This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
is Boxing Before Dark. Yes. Boxing before dark.
The hands are rubbed. The shoulders are popped.
It's time to get this bitch rolling. I'm joined
by Shanada. Is that what you go by? I don't know.
Shanada, Shanada. Doesn't matter. Same shit.
Yeah. So, we're here to talk fucking boxing.
And boy, oh boy, is there plenty of it. By the
time this comes out, it will have already happened.
As we are recording, it has not happened yet.
So we can't talk about it, even if we wanted
to. I'm just going to say I called it. What I
called, I'm not sure, but I called it. Thinking
on how we've talked about the fight previously,
I'm hoping that you didn't call it. Yeah, well,
we don't know which fight I'm talking about yet.
Yeah, it. There's only one it, I thought, for
the weekend, but there's two. That's right. Well,
maybe it's that Mbili isn't as good as everyone
thinks. Who knows? Or Lester Martinez is actually...
The fucking bee's knees. Roblox buff, baby. All
right. Well, we can't talk about it because it
hasn't happened yet. So sucks to suck for us.
You know what is happening? Isaac Cruz versus
Lamont Roach. Man, that's actually a really solid
fight. I was surprised. I expect Lamont Roach
is going to take this one pretty easily. Yeah.
You never know, though. I mean, Isaac Cruz is
never going to just lay down and die. The little
pit bull will keep coming. He should change his
name to Stafford. Staffordshire. Terrier? Yep.
Terrier does fit him. Probably better than pit
bull, but... I don't know. I think this will
be fun. I don't know if it goes the whole distance,
and I kind of agree. I lean towards Lamont Roach,
but... I think it should be fun. If Lamont Roach
was able to tame Tank the way he did, then I
don't see Isaac Cruz offering him anything, any
serious problems. What, tenacity? Is that it?
Well, I mean, there will be more punches coming
Roach's way. True. Tank's not a high output guy.
True. So tenacity and output and Tank kind of
quit. Like... Isaac's not gonna quit. He's not
going to take a knee that's not a knee and ask
his corner to wipe his eyes for him. I don't
know. I think it'll be fun. You said the trigger
word. The trigger phrase. A knee that's not a
knee. Wipe my face. I'm getting fucking steamed
again. You fucking lost that fight, buddy. You
lost. 100 % Tank lost that fight. You lost that
fight, dude. You got bailed out. The fuck out
by video replay not working that they didn't
fucking need. Like, you did not need replay on
that. Knees are knees. That was not... Oh, did
he maybe touch? No, he straight up did it. Yeah.
Isaac Cruz, Lamont Roach. Yeah, you're right.
You've painted this into a better light. I'm
still favoring Lamont Roach. Too clever, I think.
Yeah, I think Roach is a better boxer. Yeah.
But... Good boxers have been beaten by output
and tenacity before. Is that what happened to
AJ when he fought Andy Ruiz? It kind of is, actually.
That's a good segue. Excellent fucking transition
point. Go me. AJ is out until at least mid -2026,
is what they're saying. And you said it's not
an injury, it's a choice. Yes. All of his contract
situations have been falling through. and I think
it's been messing with his mental, so he's kind
of taking a break. Yeah, honestly, I think AJ
needs to really, really consider just retiring.
Become a Beats brand ambassador full -time. Is
that what he... He always wears them, yeah. Oh,
okay. Fair enough. Prep your things you like.
If you like it. If you like them, then go ahead.
Is that like Beats by Dre? Yes. They're expensive.
They are. And they're not very good. I don't
know if they're good. I just know they're expensive.
I did a side -by -side. They're not very good.
Fair enough. I got my electrical taped up pair
that was a present because I'm too cheap to buy
nice headphones. Nah. What are mine? They're
Jubels, I think. I actually do really like them.
Oh, if they work. They get the job done. And
they sound good. Speaking of sounding good, the
Oli Act, the changes to the Oli Act have been
dropped. Dot, dot, dot. For now. For now. With
Mr. Burns doing the little finger thing. Yeah.
Excellent that he does. They're gone for now.
