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The B -Side in boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.

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B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.

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The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. That

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B -Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.

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Man, 20 minutes of fucking Patreon time. Here

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we go. Boxing B -Sides. Holy shit, the timer

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is running. Boys, Saul, Josh, how are we doing?

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I'm glad to be back after two weeks. Long two

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weeks. A lot of news. Oh yeah. A lot of news

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in a long time. A lot of fun news. A lot of great

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news, a lot of fun news, a lot of sad news. The

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good, the bad, and the ugly of boxing. We're

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going to get into it right now on the Boxing

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B -Sides. That's how we do it. Just a little

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bit of fun stuff. Fun and sad up top. First,

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we've been keeping up with Punch. With a name

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like Punch, how could we not? Punch, Punchy -kun,

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as they call him in Japan, he has a girlfriend.

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Are you fucking kidding me? Punch has a girlfriend

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before I do. Are you? I'm getting fucking outworked

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by a monkey. This is ridiculous. Have you guys

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seen him? Yeah, he has a girlfriend. Punch girlfriend

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before Virgil Bell. Don't you fucking say that.

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All right. Saul's going to leave this call immediately.

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It's just gone. I have to point out that Punch,

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his girlfriend, She has a lighter shade of fur

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that kind of matches his little stuffy. Oh, my

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God. The Freud. Yes. Yes. Freudian. It's straight

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Freudian. Oh, my God. Yeah. Boys want to bang

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women that resemble their mother. It's difficult

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to argue here. Yeah. All of this proven before...

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Freudian confirmation before Virgil title. Oh,

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my God. What a beautiful day. Isaac is... Isaac's

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the one fuming in our comments, actually. He's

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the one raging. He's the one raging. Okay, it's

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okay. Isaac, I'm with you. Virgil, bro, it's

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your life. Yeah, I was going to say, like, which

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of you is the bigger Virgil, bro? If you had

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to pick. It depends on the day, honestly. Saul

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can take the joke, though. Isaac, if you start

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making fun of Virgil in front of Isaac, he'll

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just bring out food. He starts stress eating,

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and then, like, it's... Then he distracts with,

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like, hey, have you ever tried, uh... Bread and

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butter pickle chips? Sometimes it works, sometimes

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it doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. We love you, Isaac. We

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all love you here. Yeah, of course. No, yeah.

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He's our fellow Lux Media familia. Yes. He's

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starting to become disenfranchised from all this

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Virgil hate. Yeah, I did bring up a... XYZ before

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Virgil title, and he was like, oh, man, I can't

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even escape it over here on the MMA show. Yeah,

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well, it do be like that. Man, speaking of it

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do be like that, Chuck Norris dies at the age

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of, I believe, 87. 86 or 87. Man, for... I just

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wanted to bring him up because he was like, for

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me anyway, growing up he was like the martial

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arts hero. Bruce Lee had already passed on, so

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it was Chuck Norris for me. What's the song with

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the ultimate showdown that had the lyrics? That's

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the one I remember. Was it Chuck Norris versus

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Bruce Lee? No, it was like this. This, like,

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Lemon Demon song. The boogeyman checks under

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their bed for Chuck Norris. Yeah, those are the

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memes I saw when I was a kid, but I also saw

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there's, like, the... Like, uh... Hold on. The

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Gandalf the Gray and Gandalf the White. And Monty

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Python on the Holy Grails. Black Knight. And

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Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie. Like, the...

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It's a whole song. It's a whole song from Lemon

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Demon, but... Let me find it and share it. Oh,

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I know him from Walker, Texas Ranger. Yeah. I

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used to, like, when I first got cable as a kid,

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that was one of the shows that I used to watch.

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I watched the Delta Force movies, where he would

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have, like, be double -wielding, like, Uzis.

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It was fucking ridiculous. But, yeah, well, Chuck

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Norris is the man. Yeah, well, he definitely

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became friends with Chuck Norris just to get

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him to come to the other side. One thing, he

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got the... There have been... It hasn't hit triple

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digits yet. It's typically reserved for, like,

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Make -A -Wish kids, but the title of Honorary

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Marine, Chuck Norris got that one, like, at the

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height of Chuck Norris jokes in, like, 2006,

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2007. I was in actually the the commandant of

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the Marine Corps that conferred the title was

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the one that was in charge when I joined. So

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Chuck Norris was like, I don't want to say like

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a demigod, but he was like a patron saint, if

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that makes sense. Like you just confer. toughness

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like or like you bless yourself with toughness

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from Chuck Norris knighted by the toughness yeah

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exactly like my like when you're doing martial

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arts training and you're like beating the shit

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out of each other like ah like you can't hurt

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me I'm like I'm fucking Chuck Norris like you

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can't can't hurt me and it doesn't really help

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that much but it was still fun to do when I was

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in so What were you guys' favorite Chuck Norris

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jokes? Chuck Norris doesn't have a chin under

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his beard. He has another fist. Hold on, I gotta

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look up Chuck Norris jokes. Yeah, that was one

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of my favorites. Chuck Norris doesn't do push

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-ups. He pushes the ground down. I like that

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one. That one's a good one. When he does push

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-ups. I got one, I got one. Chuck Norris doesn't

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wear a watch. He decides what time it is. Yeah,

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that's good. The quickest way to a man's heart

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is with Chuck Norris' fist. Yeah, makes perfect

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sense. Chuck Norris spices up his steaks with

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pepper spray. Sergio Mora on the... We'll talk

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about it next time. The Adamas ammo cart. Like,

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they were swapping Chuck Norris jokes. Yeah.

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Only good commentary that night. Yeah. Well,

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I don't know. Like, I would have liked some Praying

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Mantis husbandry. Yeah. With my Chuck Norris

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jokes. We gotta add that as a soundbite in this.

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in this podcast did the male prying mantis eat

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the female prying mantis after mating I used

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to tend black widows and I would it was my then

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like my then live -in girlfriend She, like, she

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would not let me capture one and bring it inside,

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like, in a container. So what I would do was

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I would kill all of them except for one and then

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just take care of that one. And, like, yeah,

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seeing, like, the little tiny male black widows

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crawl up into the, and you just look, for me,

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like, looking at it, like. Buddy, you have no

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idea what's coming, do you? He's about to get

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fucked to death. Exactly. That's exactly what's

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about to happen to him. But enough husbandry

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of fucking... Die what you do when you live.

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You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

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Little bit of MMA talk before we get to the boxing

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news. Just a review. March 13th. One fight night

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41. It was a solid card. A lot of good stoppages.

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The one that I wanted to point out was the main

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event. George Jarvis gets the UD over Sin Samut.

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It was a lightweight Muay Thai fight. And holy

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shit. Like these fellas just completely forgot

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that they can throw kicks or elbows. Or knees,

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for that matter. They were just punching the

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ever -loving shit out of each other. And I think

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it was towards the end of the second round, I

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was in chat with other people that were watching,

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and George Jarvis threw a low kick to Sensamut's

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calf kick, right? And I immediately reacted with,

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I forgot they can kick. I forgot they're allowed

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to kick. That is how. This is like the. Perfect.

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Boxing fan friendly. Fight. Muay Thai is already.

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Boxing fan friendly. This one. Fucking peach.

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It was so good. Coming up. On March 28th. UFC

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Seattle. The. Undercard is kind of meh. But the

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main event, Israel Adesanya, he is ranked 6th

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at middleweight in the UFC. He started his fighting

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career as a kickboxer. Homeboy does not grapple.

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Joe Pfeiffer, his opponent, is 14th at middleweight.

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He's like a fucking juggernaut. And he does not

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grapple. So this is probably, I think the Leo

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curse is starting to take shape. I promise you

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like a striker friendly event. And it just does

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not turn out that way. But I genuinely think

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this Adesanya versus Pfeiffer should be a good

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time. All right. Enough MMA shit. let's get into

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the news uh we're not going to be talking about

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this event this time but it's important to bring

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up isis co has come out of the medically induced

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coma by all reports she's responsive like she's

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off ventilator she's talking she's eating all

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signs point to good right But I wanted to bring

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this up. And I was talking, like Saul, you and

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I were talking about this before we started the

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show. It's important to remember that these people

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that are beating the ever -loving shit out of

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each other, that they do it for our entertainment,

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they are absolutely risking their lives. I have

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seen... no less like i've seen three i i think

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i can count three on my on just off the top of

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my head of fighters that i have been that i have

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watched get beaten to death they don't necessarily

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die in the ring but they die later and yes it's

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a sport yes it's entertainment but like we we

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have to give these people some sort of baseline

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respect for doing this. Yeah. I gotta say that

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every time a boxer goes out, like I said earlier,

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every time a boxer even steps in the ring, we

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gotta give them the minimum amount of respect

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that they deserve, you know? They're giving their

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life out to this, like we said, for our entertainment,

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you know? And at the end of the day, they might

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not be the best competition. Sometimes we even

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call them bums. But at the end of the day, this

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so -called... I'm not calling this girl bum,

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but I'm just saying the people we call bum sometimes,

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they're putting everything on the line. They

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have families. They're a champion to someone.

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They have families. They have friends that they're

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supportive. They mean the world to somebody.

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Exactly. They're someone's little boy, someone's

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little girl, you know? At the end of the day,

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they're giving their all in the ring, and they

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deserve respect from anybody that's a boxing

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fan. Yeah, any viewer should always hold some

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respect for these people. Yeah, and again, we

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throw that word around bum lightly. I know what

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over here we kind of say as a joke, but at the

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end of the day, we need to reiterate that every

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boxer that steps in the ring is a champion at

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the heart. Right. So respect to anybody that

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steps in the ring. And Isis' CEO, she's 19. You

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know what I mean? She's young, yeah. And Jocelyn

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Camarillo that sent her to the hospital is 21.

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So it's not like Isis was this old woman that

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should not necessarily have been in the ring

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or something. These are young, healthy women.

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And this shit still happens. So it's just keep

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in mind whenever you want to like shit on someone,

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just remember that like we sit in the observer

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seat and we take none of the risk. But as happy

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as we are for ISIS to be in better health, let's

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get into some other news. TopRank signs a multi

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-year. non -exclusive deal with The Zone. The

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release details are $5 million per year, and

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I've seen conflicting reports somewhere between

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8 to 12 shows per year. What are we thinking?

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To me, this is a great move. This is a good move.

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It's very much like basically an anti -Zufa move.

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I think you're right. I mean, they had nowhere

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else to go. I mean, they're saying that they're

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going to try to negotiate with other networks.

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They're trying to, but it's clear that other

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places don't want to invest in boxing right now.

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Especially top rank. Considering their ego, not

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ego, but their history and all the legends that

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they've produced. I mean, it's going to be a

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valuable asset to be with the zone. It's mainly

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the fight library. The prestige that comes with

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Top Rank and, like, their story and history.

