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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing

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Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.

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Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This

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is Boxing Before Dark. All right. Boxing Before

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Dark. Holy shit. We are back. Shanada. We have,

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this is like a two month old comment, but we

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have an angry listener. Oh, nice. I like it.

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So here, I'm going to read you the comment. I'm

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not sure who this is directed at, but it was

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on a Boxing Before Dark video. So it's one of

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the two of us. Here, here, exact words from BC355.

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How dare you comment on people from UK for thinking

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we can't be bothered to travel 40 minutes to

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see relatives. So many of us have traveled the

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world, seen so many different cultures and people

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from different environments. Most of you guys

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don't even have passports because you think that

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the US is the world. It's probably talking about

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me then. I'm not saying that you're on that list

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because I don't know you, just like you obviously

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have no idea about the average person in the

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UK. Alright. This was two months ago. So it's

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January time frame. But we definitely talked

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about it on the podcast. I remember. Of course.

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Because I went to the UK. Which is how I was

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able to speak with such confidence. Because every

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single UK person that I met. Which was in Liverpool.

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Thanks to Robbie. And how fucking outgoing he

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is. It was a lot of people in Liverpool. Thanks

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to me, just going out in Manchester and Leeds,

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it was quite a few people. And same with London.

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And the joke that I made every time rang true

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with all of them. It was, to Americans, 100 years

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is a long time. To Brits, 100 miles is a long

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way. yeah and they all thought like yeah oh shit

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like ha ha ha goddamn yankee that's exactly right

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yeah yeah yes i know i i knew it was right before

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i came but i you thank you all for confirming

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yeah i don't mean to generalize everybody in

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the uk of course that was never my intention

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but based on the myriad of people that i did

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meet traveling 40 minutes an hour is a long fucking

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way. Cause like talking to them, uh, I, when

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I was talking about going to see, uh, you bank

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Ben and I was telling them like where I was staying

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in London compared to where the fight was. And

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they're like, Oh shit, that's a lot. Like that's

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a, that's a bit of a hike even with taking the

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subway. Well, like you gotta make it work, man.

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If you really want to go to these things, you

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gotta make it work. Yeah, like I'm going to those

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fights in Yokohama and it's about it's probably

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going to be a little over two hours with trains

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and buses and stuff. And people are like, oh,

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my God, you're doing that in one day. I'm like,

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yeah, I want to see the fight. It's pretty fucking

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standard in North America. Yeah. Like I go to

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Tokyo fairly often and people are like, no, that's

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like that's a big thing to do. You have to plan

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that. It's a fucking 40 minutes on the train,

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guys. well but it's worth it to visit family

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i agree for family absolutely maybe maybe that

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is the generalization that is when they didn't

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like yeah yeah yeah yeah going for family maybe

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that's a totally different story but like going

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to like talking i've driven 40 minutes for mcdonald's

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i've driven an hour and a half for mcdonald's

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so sometimes you gotta have those fries man look

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they're so good yeah The people in Liverpool,

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I think it was 90 minutes by train from Liverpool

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to London. Yeah. And they're like, oh, that's

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way too far. I wouldn't do that. Yeah, I know

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Robbie said he hasn't been to London in years

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and years. Since he was like 13, he said. Yeah.

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Like, bro, that's not that far. And he's like

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30 -something. Yeah. Man, it's different because

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that distance that he has to travel to get to

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London, that's how far away my sister lives.

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But that's totally different, going to a fight

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in London versus going to visit your family.

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I'd probably go to the fights. Well, that's a

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lie. I used to drive four hours twice a month

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to see my family. But yeah, I think the family

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part is the... Yeah, yeah. Sorry, I know people

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in the UK visit family. Of course. I have heard

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people complain. About driving too far. And it's

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not that far. It's like what I do to get my mail.

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Yeah, there are social media people, like personalities,

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who specifically, that I know of, a British guy

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and a French guy. And both of them are like,

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you have no idea. how big this place is oh yeah

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that move to america yeah yeah there's a couple

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guys that did the same thing in canada as well

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yeah of course and they're like same same i said

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i wanted to see the rocky mountains and i'm living

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in i think he was in um saskatchewan somewhere

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i think he was in regina and it's like a 10 -hour

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drive and people are like oh yeah we'll plan

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a we'll plan like a long weekend trip and he's

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like no But my family used to go on a ski trip

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twice a year, and we drove eight and a half hours

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to get there. Like, driving to L .A. is about,

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like, it's about six hours on the road. I've

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done that for long weekends, like when we did

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Bud Madrimov. Yeah. It's pretty standard. Yeah,

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I guess priorities, and it's, like, it's also

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relative. Like, because for me... Driving six

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hours, not that big of a deal. Yeah. Yeah. But

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keeping family out of it, because that's totally

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different circumstances. But I'm super excited

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we got a comment, even if it's a pissed off one.

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Oh, we also, Pedro has been commenting on our

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stuff, too. Oh, has he? Yeah. Where do people

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comment? Because I only listen on YouTube. Yeah,

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they're commenting on YouTube. Ah, shit. I'm

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just too early, I guess. I got my notification

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turned on. But I think that's going to do it

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for our unrelated stuff. We were talking last

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time, as we shift away from Punch, who has been

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accepted by his troop, they took his plushie

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away. They gave it to another orphaned baby.

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Oh, nice. Not baboon or macaque. I think it was

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a chimpanzee. Okay. But they gave it to another

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baby that needs a cuddle friend. And as we shift

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our animal focus, the pygmy hippo that was born

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here in Arizona a few weeks ago is named Jelly

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Bean. That's a perfect name for pygmy hippos.

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Yes, it's very, very cute. There's already the

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online discussion of Jelly Bean versus Mudang.

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Mudang. Yep. Of course. Like, why do we have

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to pit women against each other? Why can't we

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just build each other up? Just be friends. Yeah,

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dude. Fellow lady hippos being homies. What's

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the problem? Named after food. Is that what mudang

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is? Mudang's like fatty pork bowls, yeah. Oh,

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fuck. Man, there's a dish in Korea. It's called

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eodang, and it's like fish cake. oh okay so not

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quite the same but then like when i heard mudang

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i was like huh is that like beef cake just uh

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dumb i think it's pork i think it's pork um but

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we'll keep up with jellybean see what sort of

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shenanigans she gets up to um but into the boxing

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news finally well is it The IBF has stripped

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Jannebeck. I'm trying to think. Finally, because

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like technically, yes, he did pop for PEDs. But

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the medical circumstances behind it, if we take

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Team Jannebeck at their word. I think they did

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release some medical records to the Boxing Commission

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or whatever it is. So he was in the hospital

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for something with stroke -like symptoms. And

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that one he popped for is... If I understand

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the science properly, and I might not, it helps

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your body use sugar more efficiently. So I don't

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really know how that one helps with a stroke.

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But I am not a medical doctor, so maybe that's

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super obvious to people who know stuff. I don't

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know. Or maybe it was just him trying to cover

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up that he was healing from being in the hospital

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and took steroids. Using sugar more efficiently,

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that does sound like you're cutting weight. Yeah.

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This still smells like, oh, dang, still a little

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fishy, but. Yeah. But if he really had a stroke,

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I fucking hate when boxers go back in the ring

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after stuff like that. Yes. Major medical issues.

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Dog, if you genuinely had a stroke, as you claim,

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it's time to call it quits. Yeah. Like you've

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made a lot of money. It's not worth dying. Right.

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Open a gym. Kazakhstan, like, fucking team up

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with Triple G. Get another energy drink out there.

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There's other shit you can do, man. Yeah. You

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don't have to not work. You just need to not

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get punched in the head for a living. Or cut,

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like, 30 fucking pounds to make weight for a

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fight, like, two or three times a year. That's

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true, too. Yeah. I guess we'll have to keep watching

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to see how this shapes out. Like, not necessarily.

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Like, the IBF, they've stripped him, so that

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ship has sailed. WBO gave him that retroactive

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suspension. The Kazakh Commission gave him that

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retroactive suspension. Of, like, one year, which

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he was probably going to be off anyway. Right.

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If he had a stroke, like, a year is... Not a

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lot of time to be taken off. Like, you should

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be taking more, if not indefinite. Like, yeah,

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exactly. But yeah, we'll see how this shapes

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out, because things are still fishy here. Frank

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Sanchez, his knee was inflamed, I think was the

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word. So his fight with Richard Torres, that

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was the co -main for Fundora Thurman. That fight

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has been postponed. Brian Mendoza versus Yohannes

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Taez is now the co -main. Mendoza's fun. Yes.

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Like, that should be a good co -main. Probably

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better than Richard Torres, to be honest. Mendoza

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is fun. I just don't like the heavyweights very

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much. Shenada biases. They don't throw any punches.

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I think Richard Torres would have thrown a lot.

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He is more active. If anyone was going to make

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it stinky, it would have been Frank. Not just

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because he's Cuban, but also because his knee,

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it's a known issue. Yeah, it's a known issue.

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And that he's a Cuban like 33, so he's probably

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like 40. Exactly. But Brian Mendoza is fun, as

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you put it. Yoannis Tejas, I don't remember if

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he's been back since he lost to Bas Baru, but

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he did give a spirited performance even in that

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loss. So this is not a bad comeback for Tejas.

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It's a winnable comeback. Yeah, this one isn't

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like a foregone conclusion or anything. I think

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it'll be a fun co -main. I think it'll be pretty

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close. Yeah, it should be competitive. Michaela

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Mayer has parted ways with Top Rank. She's now

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signed with Most Valuable Promotions. MVPW, I

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think, is the subsidiary that they're using.

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Oh, okay. I was like, what the fuck's the W?

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But yeah, yeah. It's Watermelon. I'm just slow.

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What was nice was Michaela Mayer took to social

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media and she's been saying like, I'm beyond

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grateful for the time I had with Top Rank. It

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was like the most wonderful 10 years ever. I'm

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grateful to Todd Duboff for taking a chance on

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me. I would not be who I am or in the position

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that I'm in without Top Rank. It's just nice

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to see somebody like parting ways with a promoter.

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And not saying, like, fuck that snake. Yeah,

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yeah. Well, and MVP is the place for the women.

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It is, absolutely. They get the women big fights,

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and they have fucking most of the good women

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boxers right now. So it should be easier to make

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some big fights. The only one missing from, like,

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the major women that are not signed with MVP,

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Clarissa Shields and Gabby. I don't know who

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else. Lauren Price, maybe? I think she's with

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Boxer. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't pay that much

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attention. Is Caroline Dubois MVP now? She is

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now. Yeah. I think this is a good move. And like

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you said, it's nice to see they're not burning

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bridges. Yeah, I think they'll do business again.

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MVP and top rank. I think they will anyway. And

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MVP, they don't really have a TV deal, but they

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seem to be able to get their boxers spots. MVPW

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has a TV deal with ESPN. Oh, do they? Yes. Yeah,

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we talked about it, where it was like they probably

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don't have to pay as much because it's women's

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fights. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they'll still pay

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a decent premium, at least. Top Rank needs some

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sort of broadcast deal. Speaking of top ranks

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woes, Teofimo Lopez tweeted, then deleted within

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a span of like two minutes. Quote, I may never

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fight again. His words. I mean, the almost instant

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deletion, I assume this is just Teemo, Teemo?

