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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
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Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
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Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
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Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
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is Boxing Before Dark. Alright. Boxing Before
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Dark. Where all of your fucking dreams come true.
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Shanada, how goes it in Japan? It goes. Next
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week I'm on vacation, so it goes better next
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week. Hell yeah. Yeah. You got a lot of museums
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on your trip itinerary? Yeah, so many museums.
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I've got like a day and a half of just museums,
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which is my nerd passion. Museums are dope though.
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Yeah. I got a forestry museum, an ancient history
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museum, a ship museum, a local history museum,
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and I forget what the other one is now. Anyways,
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I got like five museums. I'm super stoked. Damn,
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I'm just out here roasting. That's all I got.
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Summer in Arizona sounds awful. It is. You know
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what was also hot as fuck? KSW versus Zlatan.
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Yeah. School me up. One Friday fight last night,
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it was a phone booth Muay Thai fight, which I
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have never seen. They were just standing so close
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they couldn't even really throw punches. It was
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all just those really short elbows to the face
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back and forth for like 75 % of the fight. And
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nobody got cut until the last round. It was crazy.
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Highly recommend it. I think it was the third
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last fight on the card. Yes. Third from the top.
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Yeah. So if you're looking for it, that's on
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the one website replays, right? Yeah. Watch .onefc
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.com. Yeah. Everyone should go watch that one.
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Fucking great fight. It's like four hours of
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brutality for free. Yeah, it's great. The last
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fight of the Inner Circle was also really fun,
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but it was fun because there was a lot of knockdowns,
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and I forget the guys' names. Sorry. Tom Yankong
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and Anar Mamadov. Yeah, one got knocked down
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twice in the first round, came back, knocked
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the other guy down in the second, and cut him,
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and then the third round was just crazy, everyone
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going for it. Excellent. Two excellent fights.
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When you watch it live, is Inner Circle free
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to watch? I pay for you next. Oh, so you get
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all of it. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't think
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Inner Circle is on the YouTube feed in America.
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yeah inner circle is on live .onefc .com and
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then once that portion ends it's like its own
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broadcast like it has an intro and outro and
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everything yeah yeah then uh goes to the free
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portion but even the free portion is fucking
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worth it i mean number one it's free and number
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two the fights are fucking bangers yeah i love
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me some one Man, I remember it took some time
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to get you interested in even checking it out.
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I knew I liked Muay Thai, but I didn't think
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I would like watching it every week. But I do.
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Honestly, I like the Friday fights more than
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the main cards. The fight night cards are usually
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not that great, unfortunately. Yeah. The Friday
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fights are like the pro box of Muay Thai. Yeah,
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that's a good way to put it. Let's fucking roll
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into the news because there's quite a bit of
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it. First things, two not -so -fun bits I want
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to get out of the way. The boxing survey continues,
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bxng .co slash survey. Tell me what you think
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about the titles. And the Muhammad Ali Boxing
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Revival Act, there's still time. It's out of
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committee in the Senate, but it still has to
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come up for a vote, so there's still time. luxmedia
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.net slash b -sides and there's a link there
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to find the contact information for your people
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and for your reps and you can tell them to not
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to vote no on this but enough of that Oscar De
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La Hoya sends a cease and desist letter to Dana
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White and Zufa regarding the Connor Ben Ryan
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Garcia negotiations and promotion. And DAZN also
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sends a cease and desist to ZUFA. So that's a
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heavy hitter that's telling you to fucking quit.
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So I don't 100 % understand this one. So this
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is because Dana says they're promoting it? Yes.
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And obviously DAZN and Oscar are implying it's
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going to be on DAZN? I think the implication
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more is that you don't get to negotiate with
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Ryan Garcia. You negotiate with us. Ah, okay.
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Yeah, all this legalese is kind of outside my
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wheelhouse. Yeah, it's just a... It's like a
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slap on the hand, pretty much. Like, quit it.
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There's proper channels, and you have to follow
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them. Yeah, this isn't... You don't get to run
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everything like you do at the UFC. Yep. You want
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to play with the big dogs? You gotta play by
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the rules. Be professional. Speaking of big dogs,
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and maybe not being quite so big anymore, Floyd...
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is suing one of his former managers for $175
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million. And also just recently noted, Showtime
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is countersuing Floyd for that $340 million.
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Right. I don't know what the fuck Floyd is doing.
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Like... At the very least, he's blowing money
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he doesn't have on lawyers. I don't understand
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this. Yeah, his manager, the former manager,
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was saying exactly this. Like, man, you're blowing
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money you don't have. Trying to come after me
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for... Like, I have the receipts. You're coming
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after me for something that is... Like, you made
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this up. Yeah. Well, and also, like... Again,
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I said it the last time. How do you not notice
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that you didn't get $175 million? The... What
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was the... The claim is that the manager was
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an intermediary to... He used some of Floyd's
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jewelry as collateral for a loan. So he pawned
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it, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Floyd claims
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he never got the money. I see. I don't know,
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man. Floyd is drowning. This is getting kind
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of sad, but I dislike Floyd, so I'm not that
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sad. Yeah, Floyd fell through the ice trying
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to reclaim a lot of cash, and Showtime is fucking
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zamboning over it. Yeah, like... Showtime has
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good lawyers. I can't see Floyd winning anything
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out of this. No. I can't imagine that they would
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pursue a counter case just to drop it. No. I
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think he's poked the bear and this is going to
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bite him in the ass very hard. He fucking poked
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the hornet's nest. Like a fucking idiot. Yeah.