Do you know why they've stopped? So they did
get Congress or whatever to... Sorry, I need
to start at the beginning. The fighters... league
that's not what they're called the representatives
of the fighters that last time we were talking
about how they were never actually given the
the sort of changes to read themselves and it
had just been approved by the the group uh those
guys actually did fight back uh i think it was
is it ronda rousey's mom or holly holmes mom
someone's mom who was also a judo person is on
that board and really kind of spearheaded it
being like there's been so much pushback from
fighters from fans from everyone you can't say
that we have approved this like it's so not approved
so when the group pulled their approval congress
did whatever they do they didn't They stopped
the vote, I think. Like, they... I don't know
how the government works very well, but they
said that it needs to be revisited before they
vote on it. So it sounds like it was in committee,
and it was going to be voted out of committee
to go to the floor, but because the... fighters
association or whatever said no there's there
it's it's gonna stay in committee while it's
being reviewed by the fighters association right
okay that's much more coherent than what i was
saying that's just what it sounds like i'm not
a hundred percent if that's what's happening
That's my understanding, but like I said, I don't
really understand how any government works, especially
not the American one. But it's been paused, basically,
and it's going for further review, which is good,
because as far as I could find, they hadn't actually
let any of the fighter representatives read the
damn thing before they approved it. I think this
is good. And hopefully it just gets fucking axed
altogether. Or changed in a way that actually
helps fighters. The minimum pays would not be
a bad thing. No, that's not bad. If that's all
it is. If it gets changed to we're adding minimum
pays and some sort of retirement fund or emergency
health fund or something, that would be great.
But that's not what they're trying to do. I can
only hope that this causes the pendulum of the
OLLIAC to swing back and start to target MMA
fighters as well. And it just completely fucks
the UFC up. That would be amazing. Oh, God. I
just got a hate boner thinking about that. If
the changes actually just become, oh, we're going
to make this combat sports and not just boxing
and UFC has to have real, like, promoters and
managers that are separate people, that would
be fucking amazing. Yeah, I think UFC might become
a little bit more likable as an organization
if they were to work that way. Well, and people
would get fucked less. Yeah. Maybe. It's not
like people don't get fucked over in boxing either,
though, but less. It doesn't seem to happen as
badly. Unless you sign with Don King, which is
kind of your own fault at this point. Yeah, if
you're signing with Don King in the year of our
Lord 2025, you need some help. And Don King is
not going to give you any. No. Let me skip this
Lance Pugmire thing to go to Dana White. It's
all connected anyways. Alright, cool. So Dana
White has been having a pretty rough week with
the media. And it is awesome. Glorious. Absolutely
fucking amazing. So So far, my favorite interview,
and she will never get an interview again, has
been Amber Dixon. And I spelled her name wrong
here. It's with an X. She just called Dana White
out on all his bullshit. It was great. I haven't
been able to find her full interview on its own,
but the Pro Box guys, boxing scene, was talking
about it on their YouTube channel. And the parts
they showed, it was great. She called them out
on everything, asked them about how important
it is that the OLLI Act get changed so that TKO
can get into boxing. And Dana just completely
deflected that to look how much money we made
with UFC, which is completely unrelated to the
fucking question. And then she was talking about
fighter pays. asked him why UFC guys get paid
so much less, and he's like, well, do they? Do
they get paid less? And she's like, I don't know.
You guys don't report the pay, and neither does
boxing in Nevada anymore. And he's like, well,
you can talk to the fighters. You can ask them.
I haven't told them they can't talk about it.
But he kind of has. Anybody in the UFC who talks
about pay and stuff, they just get blackballed.
Yeah, they absolutely do. So, yeah, legally they
can talk about it, but they know it's going to
screw their career. And he was trying to say
that, well, we have fighters that make the crazy
amounts of money, like Conor McGregor. And Amber
Dixon's like, yeah, in a boxing match. Yeah,
against Floyd in a boxing match. Yeah. So, great
interview. I actually, I knew of Amber Dixon,
but I hadn't seen any real clips that made me
particularly like her more than other reporters.
But I am now a fan because she made Dana White
look like an idiot and she didn't back down like
some other people do. I am now an Amber Dixon
fan. I'm going to play the bit here. I've heard
a hundred million. Probably. No one in the UFC
has ever made that as a base purse. Conor McGregor?
$100 million, but that was against Floyd in a
boxing match. That's right. What about Crawford?
Oh, man. So she kind of sets him up, too. She
says, oh, so Conor McGregor made $100 million.
