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. Alright. Boogie time.
Boxing Before Dark. Holy shit. Shanada, we're
back. We're back. It's March now. Oh my goodness,
it is indeed. You know what that means. Yokohama
card in two weeks. Not even two weeks. Just a
little over one. Yeah. I gotta go print my ticket.
For some reason I thought you meant March Madness,
the college basketball tournament. I don't watch
basketball. I was thinking of maybe doing a bracket
this year just to do it. I know the guys on Ultimate
FN Casual, they'll do it. They'll watch. I'm
pretty sure they do now that I think about it.
I just hate basketball. It's like the one major
sport I won't watch. I don't have an issue with
it. I just, I don't know. Don't really... They
don't enforce the rules properly. They let the
stars travel. There's double dribbles all the
fucking time. It drives me nuts. Well, what are
you gonna do? You gonna give LeBron a foul? You
gonna give LeBron a foul? I don't think so. Not
on this. This is LA. If you want to make it back
to your car in one piece, you're going to let
him. Bullshit. Speaking of bullshit, Punch, the
monkey, the caretakers are planning to take away
his fucking plushie. He's got friends now. He
doesn't need his imaginary friend anymore. Yeah,
I know, but he and his little Stuffed orangutan.
That was... They were like the iconic duo. Another...
I know Punch has grown up enough. He's in the
clan now. He stands up for himself when the other
monkeys try to pick on him. He hits them with
the fake monkey and confuses them. He has a weapon,
so I guess that might be part of the problem.
But yeah, that's the punch update. There's a
pygmy hippo that was born here in Arizona. I
forgot what they nicknamed it. It was a cute
nickname, though. You'll have to find it for
next time. Yeah, we'll switch animal gears back
to the pygmy hippos. My friend in Calgary bought
me a... whiskey glass and tongs with red pandas
from the zoo excellent yeah oh man well speaking
of uh stuff from the zoo qfc heavyweight champion
tom aspinall signs with the newly founded matchroom
talent agency this is uh It's management, not
promotion. Oh, okay. Yeah. I cannot help but
feel this is a counter fuck you with Dana signing
Connor fuckface. And so now they sign. Now Eddie
is going to be managing Tom Aspinall. Excellent.
Yeah. Let the pettiness rain down. Right. What
I expect is Tom Aspinall is not going to be in
the UFC for very much longer. Because with Eddie
Hearn managing slash negotiating on Aspinall's
behalf, they're just going to like, okay, you
want that much money? Well, then you're not fighting.
Yeah. Dana's just going to ice him out. Right.
Yeah. But Tom Aspinall's the one that's been
talking about coming over to boxing for a while,
isn't he? He has been, yes. But, yeah, the battle
of the pettiest bitch continues. Eddie and Dana.
They're both pretty petty. Yeah, they're really
having a go. This could drag out for a while.
Yeah, we're going to watch more and more athletes
get paid more and more as they try to out -fuck
each other. It'll be whatever gets these guys
paid, I guess. Could be worse. I'm hopeful. With
the signing of Conor Benn, a lot of UFC guys
have come out of the woodwork saying, like, what
the fuck, man? Where's my 15 mil? As they should.
Yes. And I think if Eddie is able to extract
more wealth from UFC for Tom Aspinall, he could
maybe get more signees and get more guys under
his umbrella. And then, man, Eddie Hearn saving
fucking UFC? Is that what we're doing in 2026?
No. 2026, we're blowing up the world. There will
be no UFC next year. Ultimate fucking carnage.
That's way too cool. Man, you know what else
isn't cool? Mario Barrios. It's moving up to
154. I doubt he can make it. He's not going to
be able to keep up at 147. Maybe he could beat
Rawley. Maybe. Maybe he could beat Lewis Crocker.
Again, it's a big maybe. Barrios is pretty mid.
But going up to 154, like you, Boots, fucking
Virgil, if he ever is able to make it back to
the ring, Fundora. Fundora would dog walk Mario
so badly. It wouldn't be close. I'm not sure
what compelled this move. Like you honestly,
he honestly had a better chance at 47 if he would
have continued there. Moving up to 54, you're
just going to get your ass kicked quite a few
times before you decide to retire. Yeah, I think
Barrios kind of overachieved in his career, and
now it's honestly probably time to retire. But
he's looking, I guess the idea is it's easier
to make the weight and he can gain some power.
Because he's tall enough for 154. Like, he's
a big tall guy. Yeah, I think he could. He's
sized adequately. But yeah, I don't see him snagging
a belt. No. At all. Hold on a second. I really
just want to continue dunking on Barrios here.
So I want to see... Make sure I know who the
title holders are. Josh Kelly? Yeah, he's not
beating Josh Kelly. Xander Zayas holds two. And
then Fundora. And Fundora. This ain't it, buddy.
Nah. Xander Zayas could take Mario Barrios as
an easy defense. Somebody with name recognition.
Yeah. But that's pretty much all he is. Do you
think they put Barrios directly into the rankings?
I mean, he was a title holder. If that's going
to happen, it would happen in the WBC, since
that was the title that he had previously held.
Yeah. Otherwise, I would be... Well, looking
at the people in these rankings... I don't recognize
half the names. Yeah, there's quite a few people
here that even I don't recognize. It's possible
that they throw him in the bottom portion of
the top 15. Yeah, I don't know. I hope Mario
doesn't hang around too long because he's going
to take some ass beatings. And he's a tough guy,
so he'll stay in there too long. Yeah, and he's
starting to sound a little off. Is he? Yeah,
like he's taken a little bit too much already.
I don't really listen to the interviews with
him and stuff. He's always been a little bit
of an airhead. Yeah. So the change has been kind
of subtle, but it's been, I don't know, it feels
obvious to me, so. I don't know. What do I know,
though? Maybe Nikita Zoo can sort them out. The
better of the Zoo Brothers. Oh, shit. Moving
on to most valuable promotions signs a long -term
deal with ESPN. How did I misspell ESPN? Epson.
You were thinking about the Epstein list. Yeah.
It's definitely been on my mind a bit. I mean,
having boxing back on TV is good. I'm surprised
it's MVP that made it happen. Personally. But
I can't hate it. My thinking is that MVP more
often than not puts on women heavy. Or entirely
women's cards. Yeah, that part I'm not so excited
about. So it's cheap. ESPN got fights, full top
-to -bottom boxing cards for a lot less than,
like, having Xander Zayas, a two -belt title
holder, is going to be expecting a little bit
more of a premium. That's true. Yeah, it's going
to be kind of mid -boxing, I think. Yeah, MVP's
not great. their stable is on the women's side
it's like top tier but but top tier women's boxing
is kind of mid unfortunately yes yeah so i'm
a little worried that way that they'll be boxing
on tv that casuals can see because so many people
have espn but it's not gonna be fun i want pro
box on tv that's all i want Would have been a
better signing for them. For ESPN, I mean. They
would get what they're looking for, which is
high action, competitive matchups. Yeah. And
not costing like the amount a champion would
expect. Like a title holder would expect. Yeah,
I don't really know what the Pro Box guys are
getting, but it can't be that much. No, I think
that would have been a better move than MVP.