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Teo having a bad day. Yeah, that was something

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I didn't put into Discord was like, I know. What

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a depressive episode feels like. And I want to

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type into Twitter, like, I would prefer to set

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myself on fire than have to fucking deal with

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anything right now. Yeah. Well, and I'm sure

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his dad had just gotten finished chewing him

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out or something. My dad was a piece of shit,

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too, Teofimo. If you need to talk about it, bro,

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I'm here for you. Hardshell tacos. That's the

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whole fucking point of Hardshell Tacos. I don't

00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:09.759
know. I've said it a million times. I just feel

00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:16.319
bad for Tio. Yeah, I do too. I will still, if

00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:18.240
I ever get a chance to meet him and shake his

00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.460
hand, I will shake his hand with the Zoloft pill

00:17:20.460 --> 00:17:25.559
in my hand to pass it to him. I'm like, you want

00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:31.039
this. I'm telling you, you want this. Moving

00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:36.710
on to... Jordan Martinez, the guy that got the

00:17:36.710 --> 00:17:42.390
draw with Arturo Popoca. I think he goes by Cardenas

00:17:42.390 --> 00:17:46.809
now. But he got the draw. He signs with Matchroom.

00:17:46.970 --> 00:17:51.109
So, fuck yeah, dude. Local kid making it big.

00:17:53.009 --> 00:17:56.809
He has a greasy fucking box rec photo. Oh, my

00:17:56.809 --> 00:18:02.329
God. Have you seen it? Yes, I have. His... But

00:18:02.329 --> 00:18:05.309
that's... Matchroom's a big signing. That's good

00:18:05.309 --> 00:18:10.410
for him. It's a social media video that goes

00:18:10.410 --> 00:18:15.650
around. A guy is getting his mustache trimmed

00:18:15.650 --> 00:18:21.009
up, and the voiceover is like a fake cholo barber.

00:18:22.210 --> 00:18:24.250
It's like, we're going to get you looking all

00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:31.170
firme. Doing the fake whistle. That's exactly

00:18:31.170 --> 00:18:33.940
what he looks like. That is what he looks like.

00:18:34.140 --> 00:18:38.279
That guy getting his... Doesn't look bad, but

00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.920
that is just the most... It's a look. Yeah. It

00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:48.420
is a look. Speaking of looks, Ashton Silva is

00:18:48.420 --> 00:18:51.319
coming back. He will be fighting, I think...

00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.299
I don't know if he signed with MF Pro or Queensberry,

00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:58.180
but he's going to be fighting on the Wilder Chisora

00:18:58.180 --> 00:19:02.119
undercard. So, good to see him back. I gotta

00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.640
see a picture. Oh, nice, yeah. I recognize his

00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.000
picture. Yeah, good to see him make moves. They

00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.339
have quite a few Americans on that undercard.

00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:14.140
Are they trying to make it like a America versus

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US thing? US versus UK? So, like, would that

00:19:18.619 --> 00:19:24.400
be US, UK? Would that be You Suck? Yes. Yes,

00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:30.440
it would. You suck because you won't travel 45

00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:35.940
minutes to see your family. That's not true because

00:19:35.940 --> 00:19:38.799
you absolutely would. But yeah, you know what?

00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:43.339
I think that would be a solid way to build the

00:19:43.339 --> 00:19:49.920
card out. Yeah, I mean, people really get into

00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:58.160
that. I'm not very patriotic, so. The only time

00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.079
that it comes into play for me is when I don't

00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:06.099
know who I'm going to cheer for. So let's weigh

00:20:06.099 --> 00:20:10.480
our options. Are they American? No, then I'm

00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:14.400
not cheering for them. Are they Latino? Yes,

00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.319
then I'm cheering for them. But it just goes

00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:22.440
down like the flow chart. And that's only if

00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:28.589
it's like I don't. Wilder, Chizora, man, I'm

00:20:28.589 --> 00:20:30.849
going for the American, of course. I have to.

00:20:30.970 --> 00:20:34.490
Nah, I'm backing Chizora. Yeah, well, so what

00:20:34.490 --> 00:20:36.930
if I think he's actually going to win? I'm still

00:20:36.930 --> 00:20:43.369
going with Wilder. Ignore the evidence of your

00:20:43.369 --> 00:20:47.769
eyes and ears. I mean, that one's just going

00:20:47.769 --> 00:20:51.109
to be fun. Should be a good time. That is one

00:20:51.109 --> 00:20:53.150
of the few heavyweight fights that I'm like,

00:20:53.230 --> 00:20:55.730
this is just going to be entertaining. Hopefully.

00:20:56.309 --> 00:21:00.069
But I can't see Chizora not making it entertaining.

00:21:01.009 --> 00:21:04.829
Chizora is always entertaining. Usually entertaining.

00:21:05.410 --> 00:21:08.710
He's put on some stinkers. Yeah, but I didn't

00:21:08.710 --> 00:21:10.630
see those, so they don't count. Oh, okay then.

00:21:10.789 --> 00:21:13.190
I was going to say, his fights with Dillian White

00:21:13.190 --> 00:21:20.349
were just bad. Hot, hot garbage. Yeah, I don't

00:21:20.349 --> 00:21:23.150
think I saw those. His fight with Usyk? Not very

00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:27.970
entertaining. He tried his best to make it entertaining.

00:21:29.309 --> 00:21:32.490
Chizora sounding like a dying wildebeest in the

00:21:32.490 --> 00:21:36.789
corner was pretty entertaining. Yeah. In the

00:21:36.789 --> 00:21:40.210
Dillion White fights, he did a lot of taunting

00:21:40.210 --> 00:21:43.349
and showboating. I think at one point, he had

00:21:43.349 --> 00:21:47.650
Dillion White... They had tied up, and then he

00:21:47.650 --> 00:21:49.849
kind of got over to the top of them, and so,

00:21:49.910 --> 00:21:52.289
like, Dillian White was, like, bent over, and

00:21:52.289 --> 00:21:54.849
the ref was coming over, and then Derek Chisora

00:21:54.849 --> 00:21:58.609
just, like, thrust it on his head. Oh! Yeah,

00:21:58.829 --> 00:22:07.569
so that was pretty funny. Oh, man. Bam! Moving

00:22:07.569 --> 00:22:12.569
up to Bantamweight. Has me stressed the fuck

00:22:12.569 --> 00:22:19.410
out. Aiming for WBA champ Antonio Vargas. Because

00:22:19.410 --> 00:22:23.049
they recessed my boy again. They give him no

00:22:23.049 --> 00:22:26.950
time. What do you mean? So they brought him out

00:22:26.950 --> 00:22:30.769
of recess and then put him back? Yeah, so he

00:22:30.769 --> 00:22:34.769
is injured. He had to postpone his next fight.

00:22:35.950 --> 00:22:38.430
And so they instantly put him back in recess.

00:22:38.549 --> 00:22:42.970
They give Seiya Sutsumi zero time. Because the

00:22:42.970 --> 00:22:46.690
last time they recessed him for his eye, they

00:22:46.690 --> 00:22:51.289
put him in recess like a month after his fight,

00:22:51.349 --> 00:22:56.029
I think. And he fought within that same year,

00:22:56.109 --> 00:22:58.289
for sure. I think it was within seven months.

00:23:00.009 --> 00:23:04.019
Which was the Donair fight, right? Yeah, other

00:23:04.019 --> 00:23:07.440
champions don't get recessed like that. No, they

00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.420
don't. I don't know why they're fucking with

00:23:11.420 --> 00:23:17.359
Seiya so bad. Like, I don't understand it. Because

00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.420
he had to postpone his fight. But he fought Donair,

00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:25.539
what, in February? I think so. Like, it wasn't

00:23:25.539 --> 00:23:30.779
long ago. And... This next fight that they were

00:23:30.779 --> 00:23:34.200
talking about with Vargas, he had to postpone,

00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:37.480
but champions postpone fights all the fucking

00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:41.799
time and don't get recessed. I can only say that

00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.940
at least they didn't strip him. I guess, but...

00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:50.099
It's a small consolation, but... Anyways, if

00:23:50.099 --> 00:23:54.759
he has to come back to BAM, I think the Tsutsumi

00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:59.920
train might get derailed. Yeah. I'm still gonna

00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:05.019
ride with him, but it's not gonna be fun. Now

00:24:05.019 --> 00:24:07.559
you know how I feel about Wilder vs. Chizora.

00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:12.240
It's not like I don't cheer for people I know

00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:16.880
are losing all the time, Leo. Sometimes it's

00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:20.980
just what you must do. Stay aboard the ship as

00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:28.460
it goes down. I can't abandon my guy. And I love

00:24:28.460 --> 00:24:32.039
Bam. Like, it's not like I'm cheering against

00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:38.240
Bam, but... I haven't met Bam in person, so...

00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:44.079
He's very unassuming. Yeah, he seems like a really

00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:48.119
nice guy. He is. He is a nice guy. And if he

00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.680
didn't have tattoos on his face, you would think...

00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:54.259
Oh my god, they're so bad. They are, but if he

00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:55.940
didn't have those, you'd think he's like a teenager.

00:24:58.360 --> 00:25:03.940
Yeah, he's kind of baby -faced. Man, sticking

00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:07.700
with your guy, though, even though he might end

00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:12.779
up in a position, a really poor position, it's...

00:25:12.779 --> 00:25:20.039
Can we get somebody to point out to Nova Scotia

00:25:20.039 --> 00:25:24.200
Boxing? Like, look, this is how you do it. Alright?

00:25:24.819 --> 00:25:27.529
You ride with your... You made your pick. And

00:25:27.529 --> 00:25:30.910
you fucking ride with it. And that's it. Or,

00:25:31.009 --> 00:25:35.809
if you want to jump off, then admit it and say,

00:25:35.869 --> 00:25:41.309
I was wrong. I made a bad choice. And then look

00:25:41.309 --> 00:25:44.730
at that. Well, and some of us cheer with our

00:25:44.730 --> 00:25:47.109
hearts and not with our heads. And that's fine.

00:25:47.309 --> 00:25:53.329
That's part of boxing. Yeah, like with Barrios

00:25:53.329 --> 00:25:56.880
vs. Ryan. If we didn't put the draw option out

00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.339
there, I would have been with Barrios. Just because,

00:25:59.460 --> 00:26:06.059
like, I would like to see Ryan lose to a fucking

00:26:06.059 --> 00:26:11.559
shitter. That would just be too funny. I want

00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.019
the Rolly rematch, and I want Rolly to just do

00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:19.119
the same thing. That is actually a good news

00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:24.630
point that I forgot about. Apparently... take

00:26:24.630 --> 00:26:26.910
social media posts for whatever they're worth.

00:26:27.509 --> 00:26:32.450
Haney Garcia too is in the works and it's in,

00:26:32.470 --> 00:26:36.509
it's in the, it's going well. The negotiations

00:26:36.509 --> 00:26:39.990
are going well, but that flies in the face of

00:26:39.990 --> 00:26:43.369
what we heard previously of Haney versus Raleigh.