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Exactly. They own the rights to a very expansive

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library, too, that can now go in DAZN of classic

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fights. Muhammad Ali fights with freaking George

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Foreman, Sherry Leonard, Floyd Mayweather. I

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mean, come on. They have a very large fight catalog

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that can now go on DAZN. DAZN. Archive. Yeah,

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like, Home of Fights, look at our Classic Fight

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Archive. Like, that's already, that's better

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value. That's arguably, like, you're getting

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more value out of that than, like, the top -ranked

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deal, just their collection. Well, top -ranked,

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too. The thing is, not just that, you also get

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some of the best and brightest coming up right

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now. You have opponents for guys, too. I think

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that, too. I mean, right now, all... Pretty much

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the majority of American boxing is under DAZN

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right now. And I don't want to say that DAZN

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is 100 % worth it, but it does make it easier

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to pay for it now, considering that Top Rank's

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on there, versus paying $10 for ESPN and then

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paying some amount of money for DAZN. Now you

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have Top Rank with DAZN, and it's pretty much

00:18:01.289 --> 00:18:03.349
all under one umbrella. Yeah, it's a one -stop

00:18:03.349 --> 00:18:06.130
shop. Yeah, exactly. The only other promotional

00:18:06.130 --> 00:18:09.009
company out there is going to be PBC. I don't

00:18:09.009 --> 00:18:10.130
even want to get into it right now, but they

00:18:10.130 --> 00:18:13.410
have the opposite of Top Rank, where they have

00:18:13.410 --> 00:18:19.609
a lot of high -level fighters. They're older,

00:18:19.789 --> 00:18:23.769
but they have little to no young up -and -comers.

00:18:23.950 --> 00:18:25.849
No one to develop. They already have developed

00:18:25.849 --> 00:18:29.549
guys. No one to develop. Versus Top Rank, they

00:18:29.549 --> 00:18:32.950
already have a bunch of fighters that can develop,

00:18:33.029 --> 00:18:37.609
but... Their top talent is very barren right

00:18:37.609 --> 00:18:41.369
now. Well, that's Xander. I can count on my hands

00:18:41.369 --> 00:18:43.289
the number of guys they got that's top talent

00:18:43.289 --> 00:18:45.930
that they can promote good. They can probably

00:18:45.930 --> 00:18:48.730
promote, you know. But back to what we were saying,

00:18:48.849 --> 00:18:52.609
top -ranked being added to the zone, very good

00:18:52.609 --> 00:18:54.589
move. And I'm excited to see what's going to

00:18:54.589 --> 00:18:57.869
be happening in the future. Josh, you got anything?

00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.400
No, it's mainly just I agree fully with that.

00:19:01.539 --> 00:19:04.259
And it's the fight library that you get so much

00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:08.759
value out of. Especially like $5 million a year

00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.720
for that fight library. Yeah, and plus you're

00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:16.559
getting 8 to 12 live boxing events. Yeah, like

00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.119
you're getting shows out of it. You would now

00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:22.200
have a healthy supply of opponents for the bigger

00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.440
promotions. Oh, you could put a straight up DAZN

00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:31.750
boxing. channel on tubi and you've got we'll

00:19:31.750 --> 00:19:33.410
talk about it in a second but like we've got

00:19:33.410 --> 00:19:37.789
matchroom queensberry top rank golden boy like

00:19:37.789 --> 00:19:39.930
you've have ranks the distributor for eye of

00:19:39.930 --> 00:19:42.809
the tiger stuff too so i'm assuming yeah some

00:19:42.809 --> 00:19:45.369
of the cards are going to be those uh canadian

00:19:45.369 --> 00:19:48.289
eye of the tiger cards could be also some of

00:19:48.289 --> 00:19:51.230
those japanese cards as well true yeah well from

00:19:51.230 --> 00:19:54.849
what i've heard uh like word on the street is

00:19:54.849 --> 00:19:58.990
that the Inoue and Nakatani deals both expired.

00:20:00.170 --> 00:20:04.250
So we'll see if they renew them. I haven't heard

00:20:04.250 --> 00:20:07.910
anything so far, but I'm keeping my ear to the

00:20:07.910 --> 00:20:09.690
ground and we'll see what comes up with that.

00:20:12.450 --> 00:20:17.369
Another interesting turn of events, Top Rank

00:20:17.369 --> 00:20:21.950
and Matchroom, they signed an explicit partnership

00:20:21.950 --> 00:20:26.450
deal, a multi -year deal. And when I was talking

00:20:26.450 --> 00:20:31.849
to Shanada about this, we landed on this being

00:20:31.849 --> 00:20:37.529
more of like signaling, right? Just a sign to

00:20:37.529 --> 00:20:42.589
the people, specifically to our fighters, top

00:20:42.589 --> 00:20:46.190
rank and matchroom, that you're not stuck in

00:20:46.190 --> 00:20:51.109
a silo. You're not stuck in the TR or MR silo.

00:20:51.390 --> 00:20:55.109
You will at the very least get fights. with each

00:20:55.109 --> 00:21:00.490
other so um yeah to me it's a it's a good signal

00:21:00.490 --> 00:21:04.369
but i'm not entirely sure what to make of this

00:21:04.369 --> 00:21:07.190
deal beyond that unless you guys got something

00:21:07.190 --> 00:21:11.789
real quick i do want to ask because i know you

00:21:11.789 --> 00:21:14.069
keep pushing the point of i know it's not related

00:21:14.069 --> 00:21:16.349
to this but you keep saying it's five million

00:21:16.349 --> 00:21:17.990
dollars a year that's is that five million dollars

00:21:17.990 --> 00:21:21.190
a year for the uh in total or is that five million

00:21:21.190 --> 00:21:26.069
per show $5 million for the whole year. I think

00:21:26.069 --> 00:21:27.910
with ESPN, they were getting, what, $80 million?

00:21:30.509 --> 00:21:34.130
$80? I don't know what it was exactly. I don't

00:21:34.130 --> 00:21:38.549
know if it was either $80 million or some outrageous

00:21:38.549 --> 00:21:43.049
number. It's probably better than $5. I mean,

00:21:43.069 --> 00:21:48.430
of course, but... Yeah. I don't know about $80.

00:21:51.090 --> 00:21:54.309
Oh, yeah. When they first signed it, they had

00:21:54.309 --> 00:21:57.809
Manny Pacquiao. They had Terrence Crawford. Yeah.

00:21:57.930 --> 00:22:02.250
Yeah. So that it's a little and Lobachenko as

00:22:02.250 --> 00:22:07.029
well. Yeah. But yeah, this is definitely a lot

00:22:07.029 --> 00:22:10.869
smaller, but like the stable is also considerably

00:22:10.869 --> 00:22:13.849
smaller. So it was an eight year, $85 million

00:22:13.849 --> 00:22:19.400
per year deal. 85 mil a year. 85 million per

00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:24.599
year, yeah. Fall from grace. Wow. But, you know,

00:22:24.619 --> 00:22:26.900
either way, what you're saying with the collaboration

00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:29.960
with Matchroom and Top Ring, that's a very good

00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:32.980
thing, because you know what? Like what you said,

00:22:33.019 --> 00:22:35.799
they're not confined to just Matchroom or just

00:22:35.799 --> 00:22:38.880
Top Ring. They don't really have the excuse of

00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.599
having to cross the street anymore, you know?

00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.019
Yeah. And at the same time, since it's non -exclusive,

00:22:45.140 --> 00:22:47.299
they could also send their fighters to the PVC

00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:50.579
shows, you know, just to get more activity. Or

00:22:50.579 --> 00:22:56.339
even Pro Box, you know? I am sure that the non

00:22:56.339 --> 00:23:00.539
-exclusive deal is for what you're mentioning.

00:23:00.700 --> 00:23:03.720
Like, the higher -end guys, the few higher -end

00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.730
guys that they do have... They want to send them

00:23:07.730 --> 00:23:11.490
off to fight the other high -end guys in their

00:23:11.490 --> 00:23:14.869
divisions, like Xander versus Fundora, just for

00:23:14.869 --> 00:23:21.230
example. So that, to me, is one of the non -exclusive

00:23:21.230 --> 00:23:23.190
things. Like maybe they just want to make that

00:23:23.190 --> 00:23:26.569
a PBC pay -per -view that Top Rank gets a cut

00:23:26.569 --> 00:23:30.230
out of. Or if they want to put on their own pay

00:23:30.230 --> 00:23:33.569
-per -views, they're able to shop whatever network

00:23:33.569 --> 00:23:40.099
they want. to put on these shows that... Emiliano

00:23:40.099 --> 00:23:42.640
Vargas, that $5 million a year, that's going

00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:47.240
to cover guys like him. But a unified champion

00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:50.460
like Xander Zayas, he's going to command a little

00:23:50.460 --> 00:23:56.779
bit more of a premium. Not for long. Not for

00:23:56.779 --> 00:24:01.680
long. We will get to that in a moment. So...

00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:06.660
Top Rank Matchroom. Golden Boy re -signs a multi

00:24:06.660 --> 00:24:09.619
-year deal with DAZN. I haven't heard any specifics

00:24:09.619 --> 00:24:12.279
about this yet, like what their yearly budget

00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:15.599
is or how many shows that they're obligated to

00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:21.140
put on. But, like we've been talking about, this

00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:26.859
is establishing DAZN as the one -stop shop for...

00:24:28.099 --> 00:24:31.799
American boxing and British boxing in America.

00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:35.380
What do you guys think? What are we thinking

00:24:35.380 --> 00:24:38.380
with Golden Boy re -signing? They don't really

00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:41.099
have anywhere else to go, right? Well, it was

00:24:41.099 --> 00:24:43.099
better than fucking Swerve TV. I'll tell you

00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:45.960
that or not. They were given a life raft to be

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:47.720
given back to The Zone. The Zone honestly shouldn't

00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:51.180
even... I'm losing my freaking words right here.

00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:53.339
They shouldn't have even been put back on The

00:24:53.339 --> 00:24:56.970
Zone. I mean, they lack... Star power. I mean,

00:24:56.990 --> 00:25:00.690
unless Ryan is going to truly resign, that's

00:25:00.690 --> 00:25:04.710
the golden ticket right there. I doubt Ryan resigns.

00:25:04.710 --> 00:25:07.349
And Virgil has already made it really clear he

00:25:07.349 --> 00:25:11.130
wants to leave. He made it clear, but he deleted

00:25:11.130 --> 00:25:13.410
those posts really quick. I don't know if you

00:25:13.410 --> 00:25:15.309
saw that, but he deleted those posts talking

00:25:15.309 --> 00:25:18.950
about how he doesn't want to work at Oscar anymore.

00:25:19.289 --> 00:25:22.309
I can't find that. Maybe on Twitter, but on Instagram

00:25:22.309 --> 00:25:24.670
when he posted it as well, he took that out.

00:25:24.990 --> 00:25:28.130
I think it's for the sake of arbitration. They

00:25:28.130 --> 00:25:30.029
wanted to try to cover their tracks a little

00:25:30.029 --> 00:25:34.769
bit. Just my speculation. Maybe. But by the way,

00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:38.150
Oscar at the end of the day, he still has good

00:25:38.150 --> 00:25:41.769
regional power within the Southwest. Yes, Southern

00:25:41.769 --> 00:25:45.089
California especially. Yes, especially Southern

00:25:45.089 --> 00:25:47.630
California. But you know what, though? I mean,

00:25:47.650 --> 00:25:51.390
we'll talk about it a little later, but we're

00:25:51.390 --> 00:25:54.700
talking about Barboza, right? Yes, we will be.