But then I would have to get a TV subscription,
so I guess Pro Box on YouTube is still... Still
the move? Yeah. Oh, man. Making moves, changing
moves. USA Boxing, the amateur... Like, management
system has withdrawn their support for the Ali
Revival Act. Good. Yes, good. Not sure what made
them support it in the first place. I would like
to hear what that rationale is. And also, what
made you decide to take back said support? I
would like some justifications. yeah but it's
boxing so you won't get any of course not that
would be ridiculous man like it's a it's a if
you're gonna support it then like fucking go
go all in on it if you're whatever i don't agree
with you but i don't think they read it before
they supported it they probably didn't somebody's
finally sat down and read it And explain to them
what it says. Why didn't you just call Boxing
Before Dark, bitch? I could have told you. Yeah,
I don't know. I still hate that they're trying
to make those changes that they're trying to
make. They all do sound like good things on the
surface, but it's gonna kill low -level boxing.
Yeah. Speaking of lower -level boxing, Manny
Pacquiao Jr., who was supposed to fight on the
28th of February, has been moved to April 3rd
on the Tataran undercard. So that's fun. That
Pacquiao Jr. is not very good. No. I think his
first fight was a draw. Yeah. And they robbed
the guy. Well, what are you going to do? It's
Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao Jr. You're going to
call a double dribble on him? I don't think so.
Send him the fuck home. Iceland will be hosting
its first ever professional boxing event on April
10th. That's pretty cool. It's going to be headlined.
By Icelandic. I have him listed as Viking. Because
that's just way cooler. Colby Christensen. Will
be facing an Austrian. Sasha Milankovic. Do I
know who Milankovic is? I don't think so. Even
if I don't know who they are. That's pretty cool.
Yeah. Good to see. Boxing finding a home. More
places. Oh, Jason Maloney versus Andre Donovan
on April 23rd. Don't have a lot of words for
this. The Maloney brothers keep doing it. Yeah,
it's time for those two to wrap it up. Doubtful.
Talk about it in a second, but fucking title
shot coming up. Really? Yeah. That's crazy. Sam
Eggington. For fuck's sakes, buddy. Returns on
May 2nd against Kona Walker. Sam Eggington is
always fun to watch unless he's getting beat
so bad you're scared he's gonna die. Like...
He's one of those guys. Yeah, I agree. Haney,
Devin Haney and Raleigh Romero are in, quote,
late stage serious talks for a unification fight.
We were talking about this being a good next
move for Haney. Yes. Easy snipe. Yeah. Two division
champion, Rolando Romero. I love it. Talk about
overachieving. Imagine if he somehow gets the
upset, just like land some on Haney. Yeah, I
would send him money or something. How can I
express my gratitude? Just start hocking flowers
and teddy bears in the ring like they do for
figure skating. It's not that Haney's bad, because
he's not. He demonstrated in the Norman fight
that he can be entertaining. And he demonstrated
also in that fight that he just simply chooses
not to. Which makes me more angry than if you
can't be entertaining. Right. Exactly right.
Shakur does it too. Shakur seems to have decided
to be more excited lately, but more than half
the time, most of the time, he chooses to be
boring as fuck. Yeah, it's been a recent change
that he's been noticeably more engaging. Yeah,
and I like the change. I might have to start
not cheering against him if he keeps it up. Cheering
against him? IBF champ Willy Baldo Garcia has
to face mandatory challenger Andrew Maloney.
This will be promoted by the Kamedas. This whole
sentence sucks. I don't like any of this. Wooly
Baldo should be able to knock out Andrew Maloney.
I would think. I don't know enough about Wooly
Baldo to say. Maloney went 12 with Nakatani.
I get the Maloney's mixed up. Like the two brothers.
Who fought Tenchin? Because he looked like shit.
Jason. IBF Final Eliminator Kenneth Lover vs.
Katsuma Akitsugi. I am so excited for this fight,
but so torn. I have no idea who to cheer for.
These are two of my favorites. You might have
to do a Don King and hold a flag for each of
them and wave them both. I really don't know
how this one's going to go. Because Lover has
more power and flashier moves. But Akitsugi is
just constant death by a thousand cuts. And I
don't know which one will win. Like, this is
going to be an anime fight. Like, the bigger,
faster guy kind of just standing there trying
to hit the... The smaller guy that's like...
I don't know who to pick in this one either.
I know you're a big fan of Kenneth Lover. I'm
not that familiar with him. I think he's really
good, but he also signed with the Kamedas. Interesting
choice of career. Probably made sense, I guess.
He's a Filipino. He doesn't know. I imagine for
him, It was getting signed by a promoter in the
developed world. Yeah. That's more international.
Yeah, just a chance to get out of PI. WBA orders
Floyd Schofield vs. Lucas Boddy for their vacant
title. Nice. Yeah. Is that going to be fun? Saul
should be excited with Floyd Schofield in the
mix. Body can be... He can be outboxed, has been
outboxed pretty soundly, but then gets bailed
out with his own power. Yeah, because he's had
a couple crazy knockouts Body has. Yes, he has.
So that's kind of the question of... Is Schofield
going to be piecing him up so much that he gets
a little too cocky maybe and overextends and
then gets hit by something big from Lucas body?
I mean, I have to cheer for the Canadian, I guess.
Who do you cheer for in Dalton Smith versus Alberto
Pueo? This has been officially ordered by the
WBC. Rumor mill was that it's going to be going
to Perspid, but I haven't seen anything confirming
that. Which one's Alberto Puello? Tall -ish.
Tall for the weight class. Bald. Black. He's
Dominican. He's a pretty good outfighter. He
had a good war with Gar. Yeah, I was just going
to say he... You beat him in a split decision.
Super close. I guess I will have to cheer for
Puyo because I'm not cheering for Dalton Smith.
Yeah, I'm leaning the same way. It would be fun
for Dalton Smith to continue his streak as the
plucky upstart. Yeah, I won't be mad. But yeah,
I'm riding with Puyo on this one as well. Plus,
there's not that many Dominican boxers. No, no,
not really. WBC, more news on the WBC. They have
sanctioned Lamont Roach, William Zepeda for their
vacant title. This wasn't their first pick for
what they were going to order, but... They are
satisfied with these two and their petition to
be the vacant title fight. I think this should
be a fun fight. Yeah, it's another tough one.