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But, yeah, we'll keep track. Let you know as
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it develops. Zufa Boxing 9 will be having double
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main events. A doubleheader. Richardson Hitchens
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vs. Ricardo Salas at Welterweight. And Edgar
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Berlanga vs. Stephen Butler. At super middle.
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Look at that. Isn't that one of those that they
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don't have? Exactly. Exactly. Right. So, once
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again, Zufa really stands by their priorities
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and follows their word. Two thumbs up. Great
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business, guys. Every time somebody's like, oh,
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they wouldn't sign him because he's not in the
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weight class they have. If it's a big enough
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name, they'll just make a weight class. Or they'll
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go back on their word to accommodate said name.
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Exactly. Booty. But that's Zufa Boxing 9. That's
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going to be at the MSG Theater. I think at the
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end of July. about the Hitchens fight, but Stephen
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Butler is not that good. No, he's not. That's
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not going to be a very exciting fight. It's a
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get back for Berlanga. I think they're doing
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this one at super middleweight. Just like we
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said, for him especially. And the plan is to
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eventually move him up to light heavyweight to
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face their... stable there. Isn't that also a
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weight class that they weren't going to have?
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No, light heavyweight is one of the originals.
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Oh, okay. Joe Joyce is coming back July 11th
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in Moscow of all places. I thought that was interesting.
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That is interesting. What card? He's the headliner?
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I don't know if he's the headliner. It's an IBA
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Pro card. Ah, okay. I mean, I like Joe Joyce,
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but he probably could retire. Probably should.
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Isn't he, like, in his 40s now? Yeah, I'm pretty
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sure he's, like... He was a super late bloomer.
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Well, and he got a couple really bad knockouts.
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Yeah. Oh, he's only... Only. He's 40. Okay. So.
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Jang fucking served him up twice. Yeah. Yeah.
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I guess he feels he still has more to contribute.
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One more big payday? Yeah, I suppose. Not sure
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against who, but... They'll feed him to a tauma
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or something. Oh, shit, that's right. Won't they?
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I'm assuming that's what this is. He's a bit
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of a name, but he's not that dangerous. And he's
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also British, so it'll bring in the British crowd.
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Yeah, do another... What was it? The Manchester
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Arena? Where they've been doing it? Yeah, I think
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so. The name is going to kill me. I need to...
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Co -op Live. Great name. Probox. As we had lamented
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before, Probox is not going away. What is, they're
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pulling back from the talk show. that they do
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in order to reallocate that money to pay guys
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like Lester, Najee Lopez, Ramon Cardenas. They
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want to make sure their guys are getting paid
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equitably. Yeah, they have slowly pulled back
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that talk show a shit ton in the last year anyways.
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They got rid of the host guy, and then Pauly
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hasn't been on it at all, and they haven't been
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following, like, a schedule. So. Yeah, so that
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was a slow death, but this is, like, the final
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nail, I guess. But when I get back to Canada,
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I will figure out how to send them my $5. 100%.
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I'm definitely going to be signing up. The way
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it sounds, they're going to be doing a subscription
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through YouTube. Which I don't really like, but
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it probably is the easiest platform. Yeah, I
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would prefer their website. Michaela Mayer, Chantel
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Cameron is in the works for August 29th. I believe
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they are unifying three of the four titles. That
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could be a fun fight. Yeah, should be a good
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time. Which one's Chantal Cameron? I'm so bad
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at names. That's gonna be quite a height difference,
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isn't it? Uh, 5 '8". I don't know. She's taller
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than I thought she was. Versus 5 '9". Mayer.
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Yeah, no. I thought Chantal Cameron was short.
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Never mind. Co -main event, Caroline Dubois versus
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Amelia Moore. Nice. So that's cool. That's a
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good event. Demetrius Andre is coming back on
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July 24th. I know the world has been waiting.
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with bated breath he's been gone for a while
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right uh like two two and a half years that's
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a pretty long layer yeah he'll be back on at
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the mohegan sun i think that's a casino in connecticut
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or rhode island or something one of those with
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a tba opponent Yeah, no, I haven't heard who
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he'll come back against. It's probably going
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to be a shitter just because he's been gone for
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so long. Two and a half years is quite the layoff.
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I thought he had retired. I forgot he existed.
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Keyshawn Davis is now the mandatory challenger
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for Devin Haney. And I think they're going to
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be going through with that one. Devin Haney seems
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keen on it. Keyshawn seems keen on it. I don't
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imagine that being a very exciting fight. Personally.
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Keyshawn can be fun. I think Haney will shut
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him down though. That's my thinking too. Is that
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Devin Haney is just going to be too crafty. and
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he's not going to push the tempo. He had Brian
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Dorman in the palm of his hand, and he just cruised.
