This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
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Before Dark. Floor beer edition. Shanada, we
are drinking. Yes, I got home super late. So
late, I forgot to put the beer in the fridge
that I bought on my walk home. Floor beers. I
also have a floor beer. At the fucking bar last
night, I was trying to order a Sapporo, and the
lady... didn't understand my English pronunciation
of Sapporo. So I ended up with an Asahi. Because
she understood Asahi, but not Sapporo. I'm like,
I say them both badly. Maybe she just wanted
to give you the one that had ass in the name.
Maybe. I don't know. This happens a lot. I have
to order beer by the brand name because they
don't understand when I say beer. Which drives
me fucking insane because that's also the word
they use. Beer? Yeah, but when I try that, they
look at me like I'm crazy. I don't hold the right
number of counts or something. Stupid. Bitches.
Well, speaking of bitches, Edgar Berlanga lands
a one -year Zufa contract worth eight figures.
That's ten mil or more. Like I've said before,
I hope these guys bleed Zufa dry. Berlanga is
not worth ten million dollars. No, he most certainly
is not. This is fucking atrocious. Who the fuck
pays $10 million for Berlanga? Well, if Connor
Ben at 15 is the standard, I guess Berlanga's
worth $10 million. Yeah, I suppose. But yeah,
this is crazy. And he fights at a division that
Zufa doesn't acknowledge. They will now. You
think so? You think they're gonna... They're
gonna do what they did with Jai. Just make an
exception for... A name? 100%. Out of convenience.
Well, and isn't the Ben fight at a catchweight
that nobody recognizes? Well, catchweights are
not unheard of, even in UFC. They're not common
over there, but still. Yeah, but we're not recognizing
all of the standard weight classes, but we're
going to do catchweights. Right. Yeah, like if
you didn't, you wouldn't have to do a catchweight
if you had acknowledged one of the in -between
weights from middle to vulture. It probably would
be easier for Connor Bentu, your $15 million
investment. Nah, the Zufa... rules that they
made for themselves don't mean shit. Clearly.
Because doesn't somebody with Zufa have an IVF
belt fight coming up? Richardson Hitchens. Yeah.
And I noticed it's not for the Zufa belt. Well,
yeah, there's no Zufa weight division. Oh, is
that the excuse they're using? Because I'm pretty
sure it's just because Hitchens wouldn't fight
for Azufa Bell because he'll get stripped by
the IDF. This was something I had mentioned.
It was more of a joke, but with top rank, and
now we'll talk about in a second, Goldenboy going
back to DAZN, they should each have a title,
a sanctioning body assigned to them. and your
guys fight for this title, and then at the end
of the year, just at some determined time, the
titleists all face each other. I mean, that would
be kind of cool, and it's kind of how it already
works. I mean, not officially, but... Yeah, like
certain orgs... Like, Eddie Hearn loves the IBF.
PBC typically works with WBC. Queensberry's kind
of all over the place, aren't they? Mostly WBO,
but not exclusively, like top rank is. But why
not give the Zufa the IBF? Why not just let Zufa
go play in the corner by themselves? That would
be the ideal outcome, I think. Have Berlanga
and Berlanga -esque. Fighters go over there,
take a 10 mil contract for one, two, maybe three
fights. And bounce. Berlanga's not fighting three
times in one year. Certainly not. No fucking
way. No, but a little more like a younger fighter
could. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of young fighters,
Golden Boy has returned home. And we'll be back
on DAZN. It's a multi -year deal. I haven't seen
the specifics of the annual budget like they
did with Top Rank. But Goldenboy's back. I think
I've said it before. I'm kind of excited everybody's
on the same broadcast system. I think it's one
less sticking point for cross -promotion. It
is something that we've talked about before where...
It's not necessarily DAZN that we want everyone
to be on. It's just we want them to be in one
place. Together, yeah. This could be on Amazon
Prime. It could be on fucking ESPN. I really
don't care. But this makes DAZN Ultimate a lot
more appealing. So, did you hear about DAZN Ultimate
in Canada? No. Because I hadn't heard about this.
Yeah, you don't get the pay -per -views. What
the fuck? What's the point? Yeah, you get, like,
the higher resolution and some bullshit. But
yeah, I saw a very angry post, rightfully so.
And the guy's like, I paid for DAZN Ultimate,
and I didn't find out there was no pay -per -views
involved until after, like, the confirmation
email came. Because... We get all the American
commercials. So any commercials he saw said The
Zone Ultimate gets you all the pay -per -views.
Yeah. I would go for that too. Especially now.
Yeah, but I guess this was a couple weeks ago.
But that's... I haven't heard any different since
then. That's really stupid. That is so stupid.
It's fucking crazy. Yeah. So if you're thinking
about DAZN Ultimate, make sure in your area...
You get the pay -per -views. Yeah, it's actually
worth it. It's actually Ultimate. That's sleazy
as fuck. Because even on DAZN, I still get the
American DAZN commercials on DAZN, even though
I'm in Japan. Because I don't think the Ultimate
thing's a thing here, because most of the pay
-per -view fights... are not really pay -per
-views here. Because they're at such weird times.
