The B -Side and Boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
Let's fucking boogie. Boxing B -Sides. What?
How long has it been since the Trinity was complete?
We are joined by my fellow B -Sides, Saul from
Discord. You know him from Discord. If you're
listening from Discord, you know who this guy
is. What's up, yo? And our old homie, Josh is
back. Hey. We welcome you back with open arms.
All right. Well, what do you think? You think
this one's kind of light and we should just get
right into it? Or... The Pacquiao one, right?
Yeah. We've got a lot to talk about. So, yeah,
let's get right into it. Extending the olive
branch to the ultimate effing casuals. Just in
case you are not, we're going to still tell you
a little bit about the MMA world. Two fights,
July 19th. pfl champion series in africa this
is the first of a few events at the end a tournament
that they're gonna do there uh let's see one
two worth mentioning dakota decheva versus sumiko
inaba dakota is like if you're maybe mma curious
and you're thinking you're thinking about checking
it out This is the type of fighter that you want
to see, especially if you're coming from a boxing
purist sort of mentality. Deceva doesn't grapple.
She doesn't need to because she just whips everyone's
ass. It's a beautiful thing to see. Johnny Eblen
loses his PFL title to Costello Van Stennis.
The interesting part about this, besides it being
a pretty big upset, is that what made it such
an upset was that Costello came from a striking
background. And he came in to submit Johnny Eblen,
who has the world of experience over Costello.
So it was pretty wild. UFC 318. Hold on, let
me make sure. Okay. UFC 318 at the Smoothie King
Center in NOLA. I'll spare you all of the card
and just mention Max Holloway beats Dustin Poirier.
This was Dustin's retirement fight. This was
like a special guy. He was really dear to the
fans. This was like a... Max Holloway also being
a fan favorite. It's like, who the fuck do I
pick here? But Dustin gets beat 4 -1. And what
are you going to do? Rides off into the sunset
with an L. It was a very good send -off. It was.
It was an incredible fight. It was so much fun.
It was very entertaining. Even for Dustin to
go off with an L here, still, this is like a
warrior send -off. It wasn't sad or anything?
No, absolutely not. Not at all. Not like the
typical retirement fights. We'll get to one in
just a moment. Moving into the boxing recaps.
All of our recaps are from the same weekend,
July 19th. Let's start really quick with we're
going to go from the smallest up instead of the
bottom. It kind of is the bottom up as well.
At the Star at the Frisco in Frisco, Texas. Apparently
this is the Dallas Cowboys training center or
some shit. However it is they put it. Some stuff
going from the bottom to the top of the card.
Nishant Dev gets a stoppage in six over Omar
Rosales. I was very interested in seeing how
this and the next fight went. Omari Jones, stoppage
in three over Alfredo Blanco. Is this business
as usual? Saul, what do you think? Obviously,
they're going to keep feeding Amari Jones the
typical cam and eggers for the next couple of
years. But I would say, yeah, for the next two
years, it's going to be the same thing from Amari
Jones. Yeah, this level of opponent, rinse and
repeat. It makes me wonder, to compare, just
thinking of another prospect that's on his way
up. Tara Moana is being fed cans because Tara
Moana doesn't really have any other experience.
But Omari Jones had an extensive amateur background,
didn't he? Yeah, he went to the Olympics. I remember
watching him. So he doesn't need to be babied
is what I'm thinking. I still feel like they
will still develop him. Yeah. I mean, it's a
match for me now. I don't know what the promotional
companies do. The only time I feel like I've
seen amateurs kind of get rushed is kind of with
Lomachenko, but he had an extensive amateur career.
That one makes sense. He's probably one of the
greatest amateurs of all time. Of course, they
would give him a title shot within his first
couple fights. That does make sense. But everybody
else right now, like Moten, Vargas, Even Abdullah.
Abdullah is barely... Oh, like Richard Torres
is the example of a... An Olympian that's still
being chivvy. Olympian that's... Olympian is
still dragging his fucking feet. He should, honestly,
Richard Torres should be stepping up to contender
anytime soon, within the next year or so. Because
otherwise... He should have already been there.
Like, he's probably going to get found out. But...
Well, we'll see. He last fought Vianello, so
I think he's stepping up soon. That fight itself
was a step up, so I can't take that away from
him. Even though that wasn't the best performance,
he still won. So I would say, given about another
year, he might be within the top 15 if he stays
undefeated. Actually, this is a little bit of
a teaser. I think with... the way u6 performance
went that we could con we could really consider
that all of a lot of the top the titan weight
like the super huge guys that are at heavyweight
right now we might be seeing those guys go by
the wayside a little bit and the u6 only like
six two six three so six three six three so for
richard torres to come in at what six one six
two it's not that freak. It's not that weird
or it's not that freakish of a jump off from
like the, I just think it's more skillset. Like
if shallow love was able to piece them up in
the Olympics, it's honestly a rather basic offensive
repertoire. Like I'm not saying, I'm not saying
that the size is an issue. It's more the leaky
defense for it. I see. Okay. And, like, fighting
against Cans won't help him. Like, he needs to
take a step up to, like, not even, not, like,
Caballero level, because Caballero's proved himself.
But, like, you know, the Ajagbas, the Frank Sanchez,
like, your top 20 guys. Yeah. They're not a real
risk to you if your skill set really is all that.
But, A, they build your profile. They help your
ranking. they give you some looks that you need
when you actually step up. Sure. Let's keep it
rolling. Austin Williams gets a stoppage in nine
over Etinosa Oliha. Fucking cool. Congratulations,
Ammo. I will say for that fight, that fight specifically,
he was showing some leaky defense as well, Ammo.
Was he, really? I would say so, because, I mean...
The guy he was fighting against, he came out
on how many days notice? It was short, really
short turnaround. Yeah, really short turnaround.
And he was kind of putting the work on ammo.
And he kept leaving the body open to the point
where I think if... I think that it's kind of
exposed him. Obviously, he's been knocked out
before, but I think it also exposed that his
body is a little weak. You know? At least that's
from what I saw. I don't know about you guys.
