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. Pop all the shit. Popping
shits. Popping shits. It's Boxing Before Dark,
where shit gets popped. That's actually a decent
tagline. Yeah, where shit gets popped. Shanada,
how are you doing? I'm good. It's Sunday for
you, right? I did not sleep enough. Yeah, it's
Sunday for me. I did not sleep enough last night.
I was reading comics and noticed it was 3 a .m.
So it is now 9 a .m. Yeah, I kind of fucked up.
It do be like that sometimes. It do. It do. So
something unrelated that I wanted to bring up
because I thought it was cool. One of the Miss
World contestants for Chile is a death metal
vocalist. I'm going to play it really quickly
for the audio. Yeah, so imagine, you know, it's
a Miss World contestant, so this is a very good
-looking woman. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty fun. I
think this is for Miss Chile, though. Miss World
of Chile. Yeah, the winner will be Miss Chile,
and yeah. Yes, and go on to compete in Miss World.
I hope she does well. Yeah, I mean, if that's
what you're bringing to the talent competition,
then you gotta get some extra points for that.
Because that's really fucking cool. And unexpected.
Yeah, for the fun creativity and juxtaposition.
I do like it. Her outfit's very nice for the
talent as well. She's wearing a very nice ballroom
dress. Yeah, kind of Morticia vibe. Not really,
but kind of. Yeah, kind of. I can see that. Oh,
man. Let's get into the shit here. Tank and Jake
Paul is officially cancelled. To the surprise
of no one. I still... I guess it's just PR vibes.
But, like, Netflix shouldn't be surprised. Like,
if this was a problem, they shouldn't have signed
Tank. It's still weird because this is something
that happened, as we talked about it before,
it was something that happened over the course
of several months. Well, the actual incidents
were months ago. Right. And it's a civil case,
so like I said, it's not like he's going to jail
or anything. Yeah. So, I mean... I think Netflix
probably was, and Jake Paul or whoever, was having
trouble dealing with Tank anyways and kind of
used this as a ripcord. Yeah, I mean, it makes
sense. Based on what Jake Paul said, that Tank
was a fucking diva, really difficult to deal
with. I mean, he comes across like that. Yeah,
no surprise. Have they officially announced?
Who's replacing him? Not that I've seen. There
have been a lot of names floated, like Edgar
Berlanga got floated. I heard Tommy Fury 2 is
what's happening, but I don't know if that's
official or not. That would be cool. It would
be cool to see that. See an official, a legitimate
fight. Yeah, I don't think anybody... Well, I
don't care about Jake Paul, so I guess I can't
talk. I was going to say, I don't think anybody
really wants to see that rematch, but I guess
Jake Paul did lose it. The first one. And he
could, you know, revenge his loss. I can see
a storyline there. Whatever keeps Jake Paul in
the promoter... Whatever gives him power to continue
promoting is... I'm cool with that. Yeah, I've
said it before. I do not give a shit about Jake
Paul fights. Yeah. I really don't either. I like
to act like it for the memes, but do I really
care? Nah, not that much. I have come around
on him being in boxing as a promoter, but...
Tell you a fight that I do care about. Emmanuel
Navarrete versus Eduardo Nunez. Unifying their
WBO and IBF titles. February 28th in Phoenix.
Nice. I'm excited for that because I'm fucking
going. You can't stop me. You got to get a ticket
for that one. That's going to be fun. Yeah, absolutely.
And I'm sure they'll do... The undercard will
be fine. I'm hoping to see Emiliano Vargas live.
That would be cool, yeah. And it would make sense
to put him on there. But I hope Charlie Suarez
got some cash for that. Yeah, since he was the
official banditory challenger, I'm sure they
gave him something nice to stand aside. He also
just kind of deserves the rematch. Right. To
be honest. He does. Would not be surprising if
he gets the first crack at whoever wins. Yeah,
I guess that would be a good consolation for
missing out. Missing the shot at the one title
to get a crack at two. It's a decent deal. It's
not a bad deal. And who's the fighter who always...
I can't remember who said it, but someone's like,
I fucking love getting paid to not work. That
sounds like something David Allen would say.
Yeah, probably. But I don't think it was him.
I don't think he ever got step -aside money.
But... It was somebody, they asked him if he
was upset about the step aside, and he was like,
man, I just made hundreds of thousands of dollars
to not do shit. Can't go wrong. Sounds pretty
awesome. If somebody paid me $100 ,000 to not
do my job, I would be so happy. Yeah. Oh, was
that somebody else wants to do it? All right.
This is also why I'm not a boxer, though. Teofimo
versus Shakur. All but certain for January in
New York. This sounds pretty damn cool. I don't
know. Does it sound like a good fight? It does
to me. Okay. I don't know. Shakur is so boring.
If Teofimo can make it not boring. Or if Shakur
decides to be not boring like he was with Zepeda,
it'll be great. I'm thinking it'll be more Teofimo.
If Shakur decides to rigandow it. No, I don't...
Even if he does decide to rigandow it, I think
Teofimo can make it exciting. Maybe. I have so
little faith in Teo anymore. Yeah. I... I don't
know. I do. I still want to believe. The fucking
bipolar rock and roller can make some shit happen.
