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. Let's do the fucking thing
here. Yeah. All right. It's Boxing Before Dark.
It's still light here. It's not quite that time
of the year yet. We're getting close though.
The sun is already going down here. It is well
up here. I think I'm good for our recording time
being before dark. Yeah, I always will be. I
had the stupidest problem this morning, Leo.
What's that? Computer clock has been losing time
slowly over the last year. So when I first noticed
it, it was three minutes different. But this
morning it was eight minutes off of my phone.
And I don't know how that happens. I can explain
how to fix it later. No, I fixed it. I just don't
like to set the auto time thing. I don't know.
Government overreach. They don't need to know
where the fuck my computer is. The auto time
just sets the time server. It doesn't give your
location. I don't know how it works. I just like
to leave it turned off. Alright. This one I didn't
know about. Banny Pacquiao's bastard son. What
the fuck? So, I didn't know about this either.
And I thought I was really just out of date on
my tea. But maybe it's just not as well known
as Zoe made it sound. Because he's in the Philippines,
so he knows. Oh, of course. Yeah. But apparently,
Manny Pacquiao has a kid with his old maid. And
she named him a man. Like, the first part of
Emmanuel. And, uh... He looks like Pacquiao.
He really, really looks like Pacquiao. And the
kid started getting decent at boxing and got
a little famous. And she, like, drug Pacquiao
out in the public and was like, this is your
fucking kid. Like, teach him how to box. But
I just thought it was really funny that this
kid wore shorts that said Pacquiao on the waistband
in the front and the back. He does have a claim.
Yeah, he's acknowledged now. Okay, so yeah, he
has a claim. But I didn't know about all of this
tea and I thought it was really funny. Especially
since this kid was on the undercard that his
other son debuted on. Oh, Jimwell. Yeah. There's
another card where Emmanuel Jr. is gonna be on
in November. So I got my dates mixed up. Ah,
okay. Yeah, I thought Jim Well was in November,
but nope. So, anyways. I just, uh, I thought
it was funny. Pacquiao's being forced to acknowledge
his bastard son with his maid. And he's wearing
his dad's name on his shorts. I mean, he rates
it. Yeah, he won. He looked okay. Like... But
I don't know how I didn't know that Pacquiao
had bastardy claims. Yeah, I didn't know about
that either. I guess we're gonna have to get
Zoe... Get him... Tap him a little bit more.
Get a little bit more info. More details? Yeah.
Yeah, because he didn't acknowledge the kid for
a long time, apparently. It was only when he
started getting a little famous that they had
the pull, I guess, to make him pay attention.
Gotta love those good Christian values, though.
Good work. That's gonna be the situation where
that's what made Pacquiao be reborn. Or whatever.
I'm sure. I used to be a womanizer and all that
stuff, but not anymore. Yeah. I'm sure he doesn't
do that anymore. Totes. Oh, the Fandora Thurman
Undercard has found a new home. And it's going
to be on the Pitbull Roach undercard. Yeah, that
card's getting really stacked. They've justified
their $80, what I assume will be an $80 price
tag. It's been justified to me. I take it back.
That one's worth paying for now. 100%. Man, Lara
versus Janubek. The ageless wonder. Erislandy
Lara. Eventually, he's got to not be able to
do it, right? Eventually, you would think, but...
It's just a matter of when are we going to find
out that he's finally too old. Danabek's pretty
good. I think we're going to see how good he
really is. Yeah, if he's not as good as we all
think he is, Lara's going to show us. Yeah. A
three title unification. And this is finally
a step up for Janubek. Like he's finally, finally
taking a step up here. Against the oldest man
in the division. Coming in at a cool like 48.
Well, what is Lara actually? Like a Cuban 42?
Yeah, I think you're right. Let me double check.
They won't have... Yeah, he is 42. Why do I know
that? I knew it too, so it's not just you. Yeah,
so Jadaback's big step up is against a 42 -year
-old man. Yeah, a Cuban 42. Who knows how old
he actually is? Fulton versus Oshaki Foster.
This is the one that I'm most excited about.
I fucking love Stephen Fulton. So I'm really
excited to see him go for a third weight division.
I'm fucking stoked. I think Fulton should win
that one. Yeah, I think so too. I wouldn't bet
a lot of money on it. I'm not confident that
way. He's my pick. He's more versatile. He can
do more. And Foster's kind of one -dimensional.
Yeah. I think Fulton hits harder, too. Yeah,
I think you're right. I guess we're going to
see a little bit of how much does Bozy Ennis...
