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Alright. Fucking... Boxing B -Sides. Back up
in your ears. I am joined by the comrades. Josh,
how goes it? Excellent. Enjoying being Chinese
every second. And the one and only Saul. Hello,
guys. Yeah, hello. If I kind of had to fucking
blame mine there, Jesus Christ. All right. Before
we get into the news. Extending the hand of friendship
to our fellows over at Ultimate FN Casuals. January
31st, UFC 325. There were some good stuff on
here. Let's see. In the early prelims, Khan Ofli,
the majority decision over Yiza, was a really
fun fight. I thought it went the other way, but
what do I know? And in the prelims, Billy Alacana
submits Junior Taffa. It was actually a pretty
fun fight. And in the main portion, Alexander
Volkanovsky beats Diego Lopez again, more convincingly
this time. So hopefully we don't have to rehash
that fight later down the line. We knew that
was going to happen. Yeah, who would have guessed
it? But we definitely talk more about it over
on Ultimate FM Casual. So wherever you're listening
to this, you can find that too. So, into the
news. The, uh, what did you call it? The dwarf
police? The goblin police or something? Gnome
hunters. Gnome hunters, that's what it was. Yeah,
Geronte Davis was arrested in Miami, was released
on bail. There's a new warrant for his arrest
out of, he's in Miami, that's where he lives
now, and there's a new warrant for his arrest
in Maryland, where he's from. Because of parole
violations, or probation violations, excuse me,
where he was supposed to stay at his trainer
Calvin Ford's house, but he was instead staying
at, like, fancy hotels and stuff. Well done.
What a dumbass. This fucking guy, man. Well done.
Sorry, but that's a very idiotic move to do.
That's just... There's not much to say. That's
just idiotic to do. Like, it's really stupid,
yeah. Yeah. When I was in the military, when
I was young, underage, under drinking age, there...
On Fridays, before you leave, before you... Before
weekend leave, right? Yeah, before you leave
for the weekend, they give you, like, they call
it a safety brief. Like, don't... Add or subtract
from the population. Don't drink and drive. Dumb
shit that you would think is common sense. But
when it got to the platoon level, my platoon
sergeant would say, there's a right way to do
the wrong thing. And he would look at us, the
underage kids. I know what you're thinking. And
I know what you want to do this weekend. So don't
be a jackass. If you don't want to stay at Calvin
Ford's house, maybe don't post it on social media.
I don't know. Just an idea. Mayweather and his
$340 million lawsuit against Showtime and Steven
Espinoza. We all know what this is. My man is
broke and he needs money. Yeah, my man is broke
and he needs money. Crazy that him out of everyone
could go broke, but... Crazy to sue fucking Al
Heyman, too. Al Heyman is listed in the lawsuit,
but not accused directly. Yeah. Interesting.
Yeah, weird how that's strange that you would
make that separation, because... If you're alleging
that Steven Espinosa and Showtime were funneling
your money to Al Heyman instead of you, then
why is Al Heyman not included in the lawsuit?
It's really weird. This seems desperate for money.
Why didn't he do it eight years earlier? Right.
Oh, I'm sorry. It's probably because Rick Glazer
just told him now. Fucking Rick Glazer, dude.
I can't. Rick Glazer cited. His, like, tweets
are cited in the lawsuit as, like, evidence.
Oh, my God. That is so... I thought I haven't
seen some crazy shit in the sport. I don't know.
That's a dumb shit. Yeah. I thought I've seen
some crazy shit. That is the most dumb motherfucking
shit I've heard of in the sport. Citing Twitter
posts? At that point, I get to say that Dan Raphael...
Ate my fucking kitchen pantry during COVID. And
I could sue him for money. It's off the Twitter
post. I don't know. That's some dumb shit. You
know what? You can't blame Dan Raphael due to
our proximity to Isaac, though. No one's body
shaming Dan Raphael here. Well, we are, but...
I'm saying there's more likely culprits. Yeah.
It's like $340 million is not a small number.
To file a suit on Rick Glazer's word, I don't
know what level of fucking down bad you have
to be. It's so delusion, yeah. The thing is,
it's not even like a rumor that he's suing him.
You could actually see the fucking court filings
are there. yeah the court filings are there i
mean you can see uh his evidence and obviously
his evidence is just a bunch of bullshit so hey
man's gotta make some food man man's gotta eat
man's gotta eat in the following weeks i saw
the uh an article that was outlining how he's
it's the new york post not the most reputable
source but it was um a couple who own a condo
in New York, and they were alleging he was behind
on rent, like, four or five months. Jesus. At,
like, $100K a month. So, also not a small amount
of money. This is kind of room tank, and the
water tank's like this, man. It's pretty good.
Yeah, I guess you're going to have to... Two
peas in an idiot pod, I guess. Two bums. Two
bums. Yeah, two money bums. Oh, that's literal
bums in this case. Oh, yeah, you're right. Two
bums for no money now. I might have more money
than Mayweather at this point. Mayweather still
has assets, I guess. He has really expensive...
He's not very liquid. He's not liquid. I got
a liquid acid, the Boxing B -Sides podcast. Kind
of, right? And all my ramen that I have stored
up. And all my ramen. And I can put that in liquid.
And I eat it myself. That's what they call eating
what you kill. Let's roll on. Angelo Leo. His
intended voluntary defense fell through. And
IBF has mandated that he has to face Raees Alim.
And this fight, or yeah, the fight is probably
going to Perspid, but we'll find out within,
I think, the next week or so. So that's fun.
Might be a Provox fight, you never know. That
would be interesting if Provox won Perspid. True.
That would be cool. Nah, we need it on Redneck
Brawl. Oh my god. Redneck Brawl in Albuquerque?
Exactly. That's where we need it. The saviors
of the sport, man. Errol Spence and Tim Zhu.
Looking like they're going to be opponents. Tim
wants a tune -up. Errol Spence, of course, doesn't.
I would suggest, if I know you're listening,
Errol, it would be a really good idea to, after
a two -year layoff, two -plus years, maybe take
another fight. Yeah. Honestly, that beating you
took last time with Crawford, he's going to need
a tune -up, but obviously the man's not about
tune -ups. Right. And one other thing, too, I
sincerely doubt this fight's going to happen.
How many times have I heard in the last two years?
How many times have we heard in the last two
years that Spencer's going to come back and fight
someone? First it was Crawford, then it was Fandora,
then it was Charlo, then it was Virgil, then
it was Fandora again, and now it's fucking Tim
Zhu. I'm pretty sure it was already rumored in
the past to be with Tim Zhu. But, fuck it. You
know? We'll see what happens. If it happens,
it happens. I sincerely doubt it. Tim is beatable,
though. Oh, Tim is beatable, 100%. So beatable,
but, I mean, he's even remotely close to the
same Spence. And that Spence was even close to
how he was in the past. Pre -Yugas. Pre -Garcia,
you know? Pre -car crash. Yeah, pre -car crash,
you know? So, I mean, this is a Spence that's
been out of the ring. Out of the bat, I was primed
for over, fuck, five years? Hmm. I mean, come
on. To say that Tim Zhu doesn't have a chance
is a little silly. He does have a chance, but
he is also very beatable. I favor Tim Zhu in
this, to be honest with you. Also, the fact that
Spence has never fought at 154. You never know.
He might not be used to the weight. Tim Zhu's
at 160 now. Oh, it's at 160? Tim Zhu's fighting
at 160, so I'm expecting that's where they would
do it. I feel like... That's just another Danny
Garcia vs. Landy Lard type of fight. Two old
men fighting for some glory that's already been
taken up by other fighters in other divisions.
Does Errol Spence have any name value left? In
Texas, yeah. Like how he used to with the broader
community? I mean, is he considered a credible
win? No. At this point, no. Unless he KO's Tim
Zu, knocks him out cold. Round one. Jermel Charlo.
Fucking Erickson Lubin fashion. Yeah. Then maybe.
But if he just goes to this decision with Tim
Zu, and it was a very close fight, that man's
shot. To me, he's already shot enough. But we'll
see. You never know. How old is Cyril Spence?
Like, what, 39 now? 38? You're not far off. I'm
not far. I think 37. He's late 30s. 37. That's
pretty damn old. Late 30s has been fighting.
Oh, he's 35? Yeah. Oh, never mind. Well, still.
Decently getting up there in age. In the fight
game, that's pretty old. Yeah. I would say decently.
He's not made for longevity the way he carries
himself outside the ring either. Exactly. Yeah,
this would be a different talk if he was keeping
himself nice outside the ring. But, you know,
I don't know how that went twice. Let's see.
