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is Boxing Before Dark. Alright, here we go. Boxing
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Before Dark. We are back to talk the fights.
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This is where you get floor beers. Shanada, how
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many beers do you got on the floor right now?
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Just two. Two. Two tall boys. I got three. We're
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not having a measuring contest, though. You're
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bigger than me. My two floor beers are about
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the same. Let's see here. Let's get straight
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into the news here. I'm restarting it because
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I have to know. I need to know what the boxing
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public is thinking. So I have re -established
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my informal survey. Formally informal. BXNG .co
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slash survey. All it really is talking about,
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all I want to know about, what are your thoughts
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on the titles? What do you think about the ring?
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IBF? WBA? All the fucking major players. What
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do you think? How do you rank them? How do you
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rate them in terms of perceived corruption? All
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that type of stuff. So bxng .co slash survey.
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I want to hear your thoughts. Muhammad Ali American
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Boxing Revival Act. If you haven't heard, this
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cleared the House of Representatives by a margin
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of like 75%. approval. And that's not good. So
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what my ask is, it's another call to action.
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We can still stop this in the Senate. And it's
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going to take a lot of concerted effort. I have
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already written to both of my senators. I've
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encouraged everyone I know, anyone and everyone
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that I can think of. This includes activists
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that don't know a single thing about boxing other
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than the fact that it's about punching each other.
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That's all they know. And I've asked these political
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activists, hey, can you do me a solid here? Yeah.
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If you want me to explain why this legislation
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is bad, I will. I'm more than happy to do so.
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But if you're willing to take my word for it,
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just write to your senator. Tell them this shit
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sucks and that you don't support it. And that
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will be enough. Do you have a thing on the website
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that people could copy and paste? I will put
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one up. By the time you're hearing this, it will
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be available on the website. And a link to the
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survey? That is already up there too. Cool. Alright.
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So with all that shit out of the way... Let's
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get into the boxing drama. Mayweather Pacquiao
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2 is in a questionable state at the moment. Last
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I heard, and we are recording at about 6 p .m.
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on the west coast of the U .S. on Friday, April
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3rd. It was... Mayweather had said... The fight
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is not a sanctioned bout. It's an exhibition.
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Then later, further news saying the fight was
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canceled. Then Pacquiao's team is saying that
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Mayweather is in breach of their contracts. And
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then Mayweather, it's been reported he has taken
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cash advances on his contract. Yes. So what the
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fuck is going on? Mayweather is going to lose
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his house is what's going on. If he thinks he
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could breach contract with Netflix and come out
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on top, he's fucking delusional. With Pacquiao's
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team on top of it. It's just like to add the
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cherry on top of the Netflix sundae. But if he...
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My understanding is he signed a contract for
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a real not exhibition boxing match on Netflix
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and took a cash advance. And now he's like, no,
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it's an exhibition or it's not happening. And
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there's no fucking way Netflix is allowing an
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exhibition. And if Pacquiao Mayweather 2 fucking
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happens, there's going to be a billion dollars
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in bets placed. Of course. You can't bet on an
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exhibition. nobody is going to want this to not
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be a real fight except Mayweather. I've heard
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the Mayweather fanboys saying this is just publicity,
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like it's just to get people talking about it
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and interested, but I don't know if Mayweather
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would take it this far. I don't... Now, going
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from the sanctioned fight to exhibition to cancelled...
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That, I would believe it. I would believe that's
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just gamesmanship on Mayweather's part to try
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to stir up public controversy. But taking cash
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advances with what we know about his finances
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in recent history, I'm not so sure that this
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is just him messing around. I don't know if I
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believe that. I think he is legit worried he's
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going to lose his O on this one. Mayweather hasn't
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fought a real fight in forever. And I know Pacquiao's
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old, but so's Mayweather. Mayweather's older.
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But Mayweather's style is a lot of movement.
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And maybe he's scared he doesn't have that anymore.
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I legitimately think... Based on what we've seen
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out of Pacquiao in his recent fights, I would
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still rate Mayweather to win. I think it'll be
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closer than the first one. Yeah, you're right.
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But I still rate Mayweather to win. I don't know
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why you would be taking cash advances for the
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sake of, I don't know, stirring up controversy.
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Well, Mayweather hasn't admitted he took cash
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advances. Oh, right. Not publicly. He himself
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has not said so. Yeah. But a lot of people...