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Come on, man. I think he's going to do the same
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to Keyshawn. It's not a bad matchup, and it makes
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sense. It's just this is not a fight I'm going
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to get excited for. It's not my style. The more
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purist fans probably like it. I assume. I would
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imagine. Oh, but can you get excited for Gervonta
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Davis versus Floyd Schofield? Gervonta Davis,
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he's on the lam, isn't he? Yeah, so they've had
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that arrest warrant out for him. And I can't
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find like a real news source talking about it,
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but there's been multiple online sources saying
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that he left the country in a private jet. And
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the FBI and the IRS both have arrest warrants
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out for him. So how are you negotiating a fight
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when you're on the fucking run from the FBI?
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Like, and this one, the arrest warrants are for
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violation of probation. So he's going to jail
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with no bail. Like, he's fucked up getting bailed
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out. They've said if he goes to jail this time,
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there's no bail. So how are you negotiating a
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fight? Yeah, I wonder if they're planning to
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do it in a non -extradition. That's really fucked
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up. But it's also really funny. The first big
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card out of Argentina? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe
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the Azerbaijanis would be interested. Yeah, they
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wouldn't go to South America. No, but I don't
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know. Argentina famously did not extradite a
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certain group of people. Yeah. They might not
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welcome Hank Davis and Floyd Scofield, though.
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But, like, the boxing commissions can't do this,
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right? Like, let a wanted fugitive headline a
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massive card. That would be such a bad look for
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boxing, and it's already not got very good looks.
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Yeah. It's interesting to think, how can this
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play out? Like, even if he hasn't fled the country,
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even if that is just unsubstantiated rumors,
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I don't know how they're negotiating this when
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he has an arrest warrant out that he is going
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to jail when they catch him. Yeah, like probation,
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parole violations, that type of thing. You don't
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get a second shot at bail for that. No, and he's
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already had two violations of his probation,
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I think. Like, they took him in on a probation
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violation the last time for not living where
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he said he was living. And they let him out on
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bail on that one. And then he broke his probation
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again. They're not letting him out on bail again.
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Like, he already got more chances than most people
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do. And they're going to have him, I assume,
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headline a card? No fucking way. He's wanted
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by the FBI. I imagine for the IRS, for that portion,
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they'll do the same thing as they do with Floyd
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Mayweather, where it's, we will, under supervision,
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we'll let you go compete. Because you're going
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to be making money to pay us. But I don't think
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the FBI gives a shit about that. I don't think
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they roll that way. I don't understand this.
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Talks are going great. He's a wanted fugitive
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and no one knows exactly where he is. But negotiations
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are going ahead. He's zooming in from Buenos
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Aires. This one doesn't make any sense to me.
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Everybody's just pretending nothing is wrong.
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Maybe they're leaving that part of the picture
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to tank for him to... That's a personal problem.
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You deal with that. We gotta fight to flesh out.
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But it's a waste of Schofield's time, in my opinion.
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Yeah. Just fucking strip him. He's a wanted fugitive.
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He's not a champ. Then what the fuck is all this?
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This is for a vacant title. What the fuck is
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all this? Why do we have fugitives fighting for
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titles? Because one of those fugitives makes
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a lot of money and the WBA wants their cut. That's
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crazy to me. Like, I... I know money, but come
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on, guys. The fuck are you doing? Yeah, well.
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Um... Uh, no... Norair McAlian. People keep calling
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him Noel, but I distinctly remember seeing his
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name as Norair. I don't know if that's... I think
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they just Englishified it. Okay, that's his alias,
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is Noel. Okay. Whatever. Uh, Norair McAlian is
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going to be facing his mandatory challenger,
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David Benavidez. So they finally figured out
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the love triangle and Opetai got cut. Unfortunately,
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he gets to sit in the chair. I'm not surprised.
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Yeah. McAlian's gonna get... Fucked. Yeah, he's
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going to get his fucking ass beat. This is not
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going to be close. It is interesting that Benavidez
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is staying up at Cruiser. I think. I think that's
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interesting as well. I think he thought about
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it and doesn't want to do the weight cut anymore.
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He probably would for like a big fight, but if
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he stays there very long, it's going to be a
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mistake. Well, with Beeble and Better BF looking
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like they're going to do the trilogy, well, what
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else can David really do? No, I mean, it all
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makes sense, but I am starting to lean towards
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Benavidez is just going to stay up there. 25
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pounds is a lot. Like, that's a lot to cut. And
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he clearly had the speed and power still. Yeah,
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like, there's no reason. I mean, there's reasons,
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but he can make a lot of money at Cruiser anyways.
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I think it was Roy Jones that said David Benavidez
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versus Usyk is a 50 -50 fight. That would be
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interesting, especially after Usyk didn't look
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so great. Right, I think that's what Roy Jones
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was basing that on. I don't think Usyk takes
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that fight. No. Hell no. He's not going to fight
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fucking Caballel. Why the hell would... Or Atalma,
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for that matter. Why the hell would he fight
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Benavidez? No, Usyk's on his retirement tour.