00:26:43.549 --> 00:26:46.470
That was supposed to, that was allegedly in late

00:26:46.470 --> 00:26:51.490
stage, serious negotiations. So I don't know.

00:26:51.490 --> 00:26:54.039
I don't know what to make of this. I mean, Garcia

00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:58.119
must be more money. Absolutely. So it wouldn't

00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:01.339
surprise me if they pivot. Like, if they can.

00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:07.599
But if Haney fights Rawley, I would like to see

00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.539
Ryan fight Lewis Crocker. Just so they could

00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:15.500
do the little tournament -ish. Yeah. Yeah, and

00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:20.400
unify. Yep. I guess it doesn't really matter

00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:24.079
which way you do it, though. Roley versus Crocker

00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:26.960
could also do the same thing. That's like the

00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:33.220
consolation bracket. But that's kind of what

00:27:33.220 --> 00:27:39.000
they rate, so whatever. I'd watch it. Yeah, I

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.700
would too. And not just because I'm a goddamn

00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:46.859
filthy neckbeard degenerate that never leaves

00:27:46.859 --> 00:27:50.220
my office because I'm watching fight sports all

00:27:50.220 --> 00:27:56.660
the goddamn time. Oscar Duarte, Angel Fierro

00:27:56.660 --> 00:28:02.980
in negotiations for the Zerto Benavidez undercard.

00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:09.359
That's a fucking fireworks fight. Yeah. Yeah,

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:12.640
I actually kind of really like Oscar Duarte.

00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:20.039
Yeah, he's solid. And he's action, which is basically

00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:24.569
all I ask for. Fiero is an all -action type of

00:28:24.569 --> 00:28:30.769
dude, too. Yeah. Nah, that would be a good undercard

00:28:30.769 --> 00:28:33.150
fight. That is a straight -up war of attrition.

00:28:33.930 --> 00:28:37.009
Yeah, and that would be a good setup for Zerdo

00:28:37.009 --> 00:28:46.069
Benavidez, I think. I agree. Luis Neri will be

00:28:46.069 --> 00:28:50.460
fighting in April against, I think, this... It's

00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:55.200
probably top two, not two, your absolute most

00:28:55.200 --> 00:29:01.119
favorite fighters ever. Jean -Brieuc Castanero?

00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:06.099
Yeah, yeah. So I have made a new friend here

00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:09.119
in Japan. She's from Brazil. And she said she

00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:12.079
wants to come to that bar to a boxing match because

00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:14.160
I took her there on a different night and she

00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.079
had a lot of fun. And she's like, I want to see

00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.700
the... The boxing atmosphere. And I was like,

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:21.160
okay, next card that I'm definitely watching

00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:25.519
that's not in Japan will go. So these guys are

00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:30.759
fighting in Kyrgyzstan. Why? Because it's the

00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:35.119
Kamedas. They're doing a three -day thing. Like

00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:37.859
a fight festival type of shit? Yeah, and they

00:29:37.859 --> 00:29:42.559
always put music in between. In Kyrgyzstan. And

00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:47.460
this is the Saturday fight in Japan. It might

00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:50.559
be Sunday morning. But anyways, I told her I

00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:54.099
would book us two seats at the bar for this one.

00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:57.099
And I was like, you'll love it because it's two

00:29:57.099 --> 00:30:00.240
fucking villains fighting and everyone hates

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:05.240
both of them. Two villains of Japan. Yeah, Louis

00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:09.220
Neary is hated in Japan and John Riel Casamero

00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:12.900
is hated in Japan. And I'm like, the fight's

00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:15.700
probably going to be shit. Because Casamero has

00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:20.160
looked like ass. Yeah, JRC is hot garbage. He

00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:23.380
has been for quite some time. Yeah. Neary, I

00:30:23.380 --> 00:30:26.420
think, bops him. Bad as fuck. Yeah, Neary's gonna

00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:29.059
knock him out. Like, I'm gonna have to ride with

00:30:29.059 --> 00:30:31.460
Neary on this one, which hurts me to say, but

00:30:31.460 --> 00:30:34.980
it's gonna happen. Lesser of two evils situation.

00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:40.160
But, I was like, this has all the boxing drama.

00:30:40.420 --> 00:30:42.680
Like, we're gonna have to go for drinks before,

00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:46.910
so I can... tell you who the Kamedas are, why

00:30:46.910 --> 00:30:49.250
they're in Kyrgyzstan and they don't promote

00:30:49.250 --> 00:30:53.490
in Japan very often, who Louis Neri is and what

00:30:53.490 --> 00:30:56.670
he did, and who John Riel Casamero is and why

00:30:56.670 --> 00:31:00.390
we hate him. So. Don't forget those. For her!

00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:06.319
It's going to be a multi -day lesson on boxing

00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.700
villain history. You've got to catch up on the

00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:13.039
lore. Luis Neri beating Shinsuke Yamanaka back

00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:17.099
in the day. Blowing weight twice. Popping for

00:31:17.099 --> 00:31:20.700
pads. Popping for pads the first time. Getting

00:31:20.700 --> 00:31:26.119
banned by the JBC. I think he's unbanned. Getting

00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:30.029
banned by the government of Japan. Right, yeah.

00:31:30.029 --> 00:31:33.690
From ever being allowed back into Japan. And

00:31:33.690 --> 00:31:36.750
then having it lifted so that Inoue could beat

00:31:36.750 --> 00:31:40.609
his ass. Yep. Yep. There's a lot of story here.

00:31:41.170 --> 00:31:43.730
This fight is not going to be that good, but

00:31:43.730 --> 00:31:46.609
I think it's a great one if she wants to go watch

00:31:46.609 --> 00:31:51.890
one boxing match. It's... This is, I think, as

00:31:51.890 --> 00:31:57.089
close to professional wrestling as boxing can

00:31:57.089 --> 00:32:00.859
get. Yeah. There's just so much drama around

00:32:00.859 --> 00:32:05.599
these two fighters and the promoters. And just

00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:08.519
everything. Because she's going to ask, why are

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:11.880
they in Kyrgyzstan? What do you mean? Poki Kameda

00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:17.859
is really working on, I don't, Kyrgyzstani? Like,

00:32:17.900 --> 00:32:22.079
is it their own language? Yes, Kyrgyz. Okay.

00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:26.480
I wasn't sure what it was called. He's really

00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:28.579
been working on it, so it's going to be a Japanese

00:32:28.579 --> 00:32:35.460
dude giving a speech in Kyrgyzstan. It's... Wonderful.

00:32:35.779 --> 00:32:38.700
It's going to be fucking great. That's what dreams

00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:43.720
are made of. If she is not even casually interested

00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:47.019
in boxing, but she listens because she's my friend,

00:32:47.220 --> 00:32:50.920
so this is going to be perfect for that, I think.

00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.740
Right, like I said, the storyline is too good.

00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.380
So it's you don't have to even really know how

00:32:59.380 --> 00:33:01.960
the fight plays out. Like when I was a kid and

00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.720
I watched wrestling a lot, I got to watch like

00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:08.000
Monday Night Raw, Thursday Night Smackdown. And

00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.720
then the storylines conclude on the pay -per

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:12.700
-views that happen on like Saturday or Sunday.

00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:16.099
I never got to watch those. So I never saw how

00:33:16.099 --> 00:33:18.740
the storylines concluded. Or who won. You had

00:33:18.740 --> 00:33:21.240
to figure it out from context the next week.

00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:25.160
Exactly. So this is what an instance where you

00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:28.960
get to see how the storyline finishes in a way.

00:33:29.539 --> 00:33:33.380
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Anyways, I'm super excited

00:33:33.380 --> 00:33:39.460
about that. Yeah, it's really fun. Oh man, speaking

00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:44.660
of fun. Bare Knuckle Boxing signs Victor Ortiz

00:33:44.660 --> 00:33:48.440
and John Molina. I'm a little bit more concerned

00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:54.039
about Ortiz. Yeah. He's been out for a while.

00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:59.319
He's had a rough go of it. Molina has a lot of

00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:03.140
mileage on the clock, for sure. But, I don't

00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:08.480
know. I feel like he retired much sooner. At

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:12.559
a better time, at least, than Ortiz did. So,

00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:16.880
regardless. The Retirement League. Continues

00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:22.039
to pad its roster. Yeah, I really don't like

00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:25.199
bare knuckle boxing. I don't either. I don't

00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.219
watch it at all. I just, it's kind of gross.

00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:37.860
Quite. Oh, speaking of gross. Tommy the Hitman

00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:42.960
Hearns is under guardianship and conservatorship.

00:34:44.210 --> 00:34:47.030
Yeah, I think Tommy's been going really downhill

00:34:47.030 --> 00:34:51.889
quickly. His health, yes. Yeah. Wasn't there...

00:34:51.889 --> 00:34:55.550
They kind of said it wasn't real, but wasn't

00:34:55.550 --> 00:34:58.409
there rumors he wandered away and was a little

00:34:58.409 --> 00:35:01.789
lost? Like they were looking for him? I hadn't

00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:06.510
heard of that. Maybe I have the wrong retired

00:35:06.510 --> 00:35:10.429
boxer. You know how I am with names. Yeah. But

00:35:10.429 --> 00:35:19.099
there was... Just let me Google it. While you're

00:35:19.099 --> 00:35:24.019
looking, you know how there's those shitty prediction

00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:27.579
markets where you can gamble on real life events

00:35:27.579 --> 00:35:30.500
and stuff? I really don't like those. I don't

00:35:30.500 --> 00:35:34.159
either. One way, you don't have to gamble on

00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.599
Tommy Hearns' life. Because that's just fucking

00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:41.400
disgusting. Man, and now I'm about to follow

00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:43.119
it up with something that's also pretty scummy.

00:35:43.659 --> 00:35:46.619
This is a good time. buy some autograph merch

00:35:46.619 --> 00:35:53.599
okay so i i had the right the right guy but it's

00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:57.280
been reported as false but last december there

00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:01.739
was a social media like tommy hearns has gone

00:36:01.739 --> 00:36:05.619
missing yada yada yada that's crazy i've never

00:36:05.619 --> 00:36:12.210
heard of the the rumors was he's dementia had

00:36:12.210 --> 00:36:14.909
gotten worse and he had wandered away from home

00:36:14.909 --> 00:36:18.150
and nobody knew exactly where he was. But they

00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:20.210
came out and said that that was not true. So

00:36:20.210 --> 00:36:23.610
maybe I'm just spreading rumors. When was that?

00:36:23.670 --> 00:36:29.110
December? Yeah, last December. Jeez. Kind of

00:36:29.110 --> 00:36:33.130
makes you wonder, though. I mean, maybe being

00:36:33.130 --> 00:36:35.989
under conservatorship is not the worst thing.

00:36:36.210 --> 00:36:39.989
No. If his health is that bad. Right. As long

00:36:39.989 --> 00:36:42.409
as it's good people taking care of them. And

00:36:42.409 --> 00:36:46.170
it might not be. Not like a Britney Spears situation.