That's pretty apt. Yeah, you encapsulated my
thoughts. I don't know. Maybe I was trying to
give Ammo the benefit of the doubt and not think
he was being as leaky and it was more like an
open up your offense for me kind of thing. But
I think you're probably right more than I am.
I get you, I get you. I mean, I don't know. I
also try to give him the benefit of the doubt
because he is one of the only American middleweights.
Yeah. Yeah, one of the only American middles
right now that is kind of keeping a dead division
afloat, if you could say so, you know? Yeah.
But, I mean, he's next in line for Janabek, I
believe, now, right? I believe so. For Janabek,
that's crazy already. Yeah. After that loss to
Hamid Shiraz, that's a little wild. I think Janabek
kills him. The Shiraz loss is aging a little
well, right? Well, like, how well when it's Berlanga?
Well... How well when it's Berlanga? Ah, he called
me on it. Voxen's already been killed by Hamza
Shiraz, so... It's getting buried right now by
Hamza Shiraz. Yeah, having the Robert Damas and
murdering Berlanga. That sure does it. It's a
good look for the casuals, but it's not a good
look for us. God, I was so upset I couldn't do
the podcast for when Berlanga finally died. I
had to apologize to the whole audience for that.
For my Berlanga take. For your Shiraz hate. My
Shiraz hate? It's Shiraz hate. Don't confuse
it for Berlanga support. That's exactly what
I was saying. I knew, against all of my better
judgment, I knew I shouldn't be supporting Berlanga
because he's a fucking moron. But I'm not riding.
You knew he was going to get hit. Yeah, exactly.
But I'm not going to ride for a fucking Brit
when there's a... Red -blooded American on the
goddamn phone. Red -blooded American. Yeah. The
King of New York. The fucking Kony. Let's move
up. Diego Pacheco. King of Newark, maybe, man.
That goes to Tony, Mr. Soprano. Diego Pacheco,
UD over Trevor McCombie. I liked... the different
wrinkles that pacheco was able to show here i
still feel like he felt had too much trouble
with becoming his style this is true i agree
and i disagree at the same time how do you uh
how do you disagree first only reason well i
don't disagree with your take whereas i think
it's also the fact that i think he was just scared
to mix it up with Trevor McCombie? Because, I
mean, Trevor McCombie looked like he got some
power. He was jacked. Yeah, he was jacked. Yeah,
McCombie's a tough SOB, but still, like, if you're
at that, like, if Caleb Plant's putting the fucking
work on him, like, you can't be scared to put
the work on him. Oh, yeah. If you wish to move
up. Checo's a lot bigger than, like, size -wise,
like, he's taller, you know? Yeah, he is. He's
sort of really young. He utilized his jab a lot
more. Yeah. It makes sense. It's just, you know,
it just wasn't the most exciting performance,
unfortunately. You know, I know it's funny to
come, you know, it's a bum, he fought a bum Trevor
McCombie. I wish he got him out, but at the same
time, I'm glad he utilized his jab, you know.
Right. That's the silver lining. I like seeing
the versatility. Because it does show, I mean,
you can say no matter what, I mean, it does show
a little bit of growth, whether you like it or
not. My thinking here is that you're hearing
this from a bunch of Diego Pacheco fans. So if
you're not so sure that, you know, maybe we're
glazing a little too hard or trying to give Pacheco
the benefit of the doubt a little too hard, I
recommend going to watch it. And trying to score
it on behalf of Trevor McCombie. And it's not
going to be there. But give it a shot. Because
then you can see how versatile, how much of a
more mature game Diego Pacheco brought to the
table. Just my little challenge there. I would
say you you're I think you're really gonna see
his levels once he fights the competition that
added that are at his level and the rankings
in my opinion, I don't think you really Deserve
the number three number three in the ring, right?
And the ring rankings is number three on the
on the ring. I'm not sure. Oh I know I know he's
kind of high up there on the ring rankings I'm
sure so I think that he still needs to Develop
or not develop like it was the word prove himself
Yeah, he still has a few more, like, good wins
before he's... Before he's... He's one of the
power players of the division, you know? Right.
He's not right now. No, definitely not. We'll
see what happens with him in the future. I hope
that his next performance is a lot better so
then the people that kind of got turned away
from him this time will go back to him next time.
Or at least, like, with a guy like Mbili. Oh.
Baby, what a fight. What a fight. You can totally
leapfrog the line and really stamp it out because
as much as he's not quite at the pinnacle of
168, it's pretty wide open. Minus the apex of
Lord Ginger. The end of the Canelo sweepstakes
is different. I'm talking about the realistic
division. Right. It's like Welterweight when
Mayweather was in town. It's like, yeah, there's
an obvious, obvious top dog that's basically
your meal ticket as long as you're there, but
the division also moves along kind of independently
of that person. You're absolutely right. Like
other good fights, you can try and see if you
stop Skull. Bruno Saras is still in the rankings
and honestly not that great. Munguia is up there
too, same thing. Copper Pits too. Saras. Melikuziev
is still around. And a Golden Boy guy. Which
guy is that? Beck the Bully. The guy who gave
Rosado put out the pastor in like, was it 2020
or 2021? I want to say 21. Yeah. Let's cap this
card off with Bam Jesse Rodriguez stops Pumelela
Kafu in the 10th. At the end of the 10th. This
was a... Masterclass. It didn't help that Kafu
just was not interested in engaging. But nonetheless,
I feel this was a masterclass from Bam. No disrespect
to Kafu either. Bam is just that bad. He is that
good. He's that good at this division. It's just
not... It's almost becoming an Inoue thing where
like... This one guy is so much better than even
the champion level decks. They can be good challengers,
but if they're not great, they're going to look
like shit. I was surprised he even got that stoppage.
I was saying that he was going to go the distance.
I thought that was going to go the distance.
It was close to, but that one punch, man, that
was beautiful. I know you guys are saying that
Kapu didn't want to engage, which I would say
is partially true. I still consider Kapu to be
probably Bam's hardest competition thus far.