Jai Opataya versus Brandon Glanton. Jesus Christ,
man. Just what? This is just... I mean, what
did I expect when he signed to Zufa? Honestly,
I expected worse. Brandon Glenn's a name, whether
you like it or not. That's true. He's not the
worst. As long as... I mean, it could have been
fucking... One of your Cesar Chavez Jr. for all
we could have known, you know? I guess you're
right. That would have been pretty rough. Could
be a decent scrap. I doubt it. Number 18 at cruiserweight
on BoxRec. I mean, he went to another promotion.
Yeah, it's cruiserweight. I mean, what else do
you expect? He's not going to fight fucking Zerdos
or who's busy. I would have hoped he would have
fought McClane. Yeah. But, you know, obviously
that's not going to happen. I don't want to do
shit with his titles. I want to move around.
Live opponent? What the hell is that? I don't
know, yeah. It's kind of odd. I mean, David Benavidez
is not even a cruiserweight. He's fighting arguably
the second best guy in the division. So, I mean,
hey. Go figure. Two bums. I'll leave it at that.
Fucking goddammit, Opatayo. Good job, Dana. Frank
Sanchez, Richard Torres. is going on the Fandora
Thurman undercard on March 28th. That's going
to be a pretty interesting fight. I hope, I really
hope that Richard Torres wins, gets him even
closer to a title, considering that Usyk's getting
up in their age. This is a final elimination,
right? I believe so, for the IBF. For the IBF?
I mean, he probably, he would be, he would be
one of the guys that will fight for the title
win. It does become vacated, I believe, right?
It doesn't just go down to the IBF interim. Well,
they don't even have an interim, but... They'll
be... Yeah, this is an eliminator, so they'll
be in the mandatory slots for the vacant fight.
Or he can call a mandatory for Usyk, right? Could,
but... He could, yeah. I mean, if he wanted to.
I don't think Usyk would want to at this point,
to be honest. No. Well, I mean, that's a pretty
decent way to get to a title is just call your
mandatory and then fight someone else for it.
Because you know who's going to fight Richard
Torres, most likely. If he does, I'll be surprised.
But, I mean, that would be the best shot to a
title. However, you're going to have to fight
a live dog like Dubois or anybody else ranked
in the IBF. Hell, you might even need to fight
Moe Zaitama. You know? Could be. You never know.
I feel like that fight, to me, is going to go
to Richard Torres. Not because of the bias, but
also because Frank Sanchez is kind of shot a
little bit, whereas Torres is not. He's got some
years. He's got hella years. He's young as hell.
I think Frank Sanchez is young 30s. Young 30s?
Cuban. But he says he's like 32 or something.
Yeah. We'll see. I mean, we already know his
way to – how to beat him. Yeah. We already know
how to beat him. So if Rich Torres can capitalize
on that, then – There's also kind of a method
to beat Rich Torres, and that's box. Frank Sanchez
can box in a sense. So we'll see what happens
with that. Speaking of Moses Itauma, the Itauma
Jermaine Franklin card is also on the 28th. The
whole, the entire bill got moved from its original
date to this. So, fun. I'm glad that Itauma is
still getting a shot. I'm glad that he's fighting
the guy that we said he should fight, which is
fun. Well, that's because Mosai Thomas listens
to the show, so, you know, obviously he's going
to fucking take our consideration. Valued listener.
Exactly. Friend of the pod. The exact guy, too.
Yeah, friend of the podcast. Yeah, Mosai Thomas,
if you ever want to come back on. Yeah, real.
Just let us know. Yeah. He apparently tore one
of his biceps. Yeah, that hurts. Yeah, that sucks.
I'm curious. Does that affect your power in any
way? No, I wouldn't say so. I wouldn't think
so either. Okay. Just want to make sure. Well,
Deontay Wilder, Derek Chisora, April 4th. This
one's going to be at the, I think the O2 in London.
And it's going to be promoted by MF Pros. Speaking
of power, that's some star power on that card
there. I mean, whether you like it or not, I
mean, there's people who did buy that Deontay
Wilder pay -per -view when he fought that Richard
Torres victim. You know? I think Derek DeJoy
is going to win. Honestly. I feel like Deontay
Wilder shot to hell. He's somehow less watched.
And it's funny because you know why? Deontay
Wilder, he seems kind of like he's back in his
Bronze Bomber character. I doubt. He's got the
same pop, but we'll see. A lot of him was just
speed, which is not great for a guy. Like, he
got old pretty quick. Just because of a very
speed -based style. As soon as that declined,
the rest of him kind of followed. Yeah, once
you're not able to put your hand back up to your
face, you're cooked, buddy. But, hey, I wish
him the best. Mainly this jab that I've seen
has declined the most. Like, it used to be really,
really sharp. And it's just not there right now.
Or hasn't been there for the past bit. Yeah,
since, well... Since the Fury days. Yeah, since
the Fury days. Five years ago, by the way. And
Deontay Waters is actually up there in age, too.
I mean, what did he pick? I'm pretty sure he
himself is like 37, right? I think 37 or 39.
Oh, he's inactive on Foxtrot. Yes, because he
hasn't fought in a year. 40. Holy shit. Yeah,
that's George Foreman age. Without the fat. Oh,
he's not inactive. It's just he's number 43.
I was looking at like the top 20 and he's not
in it. Number 43 is crazy. Well, hopefully the
undercard doesn't suck. It's MF pros. Who knows
what they'll be able to put together. You never
know. They might get a decent name on their up
and comer. KSI. Yeah, KSI, fucking someone. Maybe
Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate. Tyson Fury is fighting
Arslanbek Makhmudov April 11th. Perfect fight
for Fury to come back to. Perfect. In my opinion.
Coming back to AJ, obviously AJ when I'm available.
A fight with Dubois, too much power, you know.
Wardley is a fucking... We already talked about
Wardley how many fucking times this past couple
months. We already know why he's not the safe
option. So, Makhmudov doesn't seem to have crazy
pop. Can also be knocked out. Can also be outboxed.
Yeah. He's credible, though. Exactly, he's credible.
For heavyweight. My question is, why the hell
is this on Netflix? Not a Queensberry? It's not
a Queensberry card. It's going directly through
the ring. Which is odd to me. I agree. Considering
how this fight will really get people to watch
Netflix. I mean, it's going to be free, so people
are going to watch it regardless. But this fight,
rather than an Anthony Joshua fight, you never
know. The plan is for assuming AJ is going to
continue fighting. I think I've been seeing like
online rumblings that he is, but assuming that
he's going to continue fighting, they're both
supposed to take a fight in the beginning of
the year separately. And then they fight at the
end of the year, according to turkeys. His brilliant
master planning. His excellence. I can kind of
see how they're going to market that second fight
with AJ. And I feel like they're going to be
rooting for AJ in that second fight just because
of what happened with that situation. That unfortunate
situation that happened at the beginning of the
year. Yeah. I feel like that's how they're going
to market it. That AJ's coming back and he's
going to fight in the honor of his family. was
friends but that that's that that those are basically
that's basically yeah his chosen family his chosen
family you know so i don't know i gotta do it
from my way hopefully they both win their fights
and they could fight each other that would be
the most optimal decision but i don't know we'll
see uh sufa is going to be involved with the
fury aj if it happens yeah i mean I don't know
why I got flack for saying that Ryan Garcia and
Devin Haney would be the perfect Zufa card. Where
AJ and fucking Fury, same thing. But, I don't
know. They're both, I mean, but AJ, that one's
even harder because AJ is an agent of Eddie.
You know, he's an Eddie guy. And Fury, I think,
is Fury a free agent now? Is that? I think he's
still with Kingsbury. I don't know how that's
just working, but I'll tell you this, that with
Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, that shit would
be a lot easier to make a Zufa card purely because
they're both free agents. You know? I don't know
why they wouldn't make a ring card. That would
easily promote the ring. Fucking... The ring
has the money. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah,
exactly. Turkey backed. Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
We'll see what happens with all of that, but
I don't know. A bunch of weird decisions, I will
say. Oh, weird decisions. Edwin De Los Santos
signs with Zufa. That's a decent signing for
Zufa, I will say. That's a good name for them
to get. A guy with power, pretty good speed.
Really good speed, actually. They're probably
going to promote the shit out of him and get
him up there. Maybe even have them fight a Ryo
rematch. Yeah, that's what I was thinking would
be the direction they would want to take him.