Right, yeah, you're not going to charge somebody
$75 to watch some shit at like 3 in the morning.
Yeah, they're usually like $30, $35 here. Not
bad. And, I mean, I'm a degenerate, so I wake
up at 2 a .m. to watch them, but, you know. Would
we be here if you weren't a degenerate? No. I
probably wouldn't be here if I wasn't the resident
midget expert either. Aficionado? Yeah. Aficionado.
Excuse me. Holy shit. Aficionado. Look at that.
That works. Moving on. Dimitri Beeble versus
Michael Eifert. It's now going to be headlining
its own card. It's going to be in Russia. It's
not going to be on the... Giza card. So, just
want to guarantee even fewer people watch it.
I mean, that Giza card's just a fucking shitshow
anyways. Yeah. But it would be nice to have real
boxing on the shitshow card that the casuals
are going to watch. Right. Even Jake Paul knew
to put real fights on his co -mains and stuff.
Yeah. Like, that... I get the point is money.
The point is always money. But the point to me
for boxing as a sport of these bullshit cards
is to get casuals that'll show up for the circus
and put a good fight in front of them. So they're
like, oh, this boxing stuff's kind of cool. Yeah.
You know? Yeah, I know. I know what you mean.
So Beeble styling on Eifert, not going to happen.
I mean, yeah. That's also probably not the best
thing for casuals anyways. They need Pro Box
matchups on these cars. Pro Box needs to... Everybody,
like if there's going to be a UBO, it should
be Pro Box. And everybody just falls under that
umbrella. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The matchmakers at
Pro Box are fucking golden. Whoever is doing
the matchmaking needs a raise. They do not mess
around with their matchmaking. It's fantastic.
I don't know if this is fantastic. Matchroom
extends its partnership. With Riyadh's season.
I don't feel that good about it. I have to say,
this kind of surprised me a little. It didn't
seem like Turkey was really fucking with Matchroom
anymore. It doesn't seem like Turkey's fucking
with anyone but TKO at this point. Yeah, like...
I mean, I guess bleed the Saudis for what they're
worth, but... I don't know. I'm kind of indifferent
to this one. But matchroom extends with the Saudis.
I've also seen Oscar De La Hoya is trying to
get back into the Saudis' good graces. Oscar
needs money. Yeah, I was going to say it makes
perfect sense because he is short on cash. So
what do you expect? What are you going to do?
Fabio Wardley, Daniel Dubois undercard has been
announced. I'm just going to go down the list.
Obviously, Wardley Dubois at the top. Jack Rafferty
versus Ekow Esumen. Jared Anderson versus Solomon
Dakers. When did Jared last fight? It's been
a minute, right? I think when he lost to Bacoli.
Wait, nope. He fought in February of 25 against
a Mario's. What card was that? Okay, so he knocked
over a can a year ago. That's a big layoff for
a young guy. Yeah, well, I think the Bacoli loss
really fucked with his mental. Yeah, Anderson
doesn't seem super locked in on boxing mentally.
He had been saying for the longest time he planned
to retire at the earliest 25, at the latest 30.
Yeah, if you're already thinking about retirement,
it's not a good sign. You know, like if you're
planning retirement in your early 20s, that's,
yeah, you don't care so much about boxing. Liam
Cameron vs. Bradley Rhea and Khalil Majeed vs.
Gavin Gwynn. Why do I know Gavin Gwynn? He got
a draw with Cameron Vuong. One of our... Ah,
that's why I know Gavin Gwynn. He lost to Mark
Chamberlain in Saudi Arabia. That was on the
Nick Ball Ray Vargas card. That was a while ago.
Six feet. At 140. Nah, that's not terrible. I
mean, that's a solid undercard, I guess. Yeah,
it's good for being, like, in the UK. It's nice.
It's a nice card. Yeah, a bunch of those guys,
I assume, are kind of... They must have followings
in the UK more than they deserve. Because it's
UK boxing. Lin in shambles. Now, speaking of
shambles, JCC Jr. is going to be fighting John
Casero in Mexico on April 25th. Why? Right. I
think things should be prefaced always with Other
than money, why? Yeah, I mean, but, like, nobody
wants to see JCC Jr. anymore. I can't even imagine
he has that many fans in Mexico anymore. No,
not after proving himself to be a shitter. Yeah,
like, who is excited for a JCC Jr. fight? You
buy a ticket because you might get to meet his
dad? You could go to any major promotion and
you can meet his dad. He's always doing Spanish
commentary. Yeah. I don't know why you buy a
ticket to see Junior. I don't either. Maybe you
want to throw beer or pizza at him? Fair. Man,
Senior really is a fucking man of the people.
He'll be... He will stay after like all the fights
are over and he will take a picture and stop
and talk with fucking everyone. Every single
person that wants to talk to him. If you want
a picture with him, you will get one. That's
excellent. I love when any athlete is like that.
Yeah. Yeah, he's for like for the little bit
that I've spoken to them or at least been present
while he was just taking questions at random.
