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Alright, let's fucking boogie. Boxing B -Sides.
We are here to talk the fights. I'm joined by
the one and only Saul. T -Bone Saul. T -Bone
Steak Saul. What's up, guys? Welcome back to
the Boxing Beast. I was happy to be back again
after a great week of boxing. And Josh, welcome.
Oh, yeah. This is a good couple weeks of news
and box. Oh, as we often do, extending the hand
of friendship to our fellows over at the Ultimate
F in Casuals, I wanted to bring up from February
13th, won Fight Night 40. This was a mixed event.
They had MMA fights, kickboxing, and Muay Thai.
The one that stood out the most, Nico Carrillo
beating Shadow. That's the guy's name. The name
is Shadow? Yes. The Thai people have some funky
names. Interesting. Shadow got fucking murked
at the end of what was a very, very entertaining
fight. On the MMA side of the house, this is
my current fight of the year. It's extremely
good. I would recommend to anyone. There's no
grappling, no wrestling, nothing like that. No,
one is always a good watch. Yeah. This is a really
good fight. No grappling, no wrestling. Yep.
I wonder what that sounds like, huh? That's why
they're here in the first place. They're not
listening to the MMA podcast. Well, Muay Thai,
I think, is a good... If you wanted to dip your
toe in the rest of the limbs being used for the
fight, I think Muay Thai is a good place to start.
But, yeah, if you want to hear more of that ultimate
effing casuals, wherever you're listening to
this, you can hear that as well. In the boxing
world, the old king has dusted off his crown,
shaken up. He broke Mayweather. He has shaken
up the sporting world. Floyd. No Money Mayweather
has stepped out of retirement. He has two things
coming up. In April, he has an exhibition with
Mike Tyson. And then in September, he has a rematch
professional fight against Manny Pacquiao. I
was pretty happy with not having to hear their
names anymore. Mario Barrios is to blame. Straight
up. I can't, like, straight up blame Mario Barrios
for this shit. And we'll get to wide later on.
Yeah. Are we going to talk about who's going
to win? I got an interesting take. Go for it.
I think Manny might win the rematch. What makes
you say that? If it's, and this is clearly speaking
on if it's actually a real fight, you know. that
they're not just going to go easy on each other.
You know what I mean? Manny doesn't go easy on
these exhibitions. He actually, like, if you
watch his exhibitions, like, they're not boring.
He's just washed. But he does not take it easy
on the guys. The thing with Mayweather is that
he might just think of it as, like, you know,
in Rocky, he doesn't know it's a show. He thinks
it's a damn fight, you know? So, you never know.
I think Manny might sound silly, but he's had
more experience. in higher level fights in the
last, what, five years? Nine years since he retired.
Yeah, since Mayweather retired. And Mayweather's
last fight was against, Mayweather's last real
fight was against Andre Berto. You know? So,
we gotta see how that's gonna turn out for Mayweather,
but honestly, if it's how I'm thinking it's gonna
go, I might just go to Manny because he's gotten
more work in. Or maybe I'm just fucking silly
as hell. Do we think the WBC sticks a trinket
belt on this so it can go 12? Of course they
do. Yeah. That's the real question, I guess.
Also, are we doing the Trap House in Vegas for
this one? Damn, that's a good question. No, I'm
good off that one. Yeah, I'm not sure if I want
this to be the one. It might not be worth it.
I think that for a certain period of time in
the beginning, in the opening rounds, there is
going to be a time frame where Mayweather's going
to have the realization that Pacquiao's taking
this seriously. The thing is, though, I don't
think that Floyd Mayweather came out of retirement
to sell his zero. I don't think that's what he's
doing. No. Well, he came back with money for
sure. Well, no shit. No doubt. Absolutely, it's
about money. But I don't think he's selling at
zero yet. Honestly, and I don't want to sound
crazy, but if you really wanted money, yeah,
you can make money fighting Manny. But if you
want to make serious, serious money, fight Terrence
Crawford. Fight Terrence Crawford and have that
be a super fight. The best of this generation
versus the best of last generation. That undoubtedly
sells, you know? I mean, there's motherfuckers
about Mayweather versus Gotti, right? There's
motherfuckers about Mayweather versus Paul, you
know? I mean, seriously, people will watch that
shit. To watch Terrence Crawford come out of
retirement, watch fucking Floyd come out of retirement
and fight. I mean, come on, y 'all wouldn't watch
that? But in this case, it would be Mayweather
coming out of retirement to lose. Which is why
I don't think he would ever do that. You never
know. His entire image is built on being undefeated.
Yeah, but I mean, money... True. At this point,
if he needs it bad enough, it won't... He might
suck a dick for money, okay? That's kind of where
he's getting at right now. The zero he's selling
is his... He's smiling like a zero. Oh, yeah.
Jeez. But yeah, Mayweather's coming out of retirement.
He's facing Manny Pacquiao in September. Has
Mike Tyson exhibition in April. Mike Tyson exhibition
is going to be so funny, conceptually. That's
going to be silly. It's just going to be Mayweather
jabbing as he dances around him. Well, yes. It's
going to be hilarious. I would love to watch
that one. uh shinata put it as uh leave mike
alone he's probably the one that wanted to do
it in the first place yeah i was gonna say like
maybe i just need an opponent and like yeah because
there was that uh the talk of that kickboxing
guy as well oh what's his face no but that doesn't
matter but it's gonna be hilarious like literally
just we're doing the old man circuit on netflix
just for fun it sells i'm gonna be honest this
might sell more than any other fight in 2025
or 2026 other than maybe ag fury i i really want
these dudes to go away man like we were just
starting to rebuild just had an era yeah yeah
we were just starting to rebuild out of that
fucking like if you're not undefeated you're
a bum Type of mentality. And then this motherfucker
has to come back. And reinsert himself. Into
the conversation. Honestly. Honestly. I'm just
going to say right now. I'm just going to say
right now. If Mayweather comes back. And fights
Mike. Fights Manny. How much do you think he's
going to fight. For a real title. And it might
not even be someone against someone good. It
might be someone like Lewis Crocker. That's true.
He could be the 147. Yeah, I was going to say
147 is kind of made of paper right now. Exactly.