00:36:46.750 --> 00:36:52.369
Yeah. Yeah. But get your autograph memorabilia

00:36:52.369 --> 00:36:56.130
now because it's going to go up like at least

00:36:56.130 --> 00:37:00.869
10 times in cost. Yeah. Well, if he's getting

00:37:00.869 --> 00:37:04.130
that sick, he's not going to be making new autographs.

00:37:06.110 --> 00:37:10.610
Just a very good friend of mine. He's a big time

00:37:10.610 --> 00:37:12.809
Tommy Hearns fan. It's like his favorite fighter

00:37:12.809 --> 00:37:17.650
ever. Not a bad choice. Every year, every other

00:37:17.650 --> 00:37:19.849
year or something, I would get him a Tommy Hearns

00:37:19.849 --> 00:37:23.530
autograph something. Like the baseball cards

00:37:23.530 --> 00:37:29.730
that are of boxers or big 8x10 prints. I got

00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:34.230
one that was Sugar Ray and Tommy Hearns and another

00:37:34.230 --> 00:37:37.230
one that was Roberto Duran and Tommy Hearns.

00:37:37.789 --> 00:37:42.010
That's crazy. Yeah. The one that was Marvin Hagler,

00:37:42.130 --> 00:37:46.730
Tommy Hearns, was like $1 ,500. Yeah. Because

00:37:46.730 --> 00:37:54.570
Marvin Hagler. Yeah, yeah. I'm not saying buy

00:37:54.570 --> 00:37:56.750
the stuff now so that you can flip it later.

00:37:56.849 --> 00:37:59.050
I'm saying buy it now so you can have it for

00:37:59.050 --> 00:38:04.869
yourself. Yeah, it's sad to see your heroes get

00:38:04.869 --> 00:38:10.989
old. Yeah. Because how old is Tommy now? He must

00:38:10.989 --> 00:38:17.150
be like my dad's age. 60s? 70s? 70s? 67. That's

00:38:17.150 --> 00:38:20.289
too young to need conservatorship. It's too bad.

00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:23.389
But with a lot of... With boxing mileage, though?

00:38:23.489 --> 00:38:26.110
Yeah. His brain is probably like 90 -something.

00:38:26.969 --> 00:38:34.769
Yeah, that's true. Man. Just... I don't know.

00:38:34.829 --> 00:38:37.590
If you're the praying type. Pray for the Hearns

00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:45.690
family. Moving to your boy, Katsuma Akitsugi

00:38:45.690 --> 00:38:49.909
has been added to the Tenshin Asakawa Juan Francisco

00:38:49.909 --> 00:38:55.449
Estrada undercard. I'm gonna have to buy a ticket

00:38:55.449 --> 00:38:58.869
that Tenshin is headlining. And that annoys me.

00:38:59.170 --> 00:39:03.550
You could leave before the main event. I'm not

00:39:03.550 --> 00:39:08.469
gonna do that. It's Estrada. yeah but yeah no

00:39:08.469 --> 00:39:11.070
i'm super excited akitsugi's been on the pro

00:39:11.070 --> 00:39:14.269
box circuit for a while he's been living in america

00:39:14.269 --> 00:39:17.389
a lot longer than i originally thought i looked

00:39:17.389 --> 00:39:19.190
into him a little bit when they announced this

00:39:19.190 --> 00:39:22.110
he's been trying to get his permanent residency

00:39:22.110 --> 00:39:25.550
in the states so he hasn't been home for years

00:39:25.550 --> 00:39:30.969
so Akatsuki was supposed to fight Lover. That

00:39:30.969 --> 00:39:33.610
was pretty deep into talks. And I was super excited

00:39:33.610 --> 00:39:36.409
about that. So I was a little bummed when it

00:39:36.409 --> 00:39:38.590
got cancelled. We talked about it last week.

00:39:39.309 --> 00:39:42.070
Yeah, it got cancelled for a good reason. Because

00:39:42.070 --> 00:39:45.849
Provox went out of their way to make a deal with

00:39:45.849 --> 00:39:49.210
Tekken so that Akatsuki could fight in Japan

00:39:49.210 --> 00:39:52.389
and visit his family. According to the Boxing

00:39:52.389 --> 00:39:55.469
Scene Podcast. That does sound like something

00:39:55.469 --> 00:39:58.949
that they would do for him. Yeah, and I'm super

00:39:58.949 --> 00:40:02.130
excited for them. And I'm super excited to see

00:40:02.130 --> 00:40:05.590
them live. It's going to be great. And if Provox

00:40:05.590 --> 00:40:07.889
can make some deals with Tekken, I think that'll

00:40:07.889 --> 00:40:12.590
be big for them. Oh yeah, they can bring Japanese

00:40:12.590 --> 00:40:15.929
fighters over, send their guys over to Japan.

00:40:16.210 --> 00:40:20.869
Yeah, get the Provox name in front of the Japanese,

00:40:21.150 --> 00:40:25.289
because it's free on YouTube here. Yeah, absolutely.

00:40:26.190 --> 00:40:29.110
Yeah, and I don't know that that many Japanese

00:40:29.110 --> 00:40:31.929
boxing fans know about Pro Box, because why would

00:40:31.929 --> 00:40:35.230
they? Right. So I think this is going to work

00:40:35.230 --> 00:40:37.590
out really well for everybody. I'm super excited

00:40:37.590 --> 00:40:42.550
about this. That would be a good entry into the

00:40:42.550 --> 00:40:46.849
Japanese market, just in general. Yeah, and like

00:40:46.849 --> 00:40:51.030
you said, Tekken probably wants to send some

00:40:51.030 --> 00:40:53.550
of their guys to America, get them in front of

00:40:53.550 --> 00:40:56.829
an American audience. Yeah. That's always a big

00:40:56.829 --> 00:41:00.170
problem. The problem that they're going to come

00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:05.090
across, and it's just Americans being Americans,

00:41:05.190 --> 00:41:08.710
like, if you send Japanese fighters over, you

00:41:08.710 --> 00:41:12.510
better send a good interpreter. Otherwise, you

00:41:12.510 --> 00:41:14.550
better be taking your boys to some classes for

00:41:14.550 --> 00:41:17.809
English, because people get fucking annoyed hearing

00:41:17.809 --> 00:41:21.170
a foreign language here. It's stupid. Yeah, well,

00:41:21.230 --> 00:41:26.610
people are dicks. Yeah, it's stupid, but... There's...

00:41:26.610 --> 00:41:29.989
I think most of the boxers that are really trying

00:41:29.989 --> 00:41:34.570
to go big work on their English. You don't see

00:41:34.570 --> 00:41:36.090
it because they don't want to do the interviews

00:41:36.090 --> 00:41:38.809
in English because that must be fucking stressful,

00:41:39.030 --> 00:41:41.150
trying to speak a second language in front of

00:41:41.150 --> 00:41:45.530
a crowd. After a fight, too. Yeah. Like, Seiya

00:41:45.530 --> 00:41:49.320
Satsumi... is really working on his english he

00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:53.360
gave a really short speech but a speech in english

00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:56.559
at the ring awards nice i don't know if you saw

00:41:56.559 --> 00:42:00.260
it but and uh even before that when i met him

00:42:00.260 --> 00:42:03.420
like i tried to speak japanese and fucked it

00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:06.659
up because i was fangirling and he really tried

00:42:06.659 --> 00:42:09.400
with his english that's really cool it was great

00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:12.800
yeah yeah because he could have just like signed

00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.420
my shit and left but right he spent like a whole

00:42:15.420 --> 00:42:18.670
minute Trying to talk to me. It was really nice.

00:42:18.929 --> 00:42:21.869
Anyways, I'm super excited to see Akatsuki. Death

00:42:21.869 --> 00:42:24.389
by a thousand cuts. I don't know how you shorten

00:42:24.389 --> 00:42:26.570
that nickname, but I want that to be his nickname.

00:42:27.050 --> 00:42:30.929
The Japanese firecracker or whatever is fine,

00:42:31.130 --> 00:42:37.969
I guess. What if it's just a thousand cuts? There

00:42:37.969 --> 00:42:42.110
must be a cool name for that torture. Right?

00:42:42.449 --> 00:42:46.440
Yeah, there has to be. Yeah. Or something. There

00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:51.960
has to be like a. A short. Yeah. Way. Yeah. Last

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:58.000
bit. Oleksandr Usyk has outlined his last three

00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:03.639
fights. Number one. Rico Verhoeven. Number two.

00:43:03.659 --> 00:43:08.139
Nobody cares. Right. No. Number two. The winner

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:11.739
of Fabio Wardley versus Daniel Dubois. Not bad.

00:43:11.860 --> 00:43:16.539
If it's Wardley. Nice. If it's Dubois, boo. But

00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:19.360
you can't say you're fighting Wardley if Dubois

00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:23.820
beats him. Yes, that's true. And then the Fury

00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:29.760
Trilogy. I don't want to see that at all. I would

00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:37.699
swap Fury Trilogy with Wilder if he beats Chisora.

00:43:39.420 --> 00:43:42.519
Same way with, like, if Dubois beats Wardley,

00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:48.400
I would drop that from my next fights list. I

00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:51.360
would like to see his last fight be against somebody

00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:57.820
younger. Caballel? Huh? Yeah. Like, just somebody

00:43:57.820 --> 00:44:01.300
in the next generation and do a passing of the

00:44:01.300 --> 00:44:06.699
torch. Because Usyk Fury, nobody gives a shit

00:44:06.699 --> 00:44:10.380
now. You don't need a trilogy for that. I think

00:44:10.380 --> 00:44:13.920
it's just money. I know it's just money, but

00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:18.739
I don't care. Usyk's made so much fucking money.

00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:24.960
Yeah. I did see Usyk's English getting better

00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:29.980
has made his funny personality come out much

00:44:29.980 --> 00:44:33.679
easier. Because he's always been funny. But I

00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:35.980
saw he's like, I don't want to fight a Tauma.

00:44:35.980 --> 00:44:40.909
I don't want to break his spirit. He's a young

00:44:40.909 --> 00:44:43.829
guy. I don't want to ruin him. Yeah, that was

00:44:43.829 --> 00:44:46.369
the way that I had heard it, was I don't want

00:44:46.369 --> 00:44:52.289
to ruin him. Damn, dude. That's strong words,

00:44:52.369 --> 00:44:57.369
but what interests me is that all of this I don't

00:44:57.369 --> 00:45:01.670
want to break him type of shit, Caballel does

00:45:01.670 --> 00:45:04.889
not seem to be in the same conversation. No.

00:45:06.250 --> 00:45:11.530
To me, it's odd. Yeah, I haven't heard Usyk say

00:45:11.530 --> 00:45:19.349
his name at all. I would drop. Because Rico Verhoeven...

00:45:19.349 --> 00:45:25.530
It's for the title. God. Gross. If it wasn't

00:45:25.530 --> 00:45:28.809
for the title, if it was some exhibition, whatever.