00:25:54.779 --> 00:25:58.000
Yeah, okay. So, I'll talk more on there, but

00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:04.220
their shows are lacking star power. They can

00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:07.079
put on maybe one. They haven't put on a Virgil

00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:09.619
Ortiz show in a while. They haven't put on a

00:26:09.619 --> 00:26:12.119
Ryan Garcia show. They can't consistently put

00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.579
it on. You know, they need to have more top -level

00:26:14.579 --> 00:26:17.019
guys fighting. They don't have the ops for their

00:26:17.019 --> 00:26:19.700
top -level guys. And once they're in a loophole,

00:26:19.819 --> 00:26:25.400
if he loses. If he loses, that's another champion

00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:28.220
they don't have. They lose guys with star power.

00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:31.140
Eventually, they're going to run out. Something

00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:34.500
that I heard, I don't know if this is true or

00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:39.880
not, is the Zerto -Benevitas fight. I had heard

00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:43.240
that it was going to be Zerto promotions, not

00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:48.380
Golden Boy. I don't know how true this is. I'm

00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:51.380
just throwing it out there. It is going to be

00:26:51.380 --> 00:26:59.759
on DAZN as well. It is. As Prime. But it might

00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:03.400
be its own sort of promotion as well, but I don't

00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:05.980
know. It might just be like how they have Ryan

00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:08.079
Garcia promotions or Devin Haney promotions type

00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:10.460
of thing. Oh, just, yeah, like in cooperation

00:27:10.460 --> 00:27:15.660
or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, either

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:18.640
way, they got given a life rap. even lucky to

00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.440
be on a big platform like the zone right now,

00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:22.160
potentially because of what happened with Virgil.

00:27:23.740 --> 00:27:30.400
Hmm. I mean, they won, but they got saved by

00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:32.319
also Ryan becoming champion. Again, if Ryan lost

00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:37.240
again, oh, Lord, they would have completely been

00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.680
done. I mean, imagine only having guys like Arnold

00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:52.509
Barboza, you know? I would think that this re

00:27:52.509 --> 00:27:58.529
-signing, if anybody should be signing partnership

00:27:58.529 --> 00:28:02.569
deals, it should be Golden Boy. Because they

00:28:02.569 --> 00:28:06.890
have a good, as you had laid it out, Golden Boy

00:28:06.890 --> 00:28:11.789
has a really good lower tier stable. Guys that

00:28:11.789 --> 00:28:17.519
you want to get into fights with. higher profile

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:20.380
not necessarily like higher caliber but higher

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:24.319
profile guys or at least on higher profile promotions

00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:27.279
like top rank or match room or even queensberry

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:31.720
golden boy is like seriously lacking at the top

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:34.720
level i to be honest with you i don't consider

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:39.059
ryan or virgil to be i think those guys are running

00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:42.559
out their contracts as quickly as they can yes

00:28:44.439 --> 00:28:49.519
My thing with that is Golden Boy, the multi -year

00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:54.000
deal lasts until what, 2031, right? I haven't

00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:58.400
heard the specifics, so I couldn't say. Either

00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:00.900
way, either way. I agree with you, they might

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:03.640
leave. They might leave, they might not. I don't

00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:05.460
know. They're probably still cozying up to Oscar

00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:06.980
just for now, just to get him the good fights.

00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:10.920
But at the end of the day, I just, I generally

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:16.509
don't see. How? Austin's got to kiss his ass

00:29:16.509 --> 00:29:20.309
right now. He's got to kiss the prince's ass

00:29:20.309 --> 00:29:26.769
because they saved him. And I think, honestly,

00:29:27.170 --> 00:29:31.230
when we're talking about the top rank, with Golden

00:29:31.230 --> 00:29:34.009
Boy, top rank in Matchroom as well as Queensbury,

00:29:34.230 --> 00:29:37.470
they don't even need the ring anymore. They don't

00:29:37.470 --> 00:29:42.950
need Saudi Arabian influence via Turkey. to put

00:29:42.950 --> 00:29:45.089
on good shows. I mean, for the last couple of

00:29:45.089 --> 00:29:46.549
months, they've been putting on some banger,

00:29:46.549 --> 00:29:49.690
banger cards. They have some banker cards coming

00:29:49.690 --> 00:29:53.349
up that are not ring affiliated. Exactly. And

00:29:53.349 --> 00:29:55.390
it seems like, and it's starting to seem like

00:29:55.390 --> 00:29:58.390
Turkey's going to start becoming a little less

00:29:58.390 --> 00:30:01.430
involved because like, like they have what ring,

00:30:01.529 --> 00:30:04.190
uh, they had their current card and then they

00:30:04.190 --> 00:30:07.089
had the Ryan Garcia card. What are the cards

00:30:07.089 --> 00:30:09.809
that got planned with ring? You know, I haven't

00:30:09.809 --> 00:30:15.230
heard anything. For May, for June. It seems like

00:30:15.230 --> 00:30:18.109
Ring is putting their eggs into the Zufa basket.

00:30:18.210 --> 00:30:22.730
The TKO Holdings basket, shall we say. That's

00:30:22.730 --> 00:30:25.630
what it seems like to me. It's pretty fucking

00:30:25.630 --> 00:30:27.710
funny because I think all the motion companies

00:30:27.710 --> 00:30:30.150
started waking up and realizing, hey, this guy's

00:30:30.150 --> 00:30:32.809
taking our fucking lunch money. We got to fight

00:30:32.809 --> 00:30:36.670
back. There's a new bully in school. You know,

00:30:36.690 --> 00:30:39.269
we got to gang up and get the gang. We got to

00:30:39.269 --> 00:30:41.359
get together. And we got to fight the big bully.

00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.319
You know what? Yeah, PBC in the corner collecting

00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:52.119
bugs. I was about to say, 10 years ago, PBC was

00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.480
that bully that was, oh shit, we got to really

00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.220
like circle the wagons and protect each other,

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:05.400
protect ourselves from the new big boy on the

00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:10.200
block. Because PBC walked in with like, It was

00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.539
like somewhere between 500 and 600 million dollars

00:31:13.539 --> 00:31:18.259
in capital. And they were signing up a bunch

00:31:18.259 --> 00:31:22.859
of fighters. Then fucking Matchroom USA tried

00:31:22.859 --> 00:31:26.059
to do the same thing. But like that died down

00:31:26.059 --> 00:31:29.500
a lot quicker. But PVC like still remains as

00:31:29.500 --> 00:31:35.779
like an obelisk standing off to the side. That

00:31:35.779 --> 00:31:40.089
I hope this... non -exclusive deal i think golden

00:31:40.089 --> 00:31:43.650
boy has the same thing non -exclusive i'm hopeful

00:31:43.650 --> 00:31:45.970
that this means that they're gonna they're willing

00:31:45.970 --> 00:31:53.450
to do business with pbc uh i would like um maybe

00:31:53.450 --> 00:31:57.009
this is me being a greedy fan but i would like

00:31:57.009 --> 00:31:59.670
for pbc to come over to the zone stable as well

00:31:59.670 --> 00:32:07.200
um we we have these separate ish silos fighters

00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:11.740
like if you want to have intra promotional fights

00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:15.799
go ahead but if you want to send your guys off

00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:19.119
like it's not that difficult of a thing to do

00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:24.220
because you're all in the same network just I

00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:28.059
don't know just my thinking I'm gonna I kind

00:32:28.059 --> 00:32:31.519
of disagree with you in the sense that well not

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:36.500
disagree but more like I feel like PVC back in

00:32:36.500 --> 00:32:39.099
the day, was actually a more formidable threat

00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:43.599
than to what Zufa is right now in the sense that...

00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.880
Even with Saudi backing? Yes, because the thing

00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:53.259
with the PBC is that back then, they had already

00:32:53.259 --> 00:32:56.799
pretty much... They already pretty much had stars.

00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.940
They had, like, all the stars. They had Errol

00:32:59.940 --> 00:33:01.380
Spence. They had Deontay Wilder. They had all

00:33:01.380 --> 00:33:05.299
these guys. Zufa has zero to no. They have zero

00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:07.819
to none stars in their stable right now. What

00:33:07.819 --> 00:33:10.779
do you mean? Jio Pataya is not like... Jio Pataya

00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:14.000
and Brandon Lee, bro. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry, guys.

00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:16.099
They had Jio Pataya, the fucking Zufa champion.

00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:20.599
Oh, Mark Mike Sayo. Fucking all these other guys,

00:33:20.619 --> 00:33:25.539
you know. Richardson Hitchens? Corey. They got

00:33:25.539 --> 00:33:27.920
Conor Benn, right? These guys, they got stars,

00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.019
supposedly. They have Conor Benn for one fight

00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:32.500
with Regis Progray. And they overpaid him $15

00:33:32.500 --> 00:33:36.829
million. All Zufa has right now, currently, this

00:33:36.829 --> 00:33:39.009
might become outdated, but all they have right

00:33:39.009 --> 00:33:46.230
now is the money. They have no stars. They have

00:33:46.230 --> 00:33:49.210
no history. I feel like it's going to take time

00:33:49.210 --> 00:33:51.750
for fighters to try to go over there. Yeah, they

00:33:51.750 --> 00:33:54.049
could probably spend a little money, but I feel

00:33:54.049 --> 00:33:55.309
like it's going to take a long time to do that

00:33:55.309 --> 00:33:57.349
considering right now a lot of the champions

00:33:57.349 --> 00:34:02.029
are seemingly staying with their current promoters

00:34:02.029 --> 00:34:04.549
for now. For now. You might see a shift soon

00:34:04.549 --> 00:34:06.589
with maybe Ryan Garcia going to Zufa or Dave

00:34:06.589 --> 00:34:08.590
and Devin Haney. But either way, it seems like

00:34:08.590 --> 00:34:13.489
a lot of the current RR boxing guys are going

00:34:13.489 --> 00:34:16.150
to stay on their side. And Zufa is just going

00:34:16.150 --> 00:34:18.710
to be its own little fucking playground. It's

00:34:18.710 --> 00:34:21.309
going to be a developmental slash retirement

00:34:21.309 --> 00:34:25.150
league. Yeah. Developmental retirement league.

00:34:25.230 --> 00:34:27.429
It seems like that's all it's going to be for

00:34:27.429 --> 00:34:30.119
now. Well, I don't think the developmental part

00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.699
even works, because no one's going to want to

00:34:32.699 --> 00:34:34.539
touch these fighters unless they already have

00:34:34.539 --> 00:34:38.199
a profile. That's true. Once they leave the promotion.

00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:41.019
They're not going to build a profile, and they're

00:34:41.019 --> 00:34:44.619
not going to sell tickets, and none of the belts

00:34:44.619 --> 00:34:46.360
are going to want anything to do with them because

00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:52.380
they worked with Zufa. I'm thinking that Zufa

00:34:52.380 --> 00:34:55.500
is going to be treated like a national version

00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:59.400
of a regional promoter. Like, a regional promoter

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:03.480
gets you, what, a dozen fights? And you're knocking

00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:07.039
out cans, pretty much? I'm going to cry because

00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.320
they're going to lose out to ProBox in the long

00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:16.340
run. I got a pretty interesting idea right now.