You have Rowley and Crocker as champions in the
same division. Oh, you might even get, this might
sound crazy, but you might even get a Canelo
rematch. Okay. That'd be hilarious. Depending
on how Floyd looks too, Canelo might be the more
washed one. Which is, like, hilarious. It's hilarious
to think about, but I'm right. What, Floyd's
47? Canelo might be more cooked. Just because,
like, Floyd stayed, like, hands aside, he stayed
pretty healthy his whole career. Even in retirement,
yeah, he put on a bit of weight, but he still
stayed active. Whereas, like, Canelo, we've seen
the decline in real time and the injuries pile
up. It's not unrealistic to say that one guy
might be more washed just because you got to
remember Canelo has been a pro since he was 15.
The miles on the clock are crazy. Floyd really
like Miguel Cotto, Mosley, Castillo, maybe Maidana
were like the only four like tough nights out
and they weren't even like. Delahoya -ish. For
the first, like, these are fights he didn't take
particular punishment in. Like, he just got hit
like a normal boxer, pretty much. I mean, you're
forgetting about Drunken Master's night, too.
I'll tell you that. That was a tough night. The
night with the Drunken Master. But the point
is that he has way less miles on the clock in
terms of fighting. And let's say he gets, like...
He's going to be worse, obviously. I'm not saying
we're going to return to, like, prime Floyd,
but I'm just saying Canelo might be more washed
by the time the fight you're talking about happens.
I mean, let me ask you this. How much do you
think these fights sell? Not sell, but how much
do you think... Mike's not going to sell shit.
Mike's not going to sell shit, but... That's
on Netflix, so it'll be free to watch, I guess,
in a way. The sequel. is going to be... How many
months is it? That's seven months to build it
up. We shall see. Pacquiao has an exhibition
coming up as well with Ruslan Provodnikov. 2013
called. It would like it. It wants its CTE back.
It would like its Super Fight back. Manny Pacquiao
versus Ruslan Provodnikov. What the fuck is going
on? Yeah, what are we doing at this point? Makes
you wonder why they didn't fight in 2013. You
know what? I was seeing on the Discord chat that
we were talking about, like, what are, like,
2010's, like, undercard fights to do specifically
for, um, like, Mayweather Pacquiao 2, and I was
like, we could do, we could run Tim Bradley,
Ruslan Prodnodnikov, and just Provodnikov, and
just... Like, old man CTE special. You know?
You know, we could get Shannon Briggs versus
Roy Jones Jr., just to be silly. Like, what is
the worst, what is, like, the most, like, washed
2010s matchup we can do for that undercard? Marcos
Maidana versus Adrian Broner again. Again, but
at heavyweight. Sergio Martinez. No, no. Marcos
Maidana, Broner, too, but at heavyweight. They
can just show up fat as shit. No, Adrian Broner
versus Rios. Reynon Rios. That is some serious...
This is some brutal shit, dude. Yeah. Like, another
pizza's getting thrown at one of them. Like,
uh... What is it? When Victor Ortiz lost that...
What was it? Second? Yeah. Lost the second...
Lost this rematch with Andre Berto. I was thinking
of... Remember the fan threw the pizza at his
face. I think it was Chavez Jr. versus Danny
Jacobs. Oh, yeah. The slushie. Yeah. He got a
drink thrown at him. Yeah. And a shoe. And a
shoe. The George Bush special with the shoe.
Is this a Saudi influence card or is this purely
just TMT? I'm thinking it's TMT. I haven't heard
of the Saudis really being involved with this
one. I haven't yet. Maybe the Israeli government.
Considering how... The Israeli government. You
guys saw how Mayweather was sitting in front
of a whole conference and said, I give my heart
out to Israel. That's how you know a bro's broke,
too. Young, hungry lion. That's true. If he's
not making money from the Israeli farming, from
Israeli lordping, I don't know. That's how you
know he's broke. You're right. It's a young,
hungry nation. Take my hat off to him. Jesus
Christ. Well, no, it's not a young hungry nation.
It's been a nation promised for 3 ,000 years.
Oh, 2 ,000 years. Of course, of course. Who can
forget? Of course. By the way, I love Israel.
Don't kill me. Oh, my God. All right. So out
of the old man circuit of 2026, is this another...
Is this quackery? Jaime Munguia turns down the
fight against Resendiz and Jamal Charlo is likely
the replacement. Hilarious fight to start the
replacement. Yeah, I don't know what the career
plan for Munguia is. Munguia is silly because
he turned down a fight with Osles. He turned
down a fight with Resendiz. I understand Oslies
because that's a fight you will lose. Oslies
is no risk. There's all risk, no reward. But
Resendiz is. You should be able to beat Resendiz.
It's a winnable fight, right? All reward, maybe
no risk. Unless his management and camp know
something we don't. His chin could just be cracked.
But is Resendiz a hard puncher? No. Heavy -handed
-ish. He got fucking knocked out by, what's his
name? Elijah Garcia. Elijah Garcia. Elijah fucking
Garcia. If they know something we don't, that's
when you gotta think about it a bit. I'm not
saying it's not ridiculous, but you know. I understand
what you're saying. They know something that
he might have something broken in his body now.
Something might be up. He does have mileage.
Yeah, he definitely has mileage. He's been in
wars. He fought fucking Canelo. I mean, obviously,
say what you want, but he fought Canelo. He was
the first one to get... No, that wasn't Munguia's
first knockdown, right? No, well, I think the
Saras... He's taken a lot of punishment, and
Saras... seems to just crack them. I don't know.
Like, it's... It's funny. His team might know
something we don't, for sure. A couple years
ago, a fucking Munguia Munguia Benavidez wasn't
even out of the question. Now, Munguia doesn't
want to fight a fucking Resendiz? Are you kidding
me? Yes. Again, I'm speaking about this from
a mile away. But come on, dude. It's got to be.
I'm not going to call him an easy fight, but
it's easier than Osley's. Probably the easiest
route you're going to become a champ in that
division. For sure. But again, you're right.
We don't know. Well, I'm wondering what the situation
at super middleweight is. Because Munguia...
He's turned down two title fights. Diego Pacheco
turned down a title fight. And Hamza Shiraz is
not exactly someone to be afraid of quite as
much as Iglesias. But turning down Resendiz,
dude, what the fuck is going on? Do you just
not want to be a champion at this point? Who
are you going to fight? What are you fighting
for? What's the point? He's going to fight under
Canelo, for sure. In September. But... I mean,
come on. Come on. I mean, what kind of fucking...