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If Mayweather thinks that he can go against Netflix
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and win, I think he's an idiot. That is... That's
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a tall task. Well, and if he took cash advances
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and his breach of contract and this does get
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canceled, he's going to have to pay interest
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on all that. And I'm assuming it's a couple million
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dollars. A couple. That's a lot of interest that
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accumulates quickly. Based on the, if we're talking,
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let's just assume that the Mayweather lawsuit
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amount. which was what, like 300 plus? Yeah.
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Let's assume that's the amount that he took out.
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He would not get a cash advance of 300 million.
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No. Let's say 10 % of it. To make the numbers
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easy, let's say he took out 10 million. 10 mil.
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Okay. What's 5 % of 10 million? Like 50 ,000?
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No, I think it's more. Pull out the calculators
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because we do not want Mayweather's fucking treachery.
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Okay, 10 million times .05. I was times 10 off.
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It's $500 ,000. Excellent. And 5 % interest is
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a pretty decent interest rate. Like, it's nice.
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Yes. Very favorable for Mayweather. So it's probably
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more than that. Yeah, and if his legal troubles
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are legitimate, which all signs point to them
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being legitimate, he's not going to get 5%. No.
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But just to make numbers easy. Yes, of course.
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And if it's accumulating interest like credit
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cards are. How much of that is going to principal,
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Floyd? Oh, these are kitchen table finances and
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your kitchen table is like as big as my house.
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Are you serious? I cannot believe that Mayweather
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is in so much debt. I mean, I can, but it's fucking
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crazy. He made so much money. How are you not
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set for life? Would you... Just gross. Like,
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um... Just gross on everything he ever did. Would
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you say he is a billion dollar fighter? Well,
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he's the highest... He was the highest paid athlete
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ever. Maybe still is. For several years in a
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row. Mayweather gross income total. See if the
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internet has done this for us. So according to
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the AI overview, $1 .1 to $1 .2 billion. Billion
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dollar fighter. Making him the highest paid pro
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boxer in history and one of only 11 athletes
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to surpass $1 billion in total earnings. 1 of
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11. Goodness gracious. According to the AI overview.
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Yeah. For something that is just like hard stats,
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I'd be willing to... It's usually pretty good.
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Yeah, I'll take the overview's word on it. Yeah.
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I just don't really like AI, so... I typically
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don't use it either, but in this instance, I'll
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take its word. just because it lets me dunk on
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Mayweather a little bit more. He pissed away
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$1 .1 billion. That's crazy. Like, if you put
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that in a very safe sort of investment, you could
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live off the interest easily. With a modest...
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Like, compared to Mayweather at his peak, right?
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A modest lifestyle? you'd be living off interest
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it wouldn't be modest for us no it's modest for
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him yeah that's what i mean is like a relatively
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modest lifestyle like if he were to live like
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me and i i i live within my means but i i'd like
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to i like toys and stuff right so yeah but with
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that kind of interest off of a He would be making
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a million dollars a year on top of what he spent
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if he lived like you. Easy. Right. Well. Anyway,
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Mayweather's an idiot. If I could get Floyd in
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a room and just like one clean slap on the face.
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Like, are you stupid? Do you need? Let me sit
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you down in my non. I'm not a CPA. I'm not an
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accountant or anything. But I will be your fiduciary.
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My entire job is to make your life fucking better.
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Well, how did he not have that person? Or refuse
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to listen to them? He probably paid somebody
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and just didn't listen to them, but... He has
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to have an accountant. You got to. You would
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think, anyway. Well, apparently not because he
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didn't notice that they didn't pay him $300 million
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somehow. Somehow. $300 million, Leo. Oh, so now
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he is a $1 .4 billion athlete. Excuse me. Holy
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shit. But that's more time than... Yeah, that's
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enough time. Moving on. Two, Gervonta Davis is
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countersuing the ex that accused him of kidnapping
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and all that. He's countersuing for defamation.
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The fucking videos came out. I don't know. She
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dropped the charges. I'm not sure what to make
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of this. The videos came out. I don't know why
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she dropped the charges either. The evidence
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is there. So even if she drops the charges because
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she just doesn't want to go through the legal
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hassle with you, the evidence still exists. She's
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not defending you. She just dropped the charges.
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Yeah, I don't get this one. I don't either. I
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don't know. Two peas in a pod. I guess maybe
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he's trying to scare other people from saying
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anything. Like, I don't want to call it witness
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intimidation because the charges were dropped,
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but like kind of preventative witness. Yeah.
