This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
is Boxing Before Dark. All right. Let's fucking
boogie here. Man. Oh, man. Boxing before dark.
It's time to fucking party. Yes. Shanada, how
goes it out in Japan? It's starting to warm up.
I'm already dreading summer. I think Sunday is
supposed to be 18 degrees. Gross. 18? Hold on
a second. I always have to fucking bust out the...
What is this in freedom? Lights. 70 -ish, I think.
Not quite that high. How many bald eagles is
that? I mean, if you burn them, it's probably
only one. It's about 65. Okay, I was pretty close.
Not quite 70. That's... Man, that's a... I turned
off my heater a few days ago and I just completely
forgot I had it off. And then when I went to...
To check the temperature. It was like 69, 68.
And I was like freezing my ass off. God, desert
life. Oh man, out in Japan. A little bit of fun
news. The baby macaque. I'm phrasing this so
that there's no confusion. Just because I got
got. The baby macaque named Punch. Starting to
get a little bit of internet fame. Has his little
stuffed orangutan as his best friend. His replacement
mom. Yeah. Got dumped by his mother and embraced
by the whole of humanity. Probably an okay trade,
I suppose. He's in Japan. He'll get specific...
specific special treatment. What kind of things
would they do for him? You know? When he gets
older, he'll just be famous, so they'll make
sure he's really well fed and his enclosure's
better and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, he'll be
at the front of the viewing exhibits. But that
was fun. Punch. The way that it was phrased,
man. So, they had to have done that shit on purpose.
Yeah, yeah. Punch the baby monkey. No, don't
do that. Don't punch monkeys. Baby or otherwise.
Uh, did you see in the Winter Olympics the gold
medal match for hockey? I saw the match, yeah.
I'm not an Olympics person. I haven't watched
any games. But, Canada versus the US in the gold?
Yep. I'm excited. This is for all the bragging
rights. I mean, that's usually how it ends up
anyways. Who's in the bronze game? Finland and...
Norway. Excuse me. I think. Norway. Nice. Alright,
because there's no Russia, right? Yes. It's weird
how that works. Like, because Taiwan has a similar
situation where they are allowed to participate.
Athletes are allowed to participate, but it's
under some generic flag, like the... I think
it's the UN flag. I think you're right. Or, like,
the IOC. International Olympic Committee fucking...
Whatever. Yeah, but I don't think they let Russia
have team sports. Just individual competitors.
So no hockey. But yeah, we'll see how that turns
out. I might actually watch that just because
it's gold medal. Might as well. I saw clips of
the Czechia goal where they definitely had six
players on the ice. And all six players celebrate
in a little clump and the rest didn't call it.
What? Wow. How do you miss that? I don't know
how they missed it. It was crazy. And I think
it tied the game. Canada had to kind of like
come back and win it. But enough Olympics into
some boxing news. Boy, oh boy. TBE. Floyd Money
Mayweather has unretired officially. Will resume
his professional boxing career. Woof. Yeah, I
think he's going to have to drop the money from
his name. Floyd No Money Mayweather. Man, he
must be so broke if he's officially unretiring.
Because he's been doing exhibitions pretty much
since he retired. He's been doing, like he did
the Logan Paul. He did the Gotti person. I don't
remember who he is. But he's fought a bunch of
influencers in exhibitions. Yeah, but those don't
really count. Right. You know who else he fought
in an exhibition after he retired? Tension. Tension
was like fucking 15 or something. Still funny.
He's older than I thought he was. I think he
was like 19. Yeah, he was still a teenager. It
was funny. The flowers. Floyd tried to give him
the flowers instead. It was pretty good. As he
cried. What did you expect was gonna happen?
Oh, well, he's the prodigy. His nickname is ridiculous.
The kanjis are, like, better than God or something.
Above the Buddha. Excellent. So Floyd has the
exhibition with Mike Tyson in April. And it's
going to take place in, I think, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, not the other one. The
Republic of the Congo? Yeah. I wish they'd just
leave Mike alone, man. Like, stop. dragging him
out for this shit. He's so old. I know like age
wise he's not that old but he just looks so old.
He's got a lot of mileage. Yeah. I don't know.
I just want Mike to go play with his pigeons
and be happy. I think he'll be 60. By the time
the exhibition happens and Floyd will be almost
50? Yeah, but like they're just very different
types of age. I don't know how to phrase it.
Mike is a much older 60 than Floyd Mayweather
is an old 50. Like Mayweather's still pretty
in shape and everything. So an interesting question
came up in Discord, which was, who does he fight?