How much influence is he going to have on Fulton's
style and game planning? Because we've only seen
them... together for one fight so far. So, new
coach. Right. We'll see. I hope it works out.
I don't dislike Foster, or Fulton. I don't dislike
Foster either, to be honest. Yeah, I don't either.
I have nothing negative to really, I guess I
called him one -dimensional, but I don't have
a negative opinion about him as a person or anything.
If you're really good at one thing, sometimes
it just works. Yeah. And Ramos, Jesus Ramos versus
Shane Mosley Jr. I'm not expecting a lot out
of Mosley here, but Ramos is moving up to 160
for this. So there's that aspect. Yeah, that's
outside my wheelhouse. I don't actually know
which one is Ramos. Robbed by Erickson Lubin.
It was a pretty hot prospect before that. Oh,
I recognize his face, yeah. Yeah. Okay, okay.
He goes by the monkey. That's not a good nickname.
I don't know. I think what they meant is the
ape. That sounds a little bit more... Is that
better? I think so. I think that's worse. The
ape? It's like gorilla power. Yeah, that's like
Ryder. Ryder just looks like a gorilla. So you
think Mosley Jr. is just going to kind of be
there to be beat? Get Ramos back on track? That's
kind of what Mosley is, is a guy who's there
to be beat. He leaves a bit to be desired in
some key categories. That card's gotten very
stacked, though. It has. I am now very excited
for this card. Yeah, definitely. Are you excited
for Mayweather Pacquiao 2? No. I do not give
a shit about this. What if they stacked the undercard?
Would that... Oh, I didn't say I wouldn't watch
it. I said I wasn't excited. Ah, I see. That's
different. I could see an argument that this
will be a better fight. Because Pacquiao's been
training and more active. Mayweather's been out
of the game for a while. If you believe the Pacquiao
shoulder injury stuff, he's apparently healthier.
I can see some arguments, but I just... It still
doesn't get old men. Yeah, it doesn't really
get it. Do it for me. I think it's going to go
the same way. Mayweather is going to not get
hit very much. And that makes me sad. I would
very much like to see Floyd Mayweather punched
in the face a lot. So this is going to be a professional,
like a professionally sanctioned bout, which
is interesting. I mean, they've been sanctioning
so much bullshit lately. This is a more legitimate
fight to be sanctioned than a lot of them. I
thought it was interesting because Pacquiao -Lomachenko
was supposed to be in Exhibition, which is still
in the works. Yeah, I think that's Lomachenko
wanted it as an Exhibition, though, don't you?
You think so? Yeah, I don't think Pacquiao was
pushing for Exhibition fight. Yeah, probably
not. Yeah, Lomachenko wants to shake off the
rust without it counting against him. Yeah. Well,
and I think Mayweather's confident. He's always
confident. And I bet you it bugs him that his
50 -0, nobody respects that last fight against
Conor McGregor as being an actual boxing match.
So beat Pacquiao again. And no one can say he
didn't win 50 boxing matches. Yeah. I don't know.
Maybe that's me making things up in my head.
But I could see that bothering Mayweather. I
can too. The 50 -0 was a really big deal. Yeah.
But a lot of people didn't give it much credence
because of the Conor McGregor fight. Myself included.
Well, I mean, yeah. Beating an MMA guy. When
you're that skilled at boxing, it's not a big
accomplishment. Right. There's different types
of crossovers. There's this guy, Anderson Silva.
He fought Jake Paul. He beat JCC Jr. for whatever
that counts. I know Silva. He was very famous
as a striker, though. Yeah. So was Conor McGregor.
Was he? Yeah. Okay. Silva, though, he had boxing
pedigree. Whereas McGregor didn't. There's another
guy, Jose Aldo, who he can box. He's pretty damn
good. Not like world beater, but he can hold
his own. Yeah. And then on the other side, there's
that old man with the fake hip that Jake Paul
beat. Askren. Ben Askren. Yeah. He got both his
lungs replaced. Yeah, he got a really shitty
case of pneumonia. The fact that they can do
double lung replacements is fucking crazy. It
is. I was surprised that could... I didn't know
that was a thing. I didn't know lungs were something
that could be replaced. I've heard of single
ones fairly often. Like, they do one at a time,
but they did both of his all at once. You woof.
Crazy. Sorry, I didn't mean to sidetrack. No,
it's fine. Because speaking of crazy, Tank, Gervonta
Davis, a new lawsuit for kidnapping his ex -girlfriend.