Zepeda is also a death by a thousand cuts kind
of guy. I think Roach wins this, but I think
it'll be entertaining the whole time. Yeah, I
agree. I'm pretty sure Lamont Roach has what
it takes to weather the shrimp storm. I forgot
he was the shrimp. Yep. Speaking of the WBC,
I don't know if we talked about this last week.
I don't think so. Did you see that they are letting
the world title be on the line for Usyk Verhoeven?
Yes, we did talk about that. They backtracked.
Oh, they backtracked and then put it back on
the line? Yeah. Like, Suleiman had said, no,
we're making up some weird belt, but the world
title won't be on the line. And then literally,
like, the next day, the WBC came out and said,
no, the world title's on the line. And Suleiman's
like, well, I'm just the president. It wasn't
really up to me. That's a board decision. Shenanigans.
Yeah, anyways. I was pissed off about that. Because
I heard the announcement that it wasn't a title
fight, and I was happy. And then they backtracked
it. Like, they did the commemorative belt for
Mayweather McGregor. Totally appropriate. Sure,
I have no problem with them making up bullshit
belts. That's whatever. But having it be a legitimate
world title fight, that's shenanigans. Some guy
who is 1 -0 gets to fight for a world title.
But it was a stoppage win. He's had his 100 %
knockout ratio. It was a four -rounder. Huh?
Is that doing it for you? No. This is stupid.
Fucking stupid. Oh, shit. Tyson Fury. Versus
Makhmudov. The undercard has been announced.
Got a few names here. Conor Benn versus Regis
Progray. We already knew. The $15 million fight.
Contested at 150 pounds. Jamie Chikeva versus
Richard Ryakpour. For the British heavyweight
title. Frasier Clark versus Justice Hooney. That's
a good time. That could be fun. Yeah. We'll see
if Frasier Clark can replicate what Fabio Wardley
did. Lose every second of every round until that
one punch. I mean, Clark has enough power. He
could. He could, yes. Troy Williamson versus
Simon Zackenhuber. What is this? Brahan? Gorham,
I think it is. Versus Edward Georgiev. Mikey
Tallon. There's Christopher Rios. Felix Cash
versus Liam O 'Hare. Hector Lozano versus Sultan
Al -Muhammad. Goddamn Saudi plant. And Elliot
Whale versus Tom Hill. To round it out. There's
a lot of very different name styles on that card.
Yeah. Not a whole lot going on here. As expected,
it's Tyson Fury on the headline. When we were
talking about Connor Ben versus Regis Progre
being the co -main, as you had put it, there's
nobody that's tuning into this card that wasn't
tuning in already for Tyson Fury. None of these
guys add any value to this. I mean... Connor
Ben and Frasier Clark might get you a couple
extra people to pay for it. A few, yeah, maybe
a few. But, yeah. Last thing. Naoya Inoue, Junto
Nakatani is officially official. This, we have
Takuma Inoue versus Kazuto Ioka. What's looking
like going to be the co -main. I wanted... To
first get your reaction to Saul saying, we did
it first. That's annoying. It is annoying. Like,
it had just been signed. I think we were in the
middle of recording. Yeah, yeah. I listened to
the episode earlier today. I heard him gloating.
Sucks. Stupid schedule. But we know who the fucking
fanatic is here, though. Exactly. The ticket
lottery opened yesterday. I have my name in.
And I have my friend's name in. So I've never
had them actually check my ID, even though it
says they will. But her name is Sarah something
Brazilian. It's a white person name. Anyways,
so I got her to put her name in too, and I'll
just pretend I'm her if she wins. Yeah, I was
going to ask, why not have the people that you
work with have them put their names in? Theoretically,
they're supposed to check your ID at the door.
They never do, but theoretically. Yeah, can't
walk in with a joke. Tokyo Dome's pretty big,
yeah. Yeah, I don't think anyone's going to believe
that my name is Xiao Xing Yao. Totally. Nobody's
going to buy that. Yeah. Tokyo Dome. Very fitting
venue. Takuma Inoue as the co -main. Just fucking
pinched fingers. That's just fucking perfect.
They're cooking with that one. I'm so excited
Ioka gets to fight in Tokyo Dome. Oh, he finally
gets his... flowers like yeah he gets his moment
finally i'm so excited about it yeah i i don't
think he's gonna win um but i'm gonna be cheering
for him anyway just because you get it tattooed
man yeah yeah oh he's gonna have to fucking paint
on the makeup oh gross It's going to be like
running down all over the fucking ring and everything.
He always has to paint his tattoos when he fights
in Oda City Gym as well. But usually it's just
like a tiny covering and it rubs off during the
fight. I don't know if you've ever noticed, but
that happens all the time on the Japanese broadcast.
but the JBC said they're going to crack down
on makeup coming off, which I don't know what
the fuck that means. Like, the corner's going
to have to be, like, rollering their arms. Can
you just wear, like, a full bodysuit to, like,
a tight spandex kind of thing? Compression clothing?
I don't think they'll allow you to wear a shirt
boxing. Because, who was it? Kyoguchi wears like
compression pants. Pants? But I've never seen
them let anyone wear a shirt. I don't know about
the top. Yeah, you're right. Donair wears like
the long, long compression socks that go up to
like past his knees or whatever. Yeah, he wears
the ladies volleyball socks. Yeah, good stuff.
Who else are we expecting on this? Oh, they kind
of, they put out the card, didn't they? Not that
I've seen. Uh, one second. Thought I saw it yesterday.
Yeah, full fight card. Oh, shit. Wow, they have
that already. Yoshiki Takei versus D. Kang Wang.
Hilarious. Diakno Yan versus Yuito Moriwaka.
Sora Tanaka versus Jin Sasaki. Toshiki Shimomachi
versus Raya. Jin Sasaki. Jin Sasaki's on it,
yeah. I guess if you want a knockout. Either
way. Yeah, either way, you're going to get one.
I don't recognize Sora Tanaka, so I don't know.
Shimomachi versus Abe. Raya Abe is always a good
watch. He loses fairly often, but he's always
fun. I feel like you've mentioned him a few times.
Kosuke Tomioka versus Shogo Tanaka, and then
Takuma Kazuto and Naoya Junto. It's a pretty
big card for Japan. They usually don't have that
many fights. And I think I saw how many rounds
each was, and there's only one that's less than
10 or 8. Very cool. Yeah. I think there's one
4 -rounder. One eight rounder and the rest are
all ten or more. So I got to break the full undercard.
There you go. Fuck you, Saul. Oh, shit. Yeah,
they packed it up with local talent, which is
good. They're not importing too much. Yeah, a
couple B -sides. Yeah, B -sides for sure. Anything
more for the news? I don't think so. There's
a lot of news lately. Boxing is booming. Yeah,
we are having an excellent year. And we're only
in March. Yeah, the year is young. It can get
bad. All right, let me put some stuff in here.