I still agree with that statement. I'll agree
with that. I think Kapu's game plan was really,
really smart, was to take away Bam's lateral
movement. Bam has some of the best lateral movement
in the game right now. Yeah, if you force him
to come at you, you make it. Yeah, yeah. It becomes
like, yeah, if you hide in the corner, you can
potentially get a shot that gets in and, you
know, potentially flatlines him, you know? Gabe
Rosado did that to back the bully. Yeah, I think
that was the plan that Kapi was going for, forcing
Bam into a siege. And honestly, that was pretty
smart. I'm not going to lie. That's a good way
to put it. The only thing is that it didn't work,
unfortunately, for Kapu. But he still put up
a good fight. He still put up a pretty good fight.
Even he was still catching Bam. Bam was getting
caught still. And this was still a quality matchup.
For sure, yeah. Despite how it might have played
out. It was still a really good fight. This was
a really good fight. I feel like Jesse Rodriguez
is the new Roman Gonzalez. where a lot of people
are rating him somewhere between two to four
on their pound -for -pound rankings. And they're
like, who the fuck is this little guy? Why are
you putting this little guy at the top of your
rankings? That doesn't make sense to me. But
I feel like he's actually getting a lot more
recognition than Chocolatito. Because you know
what? I think that a lot more people know about
Bam. And I think that's also because of Inoue
and Nakatani. I think just a lot more people
are focusing on the lower divisions a lot more
recently. I think that's kind of giving Bam a
little bit of a bump. People are giving the smaller
divisions a chance more often than they would
because of guys like Inoue, like you mentioned.
Yeah. It's because it's also... It's a little
flashy recently, too, you know? Bam getting knockouts,
Nakantani getting knockouts, Inoue getting knockouts.
People like that shit. Bam became, like, an instant,
basically an instant star among, like, the watchers
of boxing, just, like, taking the quadras fight
on extremely short notice and just blowing them
out. Handing his ass. Like, that... That was
the beginning and the end. That, like... it's
tough to say that he wasn't like instantly endeared
to a fan base for that. We put on a damn good
performance. Yeah, absolutely. And it's good.
We're going to see him. I was scared because
I know he was, he already had that fight with
Puma lined up. I honestly thought that was going
to affect the fight. Oh, yeah. completely forgot
about the the superstition part of it that i
was like i was legit thinking about as well was
like man you can't just be looking past just
just because nobody else has heard of him doesn't
mean he's not good the matchroom classic yeah
the matchroom classic oh yeah uh but still um
bam i i think i've seen him like two or three
times live he's uh I really do reserve this word
for a very select few of fighters. Bam is special.
Oh, yeah. This young man is something serious.
So if you're not watching, if nobody else, pay
attention to him. I'll tell you this. I've said
this on many occasions, too. I think Bam is probably
one of the best. skill -wise, one of the best
skill sets in the sport. I honestly think he's
better than Inouye. And I think if they were
at the same weight, I might be ballsy, I think
he beats Inouye. And I think he beats Nakamani.
Just off of skills alone. That is a pretty ballsy
claim for the sickos who know who you're talking
about. I just think that his use of his defense
and his lateral movement is just... It's something
akin to, I would say probably on the same level
as B -Bowl, if not even better. You know? It's
beautiful, honestly. It's art when you watch
Bam. He brings a tear to my eye, honestly. He's
the junior, the smaller Lomachenko. Yeah, yeah.
He said it himself that he emulates Lomachenko.
Yeah, he emulates Lomachenko, which is crazy.
You know, Lomachenko. I know he didn't have the
best career to some people. I would say, though,
that he had some great skills, man. He got some
great skills. Oh, yeah. Like, when he was at
his right weight class operating, yeah. Yeah,
just to take it out of what would have been then,
like, considering resume and stuff, like, pound
for pound, maybe not the best. But skill for
skill. Lomachenko was unquestionably one of the
better operators that we've seen in a long time.
Phenomenal. And we're seeing that with Bam right
now. I think we're seeing what Lomachenko could
have been with Bam. I'm saying these ballsy takes
right now. No, it's funny. I think it's arguably
more dominant just because you're convinced.
He's not having much trouble with guys on the
level or better than Linares and stuff. And he's
actually winning the fights as he moves up. You're
right. Last words. Final thoughts for Bam, Kafu,
at the Frisco. It was a great fight. Can't wait
to see Bam in the future. I can't wait to see
Bam fight Puma. Ooh, that's going to be sick.
I really hope they get the last title to make
it an undisputed fight. How would that even be
possible? Whoever the IBF champ, it would have
to be a quick win. But otherwise, yeah, I don't
think it fits into the timeline. Yeah, you're
right. What weight class is it again? Junior
Bantamweight? 115. Yeah. Junior Bantamweight,
who has the title? IBF? I'm not sure. I think
it's vacant. If they were to... I hope for this
fight they make this for the vacant title. I'm
pretty sure the IBF has actually been taken recently,
but I think it was... I think it was by some
Mexican fighter. My Mexican fighter, actually.
All right. I think it was... Correct me if I'm
wrong. Actually. It's a bit unusual because Mexicans...
Mexico usually doesn't participate in the IBF
and their nonsense. Yeah. I will say, though,
that honestly, I wouldn't want that Undisputed
fight to be on a ring card. That would be kind
of horrendous if BAM was the opening of the main.
Oh, yeah, his name is Willevaldo Garcia. All
right. That's cool. It's good that somebody picked
it up. I would like if they delayed this one
for Puma to fight this new IBF title holder.
I'm a sucker for Undisputed. Yeah, me too. I'm
one of those guys. Take that for what you will.
Oh, I don't mind consolidation of belts at all.
If nothing else, just getting them onto one person.
If nothing else, having one guy who's the best
at a weight class is A -OK. And Bam's proven
himself as that so far. Yes, he has. Absolutely.
Let's keep it moving to the MGM Grand Garden
Arena. Mario Barrios gets a... Majority draw.