You're unretired. It's gonna be Pacquiao. Gotta
be Pacquiao, at least. It has to be Pacquiao.
But then the conversation turned to, like, the
current welterweight champions, and, like, Rowley?
Does he beat Rolando Romero? He might. He might.
He might beat Lewis Crocker. He probably beats
Mario Barrios. That's kind of depressing that
50 -year -old Floyd... Maybe he's not as good
as he's been looking, though. Like, maybe Floyd
slowed down a lot more than we think just because
he's been fighting exhibitions against nobodies.
Could be. Like, we kind of have to wait and see.
Because I know Floyd isn't that, like, all -athletic
style, but he needs to be fast and have the reaction
time for his style of fighting. Yeah, he's definitely
based on, like, reflexes. And those slow down
when you get old. Well, speaking of exhibitions,
Manny Pacquiao vs. Ruslan Provodnikov. That is
a name I have not heard in quite some time. It's
also a 10 round exhibition. Who does that? Hands
up. Cause I don't know. I don't know, man. I
think this is just going to end up being a fight.
Like I can't see either of these guys exhibitioning.
If you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, man. This,
that was, I remember when that was like the hotness,
I think it was. When did, uh, He had fight of
the year with Tim Bradley. I think it was 2013.
And it was about that time frame that we were
talking about Pacquiao, Provodnikov. Then Chris
Algieri showed up and he diced up Provodnikov
and kind of spoiled it. Fucking Chris Algieri.
He got beat to piss by Pacquiao, didn't he? Like,
Algieri fought Pacquiao. Yeah, okay. Yep, so
2013 called. It wants its mega fight back. I
guess. Better late than never. Although sometimes
I think that's not true in boxing. Yeah, that's...
It's an interesting conundrum. Like better late
than never? I don't think so. Sometimes it's
better to leave it as a what if than have them
fight 10 years too late. Provodnikov, goodness
gracious, the man took so much punishment. Yeah,
I can't imagine how he's doing these days. This
is an exhibition I'll actually watch because
I don't think it's going to stay exhibitionist.
For very long. Nah, probably not. Callum Smith,
David Murrell is official. April 18th in Liverpool.
Robbie was trying to decide if he should go to
this or if he should go to Fabio Wardley and
Daniel Dubois. I would pick Callum Smith, personally.
But I know Robbie likes the heavyweights. I think
probably Wardley Dubois is going to be a bigger
crowd. Oh, for sure. More atmosphere. Yeah. But,
like, it's your hometown guy. How can you skip
it? Yeah, I like Callum Smith. I would pick Callum
Smith. And Serial brought up a good point that...
How often is a guy like David Morrell going to
go to UK? That's true. That's why I'm excited
for March, because I get to see knockout CP Freshmark.
Oh, shit, he's going to be in... He's in Yokohama,
yeah. That's right. The Mighty Mini Car, as I
called it. I'm super excited for that card. I
think it's pretty stacked. It is. There are a
lot of good names on it. Also, I didn't realize
CP Freshmart was so famous. A girl from Thailand
started eating lunch with us, and I brought him
up, and she's like, oh, I know him. He's super
famous in Thailand. She's like, he's on TV all
the time. Damn. I was like, what? Nice. Yeah.
Well, if you're getting the Freshmart endorsement,
you've got to be... I guess, yeah, that's true.
But I just never really thought about it. She
didn't know his, like, English name. I had to
look up his real name. Neomtrong or some shit?
Yeah, yeah. It's got a lot of M's in it. As Thai
names tend to do. Yeah. Oh, man. Speaking of
M names, Jaime Munguia. rejects the Resendiz
title fight. I am off the Munguia train. I was
a big fan. The loss to Saras I could have stuck
around after, but he fops for peds and now he's
ducking title chances. Fuck him. I'm done. I'm
out. What is up with these young Hispanic guys?
Diego Pacheco? opts out of a title fight. Jaime
Munguia opts out of a title fight. Ridiculous.
Like, what else? Really, why are you subjecting
your body to this if not for a world title? What
else is the point? Well, and especially in Munguia's
case, because he's been fighting at that level
for a while. Pacheco's team said they thought
he wasn't ready. I disagree, but I mean, it still
kind of makes sense for Pacheco. But Munguia's
been there. He's been there for a while. Like,
take your shot, dude. That Brissendies is a winnable
fight for you. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't
get this one at all. And I'm disappointed in
Munguia. Yeah. So instead... Jermall Charlo is
stepping up to the plate. He does not deserve
a title fight. He does not. It is a... Is it
a credible opponent? I was about to say it's
credible -ish. Which one is Jermall? Which one
was in really bad legal trouble and stuff? Was
that Maul or Mel? Mel was the one that was having
trouble with domestic violence and stuff. Okay.
