WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.399 This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:06.639 Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back. 00:00:06.700 --> 00:00:11.279 Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before. 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:15.019 Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This 00:00:15.019 --> 00:00:26.039 is Boxing Before Dark. Oh, man. Let me start 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.269 the timer. Because that's what we do here. Boxing 00:00:29.269 --> 00:00:32.890 Before Dark. We are your... We are very professional. 00:00:33.289 --> 00:00:38.890 Your compatriots in boxing nerddom. Joined by 00:00:38.890 --> 00:00:45.090 Shanada. What'd it do? It do not much this weekend, 00:00:45.189 --> 00:00:47.509 which is good. I finally have two full days. 00:00:47.609 --> 00:00:52.929 I don't have to go to work. That's good. And 00:00:52.929 --> 00:00:57.200 there's no boxing either. No, there's something 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.460 on right now that I'll watch later. Whatever 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:03.579 the DAZN card is. Raul Curiel, I think. Yeah, 00:01:03.659 --> 00:01:06.879 it was supposed to be Alexis Rocha, but he got 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:11.159 hospitalized for something. I think he was having 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:16.420 his weight cut went poorly. That's rough. Yeah. 00:01:17.340 --> 00:01:23.680 Just a few days out, too. Oh, man. Speaking of 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:28.629 rough. Gervonta Davis, arrest warrant. It is 00:01:28.629 --> 00:01:32.349 official. I mean, it's about time, in my opinion. 00:01:32.390 --> 00:01:34.530 I guess they were just getting their ducks in 00:01:34.530 --> 00:01:40.370 a row. But did you see all the documents? I forget 00:01:40.370 --> 00:01:42.489 which one. I think it was Boxing Scene linked 00:01:42.489 --> 00:01:45.049 all the public documents about it. No, I didn't 00:01:45.049 --> 00:01:47.629 see that. And the police statements. Yeah, it's 00:01:47.629 --> 00:01:50.609 basically all on video, like we thought from 00:01:50.609 --> 00:01:54.480 the civil case. Yeah. So, yeah, he's fucked. 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.939 They also have documented death threats and stuff 00:01:58.939 --> 00:02:03.900 going back a while. It's not going to go well, 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:08.379 I don't think. Like, Tank has the money to buy 00:02:08.379 --> 00:02:11.219 a really good lawyer, but I don't think anybody's 00:02:11.219 --> 00:02:13.680 getting you out of this one, buddy. Yeah, we're 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.219 just doing damage mitigation at this point. Yeah, 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.439 and all, like, memes and jokes aside, I guess 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.060 they were dating, but she broke up with him, 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.939 like, a month before, and that's what set him 00:02:25.939 --> 00:02:30.000 off. Like, it's not over until I say it's over 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:37.400 type thing. It's like, hmm. Come on, man. Yeah, 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.159 they haven't found him, have they? Not that I've 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:44.199 heard. Just the marshals, the federal marshals 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:48.539 are looking for him. That's not a good place 00:02:48.539 --> 00:02:51.800 to be. The day after his arrest warrant, there 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.740 was a standoff in Baltimore. And somebody texted 00:02:55.740 --> 00:02:58.319 me and they're like, oh God, it's Tank. It wasn't. 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.060 I would have thought the same thing immediately. 00:03:03.819 --> 00:03:07.180 Like if I just saw the headline, standoff in 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:08.919 Baltimore. Yeah, it was police standoff in Baltimore. 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:11.919 And I was like, I'm sure it's not Tank. They 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:19.479 think he's in Florida. Man, what? We already 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.560 labeled him Villain of the Year for 2025 for 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:30.139 all of this shit. That's... He's... Go on. He's 00:03:30.139 --> 00:03:33.020 gonna be one of those, like, what -if questions, 00:03:33.099 --> 00:03:36.060 I think, forever. Like, the wasted potential 00:03:36.060 --> 00:03:42.840 in Tank Davis. Yeah. There was talk about him 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:47.259 coming back in 2026. But... I don't think that's 00:03:47.259 --> 00:03:51.120 gonna happen. I saw this morning that they made 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:55.439 him champion in recess right now. He's WBA, right? 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:59.400 Yeah. Just fucking strip him. This is an instance 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:04.139 where stripping is appropriate. Like, even if, 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.699 whatever, let's say it wasn't all on video and 00:04:08.699 --> 00:04:11.439 everything else, he's gonna be tied up in legal 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:16.839 shit for, like, a year at least. he's not gonna 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.279 come fight when he's on the run from the fucking 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:24.420 feds like strip him yeah if he was if he was 00:04:24.420 --> 00:04:28.420 like medically recessed sure like if he was having 00:04:28.420 --> 00:04:31.819 a surgery or something or whatever that's not 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:34.759 what this is but yeah exactly this is villainous 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.759 behavior this is this is a perfect case of where 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:43.170 stripping is appropriate i think yeah This is 00:04:43.170 --> 00:04:45.389 one of those times where boxing's a little embarrassing. 00:04:46.209 --> 00:04:49.930 Yeah, you're on the run from the feds for domestic 00:04:49.930 --> 00:04:52.629 abuse charges, but we're just gonna recess you. 00:04:53.850 --> 00:04:58.449 Boo. And he hasn't fought in over a year anyways. 00:04:58.629 --> 00:05:01.790 They could just strip him for inactivity. But 00:05:01.790 --> 00:05:06.850 it's tank. So that's not gonna happen. Fucking 00:05:06.850 --> 00:05:11.439 embarrassing. Well, maybe this will help pull 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.379 us out of the embarrassing tailspin that is Tank 00:05:14.379 --> 00:05:19.000 Davis. The National Combat Sports Summit and 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.100 their attempts to modernize boxing. Some key 00:05:23.100 --> 00:05:27.740 takeaways. The push to eliminate 10 -10 rounds, 00:05:28.019 --> 00:05:32.639 no matter if it's a very highly competitive round 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:37.139 or a no -action round, 10 -10 scores are, quote, 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:43.750 unacceptable. I like that move. Yeah. The California 00:05:43.750 --> 00:05:47.389 State Athletic Commission executive head exec 00:05:47.389 --> 00:05:51.930 said, if you turn in 10 -10 scores in California, 00:05:52.069 --> 00:05:56.589 don't expect to get called back to judge any 00:05:56.589 --> 00:06:02.550 more bouts there. Yeah. I never liked the 10 00:06:02.550 --> 00:06:07.329 -10 anyways. So I really like this move. Make 00:06:07.329 --> 00:06:12.250 them pick somebody. Like, you'll have more judges 00:06:12.250 --> 00:06:15.850 disagreeing, I guess, maybe. But in all honesty, 00:06:15.990 --> 00:06:18.290 at the highest level, there's not very many 10 00:06:18.290 --> 00:06:21.230 -10s outside of Britain anyways, is there? I 00:06:21.230 --> 00:06:23.870 have hardly ever seen one outside of Britain. 