00:45:28.949 --> 00:45:33.929
Go get your money. This is bullshit. But you

00:45:33.929 --> 00:45:37.429
get to have your bullshit. Then you have to fight

00:45:37.429 --> 00:45:42.519
Caballel. That's the mandate. I don't mind the

00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:46.500
Wardley Dubois winner. Whatever. Fine. Yeah,

00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:50.800
fine. That's what I've... But Caballel needs

00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:55.139
his shot. He's earned his shot. Yeah, he's been

00:45:55.139 --> 00:45:59.280
waiting for fucking ever. Fury Trilogy, as washed

00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:04.000
as he is, I might... This is like a personal

00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:08.039
bias gonna be on very clear display. As washed

00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:11.840
as he is, even if Wilder lost to Chizora, I would

00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:15.900
rather see Usyk fight Wilder than fight the trilogy

00:46:15.900 --> 00:46:21.019
with Fury. Yeah. But I don't really want to see

00:46:21.019 --> 00:46:24.920
either of those fights. If I had to pick. Yeah,

00:46:24.940 --> 00:46:27.860
if I had to pick between those two, I would pick

00:46:27.860 --> 00:46:31.880
Wilder. But I don't want those two to be the

00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:39.059
conversation. No. Wardley. Itauma. Kabayel, school

00:46:39.059 --> 00:46:42.400
the next generation of heavyweights and then

00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:46.599
drop the belts and say, have fun, boys. Your

00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:51.199
daddy's gonna be over here. Yeah, exactly. But

00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:55.500
beating Fury again does nothing. No. Beating

00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:59.480
Dubois again does nothing for me either. Honestly,

00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.980
after he said these three fights... I kind of

00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:06.500
hope Rico catches him. He's not going to win,

00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:11.239
but I hope he knocks Usyk on his ass once. It's

00:47:11.239 --> 00:47:13.960
not going to happen. Entirely wishful thinking.

00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:18.320
But it would be amazing. What, is he going to

00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:21.900
get... Rico's going to catch Usyk with a body

00:47:21.900 --> 00:47:24.059
shot that's going to get ruled a low blow instead?

00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:31.000
Maybe. I just wanted to throw that one back in

00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.719
there. But yeah, that's all we got on the news,

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:41.920
though. Unless something else came up. I don't

00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:45.199
think so. No. Yeah, I'm not. I can't think of

00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:48.059
anything. You've been pretty on the news. I do

00:47:48.059 --> 00:47:53.360
my best. All right. Let me put some info in here.

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00:50:01.130 --> 00:50:05.650
It's pretty light. Eye of the Tiger on DAZN.

00:50:05.889 --> 00:50:10.730
This one was in Montreal. There were four fights

00:50:10.730 --> 00:50:14.429
that I was tracking here. Steve Claggett gets

00:50:14.429 --> 00:50:17.929
a stoppage in two over, like, who gives a shit?

00:50:18.090 --> 00:50:26.110
21 -12 -2. Alejandro Frias. John Orobio gets

00:50:26.110 --> 00:50:32.809
a stoppage in five. Lennar Perez gets a UD win

00:50:32.809 --> 00:50:40.050
over Isaac Chalemba. I was saying on social media,

00:50:40.190 --> 00:50:45.989
I had said, I posed it as an open question. Should

00:50:45.989 --> 00:50:49.309
we be maybe dialing back our expectations of

00:50:49.309 --> 00:50:53.920
Perez? He dominated every round. There's no question

00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.280
that he swept it. But this is still Isaac Chalemba.

00:50:57.559 --> 00:50:59.320
This is the type of dude you should be getting

00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:05.860
out. Yeah. I mean, Chalemba has a chin. Better

00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:10.400
in tactics, too. Yeah. But it's not like he can't

00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:17.699
be knocked out. I don't know. Aya the Tiger,

00:51:17.900 --> 00:51:20.380
they're always mismatches. You can't tell shit

00:51:20.380 --> 00:51:26.059
about their fighters. like Perez looks impressive

00:51:26.059 --> 00:51:29.340
like he's a cruiserweight he's tall he's really

00:51:29.340 --> 00:51:35.599
muscular so like he looks the part but like Isaac

00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:38.659
Chalemba dude you should be mopping the floor

00:51:38.659 --> 00:51:42.760
with this guy if you are what Eye of the Tiger

00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:46.840
says you are anyway but Eye of the Tiger never

00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:50.340
challenges their fighters so you can't tell like

00:51:50.340 --> 00:51:53.829
yeah you're right you don't know what somebody's

00:51:53.829 --> 00:51:57.809
made of until they have to show you. Because

00:51:57.809 --> 00:52:01.130
if he was dominating the entire fight, maybe

00:52:01.130 --> 00:52:03.250
he just didn't want to take any chances getting

00:52:03.250 --> 00:52:09.349
hit with a big one. You know? Yeah. Which is

00:52:09.349 --> 00:52:13.530
fair. It's cruiserweight. Anybody can knock you

00:52:13.530 --> 00:52:17.510
out. Chalemba, though? He wasn't even really

00:52:17.510 --> 00:52:21.090
that much of a power threat at 175. That was

00:52:21.090 --> 00:52:25.500
some years ago. Now he's at 200? I don't know.

00:52:25.739 --> 00:52:31.179
15 fights in. We know how boxing records tend

00:52:31.179 --> 00:52:33.059
to be a little bit padded when you're at the

00:52:33.059 --> 00:52:36.840
beginning stages of your career. So this is a

00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:45.280
step up -ish? Half step up to a veteran? I mean,

00:52:45.300 --> 00:52:48.360
it's a name I recognize, which is the first one

00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:52.030
on his box rec I recognize. Yeah, I'm trying

00:52:52.030 --> 00:52:55.849
to, like, throw my bone here. Like, what good

00:52:55.849 --> 00:52:58.869
can we take away from this? Because, like you

00:52:58.869 --> 00:53:01.730
said, Eye of the Tiger, they just are allergic

00:53:01.730 --> 00:53:07.289
to challenging their fighters. I never tell anyone

00:53:07.289 --> 00:53:11.329
to watch Eye of the Tiger cards. And people give

00:53:11.329 --> 00:53:13.090
me shit. They're like, you're Canadian, and they're

00:53:13.090 --> 00:53:15.829
Canadian, and you should... I'm like, but they

00:53:15.829 --> 00:53:19.320
suck. I guess if you want to watch knockouts,

00:53:19.340 --> 00:53:21.260
because there's always knockouts on Eye of the

00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:23.800
Tiger cards. Of the four that we were tracking,

00:53:23.980 --> 00:53:27.820
three were knockouts. Yeah. But they're one -sided

00:53:27.820 --> 00:53:34.159
mismatches. Oh, man. Speaking of one -sided mismatches,

00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:40.079
Stephen Butler knocks out Ramadan Husseini in

00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:44.539
the second. I think I have a post, a video clip

00:53:44.539 --> 00:53:48.429
of that up on Twitter. That was where I was trying

00:53:48.429 --> 00:53:50.590
to get people to shit on Lennar Perez with me.

00:53:52.190 --> 00:53:59.190
Nice. But that's it for that card. Moving to

00:53:59.190 --> 00:54:03.469
Saturday, March 7th, Pro Box. This wasn't a Pro

00:54:03.469 --> 00:54:07.369
Box proper card. This was, well, it was another

00:54:07.369 --> 00:54:09.630
card that got picked up by Pro Box. I'm just

00:54:09.630 --> 00:54:14.130
really, really on the ball today. Two fights

00:54:14.130 --> 00:54:19.750
that I kept track of. Angel Ureña gets the UD

00:54:19.750 --> 00:54:24.030
over Roy Casanova. I only really kept track because

00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:28.170
Casanova. But it was a really fun fight. Ureña,

00:54:28.289 --> 00:54:33.590
I think he got cut. And Casanova was really going

00:54:33.590 --> 00:54:40.190
for it. Ended up scoring a late knockdown. And

00:54:40.190 --> 00:54:44.079
Haciel Amador. beats Pedro Delgado in the main

00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:49.760
event. I think that was for a regional, WBA regional

00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:55.800
title. And then the Ureña, I think, was a WBC

00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:00.019
regional title. This was the card in Mexico,

00:55:00.239 --> 00:55:06.480
right? Correct. Yeah. It was fine. It was Mexican

00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:11.119
sluggers doing what they did. It was fun, but

00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:13.860
I didn't really recognize any names or anything.

00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:24.659
And the professionalism continues. Zufa Boxing

00:55:24.659 --> 00:55:31.039
4 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. Moving up the

00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:36.739
bill. The first ever majority draw in Zufa history.

00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:41.219
We know how prestigious that designation is.

00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:44.340
And then they had another majority draw. So,

00:55:44.340 --> 00:55:50.239
two for one special. Vlad Panin stops Shannard

00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:54.980
Bunch in the ninth. Not bad. Not bad of a fight.

00:55:55.340 --> 00:55:59.480
It was, as it went down the stretch, they kept,

00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:03.000
they started to bring up and continue to refer

00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:07.039
a lot to Shannard Bunch's personal life difficulties.

00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:11.619
I think they said his father was murdered not

00:56:11.619 --> 00:56:17.179
that long ago. That's crazy. Yeah. What are you

00:56:17.179 --> 00:56:22.840
doing in the ring right now, bro? That is way

00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:27.360
more important. But, I mean, you gotta make money

00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:34.929
somehow. I guess. Moving up. Ricardo Salas stops

00:56:34.929 --> 00:56:40.409
Jesus Saracha. Ha, jokes. Saracho is his name.

00:56:41.329 --> 00:56:44.750
They said his name wrong every time on the broadcast.

00:56:44.750 --> 00:56:51.630
Every single time. He is not Tabasco sauce. Because,

00:56:51.690 --> 00:56:57.809
like the Zufa, it's Zufa promotions or whatever.

00:56:58.250 --> 00:57:02.469
But it's Max Kellerman, Joe Tessitore, and Andre

00:57:02.469 --> 00:57:05.559
Ward. Andre, I'll give you a pass. The other

00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:08.320
two, I don't want to hear anybody ever say a

00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:10.840
fucking thing to me about mispronouncing names

00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:16.239
ever again. That's Max Kellerman and Joe Tessitore.

00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:24.059
Yeah, like, Andre Ward is the boxer, so he gets

00:57:24.059 --> 00:57:26.400
a pass at being a little less professional with

00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:29.340
names and stuff. Yeah. But those other two, it's

00:57:29.340 --> 00:57:32.260
their fucking job to say people's names right.

00:57:33.469 --> 00:57:36.210
Like, you have fighter meetings where you talk

00:57:36.210 --> 00:57:40.989
about this stuff. It's not a hard name. Sriracha.

00:57:41.829 --> 00:57:45.690
Yeah. Not hard. Like, it's not like one of those

00:57:45.690 --> 00:57:48.989
Czech names. The Thai names are fucking ridiculous

00:57:48.989 --> 00:57:53.210
sometimes. Yeah. Like, Sriracha is not a hard

00:57:53.210 --> 00:57:58.849
name to say. Yeah. Also, I know this is not the

00:57:58.849 --> 00:58:01.710
point of our podcast. He has a cool ass tattoo.

00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:07.780
I really like his Aztec statue tattoo on his

00:58:07.780 --> 00:58:13.380
chest. Let's have a look. I thought it was super

00:58:13.380 --> 00:58:19.300
well done. Ricardo Salas was 22 -2 -2. So isn't

00:58:19.300 --> 00:58:29.260
that nice? But yeah, Sriracha has a badass tattoo.