Please hear the irony that I'm trying to put
into this. Majority draw versus Manny Pacquiao.
What the fuck is this timeline? Go to timeline.
I think this is the best outcome. This was the
best outcome. No, man. Boris deserves to lose
it for not being able to beat the ghost of Manny
Pacquiao. Sorry, the ghost of the ghost of the
ghost at this point of Manny. I will say that
I'll say that the fact that Manny was able to
pull that off, I think he won. Yeah, Manny had
a good fight. Yeah. No disrespect to Manny on
the boxing end. Yeah. I was surprised by what
Manny did that night. Honestly, I kind of was
expecting a shutout. mario barrios i think that
also he just i think he was just respecting manny
pacquiao too much in the beginning and he left
himself he left uh he left the the like the first
six rounds which kind of escaped pacquiao you
know well you heard him he said after the fight
that fanny could still crack so yeah he said
that old man can still hit whatever else yeah
that was uh that was that opening the fact that
the champion say that I do think some of the
online reaction has been a bit hyperbolic. Being
like, Barrios is one of the worst champions in
a long time. Unfortunately, he isn't. Crawford
fought a lot of those guys. Half of Crawford's
resume are the worst champions of this last decade.
I will say that... See, the thing is, you can't
dog on Barrios. Again, Barrios does have heart.
Barrios? Yeah, Barrios has heart. we saw that
in that Abel Ramos fight. I mean, I feel like
he can't fight. It's just, that was, he gave
too much respect to Pacquiao. I was thinking
that he carried him. Yeah, yeah, he carried him
a little too much to the point where he got a
majority draw. The thing is that, I mean, to
me, I don't want to say it was fixed. I feel
like it was a predetermined outcome. I feel like
that too because you can't give it to Barrios
because the mini Pacquiao I just don't think
Barrios is... The outcome's weird, because Barrios
is genuinely huge. You can totally see how, again,
like I've said this before, the ringside judges
don't have the view. The same vantage points
that we do. Yeah. Yeah, so we can totally see
Pacquiao's owning this guy, but the judges can't
exactly see. Pacquiao's full work compared to,
like, even if Barrios is just hitting a guard,
Barrios is fucking massive. Mm -hmm. He's doing
damage. He's a big boy. The thing is, I don't
know. When we're talking about the fixed fight,
I mean, I just feel like this is kind of manufactured
by the PBC, dude. That decision it had. It's
a convenient result for sure, but honestly, the
better result for PBC is just... The better result
for PBC is Pacquiao winning. That's the better
result for PBC because that means more money
for them because that can potentially be... You
can technically probably... You can lure Floyd
being like, hey... He's got a belt. He's got
a belt. You have another potential super fight
on your hands. With the way that the PBC is going
right now with the lack of pay -per -view fights,
that would be a godsend, you know? However...
For me, Pacquiao and Barrio Barrios, this is
the best outcome. Again, I do think that Pacquiao
won, but Pacquiao's also not going to lie down.
You know? If he won, he would have never lied
down. He could have bought another. He could
have bought Rowley, for all we know. Manny Rowley
might be hilarious, actually. That's a hilarious
fight. I love that it's serious, but it's a hilarious
fight. Yeah. Because there's, like, it goes,
like, Manny either... like, beats his ass because
he's good at boxing and Roley isn't. Or Roley
gets, like, a hilarious meme knockout. That would
be hilarious to me. That would be really sad.
Or no, man. Very meme -worthy, though, nonetheless.
Yeah, like, it's hilarious in that it's a meme
knockout, not hilarious in... I don't want to
see Manny get knocked out. Not again, anyway.
Not as if to say, like, he's that old. Like,
dude, the Marquez 4 knockout was, like, 13 years
ago. Yeah. That's enough. That's enough. That's
how far gone we are on this fucking guy. That's
why I'm like, okay, Barrios should probably be
a little ashamed. But, like, he's the worst champion
of the last decade is hyperbolic. Because if
you just look at Terrence Crawford's box rec,
there's, like, three guys worse right there.
Well, the thing is... I can tell you it dongle's
worse. I can tell you, Jeff Ford is worse. Krala.
Ricky Burns. Krala is worse. And Ricky Burns
are worse. Yeah, like I'm telling you. Like,
there are worse guys. His entire undisputed run.
Well, Sans Postal, I suppose. So, never mind.
But I was going to say, his entire undisputed
run, just worse than Barrios Pacquiao. Like,
in Dongo, in Dongo, Jeff Horn back -to -back.
is criminal for the resume. Are you saying that
Terrence Crawford is the worst champion than
Mario Barrios? Is that what you're saying? No,
I'm saying that the guys he fought are worse
champions than Mario Barrios. Who does Mario
Barrios really beat against? Mario Barrios is
at least better than Jeff Horn. Yeah, but I understand
that, but I mean, who has he beat that's, you
know, besides Ugas? Ugas, I would say, is probably
the best name on his resume. That's still pretty
good. Like, this guy, again, Ndongo, like, Jeff
Horn has, like, a horrific Pacquiao robbery.
And that's it. And Ndongo doesn't even have that.
I would say Mario Barrios, I wouldn't say he's
a horrible champion. I still think he can...
No, like I'm saying, I'm defending Barrios being
like, there are worse champions in the last 10
years than him. I think the online reaction has
been a bit vitriolic. I would say that he probably
is the weakest champion, for sure, in the welterweight
division right now. Oh, yeah. And... Well, Roley's
technically one, isn't he? Yeah. I honestly would
rate Roley over Barrios. Yeah. Oh, you're right.
You're right. You might be right, actually. I
don't know. I don't rate Barrios that highly.
I mean, he seems like a good guy. No, like, I
don't rate Barrios. I'm just, like, he's not,
like, an affront to God, like I've seen people
on Twitter saying. Yeah, no, I see what you're
saying. It's just to say that he's a good guy.
That's what I mean. Like, it's hyperbolic because,
like, I feel like I hear this every other, this
guy's the worst champion in history type deal.