What path are you going to go down? What path
are you going to go on? Yeah. I don't know who
his manager is. Well, if he's still in the Reynoso
camp, it might be Eddie. Could be. Could be a
Canelo promotions fighter. managers not listed
on box rec uh yeah disappointment um it was my
my initial reaction and the one that has persisted
throughout from when i first read about this
has been if a world title is not what you're
fighting for then what are you doing why are
you why are you in the sport subjecting yourself
to this punishment for what To go to fucking
Zufa. I'm not saying that out of the question.
He's probably going to go to Zufa in my opinion.
That's what it's looking to be. He's a perfect
Zufa fighter. Zufa's going to have some gross
purses for some mid guys to start. Not even for
some mid guys. For guys that are fucking will
take a shit ton of punishment. You know? Yeah,
I guess. That's what they're getting. They're
getting guys who can't take punishment to build
up their own fighters. I believe so. Get recognizable
names to have their dudes beat them. Yeah, to
build up their own guys to be recognizable names.
I mean, you beat a Munguia, you beat a Valenzuela,
you beat a damn Edwin de los Santos. I mean,
come on. I mean, I'm not trying to say that they're
all like shitters, but they're names, and if
you beat them, you beat... You beat the guy that
beat that, that fought Canelo. You beat, uh,
the guy that beat Pitbull. You beat the guy that
beat Ryo. You know? I mean, it legitimizes your,
your own fighters. Yeah. And, well, the, something
that MMA does get right is they don't put a lot
of stock into being undefeated. So if you take
a loss, like, it's fine. But. Yeah, you roll
with it. Yeah, you just go on. You kind of expect
the spectator to have seen the fight so that
they know how bad of a loss was this really.
But yeah, we'll see what Munguia does from here.
And now we have Resendiz Charlo. Excellent. With
like a month to go, is this the worst replacement?
It's not a whole lot of Russians out there. That's
a pretty good place for them, I mean. There's
a bunch of good guys, and then we're still, like,
reheating leftovers. Well, the thing is funny
is that a lot of the top guys don't want to fight
each other. I know. That's why it's like, okay,
like, whatever, man. This past weekend was the
first time I've ever heard Osley's name even
mentioned. But, I mean, is Beck... Is Beck the
Bully going to fight someone like Resendiz? Are
they going to let fucking Ostley fight Pacheco?
Is Pacheco going to fight Hamza Shiraz? No, they're
not going to fight each other. They're all active.
Not all of them, but a good chunk of them are
actively avoiding each other, which is sad. I
mean, hell, they gave Mbillie the title. They
should have made Mbillie and Lester rematch.
Yeah. But, you know, that's whatever. It's whatever.
We'll see what happens with that division. It's
going to be good, but they have to force it to
be good. Yeah, there has to be a push to get
these guys to face each other. Exactly. Moving
to Golden Boy has announced a card. It is about
as good as you can expect for where Golden Boy
is currently at in their life cycle of a business.
Let's see. We're starting with... Oscar Collazo
is facing Jesus Haro. The many lovers of the
world are all aflame. Oscar Collazo was supposed
to be rematching Melvin Jerusalem. That was supposed
to be a three title fight. But instead we get
this. Apparently the Jerusalem camp. They had
all purchased their plane tickets. They had their
hotels lined up and everything. And then they
got the rug pulled on them. They might be minimum
weights, but that's still a pretty scummy move.
Also on the card, Gabriela Fandora is fighting
Viviana Ruiz. That should be a good time. And
Arnold Barbosa versus Kenneth Sims. I'm gonna
make a guess. I'm gonna tell you this right now,
and you guys can agree or disagree with me. You
don't even need Arnold Barboza on that card.
They could beat their own two separate cards.
You do the same thing they did last year, where
they put Quiazzo and Nora on the same card, and
then you get fucking Arnold Barboza on his own
card. I think stacking a card like that is not
what Golden Boy should be doing, especially in
the state they're in. Oh, it's tough. to get
venues and get tickets for those venues. Oscar
does have good... He has good connections with,
like, the California desert casino places. Yeah,
he has a lot of places in California. Even Arizona.
I'm not sure what spot they're in, but it might
genuinely be easier to just pack talent on one
card, make it a cheap investment, instead of
risking it all on... A bunch of smaller cards.
I believe they're fighting at Pachanga, right?
Let me see. I'm going to be honest. Honda Center,
Anaheim. Oh, they're fighting at Anaheim? Oh,
shit. Maybe I'll go. But I'll tell you this,
though. I'll tell you this. They should... I
don't think Arnold Barboza should be the main
event. I mean, I get it why they have him as
the main event because he's an L .A. guy. That
makes sense now because they put him in Anaheim
and the L .A. guys are going to go watch him.
Hell, I might go watch him. You know? Yeah. But,
I mean, putting all three of them on a main card.
Again, you could get Floyd Schofield and Arlo
Barbosa on a single card. Also, Criazzo and the
champion on another card. Two draws. Those are
two cards that will inevitably bring money in.
Didn't Gabby and Oscar do a card already? Yeah,
I believe it did pretty decent. Oceanside? Was
that the one? Yeah, it was Oceanside, yeah. Yeah,
I remember that. I thought it was actually pretty
goddamn cool of Oscar to have his top female
fighter and then a minimum weight being the headlines.
I feel like if they still had the Melbourne -Jerusalem
fight too, they probably could have done that.
Gabby's a fun fighter too. I sincerely believe
that people will watch Gabby. People are starting
to notice Gabby. She gets knockouts. Exactly.
For as little attention the women's side of the
sport gets, she's getting some recognition. That's
an interesting way to put it, to have Arnold
and Ken Sims be like your strong headliner, and
then you can pack that with your developing talent,
and then have two... weaker headliners, but if
you have a double headliner type of situation,
then you can kind of put your less developed
talent there. I guess the question is also how
many guys does Oscar have to fill out an undercard?
That's what I mean. He might just be, like, borderline
destitute on, like, undercard guys, and that's
why he's got a packet on one card. I would say
he's got a decent amount of young guys. Yeah,
he did that card a few weeks ago that had, like,
it was top -to -bottom golden boy guys. So a
few weeks ago, and then you want him to turn
around to March. Well, he still has other guys
besides that. I think some of them could. Like,
the six -round, eight -round guys probably could.