He's a really good guy. It's really changed a
lot from his heyday when he was kind of like
Pacquiao was, like a bit of a womanizer and a
coke fiend. Ah. I mean, that kind of comes with
the money sometimes. Yeah. Delahoya, no different.
Delahoya is still a coke fiend. Yeah, well. Well,
we had mentioned Probox. Probox good. They did
not win this purse bid. Angelo Leo versus Raees
Alim. It's happening in Atlanta on May 9th. Who's...
I should know who Raees Alim is. No idea, to
be honest with you. Okay, so maybe I shouldn't
know. Let's see. The Beast. He's got the fake
scars cut in his eyebrow in his picture. I fucking
hate those. I've seen the fake scars. That was
a thing when I was in high school. When I first
got to high school, the older boys liked doing
that. They would put one like you got in a fight
or something and it got cut. So stupid. This
is just like a pattern carved in. I do recognize
him though. Who have I seen you fight? I'll be
backing Leo because I like Leo. His only loss
was to Sam Goodman. Not a terrible loss. Not
awful. He did get one card 8 -4. The other two
were 8 -4 and 9 -3. For Goodman. In Australia.
Yes. Only one of the. One of the judges that.
The judge that gave the 9 to 3. Is Australian.
The 8 to 4 Goodman was American. And then. The
Aleem card. Was Japanese judge. I don't know
if we've mentioned this, but the Japanese cards,
honestly, on a whole, like stereotyping, I would
say are pretty fair. When they're outside of
Japan. I think. Even in Japan, you don't get
that many robberies. You have the odd fighter
that obviously the boxing commission doesn't
like, but even the cards for those fighters aren't
terrible. Yeah, so it'll seem like any close
rounds just go to the other guy instead. Yeah.
But I mean, they're not like out -and -out robberies
like you sometimes get. Or I don't feel like
I've seen very many robberies. Bullshit, but
not robberies. Yes, like some fucky scores, but
not... It's like a Canelo... 10 -2 against Golovkin.
Yeah. You could have went 7 -5 and nobody would
have complained. She's such an idiot. Yeah. But
Angelo Leo, we share a name, so naturally I'm
on his team. He also seems like a cool dude.
He's fucking fun as fuck to watch. So I'm here
for it. Is he still with the Kamedas? I don't
know. I thought he was with Probox. No, he signed
with the Kamedas. Weird. Weird choice. Angelo.
Am I making shit up? No, you're right. He's with
Probox. Why did I think he was with the Kamedas?
I just hate them so much. Anyone who fights in
Japan that I like, I assume signed with him.
Nope. I just completely made that up. You know
what's not made up? Jaron Ennis and Xander Zayas
in June. At the end of June in Brooklyn. It's
signed. It's done. Yep. Excellent. That's the
day before my birthday, actually. Oh, wow. Nice
birthday present. It'll be my birthday in Japan.
Counts. Xander Zayas not fucking around. Yeah.
You gotta respect it. He went for all the smoke.
But I don't see how Zayas wins that one. If he
does, I might have to stop talking shit if he
wins. I've already decided. I've clowned on him
enough. Like, this move right here is like the
signal. This boy is not fucking around. Yeah,
but he went full greaseball, Leo. Full greaseball.
His walkout at his last fight. The greased hair.
The greasy, like... Goatee. Goatee. Yeah. It's
not a good look. He looks like such a fuckboy.
The question I've been posing in Discord has
been if, just in the minute possibility that
Xander Zayas wins, does Boots recover? Can he
recover from losing to Xander? I think if Xander
beats Boots, his stock goes way up. And it becomes...
Well, it depends on how Boots looks, I guess.
But I assume Boots Ennis will look like Boots
Ennis. And if Xander manages to beat that, I
think Xander's stocks go way higher. And he's
a unified champion, right? Yes. Xander Zayas?
So losing to a unified champion, I don't think
very often can lower your stocks that much. I
think Ennis would be fine. He'd have a short
rebuild, but I don't think it would tank his
career or anything. People would just have to
acknowledge that Xander Zayas is better than
they thought he was. I was thinking that people
would have to acknowledge that Boots is human
and he's not the... heir apparent to like Floyd
Mayweather, Terrence Crawford. Yeah, that would
also happen. But like, I don't think that tanks
your career being human. I don't think so either.
Like you asked if he could recover. I think he
could recover from losing to a unified champion.
Fair point. But yeah, it would, it would lower
his stocks. But I don't think it's going to tank
them. It's just like, he's a very good fighter
that, you know, lost once. I don't think one
loss is that bad, especially if you're losing
to champions. Yeah, I agree. I think what I'm
hoping to gauge when I ask this question is like,
are we done with the undefeated bullshit? Can
we stop with that? I mean, I've been done with
that bullshit for a long time. I never liked
that idea. I don't either. Personally, I think
if you are undefeated your entire career, depending,
but if you're undefeated your entire career,
you didn't challenge yourself enough. Yeah. The
only, like, people act like Floyd Mayweather
is the rule, not the exception. Yeah, well, and...
I like talking shit about Floyd. I was going
to say I don't want to talk shit about Floyd.