Every other Canelo opponent. Yeah. This guy's
the worst motherfucker of all time. This is the
worst guy at 168 of all time. And I'm like, I'd
like you to see some of the guys Bernard Hopkins
fought at 168. Some of these guys fucking suck.
Or even like the guys that Roy Jones fought.
Like, sorry, Roy. Yeah. You're one of the - The
hell, the guys - Emile Griffiths, bro. Well,
and then, you know, Lennox Lewis, right, guys?
Right, guys? Lennox Lewis? Hell nah. Lennox Lewis
is the best champion. I know. Hell nah. I had
to throw a brick in there just to piss you guys
off. No, I'm just... He's a Canadian. He's a
Canadian. We claim him. We claim him in Canada.
He fought for us in the Olympics. Oh, yeah. Canadian.
He's Canadian. He's a Canadian gold medal. Whenever
the Tyson Fury is an all -time heavyweight, unbeatable
because of his size and shit, I thought to myself,
Lennox Lewis beats him. And it's not even close.
Easily. I'm not going to lie. Honestly, a funny
thing I like to think about, who's the worst
heavyweight champ who could beat Tyson Fury?
And the answer is probably John Ruiz. Fury fucks
around, doesn't take it seriously, and then John
Ruiz hugs him to a UD. Like, John Ruiz... Buster
Douglas? Okay, but Buster Douglas... Do we count,
like... He could be one Tyson. He could be the
other Tyson. He could be the other... Buster
Douglas on that night is, like, the funniest
mythical fighter of all time. Just because on
eye test, you're like, wow. This guy might be
the GOAT. And then you watch him every other
fight of his career, and you're like, oh, my
God, what am I watching? Who is this guy? Buster
Douglas KO's Evander Holyfield, right? Buster
Douglas shows up pregnant and gets knocked down
in, like, three rounds. Yeah. All right. Let's
keep it moving here. Barrios. Majority draw.
Do you see how much he weighed against Holyfield?
Gary Allen Russell KO'd over Hugo Castaneda.
Pretty one -sided affair for Allen here. Good
for Gary Russell. Good for Gary Russell. We'll
see you in 2026, buddy. Yeah, we'll see you then.
See you next year for your yearly paycheck. Good
performance, bro. Excellent. 1 .30 is not exactly
great. That version of Gary Russell might be
something. Like, relatively speaking. He's like
the Lara of this division. Oh, shit. That's a
perfect way to put it. He's going to fight once
a year, pick up a WBA title, and continue to
fight once a year. Fortunately. They're going
to get the PBC title. Mark Magsaya also. I didn't
know. Mark Magsaya also fought. Yep, Mark Magsayo
gets the UD over Jorge Mata. This is another
130 fight. This guy's still around? Magsayo versus
Alan Russell. Again? Pencil it. Oh, yeah. Russell
hurt his fucking shoulder or something and lost
to Magsayo on a majority decision. Yeah. I remember
that. Yeah. Moving up, David Picasso, majority
decision over Kyonosuke Kameda. Good job. I did
not want that. That boy ain't ready for it anyway,
I'll tell you that. No, fuck no, he's not. He
needs some time. He needs some time, for sure.
He needs a lot of things if he's going to get
to that point. He needs some bricks in his gloves,
steroids. All of it. Bring back Eddie Fudge from
the dead. Get Victor Conte back on his old habits.
Oh, yeah. David Picasso, majority decision over
Kudosuke Kameda. Congratulations. Brandon Figueroa,
UD over Joet Gonzalez. Joette did what Joette
does. He showed up scrappy, refused to quit,
and I don't know. I feel like he did better than
some might think. He made a big roll at Coral.
Yeah, he did. But when it's... When it's... When
it's Stephen Fulton making you look like a fool
versus... Which you could expect. That could
be just reasonably dismissed. But... Joey Gonzalez?
That's who's making you look like shit? Yeah,
that's not a good sign. We need to start asking
some serious questions here. Like... I don't
think... This is whatever. Like, this isn't the
type of fight that you should be looking like
shit in. He's tailor -made for you to win. At
least a good decision, you know? Right. This
is kind of rocky. I'm not going to lie. Not in
a good way. Shrug. Not the good rocky. For the
people who can't see, this is me shrugging. Yeah.
I'll tell you, we'll figure it out. He broke
my heart a little bit. Heartbreaker broke my
heart. Heartbreaker broke your heart. Moving
up, Sebastian Fandora retires Tim Zhu. 7 out
of 12. WBC super welterweight title on the line.
I want to ask Josh first. Now, is this retirement
from Tim Zhu? Is this live to fight another day,
or is this bitch made? This is live to fight
another day. Okay. Honestly, he needs new management.
Yeah. The way you've seen, you can't do Fandora,
Baccarum. mild soft touch and then fundora again
back to back to back to back especially with
how unsoft of a touch mertes olive was joy spencer
notwithstanding yeah like this is a brutal schedule
you know what he threw the kitchen sink at fundora
it didn't work fundora is actually looking better
as well credit to fundora Sue definitely needs
to take a year or two so he doesn't to like just
let his body recover from this dog shit schedule
he was handed I think that it's more important
let everything recover have a couple soft touches
in Australia make some dollars get some confidence
work on some shit and come back better to the
world stage because With how his management is
right now, they're going to feed him to another.
They're going to end up feeding him to another
guy, and another guy, and another guy, and it's
going to be not great. We're going to tap him
out, basically. Yeah. All right. So, were you
on the Bunsdora train? Yeah. I talked about this
a lot in the last pod, but I wanted both to win.
I wanted... Pandora went more just because he's
a local boy. And I'm glad he won. But this fight,
I noticed he did use a jab a little more than
usual. Oh, hell yeah. Which that did make me
excited to see. Yeah, it's scary. Yeah, it was
scary. Yeah, exactly. But the thing is that once
Tim Zoo found his range, he kind of went back
to his old ways, which is something that he needs
to learn. But Pandora put up a good fight. He
knocked out Tim Zoo in the first round. Not even
Bakken really did that? No? I mean, I don't know.