For this one, yeah, but I'm saying if they did
multiple, like, if you split this one up into,
like, two or three cards, like, you probably
wouldn't be able to fill it in. Oh, you could
probably get Charles Conwell on there, too. Perhaps,
actually. Has Charles Conwell been active since
he lost? Since he lost in April of 25, he has
not fought. Yeah, okay. He needs to fight. Yeah.
Yeah, I was about to say, he needs to fucking
fight. Build your shit back up. It's not like
he lost embarrassingly either, right? It was
a split decision. It was a really competitive
fight. And it's something you can learn from.
And if you learn and you improve and you make
some noise, then, I mean, come on. He's not a
bad fighter at all. He just needs... He could
actually come back, you know? Yeah. Oh, shit.
He lost on that Oceanside card we were talking
about. Yeah. Yeah. What a wiener. Sorry, Charles.
I'm just having a laugh. We do want to see you
fight. Yeah, absolutely. Like, come on, bro.
Like a single loss. That ain't shit. Lace him
back up. You can do it. Don't go to Zufa, though.
Yeah. Don't do it for Zufa. Of all the entities
you could fight for, any but Zufa. Please. Moving
to... Saul, I want to get your word on this one
first. Okay. Janibek... has been suspended by
the WBO for one year. This is retroactive to
the date in December when he had the adverse
PED finding. And after his suspension period
is up, he has to fight the interim Titleist.
But what's your gut here? What's your gut telling
you on Janabek being quote -unquote suspended?
My thought, my thought, my thought. Can you guys
hear me, by the way? Yeah. Yes. Well, my thought
is that he should have been stripped all the
way. He should have been stripped of the W. And
I don't even think he's stripped of the IBF,
right? I don't think so. Yeah, no, he should
have been stripped of both titles. And he should
have at least had a fight before fighting for
the title again. Give the interim champion the
title. That's simply plain and simple. Why is
he getting special treatment? I don't know. Maybe
it's because he's a desolate. He's not a star.
He's not a star to be given this kind of treatment.
He's being given Canelo treatment without being
Canelo. There was something funny when I was
looking through this. This particular news bit
on Twitter, it was, there was somebody, some
random person said, how much did Janabek pay
you guys to let him keep his title? And the president
of the WBO replied saying, if you have any credible
evidence of this, contact the FBI. Okay, so.
They're just fucking stupid then. I took it more
as, fuck you, prove it. Yeah, that's how I'm
interpreting it, too, where I'm like, it's so
obvious that he did it. Yeah, that's obviously
what's happening, but we can't... Prove it. Yeah,
we can't prove it. We don't have the internal
access. Oh, yeah. Being suspended by the WBO...
Doesn't fucking mean anything. I've seen, like,
Adrian Broner got quote -unquote suspended by
the WBC when he did the little Can -Man routine
after a fight. Like, he just went to fight for
the WBA instead. Yeah, like, this is ridiculous.
He's still IBF champion. He could still make
a unification happen. He could still fight for
the IBF. And, yeah. I would have thought that
the IBF would have been the first to strip him
of his title. Do they have a mandatory lined
up, or did he just... Let me see. He didn't just
get it. He got the IBF fight two years ago. He
could have fought an IBF mandatory. It was that
bossy Russian dude, I think. No, that was a long
time ago. Never mind. No, that was a while ago.
Let me see. In Gamasengi, maybe? Was that WBO
or? It could have been Mikhailovich, yeah, yeah.
Let's see. Oh, yeah, he was a mandatory. Yeah,
I think that fight was only for the IBF and the
WBO. Yeah, it was only for the IBF. That was
a mandatory, and that was in 2024, so they're
late to stripping him. Hmm. Well. They're late.
He's a boxer, not a stripper, so I guess not.
It's... This shit is supposed to have consequences.
There are supposed to be consequences for pissing
hot. Jesus. Like, we're not even stripping guys
of their titles anymore. Like, and letting them
fight for them. We're just letting them keep
the title. No pretense of even trying to punish
them. Rare IBFL. Oh, I just think the IBF has...
IBF's probably just looking at their... Let's
look at the IBF rankings at 160. Just to see
if they even have a guy who would be mandatory.
Janabek is the best they can do. Well, let's
see. Sometimes they just don't have it mandatory
sorted, right? And that's why it takes longer.
Oh, yeah. They got to do their specific eliminators.
Yeah, they don't have a number one right now.
Or a two? They have a two. Okay. It's an Italian
named Etinosa Oleja. Vito Melnicki is ranked
number 10. All right. I swear to fucking Christ.
If Vito Melnicki becomes a champion for Virgil
Ortiz, I'm going to blow my head off. Let's see.
Here's Callum Walsh and Vito Melnicki are in
the top 10 for the IBF. No, Callum Walsh ain't
going to be fighting for that shit. Aaron McKenna,
too. Ew. Really? Yeah. Yeah, that's how we bought
it. We got Yonley Hernandez at 13. Amari Jones
at seven. Like, that's what I mean. They have
no mandatory right now. So, if they had a mandatory,
they would have stripped Janet Beck yesterday.
Yeah, Janet Beck yesterday. But, unfortunately,
middleweight is actually tragic. Great analysis.
That's a great analysis. I wouldn't have known
that. Middleweight is tragic. Because the IBF,
like, the only reason they don't strip guys for
not defending as mandatories is when they don't
have a mandatory. Because they have to set up
their little, elimination tournaments or whatever.
Yeah, the final eliminators, you gotta have like
fucking five of them. Yeah, like you just gotta...
Well, once there's a more populated weight classes,
yeah, it goes pretty quick. The turnover is pretty
damn fast. But it's middleweight in 2026, so...
Absolutely dire. Like, this is... Vito Melnicki
is top 10 in any weight class. You are certainly
not doing well. Vito Melnicki, world champ before
Virgil. Please. If that happens, I'm actually
going to leave the pod. I'm going to leave a
shame. I can't handle the calls that are coming
in. Link the call number. The dunkers showing
up to... Yeah, the dunkers showing up with that
phone number. Yeah, I got it in a few seconds.
Man, Janet Beck suspended for a year. Fucking
slap on the wrist. Let's see here. AJ is starting
to get back in the gym. It's not a full training
camp. He's just starting to get himself back
into a little bit of a routine. The idea is that
if he continues to work out regularly, we can
start talking about a camp and look at a return
late July, early August. But given the circumstances...