He's like, yep, that's right. Conor McGregor
did. And then she said, in a boxing match. Okay,
got it. And then he kind of turns a little red.
Yeah, you tomato face piece of shit. Yeah. Take
that. So that was the first one I saw. But he's
been just fucking getting it all week. And they've
started banning people from the press conferences
already. So boxing scene, Lance Pugmire banned
from the press conference. He was given his press
passes and everything, and, like, the day before,
after he had already flown out, they pulled it.
And the Canelo Crawford press conference, a couple
people stood up and asked Dana some very, very
pointed questions, and he was not happy. I'm
loving it. I'm loving that the boxing media isn't
just, like, letting everything slide. and kissing
his ass yeah i mean there are a few people doing
that and it's fucking cringe as hell but yeah
like max kellerman i did see his bit at the end
where he was just like slurping on dana and turkey
oh jesus man what are what are you doing it was
fucking bad used to be a voice for the sport
And now you're not. I never liked Max Kellerman,
and now I actively dislike him. Like, it's getting
close to I fucking hate him. He's so not... He
has no integrity in his media stuff. He just
kisses whoever's ass he's told to. Unlike LVX
Media. Yeah, we're called Lux because we are
the light in this dark fucking abyss that is
boxing media landscape. Very poetic. I'm really
good at this. I can tell. Alright, so you got
on here Provox. Oh, this was for me for the recaps.
Sorry, we don't need to talk about this. Yeah,
I kind of guess. That was a whole week ago and
I would forget. Well, if that's the case, let's
get into the recaps. A few weeks behind. As is
our usual, our reviews are always timely. Or
our previews are always timely. Me mixing up
reviews and previews, the words, is always timely.
Because it always happens. Right. So, we're going
to reach back to Eye of the Tiger on September
4th. Did you catch this? I did watch this, yes.
Yeah. Oslis. It's two S's. On the Instagram,
you were... What did you use to... What did you
change his name to? Osley... I glaze his ass.
I glaze his ass. Yeah. Oh, that's fun. I was
thinking of who is it in the Discord that fucking
loves Osleys. Oh, Big Bud, I think. Yeah, yeah.
That should be Big Bud's tagline. I'll glaze
his ass. He looked pretty damn good. He did look
good, actually. We have to do a little glazing.
Yeah, he was actually really solid. He was pretty
much in control from the very beginning, and
it looked like Shishkin kind of quiet quit in
round five. Four or five? But, like, Iglesias
got him out of there. He might have switched
into survival mode, but it didn't work. Yep.
Somebody was saying that Shishkin gave William
Skull a really hard fight, and so therefore one
should be careful about... Betting the house
on Iglesias? That was funny. In hindsight. That
was not good advice. I have seen a couple people
saying because Shishkin had such a good fight
with Skull and Iglesias knocked him out that
Iglesias should fight Canelo. They're doing the
triangle theory of boxing. If Iglesias should
fight anybody, it should be Skull. Right now.
No. To complete the triangle. Yeah, but nobody
wants to see that. No, not at all. It's just
triangle theory playing it out to its illogical
conclusions. Yeah, I... I don't think Canelo's
gonna fight him. But I also don't know if Iglesias
is ready for Canelo anyways. I don't think so
either. Canelo's... He's a mystery right now.
He's been fighting such bad competition. It's
hard to tell if he's washed or not. Moving to...
Speaking of washed. Yeah, Wasserman at the Three
Arena in Dublin, Ireland. Mickey Conlin gets
the stoppage in four. Jack Bateson Conlon needs
to not box anymore yeah he should promote with
his brother and his dad make it a family affair
more of a family affair yeah I don't think we
can take anything away from this fight like Mickey
Conlon still has a glass jaw I for the If you're
an audio -only, which that's what this is, this
audio -only, I did a big shrug with, like, a
snarled lip. Like, meh. As far as, like, what
can we take away from this? Yeah. Mickey Conlin
still knows how to box, but if he ever gets hit,
it's game over. Yeah, if he decides to venture
any closer to page one... On BoxRec, then he's
going to run into some problems. Yeah. Which
is too bad. I wanted Mickey Conlon to be good.