00:06:25.009 --> 00:06:28.850 Like, I don't remember the last time I saw a 00:06:28.850 --> 00:06:32.290 10 -10 on an American scorecard that was like 00:06:32.290 --> 00:06:36.610 a high -profile fight. So this feels like more 00:06:36.610 --> 00:06:40.519 of a... jab at the british judges to me like 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.279 the british system it definitely is there's a 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:45.959 few things in here that i'm like this wasn't 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.920 really meant for the american like the americans 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.980 this was meant to be made public and i assume 00:06:52.980 --> 00:06:57.100 specifically for the uk be like this is what 00:06:57.100 --> 00:06:59.920 we think of your system but we can't say that 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:04.339 so we'll pretend it's a problem in ours oh yeah 00:07:04.339 --> 00:07:06.800 i'm just saying this for nobody in particular 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:14.019 Yeah. 10 -10 scores are ridiculous. Yeah. The 00:07:14.019 --> 00:07:18.100 Association of Boxing Commissions, they were 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:21.920 all in attendance. They want to more liberally 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.060 award 10 -8 rounds. And this one I'm not so sure 00:07:27.060 --> 00:07:30.399 about. Yeah, this one I'm on the fence as well. 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:35.879 I feel like this has a high potential for corruption. 00:07:36.939 --> 00:07:39.699 Exactly. This is going to make it really easy 00:07:39.699 --> 00:07:45.699 to fuck people on the scorecards, I think. That 00:07:45.699 --> 00:07:48.800 was something Josh had said, was there needs 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:55.079 to be specific criteria, not just... The article 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:59.000 said, well, from the summit, cases when a fighter 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.000 decisively wins a round. That's a little bit 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.060 too broad. That is so fucking vague. Exactly. 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:12.160 Well, and, yeah. I would like to see something 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:16.139 in there where, like, decisively wins the round 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:19.699 and damages the other guy or something. Yeah, 00:08:19.740 --> 00:08:23.000 buzzes him or something. Yeah, if you decisively 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.740 win and the guy is wobbled at any point. But 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:29.860 then that kind of leads it open to somebody landing 00:08:29.860 --> 00:08:32.379 one big shot, so somebody who's completely lost 00:08:32.379 --> 00:08:35.899 the round but wobbles somebody. getting a 10 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:39.500 -8 the other way. Like, that's not how it should 00:08:39.500 --> 00:08:44.679 work either. Jack Reiss, on that point, he said, 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:49.700 don't confuse activity with effectiveness. But 00:08:49.700 --> 00:08:54.000 again, I think... Like, this is the problem. 00:08:54.139 --> 00:08:57.519 All these things are so fucking vague. Because 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.940 that also don't... Don't confuse a couple of 00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:06.960 counter shots with somebody being dominant. Right? 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.320 Like, I think this is just going to completely 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.960 polarize the judging even more. And we're going 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.899 to get a whole bunch of score or fights where 00:09:16.899 --> 00:09:22.659 judges have it like 118 to 112 opposite ways. 00:09:23.740 --> 00:09:26.039 You're going to get the judge that likes activity 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.179 and thinks that the guys buzzed them and stuff. 00:09:28.750 --> 00:09:31.850 And give it to the come forward Mexican. And 00:09:31.850 --> 00:09:33.889 then you're going to get somebody who likes counter 00:09:33.889 --> 00:09:36.950 punches. And is going to give 10 -8 rounds to 00:09:36.950 --> 00:09:40.990 the back foot counter puncher. In the same fight. 00:09:41.049 --> 00:09:45.470 For landing like 5 clean shots. Versus the 50 00:09:45.470 --> 00:09:49.529 that the other dude landed. That were ineffective. 00:09:49.970 --> 00:09:55.840 Yeah glancing or not as clean. Yeah. Like, I 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.179 don't know. I think they're going to try and 00:09:58.179 --> 00:10:01.039 make all these changes and there's going to be 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.019 a lot of growing pains. Especially with the 10 00:10:04.019 --> 00:10:05.960 -8 rounds. I think they're going to have to undo 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.259 that one in a couple years. I hope they don't 00:10:08.259 --> 00:10:12.299 go ahead with that. I really don't. I don't want 00:10:12.299 --> 00:10:19.980 them to. I think the... Yeah. I think as long 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:23.850 as it's not a big swing. Like, if each judge 00:10:23.850 --> 00:10:28.389 kind of gives one 10 -8 round that isn't a knockdown, 00:10:28.649 --> 00:10:31.090 it's not going to change a whole bunch. But if 00:10:31.090 --> 00:10:33.850 people start doing it every third round, you 00:10:33.850 --> 00:10:36.490 know what I mean? Yeah, I got you. Because even 00:10:36.490 --> 00:10:39.350 one 10 -8 round would have completely changed 00:10:39.350 --> 00:10:47.809 the outcome of Roach versus Pitbull. Yeah. Or 00:10:47.809 --> 00:10:50.309 like... Well, I still don't know why the judges 00:10:50.309 --> 00:10:52.870 didn't 10 -8 the fucking I'm taking a knee round 00:10:52.870 --> 00:10:56.970 with Tang. But if this came in, they would feel 00:10:56.970 --> 00:11:02.190 they had that power. Right. Speaking of that 00:11:02.190 --> 00:11:06.190 take a knee, let me see here. According to Jack 00:11:06.190 --> 00:11:10.409 Reese, in the Davis Roach fight, we couldn't 00:11:10.409 --> 00:11:12.850 find it written anywhere that when you take a 00:11:12.850 --> 00:11:15.950 knee voluntarily, it's a knockdown. It's always 00:11:15.950 --> 00:11:19.289 been the policy most everybody always used, but 00:11:19.289 --> 00:11:26.409 now we have it in writing. I mean, it's a fucking 00:11:26.409 --> 00:11:32.409 10 -8. Yeah, I guess you have to put it in writing 00:11:32.409 --> 00:11:36.870 and it won't happen again, but everybody knows 00:11:36.870 --> 00:11:39.870 that. There's no reason they couldn't have done 00:11:39.870 --> 00:11:44.669 that. Yeah, there's... Steve Willis, I've always 00:11:44.669 --> 00:11:47.669 felt he was a good referee, but that was definitely 00:11:47.669 --> 00:11:49.350 a miss. He fucked up there. That was a miss. 00:11:49.529 --> 00:11:55.370 Yeah. I did see somebody talking about this online, 00:11:55.529 --> 00:11:59.549 and they kind of went through, and Willis never 00:11:59.549 --> 00:12:03.769 had very many weird fights. This is kind of the 00:12:03.769 --> 00:12:06.049 first time he had to make a strange decision. 00:12:06.929 --> 00:12:15.700 That makes sense. But I mean, it's in writing 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:25.340 now, I guess. And last thing. To summarize the 00:12:25.340 --> 00:12:31.279 point, Jack Reese points out that whenever a 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.879 fight is no longer competitive, the referee needs 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:39.759 to step in. A specific case that he cites is... 00:12:40.220 --> 00:12:44.419 father -son trainer -fighter combos, where a 00:12:44.419 --> 00:12:47.500 father trainer is not going to throw the towel 00:12:47.500 --> 00:12:51.279 in on his boy, and a fighting son is not going 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:57.279 to quit in front of his father. Yeah. It feels 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.440 weird that he decided to point out the father 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:03.179 -son thing. It felt out of place to me. I don't 00:13:03.179 --> 00:13:08.250 know. Like, there's lots of other... other fights 00:13:08.250 --> 00:13:11.809 where it's not father son yeah that you need 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:15.309 to stop but I mean the most famous one for this 00:13:15.309 --> 00:13:18.450 is Gabe Rosado right wasn't it Gabe Rosado and 00:13:18.450 --> 00:13:23.330 Triple G yep Gabe's dad was the the head corner 00:13:23.330 --> 00:13:26.610 but he refused to throw in the towel and it was 00:13:26.610 --> 00:13:29.169 like the cut man or someone yeah I think man 00:13:29.169 --> 00:13:32.490 who threw it in yeah and he was yelling at the 00:13:32.490 --> 00:13:35.090 dad like you're gonna kill your fucking son get 00:13:35.090 --> 00:13:39.740 him out of there There's some crazy audio from 00:13:39.740 --> 00:13:41.960 the corner that somebody caught and the cut man 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.419 was literally like begging him to throw in the 00:13:44.419 --> 00:13:46.779 towel and he ripped it away from him. It's crazy. 