Yeah, so this is all alleged so far. And it's
a civil suit, as far as I can tell. Which is
a little strange. But the story is, the allegations
are... He went into the strip club and grabbed,
I guess we're calling it, his girlfriend. And,
like, he assaulted her in the strip club and
then dragged her out into the parking lot and
threw her in a vehicle and drove off. So, not
good. Did Tank fall for a stripper? Well, that's
why I'm not sure if we're calling her a girlfriend
or not. Yeah, I didn't know she was a stripper.
There's nothing wrong with being a stripper.
No, that's not what I mean. It's just I didn't
know she was, because that really changes the
dynamic of her and Tank. Yeah, yeah, okay, I
see what you're saying. I was like, you can't
just assault strippers, Leo. No, that's what
I said. It is not okay. That is not at all what
I mean. It's just, like, are you... No, I understood
you the wrong way. You're judging Tank more.
Yes. Like, how fucking dumb are you? Do you really
think the stripper likes you? Are you... In the
military, that's something that we tell the new
kids all the time. It's like, dude, the stripper
does not like you and she's going to flirt with
you no matter what. As long as you're throwing
money at her, she's going to give you attention.
Yeah, let me double check, but I'm sure this
all happened at a strip club. Oh my goodness,
Tank, you fucking moron. I guess maybe he took
his girlfriend to the strip club. Which is also
a possibility. Interesting place to take a romantic
partner. I mean, I've been to strip clubs with
boyfriends before, but... Woof. Okay, the woman
said the attack took place at Tootsie's Cabaret,
a strip club in Miami Gardens, where she is a
VIP cocktail waitress. So she works at the strip
club. Okay. So she's not a stripper. But not
as a stripper. According to the complaint, Davis
choked, grabbed, pulled, pushed, and hit her
in the back of the head and then drug her through
the kitchen, through the back entrance, into
the parking lot. He continued beating her, leaving
her terrified and alone and embarrassed for her
co -workers and in front of her co -workers.
This is a poorly written thing. USA Today needs
an editor. Jesus Christ. Yeah, so apparently
these allegations occur over four months. It's
not a one -time thing. Oh my goodness. But yeah,
sounds like Tank fell for the waitress at the
strip club. I don't know if that's better or
worse. Same situation. Like, they're gonna be
flirtatious. Just money. Like, come on, dude.
How fucking dumb do you have to be to think the
stripper likes you? Well, I mean, apparently
he figured out that she didn't. Yeah. And it
upset him. Yeah, it's fucking crazy. Like, Tank
needs help. honest to god it might be better
for him if they toss him in jail for a while
but again this is a civil suit so that's that's
not on the table for this one right so what what
does this do for the fight with jake paul well
so i haven't seen anything concrete and it's
a civil suit so thanks not going to jail but
i've seen lots of reports that that fight's in
trouble that they're looking at potential replacements
on like two weeks notice goodness that's that's
i mean i yeah i i don't really understand i guess
tank can't prepare properly for this with all
this other stuff going on would be the argument
but um that's that's a big payday to lose for
being stupid that's also the other thing is like
if this guy is he's allegedly with big old air
quotes or whatever allegedly he's committing
domestic violence over the course of months this
is that's not the type of guy you want on your
card and you don't want to be seen giving him
another massive paycheck yeah well and yes Again,
allegedly, but this sounds like there's quite
a few witnesses, and I would be surprised if
the strip club parking lot doesn't have cameras.
Yeah, I would too. But, yeah, I don't know, man.
And I mean, it doesn't make it any better, but
I guess this didn't, he didn't fuck it up last
week. He fucked up a while ago, and it's just
biting him in the ass now. Tank was beating this
poor lady, allegedly, before the Jake Paul fight
was signed. So. But, again, that doesn't make
it better or change anything. It doesn't. Fucking.
But, yeah. So, Tank fell for the waitress at
the strip club. And then got very upset when
he realized she didn't like him back. That's
what I'm assuming happened as well. Yeah. Fucking
crazy. We have whole -ass sections. Every Friday,
we call it a safety brief or a safety stand -down
where everyone gathers up. Like the first sergeant
or the commanding officer, they give a little
speech on like, don't drink and drive. Fucking
don't do drugs. Don't kill people. Wear a condom.