I just liked his persona, but... Who was it really
cracked him? It was Lee Wood, wasn't it? I think
so. Yeah. Moving to ProBox. At the Care First
Arena in Washington, D .C. Yeah, okay. This is
the one. There was two really weird stoppages.
Fuck, and I didn't write down... This is why
I tried to take notes and I fucked it up. I know
the Sagawa fight was a really weird stoppage
where they stopped it in between... The ref stopped
it, like, in between rounds, almost. Almost.
Well, I mean, kind of technically, the belt had
gone. He had been waving it off already. He was
actively stepping in to break the fight. Yeah.
It was just a bit of a weird stoppage. I don't
think it was a bad stoppage. Sagawa was just
beating the pants off of that guy. Absolutely.
I love Sagawa. I will glaze him all fucking day.
I was telling the guys in the Discord that he
was fun. And they're like, he's some fucking
unknown guy from Uganda? Yeah. And I was like,
it doesn't matter. He's fucking entertaining.
And I think I made a couple Sagawa fans out of
them by the end of that fight. Or he made a couple
Sagawa fans by the end of that fight. I'm going
to say you did it. It was all me. You primed
him. I am his best cheerleader. It was a really
fun fight. It was. He's always high action. Good
output. great engine and he's everything i like
he gets hit so it's exciting i think he's gonna
gonna go on the pro box rebuild circuit for a
little bit i hope so because he's like you said
he's really fun and he seems like he seems like
a really good dude so seems like a it would be
deserving for him to get get his career rehabbed
and then get pushed up to get another title shot
Yeah, he is 34, so they can't rehab him for too
long. I forgot about that. But I think he would
do fine in a world title fight right now. I don't
know if he beats. I mean, 126 isn't that deep
right now. No, but the top is really heavy. Yeah.
I think he'd do fine. I don't know if he could
get a belt, but I don't think he would be out
of place. If you know what I mean. Yeah. So,
Angelo Leo. Leo Sagawa would be a good fight.
Yes. Stephen Fulton. He's moving up. But I think
he pieces up Sagawa, unfortunately. Yeah. He
probably just outboxes him. And Nick Ball? Ball
versus Sagawa would be a fucking fireworks fight.
Yeah, someone who's going to stand and trade
with Nick Ball. That would make it worth his
while, I think. And honestly, I don't know who
wins that one. I would consider that a pretty
50 -50 fight. Wow. That is some faith in Sagawa.
You think not? I just don't have as much faith
in Nick Ball as everyone else seems to. I don't
really either. Where's Drip? We need somebody
to sing Nick Ball's praises. We need a ball glazer.
That works on multiple levels. Excellent. And
Rafaela Spinoza. then no no no that's bad again
i i think leo would be a good one yeah i i just
think sagawa deserves his shot i think he's he's
put in the work who did he get his shot against
before carrington and i think he beat bruce carrington
yeah because i was gonna i was gonna say i remember
it being a really like scrappy fight And if it's
Bruce Carrington, I would like for him to lose.
Glenn Feldman had it a draw. And the other two
had it 97 -93 for Shushu. But I just don't think
it was that far. I think Sagawa just... How do
I put it? It wasn't a robbery. I think it's just
the judges didn't like his style. But it's also
Bruce Carrington, New York fighter in New York.
Yeah. So I think it was a little bit of home
cooking, but not an outright robbery. Yeah. If
that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. But
I think Sagawa looked good in that fight too.
I don't think that should really bar him from
another chance. Like he didn't look completely
outclassed. And that was not for any real titles.
It was just for regional stuff. Yeah. I don't
know. I'm a fan. Everybody should watch him.
Especially when he's free on Probox. But then
the main event also had a weird stoppage, didn't
it? There was two. Or was it the one before this?
Was it Valenzuela? It was not the main event.
No, because that went to decision. Okay, the
Torres -Cardoso stoppage was also weird. Same
sort of thing. It was, like, right at the bell
that they waved it off. And, like, not, again,
not a bad stoppage, just a weird stoppage. The
timing on both of them was pretty strange. Like,
they... My memory's so shit. There was a knockdown
at the end of the round, and the guy stood up
and made the count, and the bell went, and then
the ref waved it off. Instead of giving him his
one minute in the corner. Yeah, that's right.
