The B -Side and Boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
Alright, uh, timer is running. Here we go. Boxing
B -Sides. Holy shit, we are back to talk the
fucking fights. Etalma, Fundora, we'll get to
that next time right now. Saul, Josh, my boys,
how we doing? Glad to be back for another week
of Boxing B -Sides. Oh, yeah. We are back. We
got lots of news and not many fights. I am very
good at scheduling us. I'll have you know. I
like the news. The news parts are always the
highlights. Yeah, I want to see. I feel like
the news parts are the best parts now. It's like
reading The Onion, except at the very end of
the headline, you can attach before Virgil Belt.
And it's funny every time. You know what? I hope
fucking Trump bombs. Fucking Canada. Oh, my God.
See, look, we have Mexicans for Trump in this
podcast. Look at this. Look, he's saying, this
Virgil, that Virgil. Man, second egg, bro. Jesus
Christ. Well, I got one for you. You remember
the cartoon character Speedy Gonzalez that was
canceled a while back? Well, again, the Mexicans
brought him back. And now he has a movie. That
has been greenlit. Speedy Gonzalez returns for
a movie before Virgil Belt. How's that? Actually,
it's crazy. I support that. I love that. I love
Speedy Gonzalez. That's what I wanted to ask
you guys. What are we feeling about the quote
-unquote Mexican minstrel show caricature getting
a movie? Getting a movie? Oh, man. You know what?
Yeah, I actually like Speedy Gonzalez. What am
I saying? I liked him. I'm literally one of those
people. I liked him a lot. I thought he was funny.
I think it's just representation. It's not the
most offensive cartoon I've ever seen against
Mexicans. The old Kreek Kreek cartoons were made
in Mexico and still more offensive. I just think
I just see myself as Speedy Gonzalez. I actually
see myself in that little guy. Weedy Gonzalez.
Weedy Gonzalez is crazy. He runs on burritos.
I am him. I am him. I run on burritos. I can't
help myself. I just wanted to get your thoughts
on Speedy Gonzalez getting his movie. Fuck yeah,
dude. I'm still a little miffed that the goddamn
Chihuahua, Taco Bell Chihuahua, got pulled. I
hate it just because it's a Chihuahua. So if
it had been some other type of dog, it would
have been fine? Yeah. Eh, well. I feel like it,
yeah. I feel like a Chihuahua represents us the
best, though. you could have done one of those
like, uh, annoying. No, like the small guys with
a Napoleon complex. Yeah. Yeah. There's that,
um, like that Aztec breed. That's like hairless.
And it's like a big fucking Doberman looking
thing. Could have done one of those, but if you,
if you want it to look more tough anyway. Let's
move on. A little bit of MMA talk. March 20th,
One Friday Fights 147. I had to bring this one
up because my guy Nabil Anand got beat. Holy
shit. Rambo -like whooped his ass. And he claimed
the bantamweight Muay Thai title. I think that's
135 over on their side of the house. Also, in
the main portion of the card, because they're
doing like a paid segment and a free portion
now. Asadula Imangazaliev. Knocked out Nong -O
is his name. There were a lot of good fights
on this card. I always recommend them. Because
Muay Thai, if you like, just... If you're willing
to deal with a little bit of kicking, a little
bit of knees, a little bit of elbows, Muay Thai
is 100 % for you. But Iman Gazaliev, he did not
come in on weight. So he did not win the title.
So he's like the number one contender at this
point. But enough of that. One Friday Fights.
All of the One Friday Fights cards are free on
YouTube. I highly recommend them. They're on
Fridays, no shit. But I recommend checking them
out. Into the boxing news. Josh, your guy, David
Allen, will be head... Yes, Mr. Piss Jugs. Mr.
Piss Jugs himself will be headlining a Queensbury
card with a quote -unquote top 15 opponent. I
saw it was Filip Hergovich today. Really? Excellent.
Yeah. So it's someone he can actually beat. Yeah.
That's crazy. Hergovich is very beatable. Yep.
Against a guy like Dave Allen? I don't know about
that. No one's beatable with Dave Allen. But
it's more beatable than Zhang. just breaking
his hand on his head. Like, let's be real, with
Herkovich, he's plenty vulnerable that, like,
yeah, Alan can probably just tough it out because
Herkovich looks like he's sweating all the whiskey
out in round three. But, like, Zhang would have
broken, like, the only hope for Alan was for
Zhang to break his left hand on his skull. And
there would still be a few rounds to go. Yeah,
you'd still have to last those rounds cardio
-wise, too. Well, speaking of Brit stuff, Zufa
Boxing signs a multi -year deal with Sky Sports.
Not that much of a surprise when they signed
Conor Benn. It seemed like the logical direction
they were going to try to get a foothold in the
UK. But like Sky Sports, whatever, they've been
out of the boxing game for a little bit. So it's
kind of, I don't know. It's a little surprising
that Sky Sports would sign a boxing deal with
anyone just because they've been out of the game.