00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:41.960
I really like it. It's very clean. Microsoft,

00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:50.460
if I ever find out who your mother is... There

00:58:50.460 --> 00:58:57.320
are a few things that just really fucking upset

00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.780
me. One of them is when my computer doesn't do

00:59:00.780 --> 00:59:05.039
the things I tell it to do. Yeah. I paid a very

00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:07.400
good amount of money to make sure that it never

00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:13.840
even thinks. twice about anything that I wanted

00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:21.239
to do. That is really dope. It's Quetzalcoatl.

00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:25.880
It's like the creator god of the Aztec. Yeah,

00:59:25.900 --> 00:59:29.179
yeah, yeah. I wasn't 100 % sure if that's who

00:59:29.179 --> 00:59:32.300
it was. And I know Damel would give me shit in

00:59:32.300 --> 00:59:38.809
the chat if I got it wrong. But yeah. So that

00:59:38.809 --> 00:59:46.510
was the co -main. In the main event, IBF Cruiserweight

00:59:46.510 --> 00:59:51.489
Champion, question mark, Jai Obataya, takes Brandon

00:59:51.489 --> 00:59:57.750
Glanton the distance to claim the inaugural Zufa

00:59:57.750 --> 01:00:01.349
Cruiserweight title. Man, if I had my choice,

01:00:01.610 --> 01:00:11.349
IBF, Zufa. What title do I want? Just fuck me,

01:00:11.489 --> 01:00:15.210
Zufa, all the way. I just cannot think of anything

01:00:15.210 --> 01:00:20.809
more storied with the history, the prestige.

01:00:22.369 --> 01:00:25.489
And it's such a pretty belt, too. It's so good

01:00:25.489 --> 01:00:27.969
looking. That's like a mantelpiece right there.

01:00:28.449 --> 01:00:31.710
Oh, my God. I have seen Burger King toys that

01:00:31.710 --> 01:00:34.699
look more appealing than that. It looks like

01:00:34.699 --> 01:00:38.760
those shitty knockoff WWE belts that are like

01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:50.440
WWN at Walmart. Yeah, you're right. The guys

01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:54.639
in the chat just kept putting up Casio watches.

01:00:55.300 --> 01:01:00.599
Yeah. That's what it looks like. It is the ugliest

01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:08.039
fucking thing I've ever seen. So, the drama behind

01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:14.000
this one, if you haven't heard, is the IBF was

01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:16.739
going to sanction this fight. They had already

01:01:16.739 --> 01:01:21.739
given it, given Obataya and Zufa. They gave it

01:01:21.739 --> 01:01:26.159
their blessing. And then, throughout the promotion,

01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:34.869
they made the IBF title look... secondary. They

01:01:34.869 --> 01:01:37.269
had it off to the side, cut out of pictures.

01:01:37.269 --> 01:01:39.329
They never talked about it. They never mentioned

01:01:39.329 --> 01:01:42.449
it by name. They just acted like it didn't exist.

01:01:42.750 --> 01:01:46.429
It was just this red thing that Jai carries around

01:01:46.429 --> 01:01:48.710
with him for some reason, like his safety blankie

01:01:48.710 --> 01:01:54.429
or something. So, IBF withdrew their sanctioning

01:01:54.429 --> 01:01:57.630
of the fight. The day before the fight, which

01:01:57.630 --> 01:02:05.849
is also pretty bullshit. Yes. So Dana White and

01:02:05.849 --> 01:02:09.789
the Zufa team have been saying that they want

01:02:09.789 --> 01:02:14.690
to take the IBF to court because it's a concerted

01:02:14.690 --> 01:02:19.750
effort of the boxing industry to punish Jai Opataya

01:02:19.750 --> 01:02:24.429
for signing with Zufa and punishing Zufa. And

01:02:24.429 --> 01:02:29.409
so my only reaction to that was, and this is

01:02:29.409 --> 01:02:32.809
me kind of making up. what they say but for the

01:02:32.809 --> 01:02:37.769
sake of the point zufa comes into the boxing

01:02:37.769 --> 01:02:43.070
world and says hi we're zufa fuck all of you

01:02:43.070 --> 01:02:46.250
fuck your belts fuck your weight classes fuck

01:02:46.250 --> 01:02:49.710
your sanctioning bodies fuck your champions fuck

01:02:49.710 --> 01:02:54.349
your wbc president fuck all of you and then a

01:02:54.349 --> 01:02:57.400
few months later Why doesn't anyone want to work

01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:01.239
with us? Quit fucking crying. You either want

01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:04.500
to be a disruptor or you want to shut the fuck

01:03:04.500 --> 01:03:09.239
up and play ball. The whole situation is fucking

01:03:09.239 --> 01:03:13.139
stupid. It's grown men having pissing contests.

01:03:13.739 --> 01:03:19.139
And I do feel bad for Jai. Because he clearly

01:03:19.139 --> 01:03:22.440
believed them when they said he could keep his

01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.590
belt and fight for the other ones. And I don't

01:03:25.590 --> 01:03:28.389
think Jaio Pattaya is a very smart man. I was

01:03:28.389 --> 01:03:30.090
going to say, I think he's a little bit of an

01:03:30.090 --> 01:03:36.710
airhead. Yeah. Like, maybe not smart is too harsh

01:03:36.710 --> 01:03:39.050
on him, but I don't think he pays attention to

01:03:39.050 --> 01:03:43.909
any of this. I don't think he knows. about the

01:03:43.909 --> 01:03:46.530
controversies and stuff. I don't think he understood

01:03:46.530 --> 01:03:48.750
that this might be a problem before he signed.

01:03:49.090 --> 01:03:51.809
I think his managers lied to him and told him

01:03:51.809 --> 01:03:54.030
it was all figured out and he just believed them.

01:03:54.710 --> 01:04:00.349
He trusted them. Yeah. And I just don't think

01:04:00.349 --> 01:04:04.570
Jai did his due diligence with this signing.

01:04:06.050 --> 01:04:08.650
I think he just believed a bunch of bullshit

01:04:08.650 --> 01:04:11.409
from people he shouldn't have believed. And I

01:04:11.409 --> 01:04:15.420
do feel bad for him. His job is to go box and

01:04:15.420 --> 01:04:20.760
whatever. But it's so fucking stupid. And that

01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:27.400
post -fight interview, they didn't talk to each

01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:30.219
other at all. Max Kellerman came out and gave

01:04:30.219 --> 01:04:32.659
a little speech about Zufa and how the other

01:04:32.659 --> 01:04:36.159
belts don't matter and how Jai is now the undisputed

01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:39.559
Zufa champion. And Jai gave a speech about how

01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:44.840
he wants to unify the titles. Yeah, getting all

01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:49.280
four is his goal. He has no intention of moving

01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:52.079
up to heavyweight until he accomplishes that.

01:04:52.260 --> 01:04:56.420
He made that extremely clear. Yeah, and I don't

01:04:56.420 --> 01:04:58.619
think his Zufa contract is going to allow that.

01:05:01.139 --> 01:05:04.460
He's just going to keep defending the Zufa cruiserweight

01:05:04.460 --> 01:05:08.480
title? Knocking over cans like he has been for

01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:20.139
the last five years? His career... Man. I base...

01:05:20.139 --> 01:05:24.119
I take a lot of what Jacob told us about the

01:05:24.119 --> 01:05:28.800
Australian scene. I take that as pretty much

01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:32.079
his gospel. I trust his word, right? I trust

01:05:32.079 --> 01:05:35.719
what he told us. Yeah, and I think he's pretty

01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:38.619
plugged into the Australian boxing. Exactly.

01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:43.429
I trust him as a source. So for him to tell us

01:05:43.429 --> 01:05:47.130
about how Jai was getting screwed, Tasman doesn't

01:05:47.130 --> 01:05:52.070
take care of their people. So, of course, Jai's

01:05:52.070 --> 01:05:55.050
going to try to make a move into America where

01:05:55.050 --> 01:05:59.630
he can make bigger paychecks. And that was the

01:05:59.630 --> 01:06:02.409
first person that was knocking on his door was

01:06:02.409 --> 01:06:05.829
Zufa. Yeah, I just think Jai's been swindled.

01:06:06.210 --> 01:06:11.070
Yeah, I agree completely. I don't think it's

01:06:11.070 --> 01:06:14.570
entirely his fault. Like, his job is to box.

01:06:14.849 --> 01:06:17.769
But I do think he's pretty naive just believing

01:06:17.769 --> 01:06:21.130
everything that everyone says and clearly not

01:06:21.130 --> 01:06:24.610
even reading the, like, boxing news around him.

01:06:26.329 --> 01:06:31.849
He trusted his manager. Yeah, he seems... In

01:06:31.849 --> 01:06:34.510
horse racing, they wear blinders if the horse

01:06:34.510 --> 01:06:37.570
gets easily distracted. Jai has blinders on.

01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:40.699
And he has no idea what the fuck's happening

01:06:40.699 --> 01:06:44.639
outside his little window of training. And I

01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:49.420
do feel kind of bad for him, but it's also would

01:06:49.420 --> 01:06:57.199
have been very easy to avoid. Josh had a bit,

01:06:57.260 --> 01:07:02.139
he had less to say on like the, you kind of dug

01:07:02.139 --> 01:07:04.679
your own grave here with the title situation.

01:07:04.980 --> 01:07:08.489
And it was more about like, even if you do, Even

01:07:08.489 --> 01:07:12.030
if you are the number one cruiserweight ever

01:07:12.030 --> 01:07:17.369
right now, or active cruiserweight, why the fuck

01:07:17.369 --> 01:07:19.250
are you going the distance with Brandon Glanton?

01:07:20.510 --> 01:07:23.789
Yeah, well, I guess we should talk about the

01:07:23.789 --> 01:07:28.349
actual fight as well. Fuck that referee. Fuck

01:07:28.349 --> 01:07:31.030
everything about that referee. He wanted to be

01:07:31.030 --> 01:07:34.679
the main character that night. It was ridiculous.

01:07:35.099 --> 01:07:37.880
Are you looking at each other's arms? Fucking

01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:42.780
break. Yeah. Like, Glanton needed to be on the

01:07:42.780 --> 01:07:47.480
inside. And anytime he got there, if anyone's

01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:50.340
hand got caught for a second, the ref broke him.

01:07:50.539 --> 01:07:53.019
And he took points from each of them for holding.

01:07:53.320 --> 01:07:58.239
Yeah, he did. It was fucking ridiculous. Yeah,

01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.699
that guy's not going to get a callback from Zufa.

01:08:01.900 --> 01:08:04.820
i don't know he might maybe i mean that kind

01:08:04.820 --> 01:08:07.699
of that kind of felt like protecting jai it was

01:08:07.699 --> 01:08:10.059
because like glanton was the one that was getting

01:08:10.059 --> 01:08:12.239
all the the heart quote -unquote hard warnings

01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:16.479
so it i'm actually surprised that jai got a point

01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:22.579
docked i really am i mean the holding was with

01:08:22.579 --> 01:08:25.640
all but with all the warnings jai had gotten

01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:28.439
he had to take a point if you're gonna take one

01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.399
from glanton Well, and he'd already taken two

01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:34.960
from Glanton at that point. One was for holding.