Now, again, it wasn't a terrible stoppage, but,
like, nine times out of ten, they give the guy
his minute, let him come out, and then stop it
next time he gets knocked down. Yeah. Give them
the minute. Yeah, they just... And again, I'm
not even particularly mad about the stoppage.
It's just weird. And it's weird that they had
two at the bell like that in the same card. Back
to back. They are in the DC swamp. All sorts
of corruption and fuckery going on. I mean, it
worked for me because I had Torres in the pick
league. Yeah. Pro box is always good. I don't
think we've really talked about any super weird
decisions and stuff on pro box. No. But these
two stoppages were just weird. Again, not even
bad, just weird. Yeah, yeah. I don't really have
a whole lot to add to it. You described them
both pretty perfectly. Like the Sagawa one. It
was an almost similar situation, just Sansa knocked
down. So I guess that would make it a little
stranger without the knockdown beforehand. Yeah,
I don't know. Again, they're not bad. I think
both those guys were getting stopped anyways,
if they let him come back out. But it's just
weird that they were both at the bell. Yeah.
They did talk, the commentators did talk about
how Acosta's corner should have stopped it the
round before and stuff. And how the ref was kind
of trying to get them to throw in the towel.
So maybe that's why he stopped it, because he
knew the corner wouldn't. And we've talked about
that before, where the fighters have to really
trust their corner to save them. So maybe the
ref decided that the corner wasn't, yeah, they
weren't doing their job properly and he stopped
it for them, even though it was a little weird
for the ref to stop it. And I'm okay with that.
It's just a weird talking point, I guess. Well,
in the main event, little, I don't know if this
is high strangeness. But the hometown guy loses
on points. 95 to 94. So with a knockdown, somebody
scored it a fucking draw. I'm not sure what you
were watching, Paul Wallace. But that's a pretty
rough scorecard to turn in. Yeah, it was not
that close. No, not even a little. 96 to 93.
6 -4 with a KD. Even that feels a little bit
closer than it really was. But... But the right
guy won in the end, I guess. The takeaway is
Pro Box is still good. That was a good card.
They had a couple less good cards lately. They're
back on the train. Pro box, good. Let's move
to match room at the Rainton Meadows Arena. Pat
McCormick retires. Miguel Parra. Troy Williamson
stops. Mark Dickinson in the ninth. Oh, the retirement
was after the ninth, so. Or after the 8th, excuse
me. And Sandy Ryan gets a UD. Our boy Cameron
Wong gets a scoring referee points decision.
I hate that. If you're trying to score in referee,
you're doing a shit job of both things usually.
Or at least one of those things. It can't be
that expensive to pay one judge. To have a single
judge instead of a scoring referee. Well, it's
the same number of scorecards. Yeah, it is. Like,
get some judge practicing. Like a low level.
Yeah. And Leo Atang gets a stoppage in one. Congratulations.
You get some Leo points. You get to keep the
name. You get to keep your name. I have to admit,
I didn't watch this card at all. It's fine. You
didn't miss a whole lot. Brit Slop, I assume.
Yes. This was a Brit Slop. A little disappointed
that I assume Para is Mexican. I think so. The
Mexican buff didn't work. Or wait, where's McCormick
from? Yeah, he's... The Mexican buff didn't work.
Yeah, against a very British person. Very British.
Let's see. I finally figured out what venue this
was at. This was at El Centro de Usos Múltiples.
The cum center? The cum center. Oh man, being
13 is fun. But this was in Los Mochis. They were
very pointedly reminding us. Not related to boxing,
but what is Mochis in Spanish? It's not ice cream.
It's not the rice dessert? No, it's not. I'm
not sure what it is. I think it's the name of
a landmark. Does it look like a mochi? I don't
know. Anyway. Eduardo Nunez versus Christopher
Diaz. Nunez gets the UD in a very tough fight.
Yeah, this was a fun fight, actually. Yeah, it
was a lot of fun. Very entertaining. The scorecards
were crazy wide, I thought. Of course they were.
I mean, I guess it was a pretty one -sided fight,
but 117 -109 seems quite wide. 117 -109, he got
knocked down twice. So in the same round. So
that's a 10 -7. So it would be 117 -111. 9 -3
though. Either way. Yeah, 9 -3 is a little wide.