But I don't know. What do you guys think? Bring
it on, motherfuckers. You're worst. Here is something
that I found interesting. Teofimo tweets and
deletes. Quote, I may never fight again. End
quote. He does this every fight he loses. Does
he? Every time he loses, he goes on this. He
was already doing it before Camposos. These kinds
of weird breakdowns. I say it every time. My
man is straight up bipolar. And I say it on Boxing
Before Dark, but if I ever got a chance to shake
hands with Teofimo Lopez, I would have a Zoloft
pill in my hand. I would shake his hand like,
you want this. I promise you. You want this.
This will fucking really get you straight. It
will. I'll just feed him a Big Arch. Big Arch
burger. I still need to try that. I've heard
mixed reviews. It's like corduroy couch, honestly.
It's okay. It does the job, I guess. It's fine.
Apparently. Pretty much all I've gotten from
it. I think it's something else. Jared Anderson
is going to be signing with Queensberry. I had
heard that there's an opponent already selected,
but I don't remember who it was that was on the
rumor mill. Do you guys remember? Actually, don't.
Who's the... For Anderson? Yeah, Jared Anderson.
Yeah. I mean, Atama's so obvious. Like, this
is so obviously, like, let's prop him up for,
like, two fights and then, like... Let Atama
murk him? Yeah, basically. Like, it's... Queensbury
does this a lot. It's not like they're being
slick about it. I know that they're trying to
prop him up for sure. Like, they're trying to
rebuild him. Yeah, it's just... It's kind of
sad that, like, Top Rank dropped him after the
one fight with Bacoli, like, what, because he
went against their suggestion that he shouldn't
take it? Yeah, like... I think it's mainly after
that last fight with Martin. Yeah. The hijinks,
mainly that fight. I think, obviously, after
Bacoli, I think they were trying to rebuild him.
He seemed just interested in that rebuilding.
Well... We'll see. He might be decent again.
Armando Resendiz will be defending his WBA super
middleweight title against Jaime Munguia. Apparently,
like, since we last convened, Resendiz was supposed
to fight Munguia. That fight dropped out. He
was supposed to fight Charlo. That fight dropped
out. And now he's fighting Munguia again. This
is supposed to be on the Zurdo -Benevides, I
think the co -main. So that's pretty cool. That's
a good fight. I like that. I know what we talked
about last time. I think Munguia wins. I genuinely
think Munguia takes the fight. Real quick. Is
Munguia with Goldenboy still or no? I don't know
what the heck's happening with that. Or is he
still a top rank? Yeah, I don't know what's happening
with that right now. Well, his base promoter
is Xanfer. Who his US affiliate is has changed
from time to time. It's a good question to wonder
who the fuck are you with these days. Either
way, I think Munguia becomes champion after this.
I don't think Armando Resende's really... I'd
say it, but Caleb Plant was not a fluke. Well,
yeah, he was washed. Munguia's chin is cracked,
though. It's cracked, but at the same time, I
mean... The Reynoso style, it did work for Munguia
with his cracked chin, like when he rematched
Saras. Well, I mean, you also have PEDs, but,
I mean, that's besides the point. I mean, at
the end of the day, also, I mean, Resendiz, we're
also not bringing up how Resendiz lost to Elijah
Garcia. Elijah Garcia, dude. Do you think? Maybe
I'm putting too much stock into Garcia that,
like, maybe people are holding it too much against
Resendiz to have that loss. I'm sorry, dude.
I can't imagine a world where Elijah Garcia win
is better than a Bruce Ross win. Again, Bruce
Ross is from France. I get it. But Elijah Garcia,
we know who he is. We know that PBC is propping
him up. His last fight, I forgot. I think it
wasn't. Who did he fight? J -Rock? Does it really
matter? He fought someone, and they robbed the
other fighter. The other fighter beat him, and
they robbed him. Because Elijah Garcia freaking
isn't that great of a fighter. All respect to
him, but he's kind of not good. Buns? Buns, yeah.
If he had a hot dog, he'd be the buns. He wouldn't
be the meat. He'd be the buns. If he was a cheeseburger,
he wouldn't even be the meat. He wouldn't be
the tomato. He would be the buns. The buns. Fucking
metaphors are fantastic. Yeah, I think Munguia
wins. I don't know. Resendiz, he looked decent
that last fight, but he didn't look world -beating.
Bear Knuckle Boxing signs Victor Ortiz and John
Molina. I'm sure... Go on. This is way better
than the Pauly Maladagi type that was previously
getting signed. Yes. This is an upgrade. Yeah,
these are two better fighters than Pauly. But
BKB is the... BKB is the retirement league, it
seems. BKFC, it seems. That when a boxer still
has just a little bit left, they go to BKFC.
Because like Austin Trout, Jamel Herring are
doing work. But BKB is not quite at that level.
I try to avoid watching bare knuckle shit as
much as I can anyway. I catch the highlights.
Oh, yeah, if they come across my... The highlights
are great when they... Yeah, yeah. Luis Neri
vs. John Riel Casimero will be happening in April.
This is a... I think in Kazakhstan, the Kamedas
are putting on another two - or three -day fight
festival that includes concerts and stuff. I'm
not sure what it is that they witnessed for the
ring or the Riyadh season, rather. What did they
watch there that they thought was a good idea?
Because this shit is not. Stop mixing these two.