I mean, he can. I believe he absolutely could.
I just don't know if I believe he will. I see
the disconnect there. But maybe I'm just being
pessimistic. Are you pessimistic about Terrence
Crawford promoting? It's basically going to be
what it's going to be. All of his, all of his
kids on Terrence Crawford promotions. So we're
really what you can expect. Yeah. I don't know
if Crawford has the personality to promote. He's
not flashy enough. Like, the boxers, well, the
only one I can think of that really got big promoting
afterwards is De La Hoya. But, like, I don't
know. I think Crawford's very smart, but I don't
know if he has the flashy personality to promote
people. He didn't even promote himself very good
during his career. That's a good point. I'm just
in a bad mood today. But like, I don't know.
Well, I just, he's not going to be a mouthpiece,
but there are some promoters that aren't. Yeah.
There's some promoters that aren't, but they
tend to be like connected old white men. I don't
know. Crawford's huge. So maybe that's, but Mayweather
couldn't make it happen. Not really. Mayweather
hasn't become a big promoter. No, his best fighter
left. That was really it. Because he wasn't doing
enough for him. Mayweather is a better talker
than Crawford. True. I don't know. I just want
to see Crawford fight more often. I know he's
lining up his career after he can't box anymore.
Like Crawford's made so much fucking money. Sometimes
I think boxers should just retire and be retired.
There was some chatter that he was thinking about
going back to 160 and fighting the winner of
Johnny Beck versus Lara. But I saw that got shut
down for him. opting to promote instead in the
same time frame yeah i just i don't know jesus
christ i'm losing my voice here um i wish crawford
would just fight more and wait to promote later
if he's gonna fight more than fight more if not
then go ahead and get back get to promoting if
that's what you want to do but like in no no
teasing of potentially continuing to fight. Yeah,
like, I don't think he can do both. Right, I
don't think so either. And personally, I don't
think he has the personality to be a promoter.
But, we'll see. Maybe he'll prove me wrong. I
kind of hope he does, but... Like, I just can't
think of very many boxers that went on to be
good promoters. Even Oscar De La Hoya is a stretch.
He's been the most successful at it. He has,
yes. I mean, as we're talking, his card is going
down right now. Yeah, like, you have to say that
De La Hoya's been reasonably successful as a
promoter. Oh, for sure. He absolutely has been.
But he's not the best promoter out there. No,
he's not. He's not even in the A -tier conversation.
I'd say he's B -tier, though. Yeah, that's absolutely
fair. The matchroom and the Brits, I think, right
now are the best promoters of who's available.
Top Rank has fallen off. Golden Boy has fallen
off. There's not a whole lot. Yeah, Matchroom
and Queensberry are really kind of running things
right now. Yeah. Much to my chagrin. Hate having
to give props to Brits. Something like, I gotta
learn how to do it. At least for survival. Survival
mode. Oh, yeah, yeah. You haven't talked about
that on the podcast yet. I have not. We'll get
to it at the end. Xander Zayas versus Abbas Baru
is all but certain for January 31st. So this
is a unification of the WBA and WBO and WBA titles.
I mean, it makes sense. Zayas is the one that
they want to be big and Baru's the easy. Weakest
other belt, yeah. Yep. I kind of hope Beru pulls
it off and upsets Zaius though. I fucking love
it. That would just be too goddamn funny. I just...
Zaius is... I don't think he's all that good.
I don't either. I'm not sold. Even though he
has a belt now, he kind of got it on easy mode.
Because, who was it? Fundora had that title.
And chose to give it up. Yeah. So, you know,
shoulder shrug. Well, and like, Zaius is really
young. He could get better. But now that he's
got a title, he can't really go backwards. You
know? That's the problem with kind of rushing
people. Yeah, he doesn't have the luxury anymore.
Now that he's a title holder, you can't... At
this point and this point going forward, you
don't have the luxury of taking backward steps.
And Abbas Baru kind of gets a little bit of a
pass because he's a title holder. But this is
a bit of a backward step or a lateral step at
best. But he has a title, so you can't say he's
a nobody. Right. Right? Right. But. Because where
is Beru from? He's German. Yeah. I would just
love to see him upset Zaius in New York. I think
that would be fucking great. This random ass
German dude. Yeah. The Puerto Rican... I don't
want to say star, but... What do they call them?
New Yoricans? New Yoricans, yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
I would love to see it, but probably won't happen.
Would be great if it did. It would be too goddamn
funny. This random German becoming unified champion.
Yeah, and who does he call out after that? Does
he say, I want to fight Sebastian Fedora? I mean,
he kind of has to call out. Who else has... Is
it just Pandora that has belts? Bakra and Murtazali.
Those are the only two people he can really call
out. Oh, that's a hard... He loses to either
of them. Yeah. Um... Murta probably hurts less.
A less damaging outing? Yeah. Interesting move.
AJ is bringing Usyk into his camp. Into his training
camp. Do you think this is a good or a bad idea?
I think AJ changes stuff too often. AJ is constantly
changing trainers. I think he complicates things.
He tries to do too much. I think Usyk would be
fun to train with. But, like, AJ's not gonna
replicate Usyk's style. Especially not at fuckin'
old band age. Mid -thirties? Yeah. I don't know.
