This shit ain't nothing to me, man. Gotta get
your podcast right, Leo. Yes, I do. That was
the little hand. That was my thinking moment.
Like, wait, what am I doing right now? Who am
I talking to? What is this? Where am I? Alzheimer's
setting in already. Sad to see. Can't help myself.
Brain deteriorating. Oh, shit. Boxing Before
Dark, we are all up in your ears, and we're here
to talk the fucking fights. Man, Shanada, how
are you? I am good. I have been doing some trip
and fight bookings. Got my ticket for the 1FC
in November in Tokyo. I've never seen kickboxing
live, so I'm actually pretty excited. Did Ryzen
not have it? There was no kickboxing. It was
all MMA stuff. Oh, shit. I thought Ryzen was...
Oh, Ryze. Sorry. They have an organization called
Ryze, and that's kickboxing. And then there's
Ryzen. Yeah, no, but that's different. That's
MMA. Yeah. My mistake. Yeah. So, and I might
be missing in two weeks because I'm going up
to Hokkaido to watch Draft Horse Racing. It's
the main reason for this trip. So they got the
big draft horses pulling heavy sleds, and there's
two small hills built into the course. I'm really
excited about it, actually. I think it's going
to be super cool. Them being draft horses does
make it cooler, just because they're bigger and
beefier. Well, and it's built in such a way where
no horse can pull the sled from start to finish.
without a rest so there's actually a lot of like
knowing your animal and strategy involved whoa
yeah and like stopping the sled and restarting
it is bad obviously because momentum but you
you have to do it at least once but do you do
it twice for a short time or once for a longer
time and how far from each uh hill do you stop
and anyway I'm super stoked. If anybody's interested
in looking it up, it's called Vane, V -A -N -E
-I, and it's up on YouTube. It's pretty fun.
This actually does sound a little bit more entertaining
than Floyd Mayweather versus Mike Tyson. Yeah.
I am not excited for this at all. Not even a
little bit. This is the dumbest shit fucking
ever. Ever. Floyd's ducking Manny again. What's
new? And Mike Tyson can barely walk. There's
no fucking chance he catches Floyd Mayweather.
Mayweather's still in really good shape. They're
not going to hurt each other. It's not the point
of the event. The point is to just pitter -patter,
move around a bit. Nothing serious. I would imagine
something serious. The only one of these Mike
Tyson ones that was worth doing, in my opinion,
was the Roy Jones Jr. one. Because they're both
old and can hardly move. It was even. But Floyd's
just going to dance around and make... Old decrepit
Mike Tyson looks stupid and it's gonna make me
sad. Why do they insist on making me sad? I don't
know. If Mayweather's coming out of retirement,
he should fight Manny. This is stupid. This has
to be an exhibition. Right? I would think so.
But who the fuck knows? Like, it should be. Should
be. Yeah, they could just forum shop and find
somebody that's willing to sanction it. That
would be a bad look, though. Yeah, but lots of
those sanctioning bodies do not care. True. Oh,
speaking of sanctioning bodies that do not care.
Jaime Munguia. Cleared of all charges. In the
stupidest way possible. Right. So, like, somebody
said false positive, but that's not what this
is. No, it's not. No one's saying it's a false
positive. They're saying that Munguia used something,
but it's something that's allowed. But then he
goes on to say Eddie... Had no idea. What he
was using. And knows nothing about this. So his.
Test. Was positive. For a non -ban substance.
That his coach had no idea. He was taking. The
substance is not. Is banned in the UK. It's not
banned in the US. Or anywhere else for that matter.
That's why. He was. He popped. a legitimate pop
but he submitted himself to extra testing to
prove like no this yes i was on i was taking
that supplement uh but i thought it was allowed
because it's allowed everywhere else but here
apparently and yeah he did so nail testing follicle
testing didn't he still break the rules then
because wasn't that shanked it sanctioned by
the uk yeah exactly So it's still wrong. Why
is this not a no contest? Because... Yes. Yes.