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Recaps. Not a whole lot going on. Let's see.
On the 27th, we had ProBox at the College Park
Center in Arlington, Texas. They did not let
you forget that it happened in Arlington. Yeah,
that came up often. It came up a lot. I understand,
you know, wanting to put your, like, we're a
good sports town. Yeah, I get it. But, like,
goddamn, maybe dial it back just a little bit.
Have, like, 10, 15 -minute promos talking about
Arlington. It looks very nice, but calm down.
What did we have on ProBox? Had a few stoppages.
Javier Guerrero stops. Linomar, Rio Santiago
in the first. Emilio Garcia, another big stoppage
in the first. The Boca Negra boys. Where'd the
other one go? Oh, he was at the beginning. Ranulfo
Bocanegra gets a UD. Xavier Bocanegra also gets
a UD. Unfortunate. I think the main event got
pulled. And it's going to be rescheduled. I don't
remember who it was, to be honest. Yeah. I don't
remember who it was either. It was still a fun
pro box card. More lopsided than usual. A lot
of knockouts this time. Yeah, and corner stoppages.
The co -main and the main. Edward Vasquez gets
it stopped in the corner after the fifth. And
Ruben Aguilar after the eighth. The main was
getting a little hard to watch. Yes. I was not
sad that they stopped that. You don't want to
watch someone get... Beaten to death? Is that
not? No. Is that not what we're into? No. Yeah,
definitely not. Oh, shit. Saturday, February
28th. One thing first. Manny Pacquiao promotions.
The only fight I was really watching. I was waiting
for Manny Pacquiao Jr. His shit got canceled.
Kermel Moten. He got a stoppage in the corner
after the second. It was pretty lopsided. It
was good that the corner pulled it when they
did, because that was only going to get fucking
dangerous. I think I missed this card, to be
honest. It's just kind of a gimme for Moten.
It's not. Yeah, it wasn't super high on my, like,
I gotta see this. Yeah, it's not that big of
a deal. Matchroom on DAZN. This I had to see.
At the Desert Diamond Arena. I also had to see
it. That's where I fucking went. Live. I watched
the crowd. It got pretty rowdy. It was fucking
packed before... Before the main portion of the
card, the televised portion, before that even
started, it was fucking packed. Excellent. It
was so cool. Like, there were so many people
that were there. This kid on the undercard, Philip
Vela, he got a UD over Brian Ramos. He had a
lot of fucking people that traveled for him.
It was really, it was pretty cool. I was sitting
next to his grandma and grandpa. Oh, that's crazy.
Yeah, that's who I got sat next to. Did they
tell you all about how hard he works? No. They
had apparently... They were higher up in the
section, but since nobody was sitting there,
they had moved down to take those seats. And
then the actual people showed up in the middle
of the fucking co -main. Man, you guys suck.
Yeah. You guys should trade seats. Because fucking
Granny and Grampy over here, they were staying
for the whole thing. Of course. Yeah. There was
like four crowd fights as well. Maybe you didn't
notice them being there live. No, I didn't. I
didn't see them. Yeah, they were down near. They're
almost always at the front. But yeah. They were
trying to get angles on the fight so that you
couldn't see the fights in the crowd and people
were getting tackled and escorted out. It's pretty
funny. Jordan Martinez, he was a local kid. He
was, I think, managed by the bigger of the local
promoters or promotional agencies or whatever
the fuck. And he got a split draw against Arturo
Popoca. I remember the crowd not being too pleased
with that one. It was a close fight. I didn't
think a split draw was a bad decision. But nobody
wants their favorite to draw. Right, the Arizona
kid getting a draw in Arizona. Come on. Come
on. I think the draw might have been bailing
him out. if anything. The Arizona kid? Yes. Yeah,
I kind of thought Popoko won it too. Man, there
was one fight that was so good. I remember one
of the guys was pretty tall and lanky and he
was out fighting and everybody was cheering for
the other dude who was shorter, trying to get
on the inside and work on the body from the inside.
And I was the only one cheering for the lanky
dude. Nobody likes tall people, Leo. I'd be cheering
for the short guy too. Apparently not. The only
tall people I cheer for are the Fandoras. Man.
So I was like, they're all just cheering for
the aggression and everything. I'm like, watch
how he just pivots him off with his jab. Like
he's just going to stick his jab in his face,
pivot around him. He's going to land a combo.
Watch. And then happened every fucking time.
Yeah, and that's impressive. But everybody likes
when the little guy pulls it off. Yeah, well,
having been the tall, lanky guy, I don't agree.
Being 5 '4", I cheer for the shorter guys. Let's
see here. Abel Ramos gets the split decision
win over Tamir Smalls. Tamir started off really
well. I was actually pretty concerned. I was
like, man, Abel's about to get fucking embarrassed
here. This is not going well. Do you remember
what the coroner was telling him to do? Because
I tried to watch it again on the broadcast and
I didn't really catch anything. To Abel Ramos?
Yeah. The advice was all kind of just generic.
Boo. Be patient. Don't get over your skis type
stuff. Come on. If I remember right. I don't
remember it being anything special. Man, this
was Tamir Smalls came into this undefeated. This
was supposed to be like his jump up to like a
Abel was the gatekeeper and Tamir Smalls was
supposed to fucking kick down, kick open the
gate. And that did not happen. No, Unk still
got it. Unk still has it. He did it for us Unks
fucking everywhere. I actually enjoy Abel Ramos.
I've cheered for him for a while. Did you cheer
for Emiliano Vargas versus Agustin Quintana?
I did not agree with this stoppage. They stopped
it in the corner after the ninth. Agustin jumped
up out of his stool like, what the fuck? He was
fucking mad. Yeah, he was mad. But did you watch
the broadcast on that one? No. His corner had
been telling him for three or four rounds, we're
going to stop it. Not four. That's an exaggeration.
That was multiple rounds. The corner was like,
you're getting hit too much. You're not looking
good. We're going to stop it. And then Quintana
would come out. And do stuff. And he's like,
give me another round. And they did that a couple
times. And then they finally pulled it. I didn't
hear that. I mean, if you let it go through the
ninth, it's just one more round. I agree. It's
just one more round. I would have let him go
out. Because, like, he was losing. For sure.
He was definitely losing. For sure. He was doing
stuff. But. I always give corners shit. For not
stopping it soon enough. So I can't complain.
They were thinking about their fighter. And they
clearly saw something. That they were worried
about. When he was coming back to the stool.