I cannot imagine losing your best friends who
were also an integral part of your camp. I cannot
imagine that going back to the gym is an easy
thing to do right now. Oh, no, no. So, like,
if AJ's done, I get it. It's fucking rough. I
get it. Yeah, like, I can't judge him. Take your
time, man. Yeah. If you want to come back, then
come back. But if you don't, whatever, man. You
have all the money in the world. You have all
the accolades. Like, who fucking cares? Last
thing. Matchroom Boxing signs a five -year extension
with The Zone. Given the state that boxing is
in right now, this is a really good sign, I think,
that we have one of the major players on a steady,
secure broadcast platform. I'm happy to see this.
Until the 2030s, too. Next decade. Yep, I'm happy
to see this. Yeah, you've kicked the problem
down the line, which is good. Staying on the
DAZN, though, kind of sucks, but, I mean, where
the fuck else are you going to go to? Sky Sports?
Where else is there to go? Paramount Plus, if
you want to watch Sufen. And try and scam Netflix.
For the one -off event that they decide to do.
Yeah. Quick sidebar, honestly. Do you think it
would be possible for boxing to even, besides
these big events, right? Do you think it would
be possible for these even smaller events to
get into Netflix? Because I feel like these small
events on Netflix would be... Amazing for boxing.
You'd need a broadcasting deal that Netflix is
not willing to put up because they care about
immediate return instead of a steady return.
I feel like they would be able to get immediate
return with these type of deals. What would have
to happen is you'd have to combine the stables
of Matchroom, PBC, Queensberry. All of the major
players would have to go in together. To be able
to, at the very least, be able to offer their
own development cards in a regular fashion. But
also having crossover fights not be hindered
by broadcast differences. That right there is
the boxing utopia. Absolutely. You need people
to work together. I'll tell you this. You get
on Netflix. I know it sounds fucking like a fever
dream. And I might just be sounding like the
Saudis, okay? But you get all the boxing promoters
together under one banner, like the HBO days,
and you use the fucking... With your subscription,
you get boxing free. Every week, you get a boxing
fight. And it's a decent card every week. Every
month, you have a big fight, non -pay -per -view,
that tens of millions of people watch. They will
love that shit, I feel like. I think that will
bring boxing back to the forefront. You know,
boxing on Netflix. Netflix, the home box office
for boxing. There you go. I think that what platform
you do this on isn't, I don't know if it's quite
as material. Netflix does have the advantage
of having the bigger built -in user base or subscription
base. But if you were to have all of the major
players signed to DAZN or Paramount +, what really
matters is having all of the best fighters in
one place that you can watch them on. Exactly.
Who they're signed to, like what streamer they're
signed to, doesn't really matter. Just as long
as they're in one place. Just my take on it.
I agree, but I think if they're not fighting
at all, you know, if the big names are not fighting,
which happened last decade, I mean, it's not
worth a shit. DAZN pulled off that Matchroom
-Queensbury 5 vs. 5, so it is possible. It is
possible. With Saudi money. True. It does need
the... And that's, I guess, where having Netflix
in place as the platform. The facilitator. Yeah,
they have the money to facilitate that. But you'd
have to get someone with executive experience
like Espinosa in place to be able to pitch that
kind of thing. Because he can speak to the returns
that Showtime Sports had. And they had pretty
good returns, too. They did. For a while. For
a while. All right. Anything more for Boxing
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little light, but we will march on. Starting
first, Tuesday, February 10th. Salida promotions
on DAZN. It was certainly a card. There was a
card. There was certainly boxing happening. I
was only tracking two fights here. Caroline Veyer
gets the UD over Delphine Persoon to claim the
WBC Super Featherweight title. Delphine, man,
she was a... a major player in the women's ranks
for quite some time. And it might be those, those
days might be coming to an end. It's time to
give it up. You're 41. You're a 41 year old super
featherweight. Like it's not disrespectful. It's
just. She had a good career. She had a great
career. She had a good career. That's what I'm
saying. It's not disrespectful. Like it's just,
you're 41 and a super featherweight. It's time
to. That's how it goes. Try to pack it in. Shanada
tried to claim Caroline. She's from France and
currently lives in Quebec. Do you claim her as
another Canadian champion? Do we claim her as
a Canadian champion? To what extent? What do
we consider a Canadian champion? Do we consider
Archer Beterbiev a Canadian champion? Is Nbili
a Canadian champion? Nbili is, because he's been
here most of his life, right? But Beterbiev,
who just came over to avoid the embargo following
the invasion of Ukraine. The sports embargo?
Yeah. Yeah, do we count? Beterbiev. Hmm. BoxRick
does not. I would say if Mbili is, then Caroline
Byer is. Okay, yes. Then good. Yeah. Because
they're in the exact same situation. French passport
holders and they moved to French Canada. It's
not for any reason other than a personal one
rather than You're here because you wouldn't
be able to compete for world titles if you were
Russian. The way all the Russians, like on BoxRec,
they opted to being Armenian somehow. Armenian,
Chechnian, Canadian. Anything but Russian. Yeah,
so that's how we... And, main event, Joshua Pagan
gets the UD over Brian Jimenez. It was rough
and tumble. Pagan is not very good, but this
is like the best Salida has to offer. So make
peace with it. Saturday, February 14th. If you're
a fucking single loser like me, you are at home
watching Dream Boxing on DAZN out of Germany.
Why are we even talking about this card? Marco
Hook. That Marco Hook, if you even remember who
that is. He got a UD over Václav Pejsar. It was
certainly a fight. Marco Hook looked his fucking
age. Sunday, February 15th, we had two Muto promotions
out of Osaka, Japan. There were a few fights
on this one. Only one that we were really paying
attention to. Ryosuke Nishida gets the unanimous
technical decision in seven. It was stopped on
a cut in the eighth over Brian Mercado. Yeah,
Josh, we watched this one. We watched this one
together. It was very entertaining. Oh, yeah.
Good little scrap. I think the cut, the stoppage
was a bit premature on the cut. Like, it was
a big cut, but it wasn't like... It was manageable,
right? It wasn't gushing. The corner was on top
of it. It wasn't blocking his sight very much.
Doctor probably saw how deep it was and got freaked
out instead of actually looking at where it was.
But, yeah. No, Nishida was definitely putting
in some clean work. At first, it was Mercado,
who was definitely putting on more pressure,
but hitting a lot of gloves, elbows, wasn't clean.