It's good for publicity. AJ might be able to
be a good promoter. Tying things backwards, but...
I can see AJ doing okay. At least as the figurehead.
He'd need people who knew what they were doing
around him. Yeah. I think you put it really well
with saying AJ tries to do too much. He tries
to do too many different things just because
he's had recent difficulties with success. So
now he's trying to bring in his nemesis into
camp. I guess it kind of depends the capacity
that you're bringing him in. But yeah, even after
it was, what was it? Andy Ruiz 2, where he was
really boxed behind a jab. He was really mobile.
I can kind of see how you might want to take
that direction to another level. That's what
that gets older. That gets harder when you're
older. Right. And I was going to say Usyk is
if somebody can teach you how to age that properly,
it would be him. That's true. I don't know. I
just think AJ tries to change everything all
the time. Yeah. Like, he feels that he has to
reinvent himself whenever something doesn't go
right. Yeah. And, like, once you have success,
I feel you need to lean into your strengths.
Like, shore up your weaknesses, but you can't
just make your weaknesses your strengths anymore.
Like, I think that's something you can do in
your early 20s sometimes. But, like... Once you
get your style, just perfect your style. Don't
change it. If it's just mostly for publicity,
I don't see a problem with it. It could very
well be. Like, get some fun Instagram reels of
the two of them dancing and shit. I could see
Usyk being fun, but if he's going to try and
steal his style, it's not going to work. Makes
me think of, we talked about Tim Zhu going with
a Cuban trainer. Yeah, I'm still on the fence
about that too. I don't think Tim Zhu's personal
style is going to mesh with a Cuban coach. AJ's
style could be closer to Usyk's, but he changes
it so often it's hard to tell what his natural
style is. It would have to be. If they're going
to have success, if AJ and Usyk are going to
have success together, it's going to have to
be taking it back to that Andy Ruiz 2. To me,
that's the only way that this is going to bear
any fruit. Otherwise, I don't see Usyk doing
a whole lot for AJ. publicity yeah that's really
it uh barry mario barrios versus ryan garcia
practically it's all but set for q1 of 26 yeah
i saw they lifted the ban on garcia yeah the
ban for being a fucking racist that's They said
that they were monitoring closely affiliated
with his... I'm not sure how to phrase this,
but his de -racisting? Undoing the racism? Or
something? Yeah, I don't know. Because that's
a thing. Yeah, totally. Deprogramming? Jesus
Christ. Ryan Garcia is such a dumpster fire.
Yeah, I'm not. But also, I mean, like, banning
him for being racist is fucking ridiculous in
boxing. WBC has done it before. It's not new
to them to doing it. Like in everything else,
they're not consistent. None of these organizations
are consistent. Like... I find it very stupid
when they put a ban on Garcia, but there's other
fighters they let fight who've said worse things
on camera. They're just not as famous. Everybody
keeps telling me that Garcia is just going to
knock out Barrios, but I don't know if he is.
Barrios knows how to survive. Yeah, and like,
if Garcia doesn't land that left hook, he's gonna
lose. Barrios can outbox Garcia. I would like
for Barrios and Garcia to have a draw. Three
title defense draws in a row has to be historical.
Yeah, that's why I'm hoping it happens. I also
do kind of want that. But also, I just want Garcia
to lose to the worst title holder ever, and then
people might fuck off about how Ryan Garcia is
good. Even if he does lose, he'll still always
be that left hook. That'll always be his calling
card. Yeah, but one punch doesn't make you good.
Yeah, you're right. It doesn't, but... It does
make for good memes when you're fighting the
worst fucking Titleist at 147. Yeah. But, like,
if Barrios can just remember to keep his hand
up... He'll be fine. Barrios needs to bring Rollie
in to train at camp. What a team. What a team.
Two division title holder. Fuck yes. Two bums.
Two bums. Moving to Artur Beterbiev. He's a free
agent now. So he's got this fight coming up in
mid -November. And after that, he's a free agent.
And apparently he's already courting offers.
I don't know. He's almost 40. Who is he with?
Top Rank. He's almost 40. He's going to end up
with fucking Eye of the Tiger or something terrible.
Oh, that would be... I don't think so. That would
be fucking hilarious. No. I mean, he's probably
just going to sign with Top Rank again, isn't
he? From what I've heard from him and his manager,
so like what, grain of salt or whatever, but
it's that he's looking elsewhere. He's not looking
to re -sign with Top Rank. I guess Top Rank still
doesn't have a partner. They don't have the goods
to keep him busy. Matchroom? Mattroom, Queensberry.