Yeah, wear a condom. And then, you know, as you
go down the ladder of who's giving you the safety
brief, the closer it gets to you personally,
like your platoon sergeant or something, that's
where it gets a little bit more like, dude, the
strippers do not like you. okay like um the ceo
has to tell you don't you know don't hire sex
workers just because it's illegal so you can't
do that but i like the platoon sergeant will
tell you if you're gonna if you're that hard
up then you know there are certain services that
you could pay for that will get you the result
you want yeah but the strippers are not going
to They're just not. We need a drill sergeant
to go yell at Tank. Yeah, he seriously needs
that kind of wake -up call. Like I said, I don't
think it would really hurt him to end up in jail
for a short period of time. No, it should do
him good. I think it'll do him good. Again, that's
not what's happening here. This is a civil suit.
This is just for money. Well, not just for money,
but I mean, the outcome is going to be... Yeah,
restitution, not punishment. She's suing for
emotional damage and stuff, so... No segue out
of that. Fuck. Nope. Sorry. It's fine. It's worth
talking about, because fucking dumbass is in
the news for it, so... Emmanuel Navarrete versus
Eduardo Nunez for unifying their WBO and IBF
130 -pound titles in March. I think that'll be
fun. That's going to be a clobberfest. Yeah,
I'm super excited for it. It's going to be here.
I'm going. I'm fucking going to that. You're
going? Yeah, hell yeah, I'm going. I'm going
to see if Benji wants to go. Oh, yeah. This is
my type of fight. I can tell already. We're getting
to the top of the weight classes I like, but
Nav is always fun. And so is Nunez. Yeah. And
it might be Fulton joining the ranks of the 130
-pound champions. Oh, that's... That's rub my
hands together with excitement level of matchups.
1 .30 is getting more fun recently. Like, it
had kind of died off for a little while, but...
Who has this WPA title? I was just gonna look.
Because I think Kenichi Ogawa is pushing for
his last... Lamont Roach still has it. What?
He's fighting Pitbull at 140. Yeah, they don't
take belts away from people, though. Well, I
think they're going to wait kind of like they
did with Terrence Crawford, where he had the
154 title, but then once he fought at 168, they
took it. And I think that's what they're going
to do with Roach here. Which they should have
done when he fought Tank. Yes. That is true.
But the interim champ is Jazza Dickens. One of
these fighters is not like the others. Yeah.
Where's Lynn? I need a pitch on why Jazza Dickens
is important. Or why I should care. He's not.
Because he's got a funny name. Yeah, I guess.
It's the only thing I can think of. I'm not sure
how you get Jazza out of James. It's British.
How do you get Dick out of Richard? That's a
good one. You tell Paul to pull out, but... Sorry.
Too far. That was good. You can ask Robbie why
Jazza Dickens is important. He's from Liverpool,
isn't he? Is that where Dickens is from? Yeah.
I don't know if he'd claim Jazza Dickens, but
I'll ask. Last thing we got here, Inoue, pay
-per -view in Japan. Apparently, I was told this
last night. I did not bother to confirm it because
it's somebody I believe. But the Inoue Picasso
card is going to be pay -per -view here in Japan.
It was the first Inoue pay -per -view since I
lived here. It's bullshit. But it is a reasonable
price. I think it's only like 4 ,000 yen, which
is like 35 bucks, maybe, American. Probably not
even that much. I just do the, without accounting
for exchange rates, I just do the 4 ,000 is $40.
That's Canadian. It's almost exactly for Canadian,
and I know there's quite a difference. so it's
less than that we'll just leave it at that it's
less than 40 bucks but less than 40 bucks is
more than zero nothing yeah yeah so i will probably
just be going to the bar to watch it anyways
but but speaking of watching japanese uh boxing
uh lemino that wouldn't take my fucking money
is now an add -on That you can buy through Prime.
Nice. Like Prime Video. Yeah, so I can pay for
Lemono now. And somebody told me that I can buy
gift cards for you next on Amazon. So I have
to buy a gift card and use the gift code to pay
for you next. But I can pay for you next now
too. Or they could just fucking figure it out
and take my goddamn credit card. Yeah, I don't
understand what their fucking problem is. It's
goddamn ridiculous. Yeah. But I think I can pay
for Japanese boxing now. Because neither of the...
Well, U -Next is kind of expensive, actually.
Like, it's the most expensive streaming service
in Japan. But Lemono as an add -on to Prime,
I think, is $6 a month. That's not bad. Yeah,
and they have other stuff. Like, they have TV
shows and stuff. You next is more expensive because
they have a lot of you get points that you can
use for like renting movies or magazine subscriptions.
So it's about $25 a month, but you get half of
that back in these points that you can spend.
And you can get to me magazine. But, like, actually,
I can get an electronic copy of the magazine.