Yeah, he was that come -forward, swarmer kind
of guy. Yeah. That was a good showing for Nishida,
though. Nishida definitely looked good, and more
importantly, didn't look rattled coming off of
a pretty harsh loss to Junto Nakatani. Yeah,
good to see that his arm's still working after
that fucking dislocation. He's not rattled. It's
good. Yeah. He can still be a player. And 122,
if with Inoue Nakatani, it's set May 2nd at the
Tokyo Dome. I'm expecting Inoue's going to pull
this one out. We can talk about this another
time, I suppose. Inoue's going to need opponents
if he's going to stay at 122. So, Nishida's not
a bad shot. Nope. Especially if he can do them
better than Nakatani did. There's definitely...
I mean, it's... 126 is definitely a bit more
of a jump to move. The quality of opposition
increases greatly when you step up to 26. Like,
your mean opponent. Like, Nakatani's probably
the best he'll face in his career. But, like,
size -wise, the guys start getting big and good.
Yeah. That's, like... Rafael Espinoza is 6 '1".
Yeah, I was going to say, I know maybe I'm a
little biased, but I think that the tougher fight
at 126, all things notwithstanding, was never
Nick Ball. It was Espinoza. Like, Espinoza is
massive and good, which is... Like, it's usually...
Anyways, the lead opponents have at least been...
Anyways, opponents, like, his better names on
his resume have been his size. Yeah, definitely.
Espinoza is a very competent operator, but he's
huge. Let's roll on. Last card. Zufa Boxing 3
at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. For how decision
-heavy Zufa 2 was, Zufa 3 had a lot of stoppages.
A lot of fun stuff. If you are an agnostic viewer,
Zufa 3 was very entertaining. It was very enjoyable
to watch, I must admit. But nonetheless, these
guys are... You would find these guys on... Same
type of dudes, same quality of fighter on a matchroom
undercard or this... Queensberry card coming
up. It's like stacked top to bottom with prospects.
Regardless. I wanted to mention Leo Ruiz getting
a stoppage in four just because we have the same
name. That's really it. That's it? That was it.
I don't have to write him a sternly worded letter
saying you have to change your name. That's true.
Because you're a fucking loser. Speaking of losers,
the main event. Not yet. Abel Mejia was actually...
Abel Mejia was getting pushed pretty heavily
by the Zufa comms and all the promotional material.
And Jabrio Pebenito just was not having it and
decided to knock him the fuck out. It was really
nice. That's good. Umar Dzambikov got a stoppage
in two in the co -main and main event. Efe Adjogba
stops Charles Martin in four. How in the hell
were the betting odds as close as they were?
This fight was hilarious. I can't lie. I gotta
give it to Josh. I was wrong. I... I'm not sure.
If we had done in Discord, if we did rolls for
this one, there would have been a surprising
amount of Charles Martin people. Well, it's just
because Ajagba is also terrible. He's turbo ass.
Yes. That's what I mean. Ajagba sucks, but you
have to remember, Martin sucks, is washed up,
and he really sucks. Long ass layoff. Long ass
layoff. All the ingredients were there. I think
people just continue memory -holing how he won
his world title. When his power exploded a knee?
Yeah, that's what I mean. People forget his world
title reign lasting three months because his
opponent went to his corner and then to the glue
factory. We did get that legendary promotional
line, Charles Martin sitting in front of AJ,
and he says, I walk this earth like a god. And
AJ just kind of chuckles like, that's some real
champ shit. I like that. His world title really
was an act of god, though. I'm serious. His opponent
never fought again. That's how bad his leg exploded.
it was pretty bad it was glass the worst part
is glass was like actually beating his ass too
like this was a hilarious like everyone just
memory holds that they go like yeah like they
they like yes he's the worst heavyweight champion
of all time but people still say but he was a
champion and that's how they convince themselves
he'll show up and be good ever Man, we do need
to start taking a second look at how many titles
we have. If we have, like, Charles Martin. Fucking
come on. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, Fabio
Wardley is even top two worst champs. Oh, shit.
He's not. Fabio Wardley. Fabio Wardley is not
the worst, like, is not the most, like, incompetent
heavyweight champion, even though he's probably
losing in his very first defense. Hey, hey, don't
jinx it. Don't jinx it, dude. I don't care at
this point. But I, come on, we, like, Baku suffered
for years with John Ruiz living and breathing.
But, like, man, like, especially, like, I saw,
like, there was some consideration for him, like,
giving it a go against Jared Anderson and winning
a round, maybe. Yeah, he had moments. But, like,
that speaks to Jared Anderson more than it does
Charles Martin. Hey, Unc still had it in him
at the time. Unc didn't have it in him ever.
Hey, at the time they get around against Jared
Anderson? Unc in his prime was out here getting
dominated by Adam Kwanaki. Unc in his, not in
his prime, got around for Jared Anderson. Oh,
my God. Like... Top American prospect. Oh, my
God. It's just... I don't get how... Like, Ajagba
is... Ajagba is still turbo -ass, but... Come
on, man. So, Ajagba in his... Like, in the post
-fight presser, the post -fight conference...
He's been going on a bit of a tirade with...
I'm ranked in the top 10 for heavyweights everywhere.
Everywhere that's relevant. And nobody wants
to fight me. Yeah, dude. You sucked. You lost
all the fights that you needed. You lost the
fight that you needed to win and then fought
nobody to put you in position to actually contend
for a title. Because there's a difference between
being ranked and being in contention. Daniel
Dubois, despite losing, has fought his way to
remain in contention. Yeah, you have to fight
actual eliminators. If you're that upset about
it, go up the IBF route and don't sign to Zufa.
Yeah, don't expect an actual legitimate world
title if you're going to be fighting for Zufa.
Yeah, like, say what you will. Dubois lost to
Usyk the first time and then put himself back
in position by fighting for an IBF eliminator
with Hergovich. And then killed AJ, and then,
yeah, now, like, he's fought the actual fights
that will put him in... the top of the rankings
instead of just floating around the top 15 being
like, why does no one want to fight me? It's
tough. Fabio Wardley started off climbing up
to, he got the British title Commonwealth, like
that nonsense that they do over there. And he,
he fought the fucking fights. He beat the shit
out of Frazier Clark after having, he had a questionable
performance against Frazier Clark, knocked him
the ever loving fuck out in the rematch. And
then he worked his way upward. Justice Hooney,
Justice Parker. Justice Hooney, like all of the
WBO. Those are solid fucking wins. Yeah. And
it's not even, like, even if they weren't solid,
the point is that he fought the opponents to
get in position for a title shot. Or in this
case, a title. He fought the guys he needed to.