So this is the brother that had... has his shit
more together. He went through a pretty bad mental
health crisis. So if that qualifies as more put
together, at least he kept it to himself. I mean,
I'm going to call it more put together than beating
the crap out of your girl. Yeah. He's more credible
than his brother is. But I don't know, man. The
Charlo's have been out for so long. I don't really
call them credible for anybody right now. Especially
not a title fight. I don't know. We're about
a month out. Maybe five weeks. For a late replacement,
this isn't the worst name you could pull out
of the hat, though. No, it's not the worst. Yeah,
late replacement. I get what you're saying. I'm
just sick of these people that... Are names or
were names cutting the lines? But I guess he
didn't cut this line because Munguia stepped
out of the way, so. Gotta salvage the fight somehow.
Yeah, I guess I can't complain about this one.
Hold on, I want to pull up good old box rec and
see what the options are at the top of the division.
Um, Jermall Charlo is highly rated. That's on,
uh, like, Legacy, so to speak. Hmm. Hmm. Mbili's
probably busy. Iglesias is busy. Shiraz is busy.
Ex -busy. Could, uh, pull up Jakub Bank. Still
in decent fight shape. Coming off of a big win.
So this is WBA, right? Yes. So they've got Tonello
1, Bektamir 2, Charlo 3, Hamza Shiraz 4, and
Darius Fulgham 5. Caleb Plant. You already beat
Caleb Plant. I'm surprised. Plant is still rated.
He's number six there. What about Kevin Sajo?
The guy who just lost to Pacheco. He got a win
a few days ago. I didn't even know about it.
Second round stoppage. Goddamn. Yeah, it was
a really fast fight. The dude is 22 and 29 going
into it. Oh, never mind. Sorry, Kevin. I thought
you were doing something legit over there. No.
But yeah, looks like it's going to be Resendiz
versus Charlo. What are you going to do? I guess
I'll watch it if I have to. Mmm, speaking of
disappointments, Mark Magzayo signs over to the
dark side. I was really disappointed when I saw
this one. I know he hasn't been doing much lately,
but I am a Mark Magzayo fan, and I did not want
to see him sign with Zufa. It does kind of make
sense for him, I guess, but... It's lame. Yeah,
it's steady work for him. And he's somewhat of
a name. I don't know, I guess in a really generous
sense. But he's a recognizable name for boxing
fans. So to get into a rigidly structured environment
like Zufa, it's steady work. So you don't have
to worry about when you're next. Yeah, he'll
probably get more fights with Zufa than he has
been getting. Yeah. I don't know. I just don't...
He's not going to get to fight for any titles
if he's with Zufa. I know people are going to
say, well, he wasn't going to fight for titles
anyways. He's not good enough. But you never
know. When we were talking about it on B -Sides,
when Brandon Figueroa, when we were recapping
that, It was the, I had suggested Mark Maxayo
as a first title defense. Like you have, you
have history with him and it like a controversial
-ish decision win for Figueroa. So it would be
a title shot for Maxayo. Figueroa gets to settle
the debate. Yeah, it makes sense to me, but it's
not gonna happen now. Nope. Makes me sad. He
will be competing at 135 now. That's gonna be
rough. Yeah. Or am I misremembering? Wasn't he
fighting at, like, 140? 130. Oh, they moved him
up, not down. Yeah. He's not that big. No. He's
only 5 '6". I don't know. I don't like the less
weight classes. I know some people are all for
it. I don't like it. People are going to be stuck
in between and just get hurt. Either hurt from
cutting too much or hurt from fighting people
that are too much bigger than them. Yeah. I think
you're right. Some of the jumps are like 15 pounds,
aren't they? When you get up higher? When you
get up higher, the gap gets bigger. Like, doesn't
it go from 140... Do they have 147? Yes. To 156?
No. Or 168? 160. Okay. Anyway, some of those
jumps are big. That's all I'm saying. Oh, man.
Speaking of big jumps, Connor Benn also signs
with the dark side. That doesn't surprise me.
This is a... Allegedly, it's a one -fight deal
that is worth tens of millions. Oh, is this what
Eddie Hearn was bitching about? When I woke up
this morning? Probably. Something about loyalty
and yadda yadda yadda? Had to be this then. If
Eddie Hearn was bitching about loyalty, then
it was Connor Ben. Yeah, I didn't really listen
to it. I was just scrolling through reels while
I brushed my teeth. I scroll past Eddie Hearn
most of the time. Most of the time I do too.