I can't get a physical one. But, like, you can
rent movies that are in theater and stuff. Or
just out of theater, like new movies. But, yeah,
I finally figured out how to pay for those now
that I'm leaving. Fucking idiots. Very well done.
Fucking... Japanese streaming execs. Yeah, like,
let's not let anybody give us money. They don't
want my dirty foreign calf. But I don't think
pay -per -view is going to do very well in Japan.
I really don't think people are going to buy
it. We'll see. Maybe I'm wrong. I mean, I'm not...
It's not like I know everyone or anything. But
I really think... The pay -per -view's not going
to do as well as Saudis think it will. Oh, that's
right. This is the night of the samurai or whatever
the fuck. Yeah. That's what they're calling it.
Is that what they're calling it? I think so.
Jesus Christ. Yeah. Man, anything more for the
news? I don't think so. It is Night of the Samurai.
That's fucking stupid. Who else is on it that
besides Inoue that makes it samurai? Every fight
has a Japanese person. Okay. I think every fight.
That makes sense. Or most of them. Because they've
got Sutsumi and Toraji and Nakatani and the other
Sutsumi. I guess there's one fight that doesn't
have a Japanese person. But it's still a stupid
name. It is. At least they're trying. The name
makes sense. It's a stupid name, but it makes
sense why they would go with that. Yeah. All
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Did you hear it that time? I did hear it that
time. Did you change some settings or something?
Yeah, I did. Yeah, okay. Oh, recaps. Fuck. I
have brought a good selection of crow and humble
pie. Because we were wrong. Yeah, we talked a
lot of shit last week. We sure did. About Fabio
Wardley. Not going to do it against Joseph Parker,
but wouldn't you know it? Yeah. I do have to
say, I don't think that was a good stoppage.
It was not. Fabio Wardley did win the fight.
I'm not trying to take that away from him, but
that was not a good stoppage. Very inconsistent
reffing, I think. And you can't jump in on four
whiffs. Like, you gotta wait for something to
land. Yeah. But... He did buzz Joseph Parker.
He did. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Parker was heard. But
he wasn't landing anything after that. Like,
Parker was very adequately defending himself.
Yeah. Disappointed, to say the least. I think
both those guys were that hurt in that fight
before. Yes, they had been. I'm losing my voice.
I'm angry. I think it's worse to stop the fight
later like that as well. Like, if that had happened
in the fifth round, well, there's arguments both
ways, I guess. But, like, They were both that
hurt before. And Wardley did not land anything.
Like, I don't even mean like of consequence.
He just didn't land. He was completely missing
Parker for like 10 swings before he stepped in
and stopped it. Like, Parker landed the last
punch of that fight. The last punch that landed
was Parker. Oh, that's booty. Straight up booty.
It was like some bullshit just get away from
me punch that landed but like if you go and watch
it the last punch that landed that fight was
Joseph Parker. It worked out kind of the same
way the Justice Hooney fight worked out where
Parker was pretty soundly outboxing Wardley.
He was hurting Wardley even at times. Wardley
was in it. It's not like he was getting just
completely Mayweather -McGregor kind of schooling.
It wasn't like that. But he was clearly behind.
Parker was getting dragged into exchanges that
he shouldn't have. He shouldn't have. Parker
should have made it boring and just outboxed
him. Should have. Yeah. Parker made a bad business
decision. And engaged. And got fucked. Before.
Well he's been promised a big fight many times.
And they never really happened for him. But like.
I feel so bad for Parker. Yeah I do too. I mean.
Wardley pulled it off. He got himself out of
trouble. So. I don't think Wardley looked that
good this fight though. He did not. This didn't
make me... Yeah, this didn't make me go, oh yeah,
like, Wardley's not the guy I thought he was.
He's exactly who I thought he was. But... So
then the question becomes, how does it play out
with Usyk? Because this is the third... I think
Usyk's smart enough to not get dragged into those
exchanges. Keep it. Tip tap from the outside.
Yeah. Usik might be able to hurt Wardley. I think
so. Usik had Fury pretty rocked and I don't think
Wardley's got as good a chin as Fury. I don't
know. No, I think you're right. I don't see any
world where Wardley beats Usyk, but he's got
a puncher's chance. I mean, Usyk's just a human.
If Wardley lands that big punch, it'll work.
He's getting on in years. It's not out of the
realm of possibility. Yeah, I would be so fucking
angry. Yeah, so would I. That would be so bad.
Just, fuck. But congratulations to Fabio Wardley.