Like, it's so fucking stupid. If you're playing
a sport in a league, you need to know the rules
for that league. I know sanctioning bodies aren't
exactly leagues, but it's pretty similar. If
you know you're going to be sanctioned by the
British Boxing Board of Commission, like, you
have to stop taking the stuff. Now, maybe he
did, but... If he'd have told them before, I'm
on this thing that's allowed in the States that's
not allowed in Britain. I'm stopping now, but
I'll probably still test positive. That would
be different. Yeah, it's tough. Because I can
see why the UK would want to just let it go to
make themselves look a little bit more lenient
and not... Oh, fucky. I guess, but the whole
thing's just stupid. In all honesty, boxing's
such an international sport, we should have a
set of agreed -on banned substances at this point.
Right. Like when we talked about, what's his
name? He popped for something in Texas and then
he went to fight in the UK. Rodriguez? Was he...
That's a situation... Francisco? I think you're
right. That's something that could have easily
been avoided if commissions were to talk to each
other. Yeah. Even if the association... If all
of the state commissions feed up... Into the
Association of Commissions. So it becomes a little
bit more of an operating thing instead of just
like an administrative sort of umbrella. Would
be nice. Because then the Association of American
Commissions can talk to British Border Patrol
or whatever. Yeah, I don't know. The whole thing
is just... It's stupid. Yes. Quite. But. I mean,
this is definitely a name recognition thing,
in my opinion. If it was reversed and Sarath
had done this, like, and beaten Munguia, it would
be a no contest. And he'd be banned from competing
in the UK for like a year. Yeah. Yeah. But. Silly.
Speaking of silly, Inoue vs. Picasso. In December.
Once again, Inoue's looking past his current
opponent. I don't know why. I fucking hate this.
You can sign whatever, but don't announce it
ahead of time. That's what the post -fight conference
is for. It's like, oh, what's next for you, Naoya?
that's when you say like oh well we we've been
cooking this deal in the back and now we're ready
to announce we're fighting picasso in december
yeah and like mj is not nobody right december
is not that far away they they're seriously banking
on making easy work of him yeah like what if
mj cracks his eye or something like it could
happen Yeah, it has happened before. In a way,
it's not impervious to fucking orbital breaks.
Yeah, like, I fucking hate this. I hate this
so much. And they're doing it to everybody with
a name now. Like, they did it to Bam before he
fought Kafu. They've done it the last, like,
two or three Inoue fights. I'm sure there's other
ones I'm not thinking of right now. Just stop
with this. Yeah. Stop showing your pants. Also,
who wants to see Inoue versus Picasso? Fucking
nobody. Nobody wants that fight. Picasso's bank
account wants that fight. I guess. But, like,
I mean, fans don't want that fight. Also, does
that mean Inoue is going up? a weight class and
coming back down to fight nakatani that's stupid
uh is he going up to fight picasso or is he bringing
picasso back down i don't know i don't think
they've announced that but that's that's part
of my question yeah i'm thinking they're bringing
picasso down maybe a catchweight so imagine we're
getting into mid Mid -late November. And then
they announce interweaver Sam Goodman. In fucking...
Like, early March. I will fucking riot. I will
legitimately fucking storm the JBC or something.
I know where their headquarters are, so... Why
not? If you're going to clean out a division,
might as well be thorough. No. Just no. Also,
didn't Sam Goodman go up a weight class? Yes,
he did as well. Yeah. I mean, for in a way money,
I'm sure he's going down. He would go back to
22 without question. In a way, Goodman, finally.
The fans are finally getting the fight they've
been waiting for. It would be kind of funny if
Goodman was his first 126 fight. I think that
would be pretty funny. That would be good. That
would actually be a decent 126 debut. I don't
think Inoue's dad is going to give Goodman the
time of day ever again. I hope not. Man. Speaking
of time of day, that doesn't work. That's not
a good one, Leo. Don't do that. Parker versus
Wardley in October. This is the first I'm hearing
of this. Saw an announcement online. I think
it's legit. Which, Parker's getting fucked again.
Like, this poor man just can't get his shot.
I can't remember where I saw it, though. Yeah,
I haven't seen anything else about this. It's
on ESPN. So, I mean, it must be relatively legit.
Yeah. They are in talks for October 25th in London.
Tyson Mayweather's in the exhibition. Okay. That's
good. Yeah, that's exactly what it should be.