00:13:48.220 --> 00:13:53.519 I mean, I have no problem with this in theory, 00:13:53.659 --> 00:13:56.879 but if they overcorrect, you're going to rob 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.659 guys of a chance to come back. Yeah, what I took 00:14:00.659 --> 00:14:03.120 away from this is that there's going to be a 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.019 lot more like... Brit stoppages. That's exactly 00:14:07.019 --> 00:14:13.700 what I took away from it. Which... I... I always 00:14:13.700 --> 00:14:16.379 love the big, like, they're getting their ass 00:14:16.379 --> 00:14:19.500 kicked and they somehow come back fight. And 00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:21.659 if they completely get rid of those, it's gonna 00:14:21.659 --> 00:14:24.779 make me so fucking sad. But the fighter's health 00:14:24.779 --> 00:14:27.200 is the most important thing. I know I meme the 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:30.919 hell out of, like, going out on your shield and 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.750 stuff, but I don't actually believe that. So 00:14:33.750 --> 00:14:36.269 if they save a couple people, and we'll never 00:14:36.269 --> 00:14:41.210 know because you never know, but it's good. But 00:14:41.210 --> 00:14:45.950 I really hope we don't get too many, like, I 00:14:45.950 --> 00:14:48.389 don't know, like the Parker stoppage last year 00:14:48.389 --> 00:14:52.990 was bullshit. That came to mind for me too. Like, 00:14:52.990 --> 00:14:59.850 I don't want stoppages like that. But, I don't 00:14:59.850 --> 00:15:01.649 know. We'll have to see how they actually implement 00:15:01.649 --> 00:15:05.500 it. I do feel like this isn't just flowery words, 00:15:05.659 --> 00:15:08.919 like they have specific things that they're actually 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:14.620 going to come through with. I don't know about 00:15:14.620 --> 00:15:16.980 the 10 -8 rounds. It will depend how liberal 00:15:16.980 --> 00:15:19.700 people get with the 10 -8 rounds, I think. And 00:15:19.700 --> 00:15:22.299 I kind of agree with Josh. You need some more 00:15:22.299 --> 00:15:24.960 guidance on that. And maybe they have that. I 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.740 mean, this is just an article about a conference. 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:37.399 Yeah. Overall, I'm glad as well that they see 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:43.080 specific problems and they are roadmapping solutions 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:48.220 to those problems. Yeah. So it's good to see 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:51.820 that there's positive changes happening for the 00:15:51.820 --> 00:15:56.419 sport. Yeah. The only one I'm... really a little 00:15:56.419 --> 00:15:59.080 worried about is they want to stop the fights 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.159 earlier and the specific don't confuse activity 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.559 with effectiveness that just sounds like they're 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.480 gonna possibly be stopping fights where guys 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.600 are still throwing and landing punches and that 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.120 feels like you could make it pretty corrupt pretty 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:24.460 fast yeah well the only thing we can hope for 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:29.179 is more clarification on what the what's the 00:16:29.179 --> 00:16:32.159 criteria for scoring a 10 -8 round or what's 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:37.120 the criteria for pulling a fighter quicker yeah 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.139 yeah I guess it's just execution we gotta wait 00:16:41.139 --> 00:16:43.159 and see how it's executed all these things could 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.419 be good or they could all be used to quote unquote 00:16:47.419 --> 00:16:52.120 rig fights it's boxing everything's like that 00:16:53.580 --> 00:16:58.460 It's unfortunate, but that's our reality. All 00:16:58.460 --> 00:17:02.960 right. Canelo is back in training, set to return 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.099 in September. He's continuing his Riyadh season 00:17:06.099 --> 00:17:09.400 contract, and the card is going to be Mexico 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:11.720 versus the world. At least that's the idea that 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:19.559 Turkey has. Sounds cool. I wonder if they're 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.240 going to do the super kind of... Racist isn't 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.599 the right word. Stereotypical posters like they 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.019 did for Night of the Samurai. Oh, yeah, they 00:17:27.019 --> 00:17:30.799 had the samurai armor and stuff. Yeah, but I 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.500 kind of feel that if you AI Mexican stuff like 00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:37.220 that, it's going to come off way worse. Panchos. 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:42.400 Specifically samurai, yeah. Sombreros. The Aztec 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:48.359 warrior people. I'm interested to see the visuals. 00:17:48.420 --> 00:17:53.349 I think it might get a little... suspect. If 00:17:53.349 --> 00:17:55.890 they just use AI, then yeah, it's gonna be shitty, 00:17:56.009 --> 00:17:58.289 but it can be tasteful. That's what they're gonna 00:17:58.289 --> 00:18:00.750 do. Unfortunately. They're just gonna AI it. 00:18:01.349 --> 00:18:04.349 Boo. They got away with it with Japan because 00:18:04.349 --> 00:18:08.109 they stuck to samurai, but I don't feel like 00:18:08.109 --> 00:18:10.910 Mexico has that same, like, this is the thing 00:18:10.910 --> 00:18:17.250 we can use. What? Yeah, we'll have to wait and 00:18:17.250 --> 00:18:21.630 see. But Canelo has this and one more fight on 00:18:21.630 --> 00:18:26.930 his Riyadh season little deal. And I don't know. 00:18:26.950 --> 00:18:30.670 That might be it for him. It's kind of time, 00:18:30.829 --> 00:18:33.710 I think. We're getting there. I think that I 00:18:33.710 --> 00:18:39.210 saw in 2025, Canelo made like $165 million. So 00:18:39.210 --> 00:18:42.269 why is he dragging this out? Just finished the 00:18:42.269 --> 00:18:46.390 deal and time to call it quits, man. Go hang 00:18:46.390 --> 00:18:49.640 out with your kids. Ride your horses. Go train. 00:18:49.779 --> 00:18:57.619 Help be a trainer at Eddie's fucking gym. Go 00:18:57.619 --> 00:19:00.660 sell Modellos or something. I'm sure Canelo can 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:03.319 get advertising deals too. Oh, hell yeah. He's 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:11.180 going to get deals for life. But moving on. Tim 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:17.140 Zhu, his comeback after that not so great. It 00:19:17.140 --> 00:19:20.079 was a win, but it was not quite as awesome. Not 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.839 as much of a phoenix rising from the ashes as 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:28.059 we might have hoped. But his next fight, being 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:33.519 explored with Errol Spence. I mean, is that just 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.980 Battle of the Damaged? Cash out Errol Spence. 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.359 If you still can salvage a little bit of his 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:46.740 shine, then... Yeah. This is the time to do it. 00:19:47.460 --> 00:19:49.599 I mean, they're both names, but they're both 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.940 names that have lost the shine. You're right. 