For a couple rounds. But man. I would see Quintana
again. I would watch him. He was fun. Yeah, he
did a lot better than I was expecting. I kind
of thought they were going to give Vargas kind
of a little can to crush just to get his name
profile out there. I kind of think they thought
they were doing that. Really? And they pulled
up some unknown Argentine. Unknown, because I've
seen Quintana before. But they pulled up some
random Argentine, and Argentina has... that can
be knocked over. But Argentina has some serious
boxers. Argentina has huge boxing culture. Yeah,
yeah. And I think the Vargas team didn't pick
who they thought they were picking. But I like
Quintana. Like, if I see him on a card, I'm like,
oh, I've got to tune into this card. Because
he beat Mark Castro, which I know isn't a great
win, but that's where I saw him. Mark Castro
was on the rise at that point, right? He was
building up his name. Quintana was an upset for
sure. And that's the last time I think he was
on a broadcast I saw. But I was like, oh, I don't
think Emiliano Vargas watched tape. Or maybe
he did. Maybe they wanted a fight that was harder.
Maybe this was perfectly what they wanted. They
wanted somebody to push Emiliano because he hasn't
had that many hard fights. Vargas has kind of
been knocking over Cam. For the most part, yes.
Yeah. I do think this was good for Emiliano.
He had to show some new... Maybe not new stuff,
but he had to show stuff for the whole fight.
Like, Quintana does not go away. All right, so
the outburst is justified then. I get why Quintana's
mad, but I, just like you, I always say, like,
corners should be stepping in sooner, more often,
when things are no longer competitive. And corners,
no. Yes, they do. Like, or they should. No, I
guess. There are shitty corners out there. Don't
get me wrong. But when a corner steps in, I'm
always like, oh, they saw something. Yeah. Like,
they saw their fighter doing something that made
them worried. So Quintana, we can hope, gets
the call again. I'd watch it. Yeah, if you want
to give your guy solid work, then this is who
you call. Yeah, like, he's a step -up test. I
wouldn't really... I guess Gatekeeper works.
Like, I don't think Quintana's winning a world
title, ever. He's a higher -end Gatekeeper. Yeah,
yeah. Vargas at 140. He's still got work to do
before he gets to the title conversation, right?
Yeah. He's 11th in the IBF, 12th in the WBA.
Looking good as a prospect, though. But they
need to polish him some more, I think. He's number
five in the WBO. That is a fucking mistake if
you think you're going to challenge for that.
That's Shakur. at the top there yeah and he's
not in the wbc the rankings are so random yeah
they're they're a little weird it would i would
be i would prefer the organization pfl over on
the mma side they've outsourced their rankings
to like a neutral third party And I think that
the boxing sanctioning body should consider doing
the same. Boxing is definitely, like, I don't
want to say pay to win, but, like, you have to
really campaign for one of the belts to be in
the rankings. Like, there should be more people
that are in all the rankings because they're
clearly in the top ten. Right. That's what I'm
saying. They should be outsourced. Because I
don't give a shit who they're paying fees to.
What I want to know is how do they stack up compared
to this champion or that champion. I guess that
is the benefit of having one ranking system.
Yeah. Ooh, I see Sander Martine is getting close
to another title shot. Oh, shit. With Dalton
Smith. Yeah, he's number two in the WBC. Martine
is boring, but I just like that he's Spanish.
Not gonna lie. Mexican War. Oh, was it a war?
It was a fucking wipeout. It was a fucking wipeout.
I thought this was going to be a much more fun
fight. I really did. So did I. Nunez, kind of
disappointed. He looked a little starstruck or
something. He wasn't quite ready for the big
lights. I was going to say exactly that, the
big lights. I noticed about round four, I'm like,
man, this shit's over. He's not doing anything.
he's caught up in the moment so much that he's
not he's not throwing his hands and he's just
eating punishment it's this is not gonna go well
for him i would be surprised if this goes the
distance yeah well and nutritionist nav looked
fucking unstoppable He did. He looked fucking
amazing. I was riding for Nunez. I made it clear
it was because of no nutritionist nav. I would
like some comeuppance for the Coca -Cola's and
M &M's. I love that nav just was so good not
giving a shit. But nav giving a shit is... fucking
unstoppable i think it is we're entering that
mythical status of uh strength and conditioning
fucking nutrition navarrete's uh the like we're
talking they're talking about throwing them in
with oshaki foster abs a hard out for fucking
anybody i don't care what anyone says i know
a bunch of people are like he's so awkward, and
he's open to get caught, and he is, but that's
part of the charm. I don't know. I fucking love
Nav. Like, what are you doing throwing left uppercuts
from across the fucking ring? Like, forget a
gazelle hook or whatever the hell that was called.
Like, he's got a gazelle uppercut. Who does that?
Nobody. Who does it? And then, even fewer, who
lands it? Consistently. Consistently lands that
type of shit. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I love Nav.
Nav's one of my favorites. He's also got those
crazy monkey arms too. Yeah, that's why Punch
chose Nav. I told you. Yeah, I should have listened.
Punchy my boy. Everything about Nav, even with
a nutritionist, it's not like Nav was cut or
anything. No, he wasn't on the cover of men's
fitness or anything. No, but you could almost
see abs this time. Almost. Yeah. Maybe next time.
I fucking love Nav. He's so ridiculous. But yeah,
I think Nav can fight whoever the fuck he wants
and win right now. I don't know. That's what,
um... Oshaki Foster is tough. That's a tough
one to take. It's tough, but I think it's quite
feasible that Nav could get undisputed. Well,
yeah, the other belt holders, Jazza fucking Dickens,
of course. That's a fucking gimme, pretty much.
I do like that Nev called out Foster and not
Dickens. Good. I couldn't hear that part, so
I went back to the broadcast again to hear what
they were talking about. Yeah, yeah. That's the
only, like, bad part of going to Boxing Live.
I couldn't hear shit. Yeah. And, well, especially
not with that crowd. That crowd seemed loud.
It was hype as fuck. I was really glad I went.
My problem in Japan is everybody's quiet while
they speak Japanese, and then they all cheer
for what they said over top of the English. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, like, I never hear the translator.
She's also really quiet, that translator they
always have. Yeah. Nah, man, this seemed like
a great card to go to. Like, I was a little jealous
watching on TV. It seemed really loud and just
exciting to be there. Yeah, everyone was having
a good time. Some people were having too much
of a good time, apparently. There were legit
fights in the crowd. Not just drunken old men.
It was probably amateur boxers going at it in
the crowd. Damn. But yeah, Nav looked great.
He did. Keep the nutritionist, I guess. It seems
like a good move. I happily and humbly fucking
eat crow. That was fantastic. Nunez, yeah, it
was maybe a lack of experience under the bright
lights. I also think... nab just confuses people
everybody goes in with a game plan but who the
fuck do you spar to get ready for that punch
yeah like i just i don't think you can replicate
nab's style so it's confusing for the first few
rounds and i nunez just couldn't adjust he just
looked confused And he was getting hit hard.