He proved everybody wrong. Mostly. I mean, Howard
Foster gets the assist. Yeah. That's right. I'm
getting baseball updates. Oh, that's right. The
game six is today. Yeah. So when we're done,
I'll watch the end of the game. Yeah, I think
I will, too. Moving on. Casimiro. Yeah, so the
Kamenas had one of their weekend things in Kyrgyzstan
again. So it's two days of boxing with concerts
in between. It's fucking weird. And who's the
main guy? Koki has been really working on their
language. I fucking hate that he's better at
languages than me. I'm legitimately jealous of
his ability to learn new languages. Koki Kameda?
Yeah. He's actually pretty good at it. There
wasn't much on this night, but the main event
was Casamero versus, I'm going to butcher his
first name, Kyunosuke Kameda. That's exactly
right. And Casimiro dropped the ball. He looked
fat and slow and it was kind of somehow a worse
version of Casimiro versus Rigondel. Like, he
was just following Kameda around the ring throwing
big haymakers and not landing. But it was a shit
fight. I do not recommend. Casimiro looked like
shit. I also think they let him skip the weigh
-in again. Fucking what? Didn't I bitch about
this? They didn't make him weigh in in Yokohama,
Casamero. No. At all. Yeah, he just didn't weigh
in. The weight on BoxRec is completely fabricated.
His team told the people what he weighed, but
he never weighed in officially. BoxRec even says
if you click on the BoxRec. For the bout? For
the Yokohama one. Oh, okay. Not this one, but
they just put in like a random number, I think.
How much did Kunosuke weigh? Yeah, Casimiro weighed
the same as that. Yeah, exactly. There's no fucking
way he weighed 128 pounds. Dude looked fat as
hell. For a boxer. I mean, if he was some guy
on the street, I wouldn't call him fat. Yeah,
so Casamero's completely washed. I know the Kamedas
were hoping to have a Casamero -Niri match, hate
match in Japan somewhere. They might still do
that, but Niri fucking kills them. I don't think
they can even really cast Casamero out anymore.
He's too far gone. Bad signing. Yeah, I don't
know how much they paid him. Maybe he was pretty
cheap. Same weekend. Yeah, so the next night,
again, a lot of names I don't know. The second
night was mostly Kyrgyzstan. area folks, I guess.
I don't know what countries they were from. I
watched it in Japanese. But the co -main was
Kenneth Lover, who is the Filipino that I like.
He got a knockout. I thought he looked good,
so I was happy with that. He's just, he's fast.
Like, I really like Kenneth Lover. He's got fast
hands. I'm so sad he signed with the Kamedas,
but maybe it'll work out for him. They seem to
be really doing stuff. And then the main event
was Louis Neary against Statheporn Sarth. Probably
butchered his name too, from Thailand. It was
not a very good fight. Neary was out boxing him
and stuff, and then there was a head clash in
round 8, and they went to the... scorecards.
Again, I wouldn't recommend finding this. Yeah,
two of the scorecards are 80 -71. That's the
sweep. Yeah, like, it was pretty clear Neary
was winning. But he couldn't knock out this kind
of random Thai guy. Like, I don't know who this
guy is. He doesn't even have a picture on BoxRec.
This is at 126, so it's a little bit new waters
for Neary, I think. I guess, yeah. He was very
clearly outboxing him. Oh, last one. Taguran.
Yeah, so this was a card in the Philippines.
This is the one I talked about. Where Tataran
and Jerusalem fought kind of in the same week.
This was a fun card. It was all small guys. Tataran
won a unanimous decision. It was a pretty good
fight. Bantam was the biggest weight class. Yeah,
this was like a card made for me. I think it
was in Manila, I think. It was the Thrilla in
Manila 2 Countdown card. Okay. So this was the
weekend set up for the anniversary card on Wednesday.
Yes. Yeah. I don't know. I thought it was super
fun. Hatterad didn't look as good as I wanted
him to, but... That's okay, because maybe people
will want to fight him. Well, after the... We'll
talk about it next time, but the Jerusalem card,
they were pretty much immediately talking about
unifying with Tataran. Oh, were they? Yeah. Nice.
That's what I want, but there were rumors that
one of them was fighting Kalazo. I hope not.
Not yet, anyway. Yeah, no, I want them to unify
first and then the winner gets Kalazo. I want
them to unify in the Philippines. But that, yeah,
we'll talk about it next week. But that anniversary
card, the tickets were so cheap. They were like
one US dollar plus fees of one US dollar. I have
multiple people telling me how cheap they were.