01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:37.840
What was the other one? I think low blows. I

01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:43.239
think you're right. Low blows. Yeah. He landed

01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:45.479
a couple low blows, yes. But I didn't think it

01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:50.819
warranted a point. Yeah, if Hirooka is not going

01:08:50.819 --> 01:08:53.039
to get a point docked. Wait, did he get a point

01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:56.220
docked? I don't remember. He did after that really

01:08:56.220 --> 01:08:59.600
badly. He did get a point docked. I was thinking

01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:02.939
of... I don't know what I was thinking of. My

01:09:02.939 --> 01:09:06.960
brain is mush. Yeah, Hiroko got a point docked.

01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:11.220
You're right. But the fight itself was pretty

01:09:11.220 --> 01:09:16.800
boring. It was underwhelming. And Jai has shit

01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:20.500
footwork. Like, I hadn't noticed how bad it was

01:09:20.500 --> 01:09:22.800
because I don't really watch his fights closely

01:09:22.800 --> 01:09:26.750
ever. But, like, Glanton was cutting off the

01:09:26.750 --> 01:09:30.050
ring, and Glanton's not a smooth operator by

01:09:30.050 --> 01:09:36.789
any sense. Glanton was a college, a D1 college

01:09:36.789 --> 01:09:42.970
defensive end. So he's got feet. Maybe not boxing

01:09:42.970 --> 01:09:46.090
feet, but... I was gonna say, for boxing, it's

01:09:46.090 --> 01:09:49.510
not like he's got... It's fine. He's not Bam

01:09:49.510 --> 01:09:53.140
or Lomachenko. He's not pulling sweet moves.

01:09:53.300 --> 01:09:56.479
He's not doing crazy pivots. He's not, like,

01:09:56.579 --> 01:10:00.939
he's walking basically in a straight line and

01:10:00.939 --> 01:10:03.500
sidestepping, and he was able to stop Jai from

01:10:03.500 --> 01:10:10.760
escaping. Yeah, I think something else Josh had

01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:15.199
pointed out was that when Opataya, when he went,

01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:19.170
he went down. It wasn't knockdowns, but he fell

01:10:19.170 --> 01:10:23.310
over because he tripped over his own feet. Yeah,

01:10:23.310 --> 01:10:25.729
Jai was crossing himself up trying to get away

01:10:25.729 --> 01:10:31.350
from Glanton. If you are the number one and as

01:10:31.350 --> 01:10:35.670
good as people say, you should be able to do

01:10:35.670 --> 01:10:39.029
that without falling. Not crossing your feet

01:10:39.029 --> 01:10:43.880
is like Boxing 101. That was like... The first

01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:46.380
thing they worked on in karate classes. When

01:10:46.380 --> 01:10:53.260
I was a kid. Like. Yeah when we did. Like basic

01:10:53.260 --> 01:10:56.279
hand to hand. Stuff in the military. Like in

01:10:56.279 --> 01:10:59.000
boot camp. Where you just do like the white belt.

01:10:59.380 --> 01:11:02.060
Is the equivalent. That you would understand.

01:11:02.659 --> 01:11:04.699
So when you're doing white belt stuff. It's like

01:11:04.699 --> 01:11:07.300
you don't cross your feet. Don't put your thumbs

01:11:07.300 --> 01:11:12.340
into your fucking fist. Yeah like. Baby stuff.

01:11:13.260 --> 01:11:15.680
Every combat sport, the first thing is don't

01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:18.640
let your feet get in a straight line even. Yeah.

01:11:21.460 --> 01:11:25.220
Anyway, Jai was not impressive to me at this

01:11:25.220 --> 01:11:33.520
fight. Maybe we should cut him some slack because

01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:35.619
he was being told that he was getting stripped

01:11:35.619 --> 01:11:37.800
and stuff. And it was probably really bothering

01:11:37.800 --> 01:11:39.899
him because that's clearly important to him.

01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:43.520
It is clearly important to him. Yes. I've never

01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.619
been super impressed with Jai. He's got power,

01:11:46.739 --> 01:11:52.279
but he's been fighting bums. Something that the

01:11:52.279 --> 01:11:58.000
broadcast pointed out a lot, that, to me, it

01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:01.319
wasn't the flex that they think it is, that they

01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:04.239
thought it was, was when they brought up fighting

01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:10.239
Myrus Bredis with a broken jaw. and it's like

01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:12.680
why the fuck is old man breed is catching you

01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:17.100
like that right exactly how is a 40 year old

01:12:17.100 --> 01:12:21.539
man breaking your jaw when you're like a 20 something

01:12:21.539 --> 01:12:25.979
fucking stud how is this happening i mean if

01:12:25.979 --> 01:12:29.119
jai's whole thing was i'm a pressure fighter

01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:32.760
and i get in the mix and i tough it out like

01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:38.539
somebody like say a satsumi Then it's a bit of

01:12:38.539 --> 01:12:41.420
a break, right? Like his whole thing is heart

01:12:41.420 --> 01:12:44.819
and toughness. But Jai's whole thing is supposed

01:12:44.819 --> 01:12:48.180
to be like power and they're trying to sell him

01:12:48.180 --> 01:12:54.920
as kind of finesse. Yeah. Finesse with power

01:12:54.920 --> 01:12:59.000
hands behind it. Yeah. And if that's your thing,

01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:01.399
you shouldn't be getting caught like that. But

01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:03.560
I guess the other comparison kind of is Bam.

01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:07.600
Bam got caught. He got a broken jaw as well.

01:13:07.840 --> 01:13:12.819
Absolutely. So it shows his toughness. But yeah.

01:13:14.779 --> 01:13:21.199
I don't know. I was not very impressed. And Brandon

01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:25.600
Glanton is made of fucking cement. Like that

01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:29.039
dude took some hard shots. I think he won the

01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:32.060
story of the night. He didn't really take a step

01:13:32.060 --> 01:13:38.310
back even. He wasn't bothered by Opetai's power.

01:13:40.289 --> 01:13:45.829
He was not concerned with Opetai's supposed footwork.

01:13:46.970 --> 01:13:51.170
He was constantly cutting off the ring, keeping

01:13:51.170 --> 01:13:55.470
Opetai in front of him. He took some good shots,

01:13:55.630 --> 01:14:00.229
and he still kept pressing forward. I feel Brandon

01:14:00.229 --> 01:14:02.970
Glanton won the story of the night. I think he's

01:14:02.970 --> 01:14:07.520
going to get a call from... whoever Zerto Benavidez

01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:11.220
winner or loser, even he's going to get a call

01:14:11.220 --> 01:14:15.060
from one of them. I hope so. Like, it's not that

01:14:15.060 --> 01:14:19.100
I don't want to see Jai get his belts, but I

01:14:19.100 --> 01:14:22.720
don't know. The whole Zufa thing was a misstep.

01:14:24.060 --> 01:14:28.340
Quite. I think it was being too trusting. He,

01:14:28.420 --> 01:14:31.699
I think he expected, he had been with Tasman

01:14:31.699 --> 01:14:36.760
for a while. So he expected, he trusted that

01:14:36.760 --> 01:14:40.220
they had his best interests in mind and that

01:14:40.220 --> 01:14:44.520
they knew his goal was undisputed. The four belt

01:14:44.520 --> 01:14:47.199
undisputed. They knew that's what he wanted.

01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:50.340
So when they said, yeah, that's going to be available

01:14:50.340 --> 01:14:57.300
to you, he trusted them. Yeah. But as I said

01:14:57.300 --> 01:15:02.930
on B -Sides, Jai, buddy. If you need somebody

01:15:02.930 --> 01:15:07.069
to read your shit, you let me know. I will sit

01:15:07.069 --> 01:15:10.069
down and fucking read every goddamn word of the

01:15:10.069 --> 01:15:16.390
contract for you. Because this Zufa shit, this

01:15:16.390 --> 01:15:20.829
ain't it. They are not going to get you to your

01:15:20.829 --> 01:15:26.489
goals. I think a lot... The IVF pulled their

01:15:26.489 --> 01:15:30.210
sanctioning partly because of wording in their...

01:15:30.750 --> 01:15:34.550
whatever mandate, is that the right word? Where

01:15:34.550 --> 01:15:38.069
they can pull sanctioning if you're fighting

01:15:38.069 --> 01:15:46.729
with a different promotion? I can't remember

01:15:46.729 --> 01:15:49.289
the wording. But basically, if you're fighting

01:15:49.289 --> 01:15:52.510
for Mickey Mouse belts, we can unsanction the

01:15:52.510 --> 01:15:55.890
fight. And they declared Zufa Mickey Mouse belt.

01:15:59.500 --> 01:16:05.760
They're not wrong. No, but that was their reasoning,

01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:09.060
and if it goes to court, that'll be what they

01:16:09.060 --> 01:16:12.880
stand by. But the IBF almost never goes to court.

01:16:12.979 --> 01:16:19.439
I think they're just going to pansy out. Ever

01:16:19.439 --> 01:16:22.079
since the IBF got caught for corruption and shit,

01:16:22.119 --> 01:16:25.840
I don't think they've been to court since. Well,

01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:30.880
they play it hard. By their rules. Like, verbatim.

01:16:31.739 --> 01:16:34.939
Yeah. If you can't fucking read them, then that's

01:16:34.939 --> 01:16:38.100
your problem, because we are going by the text.

01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:42.460
Yeah. But, like, I think Jai needed to read all

01:16:42.460 --> 01:16:46.039
of the belt's rules as well as his contract.

01:16:47.739 --> 01:16:52.399
Like, I'm sure WBC would be willing to play ball

01:16:52.399 --> 01:16:55.520
with Zufa, because I don't give a shit as long

01:16:55.520 --> 01:17:01.800
as I get paid. Yeah. But, yeah. Man, this sucks

01:17:01.800 --> 01:17:08.420
for... Because Zordo... That was one of the things

01:17:08.420 --> 01:17:11.960
that I forgot to mention in the news. Zordo Benavidez.

01:17:14.439 --> 01:17:19.279
Zordo's the WBA, WBO cruiserweight champ. Yeah.

01:17:19.380 --> 01:17:23.079
WBC is trying to insert themselves in with their

01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:28.279
commemorative belt. And it's like, what are...

01:17:28.670 --> 01:17:31.149
So the other two are saying, like, what the fuck

01:17:31.149 --> 01:17:34.069
are you doing? You have no stake in the game

01:17:34.069 --> 01:17:37.770
here. You have your champion over there with

01:17:37.770 --> 01:17:43.130
Norair Makalian. Go promote him or whatever.

01:17:45.989 --> 01:17:50.090
Yeah. I don't know. Cruiserweight's in a weird

01:17:50.090 --> 01:17:57.130
spot right now. Yeah. Anything more for our recaps?

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know. Is this a light weekend? Starting with

01:21:07.649 --> 01:21:14.420
Friday, March 20th. Misfits Pro. In Belfast.