I just think that... I think Fundora's got a
good future ahead of him. He keeps using that
jab. No? Yeah. Fundora improving at using his
range is terrifying. Honestly. That's fucking
scary. That is a mythic... That was a mythical
fighter. Fundora using his range... Fundora knows
how to use his range. That's fucking terrifying.
This is... Because you won't be able to reach
his ass. how can you you try to break the distance
on the jab you're still like six inches behind
where you need to be good and the thing is that
he like he already has the infighter skill set
so even when you get in he's still gonna beat
your ass oh yeah that's the thing with pandora
too that's terrifying he's a he's not a bad uh
an inside fighter as well. Oh, no. It's just
that being that tall and fighting on the inside
is not the smartest thing to do, of course. But,
I mean, come on. I mean, he is showing through
Buma. I'm surprised. I will take back the statement
I said last time where I said that he didn't
show much. He is showing a good amount. At this
fight, at least. Oh, yeah. He's shown a lot of
growth. Let's see what happens next fight. We
have a new champion that we'll talk about next
week. But I will say this, that I think that
he, if he uses that jab properly, he can dominate
the division. If he uses that jab properly. I
feel like beating Tim Zhu is what, here's what's
going to happen. It's not what I want, but Tim
Zhu is now going to have access to the back catalog
of the guys that Tim Zhu beat. Like a rematch
with Brian Mendoza. Fighting Tony Harrison, like
that type of opponent, and I'm not looking forward
to it. Yeah, you're right. For North, it's kind
of in a division where right now it's all the
promotional companies are there, you know? Everybody
wants a piece of the pie. Yeah, everybody is
involved right now. Back then, the division was
dominated by the PBC. This time around, it's
dominated by everybody. Oh, yeah. Right now,
the BBC. That was quite an era. BBC right now
currently has a good foothold because they hold
two of the titles. But once people become the,
once they become the mandatories, they might
need to give up those titles. They might have
to give up those titles. If they don't play ball
anyway. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Or send it to fucking
Riyadh. That's why things can happen. The only
way you're going to see anybody with Pandora
and Bokrum. If you're going to see anybody else
besides those two fight, it's going to be in
Riyadh. There was some chatter about Bokrum not
having... He can't find opponents. Even with
the Riyadh guys behind him, he still can't find
a solid opponent. I don't know. It's kind of
odd. I mean, I know Virgil kind of wants to.
I know Virgil was pretty vocal about facing Bokrum.
He did want to fight him. Yeah, even Josh fucking
Kelly. When's the last time you heard that name?
But he was still like, yeah, put me in the ring.
Send me the contract. I'll sign it tomorrow.
And, yeah, I feel like they're going to do Erickson
Lubin with Buckner. That's where they're going.
It's crazy that Erickson Lubin is still around,
you know. He's still young, but it's crazy that,
you know. Yeah. He's back in paddle contention
once again. In my opinion, he hasn't really earned
that right, you know. No, he has not. Dude, I'm
still mad at you. of Jesus Ramos. I'm still fucking
mad about that. That is still upsetting. That
still makes me mad. Jesus Ramos got bumped to
the back of the line. Sure, he probably wasn't
going to last at the front of the line, but still.
He still won the fight. That doesn't put him
at the front. That doesn't justify getting jogged
by Erickson Lubin for no reason. Of all the people.
but it was a move to make so that they could
recycle Ericsson Lubin. They're all in for another
Spencer. I mean, I don't know. I feel like if
Ericsson Lubin gets in the mix, you know, and
if he wins, you know, it'd be pretty interesting.
I don't know. I hope Mark Barkham wins. Yeah,
I don't believe so. Mark Barkham's going to fucking
kill him, dude. I don't need those Probox guys,
man. You never know. Probox fellas. Okay, so
here we go. We've Quentin Tarantino'd this whole
thing. We're back at Mario Barrios and Manny
Pacquiao. Anything more to say? Anything more
to add? Did we talk about people yet? I kind
of skipped them because he had a super late replacement.
If he lost, then we'd be having a different conversation.
Yeah, you're right. Alright, anything more for
Barrios, Pacquiao, before we move on? Pacquiao,
please retire. Please don't come back. No, Pacquiao,
don't retire. Go beat up Roley and then we can
get another Mayweather fight. Oh, boy. You've
done it. That'd be so funny. That'd just be funny.
And you know what? You know what? Any type of,
like, super event with a stacked undercard that
isn't in Riaz is a win at this point. Yeah, I
mean, that's gonna be... Mayweather Pacquiao
2 in Vegas for a welterweight title with a bunch
of, like, with a stacked undercard would be fire.
Yeah, I mean, that would be pretty good, but...
A man can only dream. Roly, come on. Roly will
sidemask shit. He will fight Pacquiao. That's
not even a... I have no idea. That'd be a funny
fuck buildup, too. It's more likely if Ryan wins,
you're gonna get Ryan versus Pacquiao. Which...
I heard this one before already. Yeah. That's
not a new bedtime story. Yeah, bro. I've been
hearing this one for a while. What do you want?
Pack you out to fight Ryan? Yeah, I've heard
this one for a while. Saudi Arabia has been trying
to do this for a while. All right. We got to
keep it rolling. Let's see. Based on time, I'm
going to do this now. And then we'll talk about
the Queensberry card at Wembley. Right after.
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And here we are. Let's keep it going with the
one bit of recap that I wanted to save a bit
of time for. The Queensberry card at Wembley
Arena in London. One really quickly to get off,
just to get off the docket as quickly as we can.
Lawrence Okoli, UD over Kevin Lorena. Send him
back to McDonald's, dude. I'm fucking done with
Lawrence Okoli. We've been done. We've been done.
Back to McDonald's, please. Yeah, it's about
time. When he was at Cruiserweight, it made sense.
It made sense that he was there, but now he's
at heavyweight. Like, bro, you're not going anywhere
here. He's also a co -main, too, for a pay -per
-view. I know. Nasty, so. Who does that, bro?