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Yeah. I don't know. We'll see how this one develops
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because I don't know much more about it other
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than the headline. Fair enough. I hadn't even
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heard about this yet, so. Have you heard about
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the Cuban Olympians, Yuriyorkis Gamboa and Guillermo
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Rigandao will be headlining a show together.
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Not against each other, but they will be co -headlining
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a show in May together. I am not very excited
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about this. I'm not at all excited about this.
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Mid -40s. Both of them mid -40s. No thank you.
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Yeah. Yeah. And they weren't my favorites when
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they were fighting. Genpoa was okay. I was appreciative
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of Rigandao because, as I've mentioned before,
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for the weight classes that he was at, 118, 122,
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he was taller, tall -ish, lanky. He was a lanky
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counterpuncher, so I've already expressed my
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appreciation for a lanky counterpuncher. Yeah,
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but he got so fucking boring at the end. He was
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boring pretty much the entire time. Yeah, yeah.
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I was trying to be nice. He is fucking Benadryl.
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He is like the quintessential boring fucking
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fighter. He really is. And it pains me to say
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it because I really appreciate it. Let me take
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that back. It doesn't pain me to say it because
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he snubbed me one time at a bar and he walked
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in and I was like, hey, this was in Spanish.
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I was like, hey, champ, congratulations on your
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win. And then he just walked past me. And then
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as he walked, he was walking back out of the
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bar. I was like, hey, champ, congratulations
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on your win. And then he walked past me again.
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Dick. So, I'm not sorry to say, boring as shit,
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and not happy with you, William. William? Yeah,
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that's what Guillermo is. How? I don't know.
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I've had the same question my entire life. I
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always thought it was short for, like, Gordon.
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Or not short, but Spanish. Yeah, yeah. I can
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see that. That is a little bit more fitting.
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Moving on to Deontay Wilder's ex -fiance's son
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is suing Deontay Wilder over alleged abuses.
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Yeah, I don't know what to make of this one.
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The timing is a little suspicious. Yes, I would
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agree with that. But I could also see Deontay
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Wilder being abusive. I would... think if he's
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gonna be any kind of abusive it would be verbal
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or like emotional maybe he's a he's like a big
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man i don't think i don't imagine him and he
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has a like a daughter with a physical disability
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i don't think he would be physically abusive
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but i'm giving this is like all benefit of the
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doubt to deontay wilder my instinct is like believe
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believe victims I don't know what to make of
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this one. I do find it kind of funny that one
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of the supporting things that the son is using
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is that Deontay always said he wanted a body
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on his record. I'm just saying. That's one of
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the things that's quoted. Yeah, I saw that as
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well. To establish the mentality. Yeah, being
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a violent person. I mean, I don't want to try
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to defend and explain away what's possible here.
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Yeah. I want to take the fiancé's son, let's
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believe the victims here, but let's see how this
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investigation plays out. Um, the timing is suspicious.
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The supporting evidence is a little funky, but
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let's see. Well, there did ruin that poor burritos.
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If you would do that to a burrito, what would
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he do to a person? That was fucking ridiculous.
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It really was like it was supposed to be a joke,
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dude. Like you just give him a little tap. Yeah.
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But yeah, we'll see how this plays out. I don't
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know. Hopefully this is... I don't want to say
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hopefully it's nothing. I'm not sure how to say
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this. Hopefully there's clear evidence either
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way. Yes. Which is not going to be the case because
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it can't be. Shitty situation. Let's roll on.
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Sebastian Fundora and Josh Kelly. are in preliminary
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talks for a unification fight. Rest in peace
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to Josh Kelly's face. Yeah. Josh Kelly's gonna
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get wrecked. You ain't gonna be pretty no more,
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buddy. I mean, he has to fight somebody, and
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there's a lot of people that can take that belt.