But for the time being, they got to build up
a stable before they put two of their better
guys against each other. Exactly. Make a fucking
manufactured super fight. A manufactured Zufa
super fight. Zufa super fight. What a phrase.
Speaking of Zufa, they tried to snipe Bam. Matchroom
beat Zufa's offer. And last I heard, Bam was
still... He still has grace period to... shop
other promoters, but it looks like he's going
back to Matchroom. Yeah. That's a very good decision.
Yeah, very good move. You're either going to
be stuck on Zufa, or you have the option to go
to all these other promotional companies freely.
Under Matchroom, you can fight anybody. Pretty
much. I think Eddie said... The undisputed fight
is their number one priority. Yeah, they said
that's happening this year. Belief. Yeah. Belief
believes it. Yeah. I know. I know. I believe
it. Come on. That's that's going to happen. The
guy that has that title. Willie Baldo. I mean,
yeah, Willie Baldo. I think that. I don't think
there's that type of guy that would hold that
shit hostage. He's not backed by any major promoter.
It's at least like how Amos Barra went into unification
with Xander Zayas type of situation. I mean...
Exactly. And you get your name out there, you
could even win. You know? So, it'll be a good
fight too. It's a Mexican. Mexican guy. Actually,
I don't know. I see a BAM domination, but we'll
go back to that when it happens. I think he fought
Ayoka. Is it Ioka or Taraji? I'm not seeing anybody
on his... Or no, I think he was supposed to fight
them. Supposed to fight Kenshiro Taraji, I believe
it was. Yeah, Taraji. He was supposed to fight
Taraji. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. I bam
in a unification, undisputed. Boom. Your name
gets out there. You know, you lose to one of
the greatest talents of this generation. No shame
there. No shame there. Well, I'm speaking too
quick. Because obviously, Luis Baldo has his
chance, but I miss Bam. I love Bam. I can't talk
ill. I'll give that guy a chance, though. 23
wins, 13 knockouts. So, Puncher's chance is pretty
low. And Bam does have a chin. But, yeah, we'll
see what they do once the BAM promotional situation
is fully settled. Christian Mbili is the WBC
super middleweight champion, elevated from interim.
According to WBC, they still want to do the Lester
Martinez rematch. But, yeah, I think... I don't
remember who I was talking to, but it was him
being elevated. I don't know. I don't know if
he's, if he really does rate being the full title
list right now, because the Lester Martinez draw,
I think really hangs heavily on it. So to have
that be his first defense, I guess is fitting,
but. My ears got perked up. When I heard that,
and honestly, from the rumors I'm hearing, it
makes total sense why he got elevated to the
WCVC champ. Total sense. Because I've been hearing,
I don't know if this is on the news for next
week, that Canelo is going to be fighting him
in September. So they want to position Nbili
to have something worth fighting for? Exactly.
Have something worth fighting for and... well,
potentially lose it to Canelo. That's their plan
because they see Canelo as the money guy. As
far as I can expect, he still is. Well, yeah.
He's still the money guy, but at the same time,
I don't know. Do I see Canelo knocking him out?
Do I see ferocious Canelo that was in the past?
No. I don't know if he's going to come back.
But if he does come back, then he might just
be minting Billy. Mbili is pretty one -dimensional,
so it would... For a style like Canelo's, even
with him slowing down considerably, I think he
could still manage the one gear Mbili. Well,
I'll tell you this. I agree with you that a Canelo
that we've seen in the past typically would beat
Mbili any day of the week. However, again, this
is Canelo after his... Third loss? Third. And
he didn't take that second loss easily. That
second loss is how it led up to that third loss.
You know? Oh, absolutely. So, isn't Billy a mover
like Bivol or Crawford? No. Is he going to knock
out Canelo? Probably not. But can Canelo be chicken
shit? Could be. I mean, you never know. I mean,
again, the Mayweather loss is different because
that was the beginning of his career. And, again,
it's against the fucking one of the greatest
of all time. Yeah, you might not be yourself
as much as losing to someone like Bivol or Terrence
Crawford, you know, which, again, Canelo being
legendary in and of himself, you know, I got
to salute him. I know this, our community sometimes
likes to hate Canelo, but he is a legend, no
doubt about it. Can he beat Billy? I don't know.
It just depends on his mindset. Yeah. Speaking
of super middleweight, it happened really quickly
where Diego Pacheco pulled out of the WBO vacant
fight, leaving Hamza Shiraz to face Alim Begich,
I think it is, in May. Man. Did not expect Diego
Pacheco to fucking pull out. All I got is one
word. Who? Who? Like, again, I don't know what
to expect to get. Floyd Schofield core, low key.
Hey, no, Floyd Schofield is a name. That was
ridiculous. Floyd Schofield is somewhat a name.
I'm saying the pulling out. Oh, pulling out.
Yeah, that is ridiculous. I don't know why the
fuck. Actually, I do know why. It's chicken shit.
Yeah. Unless there's a health reason, there's
no reason to pull out of a fight that you already
signed. Yeah, you already signed and have said
in the past that you're ready for. Obviously,
you're not ready. Yeah, you've been talking about
going for a world title for some time. Again,
if you don't want to fight, that's alright. Again,
I know we kind of look down upon ducking, but
again... At the end of the day, these guys are
risking their lives. But again, you're still
shaking shit no matter what. Yeah. And lastly,
before we get on to the fucking recaps, man,
things are fucking dire at Golden Boy Promotions.
First thing, the... 626 Wilshire Boulevard in
downtown LA. This is a Golden Boy Promotions
headquarters. It is owned by Oscar De La Hoya
and a partner. The original loan was $27 million.
They still owes about $23. The building is currently
34 .4 % vacant with... Golden Boy occupying 7%.
So they're apparently not making enough on rent.
And the building has lost value from 2015. It
was appraised at $40 million to 2025. The valuation
was $19 million. So yeah, Delahoya is in some
serious financial trouble. He's on the hook.
They haven't been paying their mortgage. They
don't have any fighters. No fighters. No broadcast.
No broadcast deal. All they got is a multi -year
deal that they just signed with Swerve TV. Swerve
TV. What that is, it's similar to Top Rank Classics.
That's on Tubi and Roku and all that shit. It's
a similar channel to that, but Golden Boy doesn't
own this. They just are licensing their content
on Swerve TV. Might as well just license it on
fucking YouTube or something else. Anything.
They should license it on anything, even Tubi.
At least I know what Tubi is. They're on Tubi.
Swerve TV is on Tubi? Yeah. Oh, okay. I thought
it was its own thing. Nah, it's a channel on
those streaming services. That is dire. Quite.
That is... Same as Golden... At least TopRank
has their prospects. And at least TopRank has
their champions. Golden Boy, they have Gabby.
They have Rocket. They have Floyd Schofield.
Again, these are all decent fighters. But can
they sell tickets and can they even be in a pay
-per -view? No. Virgil's going to be gone. Ryan's
going to be gone. Zerdo's going to be gone. You
are fucked, Oscar. Oscar's fucked. And the thing
is, it's sad because only, what, 15 years ago?
20 years ago? Yeah. Almost 20 years ago, at least.
Golden Boy was a monster. Until half their stable
left. They were a monster. They were forced to
be reckoned with. Yeah, that was where it was
allegedly Richard Schaefer and Al Heyman allegedly
stole all of his stable when he was just on coke
binges all the time. He didn't know how they
were doing. Every fighter was on a fight by fight.
uh promotional basis and yeah so that's that's
where he lost it well that was the beginning
of the infirm if you think about it yeah yeah
i think so he should have taken that i think
they offered him like 100 million to buy out
golden boy it probably would have been happy
sipping sipping tea in the fucking caribbean
all the coke you can handle oh yeah all the coke
you can handle fucking Maybe not with Epstein,
you know. If I can just chill. Poor Oscar. Poor,
poor Oscar. I mean, again, it's sad because it's
another behemoth that dying out, you know. I
thought Top Rank was bad, but Golden Boy is fucked.
Yeah, at least Top Rank is getting their guys'
fights. Yeah, on a PBC card or Matchroom. Or
whoever, it doesn't really matter. I mean, yeah,
anywhere, but fucking Goldenboy, they can't let
their stable out because their stable's too young.
You know? Or the fucking... You have Oscar Coyas.
I forgot to mention him. Great fighter, but again,
he's at a weight class that unfortunately not
many people pay attention to. I mean, I'll fucking...
I'll respect the time that Goldenboy was around,
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recap time. Yay. Let's... This is a hell of a
weekend. So, we're starting Friday, January 30th.