And he tried. Like, he didn't give up. All he
could really do was plod forward, kind of flat
-footed, and then just get pieced up some more.
Yeah. But, like, I think he just didn't know
what to do. He didn't know how to counter ridiculousness.
Yeah, so Nav wants Foster. Wonderful fight. Nunez,
where do you go from here? Back down the rankings.
Yeah, Nunez needs a bit of a confidence boost,
I think. He got dropped to number seven. Fucking
feed him, Hayato Tsutsumi. What about... Luis
Lopez, Venado. The guy who got sparked by Angelo
Leo. Yeah. I don't like seeing Venado box anymore.
He's the one that had the brain bleed, right?
He did, yes. I just don't like that he's still
fighting, so I can't say I want to see that.
I want him to retire and not die in the ring.
Which body is Nunez in? He's in the other one.
Because I was going to say Kenichi Ogawa is getting
high up in the WBO. Ogawa's probably a pretty
easy out. I love Ogawa, but he's probably a pretty
easy out. Oh, there's no way in hell, Kenichi
Ogawa. Well, Nav also has, he has the, he owes
Charlie Suarez. He owes Charlie Suarez. Yeah.
And Suarez has, we had to do like the frame by
frame to kind of decide what, what happened.
And it wasn't clear if you didn't do frame by
frame, but it looked like it was caused by a
punch. The cut was. Yeah. It was made way, way
worse when his glove drug across it. Yeah. But
no, he does. He does owe Charlie Suarez. After
that, Foster's a good one. Ogawa has got some
time to kill. Ogawa versus Liam Wilson. I'm sure
Jacob would like that. Yeah, Liam Wilson comes
to Rumble. Ogawa comes to Rumble. Ogawa's got
a fight coming up. Does he? Yeah, I got an email
saying buy tickets. I forget when it is. I want
to say it's in April. I don't think I'll grab
a ticket. I want to wait and see who else is
fighting. Because Ogawa's just knocking over
another can. He's been knocking over cans for
a couple years now. As long as you pay tribute
to your sanctioning body, you'll move up the
rankings anyway. Yeah. Ogawa's what he always
was. I think any of the real world class guys
beat him. He does have that one punch. He does,
yes. But that's kind of all he has. And he's
getting old. But over in the IBF, I don't really
recognize a whole bunch of names. Ray Ford was
not bad. I don't think that's a good one for
Nunez next. No, no, no, no. Definitely not. Masanori
Rikishi would be good. Yeah. Liam Wilson is right
there as well. Josh Padley, not bad. Konsei Sao,
not bad. Yeah. Like I said, though, I think Nunez
needs not a give me, but he needs a confidence
booster. Yeah. After that ass kicking. Anything
more for the matchroom card on the zone? No,
it was a fun card. If you missed it, it's worth
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bitch all right coming up it's a decent weekend
um starting off you know what this i i need to
look when the last time this happened but this
is the second month in a row that we have friday
the 13th february we had it march we had it'll
happen it'll happen twice in a row anytime Happens
in February. Yeah, that makes sense. The first
28 dates are on the same day of the week in March.
And then we'll have it again in November of this
year. But they're usually like seven or eight
months apart. Yeah. Anyway, Pearl Box TV on Friday,
March 13th at the Osceola Heritage Park in Florida.
This card is still filling out, but what we do
have right now is pretty nice. Najee Lopez versus
Manuel Gallegos at the headline. Dominic Valle
versus Eduardo Ramirez in the co -main. Kenyon
Valle down the bill versus Anel Dudo. That's
a very unusual name. He is from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Oh. So. Okay. Not so unusual now. Now that I
know it's Balkan. But. Yeah, no. I mean, it's
pro box. I'm going to watch. It's going to be
a good time. No brainer. Fucking. Saturday, March
14th. Queensberry on DAZN at the Three Arena
in Dublin. Like a few names here that I recognize.
Gary Coley is facing Benito Sanchez. How do I
say this? Liam Walsh is facing E -O -G -H -A
-N. Evan. Evan? Evan. Are you... Pretty sure
it's Evan. It's one of those Gaelic names. Yeah,
well, of course. I just wasn't sure how to say
it. I was going to say like Aegon or something
like from Game of Thrones. Maybe it's Egan, but
I think it's Evan. It's like Siobhan. Yeah. And
there's that other dude, I don't remember. Kevin.
Kevin, yeah, but it's spelled like Kowowowan
or something like that. Yeah, yeah. I think the
H's are often a V sound. Yeah, I think you're
right. So I think this is Evan. Or Evan with
an accent. We'll find out on March 14th. Yeah.
John O 'Carroll. Haven't seen him in quite some
time. I don't know who that is. I have to click
on his picture. He's like an angry leprechaun
looking guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Pierce O 'Leary
is facing Mark Chamberlain. Mark Chamberlain,
I haven't seen for a while. Yeah. Last time I
remember, he was fighting on a card in Saudi
Arabia. And for whatever reason, Turkey Al -Alshaykh
just came out after Mark Chamberlain's fight
and said, yeah, you're one of my favorite fighters
ever. And it's kind of weird. Weird choice. Yeah,
of all the people you're going to be a hardcore
fan of, we all have our pet favorites, but Mark
Chamberlain? Are you sure? He's been keeping
busy. He's had two fights last year. Nice. That's
good. In the main event, Jazza Dickens, the WBA
130 champ. Faces 7th rated Anthony Kakachi. This
is going to be a dirty fucking awful fight. I
hate Anthony Kakachi. Josh loves him. He calls
him the British can crusher. Or not can, but
the British fucking vanquisher. Yeah, and he
might do it again, but I fucking hate Kakachi.
I'm going to have to cheer for Jazza here. If
Kakachi were to face Josh Warrington, who would
you be backing on that one? I mean, headbutts?
I would be backing headbutts. I would bet on
a no contest. I don't know if that's really a
thing you can bet on, but I would bet on a no
contest. Josh Warrington retired, right? Yes.
As far as I know. We don't have to deal with
him anymore? Hopefully not. He looked like shit
in that fight. That last one. His headbutting
was still... His headbutting game was just fucking
peach perfect still. Yes. The thing he's best
at. Yep. Can't be beat. Jazza Dickens, though.
He got elevated as the champion. He didn't really
fight his way there. Yeah, it's not like I'm
a big Jazza fan. This is more of a hate watch
than anything. Yeah. But it does look like there
might be some fun scraps. Yeah. Gary Coley is
not bad. Not a bad... Out. He comes to rumble.
Even if he's outgunned. Where is this? Okay,
Benito Sanchez, his opponent, is 17, 17 and 4.
Yeah. Question marks. He's a Mexican ginger.