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So... Murtazaliev is really knocking on the door,
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wanting his rematch. I, um... I wouldn't be sad
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if Pandora gets another belt, to be honest. Right,
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with the Zaius Boots talk. Yeah. No, they're
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already set. It's happening in late June. They're
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signed and set. Yeah. That's right. So with this
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unification, all we can think is winner versus
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winner. Gotta be, right? Has to be, right? Yeah,
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and undisputed. Why would you not? Whatever that
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weight class is. Oh, here's poetic justice. The
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winner of the undisputed fight takes on Jermel
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Charlo, the previous undisputed champion who
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quote unquote retired, did not get defeated in
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the ring to lose his belt. So he says. So we
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have a lineal undisputed champion. That is in
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the boxing survey. A lineal champion that does
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not have any belts or a champion that has all
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the belts but is not quote unquote lineal. What
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do you value here? That's it in the survey. I
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mean, nice. Because it's important to have a
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clear demarcation of where do we draw the line
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of what is and what isn't a champion. Interesting.
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I haven't looked at the survey yet. It's all
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right. We'll get there in due time. The Kameda
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card in Kyrgyzstan is off. A lot of safety concerns
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in the region. Iran, as we know, is popping off.
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Afghanistan and Pakistan are fucking with each
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other. Both of those are pretty damn close to
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Kyrgyzstan. Yeah. I'm a little bummed about this
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one. I wanted to see Niniere just fuck up Casabero.
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Don't we all? I had booked my seat at the bar
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and everything. Sucks. When you book a seat at
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the bar, do you have to put a deposit or anything?
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Like a little consideration? I text the guy and
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ask him if he can save me a seat. Hey, well,
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when you're a regular, it makes perfect sense.
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Yeah. Chris Eubank is coming back and he will
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be fighting Michael Zaraffo. Zaraffo recently
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left No Limit out of Australia. If he didn't
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leave, he was fucking axed after that last fight.
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Well, I tried to be a little... Nah, he doesn't
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deserve that. What, does the handsome Chippendales
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bartender not get your consideration? No, not
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after he tells the referee and the doctor he
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can't see and then lies about it in the post
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-fight interview. Yeah, well. Fucking tool. It's
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going to be a catchweight fight, which is a little
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silly to me. Chris Eubank was having problems
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with 160. I assume Zarafa is the one who asked
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for the catch. He does not rate a catchweight,
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is what I was getting at. It's like, Eubank has
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all the power, all the leverage here. Zarafa,
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you fucking do the dance, Chippendale boy. You
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do the dance that you're told to dance. I don't
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know that Eubank has all that much pull, given
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the way he lost his last fight. Like, Zarafa
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is a name in Australia. But this isn't going
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to be in Australia. And remember, Jacob told
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us that a lot of people, the overwhelming, the
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majority of the boxing public in Australia don't
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like him. Yeah. So they'll be hate watching,
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I guess. Yeah, I don't know. The timing of UK
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fights in Australia is also trash. They're on
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at like 6 a .m. Perfect. Perfect time for an
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Aussie to get fucking rip shit. That's true.
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Great excuse for day drinking. UK card. Yeah.
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Same here in the US. That's true. Oh, man. Speaking
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of somebody that might be day drinking, Mirko
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Cuello was an interim champion for the WBA. He
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has been stripped of that title. He remains the
25:45
number one contender. For Brandon Figueroa. Interesting.
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Why did they strip him? That is... Inactivity?
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I don't think it's that. I think what is happening
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here is the WBA is anticipating the Ali Revival
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Act. And they're starting to pull back on their
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secondary titles. Ah, that makes sense. Just
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my guess. He last fought in Benghazi. I don't
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even know where Benghazi is. Libya? Ah, okay.
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I didn't recognize the flag. Benghazi, for us
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Americans, it's a very loaded word. The U .S.
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Embassy was attacked in Benghazi, and a lot of
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people died. Sorry. I didn't know that. Hillary
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Clinton was the Secretary of State, so naturally
26:46
that political faction took up arms because Hillary
26:54
Clinton, one of the Clintons, let Americans die.
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Fair enough. It was this whole fucking debacle.
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Anyways, I'm okay with getting rid of the interim
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titles. I think they're confusing. They're pointless.
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The only... The only people who do them right
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are no shit WBO and IBF. Yeah, except they keep
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putting my boy in recess for no fucking reason.
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WBA is fucking around. Like, WBA and WBC, name
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two, a more dynamic duo of fuckery and bullshit.
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Yeah. Those two, man. Moving to the IBA. is planning
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the Beevil Better Be If trilogy. By the end of
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2026, this will be in Moscow. That's interesting,
27:51
being in Moscow. I guess they are both Russian,
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so it's not that crazy. But I can't remember
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the last time there was a big fight in Russia.