The Brits are taking over. Yeah, couldn't go
wrong right now. They have broadcast deals. They
got Saudi financing. Yeah, I was going to say,
Turkey likes them. I wonder if Dana White tries
to poach him. That would be quite a get. Because
as you get heavier, you get higher up in the
divisions, you can kind of forego age a little
bit more. Yeah. And like, Better BF isn't the
most expensive of those guys. No. And then they
could say, look, our minimums are minimums. We're
paying this guy much more. I don't know. I kind
of hope that doesn't happen. I don't think that
Zufa will be able to poach Beterbiev. He could
just ask his... I don't know. I don't know if
Beterbiev is Dagestani or Chechen, but he can
ask one of his homies, like, what's Dana White
like? And they'll give him the scoop. That's
true. I don't know where Beterbiev is from. He's
Russian, yes, but what region of Russia is he
from? Yeah, that's what I meant. Born... Yeah,
he is Dagestani. Okay. Goddamn, he's old. He's
older than us, Leo. He was born in the Soviet
Union. So aging oneself. I think I was born at
the very end of it. The very tail end. The waning
months. We're the same age. Yeah. Another interesting
free agency that came to a close. Clarissa Shields
signs an $8 million two -year deal with Salida
Promotions. I always forget Salida exists, to
be honest. Clarissa Shields is pretty much the
only reason that anyone cares about it. And caring
about it, I'm using that very gratuitously. Yeah,
Clarissa Shields is a weird one. She suffers
from success to some extent. She's just so good
that she's boring. Like, her fights aren't exciting.
There's nobody anywhere near her weight class.
Yeah, the few that are at heavyweight are not
even close. Yeah. I think she's already beaten
all of the challengers that do exist at heavyweight.
But, like, she could come down if she wanted
to, but there's nobody to drag her down either.
Like, I don't think Clarissa needs to be a heavyweight.
No. She could cut down, but there's nobody to
incentivize that. I can't think of any women
at the higher weight classes with any name recognition.
Yeah, I can't either. Yeah, her career is kind
of a weird one. Now, I have this. Instead of
Q1, it's T1. It's trimester one. As much as I
like using the term trimester to mean four months,
but most people don't. The implication of trimester
is not at all to do with the calendar. Understandably
so. But sometime in T1 of 26, Resendiz versus
Berlingo. That could be a banger, maybe. Yeah,
Resendiz comes to... He's a clubber. Berlingo.
Similarly. We're gonna get to see the symbol
monkey again. Maybe. Oh, that'll be nice. Yeah,
I don't know how I feel about Berlanga. I was
never super high on him anyways. But I think
we've kind of seen his ceiling now. Yes. If nothing
else, we know his ceiling. Yeah, I'm not sure
what to make of him either. I do like calling
him Kony, King of New York, for funsies. That's
always fun. But I got nothing other than T126.
Yeah, the memes are fun, but I also wouldn't
be surprised if Resendiz pulled off the upset.
I assume it would be an upset. I don't think
so. I think the bookies are going to have Berlanga
as the favorite. That, okay, yes. The bookies
probably have Berlanga up just because he's more
known. Yeah. Oh, shit. This one is a Shanada
favorite. Tsutsumi versus Nonito Donair for the
WBA question mark title. Yeah, we can get into
that in a second, but I'm so excited. I am definitely
buying a ticket for this one. And I know he's
well past it, but I'm super excited to see Donair
fight in person. He was one of my favorites like
years ago. I do think Tsutsumi is going to be
too much for him. But Donair always has that
puncher's chance still. The Ryan Garcia chants?
Don't call it that. It is the left hook, too.
Tsutsumi gets hit. And Donair still has power.
But I don't think he can pull it off. And I don't
want him to. I want Tsutsumi to win. But... I
do feel like the WBA is just fucking with Tsutsumi,
though. Like... He fought earlier this year and
they put him in recess instantly as soon as he
said he had that eye injury. Like, he fought
this February, right, Tsutsumi? It was in the
beginning of the year, yes. But, like, that's
not that long of a time off. That's seven months.
Fighters go seven months without fighting and
keep their titles all the fucking time. Yeah.
And he's coming out of recess and doesn't get
to fight for the actual title. What the fuck's
up with that? And the JBC apparently doesn't
recognize interim belts. So he's not even fighting
for Donair's interim. Not really. No, he wouldn't
be if the JBC is going to sanction it. Well,
the fight's in Tokyo, so it's going to be the
JBC. It's not going to be available for Sutsumi
to win. So, like, I don't hate this fight, but
what the fuck is it for? Yeah, like, Sutsumi's
the champion in recess. Antonio Vargas is the
full champion. Nonito Donair is the interim champion.
This is an instance where you should leave the
World Championship vacant. You have an interim,
and then the champion in recess comes back, and
they fight for the full title. Just how it should
work. Well, I mean, Tsutsumi shouldn't have been
put in recess, I don't think. Like, he's fighting
again within a year. Yeah, you're right. He shouldn't
have been. And it's not like this is unexpected.
It wasn't like his eye surgery was something
that was going to put him on the shelf for a
long time. He always planned to fight again soon.
Within a calendar year. Yeah, which lots of champs
get way longer than a calendar year without being
I guess he's not stripped, but... I don't know.
I just... I feel like they've treated him like
shit, and I don't understand why. He's not controversial.
Like, I... I haven't heard any scandals with
him. Uh, he's... He's fun. Like, his Punchburger
-style persona is fun. I don't get it. I don't
know why they're fucking with him so bad. Okay,
they recessed him. At least let him fight for
his title when he comes back. You could try hitting
up the... I think it's still Gilberto Mendoza.
Still the head of the WBA. Just call him up.