ProBox TV was at the Live Casino and Hotel in
Maryland. There were great stoppages, as you
would expect from a ProBox card. I did notice
this one was a little bit more decision -heavy
than we're used to getting. So I think it was
more of us being spoiled as fans. We have been
spoiled as fans. This is more what it is expected
to be, I guess. One prospect that stood out to
me, Jordan Roach. He got a UD over Juan Ginastroza.
And he beat him pretty soundly throughout all
six rounds. I just wanted to point out Jordan
because he looked good. I was impressed. In the
co -main, Rene Palacios beats Suleiman Segawa.
Man, the people's champ takes the L. And Brian
Flores, majority decision. Over Starling Castillo.
Love that name. My darling Starling. Alright.
Let's continue. Saturday, January 31st. First
thing. Primetime. On DAZN. In Kolding, Denmark.
Who are all of these people? Good question. I
only got two that I paid attention to. Dina Torslund,
UD over... Got to say, get a UD win. Like, who
it was doesn't really matter. WBC featherweight
title. So, congrats to Dina. And, oh, Jakub Bank
stops William Skoll in the closing seconds of
the fucking 12th. Was... Beautiful. I thought
the stoppage was a little premature. I thought
William Scull could have continued. Yeah, maybe.
He was going to lose. Are you a QB and winning
a title on Ape Day? On Ape Day? Ape Day was a
fantastic fucking day. Great fucking day. It
was a great day. And to see Williams School get
knocked out, it was funny. It was a good appetizer.
But, I mean, I'm more thinking not about the
fact of Yacoub Bank, but more the fact of how
did Canelo not get him out? How did someone like
Yacoub? We just talked about it. I know we like
to hate on Canelo and then Yacoub. Is here assassinating
guys. Yeah that's fucking. Yeah that's crazy.
I think we talked about it before but. We didn't
know that was going to happen. I think Jacob
Bank. Jakub Bank. That's how they say it there.
This was for a secondary title. For the WBO.
So he's probably going to be. Facing Hamza Shiraz.
After Shiraz. Does what he's supposed to do.
Or what we expect him to do. This is the guy
that fought Canelo. He beat the guy that fought
Canelo. So he's automatically like... You know.
Very convincingly. The broadcast made it extremely
clear that Skull survived Canelo and now Yakub
Bank gets the stoppage. Yakub Bank beats Humshiraz,
guys. Come on. Come on. We all know it. Yakub.
I like that. I like that name. I love that name.
It's such a fun name to say. Yakubank. Take him
straight to the bank. Let's roll on. Matchroom
at the Newcastle Arena in the UK. Not much to
point out on the undercard, I think. Leo Atang
got a stoppage in three. That was a nothing opponent,
but his name is Leo, so I had to mention. You
had to put him in. Yep. I know you boxed him.
Secret second life. Only known on the boxing
team side. Alif Nur Turhan. I think that's how
they said her name. Split decision over Tayla
Jensen. To, I think, retain the IBF lightweight
title. That was a women's fight. Alif looking
at Caroline Dubois for unification. Honestly,
the fight wasn't bad, actually. No, Alif's pretty
solid. I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah. And
Josh Padley, the People's Electrician, shocks
Joad Belmedy. Sure. I love that. I fucking love
that so much. I'm sorry. That was so fucking
funny. I'm sorry. Whoever's listening, I don't
care if you guys thought that was weird. I fucking
love the shock shit. The electrician puns? I
love that shit. Sure, bro. I guess Josh Padley's
still around. Top UK prospect, Josh Padley. He
shocked me, that's for sure. Jesus. I'm surprised
he didn't spark out Shakur. Yeah. Speaking of
sparking out. Yeah, speaking of good fights,
man. Josh Kelly puts an end to the charade. Majority
decision over Bokram Murtasaliev. claims the
IBF super welterweight title. Great fight. I
thought that was really fun. Early fight of the
year candidate. I would throw it in the conversation.
100%. That was a shocking fight. I mean, I'm
not even trying to make a pun anymore. I'm serious.
That was... I was speechless when Josh Kelly
knocked down Murtazilov. The boogeyman is a boogeyman
no more. Him looking that rusty and terrible
is just... Oh, my God. And I don't want to shoot
too my own horn here, but I've had a pretty good
year with calling the Brit stuff. Until next
week. Until next week. Until next week. This
week, this specific week, is like the last, the
end of the British year. You can gloat right
now. Yeah, I'm going to gloat right now. That
was... I kind of... Josh Kelly won based on the
fact that he rode on the British wave. They got
that British Armada coming up. Loki won on the
10 -10 British scoring, too, which is actually
hilarious. That's pretty nutty, too. You should
have me buying when you look at how it's scored.
Steve Gray did it. Oh, yeah. Steve Gray 10 -10.
giving a Brit a world title is, like, I can't
even be mad. It's so funny. Steve Gray, classic,
I'll tell you that. Classic, dude. Classic Steve
Gray. 10 -10 to give a Brit a world title. The
12th round, he gave a 10 -10. Yeah, like, what
are the clearest rounds? God damn you, Steve.
Literally, like, the clearest round outside of
the knockdown rounds, and you give it a 10 -10.
I'm crying, bro. Hey, you know what? I gotta
give it to Josh Kelly. We were all talking shit,
making fun of him. I gotta give it to him. He
put up a damn good fight against Murda Zaylov.
He got off the canvas, finished the fight, and
in that 12th round, it got a tremendous gif of
that. Of that beating that Murda Zaylov did.
He gave it a go and they rewarded him for it.
That's so funny. Oh, yeah. I mean, shit. That
was a fucking... Go on, my son. Go on, my son.
I hope he makes his money. Go on, my God. Go
on, Kelly. Because I was, I mean, I was pleasantly
surprised. And I'm wishing him the best. Because
I like seeing shit like this happen. The underdog
beats the boogeyman. I was definitely not expecting
Josh Kelly to pull this one out. As close as
it was, like, yeah, it makes sense. Murtazaliev
is petitioning for the immediate rematch. I hope
the IBF turns him down because I really don't
want to see him fight anymore. I wouldn't mind
seeing a rematch, but I feel like the rematch
is going to be... The rematch is going to be
Murda Zayli of showing up less rusty and not...
I'm not even going to say it's not like he's
all that. It's more... Jesus, his sense of range
was just so off for that fight. I seriously think
that if they did a rematch, I still got a feeling
that Marta Zalov has a better chance of winning
in a rematch. Because I honestly think that that
was a mistake on our end that we didn't really
consider too much was that ring rust. He had
been out the ring for, yeah, he'd been out the
ring for... Fucking, what, a year and some change?
You know? We really should have considered how
much that could have taken a toll on him. You
know? I mean, of course, the first six rounds,
he was looking off. And then after that, he got
a little better, got a knockdown, a little cheeky
knockdown, but Jesus Christ, he showed up a little
too late. You know? Yeah, I think you're right.
Oh, the conclusion of Brit year. The conclusion
of British 2026 was at least a fun one. It was
so short -lived. Yeah, we only made it a month
of British 2026. Yeah, but they shot that cannonball
at the fucking ship, the British Armada. I mean,
come on. It needed to go anyways. But we'll talk
about it soon. Talk about next week, yes, sir.
Yeah, we could see if next week is just a hiccup
versus... We'll see if that trend continues.
But let's keep rolling here. Top rank on 2B.
Fucking what do we got here? Juanmita Lopez gets
a UD in 6. I was surprised he did not get the
finish. He looked decent. He looked good. He
did. He looked like his usual self, but I thought
he had power because he had been bopping dudes.
Can't stop them all. Maybe he has that late stage
power. You know. Maybe we'll end up having that.
Death by a thousand cuts. Giovanni Santillan.
UD. Other than that. Xander Zayas. Split decision
over Abbas Sparrow. Fuck. Yeah, they're taking
the hostage. God damn it. Those belts, like,
listen, man. Yeah, sure, Zayas is better than
Abbas, Beru, whatever. It's about the implication
of a guy whose only options are to be clinging
on to these two belts for dear life. Yeah, they're
not going to send Zayas to fight Josh Kelly on
a matchup show. I don't know. Kelly, at least.