If it's going to be anything. Yeah, so I guess
the idea is Usyk asked for an extension. on his,
whatever you call it, talks with Parker, and
Parker wants to stay busy, so he's talking to
Fabio Wardley about an October fight, and then
Usyk would theoretically be after that. Assuming
he wins. Yeah, I was going to say, if Parker
gets sparked by Wardley, like... Another oceanic...
fighter gets sparked by wordly after boxing him
soundly for like 10 rounds i mean it could happen
parker's got a pretty good chin i don't think
it will happen but it could but i guess that
one could be kind of an exciting fight but i
just parker deserves his shot at usik i don't
know why he's getting screwed over so badly Oh,
also happening in October, Danny Garcia is back.
Really? Yeah. Why? Farewell to Brooklyn is the
name of the event. This is... So, like, he's
coming out of... I guess he never said he was
retired, but he's coming out of retirement for
a farewell fight? For the beginning of winding
down his career. I thought his career was done.
I thought so too. So he's going to say farewell
to Brooklyn. Then just example cities. Farewell
to Miami. Farewell to Las Vegas. Farewell to
Los Angeles. And then finally, his last fight,
poetically, will be in Philadelphia. I see. Where
he's going to say farewell to boxing. Well, I
mean, I liked Danny Garcia, but... Yeah, he was
fun. I thought he was done a long time ago. I
will watch, though. I will be tuning in. Well,
I mean, for all intents and purposes, he was
done a while ago. He hasn't done anything noteworthy.
I don't think he's had a fight since 2022, has
he? 2024, he fought Erislam Dilara. Oh, did he?
Yeah. I missed that one. And it looked like he
was going to have a meltdown in the middle of
the fight, and that's why his dad called it off.
They stopped it in the corner, and it looked
like Danny Garcia was going to have an emotional
breakdown. That's not good. No, not good at all.
Get some help, dude. I mean, I guess one last
farewell fight will pay for the help. I suppose.
If that's what he's doing. Is Danny Garcia the
one with the clothing line? Yes. It is god -awful
in such a horrific way that I love it, though.
It is fucking perfect for someone who looks like
Danny Garcia. Yeah, people like him. If that's
the look you're going for, it's spot on. But
I would not wear it. Holy shit. Remember the
Algerian boxer woman, Imane Khalif? She and others
are... She was a... The Transvestigators came
out. Like witch hunting. Oh, yes. Okay. I know
who it is now. And there are other female boxers
that are going to be missing the world championships.
That doesn't surprise me. New gender testing.
Compulsory gender testing. Well, do you remember...
It was a while ago, but they did this for, I
think it was the World Games. Not the Olympics,
but the other ones. And a whole bunch of people
were finding out that they weren't what they
thought they were. They were something in between.
And that's why they did chromosome testing. Yeah,
that's what they're asking for here. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. And a whole bunch of athletes found out
that they weren't. XX or XY. They were something
else. They're chimerical. Or, like, XXY or XYY
or whatever. Like, there's a bunch of them. And
they stopped testing because it was kind of,
like, fucking people's heads up at 24 to realize
that they weren't, you know, what they thought
they were. Quote -unquote pure male or pure female.
Yeah, whatever, right? And they're... Everybody's
always like, well, why don't women ever... I'm
not good at the wording. Why don't the people
that were born women ever compete in male sports?
And there's a handful that have won world medals
that are not XY. But anyways, they're like XXY
and stuff. But they only found out because the
Olympics made... Not the Olympics. The world's
made them do the chromosome testing. Which is
part of my whole argument with this shit. It's
so stupid, because you don't know what you are
unless you've tested. In many cases. Like, and
that's not standard testing anywhere. Unless
you have some symptoms or something, nobody ever
tests that. Why does it matter? What do you do
with the information if you're a chimera anyway?
Well, it's not even chimera. Like, that's not
the only thing, right? There's lots of chimeras
when there was two fetuses that melded together.
Oh, I thought that was when you're like an XXY.
No. No, that's just a chromosomal anomaly. The
most famous one is Down syndrome. Yeah. But,
like... There's a surprising number of people
who start getting, like, abdomen pain when they're
an adult and they find out they have, like, hidden
testes that never descended and no penis or something.