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:58.380 Yeah. It might be competitive now. Spence hasn't 00:19:58.380 --> 00:20:02.920 been in a ring for a long time. It's like two 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.140 years. Two years and change. And he didn't look 00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:08.339 very good the last time he was out. Oh, hell 00:20:08.339 --> 00:20:12.609 no. He got beat the hell up by Bud. Was that 00:20:12.609 --> 00:20:14.789 the last fight? He hasn't had one since? Not 00:20:14.789 --> 00:20:19.369 that I recall. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. 00:20:19.390 --> 00:20:21.490 This might actually be competitive, and I never 00:20:21.490 --> 00:20:23.569 thought I would say Tim Zhu could be competitive 00:20:23.569 --> 00:20:27.210 with Errol Spence, but... Given the stage that 00:20:27.210 --> 00:20:32.509 they're at now, I think Tim Zhu beats him. Yeah, 00:20:32.670 --> 00:20:36.769 I don't know. They're both just not who they 00:20:36.769 --> 00:20:40.769 used to be. Unfortunate, but yep, that's true. 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:49.900 Um, Benavidez vs. Zurdo is set for May 2nd. So 00:20:49.900 --> 00:20:56.240 that's fun. That is also the Inoue Nakatani day. 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:58.920 It is. So I'll probably miss this one. Because 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:04.000 I am going to get a ticket. No matter what the 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.779 cost? Honestly, the cost wouldn't be the thing. 00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:10.900 If I don't get the lottery, it's trying to get 00:21:10.900 --> 00:21:13.769 one on resale. Because I have no idea how you 00:21:13.769 --> 00:21:17.589 find scalpers in Japan. And if I ask the wrong 00:21:17.589 --> 00:21:24.309 person, I could be deported. Jesus. If you break 00:21:24.309 --> 00:21:29.349 any laws, you can be deported. They don't always. 00:21:30.009 --> 00:21:33.869 You can. I'm not saying I would 100 % be, but 00:21:33.869 --> 00:21:36.430 I don't want to risk it. Right, so like jaywalking. 00:21:36.730 --> 00:21:38.769 Probably not going to get deported for that. 00:21:39.029 --> 00:21:46.450 Yeah, I risk jaywalking. But we'll see how that 00:21:46.450 --> 00:21:50.309 card builds up. This is just the first announcement. 00:21:51.410 --> 00:21:54.109 I'm kind of excited for that fight. I think it's 00:21:54.109 --> 00:21:56.950 going to be good. Yeah, there was a lot of jokes 00:21:56.950 --> 00:22:01.150 in Discord about this, like, Benavidez not having 00:22:01.150 --> 00:22:04.789 to cut. There's a picture of him at a food truck, 00:22:04.869 --> 00:22:07.869 and he had, like, three bags fucking full of 00:22:07.869 --> 00:22:11.630 stuff. And everyone's like, ah, look at it. Fat 00:22:11.630 --> 00:22:15.390 boy eating a lot of food. Well, he owns the truck, 00:22:15.609 --> 00:22:20.430 so... Of course he's advertising for the truck. 00:22:20.609 --> 00:22:24.970 Like, what the hell do you expect? I mean, Zerto 00:22:24.970 --> 00:22:31.630 doesn't cut either, so... Fabio Wardley wants 00:22:31.630 --> 00:22:34.410 to make his first defense, and he wants to fight 00:22:34.410 --> 00:22:43.829 Derek Chisora. I kind of want it to happen because 00:22:43.829 --> 00:22:48.809 I kind of think Chizora could chin him. If Chizora 00:22:48.809 --> 00:22:52.069 can eat a Wardley right hand, Chizora's got a 00:22:52.069 --> 00:22:58.309 chance. Yeah, that's the gamble though. I don't 00:22:58.309 --> 00:23:02.029 want to see Chizora get sparked, but I wouldn't 00:23:02.029 --> 00:23:03.930 write him off completely. Wardley's not that 00:23:03.930 --> 00:23:11.339 good. He's not. We know he's not. I've bet against 00:23:11.339 --> 00:23:15.160 Fabio Wardley too many times at this point and 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:20.740 lost for me to not... I have some hesitation 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:25.420 in picking Chizora. It's all wrong. I'm not saying 00:23:25.420 --> 00:23:27.799 it's... It's all wrong for Chizora. I'm not saying 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:32.359 it's a for sure thing. I'm just saying. I would 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:35.380 love it. But I would also hate it because then 00:23:35.380 --> 00:23:38.680 Chizora is going to get more fights. Oh, I guess 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:43.440 he's going to have a title. Oh, no. Oh, please. 00:23:43.660 --> 00:23:48.819 But Derek Chisora, world champion in 2026. I 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:54.000 mean, that's got a ring to it. He would put himself 00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:01.019 in the top five of oldest champions. He'd get 00:24:01.019 --> 00:24:06.240 to fight Usyk again. Usyk did say that was his 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:13.019 hardest fight. At heavyweight. It was. I don't 00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:18.680 know man. I'm always so. Porn. When Barry Chisora 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:22.279 comes up. Because I love him. But he's so old. 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:27.960 Yeah. Like. Daniel Dubois knocking on your door. 00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:31.440 That's a legit fight. Between Wardley and Dubois. 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:34.359 That's a good one to make. And you pick Chisora 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.279 as your first defense. A little bit of quackery 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:49.140 going on here. Yeah. Eh. Chris Eubank will be 00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:57.160 returning in 2026 at 168. I don't know if this 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:01.920 is... I mean, I guess the weight cuts were probably 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:05.480 a big part of the problem, but... Those pictures 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:07.640 under the hospital after that last fight looked 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:09.759 really rough. I don't know. I kind of feel like 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:13.839 Chris Eubank Jr. should just hang him up. I was 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:18.920 of the same mind. Eubank himself said that it 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.960 was the weight cutting for the two Ben fights 00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:25.920 that really had him looking like a shell of himself, 00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:32.599 to use his own words. And coming at 168, the 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:35.359 cuts won't be that bad. There are some good fights. 00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:38.400 Obviously, 168 is pretty stacked at the moment. 00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:44.059 The belts have scattered. Not that I think Eubank 00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:47.559 deserves a belt, but he might get a shot at one. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.740 Right. He's got the name value to get himself 00:25:49.740 --> 00:25:57.920 into a title fight. If he's healthy enough, I 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.880 can get behind it. But I don't know, man. He 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:09.539 looked rough. Oh, man. Boxer. Speaking of Eubank, 00:26:09.579 --> 00:26:13.380 his promoter, Boxer, is setting up a pay -per 00:26:13.380 --> 00:26:16.859 -view model. I know this is like fucking blockbuster 00:26:16.859 --> 00:26:20.559 news for everybody, but because they're on BBC, 00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:27.079 BBC is a not -for -profit television service, 00:26:27.259 --> 00:26:30.880 so they kind of can't do pay -per -views or they 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:37.099 can't extract revenue from their broadcast. So, 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.579 yeah, they're doing pay -per -views. Of who? 