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Yeah. Which he deserves. Yeah, let the man get
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his paydays and ride off into the sunset. One
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fun bit. I have been seeing two things. One,
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Dana White in the media saying that Zufa will
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be the promoter for Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson
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Fury. Which I don't believe for a second. The
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second one has been spots where AJ Fury would
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land. One of them that came out that had a little
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bit of steam behind it was LA. That's crazy.
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Hearn has come out and said, number one, I promote
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Anthony Joshua. So, like, feel free to eat shit.
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Yeah. And secondly, this is going to happen in
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the UK. It has to happen in the UK. Anywhere
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else would be criminal. Yeah. That's just a complete
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fucking waste of everyone's time to not have
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it in the UK. Well, and if I was a U... Like,
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in the UK, UK fan, I would fucking riot if that
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ended up in America. The fuck are you doing?
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I imagine Wembley would put up quite a nice fee
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to have that fight in their venue. Yeah, no,
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it has to be a giant stadium in the UK somewhere.
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Wembley's the one that makes the most sense to
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me. Yeah, of course. It's the biggest one. Yeah.
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And this is the biggest UK fight. Like, I know
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they're both past their prime, but this is the
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biggest UK fight in decades. Big time. Oh, shit.
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But, again, we'll keep track. See what the other
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quips... are between Dana White and Eddie Hearn.
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Dana's such an asshole about the whole thing
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in the press, too. I mean, he's just an asshole
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about everything. He's an asshole, period. Boxer
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signs a partnership with The Zone, so another...
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I'm gonna not say major player, but a solid B
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-tier contender. Yeah, more decent boxing on
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your subscription. I can't imagine any of those
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are going to be pay -per -view. Yeah, so you
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don't even need Ultimate for these guys. Yeah.
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Some of our UK buddies in the server are pissed
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about this one because it used to be on TV. It's
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still on TV in the UK. Yeah, but once they move
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to DAZN, will it still be on TV? As far as I
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know, they have a partnership still with DBC.
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oh okay i think the rest of the world gets it
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on the zone i see i think somebody was complaining
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that it wasn't going to be on tv but maybe he
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just didn't hear that part might have thought
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they're just moving to the zone full stop when
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i think they're keeping their bbc partnership
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i think they are that's what it sounded like
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to me I have not looked into it. I just heard
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that they were going to be on DAZN. I think having
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boxing on terrestrial TV is good for the sport,
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even if it's kind of mid -tier boxing. Yeah,
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I agree. Get some casuals, some people who maybe
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can't afford subscriptions to stuff. I think
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it would be good to get the casual sports fan.
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to have it in front of casual sports fans yeah
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the small bars can put it on tv when there's
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nothing else on yeah when pbc first started and
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they were putting shit on espn spike tv when
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they were like testing the waters with the different
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networks that was something i noticed like i
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could go to a bar or whatever and they could
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put on Like you can throw on Spike TV because
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the fight's on. Boxing was on TSN in Canada.
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I'd go to Boston Pizza and get them to put it
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on one of the TVs if there was no hockey game
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or whatever. Yeah. Clarissa Shields and Lauren
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Price are in negotiations for a fight. This will
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be at middleweight, so Clarissa Shields is going
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to be cutting down a little bit. Quite a bit.
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Yeah. I mean, she looks like she can, but it's
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been a while. Yes, it has been a while. It's
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a similar situation to David Benavidez. Once
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you start getting comfortable at that higher
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weight class, like shrinking down. You're gonna
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have to cut muscle with it, and that's not easy.
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Yeah. Well, and if you haven't done it for a
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while, I assume weight cuts are just fucking
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awful. I've never done them, but... Shrug. I
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don't know. They don't seem pleasant. No, they
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seem really terrible, to be honest. Katie Taylor.
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Sells out Croke Park. 80 ,000 seats. I am very
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happy about this. Katie deserves it. Yeah. Fucking
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round of applause. Yeah. I'm not surprised that
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she was able to sell that much in Ireland. And
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this will be a great farewell for her. And she
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deserves it. I'm excited to see this. I'm really
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excited to see what the pageantry is for her
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retirement. Yeah. She's one of those people,
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it wouldn't surprise me if she gets like a...
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What do you call the movies about their life?
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Biopic? Yeah, but like a movie and not just a
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documentary. Yeah, biopic. Yeah. Biopic? Or biopic.
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I say biopic. Biopic sounds better. But I'm really
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excited about this one. Katie needs to retire,
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32:44
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32:51
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32:54
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32:58
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33:03
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Recaps. Really quickly, Eye of the Tiger on DAZN.
37:31
Just some selects that I picked. John Arobio
37:35
stops Jonathan Montrell in four. Super Soldier
37:40
Imam Kataev stops Mikhail Diallo in one. And
37:45
Albert Ramirez squeaks by Lerone Richards. Split
37:50
decision. You don't see many split decisions
37:53
on Eye of the Tiger. No. A lot of those stoppages.
37:57
Yep. Roblox. On YouTube. Let's just cherry pick
38:10
on my way up. Figo Ramirez stops Roberto Tapia.
38:15
Malachi Ross stops Derek Whitley in the first.