Right. Like, it happens a lot more often than
people think. If you go look at the actual numbers,
it's, like, 1 in 500 live -born... Male presenting
babies is not XY. Wow. Where do you make the
distinction of what qualifies as a female and
what doesn't? Yeah, I think this is probably
not great for the boxing podcast. Yeah, this
is not the conversation for this. Not the place
for this conversation. Khalif that you're talking
about, the reason they vilified her was her testosterone
levels. So it's not even that she's chromosomally
not female. Like, she's XX, she just makes more
testosterone than the average XX person. She
is a literal, actual warrior. Of course she's
going to have higher testosterone than the average
female. Lots of athletes have different levels
of hormones and stuff than the average person.
That's what makes them a fucking world -class
athlete. Yeah. Like, long -distance runners have
crazy VO2 maxes that normal people will never
have, no matter how much training they do. How
is that any different than, you know, a lady
that has extra testosterone? Naturally, without
adding to it. The whole arguments are stupid.
The doctor has spoken. Anyways. Yeah. Just really
shitty that the French team is not able to compete
because they missed the deadline for chromosomal
testing. For the testing? Yeah. Really shitty.
Yeah. wonder what these chromosomal testing what
they're gonna do with the people that aren't
XX or XY are they just disqualified did they
have to compete in a male category like because
there's gonna be more people than people think
if they do chromosomal testing it's going to
be a percentage like it's not going to be 0 .001
or something it's going to be like two percent
of athletes what if a male like male presenting
fights has been fighting with males his whole
life uh gets chromosomal testing and is whatever
gets the cut off because it's too female And
now you're putting a male into female sports?
There are XXY guys out there. Yeah. This is really
dumb. So what's the cutoff? Having one Y automatically
makes you a guy? What if you have two Ys? Then
you do produce more testosterone. Is that fair
to have you compete against men with only one
Y? The whole thing's stupid. Yes. I don't know
who this new fucking testing organization is,
but they need to get fucked. Well, like I said,
they've done this before. This isn't brand new.
It just wasn't as public before. Maybe it wasn't
the world, but definitely international stuff.
The heavyweight champion of UFC is looking at
is leaving the door open to the possibility of
crossing over to boxing. I think he could have
some success. He has really good hands. That
could be interesting. Yeah. And he's not old
and washed up or anything. We haven't seen very
many people transition from MMA to boxing. Tony
Ferguson? The guy who just... Last weekend. But,
like, I can think of a couple Muay Thai guys
and, like, kickboxers and stuff. Like, Chris
Algieri was a kickboxing world champion. Didn't
SSR start off in Muay Thai? Yeah, he did. Yeah.
But I can't think of any UFC guys, UFC -style
MMA, Bellator, any of those. I can't think of
anybody crossing over that way. AJ, fellow Brit
options, and Francis Ngannou. Nah, I don't think
that's going to happen. Because if... Now that
Dana White is able to promote boxing events because
he has the backing of the Saudis, now that he
can do that, if any of his fighters want to have
a boxing event, it's not difficult. They have
a platform. Right. That's all in -house. Oh.
Leo, I just Googled this. They're not actually
doing full chromosomal testing. Oh. They're doing
a test for one specific gene that is on the Y
chromosome. So it just tests if you have a Y
chromosome or not. They're not doing the full,
you have this many chromosomes. Hmm. So they
won't know, and they're not testing men at all.
Oh, of course not. So, you know. Yeah, it's just
females. And apparently there is an exception
for people with complete androgen insensitivity
syndrome, which means that your body has no testosterone
receptor. So I guess if you test positive for
a Y chromosome, they'll have to do a follow -up
test to see if your body can react to it. Seems
complicated. Yeah, this seems pretty complicated
for boxing. Yeah. Anyways, less invasive than
a full chromosome test, so maybe better. I shrugged,
since this is, like, audio only. Yeah. I just
gave a big, like, the fuck, man. Yeah, I'm with
you, but less invasive than finding out that
you only have one X chromosome because you don't
need two of those. Which is called Turner Syndrome.