Yeah. I don't know. That one doesn't surprise
me. I think Connor Ben kind of suits being with
Zufa. It's one fight, so I don't know. We'll
see what happens after that. Did they say who
he's fighting? There's nobody for him to fight.
But that's what I mean. Zufa doesn't have anyone
his size, do they? Connor Ben's supposed to...
He's supposedly a welterweight. So we'll see
if he gets back to that. I don't know, man. Yeah,
two fights at 160. And then going back to 47.
That's quite the cut to make. Oh, shit. Manny
Pacquiao promotions. Wins. The purse bid for
Angelo Leo's title defense. I was so sad Provox
didn't get this. Yeah, me too. I wanted Provox
to have a title fight on their air and I wanted
Angelo Leo to come home. Yeah, instead Pacquiao
Promotions is going to put this up in Aleem's,
Raees Aleem's hometown. That sucks. quite yeah
i'm just not happy about this at all like what
has i'm surprised pacquiao promotions even was
able to bid for this because i've never heard
of them putting on fights or cards typically
they're in the philippines and they're a lot
of like lower lower class tier not class lower
tier guys like four rounders six rounders you
know what i mean yeah yeah it's more they've
always been very prospecting like brand new prospecting
right like i don't know and the one manny pacquiao
promotions card i watched like shit was kind
of a shit show like I think it might have been
one of their very first ones, but the cameras
were kind of all over the place. There was some
delay. I forget what happened. Maybe they've
gotten better, but the first one I watched was
very much the first one. They have a card coming
up this weekend, actually. But we'll talk about
that later. I'm curious where this money infusion
came from. Because if they were putting on prospect
-ish level guys and now they're jumping up to
a title fight. I'm a little worried that the
production is going to be absolute garbage on
this one. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. Like, I'm
not saying Probox has the best production, but
it's always good. And they have a good commentary
team. Like, who's going to be commentating for
Manny Pacquiao promotions? Good question. Because
I don't think I've ever seen him with an English
commentary. I can only imagine that they'll put
together a crew, like, from whoever. Is able
to. Go outside of their. Promotional ecosystem.
Yeah like I'm sure he'll have people. But I mean
like. I don't know. I like Chris Algieri and
Pauly Malignaggi. Yeah. I was super excited for
them to call. And I got ahead of myself. This
burst my bubble terribly. Anthony Joshua. Is.
starting to get back into training he's kind
of easing back into it he's not in the camp but
it looks like the plan is to get him back in
the ring july august time frame i kind of assume
that going back to the gym without those guys
kind of is very hard right so i don't know i
still kind of think AJ might not come back and
I think that's okay but I just I'm not convinced
that he's gonna come back not yet yeah uh until
until I see word from the man himself then I'm
not gonna put any stock into this this is Eddie
Hearn relaying allegedly what AJ said but Yeah,
going back to training, going back to the gym
without your fucking best friends who've been
with you for years. Yeah. That cannot be easy.
Nah, that's gotta be hard. Yeah, if he hangs
it up, totally understandable. Hmm. What was
not understandable? The WBO has suspended...
Janubek for a year after his PED violation. Yeah.
And there's going to be an interim title, so
he's not getting stripped. And he has to face
the interim title list when he gets back after
his suspension. You agree he cheated, just strip
him. Right. I don't understand this one. Just
strip him. If you want to let him fight for it
again, let him. But there's no consequences to
using PEDs, apparently. And being suspended by
the WBO does not prevent you from fighting. You
can just... go fight for another organization.
Ridiculous. Yeah, he's not in trouble here. Somebody
on Twitter, I saw it. It was kind of funny. Somebody
said, how much did Johnny Beck pay you to not
strip him? To let him keep the belt. And then
the... President of WBO himself said, if you
have reliable evidence of this, then please contact
the FBI. Wow, dude. That's kind of a pretty good
comeback. It is. It is good. Still, not stripping
him is like pretty sus. Yeah. No, I don't agree
with that. Golden Boy is putting on a card in
mid -March. It's going to feature Arnold Barbosa
versus Kenneth Sims is the headline. Gabby Fandora.
That could be fun. Yes. Those are two guys at
an equal level. Gabby Fandora versus Viviana
Ruiz. Don't know who that is. Sorry, Vivian,
but... Gabi's gonna win. Yeah, probably. And
Oscar Collazo versus Jesus Haro. Versus who?
Jesus Haro. Don't know who that is. I thought
he was fighting Jerusalem. When did that get
cancelled? I thought he was fighting Jerusalem
as well. Let me make sure I'm not getting...