Like, he's bounced around promotions because
no one fucking wants him. Like. Somebody who
does not like you or care about you is who put
him as your co -main. Our co -main, let me restate.
You got to pay for that shit, dog. I did. I sure
did. I don't want to see Lawrence Coley ever
again. I would prefer not to as well. I don't
want to see him anywhere near Richard Torres
Jr. I don't even want to see him taking my fucking
order at McDonald's. He's got to stay at the
back. Fry cook only? Yeah. I don't even want
to see him taking my fucking order. Main event,
Oleksandr Usyk KO5 over Daniel Dubois. This was
a rematch. It was technically for Undisputed,
so that makes Usyk two -time heavyweight Undisputed
champion. I feel this was only a technicality,
and Usyk's been Undisputed the whole time. Yep.
But regardless, Usyk is him. He is fucking magic.
He is fucking in -ring wizardry. Whatever other
storytime description you want to use of him,
Usyk is him. And Dubois is not. Uzik is the man.
We are watching an all -timer. We are watching
one of the Mount Rushmore of heavyweight boxers.
That's what we're looking at right now. One of
the greatest ever lived. Does anybody want to
try to balance the glazing that I've been doing?
I will. Go for it. I'll bounce it. Oh, of course
you would. As I always do. As I always do. You
guys can shit on Dubois all you want, but he
lost to one of the greatest heavyweights of all
time. That's all I got to say. Yeah. Come on.
Yeah. I mean, Dubois, you know, he came out aggressive
enough. He got knocked out, you know. And he
still got up and he got knocked out. I mean,
come on. You can't dog on him for having a...
having lost to one of the greatest of all time.
You're just making my argument for Usyk being
an all -timer even better. Exactly. I mean, I
think Usyk is also one of the greatest of all
time as well. But to say that Dubois sucks is...
Oh, no. I wasn't trying to. No. I was saying
Dubois is not him after all the stuff and the
build -up. Oh. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, then, yeah.
That's the case. Yeah, I agree with you guys.
But I still think Dubois can... Once Usyk retires,
he can take those titles over. He will continue
being a dominant force at heavyweight. Make no
mistake about it. For sure. He just is not Usyk.
Usyk has nothing left to prove, guys. It's time
to hang him up, dog. You've done everything.
Everything. Farewell fight. Farewell fight. Yeah,
he did. Oh, no, not Dillian White. You know what?
Farewell fight. Do a rematch with Chizora just
for fun. You guys can both retire on the same
fight. Well, imagine Chizora chins him and knocks
him out. And, oh, my God. Chizora's the undisputed
heavyweight. He's a dead man. He's a dead man.
Guys, has this guy been using the shrooms? Sponsor?
Fathoming Chizora. That's the Undisputed Champion.
If Chizora wins, then he can fight Deontay Wilder.
And then Deontay Wilder knocks him out with him.
Deontay Wilder. And then we have the American
Heavyweight. American Undisputed Heavyweight.
Come on. Tyson Fury shows up at 300 pounds to
beat Wilder a fourth time. Well, the thing is
Wilder knocks him out. In the fourth fight, just
letting you know. Deontay Wilder knocks everybody
out. This guy's the script. I was thinking Usyk
could fight Jake Paul to get paid. As a farewell
fight? Yeah, to get paid. I would like for Usyk
to get paid. It's basically the plot of Rocky.
Yeah. It basically is. It's basically the plot
of Rocky. An older undefeated heavyweight champ
basically doesn't make a wish fight against the
shitter. The shitter who needs relevance. It's
basically the plot of Rocky. If Jake Paul were...
Or if Rocky were terrible. Well, what matter
if Jake Paul actually wins the fight and then
we still have an American Undisputed Heavyweight
Champion? Come on. Oh, my God, bro. Undisputed
Heavyweight Champion, Jake Paul. Wow. Yeah, that's
quite a line. Speak it, believe it, receive it.
That's all I got. You know what, man? That would
just be further proof that Barrios is not the
worst champ in the last 10 years. This further
helps my Barrios defense. Well, I mean, yeah.
I mean, Usyk's never fought an American Heavyweight
before, right? I mean, come on. He fought Chaz
Witherspoon. Michael Hunter? Michael Hunter was
a cruiserweight, but I also agree there. They
both moved up, so technically... Yeah. Come on,
come on. He's never fought an American. He fought
Chaz Witherspoon. I mean, hey. U6 beating Brit
Bums. That's going to be the argument. All U6
has done is beat British Bums. I would like for
Lin. He's never done anything with his career.
I would like to say specifically to Lin. It's
just nothing but Brit Bums. These guys are fucking
useless. That's the perfect rage bait. That would
be for a two -hour podcast if it was Ragebait.
That's the Ragebait. How is AJ the least useless
of his opponents, but the worst in terms of their
standings right now? How is AJ the most competent?
AJ was the most competent Usyk opponent, but
the worst overall guy. Three out of four. That's
really it. Three out of four. He never fought
Deontay Wilder. Or Tyson Fury. That era is just
frauds. Just a bunch of frauds. And then he lost
when they're not frauds. I mean, honestly, I
think that if Wilder and AJ fought when they
did, none of this shit would have happened. Usuk
would not even... No. We would have had an undisputed
heavyweight champion. God, the timeline where
Jarrell Miller does not get exposed for, like,
eating the entire pharmacy. I mean, that's...
I mean, either way, that whole thing, that whole
three -fight deal with DeAsian would be cooked.
Because, I mean, AJ did get defeated by Rick
and Andy Ruiz, you know, so... Oh, my God. That's
what I mean. If Jarrell Miller didn't fucking,
like, eat the pharmacy, they wouldn't have fought
Ruiz, and we would have still... There would
have been... The timeline would have been all
right. Mm -hmm. Yeah. Fortunately, we don't live
in a good... Or it would have been even funnier
because it would have been so many... Or it would
have been even funnier if Jarrell Miller beat
AJ there. Yeah. Then we get an all -American
undisputed heavyweight match between Terrell
Miller and Deontay Wilder. Fuck. Oh, God. That
would be just the best timeline for me. That
would be fantastic. Saudi Arabia never enters
boxing because they're so repulsed at the fact
that these two guys are undisputed. Contenders.