Put on a concert? Go ahead. Put on fights? Go
ahead. Stop fucking mixing them. Nobody likes
it. Lanier Pero versus Jarrell Miller will be
taking place in Las Vegas in late April. I think
Miller just signed a deal with Mattroom. Yeah,
Miller's kind of... Here, let me verify. He is...
It's all bullshit about this haircut. Let's see.
I think it's Matchroom, yes. I'm pretty sure
it's Matchroom. I had said... I don't remember
where I said it, but... This hair piece situation
is like the greatest thing that could have happened
for his career. At this stage, this is fucking
perfect. So, of course, he gets signed to a major
promoter at this point. Chris Colbert vs. Tevin
Farmer. Washed versus Washed. Yeah, I was trying
to think of a good way to put it. I hope Farmer
wins that. It'd be really... I'd never want to
see Colbert in a huge fight again because it'd
be hilarious if the last time we saw Colbert
was the OnlyFans logo on his trunks up after
Ryo... Sparked him? Yeah, after Ryo ran him over.
Man, I was thinking I would prefer to see Chris
Colbert win. I remember when Tevin Farmer was
first starting to catch notice from the boxing
social media landscape. We had talked about it
before, where it's like, discount his first four
losses, because that happened before anybody
even knew who it was. Oh, that was here. We talked
about it here. Yeah, exactly. But since that
point, like, I was always, I always had a little
bit of, like, hesitation with accepting Farmer
as, like, a real contender, you know what I mean?
So, Chris Colbert is fucking ass. Like, I'm sure
his chicken joint is better than his boxing,
but I would prefer to see Chris Colbert, like,
bounce off of Tevin Farmer trampoline. And get
himself back into the mix and get fucking sparked
again. But still, like, just Tevin Farmer, like,
come on. He has plenty of money. Chris Colbert,
I don't know if he's sitting as pretty as Tevin.
No mas. All right. Jordan Martinez, he was on
the Nav Nunez card. He's a local kid out of Phoenix.
I wanted to make sure that he got a shout out.
He got signed to Matchroom, so congrats to him.
Love to see a local kid doing good. Brandon Lee,
if you remember him, he signed with Zufa. Well,
he says he has signed with Zufa. Zufa has not
confirmed that he has. Zufa might be ashamed.
Man, it sucks that you're right, because I like
Brandon Lee. I've always been a fan of his. But
going to Zufa, I think, is the best move for
him. As we have said with guys like Mark McSio
and all the rest of them, steady work. You're
not going to be challenged all that much. You
get to be a bigger, not big fish in a little
pond, but a bigger fish in a small pond. So I'm
just glad to see Brandon Lee still getting work.
I like him. But I know he's not great. Hard pill
to swallow. Part of the fun of a bad bust prospect
is seeing them step up and lose and find their
place. And going to Zufa, it's just never going
to happen. So you're not going to see the bubble
burst, like, for real? You rob, like, I know
it's bad to, like, wish the downfall, but that
just happens with bust prospects, right? But,
like, the big part of you see, you watch a prospect
either to see them prosper or to see them crash
and burn. And when, by going to Zufa, you kind
of rob whatever fans the guy had of either. I
think you're right. It's bad. We like to show
respect to fighters for getting in the ring,
but as entertainment and personalities. You want
it to go either to the top or you want it to
boom or bust. In regards of a facet of the sport,
which we can separate from just the concept of
getting into the ring, period. Like you said,
a boomer bust is what you want and not just he
doesn't fight for four years and then he goes
to a promotion where he'll never lose but never
actually succeed. He's going to stagnate. It's
not interesting. There's no progress. He's been
at that point in his career where it's obvious
he's a bust. It's just he has to step up to be
exposed. his bust has not been proven yet just
because he got bailed out a few times so yeah
you're right um man even still i'm just even
though he he is a um i'm trying to think like
a bust mirage i guess like yeah so it's just
one of those it's like an nba player who like
instead of like making it to the playoffs and
choking and everything, he ends up on the team
that never contends but never tanks either, and
they pay him way too much. Like, think of Josh
Giddey. Devin Booker? No, Devin Booker made it
to an NBA Finals. True, he did. But I'm saying
Josh Giddey. Josh Giddey's a guy on the Bulls.
They're so bad, but they're still not trying
to tank. Like, they think they can actually do
it. He's getting paid 23... Like, he's getting
paid a very significant part of their salary
cap. And it's just to be, like, stats guy. But
it's not... There's no progress in his career,
and there's no progress in the team. And, like,
it's more frustrating than exciting. Because,
like, there's a difference between, like, you
overpay a guy... super super much and then they
bust in the playoffs like there's a storyline
there so are we in this instance is connor ben
the guy that you're talking about where you overpay
him and then he busts in the playoffs like regis
pro gray fucking sparks connor ben and i like
that see that's what you demand See? That's what
I mean. But you see how the storyline is great
there. Even the prospect of it is entertaining.