Yeah, I still want to see the unification. Nobody
cares about the minimum weights except me and
the Filipinos. So let maybe some Japanese fans.
But even the Japanese fans don't like minimum
weight. So let the Filipinos unify. It'll be
like the biggest minimum weight fight in years.
Biggest being very relative here. You know what
I mean. Yes, I do. I do. I think people would
come out for it. I really do. If you had it in
the Philippines or maybe even Japan, but I think
in the Philippines it would get a crowd. I think
so too. And if it's in the Philippines, it'll
be streamed on Facebook. So everybody could watch
it. Or YouTube. Yeah. I was making a joke. I
thought it was ridiculous that they were on Facebook.
Anything more for the recaps? No, I can't think
of anything else that happened last week. So,
into previews. We got two things. Probox on November
7th. Excellent card. I am so excited for this
Probox card. It's a really good one. everybody
needs to watch this one um from the bottom up
the first two three four fights i don't really
i'm not really sure who they are which is okay
because it's pro box um they're going to be competitively
matched yeah yeah but yeah i don't recognize
those guys either but the top four yes Dominic
Valle versus Miguel Angel Torres Nunez. Four
ass names. Dominic Valle, he's the pro box fighter.
He's pretty good. He's making quite a name for
himself. Yeah, I like Dominic Valle. I'm surprised
they don't have his brother on the card too.
They usually have them on together. Yeah, you're
right. Yes, I'm surprised. Moving up, Senbatar
Erdenbat versus Brandon Leon Benitez. Senbatar
was one of my prospects of the year, I think
last year or something. Yeah, I think so. He's
Mongolian, right? Yeah. I like him. I think he
should win this, probably. But it's Pro Box,
so you never know. I mean, 21 -4 is probably
not a walkover. Yeah, and like you said, it's
Pro Box. If you're coming to Pro Box expecting
to keep your undefeated record, you're making
a mistake. Yeah. Moving up, Katsuma Akitsugi.
Another one of our of the year picks, I think.
He was mine. Yeah. I really like Katsugi. Just
death by a thousand cuts. He's going to be facing
Vincent Astrolabio. Astrolabio's fun too. Not
a walk in the park. No. I'm really excited for
this fight. Some people might think, oh, well,
he got knocked out and won by Junto Nakatani.
How are you going to say not a walk in the park?
Well, if you're Junto Nakatani, then yes, it
is a walk in the park. His appendix also exploded.
So perhaps he wasn't feeling the best. But who's
Astrolabio actually lost to lately? It's just
Nakatani and Maloney, right? I think you're right.
His other losses were quite a ways in the past.
2018. That's like seven years ago. Yeah. After
that, it's just Maloney in 23 and then Nakatani
in 24. I think this is going to be a very fun
fight. I am very excited for this one. Because
Akitsugi doesn't really have power. So, like,
he's more of an accumulation guy. Nicholas Flass
or Delonte Johnson as the headliner? Which one's
Delonte? No, not Delonte. Delonte. I don't know
Johnson. But Nicholas Flass I've seen on Pro
Box before. Yeah, I have too. He's pretty exciting.
Yeah, yeah. Like, boxer -puncher guy? Yeah. Don't
have much to add. Not too many notes for Flas
versus Johnson. Johnson is undefeated. That's
interesting, I guess. They both fought Boca Chica.
Is that the measuring stick? Boca Chica's not
a bad measuring stick, actually. Boca Chica knocked
out flaws and lost to Johnson. But there's a
five -year difference in time, so take that how
you will. Anything more for the Pro Box card?
No. Pro Box, good. Pro Box, good. All right.
Saturday, November 8th. Goldenboy at the Dickies
Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Let me check if this
has been updated. But the last time I checked,
I didn't have opponents. Still don't have opponents.
Robin Safar, Darius Fulgham, Eric Priest, and
Amari Jones are going to be on the undercard.
That I can say for sure. No opponents announced
in the fights in a week. Yeah. That's not good.
Well done, Goldenboy. Floyd Schofield versus
Joseph Diaz is off. Good. JoJo needs to leave.
That is JoJo, right? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah.
He needs to be done. Would be nice. But I guess
it's too bad Schofield doesn't have an opponent
now. Yeah, that's another situation of... I think
this is Schofield pulling out of it. Is he the
one that had the hand injury pictures? Or is
that somebody else? I don't know. I might be
thinking of someone else. Yeah, no, I have the
wrong person. Virgil Ortiz versus Erickson Lubin.
