah. You think so? No, not really. Could do,
but I think Xander Zayas probably takes it. Yeah.
I'll be cheering for the upset, but... Love a
good upset story. And it's Puerto Rico versus
Mexico, so... Yeah, that's why I'm going for
the upset. That's it. That's it for the shit
coming up. Pretty late weekend next weekend.
Yeah, it's not going to be the best, but it's
all right, because after that, we'll have a good
August, or August, July 19th weekend to talk
about. So even though this weekend's not the
best, still fun stuff coming up. Let me do...
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after that yeah i have big news no i have big
news sutsumi saya is uh working at a restaurant
serving burgers for a day on august 3rd are you
gonna go and yeah you don't have to buy tickets
or anything i uh i emailed the restaurant to
ask so i just gotta go line up and he has to
get a burger he'll be there yeah Is he going
to be working the fry cooker? I think he's being
the waiter for the day. He's serving you your
food. Is my understanding. He's been doing this
at restaurants around Japan. So I've been waiting
for him to come to Tokyo. While his eye was healing
up? Yeah. Doing some viral marketing. Also, I
think he just really likes burgers. Like half
of his Instagram is just him eating. burgers
and other meat dishes yeah yeah so he's selling
a um or this restaurant is selling maybe i don't
know who's selling it but there's an event t
-shirt you can buy when you get there i don't
think i'll buy the t -shirt they're pretty ugly
but i'm excited i am sure everybody else is not
uh or I'm a little weird, I guess, because I
fangirl so bad, but I never get to meet famous
people that I like. This will be the first time
in a long time. I've met a couple hockey players
that were retired, but I've never gotten to meet
a boxer. And Seiya's one of my absolute favorites.
Take your flag and get it signed. I should. You
should. I kind of forgot about my flag. The punch
burger flag. Yeah, I should. And I really hope
I can get an actual picture with him. He puts
up pictures of him with fans all the time. I'm
sure it won't be a problem. But I've been trying
to practice a little bit of Japanese. But they
did put the ad up in English as well. So maybe
people at the restaurant speak English. They'll
be able to help. Hopefully. Hopefully, yeah.
I'm so excited. I'm already like picking out
what clothes I should wear. Yellow shoes. Yeah,
I'm going to wear my yellow shoes and I'm going
to wear my cheer t -shirt. So that's all taken
care of. And I know which hat I'm going to wear.
But I don't know what pants or skirt to wear
is mostly my hang up now. I have a cheetah print
skirt that kind of feels... Tsutsumi style -ish
I might wear. I'll send you pictures. You can
tell me which one fits best. Alright. Well, if
that's it, then that's it for this edition of
Boxing Before Dark. My battery is getting low
and it is getting dark. The saddest fight off
ever.