38:20
High Strangeness. Jose Guillermo Quebcanul. Whatever
38:27
the fuck that name is. Wins by disqualification
38:33
over James Bernadine. Bernadine got docked a
38:38
point for pushing. Low blow. And then eventually
38:45
got DQ'd for a low blow. It's worth pointing
38:51
out the sequence of events when Bernadine got
38:54
DQ'd. Keb Kanul was holding. Pretty egregiously.
39:03
And I think Bernadine was a little short -fused
39:07
and said, fuck this, like, get off me and punched
39:10
him in the dick. So, not the right way to handle
39:16
it, but I understand the frustration. Maybe a
39:21
little preferential reffing for the A -side?
39:24
Perhaps. The co -main event, Weljon Mindoro gets
39:32
the UD over Elias Esparas. Mindoro, solid. Solid
39:38
prospect. I think he's going to be joining the
39:42
upper ranks of the Pro Box tiers. Nice. And main
39:49
event, Edward Vasquez UD over Daniel Lugo. I
39:56
have to admit, I missed this one. There were
40:00
some good stoppages. Like the DQ situation. It
40:04
was a sick form of entertainment. I know what
40:12
you mean. Morbid entertainment. Saturday, June
40:17
6th. Starting with the Kameda promotions on Lemino.
40:24
You're going to have to help me out with this
40:26
one. Yeah, so I was able to watch the replay.
40:33
My boy Aoi Yokoyama got a unanimous decision
40:37
over Vince Paris. Yokoyama looked pretty good,
40:41
actually. I was really happy with that one. These
40:45
are really out of order. I know you just pulled
40:47
it from BoxRec, but... Kenneth Lover lost to
40:53
Michael Angeletti. I saw Lover... uh announced
40:58
he's moving up a weight class and he needs to
41:01
he looked like a zombie on the scales and i think
41:04
it really affected him during the fight so i'm
41:09
sad he lost but i'm glad he's moving up um it
41:12
was a it was still a pretty competitive fight
41:15
but i thought it was pretty clear he lost i was
41:19
a little surprised it was a split decision uh
41:23
who else do we have here Andrew Maloney upsets
41:27
Willy Baldo Garcia. I was upset with this one.
41:31
I like Willy Baldo. Again, a really close competitive
41:35
fight, but I'm not mad at the decision. Maloney
41:41
was kind of piecing him up near the end. I guess
41:45
it's the better Maloney brother, but you can't
41:48
be losing to the Maloneys, man. Not as a champion.
41:54
Andrew Maloney is two -time world champion. That
41:59
sounds gross. Which one do you want to do first?
42:06
The Yabuki fight or the... Casimiro Neri was
42:10
the co -main, I think. Really? Yeah. Give me
42:15
Yabuki first. Okay. Yabuki with the unanimous
42:19
decision. This was more of a boxing match than
42:22
I'm used to from him. He really slowed down the
42:26
pace and was mostly like outboxing. I was surprised,
42:30
but it was a good decision. He was just countering
42:34
and piecing up Calyxo. It was a very, in my opinion,
42:39
dominant win for Yabuki. And I really like Yabuki,
42:44
but I like him because usually he gets in firefights
42:47
and he was just like, no, I don't think I'm going
42:50
to do that this time. Showed a different wrinkle
42:53
to his game. Yeah, he swept two of the cards.
42:58
Wow. Yeah. That dominant, holy shit. Because
43:03
I know him from, as you described him, as being
43:07
a bit of a fucking gunslinger. Yeah, he decided
43:10
not to do that this time. He was moving well,
43:13
he was countering, he looked really good. Makes
43:18
me wonder who else is available at... 112. Because
43:26
I'm really bad at this. Yabuki has a title, right?
43:30
Or was that vacant? Yeah, okay. So it was a good
43:35
defense. I have to say I was impressed. He is
43:42
top of the food chain, according to BoxRec. I
43:46
think he deserves it, especially after that one.
43:53
Like, Yabuki who can actually box, I think is
43:58
kind of a problem for anyone at that weight class.
44:04
Even Ola Squaga? I kind of want that fight now.
44:10
Because I thought Ola Squaga would outbox Yabuki.
44:13
I don't think so anymore. What if Yabuki decides
44:20
he wants to... Go nuts. Again. I think he can
44:27
out -crazy Ola Squaga. Like, honestly, I think
44:30
that might be the gameplay against Ola Squaga.
44:33
Make it an inside, like, high action. Because
44:38
Ola Squaga is more of a boxer as well. Yeah.
44:41
But you can drag him into a firefight. And he's
44:44
always won those. But I think Yabuki can take
44:48
Ola Squaga's power. I think that would be a great
44:53
matchup. I would like to see that unification.
44:58
And Ola Squaga fights in Japan a lot. That might
45:03
not be hard to make. Unification too. That's
45:08
always nice. Yeah. The only problem would be
45:11
I don't know who Ola Squaga works with in Japan.
45:15
But I get the feeling it's probably Tekken. Yeah.