It's just desserts for Connor. Like here, Brandon
Lee's getting overpaid to go fight bums on Zufa
and maybe one of them sparks him out. Or he's
just going to can crush. And then he's going
to get old and then he's going to retire and
it's going to be like... Oh, he's going to be
the Zufa 135 champion or whatever the fuck. Yeah,
like, who cares? He fights at 140. Right, that's
what I mean. Like, he's either going to go up
or down. And the thing is that 140 has been such
a pretty stacked weight class with the amount
of people going through it that, like, you would
have thought he would have been, like, let's
say, like, when GAR lost to Apoyo. Like, he needs
a rebound. He could have been the guy for Nahir
Albright. Like, there's lots of, like, those
guys that, like, Lee could step up to and, like,
that, yeah, sink or swim. Oh, yeah. Like, you're
the trampoline. Like, they're either going to
bounce off you or you're going to catch them.
Hmm. Well, kind of, I don't know if we mentioned
it last time, but Richardson Hitchens. Is allegedly
going to the dark side. Good riddance. Yeah.
I'm happy he's gone. See ya, bro. Don't let the
door hit you on the way out, buddy. Go out and
find a Zufa where you're going to be paying peanuts.
He's good. It's just like he's such a negative
fighter to use. josh's phrase like he's such
a negative fighter like i can't fucking stand
him god and it's because he's he has the talent
he just chooses not to employ it and it's not
like it's not even like oh he has no power or
like he's unaware like it's it's so deliberate
right exactly he's too he's too good you can
tell he's deliberate in not engaging with George
Camposos until he has nothing left. I'm not saying
get hit, but I'm saying... You can do more. You
can do more against worse opponents. Well, speaking
of doing more, do you remember Sam Noakes? Good
old Sam Knows Fod. Unfortunately. Yeah. He will
be making his return on top -tier boxing on DAZN.
So that's nice. I think I brought this up. I
don't know if you guys knew Drip, but he used
to be on B -Sides with Shanada and myself before
you guys. Yeah. We met. We reunited on Boxing
Before Dark, and I brought up top tier, and Drip
was like, who the fuck are you talking about?
So they looked it up. It's this promotion. They
go off on Sundays just to avoid getting in the
way of major cards, right? But their primary
matchmaker is Ali Drew. social media personality
around the like combat sports in the UK. And
I, I, I had just mentioned like, Oh yeah, I,
uh, on Canelo triple G three, the fucking fight.
Nobody wanted to see, but I was still there in
a media capacity and I was sitting next to Allie
drew. And it was like, yeah, well, there you
go. Her and her cameraman. He was upset with
how salty the popcorn was. Oscar Duarte versus
Angel Fierro in negotiations for the Zerto Benavidez
undercard. This is like fucking fireworks. I'm
really excited about this. Actually, I think
this is outdated because I think it was actually
announced to be on the card itself. Oh, so it's
confirmed. Yeah, it was confirmed along with
Munguia and Resendiz. And Resendiz, yeah. All
right, cool. So it's not in negotiations. It's
actually happening. I think that's what I saw,
because you know the posters they post? Yeah.
Their whole card. Sometimes it has projected
fights, not always what is firm. Yeah. Yeah,
I got you. But this fight is fucking fireworks.
Fierro put up an awesome fight against Pitbull.
And Duarte is going to do what Duarte does. Duarte's
pretty fun. Yeah, he's going to do what he does.
So that's a good fight. Last bit. Oleksandr Usyk
has outlined his last three fights. Number one.
Rico Verhoeven. Number two, the winner of Fabio
Wardley versus Daniel Dubois. And number three,
Tyson Fury Trilogy. What are we thinking? Yeah,
man, I'm sorry. I don't want to see those fights,
man. I don't want to see fucking any of those.
Yeah, I'm sorry, dude. That's Daniel Dubois for
the third time. He doesn't deserve it. See, I'm
not defending him. on the selection of fights,
but I think people are too up in arms over, like,
the other fights he could have. Like, the contenders
he does have are not good enough to complain
about to this extent. You don't think Caballel's
worth replacing the Wardley Devolver? No, not
at all. I was watching Caballel get pieced up
by his last opponent in the second round. Yeah,
but that's an unknown fight versus... We've already
seen Tyson Fury. No, I know. I get it. I get
it. But it's like... Caballel is not good enough
to be screaming that Usyk is a fraud from the
top of the rafters. I'm not saying he's a fraud.
No, I know. I don't approve of the fights, but
it's a big thing I've seen. Like, on Boxing Twitter
or Boxing Reddit, where it's like, oh, this affects
his legacy. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. It's,
like, let's be real. Like, Muhammad Ali had this
quality of fights when he was on his way out.
The only difference is that he actually lost
one of them. Yeah. He lost to Leon Spinks. Three
of them, actually. Yeah. Like, you know, but
I'm saying, like, the actual, like, realistic
title. Like, during his title run. Near the end
of his reign. The Leon Spinks duology was like,
he lost to a guy who was 7 -0 and never all that.
Well, I mean, I got a pretty crazy take, but
I mean. Go ahead. What's your take? Actually,
this is kind of horrendous. But, I mean, if Benavidez
wants to be, you know, Philly. Go to heavyweight
fight Usyk. That's some silly shit, but I mean,
it's not out of the reach. It's not like... I'm
looking at the fights he had right at the end
of his career. Yeah, he fought Shavers Norton
for the third time, but he had those two fights
with Leon Spinks. He fought Alfredo Evangelista.
He fought Richard Dunn. These are similar quality
opponents. Mike, what Usyk's looking at. Like,
at least... Yeah, but they're all new fights.