Yep, it's even on BoxRec, Jesus Haro. We talked
about the Jerusalem rematch. We had talked about
that, I remember. Yeah, no, like, I thought I
saw a post that Jerusalem had his plane tickets
and shit. One second. Yeah, this is a change.
Interesting change. His nickname is Gringo. That's
the dumbest shit I've ever seen. He is definitely
not white. Oh, yeah, no. They're pissed. Jerusalem's
camp put out a thing. They had bought their tickets
and booked their hotels and they're getting fucked.
That's crazy. That is bonkers. You turned down
a three belt fight for who? Fucking Oscar. I
don't know which Oscar I'm blaming here, but
fuck Oscar on this one. Big time. God damn. I
can't imagine that Marvin Jerusalem has a lot
of money to be blowing on like cancellation fees.
No, I don't think so. Let's see. Rising Star
Promotions is headed by Cornflake LaManna. Okay.
They are going to be hosting Brick City Fight
Night. That's in Newark, New Jersey. It's going
to be on ProBox. Nice. I hope ProBox has a hand
in the matchmaking. If they do, it should be
good. Right. And last thing, Matchroom signs
a five -year extension with The Zone. I think
that's a good move. Yes, I'm glad to see that.
Somebody of the old guard has a home for their
shows. Yeah. Oh, shit. Little bit of notes here.
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slash flakes. Let's see here. We got a few recaps,
some of which... Actually, not a lot. This was
a light weekend. Or light review period, I guess.
Tuesday, February 10th. Salida Promotions in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was a card. It certainly
was a card that had boxing on it. The only two
fights I was tracking here, Caroline Byer gets
the UD over Delphine Persoon for the vacant WBC
130 title. Nice. Delphine's getting pretty old,
right? Yeah, she is. I put her two names together
and said it completely wrong. I realized as soon
as it came out of my mouth. I was going to roll
with it. Don't sound too stupid. But yeah, we'll
see. I doubt that Caroline is going to be unifying
with Alicia Baumgartner just because WBC doesn't
allow three minute rounds for women because they're
fucking lame. Yeah. I guess. Canadians got a
belt? That's cool. Well, kind of Canadian. She's
from France. Is she a French -Canadian? Lives
in, uh... She's from France and lives in Quebec.
That's... odd. Well, I guess Mbili did it. Not
that strange, I suppose. Joshua Pagan. Gets the
UD over Brian Jimenez. It was fine. I have to
admit, I didn't watch this card at all. Don't
worry about it. I am the fucking filthy degenerate
for this one. Let me continue my filthy degenerate
streak. Saturday, February 14th. Dream. Boxing
on DAZN in Germany. The only fight I watched,
because it's the only one I cared about, and
cared about is very generous. I'm using that
term very generously. Marco Hook gets the UD
over Václav Pejsar. But the German crowds, man.
The German crowds are fun. Yeah, even for like
a well past his prime I guess former legend like
Marco Hook. They came out. They showed out for
him. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, Germans, they fucking
love their boxing. It's really cool. Sunday,
February 15th. Muto Promotions at the Sumiyoshi
Sports Center in Osaka. Again, only watched one
fight here. Ryosuke Nishida wins a unanimous
technical decision. The fight was stopped in
the 7th. Or, in the 8th. And it went to the cards.
I just thumbed up that shit. That's weird. Brian
Mercado was the op. Very competitive fight. Head
clash led to a very, very bad cut on Nishida.
It just kept opening wider and wider. I was kind
of complaining or thinking about complaining
about the stoppage because Nishida was just ignoring
it and it wasn't bleeding into his eye. And then
they showed the close -up. and I realized how
wide the cut had gotten. It was like an inch
and a half wide. Jesus. Like four inches long.
It was just perfectly in his eyebrows, so it
didn't look so bad, if you know what I mean.
Yeah, because when I was watching it, I was thinking
as well, when it first happened, I was like,
oh, that's not so bad. We'll see how this...
This should be manageable by the cut man, right?
It was not. Mercado must have been working on
it from the other end. Mostly with his head.
It was a pretty clear competitive but clear decision.
Would have been the same if it went the distance.
I think so too. Nishida looked the way he always
looks. He's more of a boxer than most of the
Japanese guys, but he kind of lacks power. I
don't think Nishida hits very hard. It explains
why Mercado was walking through everything, even
though he was getting tagged up a lot. Yeah,
Nishida's got decent skills. He just doesn't
hit hard enough to stop anybody, I think. But...