Imagine if he just... sat around complaining
for a title shot after beating Clark the second
time. Yeah, no one wants to fight me because
I sparked out Frazier Clark. Yeah, and I'm going
to sit on my WBO European title. That's not how
it works. But I expect this is going to be the
type of media posturing that we can see from
the quote -unquote elite. That are coming or
fighting in Zufa. Oh, yeah. Just a lot of chatter.
Anything more for our recaps before we keep it
rolling? I want to add something to news and
something to actually Zufa 3. Where Dana White
made a comment about how he was fighting babies.
Oh, the other promoters. Yeah. Yeah. He's trying
to posture the, I guess, the view of Zufa that
they're taking over boxing. Obviously, they're
trying to say that they're going to take over
boxing, but that is easy when it's been completely
just a road of fucking hassle. Shitters and nobodies,
that's all he has. Yeah, shitters and nobodies.
They're trying to make it look like they've got
kings, but, I mean, these guys never made it
on a main event, you know? Yeah. Because we're
never stars. Ryo, man, that one still fucking
baffles me. Like, dude, you had one setback against
Anton Russell. Come on, dude. We'll talk about
another guy soon. I don't know if it's going
to be this week or next week, but we'll be talking
about another guy. Yeah, we'll be talking about
him next week. All right, a little bit of notes
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light. But we do have one pretty good card. Starting
first. Friday, February 27th. ProBox TV in Arlington,
Texas. there are as you would expect from a like
prospect development series like pro box there
are a fuck ton of fighters on this card um this
is this is a if you are again if you're a single
fucking loser like me this is a perfect use of
your friday night um let's see names that i recognize
i recognize renee taez Ruben Aguilar, that's
in the main and co -main, respectively. Oh, I
recognize Edward Vasquez. Javier Bocanegra. Some
guys that have been coming up, they've been putting
in the work. Speaking of Espinoza, Vasquez coming
off of getting turned into ground beef by Espinoza
last year. Hey, well, when you got to rehab your
career, Probox is a lovely place to do it. Yeah,
Probox is always there for you. Yep. Moving to
Saturday, February 28th. First card first. Just
a random insert. There's a Queensbury card on
DAZN that this is the one that I had mentioned
that's just full of prospects. So if you want
to check that out, if you want some Brit slop,
fucking get after it. Manny Pacquiao promotions
on Amazon Prime out of Verona, New York. The
headline, Elijah Pierce vs. Lorenzo Parra. Had
to make sure to roll the R for that one. Do you
guys think Elijah Pierce will be a notable name
in the future? Maybe. He's climbed up the ladder.
He's a bit of a project guy, but time's starting
to run out on whether he reaches that kind of
upper echelon of the sport. Just because, yeah,
whatever, two early losses really don't matter
at this point in your career. But it's time to
start accelerating a little bit at age 29. Yeah,
avoid Derek James at all costs. Avoid Derek James.
Not a bad show. Womax got room in his camp. The
two fighters that I really wanted to point out
on this one, like the main event, whatever, I
don't really care. But, Kermel Moten is fighting
on this one against Wilfredo Flores. Now, I have
not seen... any indication that this is true
but there's a lot of talk that this is at welterweight
is that like moten fights at 135 he's at welterweight
now jesus what the fuck that's what i mean i
said he'll make it to like 160 before fighting
anyone jesus christ it says 147 your eyes are
not deceiving you well There you have it. Carmel
Moten. He's a growing boy. Yeah, he's 19, so,
you know, DoorDash has good deals from time to
time. The problem is he's 5 '4". Right, that's
what I, like, he's small. He's like Gervonta
Davis. Like, how the fuck are you that big? Especially
as a teenager, like, you're in... camp, for fights?
How is this possible? You gotta be on that Isaac
diet. I'm starting to get nervous about Cormel
Moten's career. I'm not gonna lie. The way he's
being managed and the way he's been moved. He's
disciplined. Yeah, I think honestly like he's
still fighting. He'll get there eventually. It's
just... Ooh, he's definitely looking more and
more of a project guy than, like, a star prospect.
He was one of those, like, five -star prospects
that people were talking about. You've got to
start thinking of putting the brakes on the hype
and thinking of him as a project guy. Because,
like, definitely, like, you know the MMA meme
of, like, two years Dagestan? Two, three years,
forget. Two, three years, Pro Box, forget. Yeah,
that might be the move. Yeah, like, stick him
on ProBox. Like, he's going to sink or swim.
And honestly, like, he's a five -star prospect.
He should swim. And they'll give him, like, they'll
roll out the red carpet for him, too. Like, he's
not going to be mistreated or, like, treated
like some other, like, just another guy coming
up. No, like, it's ProBox. And with the hype
he has, ProBox could probably have him headline
every time. Exactly. Exactly. Like, it'll be
a good chunk of change. Like, you're not paying
to fight bums. You're getting good work. Like,
I presume part of the issue stems from the whole
lack of broadcast networks. Because, like, with
his profile, you kind of have to, you know. Yeah,
he's not a PPC undercard guy. Yet. But he's basically
paying, his team is paying for him to fight instead
of the other way around. My thing is he's fighting
as much as, well, last year he only fought twice.
Yeah. He is not at that level. That's ridiculous
for a prospect. Yeah, he's not. Get him on ProBox
every three months for the next couple of years.
Two, three years ProBox and forget it. Yeah,
like, literally, even if he's not making that
much money, like, I assume the opponents they
have to bring in, they're going to ask for extra
just because of the level of prospect that he
is. Oh, yeah, you're bringing me on to get schooled
by Moten. I want better than the regular pay.
I want better than $1 ,000. I mean, Kermel's
not fighting on his own card, though, right?
He's fighting Manny Pacquiao. No, no, but that
makes it worse. It's still Kermel. Wait, you
said he was fighting on the what card? Manny
Pacquiao promotions? Yeah. Which is interesting,
in my opinion, because... I mean, come on. Manny
Pacquiao promotions... It's not really... I know.
It's probably going to have such a little return
that you're going to have to pay for him to...