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:19.800
ProBox is a development league, but it's also

00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.980
the best quality product. It's a better one.

00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:25.019
We're going to get to this, actually, this time.

00:35:25.099 --> 00:35:28.030
I see it on the outline. It is the best quality

00:35:28.030 --> 00:35:58.719
product on the market. quality i mean if you

00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:00.659
if you look at the benavides fight with with

00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:03.539
morel versus the benavides fight with with yard

00:36:03.539 --> 00:36:06.079
it's night and day that that production quality

00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:09.059
i mean one streaming in 4k one streaming in freaking

00:36:09.059 --> 00:36:13.019
what 1080p you get 4k with uh the zone ultimate

00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:18.780
you get 4k with his own ultimate just uh i what

00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:21.260
would i know it's not like i'm a zone ultimate

00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:26.179
subscriber We all pay and watch fights. Of course,

00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:29.539
we all pay the subscription fees. But yeah, you

00:36:29.539 --> 00:36:33.699
get the fights in 4K. Well, that does sound awesome.

00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:36.659
But I will say, at the end of the day, even besides

00:36:36.659 --> 00:36:38.900
camera quality, also production quality as well,

00:36:39.019 --> 00:36:43.219
with the arenas and everything else, it's classic

00:36:43.219 --> 00:36:47.699
boxing, man. To me, it reeks of HBO, which is

00:36:47.699 --> 00:36:50.139
a good thing. It's the closest analog to HBO

00:36:50.139 --> 00:36:54.539
and Showtime. Exactly. I mean, PBC was on Showtime

00:36:54.539 --> 00:36:58.340
for a considerable amount of years. But at the

00:36:58.340 --> 00:37:01.360
end of the day, it's like a capsule of what boxing

00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.099
used to be versus the modern era of... I mean,

00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:07.000
I think you can see with some of the walkouts

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.880
too, you know, with the boxing. And I've talked

00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.659
about this with Josh. I've debated with him on

00:37:12.659 --> 00:37:14.719
this. How I like... I probably personally liked

00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.559
it when boxers came out of the dressing room

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:21.250
versus now how it's by themselves. walking through

00:37:21.250 --> 00:37:24.369
a corridor, you know, with a full of lights and

00:37:24.369 --> 00:37:27.170
shit. It's got to be presented right, is my take.

00:37:27.289 --> 00:37:30.889
Like, in Germany, they do it so good. Yeah, but,

00:37:30.969 --> 00:37:33.010
you know, now, like, I just like, like, when

00:37:33.010 --> 00:37:34.650
the fighters come out with their entire team,

00:37:34.710 --> 00:37:36.929
you know, they got the music playing. It's bad.

00:37:37.010 --> 00:37:39.150
I don't know. I'm just rambling. Either way,

00:37:39.269 --> 00:37:42.190
PBC on DAZN would be pretty awesome. I don't

00:37:42.190 --> 00:37:45.110
know when their deal with Prime ends. I feel

00:37:45.110 --> 00:37:48.889
like if their deal with Prime isn't renewed.

00:37:49.530 --> 00:37:52.769
then they probably will go to DAZN. Right now,

00:37:52.869 --> 00:37:55.610
they're just, they don't, like, what deal? All

00:37:55.610 --> 00:37:58.130
they have is pay -per -views. That's not the

00:37:58.130 --> 00:38:00.070
same thing as having, like, a broadcast deal.

00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:05.510
No, it's not. And honestly, it's kind of, it

00:38:05.510 --> 00:38:07.489
might kill them in the long run because, again,

00:38:07.670 --> 00:38:12.190
Benavidez fought on DAZN last time around. Tank

00:38:12.190 --> 00:38:14.110
is seemingly nowhere to be found. Those are their

00:38:14.110 --> 00:38:16.739
two top pay -per -view guys right now. I mean,

00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:18.900
Pitbull Roach didn't – I feel like it didn't

00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:20.599
do a lot of – didn't sell a lot of pay -per -view.

00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:22.739
It sold well on the gate, but pay -per -view,

00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:26.079
I don't know. You know? It's a far cry from when

00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:29.239
they wanted to just have everything be on national

00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:35.139
television, you know? I don't know. But we'll

00:38:35.139 --> 00:38:37.400
see what happens with them. Oh, we got to keep

00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:40.860
it rolling. We are quite a bit of ways in. Okay,

00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:47.880
so IBF. I want to get Saul. Your bit. IBF strips

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:53.039
Janabek. Rightfully so. Yeah. I don't know why

00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:54.960
they took this line of stripper. I think it was

00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:57.539
because maybe they had to find a second, not

00:38:57.539 --> 00:38:59.920
second, but like a mandatory or like an interim

00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:05.820
champion. Like a vacant title fight competitors.

00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:12.079
Yeah, exactly. Rightfully so. I'm so mad at Janabek

00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:16.010
just because he popped dirty. Crawford wasn't

00:39:16.010 --> 00:39:19.349
going to fight Adamez or the winner of him versus

00:39:19.349 --> 00:39:21.750
Laura. That's right. Crawford revealed that because

00:39:21.750 --> 00:39:26.750
Janabek pissed hot, he chose not to do the 160

00:39:26.750 --> 00:39:32.050
undisputed. He ducked all of 160. Crawford ducked

00:39:32.050 --> 00:39:35.809
Janabek. Crawford ducked Janabek, the McDonald's

00:39:35.809 --> 00:39:38.909
worker. We are going to get angry YouTube comments

00:39:38.909 --> 00:39:43.809
for that. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Why didn't

00:39:43.809 --> 00:39:47.630
he fight Adamus then? Adamus and Lara. Those

00:39:47.630 --> 00:39:50.530
are fucking easy scalps. There's still, yeah.

00:39:50.909 --> 00:39:53.289
Unless he didn't think he could beat them, in

00:39:53.289 --> 00:39:58.210
which case, well, here we are. That raises a

00:39:58.210 --> 00:40:02.309
lot of questions on Crawford's quality, which

00:40:02.309 --> 00:40:07.929
you, Josh, are asking. I laugh every time it

00:40:07.929 --> 00:40:10.889
comes up in chat because I can go say, Crawford

00:40:10.889 --> 00:40:13.429
fought nobody until he fought two drunks at the

00:40:13.429 --> 00:40:21.869
end of his career. Also, IBF strips Obitaya.

00:40:22.150 --> 00:40:27.110
This is formal after the board of directors had

00:40:27.110 --> 00:40:33.289
their vote. I posted it on social media. This

00:40:33.289 --> 00:40:37.570
just follows the weird sequence of events that

00:40:37.570 --> 00:40:46.289
we had on the Zufa 4. event and yeah here we

00:40:46.289 --> 00:40:49.650
are at the conclusion ibf strips them strips

00:40:49.650 --> 00:40:55.789
opitaya of his title uh i can't help but feel

00:40:55.789 --> 00:41:05.050
opitaya however whatever like his his iq or whatever

00:41:05.050 --> 00:41:10.309
um you made your bed bro I'm sorry. If you want

00:41:10.309 --> 00:41:14.190
to be undisputed in the traditional sense, number

00:41:14.190 --> 00:41:17.250
one, you should not have signed with Zufa. Number

00:41:17.250 --> 00:41:20.389
two, you're not going to be able to do that until

00:41:20.389 --> 00:41:25.449
you leave Zufa. To me, that's the long and short

00:41:25.449 --> 00:41:28.570
of it. What do you guys got? I want to hear Josh's

00:41:28.570 --> 00:41:31.329
opinion first. This is a guy who wants to be

00:41:31.329 --> 00:41:33.630
undisputed and then signs with the only promoter

00:41:33.630 --> 00:41:35.469
that wants to get rid of all the belts and doesn't

00:41:35.469 --> 00:41:37.670
want to work with the belts. He made your bed.

00:41:38.230 --> 00:41:43.210
Like, this guy has to be so illiterate. Because

00:41:43.210 --> 00:41:46.230
they sent him, like, two formal warnings, too,

00:41:46.289 --> 00:41:52.769
about it. And just in one ear, out the other.

00:41:52.829 --> 00:42:01.789
It's crazy. Like, he deserves Zufa. I completely

00:42:01.789 --> 00:42:04.519
agree. Like, it's not a matter of, oh, he was

00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:06.460
never told they're scamming the fighters. Like,

00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:12.940
no. Getting stripped by the IBF for fucking.

00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:18.619
Because of what Zufa made clear from the beginning.

00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:23.940
This guy, bro. Dana White got him. Yeah, well,

00:42:23.980 --> 00:42:25.780
Ty made his bet. He's better sleep in it, dude.

00:42:26.179 --> 00:42:28.920
You made the bet, you'd be shat in it. You better

00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:30.780
fucking rub that poop all over your face. Zufa

00:42:30.780 --> 00:42:35.179
took a fat dump in your bed. You got to sleep

00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:37.880
in it, bitch. Sorry. Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, you

00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:39.960
wanted to become undisputed. Fucking Max Helm

00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:42.199
was calling you undisputed, and you were all

00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.539
pissed off. What do you expect? Undisputed. What

00:42:45.539 --> 00:42:48.019
do you expect? I'm sorry, Jai, but yeah, you're

00:42:48.019 --> 00:42:52.079
undisputed for, yeah. You don't have the prestige

00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:58.130
of the IBF anymore. Sorry, pal. Let's keep it

00:42:58.130 --> 00:43:01.110
rolling. Xander Zayas, Jerron Ennis negotiations

00:43:01.110 --> 00:43:06.610
are, quote, advancing rapidly. I have to say,

00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:15.449
big ups to Xander Zayas. Not at all the fight

00:43:15.449 --> 00:43:17.530
that I would have expected him to take. He could

00:43:17.530 --> 00:43:20.829
have taken, like, an easy mandatory. He could

00:43:20.829 --> 00:43:24.590
have taken an easier unification with Kelly.

00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:29.460
But instead, he's fighting the guy. Holy shit.

00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:32.539
Xander Zayas, I'm here for you, man. One of the

00:43:32.539 --> 00:43:37.460
guys. I respect you. One of the guys. 1A of the

00:43:37.460 --> 00:43:39.119
guys. The other guy's losing the golden boy in

00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:42.559
court. There's no chance. 1B is a little busy

00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:48.000
right now, but 1A is doing his thing. Listen,

00:43:48.139 --> 00:43:50.340
I was wrong. I thought Zayas was going to hold

00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:53.059
that shit hostage until the heat death of the

00:43:53.059 --> 00:43:56.239
universe. So, respect. Actual respect for...

00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:59.119
I'm cheering for him in the fight simply because

00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:03.579
he took it. That's it. We're talking like the

00:44:03.579 --> 00:44:05.059
fight has already been signed and it's already

00:44:05.059 --> 00:44:09.539
been announced. Oh, my God. Advanced negotiations?