Maybe he'll bang. That's what I was going to
say. Oh, my God. All his last fights are losses,
though. How many is this? Holy shit. He's got
the one draw. Yeah. His last ten are nine losses
and a draw. Okay. But all of his a lot of these
losses are scoring referees in the UK. So he's
been brought in I think. To lose. I think what
is happening is they brought him in to put him
in front of developing young British fighters,
and then they say, look, it's a Mexican. You
can do it. We need to get over the mental hump
of facing Mexican fighters. Yeah, because Mexicans
beating Brits, it's a tale as old as time. It
is. It is. But I'm not going to put any hopes
in Benito Sanchez, given his recent record. He's
from the Chololo Larios Boxing Gym. So, isn't
that fun? Moving on. Goldenboy, also on DAZN.
From the bottom up, I'm not certain that this
is the exact running order, but the fights that
we do know, we have Jojo Diaz. Who's he fighting?
I just completely fucking blanked on it. Alexis
Rocha. God. He's facing Alexis Rocha at welterweight.
Are they finally going to kill Jojo Diaz? One
can hope. Fucking child toucher person. Yeah.
But like, Jojo is tough. You have to give him
his tough. Yes. But Alexa Rocha is just going
to beat the shit out of him. Alexis Rocha is
like a full -fledged welterweight. He's not necessarily
the greatest welterweight you're going to come
across, but he's... But he's also not the worst.
Yes, he's not the worst either. And then Jojo
Diaz, he's started his career at like 126. Yeah,
like Jojo belongs at like 130. 135 maybe. Maybe.
But yeah. This isn't going to go well for Jojo
Diaz. No. And he cuts so bad. This is going to
be bloody. I'm 100 % sure we'll see blood. I
was going to say I'm 100 % sure this doesn't
go the distance. One way or another. Yeah. Jojo
doesn't have power. No. He didn't really have
power before. Yeah. This is just somebody wants
to see a pedophile get beat up. And I'm all for
that. That's not a complaint. Moving up. Gabby
Fundora versus Viviana Ruiz. I'm always excited
to see Gabby. Man, she's going to beat the piss
out of this woman. Yeah. Yeah. Vivian Ruiz is
good. But Gabby's just... really good she's great
yeah i've been seeing it's come up especially
with the most recent clarissa shields fight the
talk of where where do women land on the pound
for pound list because you have to do you do
have to give credit to shields for being as dominant
as she is but Like, you also have to keep in
mind that her opposition is not very good. So,
like, you're crushing cans, and you're dominating
as you're supposed to, but someone like Katie
Taylor has had a lot tougher opposition. Tougher,
yeah. Well, and you always say you don't consider
the heavyweights in the pound -for -pound, really.
I don't. No, I don't. So that acts as Clarissa.
Yeah, well, she was never in it to be... She
was in it when she was, like, at super middleweight
and stuff, but... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, not anymore.
I don't know. Pound for pound in the women's
is... I'd have to put Gabi way up there, I think.
Absolutely. That's why I'm asking. She's probably
my number one. People won't like that take, but...
I mean... She fights small, and she gets knockouts.
Which not many women do. Yeah, it is a bit more
uncommon. Even across on the MMA side of the
street, it's still not as common. Yeah. Like,
Gabi might be my number one. I haven't sat down
and really thought about it, but she's probably
my number one, pound for pound. She's got skills,
but she also seems to have some power. Yes. Yes,
she does. So that leverage that she gets on those
fucking long -ass limbs. Yeah. One of the few
things that I remember from AP Physics is torque.
Yeah, yeah. Long levers. Yes. Speaking of pound
for pound, Oscar Collazo will be putting his
WBA, WBO... Minimum weight titles on the line
against Jesus Haro. I'm still pissed off about
this. This was supposed to be Melvin Jerusalem.
It was. They screwed over my little Filipino.
I mean, Collazo's gonna kill this kid. Yep. It's
not gonna be competitive. Even I don't know who
Jesus Haro is, and he's got a few losses already.
For whatever it's worth, beloved listener, Koyaso
is the number one strawweight, and Haro is number
60 on BoxRec. Yeah, I don't understand. Why did
you do this? Having Melvin Jerusalem on there,
You could have marketed that as something. Well,
it would be another unification. Exactly. It
would have gotten Collazo closer. Yeah. But,
yeah, I don't know. I really like Collazo. I
think he's a great boxer. But this move has annoyed
me to no end. And I don't get the thought process.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. Unless
Collazo hurt himself in camp or something and
doesn't want to... Oh, something we don't know
about behind the scenes? Yeah, and he's like,
well, give me somebody I can beat anyways. Someone
I can beat handicapped? Yeah, like, Collazo can
beat this kid with a whatever. And main event,
Arnold Barbosa. Versus Kenneth Sims at Welterweight.
Which one's Kenneth Sims? Sorry. This could be
fun. They both kind of throw a lot of punches,
right? Or am I mixing up my people? I am not
very familiar with Kenneth Sims, to be honest.
His box rec pitcher is also not great. It just
looks like something somebody took after a fight.
Yeah. Sims is coming off a loss to Duarte. Oh,
shit. He is. Close decision loss. Close -ish.
Mixed decision. Yeah. That was at 140. He fought
Kendo Castaneda at 147. Jonathan Romero at 147.
Huh. Kind of goes up and down a little bit. Yeah,
he's fluctuating a bit. Yeah, and I've definitely
seen some of these fights. Barbossa, he's been
at 140 for a minute. I think this could be interesting.
This seems on paper like it should be a good
matchup. Yes, it appears that it should be competitive.
Yeah. Even if Kenneth Sims is number 56 or whatever.
I think he's better than that. Barbossa with
the number 8 on BoxRec, that's at 140. For whatever
it's worth. Because he hasn't moved up yet. Right.
Way to tick. No, Kenneth Sims is also rated at
140. So, never mind. His last fight was at 140.
I mean, included in your DAZN subscription, definitely
worth watching. Yeah. And if nothing else, I
can promise that the chat will be fun. If the
fights suck, the chat gets more fun than normal.
That's true. And you get to see Gabi, and you're
going to get to see Collazo's style on some nobody.
Yeah, which... Pisses me off. If you want to
start getting into the Mighty Minis, this is
a good time to start. I don't know if this is
a good time, but you'll probably see a knockout.
That's what I'm saying, because it's going to
be a beatdown. Yeah, but one -sided beatdowns
aren't fun. The Minis are fun when it's close
and they throw a thousand punches. That's what
makes them a good time? That's what makes them
a good time. If you aren't scared of getting
knocked out with one punch, you take more chances.
And you throw more. That is my pitch for the
minis. Well, speaking of the minis, Sunday, March
15th, take in promotions at Yokohama Kanagawa,
Japan. I got my ticket. Well, I paid for my ticket.