But I love talking shit about Floyd. But there
were challenges that he didn't take. True. You
can nitpick his career if you wanted to. Yeah.
And, like, I have to say, like, now he's on the,
like, retirement tour. But Usyk challenged himself.
True that. I don't think anyone can say Usyk
didn't take a lot of challenges in his career,
and he's still undefeated. I think... I mean,
Floyd took challenges he thought he could beat.
But... Calculated risks, not... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Floyd was, in the last half of his career, was
Money Mayweather. And that's not... Like, I am
all for pretty boy Floyd, but Money Mayweather
fucking annoyed the shit out of me. I think a
good example of challenging yourself and losing
and still being held up as a good fighter is
Lomachenko. Challenged himself plenty of times
and he came up short a few times. Whatever. He's
still fucking incredible. Yeah, like, I don't
know. I know the zero being super important was
a huge thing to a lot of fans, but it never really
meant much to me. But I don't generally cheer
for people because of their skills so much. I
cheer for boxers that seem like fun guys. So
I'm not the standard. Yeah, I think... Yeah,
I was just trying to gauge how the guys in Discord
would react to an Ennis loss. There have been
some that would say he doesn't come back from
it. Like, he can't come back. I think they're
also down on Xander Zayas. Yeah, there's a lot
of people very low on Zayas. But if he manages
to beat Boots and Boots looks the way he usually
does, I think you have to acknowledge Zayas.
Yeah, I agree. And losing to a unified champion
I don't think should tank your boxing career.
That's crazy. Yeah, just have to acknowledge
that Zaius is legit. Yeah, he's better than you
thought he was. And that happens. Oh, well, better
than we thought. Ginjiro Shigeoka has been released
from the hospital. He's going home. Yeah. This
is... This is good, obviously. But, uh... Jinjiro's
not gonna have, uh... He's not going to suddenly
get better. That's, uh... Like, he's... It makes
me sad. He's gonna be in a chair, and it... I
don't think he can really speak a whole bunch.
And stuff. He's got a lot of physical therapy
to go through. Yeah. Like, rehabilitation and
stuff. But, like, did you see the post his brother
put up? Was it the family picture? Yeah, but
did you translate the... Okay. So... I just use
Google Translate, and I think it's very literal
and misses a lot of nuances, I know. But he sounded
a little like he wasn't sure about this. He retired
to look after his brother, and he's going to
look after his brother. I'm sure he's going to
do a great job. But he was kind of talking about
how the first day was hard. I see what you mean.
Like, I think one of the things he mentioned
was his having to help his brother go to the
bathroom often. And, like, yeah, that's going
to be a huge life change. I don't think I could
take care of somebody that was that injured.
Like, I am not a super good caregiver. So he
was, like, he was happy his brother's home, but
he's like, my life is going to get hard. the
the caption was an apology for closing the cafe
until further notice oh like until he gets in
the swing of things he's like the cafe is closed
it's going to be at least a week but it might
be longer uh basically like i'll update you please
come back i need my cafe to work yeah he didn't
say it like that but that was kind of the the
feeling i got from the caption Damn. It's gonna
be tough. I can't imagine, like, how hard it
is to see your brother that... Having to help
him wipe his ass, pretty much. Yeah, well, and
just, like, his brother was an athletic guy.
Yeah. Right? Like, seeing the huge change, like,
he can't go to the bathroom by himself, he, I
assume, can't feed himself or anything, like...
That's gotta be really hard. Yeah, I think so,
too. I can't imagine, like, my brother's not
an athlete, but he's a healthy kid. Kid. He's
30. 30 -something. But, like, I can't imagine
if I suddenly had to, like, take care of my brother
like he was a child. You know? With, like, an
elderly parent, you can kinda... It's a little
different, because like you said, it's like a
healthy person, and then just... They're not
anymore. And they're suddenly not, right. And
it's completely different from a baby or an elder.
Those make sense. I hope Jinjiro, he's not going
to get better, but I hope they get in a routine
and everything works out. I think with proper
care and the physical rehab, as we've mentioned,
I think his condition can improve. Yeah. He's
not going to get better, but he can improve,
I think. I think he'll find some semblance of
independence again. I think he can. I think that's
pretty optimistic. I think Jinjiro has too much
brain damage. I don't think he'll ever stand
up again. Yikes. And, like, I don't think he
can talk. They always say he communicates. I
get the feeling he can't make sentences and stuff.
I think he just writes a word on, like, a board
or something, or says a single word. Yeah, I
don't think he can write. Maybe, like, the touchpads,
but... There's a lot of very good... equipment
out to help people now to communicate like they
have that eye tracking uh software now where
they can like type by looking and stuff but they
they haven't said too much about how uh bad his
disabilities are but anytime they say communicate
instead of talking i always assume it's really
not good You don't play boxing. No, you do not.
Anything more for the news? I would really like
to have a non -bummer thing to talk about, but
I don't think I have any more news. Let me just
check really quick. On the front page of Boxing
Scene, Thomas Taylor... Rises as the world's
best referee. Difficult to disagree. Yeah, I
like Thomas Taylor. I like Harvey Dock, too.