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:50.180 Eubank, I guess. I just, well, British people 00:26:50.180 --> 00:26:52.660 love their boxing. Maybe they'll make money and 00:26:52.660 --> 00:26:55.720 people will pay for it, but in fucking America, 00:26:55.880 --> 00:27:00.859 nobody's paying for a boxer card. If it's under 00:27:00.859 --> 00:27:06.960 $30, I might pick it up. Depending on who's on 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.059 it. Yeah, that's the thing. I guess if they price 00:27:10.059 --> 00:27:14.660 them cheap enough. I mean, the cost of a movie 00:27:14.660 --> 00:27:19.319 for a boxing card is reasonable. What's movie 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:23.279 tickets now? Like 20 bucks? Yeah. Quite a bit. 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.299 Which is fucking madness. $20 for three hours 00:27:29.299 --> 00:27:33.759 at the theater. Oh, three hours if you're fucking 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:38.440 lucky. Well, I always get there a little early 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:43.839 and you watch the trailers. Plus, well, I mean, 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.119 you don't necessarily have to, but like popcorn 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:51.720 and drinks and stuff, not cheap. Yeah, no, I 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:57.180 don't do that. I'm too broke for that shit. Oh, 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.799 speaking of being broke, Golden Boy's DAZN deal 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:05.349 expired at the end of 2025. The card that's currently 00:28:05.349 --> 00:28:11.210 on is apparently a one -off broadcast deal. Yeah, 00:28:11.289 --> 00:28:15.710 this might be the last DAZN card ever for Goldenboy. 00:28:15.910 --> 00:28:23.069 Yep. Man, I... I'm a little worried about all 00:28:23.069 --> 00:28:27.490 these people losing their broadcasters. We need 00:28:27.490 --> 00:28:32.049 a decent home for boxing. If everybody starts... 00:28:32.250 --> 00:28:34.230 putting everything on pay -per -view which they 00:28:34.230 --> 00:28:40.950 kind of already have but like if everybody is 00:28:40.950 --> 00:28:43.130 pay -per -view and even if they price it super 00:28:43.130 --> 00:28:47.529 cheap at like 10 20 bucks that's a lot of money 00:28:47.529 --> 00:28:51.549 throughout the year for not great fights some 00:28:51.549 --> 00:28:58.390 of it i would like for golden boy to renew with 00:28:58.390 --> 00:29:02.529 the zone I would like for Top Rank to go to DAZN. 00:29:02.630 --> 00:29:04.950 I would like for everyone. I would like everybody. 00:29:05.490 --> 00:29:09.589 Yeah. You could take DAZN, you could take that 00:29:09.589 --> 00:29:12.609 out of the sentence and put in Amazon Prime. 00:29:12.829 --> 00:29:16.930 Anything. I don't care. Just give me a one -stop 00:29:16.930 --> 00:29:21.309 shop. I would gladly pay like 50 bucks a month 00:29:21.309 --> 00:29:24.569 for that. And I would cancel a bunch of other 00:29:24.569 --> 00:29:28.930 subscriptions. If I got all the boxing. Yep. 00:29:29.309 --> 00:29:34.269 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've said it before, but 00:29:34.269 --> 00:29:37.650 in Japan, the zone for boxing, if you only get 00:29:37.650 --> 00:29:42.130 the combat sport one, is quite cheap. So, like, 00:29:42.230 --> 00:29:44.930 I would pay more than I'm paying now for the 00:29:44.930 --> 00:29:49.690 boxing on the zone if Golden Boy renews. But 00:29:49.690 --> 00:29:53.529 right now, it's like $7 American or something 00:29:53.529 --> 00:29:58.700 per month. Woof. But literally all I get is boxing 00:29:58.700 --> 00:30:01.759 and their weird kickboxing. There's no other 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:05.160 sports that I can watch on DAZN. Sometimes there's 00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:07.440 a horse race, but half the horse races are blocked 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.880 too. But it's the combat sports package because 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:13.680 that's all I fucking watch on there anyways. 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:19.319 Yeah. Same. Like I got Paramount Plus just because 00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.180 ultimate effing casuals got to keep up with UFC. 00:30:23.460 --> 00:30:28.460 Yeah. Yeah. And. Mimi. It's over there. True. 00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:36.880 She is. Um... Mikayla Mayer in her most recent 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:41.940 fight won a 154 pound title. She vacates it to 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:45.960 remain at 147 aiming to fight Lauren Price for 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:51.079 Undisputed. I like this fight. Yeah, me too. 00:30:52.029 --> 00:30:55.109 Like, this is a women's fight that I would actually 00:30:55.109 --> 00:30:58.089 be excited for. And I kind of want Lauren Price 00:30:58.089 --> 00:31:01.950 to win it. I'm not a Michaela Mayer fan. I'm 00:31:01.950 --> 00:31:08.049 not too fond of her style either. But I do like 00:31:08.049 --> 00:31:13.710 that the women move so much to make these fights 00:31:13.710 --> 00:31:18.730 happen. Like, the men don't do that because they 00:31:18.730 --> 00:31:24.369 don't have to. The little guys, kind of. They 00:31:24.369 --> 00:31:26.869 move up, but they hardly ever go back down. Yeah, 00:31:26.890 --> 00:31:33.410 you're right. No, this is a good fight, and I'm 00:31:33.410 --> 00:31:38.069 glad Mayer vacated her title to shoot for glory. 00:31:38.289 --> 00:31:44.710 I think it'll be good. Richardson Hitchens vs. 00:31:45.069 --> 00:31:49.470 Oscar Duarte. Set for February 21st. I think 00:31:49.470 --> 00:31:56.319 that's... The Barrios -Ryan card? I think so. 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:03.039 I think that's the same date. Duarte's? Duarte's 00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:06.099 a weird one for Hitchens to pick, I think. I 00:32:06.099 --> 00:32:09.019 don't know if they're underestimating him, but 00:32:09.019 --> 00:32:11.539 I don't think that's a great style matchup for 00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:15.539 Richardson -Hitchens. It'll be tough. Duarte's 00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:19.599 a big -time pressure fighter, so that'll be tough 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:25.049 for Hitchens to... handle. I also am not a huge 00:32:25.049 --> 00:32:27.289 fan of Hitchens, so if Duarte can upset him, 00:32:27.289 --> 00:32:31.230 I'll be happy. Same. I don't care for Hitchens 00:32:31.230 --> 00:32:39.650 either. So, there was a post by, I don't remember 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:43.769 who it was by, but it was a rumor mill type of 00:32:43.769 --> 00:32:48.970 outlet. Usyk Wilder, July 11th in San Francisco. 00:32:51.029 --> 00:32:53.970 I'm not sure where... That all seems really random. 00:32:54.269 --> 00:32:59.490 Right. Like, I had heard end of April in LA. 00:33:00.049 --> 00:33:05.710 That actually makes sense. But July 11th in San 00:33:05.710 --> 00:33:10.490 Francisco, kind of random. July's kind of a long 00:33:10.490 --> 00:33:14.670 way away. Like, I'd like to see Usyk fight before 00:33:14.670 --> 00:33:21.920 that. Yeah, yeah. But I also, I don't, I don't 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.279 care about this fight. I understand why he's 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.480 doing it, but I don't care. I'll watch it, but 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.740 I'm not excited. This is not, this is not a Nusik 00:33:31.740 --> 00:33:39.359 fight I'm going to get up for. Navarrete versus 00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:44.299 Nunez. Three undercard fights. Tamir Smalls versus 00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:48.130 Abel Ramos. Arturo Cardenas versus Jordan Martinez 00:33:48.130 --> 00:33:51.069 and Emiliano Vargas versus Agustin Quintana. 00:33:52.970 --> 00:34:00.410 So that's a good time. Yeah. There were a few 00:34:00.410 --> 00:34:03.269 other guys on the undercard as well, but they 00:34:03.269 --> 00:34:09.269 had TBAs. 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Take control 00:37:10.789 --> 00:37:17.989 of your digital peace at lvx .be slash mwb. Party. 00:37:19.969 --> 00:37:27.750 All right, in the recaps. January 10th, Queensberry 00:37:27.750 --> 00:37:33.389 in Oberhausen, Germany. Javier Herrera, TKO8 00:37:33.389 --> 00:37:35.750 over Ricardo Nunez. That was for the interim 00:37:35.750 --> 00:37:40.349 WBC lightweight title. And in the main, Agit 00:37:40.349 --> 00:37:46.570 Kabayel stops Damian Neba in three. Stops, question 00:37:46.570 --> 00:37:50.070 mark. Not so sure. That was a bit of a British 00:37:50.070 --> 00:37:56.090 stoppage, as we were discussing. Yeah. Yeah, 00:37:56.170 --> 00:37:58.969 I mean, it seemed like it was kind of just... 