Yeah, Matchroom. Boots is with Matchroom. Kelly
basically has, he gets like, he's getting fed
the boots pretty instantaneously if the Virgil
fight falls through. I mean, honestly, I think
that the Zayas fight with Virgil or Boots is
not going to happen. I agree with you. No, Zayas
is never going to take that. Zayas' management
is never letting him take that. Fuck no. But
you know what? Yeah, bro. How do you feel about
getting humiliated by literally two of the best
offensive forces in the sport and career -altering
beating? I got to say this. Honestly, it might
be a little controversial, but I'm glad Zayas
won. I'm glad that we have a young star. on the
rise. I gotta give him his flowers. He looked
fucking excellent that fight. But... Beru's no
scruff, but also, like, he's gonna, like, basically
the next time we're gonna see him in anything
meaningful is, like, age 28. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
this is the end of his time of star power. Beating
star power. Open shot. I mean, he could fight
Tim Zhu. He could fight guys that were known.
He could fight an Erickson Lubin. He can fight
those guys. And honestly, I would honestly want
him to fight those guys because he's only 22.
He's fucking hella young. Super young. I really
think that he still needs that experience. Granted,
I will say this, that last night he looked better
than I've ever seen him before. Fucking amazing.
And I mean, that kind of reigns true to what
I said last time about him with his last fight
with Garcia. I mean, he has only up, and I'm
excited to see where he goes, which hopefully
is a Virgil beatdown, because let's go Virgil.
He's no scrub either. Like, it's just what it
is. Like, Boots or Virgil is not. Definitely,
like, his management might maneuver him to the
loser of Virgil Boots, which is going to be Virgil.
So, and Virgil's probably going to put a pasting
on him then, but, you know, we'll have to see.
We'll never know because Virgil is going to be
fighting Fandora if that even happens. Virgil's
not going to fight Boots. There's some news next
week, I think, about it being allegedly signed
for April or getting finalized for April. I'm
going to keep my hope to myself because honestly,
I've heard that how many times? Yeah, I was going
to say, Virgil, I... How many times did Virgil
fail to get into the ring with Stan Jonas? I
don't know. How many times did Boots turn down
the offer? I don't know. I don't know. I mean,
I tend not to trust the guy managed by Golden
Boy. I also tend not to trust all the people
that are reporting this shit because you never
know who's telling the truth. But I will say
this. Going back to Xander Zayas. If you want
another belt, you can fight Vendora. In unification,
you could have already fought him. He didn't
want to fight you. He dropped his belt. Do I
think that he wins the fight? I think in about
a year, maybe two years, he could beat Fandora.
He could possibly beat other guys in the division.
He could for sure beat a Boa Chuka that time.
Beat all the Zufa guys. I'll tell you that right
now. We'll see what happens with Xander. I'm
excited to see where he goes from here. And also,
he's got some star power. He's the last of the
Mohicans in Puerto Rico. He's the last of the
Ricans. What do you mean? Edgar Berlanga is the
biggest name in boxing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey,
I don't know if this is the right time to say
it, but Xander Zayas is at the Super Bowl with
Emiliano Vargas. I mean, come on. That's some
star power to be seen on a world stage like that
by, what, 138 million? Could have been 145 million
if certain people didn't want to tune in, but
they weren't even going to watch boxing anyways.
I mean, that's a pretty big stage to be seen
on. So I'm happy that the young stars of boxing
are getting the views and the credibility from
the people. Oh man, let's keep rolling because
we still got a little bit to go. Ring six. Madison
Square Garden. Let's see. From the bottom up
because we had quite a few good fights here.
Austin Emma Williams stops late replacement Wendy
Toussaint. Or no, UD. He was supposed to stop
him. He had him troubled and he didn't manage
to do it. Yeah. God damn it, Ammo. What the hell?
I would have had... I think Carlos Adamas would
have beat him. Yeah, looking like that, fucking
Adamas would have taken that easy. Let's see.
Kevin Castillo spoils the party. Where does Castillo...
Where can I send him flowers? Because beating
Ziad Almayouf on a Saudi card, just fucking pinched
fingers. too good. Um, Gerald Miller. Say that
again? Sorry. Who? He said Ziad Amayouf? Yes,
the Saudi plant. The Saudi plant, we don't. He
got fucking rumbled. He got smoked, which is...
Oh, no, I'm thinking of the other guy. I'm thinking
of the other guy that we like. We like. Not like,
but we can, well, we like. Well, actually, I
like him. The guy on the Canelo card. I was like,
that wasn't, I was mixing up my guys. Saudi plant
cooked, by the way. Yeah, Saudi plant cooked.
Let's go. Gerald Miller. Split decision over
Kingsley eBay. Kingsley eBay split his hairs.
Yeah. Is this the most, this is one of the most
iconic moments that I've witnessed. The entire
time I've been watching this sport. Which is
like most of my life. Yeah, you've seen fucking...
What was your first fight you've seen? Like one
of the first fights that you've ever seen. Live.
Live? Yeah. Like in person? Not in person, but
like live on TV. Oh, like on TV. Man, I saw the
ear bite. Mike Tyson? Yeah. I just got to see
Mike Tyson fight Evander Holyfield's ear. This
shit might trump it. Watched a lot of Chavez
fights. Yeah. The Chavez versus De La Hoya. The
house divided. All the women on Oscars supporting
Oscar. All the men supporting Chavez. But this,
I guess for non -fighting stuff, this is up there
with the ear bite. That's just so funny. They
were passing the fucking wig around so that everyone
could take a picture with it. It just, oh my
god. The way his skin was so raw under the toupee.
Like, it really did look like he got scalped.
Like, by the king. Fucking scalped, bro. No one
even cares that he won, dude. Like, that's...
That's gotta be the most embarrassing shit. Everybody
in the arena was laughing at him. And it's funny,
because that's probably the... I saw people that
didn't even watch boxing talking about it. Oh,
did you see that? You saw that boxer lose his
hair last night? Yeah. He's like, that's funny
as hell. Fucking people that don't even cover
boxing were covering it. No, I know. I saw Hater
Central, which is like a basketball one. Can't
cover this shit. I mean, hey, whatever brings
guys into the sport, fuck it. I got to give it
to Gerald Miller. He made this sport popular
again for a long time. Especially when it's funny
and not like an abominable crime, you know? Like
ear biting? Yeah. No, the ear biting was funny
as fuck, too. I'm talking about all of Tank's
shenanigans. But yeah, otherwise the fight was
pretty underwhelming. Not a whole lot going on,
just two big dumpy heavyweights. Oh man, Bruce
Carrington claims the vacant WBC featherweight
title. knocking out carlos castro in the ninth
that was a good that was a good knockout it was
that knockout of the year contender already well
until next week until next week yes uh i still
even though the knockout was really good i can't
help but notice how much bruce carrington was
struggling with carlos castro Castro buzzed him
multiple times, and I don't know. I don't know
if Castro was a few years younger, and his chin
wasn't as cracked as it is. Going to war with
Neary and B -Fig and Fulton, all in pretty tight
succession over the past three years. Only to
get knocked out by Shushu. Yeah. I got to give
it to Shushu, though, that he put on a performance
that he definitely needed. The PR surrounding
him from up until now was he is pillow -fisted.
He's good offensively. He is not so gifted defensively.
But this fight showed me that he has heart. Again,
he has great enough skill. as an offensive fighter,
but defense, he's got to work on that, man. You
should not be going to war with guys like Carlos
Castro. That's what makes me think people saying,
like, Carrington, Inouye gets beat by Carrington.
Like, I don't know. Did you see Carlos Castro
tagging him? If Inouye puts hands on him, Carrington's
going to go to sleep. Oh, yeah. And Inouye's
much sharper than Carlos Castro. Again, it's
a great knockout. Over a guy that's never been
beat by a knockout. Never been knocked out in
his career. And to get knocked out like that.
By someone pillow fisted. I don't know. Again.
Carlos Castro. I'm happy that you got the win.
I'm excited. I'm looking forward to your next
fight. See how you move as a champion. You could
improve. And I hope you improve. I wish him the
best. I give him all his flowers. But please.
Please put your hands up. When you fight an opponent.
Move. Move back. Move side to side. You know.
Don't mong out. Castro dropped Fulton. Losing
a split decision. He was dropped by Brandon Figueroa.
Stopped in the sixth. He was down in round one.
And lost a split decision to Neri. I thought
he lost. I thought he beat. He did not beat.
But I thought he went to split decision with.
I thought so too. I just wanted to check to be
sure. But yeah, he'd been down against Neary
and Fig, but he got back up to fight. Still,
good win for Carrington. I hope with everything
you were saying, Saul, I really hope this is
a wake -up call for Bruce. Dude, you can't be
letting these Dudes tag you up like that. One
of these days, you're going to pick the wrong
Mexican, and he's going to fucking chin you.