00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:12.719
Advanced negotiations is farther than Virgil

00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:16.420
got with Boots here. That is true, but we also

00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:18.739
heard with Virgil multiple times that it was

00:44:18.739 --> 00:44:21.260
pretty much a done deal. Remember what happened

00:44:21.260 --> 00:44:24.539
with AJ and Fury? Shit, fuck that up. That is

00:44:24.539 --> 00:44:27.019
a done deal, isn't it? I don't think Abbas Baru

00:44:27.019 --> 00:44:29.960
is suing for a contractually obligated rematch.

00:44:30.739 --> 00:44:33.400
Either way. Either way. With Xander, I got to

00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:36.280
give all the props to Xander. I personally don't

00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:38.400
think he's going to win the fight. I hope he

00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:41.119
does, though. That would be funny as heck. But

00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:45.500
I'm surprised that Tom Breaks even letting him

00:44:45.500 --> 00:44:48.900
do that. They must be surprised themselves. Well,

00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:51.059
they just signed that new partnership with Matchroom.

00:44:51.739 --> 00:44:57.019
Yeah. I mean, it's crazy how this fight gets

00:44:57.019 --> 00:45:00.260
made. I'm going to tip my hat off to Zander.

00:45:00.340 --> 00:45:02.059
And I would want him to win, just purely on the

00:45:02.059 --> 00:45:04.940
fact that that might make another start. You

00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:08.000
have an agenda to keep, too. No, no, no. Let's

00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:11.320
not pretend. Anti -Ennis agenda. Yeah, we have

00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:13.739
an agenda here. Hold on. Let me tell you why.

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.760
Let me tell you why, okay? I believe that if

00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:18.880
Zander wins, that he will be a bigger starter

00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:22.150
than if Boots won. purely off the fact that he'll

00:45:22.150 --> 00:45:24.489
be the fucking second coming of christ to puerto

00:45:24.489 --> 00:45:28.190
rico right now if he beat ennis to do that yeah

00:45:28.190 --> 00:45:30.329
fuck yeah you're right absolutely you're right

00:45:30.329 --> 00:45:32.530
and it'll bring a lot of more eyes on the sport

00:45:32.530 --> 00:45:35.170
and then you know and i'm not saying i want ennis

00:45:35.170 --> 00:45:37.750
to lose i think ennis is gonna win bad bunny

00:45:37.750 --> 00:45:42.809
ring walkouts every xander zayas fight exactly

00:45:42.809 --> 00:45:46.610
is gonna be coming out of retirement to do that

00:45:46.610 --> 00:45:50.469
shit exactly i mean come on this is this is This

00:45:50.469 --> 00:45:53.710
could be a potential pay -per -view star. I mean,

00:45:53.730 --> 00:45:55.869
he's like Emiliano. He's got the looks. He's

00:45:55.869 --> 00:45:57.550
got the hooks. He's got everything. I'm starting

00:45:57.550 --> 00:46:00.269
like Sergio Moore right now. Jesus Christ. Yeah,

00:46:00.369 --> 00:46:03.889
he is AI -generated. Oh, that felt horrible.

00:46:04.070 --> 00:46:06.170
He is AI -generated. Get him out of here. I'm

00:46:06.170 --> 00:46:07.630
going to fuck a Zufa at this point. Jesus Christ.

00:46:09.050 --> 00:46:10.829
Sorry about that, Sergio. You can copyright me

00:46:10.829 --> 00:46:13.250
for that. Xander Zayas. I'm slapping that. Well,

00:46:13.289 --> 00:46:14.849
no, seriously. You know what? Because, again,

00:46:15.010 --> 00:46:17.690
I've always been a Virgil fan, but I've always

00:46:17.690 --> 00:46:23.980
also... You know, fellow Latinos, Xander Zayas,

00:46:24.179 --> 00:46:26.380
my man. Yeah, of course. I'm going to fucking

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:29.039
cheer for you, bro. Yeah. And you know what?

00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:32.059
I've also eased up on him at first. I got to

00:46:32.059 --> 00:46:34.900
admit, I thought he was a top rank, the usual

00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:37.179
top rank protection program fighter. Yeah, yeah,

00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:39.420
yeah. But you know what? He's starting to seem

00:46:39.420 --> 00:46:42.119
like a decent skill fighter. Every fight I've

00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:44.980
seen him in, even starting from the Jose fight,

00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:48.840
even before that, but really from the Jose fight.

00:46:50.659 --> 00:46:53.940
I see potential. I mean, he's young. He's crafty.

00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:58.659
And at the end of the day, he also needs some

00:46:58.659 --> 00:47:00.800
guys to lift him up because he hasn't fought

00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:02.719
the best competition. I personally would have

00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:05.280
rather have seen him fight Josh Kelly. Again,

00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.219
of course, I love seeing him fight Boots because

00:47:07.219 --> 00:47:10.099
that's ballsy, but I keep saying this every time

00:47:10.099 --> 00:47:12.920
he wins a fight. He needs someone light. He needs

00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:16.340
someone to boost his, pad his record, you know?

00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:20.199
He needs, honestly, a Tim Zhu. He needs an Erickson

00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:23.559
Lubin. He needs Strip. If he finds Boots, he's

00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:26.099
skipping straight to the front of the line. You

00:47:26.099 --> 00:47:29.619
know? And if he wins, that's amazing for the

00:47:29.619 --> 00:47:33.000
sport. You know, if he beats Boots, I might even

00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.079
say he might... He'll put up a damn good chance

00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.900
against Virgil if I see him beat Boots. You know,

00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:43.119
I don't know. I mean, I really want to see this

00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:45.780
fight happen. That would be amazing, but... I

00:47:45.780 --> 00:47:49.389
would have to say that if Zayas... can manage

00:47:49.389 --> 00:47:55.150
to beat Jaron Ennis. To me, it's like a 99 %

00:47:55.150 --> 00:47:59.989
certainty that Zayas beats Virgil. Oh, yeah.

00:48:00.769 --> 00:48:06.369
To me, it's that clear. This takes an insane

00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:11.590
amount of intestinal fortitude from Zayas to

00:48:11.590 --> 00:48:18.050
step up to boots. Holy shit. I don't even know

00:48:18.050 --> 00:48:20.050
what to say beyond that. Just like, holy shit.

00:48:21.130 --> 00:48:23.969
Fucking get after him. I'll put him on the pound

00:48:23.969 --> 00:48:26.769
-for -pound list. Absolutely. If he beats Boots,

00:48:26.789 --> 00:48:31.389
fuck yeah. Absolutely. At 22, 23, that would

00:48:31.389 --> 00:48:35.750
be better than shit. I was going to say Bam or

00:48:35.750 --> 00:48:38.829
Shakur. At least on the pound -for -pound list.

00:48:38.969 --> 00:48:43.550
Shakur's better than Shakur for sure. Because

00:48:43.550 --> 00:48:46.849
that's crazy to beat boots at a young age like

00:48:46.849 --> 00:48:49.329
that. Again, Bambi, Quadras, Bambi, all these

00:48:49.329 --> 00:48:51.789
guys. But again, if Xander does the same thing

00:48:51.789 --> 00:48:54.510
at a higher weight against a guy that's seen

00:48:54.510 --> 00:48:57.349
as the literal boogeyman. In his prime. In his

00:48:57.349 --> 00:49:00.369
prime, the boogeyman. The guy that Crawford ducked.

00:49:00.369 --> 00:49:03.230
You mean the goat. No, the boogeyman. He is the

00:49:03.230 --> 00:49:05.929
boogeyman. The guy that Crawford ducked. He is

00:49:05.929 --> 00:49:09.329
the guy that Crawford ducked. Yeah. G -Boat,

00:49:09.329 --> 00:49:13.000
greatest boogeyman of all time? Yeah. Yeah, I

00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.480
mean, come on. I mean, I would genuinely be jumping

00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:18.760
out of my seat if he beat Jaron. You know, even

00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:22.860
if he went to the decision. No, I will. I will.

00:49:23.179 --> 00:49:26.579
Victory and defeat for Xander. Like, you can

00:49:26.579 --> 00:49:28.420
lose. Even if Xander loses the decision. Yeah.

00:49:28.460 --> 00:49:32.340
If he loses a decision, like, man, you went.

00:49:33.260 --> 00:49:36.920
Jaron didn't stop you. That's saying a lot. Jaron

00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:38.440
didn't stop you, and you look good. Yeah. Close

00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:41.429
to the decision. You look good. I don't think

00:49:41.429 --> 00:49:44.389
that's going to happen, but I got to give all

00:49:44.389 --> 00:49:46.869
the credit to Xander if he even steps in the

00:49:46.869 --> 00:49:51.650
ring with boots. Shit, dudes, we got to keep

00:49:51.650 --> 00:49:56.989
it rolling. Oshaki Foster versus Ray Ford is

00:49:56.989 --> 00:50:00.510
quote -unquote virtually agreed. I think this

00:50:00.510 --> 00:50:04.369
is part of the top -ranked matchroom partnership

00:50:04.369 --> 00:50:07.960
deal. This is not the fight that I want. I want

00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:12.800
Oshaki Foster versus fucking Navarrete. That's

00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:20.239
what we want. Moving on. Bam. Returning in June.

00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:26.119
The question becomes, does he go to 118? If he

00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:29.940
does, they're looking at WBA champ Antonio Vargas.

00:50:30.980 --> 00:50:34.800
Or... Does he take like a mandatory for one of

00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:38.019
his three titles while he waits for Willie Baldo

00:50:38.019 --> 00:50:44.480
to fight Andrew Maloney? I'm just really happy

00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:49.300
that Bam, his return is very highly likely to

00:50:49.300 --> 00:50:53.840
be in Phoenix. Holy shit. This is like my third,

00:50:54.019 --> 00:50:57.840
maybe my fourth Bam fight. Are you fucking kidding

00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.440
me? I'm watching like a generational talent.

00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.039
Pardon me, but you can all be green with envy.

00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:12.500
Bam's the king. Man, he's like... I think below...

00:51:12.500 --> 00:51:16.980
Below Inoue. He's right, like, without question.

00:51:16.980 --> 00:51:23.099
He's the guy. But we'll see how this develops.

00:51:23.340 --> 00:51:27.880
I haven't heard anything different to date. So...

00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:34.739
Last... thing tommy hearns was placed on the

00:51:34.739 --> 00:51:40.519
conserva conservatorship uh a few days ago the

00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:44.840
the key thing to know about this situation is

00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.980
that there are a lot of like gofundme type of

00:51:48.980 --> 00:51:52.619
situations that are popping up and tommy hearns

00:51:52.619 --> 00:51:56.960
is conservator i believe it's his son is saying

00:51:56.960 --> 00:52:03.510
do not Do not donate to Tommy Hearn's fundraiser

00:52:03.510 --> 00:52:09.329
accounts. Yeah. Because he's not getting that

00:52:09.329 --> 00:52:12.889
money. So if you want to help Tommy right now,

00:52:12.989 --> 00:52:17.789
I really don't have a better answer. But right

00:52:17.789 --> 00:52:21.989
now, just hold your cash. As soon as it becomes

00:52:21.989 --> 00:52:24.789
available, I'll post it on social media or something.