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:02.840 gonna eventually happen but i would have liked 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:06.960 to see it happen it could have played out a little 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:12.139 more but that was definitely a preview i i think 00:38:12.139 --> 00:38:16.579 that's a perfect preview of what uh the national 00:38:16.579 --> 00:38:22.719 combat sports summit was talking about yeah yeah 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:26.440 which is why i'm a little not excited about it 00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.760 They're gonna stop him a little too soon. Like, 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:36.559 Neva wasn't hurt, really. Not really. But, I 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.219 do, I had been saying that I like this guy. I 00:38:39.219 --> 00:38:43.039 do think he's gonna be good, Damien Neva, but, 00:38:43.179 --> 00:38:49.900 I mean, Agit Caballel's just already there. He's 00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:57.119 more experienced and more tested. The crowd in 00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:59.659 Germany was really good, though. Oh, my goodness. 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.800 They were going nuts. Yeah. I always like when 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:09.840 they have these fights in countries you don't 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:12.320 really think of as boxing countries and the crowd's 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.539 lit. Because, like, Caballel can fight there 00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:20.510 again, get more world exposure. I don't know. 00:39:20.530 --> 00:39:22.889 I like to see it. It's not like I'm going to 00:39:22.889 --> 00:39:25.269 go to the fight no matter where it is. So it's 00:39:25.269 --> 00:39:27.730 fun to see other countries like losing their 00:39:27.730 --> 00:39:30.469 shit over their guy. Yeah, I agree completely. 00:39:32.230 --> 00:39:35.570 I think back when the World Boxing Super Series 00:39:35.570 --> 00:39:38.670 was going on and they were just starting out 00:39:38.670 --> 00:39:42.090 with their social media presence, I would kind 00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:44.650 of like, they would say, what cities would you 00:39:44.650 --> 00:39:47.010 like to see us in? And I was like, non -traditional 00:39:47.010 --> 00:39:50.789 cities, like not New York. Not Las Vegas, not 00:39:50.789 --> 00:39:55.469 Los Angeles. Yeah. Anywhere else would be really 00:39:55.469 --> 00:39:58.849 cool to see. Those people get to watch high -level 00:39:58.849 --> 00:40:06.150 boxing all the fucking time. Exactly. Yeah. Well, 00:40:06.570 --> 00:40:09.730 speaking of New York, fresh promotions at the 00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:16.409 Barclays Center. Oh, boy. Keith Colon stops Alberto 00:40:16.409 --> 00:40:24.610 Guevara in seven. Nestor Bravo, KO2 over Pedro 00:40:24.610 --> 00:40:31.170 Campa. Big knockout. That was a fun one. Javier 00:40:31.170 --> 00:40:36.550 Cintron versus Victor Sandoval. Cintron gets 00:40:36.550 --> 00:40:41.130 the stoppage in one. I don't normally track round 00:40:41.130 --> 00:40:44.530 of the year, but this one makes me want to keep 00:40:44.530 --> 00:40:49.099 track of it. Because that was really good. Yeah, 00:40:49.139 --> 00:40:51.719 I kind of missed this card. I only got highlights. 00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:58.599 It's all right. You didn't. My parting words. 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.679 My parting words. I'll share why I missed this. 00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:07.019 It's pretty fun. Emmanuel Rodriguez, former Inouye 00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:13.989 victim. UD over Fernando Diaz. and emmanuel rodriguez 00:41:13.989 --> 00:41:18.030 is my favorite in a way ko i fucking love that 00:41:18.030 --> 00:41:22.110 body shot annihilation the look of pain on rodriguez's 00:41:22.110 --> 00:41:29.630 face hilarious uh dalton smith dethrones subreal 00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:36.070 matthias in five to claim the wbc 140 title this 00:41:36.070 --> 00:41:40.010 was a fucking war leo this was a good fight yeah 00:41:40.010 --> 00:41:45.260 i was um Kind of surprised at how rough and tumble 00:41:45.260 --> 00:41:48.000 Dalton Smith was. I was not expecting him to, 00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:51.500 like, stand and trade with Subaru Matias. Yeah, 00:41:51.539 --> 00:41:53.940 me neither. And I thought it was a stupid idea 00:41:53.940 --> 00:41:58.019 when it started. I was wrong. Yeah. It worked. 00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:03.739 Yeah. The last vestiges of Subaru Matias' chin 00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:10.329 were removed that evening. Yeah. I... dalton 00:42:10.329 --> 00:42:13.510 smith's better than i thought he was yeah i think 00:42:13.510 --> 00:42:17.570 it's kind of the too long didn't read of this 00:42:17.570 --> 00:42:20.130 whole fight dalton smith is better than i thought 00:42:20.130 --> 00:42:25.610 he was he's still the weakest champion though 00:42:25.610 --> 00:42:30.869 right of the well is he let me what weight class 00:42:30.869 --> 00:42:48.559 is that 140 Bitch. Richardson, Hitchens, Gary, 00:42:48.820 --> 00:42:54.739 Antoine Russell, and Teofimo Lopez. Yeah. I'd 00:42:54.739 --> 00:42:58.800 say Dalton Smith is probably the weakest. Although 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.639 he could probably beat Richardson, Hitchens. 00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:04.920 Yeah, I would. Any opportunity that I can get 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.719 to shit on... Hitchens. Richardson's and Hitchens. 00:43:07.900 --> 00:43:11.639 I'm going to take it. I don't think he can beat 00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:15.480 Gary Antoine Rushlow. No. No. Definitely not. 00:43:16.099 --> 00:43:19.019 And then Teofimo's Teofimo. Anyone can beat him, 00:43:19.099 --> 00:43:24.019 but he can also beat anybody. Flip a coin. What 00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:28.000 version are you going to get? Yeah. But, I mean, 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:31.719 Teo's fighting Shakur, right? That's finalized? 00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:36.340 Yeah, it's on the 31st. But I guess his belt 00:43:36.340 --> 00:43:39.840 won't be on the line, eh? How's that work? I'm 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:45.260 pretty sure it is. Shakur's moving up. Okay. 00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:48.699 Yeah, I don't... I kind of think Shakur's going 00:43:48.699 --> 00:43:53.679 to beat Teofimo. Yeah, I'm feeling the same way. 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:59.980 I mean, I'm going to cheer for Teo, but... But, 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.739 I mean, I think Dalton Smith fits right in with 00:44:02.739 --> 00:44:05.809 those other champions. I don't think he is the 00:44:05.809 --> 00:44:08.130 weakest, but he's definitely not the strongest. 