I'd be fucking... He's got a whole bunch of options
in that division now. He's got fucking... I was
going to say Nick Ball, but... Hey -o. B -Fig.
He's got B -Fig. He's got Espinoza, which that
could be an easy fight to make in -house. In
-house, yeah. Yeah. Or he has Angel Leo. Bantler
is probably going to be taking up something.
The pretty nice option would be a fight with
Espinoza in -house. I think it'd be the first
time that Featherweight has had a unified champion
in some time. I can't recall. God knows how long.
Yeah. It was definitely before Shakur. Probably,
I don't know. I can't even think of it. But let's
roll on. Keyshawn Davis stops Jermaine Ortiz
in 12. Like right at the closing seconds, Thomas
Taylor bailed him out. I'm struggling to find
words. for this performance from Keyshawn. I
don't know how I feel about it. Let me ask you
this, because I have my opinion about it, and
I'll give it right now, but do you guys think
it was a good performance? Do you think it was
eye -opening? What do you guys think? Underwhelming.
Underwhelming? A little bit. Interesting. Okay.
Underwhelming. Frost, what do you think? What
was the question again? I literally blanked out
for like two seconds. How do you feel about Keyshawn's
performance against Jermaine? Oh yeah, underwhelming.
Just a little bit. You guys think it's underwhelming,
seriously. Like, if he's just... Keyshawn's ceiling
is just so high, right? So, so high that like...
you know, having to pilot onto a guy who notoriously
loses fights late. Gives good work to, like,
top -level people, too. Yeah, like, it isn't
cutting it, really, for, like, separating yourself
from those top -level people. I humbly disagree
with you guys. I think that Keyshawn, it was
a domination by Keyshawn. Complete domination
over Jermaine Ortiz. I think it showed me that
he is 100 % special. Teofimo couldn't, and we'll
talk about it right now, but Teofimo couldn't
beat him the way that Keyshawn beat him. Same
thing with Loma. Loma had problems with him.
Keyshawn dominated him the whole time. Again,
Styles makes fights, but Keyshawn showed me that
he can put out with the fucking boxer. And Jermaine
Ortiz is a decent boxer. He knocked him out in
the 12th. and showed initiative. He looked great.
He looked fantastic. Is this me glazing Keyshawn
because I was a Keyshawn supporter? Yeah, kind
of. I still am a Keyshawn fan. Not a fan of his
antics outside the ring, but inside the ring,
he's a fucking, he's a demon. And I'm glad that
he showed out against someone like that. You
guys cannot say that that wasn't a domination.
I fail to see that Jermaine Ortiz won more than,
what, three rounds? That would be generous. Three
would be generous. Yeah. Maybe underwhelming
is too strong of a word, but... Like, it's just...
I expect so much of Keyshawn. I expect a lot
of him. There's no... Like, underwhelming is...
Like, it seems harsh, but it's not that underwhelming.
It's just still below what we believe he can
perform at. I mean, there's a couple caveats
to this thing. He's been out the ring for a year.
And, again, this is at a new weight class. Jermaine
Ortiz is also a little bigger than him in a sense.
I mean, Jermaine was already used to weight,
fought guys at 140. And, I mean, he's never been
knocked down in his career, I believe. Come on.
I got to give Jermaine Ortiz his flowers too
because he's a very good contender. There's more
expectation of Keyshawn than putting down Jermaine
Ortiz. Well, I got to flip it because I feel
like to break down Jermaine Ortiz is a feat in
and of itself because I haven't seen any other
top fighter do that. But he always loses fights
late. That's the thing. Yeah, he always loses
fights late. He throws them away late. He loses
steam and throws them away late. He lost the
fight very early as well. And he just held on.
He had a great chin. He could have broken down
a bit earlier. Being like a top, top, top prospect.
Especially because it's not like Ortiz was being
negative. Like he was there to be taken out.
I see it as a nomination that Keyshawn did amazing
work. For being back after a year. I got to see
after the next fight how he is. Again, the mental
health aspect, we got to see, too. He's going
to make it to his next fight without missing
weight or just throwing babies at people. I can't
say the mental aspect is something that's considerable,
considering it's all stuff that he does to himself.
Yeah. Like assaulting guys in their change rooms
and blowing weight with BOMAC next to you. Yeah,
I mean. Is all stuff you do to yourself. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. I don't know what's going
to happen. Yeah. We shall see. I thought it was
dominant. It was very dominant, just not to the
potential that he showed. Man, potential on display.
Shakur Stevenson, 12 O's Teofimo to claim the
WBO 140 title. What round did Teofimo win? A
lot of people saw 11 -1. There was a round that
Shakur took off, I want to say, like, in the
mid -lates. Yeah, basically the round he took
off. Yeah. It's the round with all the highlights
of, like, Teofimo punching, like, arm and, like,
hip. Yeah. The one with all the highlights. I
got to say, man, I expected a lot more out of
Teofimo. This was, it looked like an amateur
in there. I don't know Teofimo. Ever since he
got rid of Joey Gamache, he's had the worst corner
in boxing. There was so many problems with that
fight with him. He had the wrong game plan. He
had no plan B, in fact. His corner was fucking
telling him, what the fuck happened to your power?
Why the fuck would you say that to your fucking
fighter mid -fight? That's going to discourage
his ass. I mean, you'd think it's going to light
a fire on him. I don't know, but... I mean, come
on. Not telling him clear instructions. He just
goes out there and fucking swings at air against
one of the best defensive fighters in the sport.
I mean, come on. This is that fucking dumbass
corner where you... Yeah, Ross has always been
right about Joey Gamache. He needs to go Joey
Gamache in his corner. He needs someone new in
his corner. Get rid of Senior. He's a problem.
You gotta do better. You gotta do better. Outside
of... Inside the ring. You know? Outside of that,
he's got to get people around him that are fucking
good. You know? I thought I heard a fucking baby
screaming outside. Scared the shit out of me.
I think that the day Teofimo gets his father
out of his corner and gets an actual trainer.
Sell your house, buy an apartment, and get Joey
Gamache back in there. Yeah, like he's going
to have to, I think because of the way Teofimo
Seniors appears to me to be, he would probably
lose his father in his life altogether. Bro,
at this rate with how like, it's going to come
out like five years after his career that his
father like stole most of his money. Like, if
this is how he presents himself publicly, like
how bad is it behind closed doors? Considering
he's literally the only guy that Teofimo has
in his personal life. The guy can't even see
his kid. He's got no friends. It's only him and
his dad. How bad is his dad behind closed doors?
Well, he did say in the post -fight, he was talking
about he's expecting a new kid. And it sounded
like he patched things up with his wife and they're
back together. No more baby Yoda doll then? Yeah,
I guess not. No, but I'm serious. How nasty is
his father? We're seeing him in the corner of
a championship fight. Ask his son, where'd your
power go? Just fuck him up, bro. You fucking
suck. Just fuck him up. Post -fight media tour
being like, my kid fucking sucks. Yeah, my kid
didn't have a game plan. Bitch, you're his coach.
Where's your game plan? Like, I'm serious. Are
you Dexter Namas or whatever? Cut your dad off,
sell your apartment, rehire Joey Gamache. Because
clearly, out of anybody he's worked with in his
entire career, Joey Gamache is the one that brought
the best out of him. And it was only for two
fights. And one of them was his star -making
performance. It was two fights. It was the Richard
Comey and Lomachenko fights. And both of those,
he actually looked elite. He had a plan B. And,
like, you know what? Like, that's... More than
anything, it looked like he actually wanted the
B in there. And you know what? I mean, I can't
say that Teo didn't try. He definitely tried
in that fight. No, it's just... Everyone around
him has been failing him for, like, five years
at this point. You know what? We've been talking
too much about Teo and his shortcomings. I got
to give it to Shakur and fucking how beautiful
all the fighting is. Fucking performance. Oh,
my goodness. Shakur, what are you going to say?
Everything literally went right. And he lived
up to his potential, finally. He's seen his lead
now. Yeah, finally lived up to his potential
by fighting someone worth a damn and just dominating
them straight up. Didn't put on a tracksuit or
anything. Kind of just dog walked him. He walked
him down. Shakur was on the front foot most of
the time. Yeah. That's what I mean. Like, just
completely dog walked a good, solid opponent.
No asterisks, no bullshit that you'd expected
him to put on once he fought someone good. Just
a very, very good performance. That was the sweet
science. If they've ever seen it, you know. I
hope we stay at at least, like, a similar level
of opponent. Like, we don't drop too. My thing
is, I don't even know how Ibisheker at this point.