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back to party. Woo! Nothing in the recaps other
than the Misfits fight. Tony Ferguson beats Salt
Poppy. And I think it was Darren Till got laid
the fuck out. I did not watch this, I'm not gonna
lie. I don't really remember. I know for sure
Tony Ferguson beat Salt Poppy. Yeah. Just because
I know who Tony Ferguson is. The other two, the
main event was Darren Till versus something or
other. And I have no idea who the fuck they are.
But one of them got murked. So that's fun. Nice.
Coming up this weekend. We have The Ring is doing
an event. The Ring presents The Underdog is what
the event is called. Not sure why. I think because
they're little guys. Yeah, probably. I used to
like that cartoon, Underdog. I don't remember
that one. I remember Superdog. Superdog. That
one's new to me. He was Superman, but a dog.
The ring presents the underdog at the Fontainebleau
in Las Vegas. There's a bunch of shit on here
that I don't care about. Anthony Olasquaga versus
Juan Carlos Camacho Rivera. I'm excited for this
one. I really like Olasquaga. Wonder what color
of... hair and gloves he'll have this time? It'll
be pink again. Oh, is he at all? I'm 99 % sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. His nickname is the princess.
Oh, that's right. That's why he wears pink. That's
him. Yeah. So he'll just do it like a different
pattern instead of having like the cherry blossoms
since he was in Japan last time. Yeah. That's
cool. He'll do something French maybe. Maybe.
Yeah. He's very... fashionable on Instagram and
stuff, so I imagine his walkout outfit will be
themed for sure. High fashion. Yeah. I like Ola
Squaga. I think he'll probably win, but I don't
really know this other guy, to be honest. I don't
either. He's from Puerto Rico. His name is The
Indian? El Indio? That's The Indian, right? It
is. Yeah, the native. I guess would be what he's
more aiming for. Probably dark. Is he dark skinned?
I guess. Not really. Kind of. Not for Puerto
Rico. Whenever you're dark skinned, not black,
but when you're dark skinned, dark skinned brown,
they call you Indio. I recognize a couple names
on his resume that he's beat, but I think Olaskwaga
will be able to outbox him. We'll see. Should
be a fun fight, though. There's going to be 10
,000 punches thrown. As smaller fights tend to
be. That's going to be on Thursday, September
11th. Never forget. It's going to be on the zone.
I did forget. That's a weird night to have it.
Isn't it? I don't know. Is it? I don't think
so. If we don't continue to have festivities
and other stuff on the day, then the terrorists
win. I guess. I don't actually believe that.
I think it would be better on a Friday than a
Thursday, though. Absolutely. Fights on a Thursday,
when it's, I guess, smaller profile stuff, I
guess. It's a world title fight, though. I was
going to say, this is a title fight. At the least,
it should be on a Friday. Yeah, this is for the
WBO flyweight title. Moving to Saturday, September
13th, there are two events. First, Matchroom
at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
There's quite a bit of stuff on here, some of
which I do care about. Some of which I do not.
Jim Donovan, I believe, is related to Patty Donovan,
who's in the main event making his debut, so
that's fun. Molly McCann, she's an MMA chick
known for her bad attitude, but making a boxing
debut here. Okay, there are way too many MMA
girls with alliterative names. Molly McCann,
Holly Holmes, Ronda Rousey. They sound like comic
book characters. I didn't stop to think about
that, but you're absolutely right. It sounds
like shit Stan Lee made up. Peter Parker. Matt
Murdock. Bruce Banner. Like, it was a thing that
Stan Lee wanted them to alliterate. But the UFC
has so many girls, women with alliterative names,
it's ridiculous. Well, Molly McCann. Now she's
a boxing chick. We'll see how long that lasts.
I guess so is Holly Holmes. Yeah. Moving up the
bill, Pat Brown is an Olympian. He's having a...
An eight -rounder. So that's fun. Tyrone McKenna
versus Dylan Moran at welterweight. Ishmael Davis
versus, oh God, Kayomin Aguiarco at 154. I've
seen him a couple times. That should be a closer
fight than it maybe looks on paper, I think.
13 and 2, Davis, verse 17 and 0. Agyarko. What
a fun name. How have I not seen this before?