00:44:10.769 --> 00:44:18.730 I believe he is set to fight Pueyo. Next. They're 00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:22.230 not going to have him fight Pitbull? He's the 00:44:22.230 --> 00:44:25.989 interim champion. Interim champion is apparently 00:44:25.989 --> 00:44:31.130 not a contender position. Really stupid. What? 00:44:31.550 --> 00:44:38.719 Okay. I see Sander Martin has moved up the list 00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:42.519 on most of these. I kind of want him to get a 00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:46.699 title shot. I still say he beat Teal. Yeah, I 00:44:46.699 --> 00:44:56.639 agree. Yeah, that's Dalton Smith. Pueo is likely 00:44:56.639 --> 00:45:04.500 next. And looking down the list, it's... It's 00:45:04.500 --> 00:45:11.599 looking pretty manageable for Smith. Yeah. He 00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:14.119 can hold that belt for a while if he doesn't 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:21.820 try and unify. The only thing is, Pueo is a serious 00:45:21.820 --> 00:45:25.460 problem, I think. He's like the complete opposite 00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:31.400 of Subaru Matias. Uses his range. It's a textbook 00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:37.639 outfighter, so... that might be a tough barrier 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:42.179 to breach. Yeah, I have to admit, I know I've 00:45:42.179 --> 00:45:44.460 watched Dalton Smith before, but I haven't paid 00:45:44.460 --> 00:45:48.239 a whole bunch of attention. Yeah. I don't know 00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:51.579 what his weaknesses really are, and I didn't 00:45:51.579 --> 00:45:54.500 think he could stand and bang like that, so clearly 00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:59.760 I don't know who Dalton Smith is. Well, he's 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:01.599 got a title now, so we're definitely going to 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:07.639 find out more anyway. Oh, shit. All right, let's 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:15.260 move to upcoming Friday, January 23rd. Zufa makes 00:46:15.260 --> 00:46:20.820 its premiere on Paramount+. It is no longer called 00:46:20.820 --> 00:46:26.059 the UFC Apex. It is the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. 00:46:27.460 --> 00:46:32.460 Very cool. Yeah, I almost said something very 00:46:32.460 --> 00:46:38.130 1990s. That is the gayest fucking name I've ever 00:46:38.130 --> 00:46:47.789 heard. Yes, it's really stupid. As of right now, 00:46:47.889 --> 00:46:50.030 still don't know who's going to be on this card. 00:46:50.190 --> 00:46:52.349 The only thing we know is the headline. Callum 00:46:52.349 --> 00:46:58.449 Walsh versus Carlos Ocambo. Yeah, I don't particularly 00:46:58.449 --> 00:47:07.480 care about this. It seems like Zufa is... How 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.320 do I put it? They're not trying to come in with 00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:14.059 a bang. They're building from the bottom, which 00:47:14.059 --> 00:47:15.699 will probably work better. They're not going 00:47:15.699 --> 00:47:18.239 to blow a bunch of money on Callum Walsh and 00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:23.599 Carlos Ocampo. And the other fights that they 00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:27.739 have slotted for headlines are also not that 00:47:27.739 --> 00:47:35.179 good. They're mid -tier. The biggest thing is, 00:47:35.260 --> 00:47:38.179 if they don't let them do walkouts and have their, 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:42.800 like, costumes and custom shorts and shit, I 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:47.219 really hope this bombs. Like, if they're gonna 00:47:47.219 --> 00:47:50.739 try and UFC my fucking boxing, I'm gonna be pissed. 00:47:50.940 --> 00:47:54.480 UFC is the most boring promotion out there. I 00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:57.440 don't like MMA anyways, but I'm not even talking 00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:00.079 about the fights. Just everything around it. 00:48:00.139 --> 00:48:03.480 It is fucking boring. They barely even let them 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:07.000 have walkout music. Especially at the Apex, where 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.739 there's... There's not a... There's like, I don't 00:48:10.739 --> 00:48:15.139 know, like 20 feet from the doorway to the ring. 00:48:17.099 --> 00:48:21.119 Yeah, like, it's just... They better at least 00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:25.679 let them have their custom outfits. Yeah. Like, 00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:30.159 if they start giving boxers uniforms, I am honest 00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:33.199 to God boycotting. Because that is lame. And 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.360 not that that's the most important part, but, 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:41.119 like, that's part of the fun of boxing. Yeah, 00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:45.719 I agree. I also just don't give a shit about 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:50.059 Callum Walsh. Like, he's whatever. The only fighter 00:48:50.059 --> 00:48:54.829 I cared about on 360 Promotions was Mimi. So, 00:48:54.889 --> 00:48:59.030 don't really care about Callum Walsh. Yeah, but 00:48:59.030 --> 00:49:01.570 imagine if they don't let Mimi have her outfits. 00:49:02.090 --> 00:49:04.070 What the fuck is the point? Yeah, there's no 00:49:04.070 --> 00:49:14.969 point. Wait. Saturday, January 24th at the Fontainebleau 00:49:14.969 --> 00:49:20.849 in Las Vegas. Oh, shit. Let's start from the 00:49:20.849 --> 00:49:26.679 bottom. Amari Jones versus Jerome Baxter. That's 00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:29.199 a fun one. Amari Jones, I believe, was an Olympian. 00:49:31.539 --> 00:49:35.000 I don't know who Jerome Baxter is, but he seems 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:41.179 like he got a late start. Israel Madrimov versus 00:49:41.179 --> 00:49:48.639 Luis Salazar. Who's Luis Salazar? Should I know? 00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:52.230 I have no idea who he is. I do not know this 00:49:52.230 --> 00:50:01.570 man. He's Dominican. Khalil Coe vs. Jesse Hart. 00:50:02.690 --> 00:50:12.690 That should be fun while it lasts. And headlining 00:50:12.690 --> 00:50:18.170 Ray Morotaya vs. Andy Cruz for the IBF 135 title. 00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:21.920 I think this one should be fun. Andy Cruz is 00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:27.480 fun. Yes. I'm riding with Ray Murataya. He's 00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:35.519 a Robert Garcia guy. I'm not against Murataya. 00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:39.880 I just mean it should be a fun clash of styles. 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:43.219 They're both pretty aggressive, but in different 00:50:43.219 --> 00:50:52.239 ways. Yes. Andy Cruz has been buzzed before. 00:50:52.900 --> 00:50:58.099 I think Ray can tag him. I wouldn't be surprised 00:50:58.099 --> 00:51:00.900 by either of these guys winning. I think this 00:51:00.900 --> 00:51:05.739 is kind of a pick -em fight. In my mind, I have 00:51:05.739 --> 00:51:11.320 ways that both of them can win. Yeah, of the 00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:14.699 two, I'm honestly expecting Andy Cruz to more 00:51:14.699 --> 00:51:19.550 likely pull it out. Yeah, I would not be too 00:51:19.550 --> 00:51:24.030 shocked if Ray Moritaya was able to get it. This 00:51:24.030 --> 00:51:26.050 is one I think that's actually worth tuning into 00:51:26.050 --> 00:51:29.730 live. It won't be the same if you know the outcome. 00:51:31.389 --> 00:51:40.710 Yeah. Oh, man. Also on the 24th. Well, it was 00:51:40.710 --> 00:51:43.630 supposed to be on the 24th. Moses Itauma versus 00:51:43.630 --> 00:51:47.300 Jermaine Franklin. The entire card has been postponed. 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:55.159 I believe Moses Itauma has an injury. Yeah, that 00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.860 kind of sucks. I guess they couldn't just run 00:51:59.860 --> 00:52:03.059 it without the headline. Although I kind of feel 00:52:03.059 --> 00:52:07.000 like they could have. There's enough on the undercard. 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:14.380 Frank Warren decided not to. Didn't really say 00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:17.239 why. He just said he wanted to keep the entire 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:23.860 card intact. And he's floating his fighters financially 00:52:23.860 --> 00:52:29.320 until the new show date. All right. Well, as 00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:31.639 long as the fighters are taken care of. Yeah. 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:38.719 Have they proposed a new date? It's not very 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:43.519 long, is it? I don't know. I thought they said 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:47.780 about like a month to six weeks or something. 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.480 Yeah. Six weeks is what I'm remembering as well. 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:58.619 Okay. So there's not many fights scheduled in 00:52:58.619 --> 00:53:01.639 March yet that I've seen. So that's might be 00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:06.079 nice filler if it's got to be postponed. Yeah. 