This is Nishida's move to 122. He still looked
pretty skeletal, but I think part of that is
just his bone structure. He's got crazy cheekbones.
And yeah, like his eyebrows, his brow line also
is a lot bigger than what you usually see from
Asian men. Yeah. That's how the cut was so hidden.
Yeah, it was kind of in the shadow of his brow
ridge. Honestly, Nishida looks like Namor from
the Marvel comics to me. It's kind of a deep
cut. Yeah, I didn't know who that was. Looking
at box rec for 122, Inoue and Nakatani, one and
two, no shit. Nishida moves up to number three.
I think Nishida deserves to be that high right
now. I'm so bad at weight classes. Who else is
at 122 right now? So going down the list, Inoue
Nakatani Nishida, Picasso, Tapales, Philippus
Njitumbwa. I think I got that. And MJ, a guy
named Sebastian Hernandez, Brian Mercado, who
Nishida just beat. Toshiki... I think Nishida
beats Picasso. Personally. I think so too. He's
a better boxer than Picasso. Yeah. And Picasso
doesn't have... He's not like a power threat
himself. Yeah, and Nishida's got a decent chin.
He takes a shot. He survived Nakatani. Well,
I... Did he? The corner pulled him, not... Yeah.
Well, pulled him from a shoulder injury. Yeah.
Holy shit, Ramun Cardenas is at 11? He should
not be that low. I got questions, Boxerick. What
the hell? He's not very high on any of the standings
either. The highest, he's number four in the
WBC. Oh no, I lied. He's number two in the WBA.
I just missed his name. Okay, so at least he's
got that. Unfortunately, all roads lead to Inouye
and didn't work out the first time. I can't see
it going much better a second time. No, the second
time he gets stopped sooner. Inoue and Nakatani
officially confirmed the May date. I am so excited.
Yeah, I did see some at the JBC Awards. Inoue
was there and was like, I'm gonna give it my
all. I'm gonna do my best to be the best Japanese.
With his pink hair? Yeah. The guys hate his pink
hair so much. What do they call him? Your lesbian
aunt? Yeah. The pink hair isn't helping with
that. Nah. Whatever. It's fine. He's got a wife.
He doesn't have to care what anyone else thinks.
Yeah. Who is he trying to impress? But that is
the Muto card. Congrats to Nishida. Glad to see
him rebound pretty nicely from that injury. Yeah,
being prone to cuts might be a problem. I think
it's because he's so dehydrated. And such sharp
bones in his face. Yeah, I was... Looking at
his picture on BoxRec, like, holy shit, dude.
You can practically see his entire skull. Yeah,
he's just got a very angular face. Excellent.
It's like original PlayStation graphics. Let's
see here. Moving to Zufa Boxing 3. There were
quite a few stoppages here. I think that Zufa
management, or the Zufa brass was like, hey guys,
let's put the pedal down here. Because the last
card was all decisions. Nobody stands out to
my recollection. I'm going to say Leo Ruiz got
a stoppage in 4. You get to keep your name. Congrats.
So does Jabriobe Benito. I think that was a good
knockout. I can't remember. It was. Abel Mejia
was the quote -unquote house fighter. They were
really talking him up. And then Pebenito just
wasn't having it. Fucking iced him. Yeah, he
beat the shit out of him. It was good. Yeah.
Abel was okay to start, but he started getting
a little reckless. And, yeah, Pavanito knew exactly
how to turn it around. In the co -main, Umar
Zambekov gets a stoppage in two. This was a pretty,
like, dude was stiff. Stiff as a board. laid
out on his back, eyes rolling in the back of
his head. I shouldn't laugh at that, but it made
me think of the stiff as a board, light as a
feather. Yeah, that old game. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. But there you go. That was Ahmed El -Biali's
demise. In the main... This was not a good fight.
No. FAA Jogba stops Charles Martin at four. How
was it that the odds, the betting odds, had Charles
Martin so fucking close? Like, who sets these
lines? I mean, a Jogba looked pretty shit in
his last couple fights. Perhaps. But Charles
Martin, long layoff. He looked like shit in his
last fights. That's true, too. Yeah, I'm not
sure how anybody would land on the idea that
Charles Martin's gonna... Do anything? Yeah.
I don't know, man. But somebody made money on
a jogba, so... Yeah. But... Given that FA at
Jogba is in the Zufa ecosystem, he's not going
to get very many good fights. He was talking
a lot of shit in his post -fight interview and
has since on social media saying that I'm in
the top 10 for heavyweights everywhere. Nobody's
even mentioning me. Man, dude, nobody cares.