Seemed wide to me. It was a good fight. It was
fun. Who's the other one you have here? I have
to look at his picture. Yeah, I need to look
at it too, because I'm not remembering who these
guys are. Oh, this was the draw. Yes. This was
a really fun fight, actually. This was better
than the main event. Pedro Guevara split draw
with Alexis Molina. I would watch those guys
again. They should run it back. Would be a good
one. Moving to top rank at the Binational Dome
in Nogales. Homecoming fight for Oscar Valdez.
He got an easy win. Clean, clear. It was what
you'd expect from a homecoming fight. Yeah, Oscar
looked good, but probably pretty easy to look
good against someone that far below you. Yeah,
not so good of opposition. It's, yeah, not that
great. Yeah. And to go to a decision with him,
too, that's what I thought was weird. It's like,
you have the guy clearly outboxed. You have him
figured out, so what's your problem? Yeah. I
mean, Oscar's getting kind of old, isn't he?
Yeah, he's in his 30s, I think. 34. Man. Boxing
ancient. I mean, it kind of is, though. Yeah,
it really is. But he could keep doing stuff like
this, like at this level. I think he could. step
up the level a bit still like a little bit i
don't think he yeah i don't know about world
titles or anything but like he doesn't need to
be fighting whatever this guy does for a day
job uh who's at his Oh, right. Nunez. They had
Navarrete. They had him at the Nunez fight. And
they did a little face -off. Oh, right. Yep.
Nav's such a weird cat. Quite. I got... In trouble,
not in trouble, but people were pushing back
in the Discord when I said he dresses so slutty.
Oh, I saw that. Nav dresses pretty slutty. He
does. I don't know what Isaac was looking at,
but Nav is looking like he's on the prowl constantly.
Yeah, he has a button -up shirt with only, like,
the bottom two buttons. The deep, deep V. Yeah.
With the gold chains and the cowboy hats. Come
on. And it's always black clothes, which somehow
is the sluttiest color for boys. Black or white.
It just is. Valdez, keep going, buddy. I mean,
you're going to. Yeah, this fight was at 128
for some reason. I don't know. I think they gave
Medina. Well, I wonder if Valdez is trying to
check and see if he can get down to 126 where
the competition is maybe not so tough. Maybe
not. Maybe I'm reaching. No, I don't think you
are. Because he did look a little bit sunken
in the face. Yeah, because what does Medina usually
fight at? Medina usually fights at 130 as well.
So. Between 126 and 130. And 135, actually. He
has a few up there. It kind of seems like maybe
Oscar was asking for the 128 limit. Maybe. Maybe
he is looking to go back down to 126. That would
be interesting. That would be... Yeah, that's
something to keep an eye on. See what he does
next. He hasn't been 126 for a very long time.
Maybe if he's looking to not get hit in the face
so hard. Yeah, he had a lot of hard fights at
130. Yeah. He's not particularly big, Oscar Valdez,
but cutting that extra four pounds might be hard.
Moving to previews. We've got three. No limit
on the 18th. They're doing it on a Thursday this
time. Really did me a favor here. Australia,
thank you. From the bottom, I only have three
that I picked up. Brock Jarvis, quick turnaround.
That last fight, he didn't take any. Damage anyways.
Might as well. Liam Wilson versus Sandy Tavares.
Give me a second here. Alright. It really is
a dude named Sandy. That's not that uncommon.
I was just thinking about it. There's been a
lot of baseball players that have been named
Sandy. It's usually short for Alexander. Get
shortened to Xander and then Xandy. Xandy, yeah.
Okay. Not weird. Just, uh... It is not a lady
named Liam. That would be weirder. Yeah. And
Liam Paro versus David Papat. Papat, Papo, Papit.
Papit, probably. Is he a white guy? Papit. Oh,
he's from France, though. Papo. Something lame.
These look like kind of walkover fights to me.
I don't expect any of the A -sides to lose. No,
I don't either. But they look good on paper.
Yeah, but the French guys never fought outside
of France. Bruno Saras never fought out of France.
He fought in the States once and got a split
draw. The one time he ventured out of France.
I don't see Paro getting Sarast. I don't either.
I didn't see Munguia getting Sarast either. And
where's Sandy from? He's from the Dominican Republic.
Never fought outside Dominican. So. Yeah. I'm
expecting A -side wins. Put him down in the pick
league. Honestly, I don't know if Vom will even
bother with these. I know that Liam Parrow is
on there, so maybe the rest are. Fair enough.