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:15.150 So we'll have to make do with match room. Yay. 00:53:15.150 --> 00:53:19.849 But Ray Mortaya is a top -ranked guy, so the, 00:53:19.989 --> 00:53:24.389 um, as someone put it in Discord, the top -ranked 00:53:24.389 --> 00:53:28.409 fighters are being pimped out to other promotions 00:53:28.409 --> 00:53:31.869 to get them fights. At least they're getting 00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:38.610 them fights, I guess. Yeah. Man, top -ranked 00:53:38.610 --> 00:53:43.409 is in the fucking bin. It makes me sad. They've 00:53:43.409 --> 00:53:46.130 got some of the best guys. I don't understand 00:53:46.130 --> 00:53:54.989 why they can't get a deal. The 31st is a top 00:53:54.989 --> 00:53:57.409 -ranked promoted card, and it doesn't have a 00:53:57.409 --> 00:54:00.610 broadcaster. We're expecting it to be on Tubi, 00:54:00.710 --> 00:54:06.590 I think. The fuck is Tubi? The last Michaela 00:54:06.590 --> 00:54:10.170 Mayer fight was on Tubi. It's a free streaming 00:54:10.170 --> 00:54:15.940 platform. All right. I guess if it's free, that's 00:54:15.940 --> 00:54:22.699 good. They had fucking In A Way on Facebook. 00:54:23.099 --> 00:54:30.260 Like, seriously. YouTube is right there. You 00:54:30.260 --> 00:54:36.659 don't have to use Facebook Live. So stupid. And 00:54:36.659 --> 00:54:40.340 you sure as fuck don't have to use Tubi. Ugh. 00:54:41.639 --> 00:54:44.559 I legitimately don't even know what 2B is. You're 00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:51.199 not missing out on a whole bunch. Yeah, but that's 00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:56.739 it. That's all we got on the horizon for this 00:54:56.739 --> 00:55:01.940 week. Not great. It is a little light. The Atalma 00:55:01.940 --> 00:55:06.880 card being cut definitely kind of sunk the weekend. 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:14.280 Yeah. The matchroom cards, it's okay. Not the 00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:21.599 best. And the Zufa card, who fucking cares? 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So last weekend, I met up with someone 00:58:41.650 --> 00:58:44.469 from a different Discord server that I'm in. 00:58:44.989 --> 00:58:49.170 And we went out in Tokyo. And the night started 00:58:49.170 --> 00:58:51.250 out kind of shit. The first couple bars we went 00:58:51.250 --> 00:58:54.610 to weren't great, whatever. And then we ended 00:58:54.610 --> 00:58:59.860 up going to, it's called Harlem. We get inside 00:58:59.860 --> 00:59:03.219 and the bottom floor, there's two floors, was 00:59:03.219 --> 00:59:06.820 reggae music. So they sing with a Jamaican accent 00:59:06.820 --> 00:59:11.579 in Japanese. It always screws with my head. But 00:59:11.579 --> 00:59:13.320 anyways, that's not the point of this story. 00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:17.380 We're walking around and the guy taps me and 00:59:17.380 --> 00:59:20.840 he goes, that's Shinotsuka. And I was like, what? 00:59:20.980 --> 00:59:24.320 And he goes, from Ryzen, I saw him win a title 00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:27.099 on New Year's Eve. Oh, shit. And I was like, 00:59:27.260 --> 00:59:30.079 no shit. And I was like, I don't watch that much 00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:32.699 Ryzen. I was like, like, I actually don't know 00:59:32.699 --> 00:59:35.019 who this guy is. So he Googled him for me. And 00:59:35.019 --> 00:59:38.699 yeah, he used to be a kickboxing champ. He was 00:59:38.699 --> 00:59:43.179 a K -1 champ and went into Ryzen. And the dude's 00:59:43.179 --> 00:59:46.800 just chilling in the club. Like he had a VIP 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:49.630 section, but he spent no time in it. Like, he 00:59:49.630 --> 00:59:51.710 was just out. And I was like, well, go ask him 00:59:51.710 --> 00:59:53.269 for an autograph. He's like, I don't have anything 00:59:53.269 --> 00:59:54.989 to write on. I was like, ask him for a picture. 00:59:55.210 --> 00:59:58.309 And he goes, nah. Come on. Like, that'd be weird. 00:59:58.489 --> 01:00:00.530 And I was like, fuck it, I'll ask him for a picture. 01:00:00.969 --> 01:00:05.570 So I went up and, like, pretended I was more 01:00:05.570 --> 01:00:08.150 of a fan than I am. I was like, we're big fans. 01:00:08.329 --> 01:00:10.769 Could we get pictures with you? He took a picture 01:00:10.769 --> 01:00:13.610 with my friend, but not me, which kind of sucked. 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:17.900 But I got to shake his hand, but I noticed he 01:00:17.900 --> 01:00:20.679 was wearing a necklace with a screen on it, like 01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:23.880 a little bigger than an Apple Watch screen. And 01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:31.679 it was just his highlight reel. I don't know 01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:34.099 if that's the coolest thing I've ever seen or 01:00:34.099 --> 01:00:37.260 the fucking lamest thing I've ever seen. I still 01:00:37.260 --> 01:00:40.019 can't decide. It is simultaneous. It's simultaneous. 01:00:40.739 --> 01:00:47.570 Yeah. I got to shake his hand. He was super nice, 01:00:47.750 --> 01:00:49.889 except for walking away without taking a picture 01:00:49.889 --> 01:00:53.309 with me. He was up on stage all night. He was 01:00:53.309 --> 01:00:55.869 buying shots, like just trays of shots and handing 01:00:55.869 --> 01:00:58.650 them out. Him and his friends were walking around 01:00:58.650 --> 01:01:01.989 with a bottle of Henny, just straight drinking 01:01:01.989 --> 01:01:04.809 out of the bottle. But they didn't take the jigger 01:01:04.809 --> 01:01:10.659 off. That's weird. yes they were like jigging 01:01:10.659 --> 01:01:12.719 shots into their mouth and i'm like guys you 01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:15.079 know you can get more if you take that little 01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:20.539 fucking thing out yeah but yeah super fun night 01:01:20.539 --> 01:01:24.260 i kind of feel like it was his victory party 01:01:24.260 --> 01:01:28.099 um at the end of the night they explained who 01:01:28.099 --> 01:01:32.280 he was like late late like 4 a .m they're like 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:34.400 this is who this guy is and why he's been on 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.440 stage all night he's the national champion everyone 01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:44.440 cheer celebrate our our winner yeah but yeah 01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:47.099 so i accidentally partied with uh one of the 01:01:47.099 --> 01:01:51.400 ryzen champs last weekend very nice that's why 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:56.340 you missed the fresh promotions yeah yeah that 01:01:56.340 --> 01:01:58.559 i think it was worth it i would have taken your 01:01:58.559 --> 01:02:02.420 experience over fresh promotions as well yeah 01:02:02.420 --> 01:02:06.179 yeah anyways i just wanted to tell my story because 01:02:06.179 --> 01:02:16.039 i think it's cool um do i have parting words 01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:21.300 hold on let me let me see if let me go to my 01:02:21.300 --> 01:02:24.639 repository see if anything jumps out at me um 01:02:25.739 --> 01:02:32.320 We'll do New Year's category. Be at war with 01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:34.920 your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and 01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:39.739 let every New Year find you a better man. It's 01:02:39.739 --> 01:02:45.400 Benjamin Franklin. Nice. I actually totally misunderstood 01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:49.639 that last sentence for a second. As in, like, 01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:55.590 find a better boyfriend. That could be what it 01:02:55.590 --> 01:02:59.590 means for you. It could be. Benjamin Franklin 01:02:59.590 --> 01:03:05.150 and being at war with your vices. Those two don't... 01:03:05.150 --> 01:03:09.650 Benjamin Franklin lost. Yeah, he lost his war. 01:03:11.429 --> 01:03:16.489 Oh, man. Notorious poonhound. He was a fucking 01:03:16.489 --> 01:03:24.400 glutton. A drunk. Yeah. Good stuff. That's why 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:29.579 he's my hero. Alright, that's going to do it 01:03:29.579 --> 01:03:32.860 for this edition of Boxing Before Dark. We'll 01:03:32.860 --> 01:03:35.960 see you next time. Bye!