We're done with this. I'm going to go buy a fucking
golf course or something. Fuck you guys. We'll
go buy the NBA. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, we
can count Deontay Wilder as much as we want,
but he's the only one that fought Tyson Fury
out of the three. Those are the only two that
fought each other. So, you know, fuck Anthony
Joshua. Fuck Eddie here for that, actually. um
let's move into our previews and it's extremely
light uh let's go oh this isn't even that light
you think this is more i'm looking at next week's
oh yeah okay so it's not that bad um but there's
something yeah so wednesday july 30th by the
time you hear this this uh these fights already
may have happened But because we don't have a
whole lot else to talk about. Let's see here.
From the bottom up. Taken at the Yokohama Buntai
in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Yuki Taniguchi
versus Yukihiro Kitamura. Oh, that's fun. Tensho
Isobe. Versus Joe Umezawa. Eric Rosa versus Kyosuke
Takami. That's pretty much it for the prelims.
I'm sure there's more like if you were in the
building, but we don't have access to that. Yeah.
Okay. In the co -main Kenshiro Teragi. he is
the wbc flyweight champion he will be fighting
ricardo sandoval so that's fun i'm expecting
this is another this is going to be a pretty
easy hard fought but he relatively relatively
easy win and antonio vargas The WBA 118 champion
versus Daigo Higa, the second -rated contender.
Tsutsumi, for whatever reason, they decided to
strip him instead of giving him... Like, he's
medically... He's out for medical reasons. So
they... I don't know, like, why they didn't give
him the champion in recess or whatever, but here
we are fighting for his... His title. Against
the dude that he just had a draw with. Daigo
Higa. This is kind of weird. But. Yeah. That.
Utter silence. This is why you go listen to Boxing
Before Dark. Because this is where we talk about
a lot of the shit that happens before you wake
up. Moving on. Saturday, August 2nd. Golden Boy
at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Interesting
place to put this on, but whatever. I'm here
for it. I like when non -traditional cities get
a big boxing event. Do any of these prelims?
Are they familiar to either of you? No. Not at
all. All right, cool. So, Yair Gallardo Lozano
versus Quinton Rankin at light heavyweight. Okay,
Joshua Edwards versus Kamen Audi at heavyweight.
Tristan Calcruth versus Kareem Hackett at cruiserweight.
And here we go. Regis Progray versus Jojo Diaz
at 140. Peto Diaz is still around. Yeah. Oh,
my God. On the Discord pick league, I pick Progray
by stoppage. Better. I do not rate Jojo Diaz.
In, like, today's Jojo Diaz, I do not rate him
at all. Yeah, like... Why are we still talking
about this, man? He's washed. He's a pedophile.
Progray is only one of those things. I like how
washed came before pedophile. One of these things
is worse. Well, because the pedophilia doesn't
factor into the fighting. Yeah, just on a personal
basis. It's an important thing to mention with
JoJo, but it doesn't factor into the fight itself.
Both washed, but Pro Grey. I think Pro Grey is
less washed and bigger and stronger. Just everything's
lining up for Pro Grey. He does not touch children
or try to groom children. He's not on Snapchat
texting 16 -year -olds. He crashes go -karts.
That's it. He has crawfish boils. Sounds like
a pretty chill guy. That sounds pretty fucking
excellent. I've seen some Crawfish Boy old TikToks.
God damn, I want to go to one so badly. That
thing on Twitter was pretty funny when he was
just like, guys, how do I get a gold go -kart
out of a ditch? That was a pretty fun day. That
was a pretty fun day. That is some Regis -ass
shit to say. That was some fun shit. Yeah. But...
Maybe not as fun. Oscar Duarte versus Kenneth
Sims Jr. 140 pounds in the main event. I have
heard of Kenny Sims. I've seen him fight a few
times. I really feel like Duarte has the experience
here, and it's going to be a pretty brutal affair,
I would say, in the mid -lates. Like five. Oh,
yeah. Or six, eight, seven. That area. Kenny's
still kind of young. But at the same time, I
don't know. I just got a feeling he might have
the upset. You think he can pull it off? Maybe,
yeah. Because I do know that Duarte, he's kind
of one -dimensional. Yeah, the stylistic matchup
does favor Sims. Mm -hmm. So that's why I think
if you can, if there's someone that you can pull
off the upset against, it would be probably Duarte.
Yeah, this is actually a good lineup for Kenny.
I actually chose him by decision. In my pick
week. I picked Duarte, I think, by stoppage.
But I don't know. I think the experience is going
to carry him through here. We'll see. Yeah, we'll
see for sure. Once you point it out, like, oh
shit, that's right. Kenny Sims does have the...
He has the style perks to beat a guy like Duarte.
I'm the only one that chose Duarte. I need to
get back in the picks lead. Yeah, they've been
tagging a little bit. Yeah, I did it like twice.
I'm going to get involved. I stopped doing it
once I stopped managing it. I was first place
in the last one that Greg ran where half the
fights got cancelled. The fucking Greg baboon
curse. Anything more for the golden boy card?
Stop doing fights in better places, please. Better
venues. I like that they're doing this in Chicago.
The University of Illinois. You guys can pick
a rec hall or something. And an actual arena.
Yeah. You guys can do better than a university.
Get better champions. Get better champions. Get
better champions. Golden Boy is the only promotional
company that doesn't have any male champions.
No active champions. Active male champions, yeah.
Yeah, they have... What do you mean? Most valuable
promotions doesn't either. Oh, no, I take that
back. They have Zurdo. Oh, good call. That's
right. Yeah. But that's only one. That's only
one, so... That's one. And it's a cruiserweight,
so... That's all you got now. That's Jake Paul's
white flag. He owns those streets. Yeah. All
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