But who cares? But the point is that the contender
that you're demanding he fight instead is not,
like, good enough. Like, I'll say the winner
of Wardley -Dubois is a legitimate world champion,
unfortunately. Well, I would like to see if Wardley
wins against Dubois. Yeah, if Wardley wins...
I wouldn't want to see that one. Yeah, I want
to see that one. Fury 3 is the only one I'm really
mad about, honestly. Yeah, I'm more... Yeah,
my one's definitely... So you get the right to
your gimmick fight, right? That's Rehoovan. You
get your gimmick fight, like, I'm sure, like,
what is it, like, Chuck Wepner was, like, about
the same quality, right? Yeah, probably, yeah.
Like, Chuck Wepner's about the same level of
skill. Like, this Wardley Dubois winner I'm fine
with because it's a legit contender. Say what
you will about it being a third fight against
Dubois. Dubois keeps winning the fights he needs
to, right? So has Caballel, though. If it's Wardley,
cool. But if Dubois wins, I prefer Caballel.
See, I prefer Caballel, too, in Germany. That
would be crazy. But I also acknowledge that he's
also just not a good enough contender to be like,
ah, he's ducking. Like, the legitimate era parent.
No, it's not to say he's ducking. It's just,
like, I don't want to see Dubois 3. That's all.
Yeah, that's fair. Like, I think Cabell has been
the beneficiary of good matchmaking. True. In
his high -profile fights. Because, like, technically,
like, his prime was, like, robbing Derek Chisora.
Was that really a robbery, though? Yes. And the
German commission, and the commission in Monte
Carlo prevented Chisora's team from entering
the country. I don't think that was really a
robbery. Have you watched the fight? Well, I've
seen the fight. It was a long time ago. I've
seen the fight. I mean, honestly, I think that
was also before his other fights, too. And you
could improve as a fighter as well. Yeah, I just
think, like, Sanchez with one knee, Mahmouda,
like, guys who are, like, like, cards to be knocked
down by a style just like Caballos. I mean, I
agree to a sense that Caballos is benefiting
from a good match. It reminds me of the Dillian
White run. Like, when, before, right, before
Povetkin, like, killed him. Yeah, I don't know.
I see what you're saying. It reminds me of the
Dillian White run where he had a good promoter
who gave him really beneficial matchmaking that,
like, it looks good, and then you can start complaining
that the champion is ducking him. Like, at the
time, Joseph Parker, Oscar Rivas, like, Robert
Helanious, Lucas Brown, like, they all look pretty
good. Chisora twice. like it looks good but also
like you know he's not going to be competitive
in the slightest with the actual champions fury
is the one right draw the line i think that was
ridiculous win loser draw with the fight we're
going to talk about i would rather see if like
if we're having to pick between the fury trilogy
i would rather see usik fight wilder regardless
of whether he loses to chizora well i thought
yes was gonna be doing the first place but you
know that's what i thought too but here we are
ducking wilder ducking wilder would be a crazy
take in 2026 oh shit that's um i hope we get
a youtube comment about that one well you know
if someone comments about that i guess they don't
understand freaking satire yeah man i think you're
right You're not catching the irony in what we're
saying. But these three fights. Anything more
before we move on? All right. Let's see here.
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fight that I want to point out on this one. MF
Pro on Friday, March 20th at the SSE Arena in
Belfast. Michael Conlon retires after dropping
the ball to Kevin Walsh. Even if he won that.
He should have retired. Yeah, fuck yeah. Even
if he won that. That was dog shit. That was straight
ass, dude. I have come around on Mickey. I had
previously always held him up as this is a person
for some reason I do not like. And I cannot give
you a valid reason why. But... I think it's just
the entitlement to a... Like, the whole career
has been entitlement since the Olympics. Or at
least the perception of entitlement. Since he
got jobbed at the Olympics, which is fair. Like,
he showed up entitled to, like, world title shots
and everything. That might be it. And it's always
felt... Like, top rank has carried him, like...
Like, he's owed the world, even though, like,
he got jobbed once at the Olympics. It's really
not a big deal. Mayweather got jobbed. Roy Jones.
Roy Jones Jr. got jobbed by nine judges. In Korea,
one of them quit, and so did the guy who robbed
him. The guy who... The guy who benefited from
the robbery gave him his gold medal. And quit
boxing forever. This is bullshit. I can't do
this. Moving to Saturday, March 21st. We are
starting with Britslop at the Copperbox Arena.
Just the top two. Jimmy Sainz gets the majority
decision over Derek Osaze. And George Ladard
retains his... Maidstone Glovekin, what was it?
I don't know. Lynn, what did you call him? He
retains all of his trinkets over Tyler Denny.
ProBoxTV. In San Bernardino, California. We talked
about it last time. Jocelyn Camarillo. Camarillo.
Fuck. Remember your roots, dog. KO1 over Isis
CEO. Yes, this one. That was the one where we
were talking about, like, remember that these
people are putting their lives on the line for
our entertainment. Isis. It may have developed
for the better or for the worse at this point.