01:21:15.060 --> 01:21:18.899
The fuck is this? I don't know who these people

01:21:18.899 --> 01:21:23.199
are. Co -promoted by Conlon Boxing, if that helps.

01:21:23.619 --> 01:21:28.619
Mickey Conlon is headlining against Kevin Walsh.

01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:35.159
Mickey Conlon doesn't need to be fighting anymore.

01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:38.180
He should be promoting. He was doing pretty good

01:21:38.180 --> 01:21:44.239
with that. Yeah. Him, his brother, his father.

01:21:44.460 --> 01:21:46.880
Do I recognize the co -main? No, this is a different

01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:50.520
Kieran. Yeah, not the same Kieran. I think Kieran

01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:54.300
Connelly is who you're thinking of. I might be,

01:21:54.399 --> 01:21:57.960
yeah. Moving on. Saturday, March 21st. Starting

01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:04.380
off with the Brit Slop Fans Delight Matchroom

01:22:04.380 --> 01:22:13.430
at the Copper Box. Who do I... Recognize Emmanuel

01:22:13.430 --> 01:22:17.829
Buttigieg. I know his name. Giorgio Visioli,

01:22:17.949 --> 01:22:20.569
I know that name. Jimmy Saines, I know that name.

01:22:21.010 --> 01:22:24.510
And in the main event, George Ladard versus Tyler

01:22:24.510 --> 01:22:31.890
Denny. I know Ladard. Yes, and I know Tyler Denny

01:22:31.890 --> 01:22:36.569
as well. I look at his picture. No, I don't think

01:22:36.569 --> 01:22:40.850
I know him. I mean, it's Brit Slop. It'll be

01:22:40.850 --> 01:22:45.390
what it is. Lynn is probably losing her shit

01:22:45.390 --> 01:22:50.090
over this one. She loves Lenard. She does. Moving

01:22:50.090 --> 01:22:55.109
on to Probox TV in San Bernardino, California.

01:22:57.350 --> 01:23:03.409
Let's... I only got two on this one. Joshua Anton

01:23:03.409 --> 01:23:08.729
versus Kudratilo Abdukakarov. It's a ten round.

01:23:09.289 --> 01:23:13.789
154 fight, and in the main event, Lester Martinez,

01:23:14.090 --> 01:23:18.810
Emmanuel Aleem, interim WBC super middleweight

01:23:18.810 --> 01:23:22.810
title. I'm super excited to see Lester again.

01:23:23.029 --> 01:23:31.810
Me too. I don't know much about Aleem, but I'm

01:23:31.810 --> 01:23:35.810
hoping Lester can get a nice, convincing win.

01:23:37.739 --> 01:23:39.460
Because I don't think it's going to be an easy

01:23:39.460 --> 01:23:45.699
fight. I think Lester, especially if he's still

01:23:45.699 --> 01:23:50.239
with Bomek, I think he's going to... Maybe the

01:23:50.239 --> 01:23:53.119
first few rounds might be a little tough, but

01:23:53.119 --> 01:23:56.619
I think he'll be able to overcome it. I think

01:23:56.619 --> 01:24:02.659
Lester is... Lester, to me, is the WBC champion.

01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:07.260
I think he would have beaten... Mbili in a rematch.

01:24:07.619 --> 01:24:13.060
I do as well. And they elevated Mbili prematurely.

01:24:14.659 --> 01:24:18.720
Lester Martinez, he has a lot. If he doesn't

01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:24.180
have high boxing IQ in himself, he is highly

01:24:24.180 --> 01:24:29.100
coachable. Which is sometimes better. It can

01:24:29.100 --> 01:24:33.359
be, yes. So with Bomek in your corner, that's...

01:24:33.689 --> 01:24:37.590
It's like Robert Garcia. You get the buff. Yeah,

01:24:37.649 --> 01:24:42.210
yeah. I really think Lester Martinez is the goods.

01:24:42.369 --> 01:24:44.630
Yeah, I agree. And I want to see him do well.

01:24:45.029 --> 01:24:47.409
I've been watching interviews with him and stuff,

01:24:47.489 --> 01:24:52.529
and he just seems like a really happy guy. He's

01:24:52.529 --> 01:24:55.090
always just like, I'm so excited to be here.

01:24:55.109 --> 01:24:56.649
I can't believe my dream is coming true. I'm

01:24:56.649 --> 01:24:58.750
just happy to be here, everybody. Yeah, yeah.

01:24:59.890 --> 01:25:02.590
Oh, are there snacks? Who brought snacks? I brought

01:25:02.590 --> 01:25:07.770
snacks. I'm happy to be here. Exactly. And it

01:25:07.770 --> 01:25:11.369
would be really cool for him to become the first

01:25:11.369 --> 01:25:14.390
Guatemalan world champion. I think that would

01:25:14.390 --> 01:25:23.289
be amazing. First Guatemalan? Yeah. I double

01:25:23.289 --> 01:25:25.989
checked it after last time. He would be the first

01:25:25.989 --> 01:25:31.600
Guatemalan world champion. Excellent. And he

01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:34.979
seems like a nice guy who deserves it. I would

01:25:34.979 --> 01:25:37.859
be sad if Lester loses. I would be too, because

01:25:37.859 --> 01:25:40.920
he seems like such a, like a, just genuinely

01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:46.380
good person. Yeah, just happy. Yes. I like happy

01:25:46.380 --> 01:25:53.199
people. He's grateful. Yeah. Last bit. Matchroom

01:25:53.199 --> 01:25:59.529
on DAZN at the Caribe Royale in Orlando. Florida.

01:26:00.890 --> 01:26:07.130
There are some TBAs still on here. As I have

01:26:07.130 --> 01:26:12.470
been saying, I am very professional. Hold on

01:26:12.470 --> 01:26:14.369
a second. Let me make sure that these are not

01:26:14.369 --> 01:26:20.529
still TBAs. Entrevious Ingram. Just what an excellent

01:26:20.529 --> 01:26:26.229
name. Excellent. Moving up. Tara Moana is facing

01:26:26.229 --> 01:26:28.989
Curtis Harper. Is that the dude that walked out

01:26:28.989 --> 01:26:33.149
on FAA Dragba? Curtis Harper? I don't think so.

01:26:33.409 --> 01:26:37.510
Maybe. He is. Disqualified in the first. That's

01:26:37.510 --> 01:26:43.430
him. Nice. Tara Moana. Curtis, please walk out

01:26:43.430 --> 01:26:49.909
again. He fucked that up so bad because they

01:26:49.909 --> 01:26:52.109
hadn't paid him. So if he hadn't have done the

01:26:52.109 --> 01:26:55.659
ring walk. He was free and clear, but he ring

01:26:55.659 --> 01:26:58.159
-walked and stepped into the ring, so then he

01:26:58.159 --> 01:27:02.680
was in breach of contract. Well, make sure that

01:27:02.680 --> 01:27:04.720
you do the ring -walk and don't get in the ring

01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:11.960
this time, Curtis. Let's see. Like I said, I

01:27:11.960 --> 01:27:17.239
am professional. Yoannis Taez is no longer on

01:27:17.239 --> 01:27:21.979
this card because he's got moved to the Fundora

01:27:21.979 --> 01:27:29.640
Thurman. The week after. Omari Jones is facing

01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.319
Christian Gomez. I don't know who that is, but

01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.479
Omari Jones is going on his sixth fight facing

01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:40.460
a 23 -6 -1 veteran. So I think Eddie believes

01:27:40.460 --> 01:27:44.500
in what he's got. Yeah, I don't recognize Christian

01:27:44.500 --> 01:27:50.720
Gomez. And in the main event... The rescheduled

01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:53.939
fight. Carlos Adamas, the WBC middleweight champion,

01:27:54.140 --> 01:28:00.159
is facing Austin Williams. I learned... Well,

01:28:00.260 --> 01:28:04.100
I don't know if it's confirmed. But people are

01:28:04.100 --> 01:28:06.699
still calling him Tiger. And I don't like it.

01:28:06.739 --> 01:28:10.520
No. No. He is Ammo. Ammo is such a better nickname.

01:28:10.960 --> 01:28:15.479
He will always be Ammo to me. I'm not going to

01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:18.079
let this go. I'm going to find a way to contact...

01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:21.979
austin williams and let him know dude ammo way

01:28:21.979 --> 01:28:25.659
cooler um it is way and you are a cool fucking

01:28:25.659 --> 01:28:30.060
dude so cut the tiger shit don't be sewing on

01:28:30.060 --> 01:28:32.640
tiger tails to your fucking trunks while you

01:28:32.640 --> 01:28:37.560
train bro that's like furry shit yeah that's

01:28:37.560 --> 01:28:40.399
not great don't be doing that dude you're cooler

01:28:40.399 --> 01:28:47.289
than that all right so we are heading into Lester

01:28:47.289 --> 01:28:54.689
Martinez and then Carlos Adames versus Emma Williams.

01:28:55.869 --> 01:28:59.930
Parting words. Other than Elon Musk not being

01:28:59.930 --> 01:29:05.829
cool enough to hang out with pedophiles. Parting

01:29:05.829 --> 01:29:08.789
words. I need to figure out what Guatemalan food

01:29:08.789 --> 01:29:11.529
is so I can have Guatemalan food for the Lester

01:29:11.529 --> 01:29:16.729
Martinez fight. They do tamales as well. They

01:29:16.729 --> 01:29:18.869
make theirs differently, though. They do banana

01:29:18.869 --> 01:29:21.329
leaves instead of corn husks. I've never had

01:29:21.329 --> 01:29:25.750
tamales, to be honest. Oh, shit, dog. We gotta

01:29:25.750 --> 01:29:29.010
get you sorted out. I know. But yeah, I'm gonna

01:29:29.010 --> 01:29:31.189
figure out what Guatemalan food is and I'm gonna

01:29:31.189 --> 01:29:34.149
make some for the Lester Martinez fight. That

01:29:34.149 --> 01:29:38.149
is how you celebrate. Fuck, being busy sucks.

01:29:38.550 --> 01:29:41.270
I'm trying to also get the goddamn video game

01:29:41.270 --> 01:29:44.890
podcast running again. I was thinking of doing

01:29:44.890 --> 01:29:50.189
an anime. video game sort of hybrid okay so that

01:29:50.189 --> 01:29:52.930
maybe you could poke in for a little bit yeah

01:29:52.930 --> 01:29:56.289
yeah say stuff about shows you're watching um

01:29:56.289 --> 01:29:58.810
i watch a shit ton of anime i could definitely

01:29:58.810 --> 01:30:02.949
do that yeah take that that's parting words you

01:30:02.949 --> 01:30:04.670
want to be a you want a podcast about some shit

01:30:04.670 --> 01:30:10.329
i got you got you covered well boxing before

01:30:10.329 --> 01:30:14.649
dark i would say That it is, but it's not. I'm

01:30:14.649 --> 01:30:16.569
just going to say it because it's the outro.

01:30:17.449 --> 01:30:21.010
My batteries are getting low. And it is getting

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dark. It's got still blondes. Goddamn. All right.

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We are out of here. Bye. Bye.