No, and you signed with Zufa. There's no reason
to fight you. Right, you're not going to... It's
not going to be like a final eliminator to fight
you. No. I mean, that's what you get for signing
into the We're Our Own League company. Yep. You
wanted the Zufa title? Congrats. You got it?
This is the quality. Yeah, you're going to get
it if this is the quality of your opposition.
But yeah, that's like about all the time I wanted
to give to Zufa. Yeah. Yeah. Let me see. I got
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shit. Friday, February 27th. Probox in Arlington,
Texas. Who are these people? It doesn't fucking
matter. It's Probox. You're getting good fights.
That's true, but there are some names I recognize.
Renee Taez. Yeah. Maybe it's because I watch
Pro Box that I recognize their names, I guess.
But Bocanegra's fought there before, right? Yeah,
I was going to say Bocanegra next. He's fun.
And Aguilar, he's fun. Ranulfo Bocanegra? Bocanegra?
Sorry? There's another Bocanegra on the card.
Oh, there's two? Yep. Oh, this is a long card.
Yeah, there's a lot. Anyways, it's Pro Box. You
know they'll be bangers. That's what they do.
Two kind of throwaway cards. Saturday, February
28th. Manny Pacquiao Promotions on Amazon Prime.
Oh, fuck. Where is it? The headline is Elijah
Pierce versus Lorenzo Parra. Got to roll the
R there. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't
really care who most of these people are. Kermel
Moten is on the undercard against Wilfredo Flores.
And Manny Pacquiao Jr. versus Luis Santana. That's
the bastard child, right? Is he? I think so.
He's not a junior. His mom named him after his
dad and forced him to admit he was his. Is he?
I think that's the bastard son. I don't think
that's one of the ones with Jinky. Interesting.
Or are there two Emmanuel Pacquiao Jr.? His birth
name says Manny Pacquiao Jr. Am I spreading rumors?
Well, it's not rumors. He has a bastard son.
Yeah, yeah. Of course he does. It's fucking Manny
Pacquiao. At his prime, he could bang whoever
he wanted. No. I am wrong. This is the one with
Jinky. This is the legit Junior? Yeah. Sorry.
Sorry. It's all good. This one is a bit of a
prospect one. It's Queensberry. It's going to
be on DAZN. This one's in Derby, England. I fucking
don't know who these people are. Owen Cooper
versus Constantine Ursu. I've heard those names
before. We've seen Luke McCormick as well. Yes.
This is probably not going to be as much of a
banger card. This is probably going to be worth
missing. This is Brit Slot for sure. The dude's
name is Kane. That's fucking dope. It's one of
my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid. Yeah,
there's some very British names on here. Ben
Fail. Fail is a hard last name to grow up with.
For me, my personal litmus test of how bad a
name is is imagining myself going through boot
camp with it. If my name was Fail, good lord,
the hazing would be insane. Yeah, that's a rough
one. I'd probably change my name. Yeah, change
it to Success. Oh, last one. Matchroom in Phoenix,
Arizona. I will absolutely be in attendance.
I'm excited for this card. Yeah, this is really
good. The undercard leads a little bit to be
desired, unfortunately, but Emiliano Vargas is
going to be on it, so I'm excited to see him
live. Abel Ramos is always a solid B -side. Yes.
Against Tamir Smalls. Yeah, Abel Ramos will give
you good work. And the main event, WBO Super
Featherweight Champ Emanuel Navarrete versus
IBF Super Featherweight Champ Eduardo Nunez.
That one should be good. I'm super excited for
this main. I'm a little jealous you get to see
it live. I... am a little jealous uh for your
jealousy because you you get to envy me jokes
jokes jokes um yeah i i'm stoked this is i couldn't
we were talking about it in discord like why
the would you put this good of a fight in phoenix
of all places i mean phoenix is a pretty big
city isn't it it is absolutely it's uh top five
in the us but Why not put it in Mexico? These
guys are both straight up Mexican. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Fair. I hadn't thought about that. Then
the other suggestion was L .A., which, you know,
makes sense. Big city. Much bigger than Phoenix
is. Much higher taxes, I assume. And then Texas.
Yeah. Yeah, Texas. Would make sense as well.
But then you wouldn't get to go, Leo. Yeah. The
arena used to be our hockey venue until the team
left. So now they don't have a steady source
of income. So they probably got this on the cheap.
Well, and it's a big venue, probably. Hockey
arenas usually sit quite a few people. Yeah,
when I was picking up my ticket, it has sold
really well. Good. Fuck, if I was anywhere close,
I'd go see Navarrete. I'm honestly thinking Nunez
is going to pull this one out. A little bit of
a dark horse situation. I can't cheer against
my guy, though. Nav and... His steady stream
of tacos. The donuts? Yeah, the Coca -Colas.