I don't know. When you're listening to this,
the last news that we had was that she's out
of the coma, eating, off the ventilator, talking,
responsive. Everything is going well, the last
that we heard. But by the time you're hearing
this, I don't know. We can only hope that she's
doing better. Jocelyn, fucking awesome knockout
homegirl. Like, good on you, dude. Like, the
chicks don't often get big KOs like that. Keep
doing your thing. Yep, keep doing it. Maybe don't
put people in Tacomas, but... I don't know, man.
We've cheered on Subrio Matias for too long to
give this kind of advice. Too fair. Well, Subrio
Matias also got knocked out himself, so... Yeah,
but he also killed a guy. Yeah. I can't even
lie. He just killed a guy. Moving up the bill,
Sammy Contreras, the guy that we were talking
about before a few weeks ago that signed with
Top Rank just recently, they put him out. to
work on uh pro box and he beat the shit out of
caesar con 2 damn yeah dude it was fucking rough
uh albert gonzalez gets a stoppage in one over
brandon chambers uh joshua anton uh kudratilo
abdukakarov retires after the first It was weird.
He was, like, pointing at his head like he had
a migraine or something. I don't know. He just
kind of, like, quit, to be honest. So, whatever.
In the main event, Lester Martinez wins the interim
WBC super middleweight title over a very tough
Emmanuel Aleem. That's great. He did. He looked
really good. Something that Shanada had pointed
out that I thought was really poignant was this
is an instance of Lester Martinez demonstrating
his finesse. Like, he wasn't just going for,
like, clobber mode. And I think people were,
because it's Probox, people were expecting clobber,
rock 'em, sock 'em robots. But. Yeah. Lester
looked awesome. He looked good. I think, like,
it's good. And he's carrying on this sort of,
like, he started picking it up halfway through,
like, the Nbili fight, where, like, it wasn't
just the rock him, suck him, club him, but he
started, you know, slipping shots, finding counters,
and here it was. Like, I'm not saying Emmanuel
Aleem is the greatest opponent of all time, but
I'm saying this is a perfect guy to... have lester
continue to evolve against because he did he
gets better as the fight goes on no matter what
like he's very much a sponge of knowledge for
his coach yeah bomac um really did he continued
to prove that lester is like you said a good
sponge and he executes perfectly on a very good
game plan and he adjusts perfectly on a good
coach Lester, it's not as easy to say, based
on this performance, that Lester would have beaten
Mbili in a rematch. It's not as easy to say.
But I still think Martinez has Mbili's number.
Mbili's a one -trick pony. He did not rate. being
elevated without having the run back with Martinez.
Lester, he is what you want in a champion. Like
we've been saying, he's coachable, he's adaptable,
he's a really nice dude, just a really good person.
This is what you want in a champion. I think
Lester fucking runs the fade on Mbele. Absolutely.
Last one for the recaps. Only four fights on
this one. Matchroom at the Caribe Royale in Orlando,
Florida. First things first. Tara Moana stops
Curtis Harper in the first. Holy shit. Curtis
Harper, it's a joke that I like, that I like
how it worked out. So I had said that when Curtis
Harper sees Tara Moana doing the haka, he's going
to walk out of the ring the same way he did against
F .A. Ajagba. Now, it didn't work out in that
sense because he got knocked out in the first
round. But once Tara Moana started doing the
haka, if you watch the replay. You can see Curtis
Harper walking out of the ring. I fucking called
that shit, baby. The Haka was going to send Curtis
Harper walking. Good shit. Terry Moana knocking
over the cans as he continues to pile up the
wins, as you would expect from a 9 -0 fighter.
Whatevs. Corey Marksman impressed the ever -loving
fuck out of me. He beat Jacob Gomez by unanimous
decision. I'm trying to think. He reminds me
of Keyshawn Davis mixed with Shakur Stevenson.
I know this is very hyperbolic, but I was that
impressed. He looked so fucking good. I'm going
to try to get in touch with his team because
I want to talk to him. Hopefully. He seemed pretty
good. He was fucking fantastic. Holy shit. Good
asset to have. His punch selection, his defensive
work, his ring generalship. Holy shit. This guy
is like a the complete package already. I feel
like that. Obviously, his opponents need to get
better so he can demonstrate it a little bit
more, but I'm all in. His name is really fucking
cool, so that really does help. Do you have a
good nickname? It's too smooth, which is not
cool, but Corey Marksman? Come on. How did you
not go with the sniper or something like that?
Yeah, the sniper. Yeah, I was about to think
the sniper. Well, in the co -main, Omari Jones
plays it safe, gets the UD over Christian Gomez.
I expected better from Omari, just because he
had this dude figured out in the... first or
second round like what like why are you just
playing with your food but what are you gonna
do i think it's an off night for him honestly
you think so yeah i think so i think he just
needs to to be in a better fight to obviously
get you know better experience become more knowledgeable
yeah exactly better opposition make him fight
better Exactly. Fair enough. Well, Carlos Adamas,
the WBC middleweight champ, he just UD'd Austin
Williams. I am surprised that it didn't get stopped,
but Austin Williams was tough as I've ever seen.
We were talking last week. Before we started,
Saul, you and I were talking about this is an
instance where people will want to call Ammo
a bum, but this dude just... I wonder who would
say that. I don't know. Who would ever say that?