Hit him up on Twitter. Hit him up on Twitter
and say what the shit, man. I don't have a Twitter,
but I think it's bullshit. It is bullshit. And
I know I'm biased, but I think this is not my
bias. This is just straight -up bullshit. I don't
understand why they did this. Like, again, I
don't think he will lose, but I also think that
it's not a 0 % chance. Like, what's he get if
he... He gets nothing if he wins. And if he loses,
they're not going to let him fight for his title.
But it just seems a weird way to move. I'm not
a fan. It is. It's a weird situation. It definitely
needs some clarification. It kind of feels like
they just don't want him to be the champion.
And I can't figure out a reason why. Like, I
know he wasn't supposed to beat Takuma, but he
did. Get over it. Shoulder shrug. No idea. Speaking
of shoulder shrugs, Pacquiao, Manny Pacquiao
is the vice president of the IBA. Yeah. Weird
fucking move. Like, you're famous for the Olympic
controversies. and you've been kicked out of
amateur boxing, basically, or Olympic boxing,
and you elect an active fighter and promoter
to the vice president position. It's a weird
fucking move. Like, that's a huge conflict of
interest. The IBA only really deals with the
amateur stuff, doesn't it? Yeah, but Pacquiao's
promotions has a lot of amateur fighters. They're
sanctioning a lot of those fights in the Philippines.
Okay, that is definitely an interesting situation.
I just... I know Pacquiao's mostly just a name.
I'm sure he's not actually doing shit. But just
in general, having... Somebody that's an active
fighter on the board of one of these things seems
like a bad move. I know the IBA isn't going to
be sanctioning any of Pacquiao's personal fights,
but... I don't know. I just think it sounds stupid.
And dollars to donuts, Pacquiao's kids are all
gonna be getting something from the IBA. Because
they do have regional belts and stuff, don't
they? I honestly don't know. I thought that the
IBA was just the group that oversaw the Olympic
boxing and the world championships that happen
at different years, different places, like Pan
American games, Asian games, etc. Maybe I...
I don't follow this stuff enough. I shouldn't
talk about it. But, I mean, Pacquiao Promotions
is going to have fighters in those Pan -Asian
games and stuff. Yeah, that they will, I'm sure.
And which of the big organizations fucks with
the IBA? Is it the WBA? I don't know. Anyways,
maybe it's not as big a controversy as I thought
it was. It seems really like a strange situation
to me. Yeah, I would give it strange as well.
I think that it's like a figurehead, just like
you had said. Pacquiao's just a name, so they're
putting him into a very important seat. very
important with you know really heavy air quotations
yeah and like vice president probably doesn't
have any real ability to do but i don't know
i just it seems a weird move to have an active
fighter on one of those boards active fighter
active promoter yeah yeah Anything more for the
news and info, news and rumors stuff? I don't
think so. All right. Well, some notes here. You
heard me mention Twitter, LVX Media Net. If you
want to see how it breaks down with me and Gilberto
Mendoza, we're going to hash out this fucking
Tsutsumi Donair situation. It'll happen on Twitter.
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word. Recaps. Queensberry at the Co -op Live
Arena in Manchester, England. I only picked up
two. Lyndon Arthur, majority decision over Bradley
Ray. I think that's how they were saying it.
Yeah, I don't know. Rhea is the genus name. It's
the genus name for ostriches and all those big
birds. Bradley Big Bird? Yeah, he kind of looks
like an ostrich. Lyndon Arthur fucking soundly
outboxed him. I thought I was confused because
the commentary kept talking about how Bradley
Ray was doing amazing or whatever. But I was
like, Lyndon Arthur is like piecing him up with
that jab. I don't know. It was definitely a comeback
for Arthur. Like he was hurt and losing. Oh shit,
he got dropped in the second. That's right. Yeah,
so. And he got hurt again in the fourth or something.
But then the last three quarters of the fight,
yeah, Arthur just completely outboxed him. Rhea's
corner was giving him the no bullshit talk there.
I think it was... before the second last round
it's like you're gonna be I forget what stadium
it was not stadium but like hall he's like you're
gonna be back at the hall you were at when you
were a kid you don't want that fucking go out
and win these two rounds and then Rhea did not
so yeah Lyndon Arthur boxed some soundly the
decision was a lot closer than I would have expected
I guess the knockdown brought it up on points
but i don't know i i thought it was pretty close
like i gave most of the first few rounds to to
bradley yeah and then with the knockdown i i
think lyndon arthur did win it but i thought
it was a close fight i gotta it was actually
pretty fun it was i was surprised I've got to
stop being so much of a contrarian. Because pretty
much anything the commentary says, I immediately
start thinking the opposite. Especially with
those British guys. Because they lay it on so
fucking thick. Yeah, yeah. Dudes chill out. They
like to slurp their favorites for sure. But...
Now, this fight's worth going and watching if
you missed it. Because I have to admit, I kind
of... didn't care about this card at all i didn't
either and yeah like we both agreed to go back
and watch it and i'm very glad i did yeah yeah
this fight was fun but lyndon arthur's looking
old he's looking the worst for wear yes like
he got hurt too easy it happened too quickly
yeah you're right it happened really quickly
Oh, Joshua Buozzi. Majority decision over Zach
Parker. This one, the commentary did not agree
with. I don't know. I was kind of fading in and
out of it. Like, this was certainly a fight of
all time. It was boring as hell. Yeah. Okay.