On camera. At the weigh -in. Having a full sugar
Coke. Yeah, well, he's gotta replenish his sugar
reserves. I'm surprised he didn't bring a box
of Winchellas. Has M &Ms as well? I don't know,
man. I dislike Nav. I think he's fun. He's fun
to watch. He seems like a fun guy in his interviews
and stuff. I like Nav. I don't dislike Nunez,
but Nav's my guy. I just think he's skated by
for quite some time with how little he takes,
how little, how unseriously he takes his career.
He has skated by on, and I think that it's just
not going to last. Yeah. But that in itself is
kind of endearing. Like he doesn't, he doesn't
seem to be very impressed with himself. I don't,
I don't know how to say it. Like being a world
champion is impressive, but now I was like, yeah.
All right. I did that. I'll do it again. Watch
me. So what if I lost moving up? I'll win again.
Then he did. Yeah. I don't know. I just like
Nav. I like his nonchalance. I need to find out
what time first bell is. I want to be there for
everything. Yeah, I don't get the people that
only show up for the co -main and main. I don't
get that. You paid for all of it. Go watch all
of it. Yeah. When we went to... What was it?
It was Bud vs. Madrimov. And... We were kind
of talking the day before, like, oh, you know,
what time do we want to get there? Do we want
to stop and eat somewhere or something? And I
was like, you guys can do whatever you want.
I'm going at first bell. I'm going to be there
when the gates fucking open. I'm watching every
fight. For the boxing, if I miss that first unbroadcast
four -rounder, I'm pissed. Because sometimes
I fuck up the trains or I get on the wrong bus
or whatever. Buses are hard in Japan. But no,
I try and get there. I'm actually usually there
before the doors open. Yeah, we got there before
the doors opened. Yeah, I'm not much of a nerd.
Sometimes it pays off. Sometimes if you're like
the first hundred people in line, they give you
some merch in Japan. That makes sense. That's
pretty cool. I got a t -shirt at one of the Prime
Video ones. Inoue and Nakatani were both on the
card. I wasn't wrong, but it's Takuma. Yeah,
that's what I was thinking when you said Inoue.
See? Very cool. Free t -shirt. It's even big
enough for me. Well, they often run out of larges.
As much as Japan is tiny people, lots of the
guys that go to the boxing are large. Not large
in the grand scheme, but like a Japanese large.
One thing that we did, we weren't sure what side
of the arena we were getting our tickets on.
As far as when it comes time to sunset. And we
ended up picking the wrong side. Goddamn. Because
we were there early, we just kind of got up and
moved to another section. And there was nobody
there. So we got to sit, wait for the sun to
set, and then we went back to our seats. I don't
get it. It's like buying tickets to a hockey
game and only showing up for the third quarter.
It's ridiculous. Or third period. But that's
all we got. Probox, Pacquiao Promotions, Queensberry,
Matchroom, the usual suspects. Not a bad random
week in February. No, not a bad way to close
out the month. So, we are going into Nav Nunez
weekend. Parting words. Parting words. I always
forget to prepare these. This weekend, because
we record on Saturday, I'm going on a pilgrimage
to the seven shrines of the seven gods of fortune.
They're all in Narita City. I'm super excited
about this, actually. So you stop at all seven?
Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah. The one walk
between the two is very long. I might cheat and
take a bus, but we'll see. If you do it properly,
the whole thing, it's 18 kilometers of walking.
Goodness gracious. That's like what I did in
London. God damn. Yeah, so the one stretch is
5K. I think I might cheat. They don't care. I'll
pay for all my stamps anyways. Yeah, like they're
going to check the step counter or something?
No. Yeah, exactly. Parting words I got. Don't
punch monkeys. Always good. And check out Punch
the Monkey. on instagram he is fucking adorable
very cute yeah so there you go punch monkey is
he's riding with us into nav nunez that's it
for who's he backing who's the monkey backing
um i'm gonna i'm gonna guess his stuffy his little
uh his little friend slash mom thing is an orangutan
right and they have really long arms So I'm going
with he's Punch is backing Nav because he's got
long fucking gorilla arms. That's so mean. I
mean, hey. It's true. It's true. It's a fantastic
attribute for what he does. All right. Me and
the monkey are riding with Nav. Tune in next
week to figure out who wins. You've let me down,
Punch. All right. That's it for this edition
of Boxing Before Dark. See you on the other side.
Bye.