Well, and that first name's very Irish, so it's
probably like Shaman or something. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, this dude is Irish as fuck. All right.
Well, he's from Northern Ireland, so he's...
He reps the Republic. Kind of Irish. He reps
the Republic. That's fair. I'm just saying. He's
from Belfast. There's only one Ireland. And it's
the Republic. He was born in London. But yeah,
I don't know how you say this Gaelic name, but
I think it's Shaman. Shaman? Yeah. I'll take
your word for it. And in the main event, IBF
welterweight title on the line. It's vacant after
Jerron Ennis moved up. Lewis Crocker versus Patty
Donovan 2. Electric Boogaloo. This could get
dirty. It did the first time. It could get more
worse. Yeah. Given how it ended. I wonder who
they have reffing. Do they put up who's the ref?
I don't think they put that up ahead of time.
He's gonna have his hands full. That crowd's
gonna be lit, though. It should be good. Ireland
versus the UK. Grudge match. In Ireland. Should
be fun. Is Belfast Ireland? There's only one
Ireland. I'm just saying, it should be an atmosphere.
Yeah, absolutely. Oh, man. Speaking of atmospheres,
in the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada,
TKO making their promotional debut on Netflix.
There's a bunch of shit on here. Let's start
from the bottom up. Sultan Al -Muhammad vs. Martin
Garabayo. Don't know who either of these guys
are. Marco Alvarez vs. Marcos Osorio. Mark squared?
Yeah. Reito Tsutsumi versus Javier Martinez.
That one might be fun. Yeah. Which one's Javier
Martinez? Is he... 7 -2 guy. I don't think he's
anybody noteworthy. No. Doesn't look like it.
And he's on a two -loss slide. That might be
a walkover job for Raiko. Steven Nelson versus
Raiko Santana. I wonder... Steven Nelson has
some fucking dope ring attire. I will never get
over his sagging jeans. Trunks. those fucking
underwear hanging out yeah like patterned onto
the trunk that was that bothered me the entire
fight yeah me too yeah pull up your fucking pants
oh wait they are up so weird we were we were
all sitting in like in a row in our seats and
i just Nobody was saying anything. They were
just getting in the ring and like, what's wrong
with his pants? Why are his pants sagging? And
we're all looking like, what the fuck? Is he
sagging his pants in a professional boxing match?
The illusion was very, very well done. Like whoever
made those did a super good job. Yeah. And then
he did the M. Bison when he fought Diego Pacheco.
So that should be cool. So it should be cool
what he does next. He should hook up with Mizuki.
Yeah. Do some collabs. I don't think their styles
are very similar. Ivan Ditchko versus Jermaine
Franklin. Have you been wondering where Jermaine
Franklin is? Well, here he is. Shaking my head.
I got to narrate. Nobody's been wondering. Right.
Callum Walsh versus Fernando Vargas Jr. Starting
to get interesting. This is a decent fight. Decent
for what it is anyway. These guys are both at
similar levels. So this should be fun. I got
to look at pictures before I... Okay, I know
who these two are. Callum Walsh looks so weird
in his picture on BoxRec. I don't know why. Yeah,
I'm kind of excited for this one, actually. Are
we going to get the UK versus Mexico buff? Maybe.
I know he's not really from Mexico. No, he's
not. He's one step removed. So maybe. So does
the buff apply? I don't think so. Moving up,
Sergei Bohachuk versus Brandon Adams rematch.
This was the guy that beat Sergei Bohachuk the
first time. His first loss was to Brandon Adams.
I don't think it's going to happen again. No,
it was a really quick knockout too. That's not
happening again. Brandon Adams has been quietly
keeping his career going pretty well. He went
into the overtime circuit and he's made deep
runs into their brackets or whatever. He's only
lost to decent names, I guess. I don't know what
you think of Katsarakis. He's okay. I guess those
first two losses a long time ago were not great,
but recently he's only lost a decent name. Willie
Monroe Jr. is not a terrible loss. Apollo Thompson,
I don't know who that is, so I can't really say,
but it was an early stoppage, so that's not good.