45:19
Most. A lot of the foreigners that fight in Japan
45:23
a lot are typically. And Tekken's more likely
45:27
to work with the Kamedas, but I don't know how
45:30
likely that is. That's right. Kamedas are almost
45:36
fucking persona non grata. Yeah, so he might
45:42
have a better chance making a fight with Sandoval.
45:47
Sandoval looks like he holds two. Has he fought
45:53
lately? His last fight was almost a year ago
45:57
against Taraji. Right. When he scooped those
46:03
titles up. Yeah, I don't know. I think Yabuki
46:08
Ola Squaga would be a great fight. I just don't
46:11
know, politics -wise, how likely that one is.
46:16
Maybe Olaskwaga doesn't care and maybe Tekken
46:18
doesn't care because he's not Japanese. I don't
46:24
really get the politics that way here. But yeah,
46:31
I thought Yabuki looked great. But I am a fan,
46:37
so a little biased probably. How biased were
46:42
you? For John Real Casimiro's knockouts of Luis
46:47
Neri. I fucking hate this. I hate everything
46:49
about this. Luis Neri came in overweight and
46:54
underprepared and looked like shit. And Casimiro
46:58
actually got his shit together. After the weigh
47:01
-in, I kind of thought this might happen, but
47:03
I didn't think it would happen this badly. Like,
47:08
Casimiro had him down three times in the first
47:11
round, I think. Jesus! Let me double check. They
47:15
usually have the knockdowns on BoxRec, right?
47:19
Yes. They do not for this one. Get him down twice
47:24
for sure in the first round. Neary just looked
47:29
like straight ass. And I gotta admit, Casimero
47:34
had gotten his shit together. But, I fucking
47:39
hate this. Because now his fans are going to
47:42
be worse than they were when he looked like ass.
47:46
And fucking Damel is spamming the stupid fucking
47:52
Inoue ducking Casamero bullshit. Yeah. Pisses
47:57
me off so much. I know he does it to piss me
48:00
off and it works. It works so well. Where are
48:04
you bum? Yeah. Where are you bum away? Fucking
48:09
hell. Casamaro's fans are the most annoying fans
48:13
in boxing. And this is just thrown. It's not
48:16
even gasoline. It's through fucking TNT in the
48:21
fire. Like, I fucking hate this. I hate everything
48:25
about this. I hate John Riel Casamaro. He's such
48:29
a fuck up. I hate Louis Neary. He blew weight
48:33
again, got another ban from the JBC. Like, I
48:37
don't know why they let him fight in Japan ever.
48:44
This whole thing sucks. I hate everything about
48:46
it. But Casimiro had his shit together. Grudgingly.
48:52
And in the post... Yeah. In the post -fight interview,
48:55
he called out Inoue, and that was, like, all
48:58
of it. And sucked Kameda's dick so hard. Well,
49:03
the Kamedis did give him an opportunity when
49:09
a lot of people wouldn't touch him. Yes. I mean,
49:12
that's fine. But I hate John Riel Casamero. So
49:16
it's another reason to hate him. Well, let's
49:22
spare you further anguish and we're going to
49:25
move to... Now I'm angry. I am so angry. Matchroom
49:29
on DAZN at the Sheffield Arena. in no shit Sheffield.
49:34
Only two fights I wanted to point out. Leo Atang
49:37
gets a stoppage in one over Fuad Shaili. And
49:43
Josh Padley squeaks it by over Aqib Fiaz. This
49:50
was decided by the point deduction. It was. Would
49:54
have been a draw otherwise. Yeah. Yeah. The People's
50:00
Electrician. almost dropped the ball he got lucky
50:05
but one thing i did like was seeing shakur stevenson
50:09
on twitter like really really happy for josh
50:12
padley yeah well that is fun cynically it it's
50:18
that padley winning continuing to win makes you
50:22
look better but i think shakur was just genuinely
50:27
happy for for a buddy Yeah, and I like to see
50:33
Josh Padley doing well. His story is pretty fun.
50:36
Yeah, straight up working man. Gets the call
50:39
and fucking... Shows up. Yeah, he shows up. Moving
50:48
to Zufa Boxing 7 in Bournemouth. A lot of stoppages
50:58
on the undercard. Alex McMillan stops Leo Fantome.
51:04
Buddy, I'm going to look up the name change procedures
51:10
for you. Sam Hickey stops Todd Tompkins. Fucking
51:18
D -E -D dead. Leon Hughes stops Mario Vergiev.
51:25
Steve McKenna stops Casey Streeter. Ivan Ditchko,
51:32
like, bro, look for the gas pedal at some point.
51:39
Harvey Dykes was, like, he was a lot shorter.
51:42
He was, like, one of those, like, dumpy heavyweights.
51:45
Yeah. And Ditchko's, like, six foot fucking thirty
51:48
or something. Lee Cutler stops Aaron Sutton in
51:55
three. Shavon Clark by the skin of his fucking
52:00
teeth. I think in the third or fourth, he was
52:03
just on his ass. It was not looking good for
52:08
him. And then he turns it around to get the stoppage
52:11
in seven over Jack Massey. Massey has some power.