I gotta go print it out. today uh from these
bottom two do you see we have hayato aiko versus
natsuki kuramochi that's i don't know these two
i don't know yeah i don't know these two uh matsumoto
i've seen before russei matsumoto he's on his
way up but i don't know that he'll ever really
get out of japan If I'm not mistaken, he has
the WBA regular title. Okay. Well, then he's
going to get out of Japan. Uni Takada is one
of those gatekeeper guys. Like, if you can beat
him, you're good. If you're not that good, he's
going to beat you. But this is a rematch. Is
it? What does TDU mean? TDU's a unanimous technical
decision, so it's like it got medical stoppage
after the fourth. Okay, okay. Then it goes to
the cards. Yeah, so their last fight went to
the cards early. Looks like it's after the fifth,
and those five rounds were a clean sweep for
Matsumoto. I suspect he'll win, but it should
be a fun fight. Anthony Olasquaga, WBO flyweight
champ versus Jukia Imura. I went out for drinks
last night and I got Olasquaga a new fan. Really?
Yeah, the Brazilian girl invited me out for drinks
with one of her lab mates because he watches
boxing. And I was talking about Olasquaga and
how he's called the princess and he always has
like fun outfits and stuff. And she's like, I
don't care about boxing, but his Instagram looks
cute. Because I showed her, he did a get ready
with me. Of course he did. Of course he did.
He doesn't have, well, I guess he's got a little
bit of a beard, but he trims up his hair and
stuff like once a week himself. He lines it up
and everything. Yeah, and he like fades the sides.
I don't know if that's the right word. But yeah,
he was doing his get -ready thing, and I showed
her that, and she's like, this is cute. And I
was like, nice. Yeah. How tall is this woman?
She's a little taller than me, maybe like 5 '5",
5 '6". Okay, so kind of at the height where if
she saw Ola Squaga in person, she would say,
oh, that's cute. Yeah, probably. And I was trying
to explain how small the boxers I like are. And
I'm really bad at kilograms. And she's like,
what do they fight at? Like 60 kilograms? And
I was like, no. Like, what's 60 kilograms? I
think they fight at 43 or 44. Yeah, yeah. And
she's like, I haven't weighed that since elementary
school. And I was like, yeah, yeah. So. I'm excited
for the Ola Squaga fight. I don't think I recognize
the guy he's fighting. His box art picture is
hilarious. It's him in a sombrero. Well done.
And it's red, white, and green too. Dope. Never
fought outside of Japan, so I'm not sure what
that's about. But yeah, I'm assuming Ola Squaga
is going to win. It's always a fun fight. Yeah,
he's an exciting fighter to watch. Yeah. Moving
up, Tamanun Neomtrong, aka Knockout CP Freshmark.
I get to see the legend in person, Leo. Yeah.
He's defending, right? His WBC Light Flyweight
title? Yeah, I think he won it in his last fight.
He's facing... Shokichi Iwata. Iwata's also fun.
Like, this should be good. Iwata has power for
such a small guy. I'm a little worried that he's
gonna crack Freshmart. Freshmart does have a
lot of mileage. He's old. And being that small
has to be hard. I'm just super excited to see
Freshmart in person. I was talking to a different
girl. She's from Thailand, and she didn't recognize
his fight name, but she's like, oh, this guy's
super famous. He's on TV all the time. So apparently,
CP Freshmart's famous in Thailand. Yeah, I was...
My thinking was... CP Freshmart? is an online
like uh order and delivery grocery store yeah
they also have locations you could go to but
it's one of the biggest chains in thailand so
like apparently he's like the the sponsor for
them he's the poster boy for yeah so it makes
sense that everybody would know who he is of
course it's like having your name be fucking
uh leo xp walmart or something Yeah. But like
he's on the commercials. Yeah. She didn't recognize
his name. Oh, well, I probably butchered. Well,
I tried his real name, but I probably butchered
it. But she recognized his face instantly. Nice.
Yeah. I'm glad he's famous. I love C .P. Freshmark.
Yeah. He his rivalry with I don't remember his
full name, but his. His rivalry with Moonsree?
Yeah. That was one of the few things that got
me paying attention to the straw weights. Well,
and just holding that belt for so long. People
don't do that. Like, you don't stay that small
for so long. Is this the main event? I don't
know if I have the running order. You have them
out of order. Ola Squaga is the main event. Okay.
Makes sense. But the last one on the card, Nonito
Donair versus Riku Masuda in a WBA bantamweight
eliminator. I can't believe Donair's still doing
it. Well, he had a great fight with Susumi. He
did have a great fight with Susumi. I'm also
excited to see Donair again, but I kind of hope
Masuda wins. To be honest. Just to send Donair
home? Yeah. If he keeps doing this, he's gonna
get hurt. Well, Rachel Donair is accustomed to
a certain lifestyle at this point. And Nonito
Donair is the most pussy -whipped man on Earth.
He is most definitely at his wife's beck and
call. Yeah, yeah. So if she wants him to keep
fighting, he probably will. Oh, he'll fight until
she says stop. Yeah. But Masuda's good. Like,
this is not a gimme at all. Masuda's only loss
was to Seiya Satsumi. It's very fitting that
they would be having an Eliminator. But yeah,
I'm super excited for this one. Alright, so we've
got taken. We're going into your trip to Yokohama
weekend. Yeah. We've got a little bit of action
in Dublin. Out in California. But the mighty
mini card parting words. I'm just super excited.
It's a night of legends. Like, there's a couple
people on this that well i never thought i'd
get to see knockout cp freshmart live so i'm
just super excited about that and this arena
is close to like four craft beer breweries yeah
so i might wake up early have a couple beers
before the fights guy I went to drinks with,
he's from Yokohama, so he was letting me in on
all the secrets. Nice. Yeah. Oh, shit. Well,
for parting words, in the recaps was my boxing
outing in the previews, Shinada's boxing outing.
If you can, go to an event. If it's near enough
that you're like you're not going to be put out
going, then go. Honestly, even like smaller shows
can be a lot of fun. Club level stuff can be
a lot of fun. And they're usually not that expensive.
Club shows are not at all. Like, I don't know
about American prices, but here it's like 50
bucks to go to Colerico and Hall. I don't...
I was getting in on press passes. Not flexing,
but at the same time, I couldn't drink or anything
or have a ball. I'm supposed to be a neutral
observer. But, yeah. Those are my parting words.
If you can go to an event, fucking go. You will
not regret it. I agree. I'm gonna miss. boxing
when I go back to Canada because there's fucking
none to watch live. Well, that's it for this
edition of Boxing Before Dark. Fuck, my batteries
are getting low. And it is getting dark. See
you on the other side of Yokohama. Bye.