00:52:25.289 --> 00:52:29.409
But right now... uh, hold your cash. Like his,

00:52:29.489 --> 00:52:33.530
uh, one of his relatives, I, God, it makes me,

00:52:33.570 --> 00:52:36.070
it hurts my heart to have to say it, but I think

00:52:36.070 --> 00:52:38.449
it's his daughter is the one that's trying to

00:52:38.449 --> 00:52:43.010
like steal the money. So I don't know, dude.

00:52:43.269 --> 00:52:47.590
Um, prayers up. That's the best I can, best I

00:52:47.590 --> 00:52:52.130
can say like Tommy Hearns, like my, of the four

00:52:52.130 --> 00:52:54.809
Kings. Like that's my guy right there. Like I,

00:52:54.889 --> 00:52:59.349
I, I wish I knew how I could help, but I don't.

00:52:59.849 --> 00:53:03.670
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Woof. Let's get rolling on these recaps. First

00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:33.840
things first. Friday, March 13th. ProBox TV.

00:56:34.510 --> 00:56:41.090
In Kissimmee, Florida. I told Shanada I was not

00:56:41.090 --> 00:56:43.909
that impressed with the Valle brothers. I know

00:56:43.909 --> 00:56:48.929
that they're like pro box royalty, but I expected

00:56:48.929 --> 00:56:53.989
better. So, I don't know. Do you guys have any

00:56:53.989 --> 00:56:57.369
thoughts on these two? I just personally think

00:56:57.369 --> 00:57:00.369
it was an off night. Yeah. Yeah, that's probably

00:57:00.369 --> 00:57:04.030
what it is. It's also just not like that. After

00:57:04.030 --> 00:57:07.389
the main, it was not on my radar of thought.

00:57:08.429 --> 00:57:13.429
Fair enough. In the main event, Najee Lopez stops

00:57:13.429 --> 00:57:18.449
Manuel Gallegos in eight. Wow. I think this might

00:57:18.449 --> 00:57:21.769
be like an early fight of the year contender.

00:57:22.030 --> 00:57:25.130
That's a fight of the decade. That was fucking

00:57:25.130 --> 00:57:29.889
incredible. Like 2020s, we haven't had a gangbusters

00:57:29.889 --> 00:57:35.210
like that. Oh my God. It was exciting. It went

00:57:35.210 --> 00:57:40.670
late. Skill was on display. Back and forth. Everything

00:57:40.670 --> 00:57:44.809
you love about the sport. Yeah. This is... We

00:57:44.809 --> 00:57:49.070
say it all the time. Pro box good. Holy shit.

00:57:49.289 --> 00:57:52.670
Just watch this fight and you will understand

00:57:52.670 --> 00:58:01.280
why pro box good. God, Najee Lopez at light heavyweight,

00:58:01.340 --> 00:58:06.820
and he is now up at 16 -0. Light heavyweight

00:58:06.820 --> 00:58:13.059
is pretty top -heavy. So what do you think? Let's

00:58:13.059 --> 00:58:17.500
call a spade a spade. David Murrell beats Callum

00:58:17.500 --> 00:58:21.840
Smith. Is that the next scalp for Najee Lopez?

00:58:21.940 --> 00:58:23.460
That's going to be a great fight. I don't think

00:58:23.460 --> 00:58:27.019
Lopez does it. Like, very clearly from this fight,

00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:31.199
he is vulnerable. I don't think anyone can debate

00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:33.579
that. But, like, God, I want to see him mix it

00:58:33.579 --> 00:58:36.559
up with these people. I think Callum Smith is,

00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:40.800
like, a really good step up for Lopez. Smith

00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:43.619
says he's done if he loses this fight. Ah, tits.

00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:45.400
Well, never mind. That's what I'm saying. Like,

00:58:45.420 --> 00:58:48.559
I'm not considering Smith. That being said, if

00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:54.369
Hot Rod isn't exclusive with Zufa. Yeah. Hot

00:58:54.369 --> 00:58:56.210
Rod would be a good one. Hot Rod just came off

00:58:56.210 --> 00:59:00.550
a pretty exciting win. Vosdik? Vosdik might not

00:59:00.550 --> 00:59:06.969
want that. Who else is light heavyweight? Let's

00:59:06.969 --> 00:59:10.050
have a look. I mean, you can do the Russian super

00:59:10.050 --> 00:59:20.369
soldier, Katayev. Juice through his veins. You

00:59:20.369 --> 00:59:24.329
want to wheel Anthony Yard out to kill him? Kataev.

00:59:24.389 --> 00:59:28.269
Najee Lopez's rate on BoxRec is above Kataev.

00:59:29.710 --> 00:59:37.829
Kataev. Listen, the guilty pleasure one is you

00:59:37.829 --> 00:59:43.869
give him Ben Whittaker and you get rid of Ben

00:59:43.869 --> 00:59:46.929
Whittaker that way. But what if Ben Whittaker

00:59:46.929 --> 00:59:51.019
dances on Lopez? God. No, the thing is that,

00:59:51.059 --> 00:59:53.900
like, the ring -cutting ability was really good

00:59:53.900 --> 00:59:58.260
on Lopez. It is. Like, he cuts the ring off exceptionally

00:59:58.260 --> 01:00:02.159
well, and that's... Whitaker isn't... Like, he's

01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:06.519
flashy, but he's actually not that mobile. Gallegos

01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:12.000
is... For being a Mexican, he was a lot more

01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:15.579
mobile. I think he was put on his back foot,

01:00:15.659 --> 01:00:21.669
and it just was not where he wanted to be. Man,

01:00:21.669 --> 01:00:27.309
Lope has so much fucking potential here. This

01:00:27.309 --> 01:00:33.550
Turkish dude, Mehmet Unal, I think his name is.

01:00:34.269 --> 01:00:38.070
They're similar records. Homeboy is fighting

01:00:38.070 --> 01:00:47.730
out of Quebec. Come on. This is too good. Let's

01:00:47.730 --> 01:00:56.519
roll on. Saturday, March 14th. Josh, your fucking

01:00:56.519 --> 01:01:02.179
white knight continues to do it. Anthony Kakachi

01:01:02.179 --> 01:01:08.599
snags the 130 WBA title from Jazza Dickens. This

01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:11.280
fight was not one to watch, though. I did not

01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:15.340
have fun. It was pretty fucking dreadful. Yeah.

01:01:16.219 --> 01:01:19.639
Like... I expected Dickens to fight like that,

01:01:19.780 --> 01:01:23.199
but, like, man, like, Akash's career has definitely

01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:26.960
just been beating up these guys. The Brit Slayer?

01:01:27.699 --> 01:01:30.780
Yeah, like, I don't know why. Like, he's not

01:01:30.780 --> 01:01:33.360
even, like, top five Brits you've taken down,

01:01:33.460 --> 01:01:36.239
and, like, he was just really passive and not

01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:40.519
a great watch. But he's also 37 fighting in super

01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:42.599
featherweight, so he also might just be old.

01:01:43.780 --> 01:01:48.659
Yeah, like, Nav and Oshaki Foster are his contemporaries.

01:01:50.179 --> 01:01:54.260
You are right. I think we were saying Nav was

01:01:54.260 --> 01:01:58.699
getting old at 31, so 37, yeah. We were saying

01:01:58.699 --> 01:02:01.440
Nav is getting old not because of his age, but

01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:05.380
because of his lifestyle, I think. Yeah, but

01:02:05.380 --> 01:02:07.780
you're in the wrong. You're starting to exceed

01:02:07.780 --> 01:02:11.230
30, so the lifestyle affects you more. Fair enough.

01:02:11.309 --> 01:02:15.550
Like, I saw someone say, like, after, like, over

01:02:15.550 --> 01:02:17.929
time as you get older as an athlete, like, the

01:02:17.929 --> 01:02:20.190
miles you put on the clock scale exponentially

01:02:20.190 --> 01:02:22.610
instead of linearly. Yeah, I see what you mean.

01:02:23.070 --> 01:02:26.449
And, like, yeah, like, those beers you have in

01:02:26.449 --> 01:02:29.210
training camp matter a lot more at 31 than at...

01:02:29.210 --> 01:02:39.019
25. 25, yeah. But 37 is just old. Damn. So, well,

01:02:39.019 --> 01:02:42.639
just to address an angry comment that we had

01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:47.519
on a Boxing Before Dark episode is that Briatus,

01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:53.360
when he fought Jaya Pattaya, he was 37, not 40.

01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:58.880
Yes. So he's not an old man. Hey, you're fucking

01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:01.139
rounding up pennies, you can round a beige. He's

01:03:01.139 --> 01:03:04.679
only 37. That's the excuse. I will have you know

01:03:04.679 --> 01:03:09.690
that me, I'm coming up on... I already just called

01:03:09.690 --> 01:03:12.309
myself a 40 -year -old man. But our prospects

01:03:12.309 --> 01:03:16.010
are a redneck brawl, though, not a world title

01:03:16.010 --> 01:03:21.170
contention. Yeah. Well, I think that's enough

01:03:21.170 --> 01:03:26.369
time for Kakachi. Moving on to Golden Boy at

01:03:26.369 --> 01:03:29.869
the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Saul,

01:03:29.949 --> 01:03:33.150
did you go? No, I ended up not going because

01:03:33.150 --> 01:03:35.710
I was going to buy it, and then I was talking

01:03:35.710 --> 01:03:39.159
to my dad. And they went up to $133. Oh, okay.

01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:45.420
Yeah, maybe. This ticket is not $135 worth. Oh,

01:03:45.420 --> 01:03:49.960
okay, man. That's cool. But let's start off from

01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:55.320
the parts that matter. Gabby Fandora stops Viviana

01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:01.260
Ruiz in six. Her pound -for -pound credentials

01:04:01.260 --> 01:04:06.460
continue to amass. You please him. Sweet Poison.

01:04:06.460 --> 01:04:09.420
That is one of the coolest fucking nicknames

01:04:09.420 --> 01:04:13.280
I've ever heard. It really is. Moving up, Alexis

01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:17.360
Rocha beats Jojo Diaz by unanimous decision.

01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:22.619
Who do we put? Like, is it that Jojo's tough

01:04:22.619 --> 01:04:26.840
or that Alexis Rocha's ass? I don't feel there's

01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:29.800
any in between here. Well, you know, both can

01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:31.829
be true. Yeah, but it's a little bit of this,

01:04:31.829 --> 01:04:33.630
a little bit of that. Fair, fair, fair, fair.

01:04:34.190 --> 01:04:40.230
Rocha has not been active, really. He last fought

01:04:40.230 --> 01:04:46.230
in 2024 in a draw. He's never really looked that

01:04:46.230 --> 01:04:48.670
impressive. I think the one fight where I was

01:04:48.670 --> 01:04:52.869
like, he looks pretty good was with Blair Cobbs.

01:04:55.110 --> 01:04:58.670
That was years ago. That was four years ago against

01:04:58.670 --> 01:05:03.019
Blair Cobbs. This is another fighter that's just

01:05:03.019 --> 01:05:07.000
going to be kind of round. I'm not impressed.