Oh, no, I have the right person. A grade two
sprain to his wrist. Okay. But sprains don't
leave much of a visual, but he shared a picture
and it just looked like you got a tiny little
bruise on your hand. So I thought it was funny.
Like, just don't share a picture. Yeah, because
no one's going to believe you. Yeah. Virgil Ortiz,
Erickson Lubin. When we were talking about this
on B -Sides, it was that Virgil Ortiz has the
unfortunate assignment that he has to knock out
Erickson Lubin. Very convincingly and very quickly.
The longer it goes on, the more... The boots
comparisons are already happening. Even though
Luis Malima wasn't all that good, it doesn't
matter. Ortiz has to have the same level of performance
or else he's going to get shit on. Erickson Lubin
is a much better opponent, though. He is. Absolutely,
he is. Lubin is... hard to knock out. And if
you're going for a knockout, you're setting yourself
up to get caught with something big. Like, Lubin
can punch. Yeah. I don't know. I think Ortiz
has to take it serious. If he goes in worried
about, I have to knock this guy out in the first
few rounds, that could set up disaster. He does
get hit. And he has been knocked down multiple
times. They're flash knockdowns, but he still
gets hit and still goes down. People don't know
who Lubin is, I think. You kind of have to be
a bit of a degen to know who Lubin is. A little
bit, yeah. Ortiz getting knocked down by some
unknown guy is going to look way worse than Ortiz
going the distance with some unknown guy. And
like, Lubin's been getting knockouts still. I
know he's getting, he's not even that old. He's
only 30. I don't know. I think if Virgil goes
in looking for an early stoppage, it's not going
to work for him. Like, I think he has to just
go box. He should, but the pressure is on. I
get what you're saying. I think if he really
thinks about that, it's going to hinder him.
I mean, Ortiz gets knockouts. It might happen,
but... And Lubin's only lost by knockout. Fandora
and Charlo. Those are good names, though. Yeah.
Fandora, that was... Coach pulled the plug. Because...
Yeah. Charlo knocked, sparked him out cold. But
Fandora just beat the fight out of him. Right.
Yeah, I cannot see Ortiz sparking Lubin like
Boots did. Like Charlo did? I mean like Boots
did to Lima. Oh, okay. I misunderstood. Yeah,
I don't see that happening either. But because
it's not going to happen, people are going to
shit on Ortiz. They're going to take any chance
they get to give Ortiz a hard time about it.
Fair enough. Yeah, I'm not disputing that. I
just, I don't think that's fair. No, it's not.
I think people need to put some respect on Erickson
Lubin. I don't know. I hope Ortiz looks good.
His career has been not fast. Nope. Shaking my
head. That's all we got on the docket, though,
unless you have anything more for Ortiz Lubin.
No. Well, it's super shit that DAZN doesn't even
have the card set up yet. Not DAZN, Golden Boy
is who I meant to say. I'm sure they have it
set, they just haven't announced it for whatever
reason. That's shit. Yeah, I don't know why they
would do that, but it's... Whatever. They do
that a lot. I think we'll find out. Spoiler,
we're recording on October 31st. If you didn't
guess from the baseball talk, the brief baseball
mention. Nonetheless, I expect by Monday, by
the time you're hearing this, stuff will be out.
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the way, parting words. Go Jays. Although right
now it doesn't look like it's going great. I
think it's 3 -1 for the Dodgers. But fucking
Vladdy will pull it out somehow. Somebody said
it's going to go to Game 7. It has to go to Game
7 because it's more money. Yeah, yeah. My grandma
was one of those people. All sports are rigged.
To make the most money. I'd be okay with seven.
I called Jays in game seven when the series started.
I will not be upset if they win in game six,
though. I didn't bet any money on it. You did
call Jays in seven. I did. Like, everywhere.
So we'll see. I don't know how people can dislike
this team. They're fucking adorable. They all
seem to love each other. They got a crazy old
man who yells at everybody with two different
colored eyes. They got a fat little guy that
looks hilarious when he runs. Fat little guy.
Have you seen Alejandro Kirk run? Yes, I have.
I haven't seen him run, but I have seen him.
Look at his little legs go. He looks like...
french bulldog trying to run i love him i love
him so much i see he got a giant mural painted
in tijuana which makes me happy that's cool yeah
this big old buddha belly it's just his face
but like it's a upper body only it's a really
nice mural like people should go look it up Well,
if that's it, then that's it for this edition
of Boxing Before Dark. My battery is getting
low. And it is getting dark. See you on the other
side of fucking Ortiz Lugan.