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It's been a minute. At least 10 years. Klitschko
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Povechkin is the last one I remember. Yeah, that's
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a long time ago. Roy Jones had a card there.
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He's a dual citizen. Roy Jones is? I didn't know
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that. He's a Russian citizen. Interesting. Yeah.
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Honestly, I'm not very excited about this fight.
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I'm not either. I don't think the third one needs
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to happen. Personally, I think B -Bowl won both
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of them. I was just about to say, this is 2 -0
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B -Bowl. There's... I don't know what else you
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want. Yeah. Two 7 -5s. That's not... We need
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to cut the... One loss means you're fucking shit
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or something or whatever. BetterBF had two very
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close fights with... He himself is an elite fighter.
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He just so happened to encounter someone who's
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a little bit better. Yeah, and I'd just like
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to see them fight other people instead. Exactly.
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They have other business to attend to. But I
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guess somebody out there wants it. It's just
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not me. I'll watch it. The Russians, like, of
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course. Russia versus Russia. And a fight in
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Moscow is kind of cool. I wonder if it's going
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to be hard to watch, though. Like, this should
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get put up on one of the streamers. I don't know
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which one these guys work with, but, like, I
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don't know how broadcasting rights are going
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to work with Russia and everywhere else. Good
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point. Good point. I expect... Turkey would probably
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make this available on DAZN just because he has
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a working relationship with them. Yeah, that's
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true. And it might be cool to see what a Russian
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crowd is like because the German crowd surprised
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me. It shouldn't have because historically they're
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super into it. So seeing a Moscow crowd could
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be cool. Probably just as many crowd fights as
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there is boxing fights. Should be a good time.
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I kind of like when the crowd pops off and you
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see them in the background and they're trying
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to switch camera angles so you can see the boxing.
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And not the crowd fights. Finiqueros. We got
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into it. That did not happen anywhere that was
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within, I don't know, 100 feet of me. I didn't
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see one close by. There was a lot of crowd fights
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that night. There was at least four. that I picked
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up watching the replay. I'll have to check out
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the replay to see how much, but how much I might
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have been able to capture if I had been paying
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attention to not the fight. The fight was better
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anyways, but it was just funny. Oh, speaking
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of funny, Top Rank will be having their first
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card in May on DAZN. This will be headlined by
31:23
the Keyshawn Davis -Naheer Albright rematch.
31:28
I also don't care about this fight. There's a
31:31
lot of fights I don't care about coming up. It's
31:34
such a fun, like, the drama. It's fun for this
31:39
one. This is a solid, like, WWF situation. Because
31:44
is Nahir Albright the one that they jumped in
31:47
the dressing room? Yes, correct. Because he beat
31:51
one of the brothers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You beat
31:57
up my brother, I'll get you. Fucking ridiculous.
32:02
I'm going to have to be cheering for Albright
32:05
on this one. Absolutely. He's probably going
32:09
to fucking get his ass beat, but still. Doesn't
32:12
matter. I'm going to cheer for him. I'm cheering
32:14
for him anyway. Keyshawn Davis is such a fuck
32:18
up lately. It's not nice to say, but. He blew
32:24
so much goodwill in such a short time. Blowing
32:28
weight and then jumping the dude that, fair and
32:34
square, beat your brother in the ring, like in
32:38
a professional setting. Yeah. And the brother
32:41
that got beat is the only one that wasn't in
32:44
on it. Like, he's the normal one. Yeah, that's
32:49
a fair assessment. And he took his baby to a
32:54
brawl. Like, what the fuck are you doing, man?
32:57
I'd like to, I know it's harsh to say or whatever,
33:01
but it's a major exaggeration. But I always like
33:05
to say that Keyshawn threw a baby at Albright.
33:09
At Albright? He threw a baby at him. He absolutely
33:12
did not. Fucking crazy. Let's be fucking real
33:15
here. He didn't throw a baby, but he took a baby
33:18
with him. He did start a fight right beside a
33:21
stroller. That's crazy. Let's finish up with
33:25
the news here. Glory at Giza. The undercard has
33:29
been announced. Are you fucking ready? Because
33:34
this is going to... It's a pretty good card.
33:36
It's going to blow your socks off. All right.
33:41
Starting off, Hamza Shiraz versus Alan Begich.
33:45
The WBO super middleweight title will be on the
33:48
line. Jack Catterall versus Shakram Giyasov.