There was a lot of... No. There was a lot of
punch, punch, clinch. And, like, Parker kept
coming in with his head down really low, and
Boazzi just, like, headlock him, and then they'd
break, and then they'd throw four punches, and
it was another headlock. I felt like Boazzi wasn't
throwing enough punches at all. I thought Parker
probably won it as well. But... What did comms
have on that one? They gave one round to Blotzy?
Like, they were pissed at the scorecards. One
round to Blotzy? Yeah. Wow. I don't think that
was fair either. But they had Parker winning
handily. It was just kind of a boring fight.
Oh, keeping that trend. Matchroom at the Caribe
Royale in Orlando, Florida. Three really quickly.
Nishant Dev gets the UD over Juan Carlos Campos
Medina. Pat Brown with the quick stoppage. KO2
over Felix Valera. Yoelvis Gomez split draw over
Entrevious Ingram. And like I said, keeping in
the theme of boring, Lanier Pero versus Jordan
Thompson. Pero gets the UD. Got deducted a point
for low blows. it was i have to admit i tried
to watch this one and i just got so fucking bored
that's how i was with watsi parker like i was
like this is this is a fight of all time and
i really just do not have the patience yeah that
was me on this one i had it on and i realized
i wasn't watching and i went back and then realized
i wasn't watching and i was like fuck it i watched
the highlights but There weren't any highlights?
You didn't miss a whole lot. This was a pretty
rough one. I also don't care about either of
these people. They brought up Gerald Miller.
Lanier and Gerald Miller were jaw -jacking at
each other. Overall, it was a pretty lackluster
affair. But do you know what wasn't a lackluster
affair? Probox. On Friday, November 7th, Probox
on YouTube. I fucking love Probox. Oh, my God.
Probox delivered. Probox delivered. Dominic Valle
gets the UD over Miguel Anquenoit. Rene Alvarado.
I'm sorry. So they had a late replacement. And
Dominic Valle got the job done. He looked dominant.
Rene did have some questions to pose to Valle.
And Valle had all the answers. So not much more
to say about it. Katsuma Akitsugi. Stoppage in
seven over Vincent Astrolabio. Death by a thousand
cuts. Every fucking time. This made me so happy,
because someone in Discord was like, ah, this
guy's only got three knockouts, this is gonna
be boring as fuck. And I was like, no! You sit
down and you watch this. Stand the fuck by. Stand
by. It was great. It's just, he throws so many
punches, and so many different punches. Like,
he must just be a fucking nightmare. Because
you're like, ah, where's it coming? Oh, no. Why
won't it stop? Do I guard my body? Oops, I get
an uppercut. Do I guard my face? Oops, I get
punched to the liver. And down I go for the fourth
time in the fight. Australavio. I don't know
if he's just weak to the body or bad at defending
it. Because I do think... Akitsugi landed some
pretty hard, very precise body shots that put
Astrolabio down. But even without his sickly
appendix, Astrolabio was going down hard with
the body shots. But he got up every fucking time.
Yeah. Which is crazy. Yeah, you can't doubt his
spirit. Yeah, he went down with a liver shot.
He went down with a spleen shot. He went down
with a solar plexus shot. He was down five times
in that fight before the ref called in. And I
know they're body shots, but like going down
five times in a fight. That's going down after
getting pieced up for like 20 to 30 seconds.
Yeah. Yeah, they're not one shot knockdowns.
Like that's not. It was a fun fight. Astrolabio
got in a few good shots as well, but... Yeah,
it seemed like Akitsuki had his number pretty
much from the beginning. Sorry, the ice cream
truck is going by, I think. Somebody with music
and a loudspeaker anyways. Yeah, no, I... I really
like Akitsugi. He's an all -action style. He
does not have one -punch power, but I think he's
gotten knockouts in all of his pro box fights.
He has, yes. He had zero knockouts, and now he
has three or four? Three. Three? Yeah. Oh, I
like this guy. People should watch him. His nickname's
also fun. We were trying to... I was trying to
figure it out on Discord because it's slang.
But he's like the little Japanese firework or
something. Yeah, that's exactly it. Yeah. But...
Oh, Delonte Johnson stops Nicholas Flass in four.
I was surprised at how one -sided this was. Me
too. Like, flaws didn't just had answers for
nothing. Yeah, he got rocked pretty early. That
ref also wanted to see a dead body. Jesus Christ.
Yeah, he might have. That could have been stopped
earlier. And if flaws hadn't stumbled, he was
going to let it go. Like, that was anti -Brit
reffing. Johnson looked really good, though.
Yes. I have high hopes. Because the welterweight
division definitely needs people. Yeah. So I'm
hopeful that Flos can rebound. Because that loss
to Delonte Johnson, it was bad, yes, but it doesn't
have to be the end of the career. He already
had two losses, so I'm sure he'll make a comeback.