And then he lost to Charlo. Yeah, he went 12
with Charlo, which was... Sad on Charlo's side.
This should be a good fight, though. I can't
see Sergey getting stopped early this time. Christian
Mbili versus Lester Martinez. Interim WBC title.
Super middleweight title will be on the line
here. Lester has been cutting his teeth. On Probox.
So he's been getting good matchups and he's been
making fucking easy work of it. So this is a
big step up for Lester. This is a pretty decent
step up in competition for Christian Mbili as
well. Mbili's been knocking over cans. He has
been. So it's hard for me to guess where Mbili's
at. We're about to find out. I should be good.
I'm not going to lie. I'm probably going to back
Martinez. I like a good underdog story. He's
been on Pro Box. Yeah. Oh, boy. Main event. Undisputed
super middleweight title on the line. Canelo
versus Crawford. This is going to be boring as
fuck. I'm keeping my expectations low. Yeah.
I don't know. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
Same. I think it's going to be Crawford being
a little cautious because Canelo still has power
and not being able to hurt Canelo, really. So
I think it's going to be Canelo prod... plotting
and Crawford pot shotting. And it's going to
be high skill, low action, which is not my favorite.
It's not, that's boring as shit. Yeah. I mean,
if that's your thing. Yeah. I, you want to be
one of those like snobby hardcore fans. That's
like, Oh, you just don't appreciate the sweet
science. I understand perfectly what I'm looking
at. That does not mean I have to be entertained
by it. Exactly. I get this bullshit all the time.
People are like, you just don't like the sweet
science. I'm like, no. I like to watch people
beat the fuck out of each other. That's what
I like. I like violence. But it should be high
skill. If that's your thing, you'll enjoy it.
For the casual audience that's been hearing this
is... the super fight of the century and shit,
the casuals are going to be disappointed. I think.
I want to try to offer like a counter opinion,
but I don't really have one because I'm not really
looking forward to this. I'm looking forward
to the rest of the card. There's, there's some
decent fights on here. I think they have stacked
like those just before the main event fights
with good action fights to make up for it. Yeah.
Like, I think they've finally started realizing
that you kind of have to build a whole card.
You can't expect Canelo to just carry the whole
thing. Well, and you can't just expect the high
-skilled guys to be exciting. I don't know how
else to put it. You have to understand what your
fighters are most likely to do and make a card
that has some of both. Balance. Yeah, like that
Times Square card was garbage because it was
all super high skill guys. There was no stand
and bang guys on that card. Yeah, the most exciting...
Well, I guess Brian Garcia would have been...
The stand and bang guy. Yeah, I was going to
say the most exciting thing was Teofimo showboating.
Yeah, but he's a skill guy. Exactly. When he's
not being stupid. So... Anyways, I think they've
balanced this card at least. That is the best
part of it for me. Yeah. I am excited for the
card. The main event, though, I expect to...
watch and be like fucking do something Terrence
Crawford can figure something out I'm gonna say
he'll do it around rounds five to seven and if
he can figure something out I think he'll push
the offense just cause he has the skill to hit
and not get hit yeah We'll see. I hope so. But
I'm just expecting it to be Crawford pot -shotting
from the outside, Canelo not really being able
to catch him, and Crawford not really hurting
Canelo, because Canelo's got an all -time chin.
And he's pulling up a guy from two divisions
below. Yeah. Well, and Crawford's power didn't
seem to carry super well. To 54. Yeah. Yeah.
And he's going up again? Yep. We'll see. I would
like to be wrong. Well, if you, beloved listener,
want to join in the fun in Discord, for big fights
like this, we do competing roles. So it's just
pick your team. Are you Team Canelo, Team Crawford?
And you get a color based on whatever team you're
on. And then we just shit talk each other relentlessly.
And that's pretty much all there is to it. But
it's fun. It's pretty fun. And if I'm wrong,
they can call in and shit talk me on the podcast.
Absolutely. I would love for you to call. If
I'm wrong, please call and rub it in. 833 -LUX
-PODS. Anything more for the Canelo Crawford?
No. All right. Moving to Sunday. I have it. I
wrote down Sunday, Sunday 14th. Sunday, September
14th. This one is in Nagoya, Japan. There's a
lot of stuff on here that I don't really know.