33:54
This is for the WBA regular welterweight title.
34:01
Frank Sanchez versus Richard Torres has found
34:05
a new home. I thought this was going to end up
34:09
on a... What is it? Better... Benavidez versus
34:15
Zerto. I thought this was going to end up there.
34:21
I don't mind it being on this card. No, not at
34:23
all. Mizuki Hiruta versus Mai Soliman for the
34:30
WBO 115 title. I love... Mimi. She's so cute.
34:38
Did you see they gifted her a custom heavy bag
34:42
in the gym? No. It's all pink, and it's got Mimi
34:47
written on it a bunch, and it's got that she's
34:50
a world title champion. Excellent. Yeah. I'll
34:54
see if I can find the Instagram post. I'll send
34:57
it to you. Basim Mamdou versus Jamar Taleb. Mahmoud
35:05
Mubarak versus Michael Kalyalia. Yeah, I did
35:11
that right. Omar Hikal versus Ali Serunkuma.
35:17
And there you have it. That's Gloria Giza. They
35:21
obviously have a lot of North African fighters
35:23
here. Makes sense. I mean, the last four fights
35:27
should be entertaining. I think. Yeah, one could
35:33
reasonably expect. Like, given the magnitude
35:36
of the card, it makes sense that they would want
35:39
to put, like, competitive, entertaining fights
35:44
on the bill. One would hope, anyway. Plus we
35:52
get to see Mimi in front of the pyramids. Holy
35:54
shit, her outfit is gonna be so fucking dope
35:58
for pyramids. Yeah, yeah. Like, pyramid. I'm
36:03
hoping for some Yu -Gi -Oh shit. Or maybe Cardcaptor
36:07
Sakura. Oh, man. If she did, like, the Millennium
36:13
Puzzle from Yu -Gi -Oh with, like, the eye on
36:16
it and everything. Yeah, that would be really
36:19
cool. But Yu -Gi -Oh has a boy main character,
36:22
so I think it might end up being Cardcaptor Sakura.
36:26
Could be. Yeah, that would probably make more
36:28
sense. Yeah. Yeah. Or it might be Sailor Moon
36:33
again. Who knows? Or some completely not anime.
36:38
Whatever her designer wants to do. I'm sure it'll
36:41
be fun. It's gonna be fucking dope. Yeah. Oh,
36:46
anything more for the news? Uh... No. No. We
36:52
covered everything. Oh, I don't know if you guys
36:57
talked about it on B -Sides, but the girl that
37:01
got knocked out and was in a coma. Yeah, Isis.
37:05
Thank you. There was a picture of her and Jocelyn
37:11
was her opponent, right? Yes. They met up and
37:15
were just standing in the street. Friendly. She
37:17
seems like she's going to be okay. Like she was
37:21
up and walking and everything. yeah everything
37:24
like as we had uh noted when it after it happened
37:29
like the immediate news was all signs are positive
37:33
and the news that we have had since has been
37:37
positive very positive yeah uh yeah maybe we
37:42
talked about it last time i can't remember i
37:44
don't think so anyways i don't think that's good
37:47
news we didn't have that much information available
37:50
at the time yeah she seems like she's up and
37:54
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37:59
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-E slash P -R -O -T -O -N. All right. Into the
43:05
recaps. First thing. Queensberry at the Co -op
43:11
Live in Manchester. This was actually, like,
43:15
for a Brit card, this was fucking really good.
43:19
Yeah. A lot of stoppages. Let's see. running
43:24
up from the bottom. Nelson Burchall stops Ryan
43:28
Griffiths in the ninth. Josh Holmes stops Alex
43:32
Murphy in the first. Michael Gomez, my personal
43:36
pick for non -main event knockout of the night,
43:40
stops Jordan Flynn in the third. Jerome Warburton
43:46
did not get the script and got a UD over Nathan
43:50
Heaney. Brad Pauls stops Shaquille Thompson in
43:54
the ninth. Liam Davies. It's Davis. I've been
44:00
saying that wrong my whole life. He retires Zach
44:04
Miller after the sixth. Willie Hutchinson. UD
44:10
over Ezra Taylor. Should have fucking moved you
44:13
to the undercard. Yeah. And... Moses Itauma knocks
44:18
out Jermaine Franklin in the fifth. Holy shit.
44:24
Fucking crazy knockout. He decapitated him. It's
44:31
like Jermaine Franklin is a computer, right?