Provox will give him more shots, I think. For
sure. Like, that's kind of their thing. A loss
doesn't end it. Yeah, and if you're in an exciting
fight... You're gonna get another shot. Yeah.
But Delonte Johnson came into this 28th at welterweight
on BoxRec. What? Let me see. He's now... Where
the fuck is he? Ninth. Holy shit. That's a big
jump. That is huge. Nice. I wonder if that's
gonna get him... Was he in the rankings with
anybody? Not that I know of. I wonder if that'll
jump him. Welters 147, right? Yes. Well, Nicholas
Flaws was ranked 11th with the WBO. Which is
what these guys are probably going to be ranked
with because they were fighting for some North
American title from them. Nicholas Flaws was
also ranked Tense with the IBF. So that should
get Williams into some rankings, I would think.
Johnson? Jesus Christ, yeah. How about Jim Sasaki?
I mean, leave Sasaki alone, but... Is he even
still in the rankings? He's 12th. This is all
box rec. That's what I'm going off of. Oh, I
pulled up the standings for each belt. Sasaki
is not listed by any of the belt guys. Nor should
he be. Why did I call him Johnson? I called Pommy
Fury Huey Fury yesterday too. I'm just pulling
names out of my ass now. They're not even close.
It's alright. Yeah, anyways, I think that should
jump. Tiger. Oh, that's why I called him Williams.
His nickname's Tiger. Ammo, yeah. No, Tiger Williams
was a really old hockey player. Anyways, doesn't
matter. It was a good fight. Actually, all the
fights on the ProBox card were fun. People should
just go watch ProBox. It's free. It's free on
YouTube. Can't go wrong. Plus you get to see
Pauly Molinaggi with an eyepatch this week. Eyepatch
Pauly. You go with eyepatch Pauly and not pirate
Pauly? The parrots are always called Pauly too.
It's even funnier. I just got a finger gun. Cause
like, yep, you got it. I should have went with
pirate Polly. Uh, anything more for pro box?
No, just go watch it. Pro box is good. Go back.
Go fucking pro box. Good. Go watch it. That's
those are two thoughts that got mashed up there.
Um, stuff coming up. Matchroom on November 15th
at Tottenham Hotspur Arena or Stadium, excuse
me, in London, England. I'm going to go to this
one. I'm excited. You should be excited. I'm
jealous. I wish I could come too. So Mikey Talon
versus Fezzan Shahid is starting it off at super
flyweight. Richard Reakpour versus Tommy Welsh
at heavyweight. Sam Gilly vs. Ishmael Davis at
Super Welter. This is one to watch. Jack Catterall
vs. Ekau Essaman at Welterweight. This should
be fun. Is that a rematch? Catterall vs. Essaman?
I don't think so. No. It should be fun. I like
Ekau Essaman. Adam Azeem vs. Kurt Scooby at Super
Lightweight. I'm going to be one of like five
people cheering for Kurt Scooby. Yup. I'm still,
I'm still excited. And Chris Eubank versus Connor
Ben in a rematch. I'm, I still haven't seen what
weight this is going to be at, but it's going
to be a 12 round fight. Oh, they haven't, they
haven't announced. I thought it was the. I thought
it was the same weight. Is it? I don't know.
I was under that impression. I would have thought,
but I haven't seen. I mean, it probably won't
be as good as the first one, but I hope it is.
I'm just here for the chance. I'm here for the
atmosphere. I don't really give a shit. You're
going to be singing Sweet Caroline at the top
of your lungs. No. No, I would not. Probably
not, but we'll see. You have to. It's part of
the atmosphere. It is part of the atmosphere.
You're right. I probably should. I think you're
going to have so much fun. I'm jealous. Scooby.
I don't know why everyone calls him Scooby. He
himself says his name is Scooby. Because it's
only got one O. Yes. I've heard interviews with
him and he says it's Scooby. Yeah. November 22nd.
We're shooting up a bit of a ways. for reasons
that will soon be revealed. Well, I already mentioned
I'm going to be at Matchroom at the Ben Eubank
card. So, look, I'm not going to be in the country
for the 22nd. So, we're not going to be doing
the podcast. But we're going to talk about it
now. Archer Betterbeev versus Dion Nicholson.
Who the fuck is Dion Nicholson? This is certainly
an opponent of all time. That's really all I
got. I don't really know who Dion Nicholson is
either. He's got a nice record, 22 -1. There
you go. All right. Brian Norman Jr. vs. Devin
Haney. The WBO welterweight title will be on
the line. I want Norman to spark about so bad.
I would love nothing more than for Brian Norman
to just look to Sasaki, Devin Haney. It would
be great. I don't think it's going to happen,
but it would be great. Yeah, would be nice. Haney
has been wobbled. I just feel like Haney's going
to be a little scared and box super conservative.
And I don't know if Norman Jr. can counteract
that enough to land something big if the opponent
doesn't want him to. I didn't think about that
angle. Devin Haney boxing conservatively. Kind
of puts a damper on my hopes and dreams here.
It kind of puts a damper on the excitement level.
Like, I'm kind of foreseeing a pretty boring
fight. Well, if anyone's going to stink it out,
it's going to be Haney. Yeah. Oh, you know what
won't be a stinker? Bam Rodriguez versus Fernando
Martinez. This is going to be so exciting. WBC
and WBO champ Rodriguez. And the WBA champ, Martinez.