There's not very many big names. Yeah, the co
-main is okay. Yoshiki Takei. versus Christian
Medina for the WBO Bantamweight title. But the
reason we're here, Naoya Inoue versus Murojan
Akhmadaliev, aka MJ, for the Undisputed 122 Championship.
I am expecting Inoue to get a knockout in those
mid -to -late rounds. Like... I'm going to call
eight, I think. For thirds, I'd go back third.
For quarters, mid -late. Yep. Yeah. I don't know.
I don't think MJ's going to have anything super
surprising. He's a lefty. Yeah. I don't know.
And he's stablemates with Cardenas, who did have
that big knockdown over Inouye. He should have
a good game plan, I think. Absolutely. I'm really
hoping Inouye comes in more awake than he has
the last couple. You don't need to get knocked
down before you start taking it serious. It would
be good if you didn't. It would be nice. Yeah,
I would be happier. One day. MJ could knock him
down. It could happen. Yeah, it's not out of
the... It wouldn't be too... It would be shocking,
but not surprising. Yeah. One day. naoya's gonna
on like his retirement little press conference
he's gonna say i got knocked down every fight
because nobody would fight me if i didn't if
i didn't go down if i didn't look human nobody
would fight me yeah yeah it's all part of the
strategy yep the whole time i was just uh just
trying to make the monster look human yeah Totally.
I would prefer if that was not the strategy.
Yeah, well, they got Picasso into the ring, finally.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, great. So excited for that. Because
Picasso was such a threat. So stupid. I booked
my seat at the bar to watch this one, so I'm
going to go into Tokyo. Should be fun. Yeah.
Are you going to go for the Canelo Crawford?
It starts at 10 a .m., and it takes me an hour
and a half to get there. I don't know if I want
to wake up early enough to be on the train at
8 .30. The whole card starts at 10? No, I think
the fight starts at 10. The bar opens at 10.
Okay. wherever that wherever they're at on the
card at that point is yeah yeah because the the
guy who runs it that bar he's the boxing fan
like the guy who owns it so if he opens early
for these things then he's just there all day
so he's gonna work from 10 a .m to the end of
the the in a way fight oh that's a long day yeah
so makes sense they also don't really have food
at that bar So I don't think I'm... I want to
eat and stuff before I go. At a bar, when I was
in Korea, the regular bar that all of the Americans,
all the GIs went to, they would always order
stuff for you. Just because... Well, he has some
food, but it's not good. Oh. So I don't feel
like I can order food in. but I don't want to
eat there. Yeah, okay, that makes more sense.
So, I just didn't want to say that. It's not
terrible, it's just not very good for the price.
I was trying not to shit -talk my favorite bar.
Yeah, well, lean into it, and just do the order
-ins for... Order in for people? Just for everybody.
For whoever needs it, like whoever can't order
it themselves. I eat with the foreigners. I can
order food there. It's just not very good food.
Yeah. Well, that's all we got. Let me make a
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into a pretty busy weekend. Some pretty good
stuff on it. Canelo Crawford. Inouye versus MJ.
Parting words. Parting words. I did not think
of parting words for this week. Oh, nobody else
in the world fucking cares, but the Saskatchewan
Rough Riders won the 60th Labor Day Classic at
home. And the next weekend, we always go to Winnipeg.
for the Banjo Bowl is what we call it. So everybody
should watch the Banjo Bowl this weekend somehow.
It's really fun. The Riders fans wear watermelons
on their heads. The Blue Bombers fans have sex
with their cousins, you know. That's why it's
called the Banjo Bowl. They play this song from
Deliverance. Yeah. The dueling banjos. Let's
see. I got this one from Oscar Wilde. Life is
far too important a thing ever to talk seriously
about. It's very good, Oscar. I can get behind
that. It's very good, Oscar. Well done. Oscar
Wilde is one of the craziest stories. Yeah. Every
story I hear about him is madness. He definitely
followed that advice and did not take it too
seriously. Man, that's it for this edition of
Boxing Before Dark. My battery is getting low.
And it is getting dark. See you on the other
side, Canelo and Inouye.