52:15
I've seen him before. He put Clark on his ass
52:18
a couple of times. I was surprised that Clark
52:22
came back the way he did. And Chris Billum -Smith
52:28
retires. Ryan Wozicki. After the seventh. Pretty
52:34
one -sided. Can't say I'm surprised. Rozicki
52:39
was tough. Like, he was rough and tumble in the
52:42
first few rounds. You know, like, well, he still
52:45
had a chance. But, CBS. Well, his nickname is
52:49
The Bruiser. Yeah, that's his style for sure.
52:55
He's got the hockey fight style that comes out
52:59
of Eastern Canada. Is that a stereotype of Eastern
53:06
Canada? A little bit, yeah. I think he's from
53:10
Nova Scotia, right? He is. I went to one really
53:17
local boxing thing in Nova Scotia and it was
53:22
just hockey fights. With no skates. Like, it
53:26
was ridiculous. Excellent. CBS, they were talking
53:33
about him facing Opitaya next. Opitaya is still
53:39
the best cruiserweight. So, I don't see CBS having
53:45
a good time. No. I still, I can't unsee that
53:50
beating CBS took. Oh, hell no. That was rough.
53:58
But you never know. I stand by Opataya's very
54:03
hittable, and I don't think his chin is that
54:06
great. He's been floored. He gets knocked down.
54:12
Like you said, he gets tagged. He gets buzzed
54:15
from time to time. It's... I'm... I don't know
54:22
if I see all of this, like, the, like, elite
54:27
cruiserweight, the number one by a mile. Like,
54:30
I don't know if, I don't know if the disparity
54:32
is that big. Yeah, like, and if anyone can take
54:37
power, it's CBS. Like, dude's got a chin. Yeah.
54:43
So, I don't know. That's actually a matchup I
54:48
wouldn't mind seeing. I think it's the best that
54:51
Zufa is going to be able to do for Opitaya for
54:54
sure. Yeah, if they're not willing to play ball
54:59
with other promoters, then... Well, and I think
55:05
at this point, it's the other promoters are not
55:07
willing to play ball with them either. So add
55:12
Zufa, Opitaya, CBS. I'd watch it. Not bad. Yeah,
55:16
it's not bad. CBS earned it, if anything. Yeah.
55:26
The lead -up for that will be boring as hell.
55:29
They're both too nice. CBS's nickname is The
55:32
Gentleman. Yeah. So, Opetai is just a really
55:38
chill dude. Chill islander dude. And CBS is really
55:43
even -tempered. Yeah, polite type of Brit. Yeah.
55:52
Anything more for the recaps? No, just fuck Casamero
55:58
and fuck Neary. You both suck. Let's see. Last
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56:22
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versus Jojo Diaz as the main event. Hmm. I don't
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understand how Jojo keeps getting fights. I don't
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getting sparked again. Fair enough. I just want
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it out loud in my head. John. Ingram. But it's
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Jahan. The Cobain. Oh my god. What? J apostrophe
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H -O -N. John. John. I'm not sure how he wants
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I've never seen that. Saturday, June 20th, Queensberry
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at the St. Mary's Stadium in Southampton, England.
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I don't really know who these people are. This
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recognize anyone. The headliner has the interim
1:01:52
WBC 130 title on it. Ryan Garner versus Michael
1:01:57
Magnesi. Magnesi is a good name. Italian? Italian.
1:02:06
Okay, so I couldn't find it on BoxRec, but I
1:02:11
do have also on the 20th at the Frontwave Arena
1:02:18
in Oceanside, California. Let me look through
1:02:23
the bottom really quick. Josh Edwards is on this
1:02:28
versus Gareth Payton. So that's cool. Ruslan
1:02:33
Abdullayev versus Orestes Velasquez. Yair Gallardo
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versus Bunit Bisla. Bunit is Canadian. It's probably
1:02:52
Bonnie then. B -U -N -E -E -T. Oh, okay. Sorry.
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And the main event, Oscar Collazo versus Joey
1:03:07
Canoy. How is this not on BoxRec? I don't know.
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But also, Collazo, go fight real people. Yeah.
1:03:18
Jerusalem is going to get the rematch with the...
1:03:20
Unfortunately, I don't remember the African dude's
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Oh, that's why you don't remember. Siak... Kuse.
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It's his last name. I remember his last name
1:03:44
being easy. Kuse. Siakola? Siakola? No. I messed
1:03:50
up some of those letters. Siakola. Olwa. Siakola?
1:03:57
Yeah. That sounds right. This is why I make you
1:04:01
read the names. Siakola Kuse has a rematch with
1:04:08
Melvin Jerusalem, probably in the cards. We get
1:04:13
the trilogy? Yeah. And then who else has a title?
1:04:22
Koyaza has to... Tataran has IBF. And then Kuse
1:04:30
has WBC. Yeah. The minimum weights are not doing
1:04:40
what they usually do. Fighting each other? Yeah.
1:04:45
But there's not any names at minimum weight ever.
1:04:49
So usually it's always the champions fighting
1:04:52
the champions or the number one ranked whatever.