Not me. But he carried... He comported himself
well enough. Uh, he, he faced a world champion
and he gave a really good effort. He tried his
best. Um, like, do I want to give him a gold
star for effort? Yes, I do. Um, it's the best
I can do. I don't know. Josh, do you want to
like dunk on him or something? Oh, absolutely
not. I just like my, my main point about this
fight is like, what is Emma Williams's corner
think they're accomplishing? I don't know. They
could have stopped it, like, rounds earlier.
Full respect, like, fantastic heart from Emma
Williams hanging on to the end and still trying.
It's not like he phoned it in. Adamas was really
putting belt to ass, too. But in that case, like,
after round five, where, like, it's so obvious
that, like, there is, like, you're not even tickling
him, and he's just turning your fighter in the
paste. What are we doing? Pull him out. A loss
is a loss. Round eight or nine, at best, is when
they could have held him in. Five, it was obvious.
Eight or nine is giving your fighter benefit
of the doubt. Letting him go all 12 is negligent.
I got to say that the ammo, he was landing even
bombs in round 12. He landed a couple hard shots
on Adames, and Adames was visibly hurt. See,
I understand that, but there's also a whole rest
of the fight that he spent taking punishment.
They believed in him. Simple as that. They just
believed in him that he could get a knockout.
You know? I don't know. It's like sometimes it's
not worth it. Oh, no, not at all. I do got to
say myself that Adame's looked a league above
Ammo in this fight. He looked fantastic. I got
to say. His head movement, Adama's head movement,
and the ability to cut off the ring, it's really
good. You know? I was watching it, and even there
were some points in the final, like, damn. Like,
that double right hand knockdown, beautiful.
Beautiful. Very, uh, I'm excited to see Adama's
again next year. Oh, yeah, because he's a once
-a -year fighter. Yeah, he's a once -a -year
fighter. He's the new Lara. He's the new Lara.
Yeah, he's a new R. You know, we get him once
a year, then we get R once a year. He said he's
moving to 168, actually. Yeah, I was going to
break that up. He's moving it to 168, so there's
a lot better competition. I wonder if having
that caliber of fighters around you is going
to make you come out and fight more often. I
think it will. I'll say this right now, that
if he goes up and fights Christian Billy, Oh,
my God. That would be gangbusters. That is an
awesome fight. I would love to see that fight.
Which one's gangbusters? The Adamas and Lester?
No, Adamas and Billy. Okay. Adamas and Billy's
good. I like Adamas and Lester, too. Yeah, but
that one's... I feel like Lester might probably...
Lester might just beat the shit out of him, but
the thing is that it's fun. At that point, these
matchups are fun. I feel like with him and Mbili,
they're both similar styles, similar size. I
think Lester and Adamas is more a case of similar
styles. Maybe not size. Similar styles, similar
skills. Because I will say Mbili probably outsizes
Adamas, but also... Adamas is more technical
than Mbili is. The number one thing that you
could tell at the start of the ammo fight? The
jab. The jab. just oh yeah ammo getting pieced
up by the jab alone it was the like the first
like that's the first red flag that this is not
going to be competitive because you have no answer
for like the jab like the most foundational punch
in boxing yeah like there's no there's no shot
that like no wonder he's able to start throwing
double right hands and everything like Imagine
this fight was going to be on the Shakur card.
That would have been stacked. More stacked. They
could have moved this back a week for the Fandora
Thurman card since Sanchez Torres got canceled.
Yeah, and Adamez is PVC. Right. That was, I don't
know. We're not talking about that particular
card just yet. We have a pretty stacked preview
section. So, do you guys got anything more for
Adamas and Ammo? Not at all. Man, Ammo, I think
he can't... Do you think... Let me pose it to
you guys. Do you think it's possible in a...
Such a weak division, especially with a guy like
Adamas moving up. Can Ammo maybe snag a title?
I think so. 160 is dog shit. He can do it. Janabek,
if he's going to continue fighting, he's moving
up. So there are no real threats. I feel like
he could probably snag a title. He probably could.
I think he could. By the way, Carlo's zombies
look pretty damn good. Honestly, I think they
had a round of the year in that fight as well.
It was a really good fight. They had a particular
round of the year. I think it was round four.
I don't even track round of the year. Keep track,
though. I'll try. I think I'll forget about it.
Listen, nothing's getting this out of my head.
It's going to be something from the Provox fight
last week. Oh, the Najee, yeah. Yeah, Najee Lopez.
It's going to be Lopez Galegos for everything
this year. Like, I doubt. I think the only fight
that can really get to, like, that for me is
going to be Wardley Dubois. Or Zerto Benavidez.
I don't know. I think it's going to. That's like
a whole, like, my take is on Benavidez being
pretty firm. We'll see. But we'll see. But, like,
in terms of, like, things I expect to be close
to that action. But even then, Wardley Dubois
is not going to be skilled like Lopez Villegas
was. Oh, yeah, that's just bombs. Yeah, but that's
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Starting quickly with Friday, April 3rd. We have...
There's not a whole lot going on here. Pat Brown.