I mean, I feel like someone like Gary Antoine
Russell. It's a very specific style. Like, it's
a very specific, like, pressure, power, and finesse
that, like, does not exist near him. If you had
the pressure of Pitbull with the accuracy of
Tank and the power of Ryan Garcia, you'd maybe
be Shakur. Like, four to six years ago with a
bit more finesse. Yeah. And at that point, we're
just making up fighters. Yeah, we're just splitting
hairs here. Come on. So, Shakur mentioned Just
the week before, he was watching his cousin fight
or whatever, and they asked him if he's going
to stay at 140 if he wins, and he said, if I
get big fights or whatever, but I plan to go
back to 135. WBC stripped him of his 135 title
because he did not pay a sanctioning fee. The
fucking belt was not on the line against Teofimo.
It wasn't even in the same weight class. Why
does he have to pay a sanctioning fee? For what?
My question to that is, did Canelo pay a sanctioning
fee to the WBC when he fought Bivol, or even
fucking, uh, what the fuck is his name? Uh, fucking,
uh, the, uh, Kovalev, when he fought at 175.
Did he have to pay sanctioning fees? No. Yeah,
let him go up to fight for the WBO belt. without
a sanctioning fee because he'll come back and
we'll make money then. If we strip him, then...
Same shit applies to Shakur Stevenson, though.
Like, why? Why? This is why Zufa is gonna get
fucking Steam. I was about to say, yeah, that's
bullshit. This is how Zufa and entities like
it pick up Steam. And who the fuck is going to
get WBC at this point at 135? Who's going to
get it? Oh, let's see. Let's look. They have
a beautiful game of Let's Look Up Rankings. Yeah,
it's my favorite. My favorite game. This edition
on Let's Look Up Rankings. Who is the WBC number
one? I don't care about the world champions.
Come on. Give me. What is it? Lightweight? It's
vacant right now. Javier Herrera is the interim
champ. So they could elevate him? William Cepeda,
Lamont Roach, Andy Cruz as the top three. Bro,
they could have elevated Oshaki. Oh, my God.
Oshaki still had it. Imagine. Stephen Fulton
gave Oshaki Foster the WBC belt from Chris Stevenson.
Hilarious. Love that turn of events. Lamont Roach
might be doing WBA. Yeah, he's definitely doing
WBA. Andy Cruz, it wouldn't be a bad bounce back
for Andy Cruz, actually. Another title fight?
No. Yeah. But he needs another, he needs a tune
-up, at least beforehand. Yeah, for sure. Sure.
I mean, I mean, who else is there? What are you,
Shinaba? The, they can't come into a title fight
off a loss? No, you shouldn't. You shouldn't.
I know you shouldn't, but when the options are
guys like Sam Noakes, I'd rather Andy Cruz. Andy
Cruz versus Sam Noakes is not a bad bounce back.
That's a banger. Actually, isn't Andy Cruz going
to move down because he clearly is not cutting
it at 135 power -wise? I have not heard anything
about that. That was Moritaya suggesting it after
the... Yeah. Move down, bro. That's such a, like
a, that's so funny to say, hey, move down, bro.
You gotta, you can't hang up here with the big
dogs. The big dogs that are fucking cutting me
like crazy. Like, to some extent, like, if you
absolutely cannot, like, because, like, he was
touching up Murataya. Yeah. Like, zero damage,
I guess, like. You have Hydrogen Baby versus
fucking Hydrogen Bomb versus Coughing Baby. Hydrogen
Bomb versus Coughing Baby, dude. The hydrogen
baby beats the coughing bomb, dude. Come on,
dude. I don't know what the fuck's up with me
today. I'm like, I gotta get on that clavicular
shit, whatever the fuck they call him. He's decomposing,
dude. I gotta decompose my brain and then recompose
it. You gotta microdose meth and steroids, dude.
I gotta get whatever fucking shit Shea Moses
on. It was on 10 years ago. Clear my head. Anything
more for Stevenson, Teofimo? Let's talk about
where they could go next because I know Stevenson
is looking to fight Conor Benn, which is fucking...
What the fuck? What kind of fucking move is that?
What kind of fucking move is to fight Conor Benn?
I mean, the fight I would love to see... What
do you mean, who is Conor Benn? Who's fighting?
It's Shakur fighting Conor Benn, right? Yeah.
Oh, my God. Exactly. Why? I did a double take.
Like, I am listening. I swear. It's just like,
oh, my God. There's a fight I think that I would
love to see Shakur in at 140, and that would
be against Gary Antoine Russell. That would be
a fantastic fight of relentless pressure versus
relentless defense. That would be amazing. For
boxing purists, that is. Really. I don't care
if Tank comes back or not. Shakur, Tank. Now
that he's finally a guy with profile. Yeah, I
mean... Not that I have Tank winning that by
any means, but it's like... It's a good fight
to make. I will say that. That fight would sell
over fucking 800 ,000 pay -per -view. That would
do good pay -per -view and gate. That fight is
big. Put that shit in Baltimore as Tank's comeback.
Put that shit in New York. Jersey. Brick City.
Put it somewhere where they have a big arena.
Fucking fantastic fans. Oh my god, that would
be amazing. Doubt it's going to happen though.
The best next thing is Gary Antoine Russell.
Yeah. No, absolutely. I'm just saying in terms
of like, if we're talking about big, big profile
fights, like the Hank comeback with Shakur would
be so good to see. I'm thinking I'm going to
find him though. I got one for the degenerates.
I think I know what you're going to say, and
I fucking agree with you on this. Let's hear
it. The one for the degenerates, Sandor Martin.
Oh, Jesus Christ, man. Where the fuck did that
come from? Jesus Christ. The who's who of 140
has fought him. Yeah, but we don't want to see
him, dude. The only reason we got him fighting
the who's who of 140 is because Mikey Garcia
was checked out. Too busy destroying low -income
housing instead of being focused in the ring,
and now he's the problem of the fans. Now we
have to deal with him. He's the problem of the
fans, but... I was going to say, Puyo just beat
him last year. Teal Fimo? Where can he go from
here? I think his options are pretty limited.
Regardless of who it is, it's not going to go
well if it's with his father in his corner. 100%.
Where he goes from here is a new camp. I mean,
if you want money, you could easily get a Devin
Haney fight. You're going to lose that, but you
can get Devin Haney fight with your pull from
the WBO. If you'd like, you could fight like
a fucking Matias. That could be a good comeback
fight. A good one, honestly, and you guys can
disagree, is a move up to 147 and fight George
Kambosis. Kambosis is still fighting. Yeah. I
believe he's still fighting on 147. Get your
get back. There's definitely a level fighter
that Teofimo cannot beat. It's kind of... Not
to say it's a little fair, but like... I mean,
see, at this point, it's basically guys who are
good, who you would not want to rebound against,
per se. Or guys you've basically beat already.
I know a good fight that, honestly, I think Teofimo
can win. In my opinion. And you guys can disagree.
Two fights, actually. I think Teofimo can beat
Ryan. A 147 Ryan. Maybe not with power, but obviously
with finesse. Obviously his counterpunch skills
are phenomenal. But it would either be Ryan or
Roley. Again, both guys have power. But both
guys also don't. Roley Teofimo would be one of
the funniest buildups I've seen in my life, though.
That would be a great fight that could be like
a co -main. You know, co -main to... Most racist
build -up you've seen in your entire life. And
I think they used to be buddies, too. They used
to have a relationship. You could market that
pretty easily. Maybe sell, you know, sell pretty
nice. I don't know. I think he could beat both
those opponents. Give him some time. Rolly's
fucking tragic. 100%, you know, and they spar
together too. I think that Teofimo put his hands
on the sparring, but Teofimo, you could get it
back. Don't be racist anymore, dude. This is
probably karma for being racist. You lost in
front of a whole bunch of fucking your fans,
you know. So the guy that you said that, well,
I don't want to repeat the comments, but we all
know what he said about fucking African -American
people. He was talking about liquor. Oh yeah,
I'm sorry. He's talking about liquor. I hope
he comes back and fights another opponent. Oh,
man. We have to keep rolling. We still have one
more card to recap and all the previews. So,
Sunday, February 1st. Zufa Boxing 2. At the meta
apex. It seems that Zufa, for the most part,
are going to be decision merchants. They had
one stoppage in the prelims. Jamar Talley stops
Devante Williams in two. Moving up, a lot of
pretty okay performances, I guess. Until we get
to Hot Rod Kalachik. God bless Hot Rod. Oleksandr
Vozdik gets bopped in seven. That was so... Oh,
my God. That was a damn good performance from
both of them. No, it wasn't. Yes, it was. Dude,
they came back from the fucking death to hell.