01:05:07.420 --> 01:05:10.179
He's there a welterweight. He's just not a world

01:05:10.179 --> 01:05:15.980
beater. He could be a good stepping stone for

01:05:15.980 --> 01:05:18.400
future fighters. I think that's all. I think

01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.820
it was obvious when he got dominated by Rashid

01:05:21.820 --> 01:05:28.119
Ellis. Yeah. In 2020, in the bubble. Yeah. It

01:05:28.119 --> 01:05:30.570
was pretty obvious. It was pretty obvious. I

01:05:30.570 --> 01:05:34.849
can't. It's not even because he lost, but it's

01:05:34.849 --> 01:05:39.510
because of how he lost that it's tough to rate

01:05:39.510 --> 01:05:45.530
him. I just expected that a full -fledged welterweight

01:05:45.530 --> 01:05:52.030
would be able to beat an inflated feather. Inflated

01:05:52.030 --> 01:05:55.329
Jojo Diaz. Exactly. I thought Rocha would be

01:05:55.329 --> 01:06:01.289
able to actually put it on and stop. Jojo Diaz,

01:06:01.469 --> 01:06:06.389
however tough he may be. I think that's my disappointment.

01:06:06.389 --> 01:06:10.349
Roach is also not that guy. I wanted him to be...

01:06:10.349 --> 01:06:14.889
I just wanted Peddo Diaz to get fucking murked.

01:06:15.929 --> 01:06:18.869
That might be it. That might be why I'm so disappointed.

01:06:20.230 --> 01:06:22.469
I think we all are. You just wanted... Hey, but

01:06:22.469 --> 01:06:25.070
you know what? Diaz has a couple more miles on

01:06:25.070 --> 01:06:30.199
the clock and he fights on. So it'll... There

01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:33.440
will be more chances. There will be an 8 -0 prospect

01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:37.579
with eight knockouts who Goldenboy will scam

01:06:37.579 --> 01:06:45.300
into signing with them. Joel Iriarte on the undercard

01:06:45.300 --> 01:06:52.099
is a 9 -0. He's got a fair amount of stoppages

01:06:52.099 --> 01:06:58.000
on his record. Yeah, someone like this. It'll

01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:00.800
be someone who catches JoJo and is even more

01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:04.280
washed, and it'll work out. All will be well.

01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:09.519
You know what else was well? Oscar Collazo retires

01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:16.920
Jesus Haro in 6. So that's fun. We spent more

01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:19.960
time talking about this on Boxing Before Dark.

01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:25.079
I'm not going to drag you guys down to the...

01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:28.079
to the depths of hell that is minimum weight.

01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:34.360
In the main event, Arnold Barbosa beats Kenneth

01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:40.619
Sims by decision. Rocha came into the ring, and

01:07:40.619 --> 01:07:43.420
they were like, fucking like, yeah, yeah, we're

01:07:43.420 --> 01:07:46.380
gonna do it, bro. You and me, yeah, we're gonna

01:07:46.380 --> 01:07:51.039
fight. All right. Yeah, that's a fight of all

01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:54.139
time. Sure. It is certainly a fight of all time.

01:07:54.139 --> 01:07:57.699
You're right, Saul. Thank you, Golden Boy. Again,

01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:01.760
I respect Barbosa. He's a regional fighter from

01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:06.780
the area of California that I'm from. I'm not

01:08:06.780 --> 01:08:08.440
from there, but I'm from California, so I got

01:08:08.440 --> 01:08:11.679
to support him, you know. But again, at the end

01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:14.239
of the day, it's just... That fight was just...

01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:16.539
Like I said, I knew it was going to be not the

01:08:16.539 --> 01:08:20.640
best fight. I knew that. Barboza was going to

01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:23.560
make it harder than it had to be. I mean, Sims

01:08:23.560 --> 01:08:26.939
got... To me, he made a lot of those rounds close.

01:08:27.619 --> 01:08:32.020
You know? And I just think that that was... Barboza

01:08:32.020 --> 01:08:35.300
won, but what did you show the crowd? What did

01:08:35.300 --> 01:08:37.779
you show the people, man? Yeah, what did you

01:08:37.779 --> 01:08:40.600
actually accomplish with this? Exactly, yeah.

01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:45.699
It was like a Lawrence Coley win. Oh. I wouldn't

01:08:45.699 --> 01:08:47.300
say it was that bad, like as bad as Lawrence

01:08:47.300 --> 01:08:49.539
Coley, but it was... It was similar to that.

01:08:49.979 --> 01:08:54.079
I understand the sentiment, yeah. Yeah, it's

01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:56.380
a fighter that you put on the undercard, but

01:08:56.380 --> 01:08:58.199
it's not someone that will always become a main

01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:01.140
event, you know? Unless you do it, like, in a

01:09:01.140 --> 01:09:05.239
tiny little arena. Oh, but they're gonna make

01:09:05.239 --> 01:09:08.779
Barbossa Rocha. That's gonna be a fucking Golden

01:09:08.779 --> 01:09:14.979
Boy main event. Yeah. Gabi's gonna maybe co -main.

01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:17.979
It's going to be a lot. She's going to be fucking

01:09:17.979 --> 01:09:21.060
more exciting than the main event will be. Oh,

01:09:21.079 --> 01:09:23.819
100%. She's the main event to me, man. In our

01:09:23.819 --> 01:09:30.979
hearts. Yeah. We have been sweet poisoned. Yeah.

01:09:32.140 --> 01:09:35.659
Anything more for the golden boy card before

01:09:35.659 --> 01:09:40.779
we roll on? Did we have anything about the news

01:09:40.779 --> 01:09:45.579
about Gabby Fandora's? next fight against Hiruda.

01:09:46.600 --> 01:09:51.739
Really? She's fighting Mimi? Yeah. That's rumored

01:09:51.739 --> 01:09:54.640
to be next and I feel really bad for Mimi because

01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:59.800
I like Mimi. I like her too. She's going to get

01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:04.119
turned into ground beef. It's going to be ground

01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:09.239
wagyu at least. It'll be fun. It'll be a fun

01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:15.220
fight. Yeah, but you really think. Mimi has that

01:10:15.220 --> 01:10:19.560
shot in hell. It will be her best opponent today,

01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:22.079
honestly. It will be her best opponent, for sure.

01:10:22.899 --> 01:10:24.659
Each other's best opponent, so I think that will

01:10:24.659 --> 01:10:29.960
be a really fun fight to watch. Clarissa Shield

01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:34.100
still in the mud. I'm sorry, homegirl. It's not

01:10:34.100 --> 01:10:38.979
your fault. But you're going to continue suffering

01:10:38.979 --> 01:10:44.670
for it anyway. Let's move on to the Taken card

01:10:44.670 --> 01:10:49.869
in Yokohama. Similar to the Koyazo fight, we

01:10:49.869 --> 01:10:52.310
spent more time on this on Boxing Before Dark.

01:10:53.189 --> 01:10:57.529
That episode actually dropped like an hour before

01:10:57.529 --> 01:11:02.229
we started recording. So if you really want an

01:11:02.229 --> 01:11:05.689
in -depth look, Shanada was there. So she can

01:11:05.689 --> 01:11:09.470
really tell you a lot more about these fighters.

01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:13.739
The main ones I wanted to talk about. Anthony

01:11:13.739 --> 01:11:18.880
Olaskwaga stops Jukia Imura in nine. This was

01:11:18.880 --> 01:11:23.600
a beatdown of the year contender. Holy shit.

01:11:23.899 --> 01:11:28.020
Olaskwaga just does not fuck around. And I'm

01:11:28.020 --> 01:11:32.380
here for it. Especially for like a 112 guy to

01:11:32.380 --> 01:11:38.159
be putting on this type of hurt. He does it every

01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:46.300
fucking time. It's fantastic. But Nonito Donair

01:11:46.300 --> 01:11:53.119
gets stopped in eight. Yeah. Have we seen the

01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:59.279
last of Filipino Flash? Hopefully. Honestly,

01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:03.800
hang it up, champ. He's had nothing to prove

01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:08.430
for a while, and this is just miles away. I'm

01:12:08.430 --> 01:12:10.449
sure he still has money. This is just miles on

01:12:10.449 --> 01:12:14.869
the clock to have him. I think his wife makes

01:12:14.869 --> 01:12:20.590
him fight. I really do. I think she makes him

01:12:20.590 --> 01:12:24.130
do it just for more money. For the sake of having

01:12:24.130 --> 01:12:29.470
more money. Not because they need it. But that's

01:12:29.470 --> 01:12:34.810
my tinfoil theory. I don't know. Anything more

01:12:34.810 --> 01:12:38.340
for the take -in card? For Donair? Hola, squad.

01:12:40.079 --> 01:12:42.880
Hey, you had your time, champ. You had your time.

01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:45.140
I'm serious. He needs to hang him up. He really

01:12:45.140 --> 01:12:50.079
does. I'm not fucking joking. Man. When he was

01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:52.500
losing decisions, close decisions, whatever,

01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:57.140
right? You're getting stomped by Riku Masuda?

01:12:57.319 --> 01:13:01.920
Masuda. Yeah. This is just not... I don't think

01:13:01.920 --> 01:13:05.079
it's fun for anyone. It's not fun for him. He

01:13:05.079 --> 01:13:07.899
just doesn't have it. People that watch this

01:13:07.899 --> 01:13:16.380
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putting on a card in Montreal. The main event,

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Alexis Barillet versus Robert Sims. That is a

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lot more time than this card deserves. Saturday,

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March 28th. First things first. Queensberry at

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the Co -op Live in Manchester. The undercard

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is like peak Lynn stuff. Maybe I should hit her

01:17:59.880 --> 01:18:03.760
up and get a statement. Yeah, get a synopsis

01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:07.819
on what to expect. Jesus. But we got Moses Itauma

01:18:07.819 --> 01:18:11.500
versus Jermaine Franklin. This is a rescheduling

01:18:11.500 --> 01:18:15.560
from January. I think we really spoke about this

01:18:15.560 --> 01:18:19.140
at length. Yeah, we made this fight happen, actually.

01:18:21.119 --> 01:18:24.680
We're the kings of this castle. We run the sport,

01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:29.899
actually. Moses Itauma, what round are you guys

01:18:29.899 --> 01:18:33.279
expecting? If it's going to stop, what round

01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:36.210
do you think? I think it goes a distance. You

01:18:36.210 --> 01:18:44.729
think so? All right. I would like to have belief

01:18:44.729 --> 01:18:48.729
in Moses and Thelma that it will be a late stoppage.