If there's not much going on, I guess. There's
also, on the 20th, Star Boxing. A bunch of shit
on here that I don't care about, but Mickey Scala,
Arizona fucking prospect. Gotta help. Gotta get
my boy's name out there. He's from Mesa. Yep.
Not too far from where I live now. He is very
done up in his box rec photo. Is he now? He kinda
looks... Wow. He looks like a comic book character.
Yeah, he really does. He looks like a superhero
in a comic book. I guess we're gonna have to
cheer for him now. Always have been. Team Scala.
Scala. Is he a Scala? I don't know. Stupid joke.
Also, Arizona doesn't have a Boston accent, so
it doesn't make sense. Did you find a place you
can actually watch this one, Leo? Or are we just...
It's on the Starboxing website. nice hopefully
they don't do another fucking pay -per -view
they're not expensive but still like dude why
are you doing this this is gross how how much
like if it's more than five dollars it's too
much it's more than five dollars that's too much
yeah i paid for one of them just because i wanted
to support but yeah i do like i don't think american
um boxing has this set up but I do like that
in Japan you can just give them like a donation
on their website like when I buy boxing tickets
there is a little check box and you can check
the box what do they call them an encouragement
award and you can just type in whatever amount
of encouragement you want to add on to the price
of your boxing ticket that's cool Yeah, I think
they probably could get some money that way if
the Americans did it. I assume it's not a thing,
because I've never seen it with any other sport.
I have never heard of that before, ever. It's
very innocuous. It's not as annoying as the please
donate to the starving children at Walmart. It's
literally just... as you're scrolling, click
the box or don't click the box. I never click
the box. I'm too cheap for that. If I'm going
to give you money, I want a t -shirt or something.
Yeah, I want something in return. Yeah. Moving
to Golden Boy. Last thing on our docket here.
Best thing of the weekend. Golden Boy on his
own. There are two fights on here. There's going
to be more, but I haven't seen the fights listed
anywhere else. So we've got Gabby Fandora versus
Alexis Kubicki. Kubicki? Kubicki. I'm going with
that. Undisputed flyweight title. And Oscar Collazo
versus Jason Vason. That's his real name. That's
crazy. That's how it's spelled. Jason Basin.
Guess where he's from. Without looking. Without
looking. Who has the weirdest names? Dominican.
Cuban. No, good guess. Philippines. Oh. His nickname
is Striker. That's a pretty cool nickname. Jason
Striker Vason? Yep. He is going to get his ass
beat. No fucking way he beats Collazo. I really
like Oscar Collazo. Yeah, he's really exciting.
I don't think anybody beats him anywhere close
to his weight class. Which, honestly, probably
isn't even minimum because he is tiny. Koyaso
can move up though, couldn't he? He's tiny, tiny,
Leo. No. He's 5 '2". He's shorter than I am.
5 '2". He's tiny, tiny. Like, he looks small
in there at 105 pounds. I thought he was taller.
He is so small. He is a kidnapping risk. Like,
fucking anybody could just grab him and run.
I really like him, though. Going back to the
Gabi -Fandora fight, I would put money on Fandora
KO, actually, if you can get it, because she's
fighting some lady from Slave Lake, Alberta.
This girl is... a hundred percent like a barista
oh oh no i have no idea who she is and she fights
in the river cree casino in edmonton like for
the last couple years i would put money on a
gabby knockout yeah I would put that one even
further. The first one to four. Yeah, I don't
know. Some of those ladies are pretty tough.
But I don't think there's any chance that Gabrielle
loses this one. That's all we got on the docket.
I think we made good time. Nice. Yeah, I am going
to the horse races afterwards. I have realized
that gambling alone in your house by yourself
is like missing 75 % of the fun. Nothing beats
going to a racetrack and standing at the railing
and yelling with people. Yelling at horses. At
your horse. Yeah, yeah. I'm excited. I am going
with a couple friends from here who've never
been to the racetrack. They are going to be embarrassed
by me, and it's going to be awesome. Kind of
hoping I can make some friends, go out for beers
afterwards. Racetracks here close at like 5.
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That's it for this edition of Boxing Before Dark.
My battery is getting low. And it is getting
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