A 10 -round cruiserweight fight versus Vasil
Dukar. Pat Brown was an Olympian, I think. So,
Team GB doing what they do. Boxer. At the Cardiff
International Arena in Wales, not a whole lot
doing here either. Lauren Price, the IBF, WBA,
WBC welterweight champion, is facing Stephanie
Aquino. So isn't that nice? Queensberry at the
O2 Arena in London. I'm going to go from the
bottom up. As of today, Ashton Silva, still TBA.
That might change by the time you hear this.
Moving up, moving up. Interim WBO middleweight
title, Denzel Bentley versus Andre Saavedra.
In the co -main, Vidal Riley versus Matus Musternak.
And main event, Deontay Wilder versus Derek Chisora.
They're calling this 100. This is both of their
50th fights. So that's pretty cool. Let me say
the Vidal Riley Matus Masternack one that the
winner of this fight might end up being elevated
to the IBF world title now that it is... Now
that Jai Okataya is... This might be... Because
this is... The IBF was making this one the eliminator
for Jai. Might be the manager, the vacant. It's
the interim now, and now they might elevate that
interim to full titleist. So, congratulations,
Vidal Riley. Hilarious career, by the way, because
he started his career by training professionally.
He had a good amateur career, but he started
with training KSI. Really? Yeah, he was KSI's
trainer for the Logan Paul fights. All right.
Well. Fun fact. Well, Deontay Wilder versus Derek
Chisora. What are we thinking? Personally, I
will be goddamned before I'm going to cheer for
a Brit over a red, white, and blue American.
But at the same time, I don't actually believe
he's going to win, to be honest. I'm riding with
Wilder. I'm going down with the ship, but I really
think Chizora is... As the funny adage goes,
Chizora has more experience being washed. Yeah.
Listen, I think it'd be really funny and in character
if Chizora was up on all the cards and putting
the pasting on Wilder and Wilder just memed him
in, like, round 11. That would be perfect. And
they both retire after the fight. There's been
talk that Chizora has been saying, if he wins,
that he's not going to retire. He's been saying
one more fight for years. I remember when Kubrat
Pulev, like the Pulev fight, was supposed to
be his last fight at the O2. And then he fought
twice. He's fighting... Counting Wilder, it's
three more times at the O2 after his last fight
at the O2. Perfect. Of course. Like, it's always
one more fight. I've been hearing retirement
talks since, like, Caballel beat him. And that
was in 2017. And we're nine years on. Go on,
my son. Go on my son, exactly. That being said,
Wilder and Eighth. Wilder and Eighth. Wilder
and Eighth. For the culture, Wilder and Eighth.
All right, I'm going for it. Last thing on Saturday,
April 4th, PBC on Prime in Wollongong, Australia.
I almost said New Zealand there. It's New South
Wales. Pardon me. What do we got on the card
here? In the co -main, Sam Goodman over Who Gives
a Shit. And we got Tim Zhu facing Dennis Nuria.
So, isn't that nice? Let's roll on Sunday, April
5th. First thing. MVP on ESPN Plus in London.
It's MVPW making, I think this is their second
card. But they've got, as MVP tends to do, a
lot of the ladies on here. Chantel Cameron versus
Mikaela Kotaskova for the vacant WBO super welterweight
title. Who else we got here? Irma Garcia, the
IBF super flyweight champ versus Emma Dolan,
the number one contender. Ellie Scottney, the
IBF WBC, WBO super bantamweight champ, is going
undisputed with Mayeli Flores, the WBA champion.
And in the main event, Caroline Dubois, And Terry
Harper are unifying their WBC, WBO lightweight
titles. So, a lot of hardware. Last thing we
got on Sunday. I don't know the entire undercard
yet, but Zufa Boxing 5. The three fights I do
have. Crazy A. Azat Hovhanissian. versus Eduardo
Baez, Mark Maxayo versus Fairgold McCrory, and
Andres Cortez versus Erickson Garcia in the main
event. This sucks. This sucks. You can be honest.
This sucks. Crazy A and Mark Maxayo, I like those
guys, but yeah, this ain't it. These are not
great fights. You can't support this. This is
not the future of boxing, dude. It's not. No.
Yeah, like, come on. It isn't. Good. But, yeah,
that's Zufa. Well, with all of that, we are heading
into Chizora, Wilder, and Tim Zoo weekend. Parting
words. It's going to be an interesting weekend.
Hopefully, Deontay Wilder wins. I need Wilder
to pull this out, dude. One last time. We cannot
have Derek Chisora kicking in 2026, entering
2027. He needs to go home. Go on, my son. Go
on, my son. So I've been... I came across this
post on threads. It was like a, one of those
like smart ass types of posts. Where's the go?
What battle did Napoleon Diane? The answer, his
last one, like his last one. Yeah. Yeah. That
type of. bullshit you know what i mean so i went
on bullshit that's based as fuck i went on a
little bit of a tirade in response to that like
why do we park on driveways but drive on parkways
that type of nonsense so um i asked last time
about number two pencils and why are they still
number two if they're the most used one of my
favorite ones Do Roman paramedics refer to IVs
as fours? Oh, Jesus. Jesus Christ. It gets worse
every week. I like it. I like it. It's nice.
Me and dad jokes. It's like cats going into boxes.
It's just what we do. Well, on that one, that
is it for this edition of the Boxing B -Sides.
Holy shit, we will see you on the other side
of Chisora and Wilder. Yay.