I'm not sure why people got down on him all of
a sudden. Well, not all of a sudden, but in the
last year or two years, people have suddenly
been down on Dock, and I don't know why. He had
something weird he did. He had one questionable...
When he... When Jermall Charlo fought Jose Benavidez,
he did have a questionable performance then.
I remember that, but I don't know what happened
after that. He's the guy with the eyes, right?
Harvey Darrell? No, that's Steve Willis. Ah.
The guy that does the crab walk. Did I just do
a racism? No. Steve Willis isn't bad. But I know
that there have... I've talked to people that
don't like him because of the way he... Like
his facial expressions and stuff. They think
that he's inserting himself into the fight by
doing that. I think that's just the way he is.
I think so too. He's reacting viscerally. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. It's not him trying to put on a show.
Man, there's bummer stuff here too. Oh, one thing
you didn't mention here. I think you might have
talked it on. about it on b -sides but the uh
the mexican girl isis i forget her last name
ceo yeah she's uh she went home yeah she's out
of the hospital as well yeah yeah yeah she's
actually like okay yeah um she needs to retire
though at the very least it's gonna be like a
year maybe a year and a half away And she's only
19. She's only 19 and she's not like... I don't
know how to say it nicely, but she's not that
good. She was just starting out, so it's not
like you're throwing away a legendary career
or something. That's what I mean, yeah. You gave
it an honest go. Didn't work out. You're young.
Pick something else to do. Coach? Train? Be a
trainer? Yeah, she's fucking 19. You can do anything
at 19. She could become a nurse or a doctor or
an engineer or fucking anything. Join the military.
No, don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. Don't
do that. That's a bad idea. Not right now, anyway.
But yeah, Isisio, she's walking, talking. Everything
seems to be okay. Still tracking it. Which is
excellent news. Yes. Now, anything more for the
news? Yeah. We can end on a nice... Positive.
Somebody recovered. Yeah. All right. Social media
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into the recaps. Starting off with... MF Pro.
At the SSE Arena in Belfast. Only fight really
we're talking about here. Mickey Conlin drops
the ball, loses the split decision to Kevin Walsh,
and retires. Has he not retired before? I swear
to God. He has. He has. Okay. He should make
it for real this time. I was super high on Mickey
Conlin coming out of the amateurs, but he just
doesn't have the chin for the pros. In my opinion.
I mean, you're schooling Lee Wood, and then you
get... Fucking iced. WWF thrown out of the ring.
Yeah, that was so fucking crazy. I didn't know
whether to be happy for Wood or sad for Conlon,
because I like both of them. But yeah, I just...
Not everybody transitions well, and Mickey Conlon
wasn't made for the pros. In my opinion. But
I really liked him coming out of the amateurs.
I thought he was going to be good. I think that's
why I didn't like him. It was just because he
was... The way when he signed with Top Rank,
they tried to anoint him as the next coming of
Boxing Jesus. Yeah, yeah. The promotion was...
over the top. Agreed. Yeah, it's a little rough.
But yeah, he should go back to promoting. He
was doing good there. Conlon Boxing was putting
on a lot of shows on DAZN. Saturday, March 21st.
First things first. The Copperbox Arena Matchroom.
Fucking, who really cares who these people are?
Emmanuel Buttigieg got a nice knockout over...
Scroll. Jake Goodwin. In the co -main, Jimmy
Saines gets the majority decision over Derek
Osaze. And George Ladard, UD over Tyler Denny.
Not very competitive. This was a very Brit. Break
card. Yeah. I personally do not care about any
of these people. It's good to keep an eye because,
like, Ladard is a matchroom guy. He's going to
get thrust into contention. Yeah, yeah. I'm not
saying people shouldn't follow, but, like...
I had no emotions in this card, I guess. Oh,
yeah, I didn't care either. For me, it was, like,
purely academic to be watching. Yeah, yeah. Who
the fuck is George Ladard, and who might he fight
in the future? Tyler Denny. I'd prefer Tyler
Ihop. Moving on. ProBoxTV in San Bernardino.
California. Let's see. Jocelyn Camarillo knocks
out Isisio in the first. Like, maybe don't send
them to the hospital next time, Jocelyn, but
keep getting those knockouts, girl. Yeah. Sammy
Contreras knocks out Cesar Cantu in the second.
That shit was not even close. Albert Gonzalez
stops Brandon Chambers in the first. Fucking
Kudratilo Abdukakarov. You son of a bitch. He
retires with a migraine? After the first show?
Yeah, did you see the controversy he started
online? No, what was it? Ah, so some like small
time boxing media guy i can't remember who it
was i should um dm'd him and asked him like are
you good how did the hospital go and stuff he's
like yeah i'm all good it all checked out but
i had to quit my health comes first perfectly
there yep uh but then unprompted he put in the
reply that provost hadn't paid him oh shit i
did see that i didn't see what came of it though
no well and like this was less than a week after
the fight like i i don't know how boxing pay
usually works but like you know two weeks to
get paid isn't unheard of let's see if google
returns anything But yeah, I really don't want
Provox to be dicks. Yeah, he confirms he did
not get paid for the fight. That's... Yeah. That's
not cool. I would say this is an instance...