1:04:56
But they're not doing that right now and it pisses
1:04:59
me off to no end. It makes me wonder something
1:05:06
that Josh posits from time to time in situations
1:05:11
like these, specifically with Koyazo, is what
1:05:15
does Goldenboy know about him that they don't
1:05:19
have the confidence to put him in with the other
1:05:22
champions? Koyazo has looked beatable a couple
1:05:27
times. But... The reason I like the small guys
1:05:35
is there's generally less of that because they're
1:05:39
not worth that much money. So usually, like,
1:05:43
if a champion gets beat, they're like, okay,
1:05:45
we'll just get another one. Like, they're not
1:05:48
shelling out millions like they do for the glamour
1:05:52
divisions. Right. Like, what does Collazo make
1:05:55
for a fight? I'd be surprised if he makes more
1:05:58
than, like, 500k. If that is, like, a pretty
1:06:03
high ceiling. Like, that's high. That's a high
1:06:05
ceiling. Yeah. Like, so, I don't really understand
1:06:10
why they're protecting them. Like, they usually
1:06:15
don't do that because they're not... This sounds
1:06:19
awful, but they're not worth protecting. You
1:06:22
know what I mean? No, it makes sense. The...
1:06:28
yeah the lower weights they don't have the luxury
1:06:30
of i don't know sitting back and negotiating
1:06:34
a big money fight because there aren't any big
1:06:37
money fights yeah which is part of what makes
1:06:42
them really exciting for me but i don't know
1:06:47
specifically with collazo they really have been
1:06:49
kind of protecting him and i think it's a little
1:06:52
strange Or maybe they're just having trouble
1:07:00
getting visas for guys. Well, remember Melvin
1:07:05
Jerusalem had his visa situation sorted. Yeah,
1:07:10
and then they cancelled it anyways. I don't know.
1:07:13
Kanoy is Filipino, just as Jerusalem is. Same
1:07:18
as Tataran. It can't be a visa issue if they're
1:07:23
getting one for a non -champion. Yeah, I don't
1:07:30
know. Yeah, and Jerusalem had all that figured
1:07:35
out, so you're right. Garbage. But yeah, that's
1:07:42
it for the 20th. We're heading into Oscar Collazo
1:07:55
weekend. Parting words. Quiazzo needs to fight
1:08:02
some real people. Not that Kanoi's that bad.
1:08:06
He's ranked pretty highly, but he's not what
1:08:09
I want to see. I want undisputed Quiazzo, so
1:08:12
that's what I want to see. Yeah, it shouldn't
1:08:16
be that hard. I think he really could accomplish
1:08:18
that. We could run a GoFundMe. I've seen GoFundMes
1:08:25
get more money for stupider shit. I got nothing
1:08:37
for parting words. Go do the fucking survey.
1:08:40
BXNG .co slash survey. Yeah. Do that. And fuck
1:08:45
Casamero. All right. That is it for this edition
1:08:51
of Boxing Before Dark. We will see you on the
1:08:55
other side. Bye. Why should a boxing fan watch
1:09:15
MMA? Okay, here's my pitch. The reason that a
1:09:21
boxing fan would consider watching mma in the
1:09:24
year of our lord 2026 is that mma is cheaper
1:09:27
and more accessible than it's ever been in its
1:09:30
lifetime our biggest organization the ufc has
1:09:34
done away with pay -per -views it's now just
1:09:36
like a 15 month payment to paramount plus and
1:09:39
you get 40 plus fight cards a year and it's not
1:09:45
just the ufc you have organizations like 1fc
1:09:49
and ryzen that put stuff directly on youtube
1:09:52
for free to watch and you're able to see a wide
1:09:56
variety of high level skills like this is not
1:09:58
just like amateur hour unless we're talking about
1:10:01
the heavyweight division but boxing fans can
1:10:04
relate to uh the gap of skill there um you know
1:10:08
these are some of the most talented athletes
1:10:10
in the world and they're fighting especially
1:10:12
if i can point out the muay thai stuff that happens
1:10:15
in 1fc it's phenomenal Another reason that a
1:10:19
boxing fan would want this, would want to jump
1:10:22
in now, is that I think unlike a lot of the cards
1:10:25
you're used to watching in boxing, MMA cards
1:10:29
are worth watching from the start. Like, you
1:10:32
don't have to wait until the co -main to see
1:10:34
something that isn't complete nerd shit most
1:10:38
of the times. You're seeing, even if it's a lower
1:10:40
skill ceiling, you're still seeing fights that
1:10:45
are exciting and compelling to watch. We just
1:10:49
came off the backs of UFC 327 and that card top
1:10:52
to bottom was like absolutely stacked. So great
1:10:56
example. You can watch the whole thing for, you
1:11:00
know, in bits and pieces or from start to finish
1:11:03
on Paramount Plus right now if you subscribe.
1:11:04
So Paramount, give us some money. We're doing
1:11:07
marketing for you. So that would be my pitch.
1:11:11
Perfect. If you do decide to give MMA a shot,
1:11:14
then why don't you check out Ultimate F 'n Casuals?
1:11:16
It's kind of the same format. We talked the fights
1:11:19
that happened the past weekend and then the stuff
1:11:21
coming up this weekend. Give it a shot. It's
1:11:24
Ultimate F 'n Casuals.