You have to pay for him and his opponent. And
I think the pay cut being on Pro Box at least
ensures you get consistent fights. You guys could
disagree with me with this. I don't care. His
best bet should be top rank. That would be a
great avenue to go to. In my opinion. Go to the
top rank, get built by them. They will build
him fantastic. And they won't move him quick.
I would agree if top rank had a broadcast deal.
Like, yeah, a set framework where they can...
Just push him through, like, this fight. We'll
have six, eight, ten rounds by this card. Yeah,
like, you'll fight on Heisman Knight for sure.
You'll fight on whenever we put Janabek on. You'll
fight whenever we put Abdullah Mason, like, back
when they were on ESPN. Well, guess what? You
do the Abdullah Mason and you stick him on every
undercard, basically. What is he getting right
now? He's getting nothing. I mean, anything's
better than right now. But top rank isn't going
to give him that either. Even Matchroom, he would
be a great Matchroom guy with their Black American
stable. Matchroom, I think they would do a good
job with him. Queensberry would as well. The
ceiling is a little lower with Queensberry, but
I think they have the infrastructure to build
a guy like Kermel Moten up. Oh, yeah. Let's see.
So, Kermel Moten and Manny Pacquiao Jr. is also
fighting on this card. So, I still have not found
this on Amazon Prime. I've looked many times.
Allegedly on Prime. Allegedly it's on Prime.
Let's see here. Last one. Matchroom on DAZN in
Phoenix, Arizona. I will absolutely be in attendance.
Moving up the bill, it does leave a little bit
to be desired. Emiliano Vargas is on it, so I'm
very happy to see him getting work. Abel Ramos,
Unk still got it. Tamir Smalls. Unk still got
it. But the main event, Emmanuel Navarrete versus
Eduardo Nunez, WBO and IBF. Super featherweight
champions. Will be unifying. I'm. I'm. Hmm. I'm
trying to think. This is a really good fight.
I'm still not entirely sure. Who I think is going
to win. For. For reasons. I would. I'm riding
with Nunez. Only because. Nav has he has skated
by without really having to put in all the same
commitment that other fighters have to. And he
gets the accolades anyway. So he's had the most
like like pretty much any call that like could
go his way generally does. Typically it does.
So I would like to see that road run out for
him. That's really it. Regardless if Nav wins,
I'm not fussed. I'm happy either way. I just
hope for a good fight. Nunez will avenge Liam
Wilson. I got to be honest. I think Nunez wins,
but I really can't say until we see the weigh
-ins. Oh, yeah. Nunez will suspiciously weigh
in at a career -low five pounds lower than he's
ever weighed before. And Nav will just scrape
by the weight limit again. Well, what I'm thinking
is if Nunez is more accurate, I would say even
faster. Just a slicker Oscar Valdez. You know?
I think that even though he's shorter than Navarrete,
if he's accurate and Nunez does hit hard, I mean,
he might win. I think he has a good chance of
winning this weekend. Yeah, that's what I was
going to say. He fights similarly to Valdez,
but he has heavy hands behind it. And that makes
a huge difference in how you approach fighting
him. 100%. When Navarrete, the way he wins is
he's just going to be tall and long and be awkward.
I mean, honestly, if Navarrete makes weight...
and he makes weight good i'm not gonna lie yeah
if he makes weight good i'm not gonna lie i i
think that he might just win too it's hard it's
a tough step i can't i can't really choose i
i hope nunez wins but you never know yeah so
on uh boxing before dark for this week i had
picked up some topics some like off topic things
to put up at the top to to add a little pad a
little time um one of the topics that i picked
up oh do you guys remember maybe you didn't follow
it but maybe you heard of the little pygmy hippo
mudang oh yeah so slightly so that yeah the one
that ate the one that ate the trump cake yeah
and like would bite people and shit all the time
yeah so that trend kind of passed on what the
the new hotness in the animal kingdom is the
monkey punch yeah punch okay yeah so we were
talking about punch and when we got to the end
and we were talking about this fight specifically
it was uh she asked who do you think punch would
be cheering for and i said now punch His fame
comes from, he was abandoned by his mother, and
he was given an orangutan, like, little stuffy.
The Ikea monkey plushie, yes. Yeah, to be, like,
that was his little friend. So, my thinking was,
Punch would cheer for Nav, because Nav has those
fucking gorilla arms. Nav looks like the monkey
plushie, exactly. Punch would be going for, he
would be cheering for Nav. The worst part is
the plushie has a little bit of a pot belly like
that. The resemblance is uncanny. The resemblance
is uncanny. Yeah, that was a little callback
to Boxing Before Dark. Punch the monkey. Oh,
shit. This is a fucking long drive for me. God,
I can't even get all shitty at the event. Just
gotta sit there like a good little boxing fan
and just be really observant. Just gotta take
it at that point. Yeah, pretty much. Still, though,
this... Yeah, the card is not the best, but Vargas,
happy to see him live. Abel Ramos doing it for
us old guys. And yeah, the main event's fucking
fun. Oh, yeah. That's all we got on the docket
for this one. So, we're heading into Nav Nunez
weekend. Parting words. I hope the zookeepers
start giving Punch boxing predictions for real,
though. It'd be really funny. Yeah, give him
Inoue Nakatani things. Make him choose. See if
he knows ball. The most recent update that I've
seen is that his little clan in the zoo, they
have accepted him. They have accepted him. And
what's funny is whenever he gets into play fights,
he swings the monkey plush around too. But the
thing is that the other monkey also... sort of
recognizes the plush as another monkey so it's
like they're to be wanting the monkey fucking
nav nunez punch the monkey is probably going
for nav Anything else? Anything else? Well, let's
go Nunez, hopefully. Let's go Vargas, let's go.
Let's go, everybody. February 8th was... It's
in the review block, but fucking... That was
the Super Bowl. I didn't... I watched it. I watched
the... The halftime show. I thought it was cool
to see Xander Zayas and Emiliano Vargas there.
To me, that part of the show spoke to me personally.
I very much speak Spanish and understand it.
I don't listen to Bad Bunny's music, so I didn't
really care that he was performing. Yeah. But...
Apparently, there was a dude on the TPUSA one
that was... He was singing a song about fishing
and driving his truck and feeding his dog. It
was a really good song. Just thought I'd put
that little... End note there. All right. That's
it for this edition of The Boxing B -Sides. Go
check out Punch the Monkey.