This is like a specific case where the Ali Revival
Act rules... could come into play like you competed
for one round so you can get paid for a round
yeah i i don't know how to feel about this one
because boxers who don't feel well should stop
the fight like obviously but why go in at all
then yeah well with only one round Why go in
at all? And it's not like he took a lot of damage.
Yeah, I... I don't know how to feel about this
one. I mean, he needs to get paid something.
I think. Yeah. But... I also just don't want
Probox to be dicks. Like, I want to be able to
like Probox with no caveats. Yeah, this is a
strange case, and I'm definitely interested to
see how they handle this. Gary Jonas doesn't
seem like a douchebag. No, and I mean, this is,
what, one week ago? No, more than... Okay. So
maybe they're still just processing it. Maybe
Probox is looking to see if they have a legal
reason to pay him not the full purse. Which I
think is fair. I think so anyway. With a one
round retirement and there was actually nothing
wrong I could see a reduced purse being reasonable
for sure. But like also Fighters should get paid.
I'm torn on this one. I don't know how to feel
about this. How do you feel about Lester Martinez
winning the interim WBC super middleweight title?
I thought Lester looked really good in this fight.
Yeah, he showed his finesse more than any scrappy
kind of... Yeah, I mean, it wasn't the type of
fight I like. Like, it wasn't Lester versus Mbili,
but he showed that he has more talent than he
had showcased on a big stage before, I think.
Knesset is a good way to put it. Yeah. I'm really
high on Lester. Also, what was this for? interim
wbc super middleweight title so technically he
got the first belt for guatemala which was super
cool half belt i would say yeah i also don't
think it's a real belt but i mean i'm just happy
for lester and the guatemalan crowd showed up
they were loud as fuck holy shit i would have
man i would have loved to be there Yeah, it seemed
like it was a fun crowd. No, I'm happy for Lester.
The fucking rat tail is gross, but I want Lester
Martinez to do big things. He seems like a nice
guy. He seems pretty down to earth. He's... He's
a good boxer. Like, this isn't one of my, I just
want him to do well. He is good, and he deserves
his title shot. He needs to get the winner of
Canelo and Billy. I think if Canelo wins it,
he ducks him. 100%. I think so, too. Lester's
too much of a challenge for Canelo at this stage,
and Canelo still has the name to decide who he
fights. Man, I don't think Canelo and Beely should
be even happening in the first place. No, it
should have been a rematch. Yes, absolutely that
should have been. You do the rematch and the
winner fights Canelo. What the fuck is the problem?
And Beely should not have been... Elevated. Elevated.
I was going to say raised. But yeah, he should
not have been elevated after that fight. That
was too fucking close. It was a draw. Like...
Mbili did not deserve the title over Lester after
that last fight. Yeah, and Lester would have
fucking whooped him in the rematch. I'm certain
of it. Yeah, I'm 100 % certain. Well, and if
that fucking fight had been 12 rounds, Lester
would have beat him. 100%. No doubt in my mind.
Mbili was fading. But... We stan Lester Martinez
on this podcast. We ride with Lester. Aleem was
super tough. I was actually pretty impressed.
I was impressed that Aleem didn't go down. Yeah.
He'll get called back to Pro Box, for sure. For
sure. And I'll watch it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah,
yeah. No discounting Aleem in this fight, really.
But Lester was just better. Yes. That's a good
way to put it. Oh man, speaking of better, last
bit in the recaps. Starting, this is matchroom
at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. Starting
at the bottom, Tara Moana knocks out Curtis Harper
in the first. There was a little bit of a...
high strangeness uh curtis harper took his sweet
ass time coming out um he his intro song was
uh uh enter sandman and great song though yeah
and they got to like the guitar solo and he still
hadn't come out jesus yeah i missed this one
it's just the time's bad in japan it's fine like
it's terrible wanna did what terrible wanna does
it was uh I didn't want to wake up early to see
him knock somebody out, to be honest. I'm going
to continue to point out that I had said, just
as a joke, that when Curtis Harper sees or hears
the haka from Tara Moana, he's going to walk
out of the ring like he did against F .A. Adrogba.
Which did not happen. But once Tara Moana started
doing the haka, Curtis Harper left the ring.
After. Hilarious. After the fight. The timing
was just too good. I can't not point it out.
You know what you should have woken up for? Corey
Marksman. Were you up for this one? No. Oh, you
missed it. Wow. You missed a good one. Corey
Marksman lives up to his name. Super sharp. Punch
selection was just fucking fantastic. I was very
impressed with Marksman here. I should have went
back and watched it, I guess. Jacob Gomez was
a live dog the whole time. So it wasn't just
like a can crushing scenario. Omari Jones plays
it safe, gets the UD over Christian Gomez. He
had everything lined up to get a stoppage, but
he just didn't seem to want to press the tempo.
Yeah, he didn't want to take chances. This one
I did wake up for. I expected better. A little
disappointing. Yeah. I really expected better.