No, I was saying good performance. No. Fun? Yes.
Oh, yeah, I think that's what I mean. Obviously,
that's what I mean. Good performance, getting
your ass beat until you find a just monster right
hand. And we're losing the whole fight. And then
boom. Holy fuck. Victory from the jaws of defeat
with that one. Wonderful fucking knockout. I
don't even think the commentary expected it,
considering how the night had gone. Yeah. Were
they pushing Vazdik more or were they pushing
Hot Rod more? They were just kind of like, yeah,
like, not unenthused, but, you know, it felt
like Vazdik was gonna take it pretty handily
and then the shot came out of nowhere. Good for
Hot Rod, though. Sets him up for a nice payday
against whoever in the future. Well, maybe not
payday, but an interesting fight with a higher
-ranked opponent. Maybe higher profile. Yeah,
that'd be fucking Jai Obataya. That's true. They
could bump him up to fight Jai Obataya. I don't
know who this guy beat. Alexander Gvazdik. Put
him up with Obataya. Sergei Bohachuk gets the
split decision over Ratsa Butaev. Clobberfest.
Didn't learn anything new about either guy, really.
Yeah, not really. Sad to see Bo Hatruk on fucking
Zufa. But what are you going to do? He knew exactly
where he was going when he signed on to fight
Brandon Adams a second time. Did I call it or
did I not call it? They're getting rid of him
because Brandon Adams is easier to beat. For
the record, Brandon Adams has a fight against
an undefeated Irish prospect next. Brandon Adams
does? Yes. Oh, Aji Arco. Yeah. So his name is
spelled just like a vomit of letters, but I think
it's like Kevin. Yeah. It's like Kevin at Yarko.
Yeah. But you see, you see my point that I made
about like, let's get Boa Chuck, who is actually
like a stern threat to prospects out of the way
for a much more beatable guy who. technically
gives our prospect a little more sheen since
he took down Boachuk twice. And if you lose to
him, it's not like a taking years off of your
life kind of beating? No, like Boachuk has some
pretty hard hands. Brandon Adams does not. Yeah.
So, case in point, look, it came to pass. So.
Mmm. Rayo Valenzuela. UD over Diego Torres. Ryo
got pretty bloody. Looked like Ryo. Good job.
Looked good. Pretty nothing opponent. Andy, what
you got to do? The Ryo's Ryo. Get that Zufo pack.
Let's roll into our fucking previews. Man, it
is a light week. Like, I really scraped the fucking
bottom of the barrel for these. Let's see. February
14th. Dream Boxing on DAZN. At the Haristo Arena
in Germany. Prepare yourselves. Marco Hook is
back. 10 round fight at Cruiserweight. Oh my
god. Versus... Vaclav Pesar. Where is this taking
place? Haristo Arena in North... Germany. Okay,
excellent. Okay, that crowd's going to be insane.
Honestly, that's the only card kind of worth
anything that's on the 14th. To the surprise
of no one, I suppose. And capping off... We've
got three. Sunday is a pretty good card. Sunday,
February 15th, we've got three. First, in the
early -ass morning, Muto Promotions in Osaka,
Japan. Ryosuke Nishida, Super Bantamweight guy,
versus Brian Mercado. That should be a good fight.
Don't know who anyone else is. Let's see here.
Zufa Boxing 3 on Paramount+. Scroll up, bitch.
Looking at these names, only one I'm going to
point out is Leo Ruiz fighting Casey Streeter.
If you lose, you have to change your name. And
the headline, F .A. Ajagba versus Charles Martin.
What the fuck? Yeah. Hey, what do you mean? I'm
always happy with these heavyweight fights, even
if it's on Zufa. They're not great. They're going
to punch the hell out of each other. It'll be
fun. Is it, though? I hope FA at Jogba sparks
him. What do you mean, man? Like, Charles Martin,
say what you will, man. He's not in, like, boring
fights. How long ago was that? What do you mean?
It's just in general. How long ago was it? When
was the last time you've seen an exciting Charles
Martin fight? Jared Anderson. Seeing him start
to put it on Jared Anderson late was pretty fun.
What is it, though? Was he really putting it
on, though? Was it something that you would get
fucking, oh, my God, whole shit? Hey, by fun,
I mean, I have my vices, like everyone, and my
vices are I like watching really shitty heavyweights
beat the hell out of each other because there's
no defense or footwork. That's like some heroin,
man. Like, that's why I like Dave Allen, dude.
There's no risk of Dave Allen boxing. Yeah, but
Dave Allen's funny, though. That's a meme. Charles
Martin's just like... Charles Martin's a former
world champion. Come on. Yeah, but that's just
sad. You got a former world champion fighting.
No, it was hilarious because his opponent's knee
turned to glue mid -fight while he was losing
the fight, by the way. And then he called it.
My power broke his knee. Yeah. That woman got
a chuckle out of him. Then AJ immediately nuked
him. Come on. The bar for fun for heavyweights
is different because, like, it's not, like, it's
basically power slap. That's out of point. That
makes sense why it's fucking Zufa. Yeah, like,
it's basically power slap with some of these
guys. Like, I'm not expecting, like, a display
of the sweet science. Like, no. These are two
fat dudes who, at this point, they have no aspirations
for anything serious. They're going to beat the
hell out of each other. It'll be fun. And then
I'm going to go to bed. We'll see. We'll see.
If it's not fun, I'm going to be so surprised
because that'll mean that a guy's trying to box
and then he's going to gas and then he's going
to lose. You can't tell me that Jarrell Miller
fights, excluding the toupee incident, are not
sort of entertaining for the same reason. There's
no risk of him moving enough to bore you. We
shall see what happens. It's like boxing junk
food, basically. Like, this is boxing Beth. No,
it's like boxing junk food. Like, every once
in a while, like, you order some really shitty
food and you just enjoy it. And that's how I
see heavyweight fights that aren't, like, world
beaters. Yeah, but that's like Dave Allen and
Mac Mudoff type fights. This fight's more like
fucking taking meth because you need it. Both
of these guys probably beat Dave Allen. Hey.
I'm not saying that it's not going to be a watchable
fight. We'll see what happens, dude, but I sincerely
doubt it's going to be a fun, fun fight. Yes,
we all sat down for redneck brawl. This is just...
Yeah, but that's different. That's its own thing.
That's its own sexy thing, you know? Those guys
could be world -ranked heavyweights if they actually
train. Come on. It's pretty sad. Yeah, man. It's
pretty sad out here. Yeah, they'd be the likes
of Moses Aitama and fucking Daniel Dubois. World
-ranked is like top 20 is a lot of people. Yeah.
You're right. Top 20 is a lot of guys. I don't
see him going that far, but that's my whole book
opinion. That's what I'm saying. Even top 50,
top 100 for world rank, you have to go really
far to justify heavyweights. We'll see what happens
with that. Let me find the 100th ranked heavyweight
for you. Probably fucking Shannon Briggs. The
99th ranked heavyweight is Tom Schwartz. The
guy that fought Fury? Yes. His most recent fight
is a UD loss to Sanad Gashi. Who? What the fuck?
He's a guy who lost to Derek Chisora. And like
a real stinker. So that's what I mean by, like,
you get – so you say it gets really weird in,
like, if you, like, qualify world ranking as,
like, top 100, top 150. Yeah. No, you're right.
You're right. So, like, Dave Allen is 79. Still
meth, guys. I'm going to go with pork belly because
it's really fatty. The pork rinds. Pork rinds
still have some nutritional value. They're pork
rinds. Yeah, pork rinds is a good one. You have
too much of it, it's gonna make you sick. Pork
rinds have a dollar tree. Pork belly still has
the nutritional value in it, but like... Pork
rinds, that shit got fried out. And let's wrap
it up here. I had... Before I got the full card
for Zufa... And this Muto card, which those I
got later. So I had a placeholder here. Top tier
boxing on DAZN at the Brentwood Center. Fucking
long ass card. The headline is Tiago Osorio Muxanga
versus Asenia Byfield. That's going to be a great
scrap. The only thing is the matchmaker for top
tier is this British social media personality
for boxing. Her name is Allie Drew. I sat next
to her at a Golovkin Canelo 3. Oh. That's interesting.
So, yeah. That's the time I met Allie Drew. She's
pretty good looking, but whatever. That's it
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