Superflyweight unification. Martinez beat my
boy. I want Bam to go get my revenge for me.
Kazuto? Yeah. Yeah. The Osaka bad boy. He's so
cute with his kids. But... I kind of am hoping
for and expecting a Bam knockout. Like Bam knocking
out Puma. I would like for that to happen. I
think it will. For the Chicano kid to get the
dub. Moving up. The vacant WBO lightweight title.
Abula Mason versus Sam Noakes. Sixth and ninth
on BoxRec. Rip Sam Noakes. Yeah, I'm not seeing
this going very well for Sam Noakes. I think
he'll give it a good go, but I just think Mason's
better. Yeah, Mason too good. Yep. Oh, speaking
of too good, maybe. Subriel Matias versus Dalton
Smith. Subriel Matias is the WBC super lightweight
champion. Oh my goodness. I like Matias. Somebody
put up a good point that Liam Parrow was able
to tame the beast. Yeah, do you think Dalton
Smith is as good a boxer? As Liam Parrow? That's
not a very high bar to get over. Parrow's more
of a boxer, though. Like, movement -wise. I don't
know if Dalton Smith has the movement. I think
Matthias can walk him down. Brits can be drawn
into firefights. Getting into a firefight with
Matthias is a... Dumb idea. I do not recommend
this. That is highly highly inadvisable at this
time. But also fun. So please do. Yeah I don't
think Matias is the unbeatable like force of
nature that he was originally marketed as but
I just think I think he can handle Dalton Smith.
Yeah, I think you're right. Man, speaking of
Brits that can get drawn into firefights, Anthony
Yar challenges WBC light heavyweight champion
David Benavidez. This could be a banger. This,
I'm... Yeah. Could be. I think it really depends
on Anthony Yard, because Benavidez is going to
do what Benavidez does. It's just a matter of
whether Anthony Yard wants to get himself into
exchanges with someone who has way faster hands
than him. Yeah, but Yard's way more skilled.
You think? I think so. I don't rate Benavidez's
skills very high. He's a banger. He's not a skills
guy. But I think this could low -key turn out
to be really fun. But I am most excited for Bam
versus Puma on this card. I think that's going
to be the fight of the night. I'm most excited
to see Abdullah Mason get a crown. Yeah, I'm
not that invested in Mason. I am. Young American
prospect, so... I can see why you're not that
into it. I don't dislike him, I just... Yeah,
I get you. I'm more excited about Bam. Bam being
the triple crown. Yeah. Who's left? Who's the
IBF guy? I don't know. Let's have a look. That's
112? 115. Willy Baldo Garcia. Which one is he?
They have a terrible pitcher there. Can't see
shit. I know I've watched him a bunch, but Bam
would definitely beat him quite easily. Oh, he's
fighting Karadji. Really? In December? Yeah.
His box rec has him fighting Karadji December
27th. Which would be the Inoue card, right? December
what? 26? 26, 27? Yeah, that's the Inoue card.
Yeah. So, he's not going to have the belt after
that. Taraji's going to get his ass kicked by
Bam. shit. That's all we got on the docket. Unless
you have anything more for ring four? No. That's
a good card though. I am excited for it. It's
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Rough Riders are playing as we speak, actually.
And it looks like they're winning. So I'm happy.
I'm also jealous of your trip. I'm super jealous.
Yeah, so my parting words is this is the last
episode of Boxing Before Dark for the rest of
November. We'll not be back before then. I'm
going to be out of the country. Going to go get
some Brit stoppages. Get myself pulled out of
the fight too early. More than once. Nah, jokes,
jokes. But yeah, this is the last episode of
Boxing Before Dark and we'll be back in December
because there's a lot of fights that are coming
up in December and a lot of fights that will
be having to recap like we just talked about.
Yeah. Are you going to be tweeting during your
trip? I might be. I'll be Instagramming during
my trip. Nice. Okay. If nothing else. I should
post on everything. But, like, does anybody really
want to see me going to fucking, like, museums
and shit? Uh -uh. I do, but we're friends. Yeah,
so it's a little different. Oh, well, we'll see.
We'll see what goes up on the socials. You do
have to go for a Chinese. Yeah, that was the
plan. Liverpool has one of the oldest Chinese
districts in all of Europe. But that's like probably
real Chinese food. I mean like Johnny Fisher
style Chinese. Oh, Big John Bosch. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I think that's what I'm
going to do. I'll try to do that at one point.
Turns out my hotel in London is like a 20 -minute
walk from Coco's. I am beyond fucking thrilled.
Excellent. I'm going to have it like every day,
twice a day while I'm there. Could I go have
English food? Sure, I could. But I have... I
got homies all around. I'm going to be touring
the country. So they'll hook me up with that.
I got to get home as well as I can. Fair enough.
I'm actually super excited. My work friend found
actual leeks in a grocery store up in Niigata.
Whoa. And I have been missing chicken leek pie
so badly. And I can't make a pie, but I can make
the filling and eat it like stew. And I'm so
excited. 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. We'll
see you in December. We'll see you in December.