It's unfortunate. But whatever, man. You don't
want to take chances with your health. I get
it. But just something you would hope for as
a fan. You would hope. Yeah, to push for the
stoppage. Right. Everybody likes stoppages. Carlos
Adamas, WBC middleweight champion. Beats the
piss out of Austin Williams. Ammo, he went back
to. Fucking good. Good. He was rated third in
the WBC rankings when I checked, last I checked
before the fight. Carlos Adamas beat his ass
so bad he just moved up to super middleweight.
Excellent. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah. I beat you
so bad that you're changing neighborhoods. Yeah,
I'm leaving. See you guys later. I'm moving.
I got bullied and I'm gone. No, Carlos looked
really good. Yeah. I was impressed. Saul made
a joke like, I can't wait to see Adamas back
next year. Yeah. I think Super Middleweight will
ignite the competitive fire for Adamas. There's
better people here. And if he's coming up from
160 to 68 in the WBC side of the house, he's
got Lester Martinez, he's got Mbili there, that
he could, if he weren't able to knock those two
off, he could get a Canelo fight if he were to
do those in quick succession. Could he? Again,
I think Canelo's not looking for challenges at
this point. You're probably right. Looking good
kind of takes you out of the Canelo sweepstakes
these days. You are correct. Why is Terrence
Crawford still here? No shade. He retired and
he's made it extremely clear that he's done.
People don't want to believe. Terrence is one
of those guys, I think, when he says something,
he actually means it. I think so, too. That's
why I'm saying. I don't think Crawford's coming
back. Yeah. He had said in an interview that
because Janabek popped for PEDs, he decided he
was going to retire instead. He was going to
go to 160 and fight everyone there. And do the
four -weight undisputed... Are you fucking kidding
me, bro? Four -weight undisputed? It would be
big. Untouchable record. Like, that'll never
get... I don't think that'll ever be broken.
With quality opponents, I'll say. Who's here
for Carlos Adamas? Man, this division is stacked.
168 is super stacked. Yeah, from the top down,
Bud, Canelo, Hamza Shiraz, Jamal Charlo, Mbili,
Diego Pacheco, Oslis, Munguia, Jacob Bank, Jakub
Bank, pardon me, Lester at 10. Lester deserves
to be higher. That's bullshit. I would say he
should be higher than at least. Jakub and Jaime
Mugia. And Diego Pacheco should not be above
Oslis. No. Charlo should not be in the top ten.
Charlo hasn't fought in fucking forever. It's
been some time. He fought Cornflake almost a
year ago. I have the wrong Charlo, but I stand
by it. He hasn't fought anyone worth fighting
for a while. Yeah, still. The point stands. Anything
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We've got a few of them. Some of them are quick.
We can browse, gloss over pretty quickly. Friday,
April 3rd. Matchroom on DAZN in Altrincham, England.
The main event, Pat Brown, the Team GB Olympian
versus Vasil Dukar. So that's nice. Let's see.
Saturday, April 4th. Boxer, also on DAZN. In
the US, it's on the zone. In the UK, it's on
BBC2, I think it is. Not a whole lot doing here.
Lauren Price, the IBF, WBA, WBC. Welterweight
champ versus Stephanie Aquino. Louis Parfait
spells both his names wrong. Just an FYI. That
says Louis? Yeah. Or maybe Louise? No, Louise
is a girl's name. I assume it's Louis. Moving
to... We're going to skip ahead really quick.
PBC on Prime at the Wynn Entertainment Center
in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Not
a whole lot doing here either. The co -main event,
Sam Goodman. versus Rodrigo Ruiz. And the main
event, Tim Zhu versus Dennis Nuria. Yeah, it's
at least names I know. Yeah. Oh, they put Goodman
against an Argentinian. Oh, a tough Argentinian,
too. 23 -1. Yeah. I might throw a small amount
of money on the Argentinian. Those guys upset
people all the fucking time. Yeah, that's because
people don't fucking pay them their due respect.
Yeah. Argentina. Argentina. No. Yeah. Okay. Jesus
Christ. I need more sleep, Leo. Argentina. Yes.
Thank you. Argentina has good boxing. Yeah, absolutely.
We've talked about it. Plenty of times. Put some
fucking respect on their names. Argentines are
generally smug fucking douchebags. But they can
fucking fight. Yeah. And there are a lot of Argentines
that get brought up to be cans. So you never
fucking know. But this guy doesn't look like
a can. He looks like he's taking it serious.
I hope. I want Sam Goodman to suffer for wasting
Inouye's time. Yes, I agree. Fuck Sam Goodman.
We're riding with Rodrigo Ruiz. Last one for
Saturday, April 4th. Queensberry at the O2 Arena
in London. Man, oh man. What do we got on the
undercard here? A lot of names I don't know is
what we have. Denzel Bentley versus Andres Saavedra
for the interim WBO middleweight title. Remember
that Jannebeck was only suspended. So there you
go. Bullshit. Vidal Riley versus Matus Masternak.
This is an EBU. cruiserweight title ebu is just
the stepping stone to the wbc so worth paying
attention to because we want we want mccallion
to stop holding that belt hostage we do and main
event deontay wilder derrick chizora 100? Isn't
that the billing? That is the name of the event.