01:18:50.869 --> 01:18:57.069
I'm thinking mid -lates, like 7, 8, 9. Like Franklin's

01:18:57.069 --> 01:19:00.689
output does drop off late, but it's like very

01:19:00.689 --> 01:19:02.550
late in the fight. It's not like it drops off

01:19:02.550 --> 01:19:04.630
around 7, like it drops off around 10. Championship

01:19:04.630 --> 01:19:07.140
rounds, right? Yeah, like Championship rounds,

01:19:07.260 --> 01:19:10.100
his output falls off a cliff, his guard isn't

01:19:10.100 --> 01:19:13.159
as tight, you know? Yeah. So I'm thinking that's

01:19:13.159 --> 01:19:16.199
when Otama... Like, I'm assuming Otama has the

01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:21.319
stuff to, like, not also gas out by then. Like,

01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:23.779
that's what we'll see. So you're thinking this

01:19:23.779 --> 01:19:26.539
is, like, a legit test for Otama. Oh, Frank,

01:19:26.600 --> 01:19:31.510
it's legit. Like... Like, he's a legit, like,

01:19:31.590 --> 01:19:33.909
very, like, again, we said he's a very solid

01:19:33.909 --> 01:19:36.189
veteran that doesn't have a chance to, like,

01:19:36.189 --> 01:19:39.109
administer a career -changing beating if Itama

01:19:39.109 --> 01:19:43.909
isn't ready. True that. I kind of agree with

01:19:43.909 --> 01:19:46.189
this is a test. I would say more on the test

01:19:46.189 --> 01:19:50.880
of the, I would say, gas. Yeah, like it's a stamina

01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:53.479
test. Exactly, a stamina test. We'll see what

01:19:53.479 --> 01:19:55.840
he's really made out of in that regard. Not so

01:19:55.840 --> 01:19:58.060
much like a durability test, but a stamina test

01:19:58.060 --> 01:20:01.619
to see where he would lie. And if he's throwing

01:20:01.619 --> 01:20:06.479
bombs all night, jab, jab, hook, hook type situation,

01:20:06.819 --> 01:20:09.880
I mean, and he doesn't gas out, that's a good

01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:14.619
sign, you know? If he gets beat on, if he gets

01:20:14.619 --> 01:20:19.079
beat on, and... goes to a close decision with

01:20:19.079 --> 01:20:22.260
Jermaine Franklin, that will be a very dangerous

01:20:22.260 --> 01:20:25.279
indicator for the rest of his entire career.

01:20:25.939 --> 01:20:28.460
Honestly, Jermaine Franklin, like what you said,

01:20:28.560 --> 01:20:31.340
he's a very durable opponent, but he's also not

01:20:31.340 --> 01:20:32.899
a very good opponent. This is going to be an

01:20:32.899 --> 01:20:37.600
obvious Maetama win. I mean, I find it laughable

01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:40.859
to even give Jermaine Franklin a chance. But

01:20:40.859 --> 01:20:43.100
man, it's going to be, I'll watch it because

01:20:43.100 --> 01:20:45.260
it's Maetama, you know, I've got to support the

01:20:45.260 --> 01:20:48.090
young heavyweight, but. We all know what's going

01:20:48.090 --> 01:20:51.909
to go down. Had more dog coughs there. Sorry,

01:20:51.949 --> 01:20:57.430
guys. No worries. But yeah, I think you guys

01:20:57.430 --> 01:20:59.890
are right. Like I said, I think this is going

01:20:59.890 --> 01:21:07.390
to go to about the 789 frame. But I'm not expecting

01:21:07.390 --> 01:21:13.989
Jermaine Franklin to see the last bell. I don't

01:21:13.989 --> 01:21:17.399
think he's that guy. And I think Atama is. that

01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:22.899
guy so i think it goes this is you think so all

01:21:22.899 --> 01:21:30.899
right yeah um let's move on to pro box tv just

01:21:30.899 --> 01:21:35.840
really quickly the two fights at the top brian

01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:41.420
acosta versus ronnie rios and uh renee taez versus

01:21:41.420 --> 01:21:45.210
malik montgomery Those are the top two of the

01:21:45.210 --> 01:21:47.989
bill of Probox. They've been putting on fights.

01:21:48.210 --> 01:21:52.090
I think they still have four more weeks of having

01:21:52.090 --> 01:21:56.430
a card every weekend. So, fuck yeah, Probox.

01:21:56.789 --> 01:22:03.050
Probox is good. Don't skip Queensberry or We're

01:22:03.050 --> 01:22:06.050
About to Talk About PBC necessarily for this

01:22:06.050 --> 01:22:10.390
one. Don't drop what you're doing for this one,

01:22:10.449 --> 01:22:16.539
but definitely catch it on replay. last thing

01:22:16.539 --> 01:22:23.979
on the docket PBC on Prime in Las Vegas from

01:22:23.979 --> 01:22:29.239
the bottom up Elijah Garcia versus Kevin Newman

01:22:29.239 --> 01:22:35.859
second is capping off the prelims I gotta roll

01:22:35.859 --> 01:22:39.920
with Garcia just because he's from my city so

01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:43.960
there's that but fuck Dude, he's not very good.

01:22:46.640 --> 01:22:51.500
The main card. Gergen Hovenissian versus Cesar

01:22:51.500 --> 01:22:57.939
Navarro. Yes, Big Gug. Big Gurg. Big Gug. Gug.

01:22:57.939 --> 01:23:00.899
I don't know why he's Big Gug. Big Gurg would

01:23:00.899 --> 01:23:04.779
make sense. Gurg is perfect. Yeah, no, his nickname

01:23:04.779 --> 01:23:10.260
is Big Gug. All right. Moving up, Christian.

01:23:10.460 --> 01:23:13.689
I love fat heavyweights. dumpy heavyweights,

01:23:13.750 --> 01:23:17.789
right? They suck, but they're fun because they

01:23:17.789 --> 01:23:24.329
hit hard. Christian Kangalosi versus Miguel Hernandez.

01:23:24.810 --> 01:23:29.329
This is a super welterweight fight. Yoenly Hernandez

01:23:29.329 --> 01:23:32.949
versus Terrell Gachet. Ten rounds at middleweight.

01:23:33.010 --> 01:23:37.189
Saul, you said this is a good step -up? Yes.

01:23:37.229 --> 01:23:39.770
I think it's a good step -up because Terrell

01:23:39.770 --> 01:23:41.510
Gachet has been there with a lot of champions.

01:23:42.319 --> 01:23:45.279
Yeah, it's a good measuring stick. Yeah, Gachet

01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:47.640
is a good measuring stick. We'll see how good

01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:49.420
Yohan Lee is. I mean, I think he's going to be

01:23:49.420 --> 01:23:52.279
pretty decent, pretty good. We'll see when he

01:23:52.279 --> 01:23:56.859
gets in the ring. And in the co -main, Yohanis

01:23:56.859 --> 01:24:02.300
Taez, the dude that lost to Abbas Baru, is back

01:24:02.300 --> 01:24:10.680
versus Brian Mendoza. Xander Zayas? No, I'm kidding,

01:24:10.739 --> 01:24:15.079
I'm kidding. This is a solid fight for... This

01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:17.760
is actually, like, for a get -back, this is a

01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:21.380
hard fucking fight for Tejas. Mendoza's not a

01:24:21.380 --> 01:24:26.659
slouch by any stretch. Not at all. Man, that's

01:24:26.659 --> 01:24:28.779
rough, dude. Like, yeah, you want to get it back,

01:24:28.899 --> 01:24:32.520
then you're going to have to earn it. In the

01:24:32.520 --> 01:24:35.140
main event, Sebastian Fundora versus Keith Thurman.

01:24:35.840 --> 01:24:39.539
Sebastian Fundora is the WBC super welterweight

01:24:39.539 --> 01:24:48.170
champion. Bald Keith Thurman. I was joking in

01:24:48.170 --> 01:24:52.090
Discord. Now that Keith Thurman has gone through

01:24:52.090 --> 01:24:56.829
all the stages of grief for his hair, is he focused

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on fighting now? I think he is. I got a controversial

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opinion about this fight. I, for the past couple

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months, all I've been thinking about is Sebastian

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Von Dort winning. knocking the hell out of Keith

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Thurman, which, again, that's the opinion I still

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have. But I was thinking about it, and I watched

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that other fight that Fandora had with Tim Zhu.

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And I'm just thinking, man, if Keith comes out

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and actually looks like how he used to, I think

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Fandora loses. I mean, if you watch that fight

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with Tim Zhu, his last fight with Tim Zhu, he

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was getting hit with the right hand. freaking

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left and right i was thinking during that fight

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i was surprised that they stopped it because

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tim zu was finding success with the right hand

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of the overhand right through fundora's work

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exactly and and the thing is that i've for for

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forever i've been thinking like man like why

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are they big this fight happened and i i just

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I can honestly now see, maybe I'm just gaslighting

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myself, but I can genuinely see a possibility

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where Keith Thurman actually wins by just spamming

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that overhand right and hitting Fandora. Because

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he's blind. Fandora is a tall man in boxing.

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He is. He will make a tall fight into a short.

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He fights like a short fighter, you know? Yeah.

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And Thurman, back in the day, was, oh, my God,

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he was great. But now, he's an old man. He's

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only fought twice, three times since 2019, since

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Manny Pacquiao. You know? So, again, before Brock

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Jarvis, he fought Mario Barrios, who himself

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is not the best. I mean, I don't know. I see

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it as if old school Keith comes out, then Keith

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wins. If it doesn't come out, if Andorra wins,

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I don't know. I'm going to watch it. I'm going

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to be a junkie. I'm going to watch it. I still

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don't think it's just pay -per -view worthy,

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especially considering how Richard Torres is

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not fighting anymore. Oh, that ruined it for

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me. Yeah, that completely ruined it for me. I

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don't think it's unfair to look at it that way.

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I felt that about it once I saw that the Frank

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Sanchez -Richard Torres fight got called off.

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I looked at it in the same way. This shit ain't

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worth my money anymore. Exactly. Well, you know

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what? Unlike you guys, I pay for all boxing very

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legally. Well, the thing is, I actually do pay

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for all boxing. I legitimately do pay for all

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boxing. Are you implying that I don't? Well,

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I paid for Canelo's skull. Okay, yeah. A AI -generated

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person, you just keep adding proof. I think I'm

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just gonna go kill myself. Yeah, there's no real

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human who would pay for Canelo's skull. I did.

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I also paid for Canelo Berlanga. Okay, that one's

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fine, though. We hate Berlanga. Either way, I

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just think that this is a Warren Pepp review.

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I think Keith Riven still has a chance if he's

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not coming, if he comes to the ring semi. Semi

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-healed from his usual self. But Sebastian Fundora,

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otherwise, I'd like 90 % chance to get him in

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the fight. Can't help but agree. Anything more

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for the PPC card? Let's go with Fundora. Coachella

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boy. All right. We are heading into Moses Itauma

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and Sebastian Fundora weekend. Parting words.

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Like I just said, let's go Coachella, boy. Let's

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go Sebastian Fundura. I hope you win. Keep that

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California belt. Honestly, if you watch the TVC

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card, but for the rest of the week, you should

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be just watching Najee Lopez, Manuel Gallegos

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on loop. That would be a better use of your time.

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It's the best use of your time if you're watching

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boxing. So. That's what I have to say. I imagine

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this was on a Wednesday night. That would have

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been a lot better. Okay, so I got a really shitty

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dad joke question. If the number two pencil is

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the most used, why is it still number two? Because

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it's a side hole. I put those at the end so that

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if you're going to turn off the podcast, you

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turn it off at the end. That's going to do it

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for this edition of the Boxing B -Sides. Fucking

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leave comments in YouTube. I will make sure to

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answer that shit. So leave a comment and I'll

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get back to you.