100. Chizora is going to chin Wilder and the
Americans will be in shambles. I absolutely will
be in shambles if Derek Chizora manages to...
If he stops Wilder, yes. If it's a decision situation,
I'm not... I'll be alright. Shambled? You're
not shambled? No. Nah, Chizora's gonna stop him.
I'll be in tatters, not shambles. Fair enough.
But Chizora's gonna stop him. I have complete
faith that Chizora is way less washed than Deontay
Wilder. Even if he is as washed, he has more
experience being washed. Yes. I heard that in
chat. Or I read that in chat, and I haven't been
able to stop laughing at it. It's true, though.
It is. Chizora is the washed goat. Nobody has
fought as well washed as Derek Chizora does.
I'm here for the American Missile. which may
be not the right time to be joking about missiles,
American missiles in particular, but Deontay
Wilder's right hand. The bronze bomber has been
fucking... He's dead. He's dead. Yeah. And it
breaks my heart. I'm still here for it. I'm going
down with the ship. Fucking salutes up to the
flag as we go down, as we submerge. I'm riding
with Wilder. I have to. Fair enough. You got
to ride with your boy, but there's no fucking
way he beats Chizora in my mind. It's just not
going to happen. Hmm. Shall we move on? Yeah.
All right. Sunday, April 5th. Two things here.
MVP, MVPW. On ESPN, I believe this is MVPW2.
We've got quite a few title fights on here. Chantel
Cameron versus Mikaela Kotaskova for the vacant
WBO 154 title. This is the one that Mikaela Mayer
just vacated. I assume Chantel Cameron's going
to make easy work of this one. Yes. She's the
top. 154 so on box rec anyway so for whatever
that's worth Irma Garcia the IBF super flyweight
champ will be facing first rated contender Emma
Dolan Ellie Scottney will be going for undisputed
with Mayeli Flores Scottney is the IBF, WBC,
WBO, Super Bantamweight Champion, and Mayeli
Flores is the WBA champ. So there can only be
one. There can be only one. God, get it right.
And in the main event, WBC, WBO, Lightweight
Unification, Caroline Dubois, and Terry Harper.
Terry Harper needs to stop. I know she's got
a couple wins lately, but Terry Harper has taken
too much damage, in my opinion. I'm just here
for whatever can keep Caroline in the headlines,
and maybe that'll lure Daniel out of the cult.
That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. I just, I
don't see how Terry Harper wins this one. To
be honest. But yeah, that weird cult situation
with the Dubois family is weird as hell. And
I hope Caroline gets all her siblings out of
it. Eventually. Last thing on the docket. Zufa
Boxing 5 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. Going
from the bottom up, we'll get to the main portion
in a moment. Emiliano Cardenas versus Alexis
Alvarado at Bantamweight. Troy Nash. Nice. That's
a good one. Should be a good one anyway. Versus
Brian Rodriguez at Feather. Jorge Maravillo and
Elias. Diaz at welter. Robert Merriweather III
vs. Tony Hirsch at lightweight. Alexis de la
Cerda vs. Irvin Fuller at feather. And in the
main portion, Azad Hovenissian vs. Eduardo Baez
at featherweight. Mark Magsayo vs. Fiergal McCrory
at lightweight. And Andres Cortez versus Erickson
Garcia at lightweight. I'm so sad Meg Zio signed
with these assholes. Me too. I mean, it's not
a bad card. No, it's not. Zufa's going to suck
all the fun out of everything. What color trunks
do you think Maxaya is going to wear? He's the
A side, so he's white, right? The A or B side
doesn't matter. You pick your color. Oh, okay.
I think he's going to wear black. Yeah, if he
gets to pick, he wears black. I have not been
paying enough attention. I assume the A side
was white. Good guys versus bad guys. Oh. Western.
color rules. Oh, okay. Like the old black and
white western. Yeah, I see what you mean now.
No, not in a racist way. But Shannara and racism
go together. I know, I know. Okay. We're almost
done. Yeah, that's all we got on the docket.
I will be hate -watching Zufa, as I always do.
I mean, if nothing else, I watch this so that
you don't necessarily have to. You can just enjoy
my recap. I try and pirate Zufa even though it's
on YouTube. Oh, it's on YouTube for you. That's
right. Yeah. I still pirate it. I don't want
to give them views. Ethical pirate. I will be
the captain of the ship. And as many people can
board the LSS fucking fuck Zufa. Yeah. All right.
Well, we are going into Wilder Chisora weekend.
Parting words. Parting words. Go to bed before
the sun comes up would be my parting words today.
Usually a good thing to do. Yeah, sunrises are
overrated. That shit sucks. Do illiterate people
get the full effect of alphabet soup? It's too
bad my grandpa's dead. I could have asked him.
Where does your lap go when you stand up? You're
asking hard questions, Leo. Oh, here's a relevant
one. Why are boxing rings square? Because...
A squared circle. Because fuck you, they used
to be circles. I'll cut it with the shady jokes
now. That's it for this edition of Boxing Before
Dark. Get yourself some floor beers. Floor beers
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