44:35
And then Itauma presses the power button and
44:39
then it takes that time where it just kind of
44:41
stalls before it starts shutting off. And he
44:45
punched him again, just to make sure. He pressed
44:48
the button again, and off he fucking went. Jermaine
44:51
Franklin was out on his fucking face. Holy shit.
44:58
I was not expecting a knockout like that. I was
45:02
expecting a knockout, but not like that. I was
45:05
expecting it a few rounds later, like somewhere
45:09
in the 8th, 9th, maybe 10th. sort of time frame.
45:13
I thought Jermaine Franklin was going to be able
45:16
to last a bit longer. It was really clear within
45:20
the first round that Franklin was like out of
45:23
his element. He was not ready to handle this.
45:27
This was not close in any aspect. No, definitely
45:31
not. I know this was a step up fight, but Atalma
45:35
needs another step up. Like he was just so much
45:41
better. He took the stairs fucking two at a time.
45:44
He stepped over the step up of Franklin. Yeah.
45:49
Yeah. Fantastic. Fantastic performance. You know,
45:54
those training videos where the guys like run
45:57
up the long stairs at a stadium or whatever,
46:00
but they do them like three at a time. That's
46:03
what Moses is doing right now. Straight up. Straight
46:06
up. Crazy. Also, we glossed over it, but I just
46:12
want to point out that Nathan Heaney looks like
46:15
an 1800s explorer, and he kind of fights like
46:19
an 1800s, like, come at me, bro. I challenge
46:23
you to fisticuffs. Yeah, yeah. I think Nathan
46:28
Heaney's probably done or should be done soon.
46:31
but i fucking love every time he's on a card
46:35
he's not that good oh yeah look super stiff like
46:39
he's old he looks like boxing in a historical
46:44
period like and he has like the tyson fury phrase
46:49
big stiff idiot like he has that that sort of
46:54
like stature Yeah, yeah. But he also kind of
46:59
looks like the bad guy from Tarzan. You know,
47:05
the 1800s British explorer going through the
47:08
jungle and raping and pillaging everything. Van
47:13
Pelt from Jumanji. If somebody wants a more recent...
47:18
Yep. Yeah. He doesn't really deserve the time,
47:24
but I just want everyone to go see what this
47:26
man looks like. And tell me he's not Van Pelt.
47:36
Moses Atalma. So, like, the conversation is starting
47:38
to take shape of him being in the, like, compared
47:46
to the current, like, the non - Usyk elite right
47:52
now, right? Like Fabio Wardley, Daniel Dubois,
47:59
he's matched with Wardley. Caballel, another
48:04
one. Atalma versus Caballel, that's a big step
48:09
up, I think, but would be very interesting. I
48:14
wouldn't mind another step in between, but he's
48:17
probably going to blow through that. But who
48:19
else is there? The crop of heavyweight is so
48:23
bad. Just because I am not American, I kind of
48:27
want them to feed Jared Anderson to Moses Otama.
48:32
I think that is the eventual plan. It's just
48:37
that Anderson needs some rebuilding. Just because
48:41
that loss to Bacoli was fucking bad. That's true.
48:47
He does have a win since then, but it was like
48:50
a bit of a gimme. So, like, Anderson needs to
48:54
reestablish himself as a valid contender. So,
48:59
I do think that Anderson is... I only worry that
49:03
Anderson isn't going to do that. I think that
49:08
the plan is for Anderson to be food for one of
49:12
Frank Warren's British heavyweights. Fair enough.
49:17
I just don't know which. Honestly, I wouldn't
49:19
hate seeing Atalma fight Bacoli either. That's
49:23
pretty damn good, actually. Like... There's Lawrence
49:30
Acoli, Tony Yoka. Don't do Tony Yoka like that.
49:37
He doesn't deserve that. He does, because he's
49:40
French. Yeah, I do think there's some in -between
49:47
guys that Moses could fight that would still
49:52
be a pretty big step up and maybe show us some
49:56
more. Because, like, Atalma just hasn't been
50:00
challenged yet at all. And he needs rounds. Like,
50:06
he's not getting enough in -ring experience.
50:10
He did say immediately in the post -fight interview
50:13
that he wanted to fight Hergovich. And Hergovich
50:17
has since said that that is his... He has mandated
50:21
to his manager or whoever that Atalma is his
50:26
next fight after David Allen. That's not bad.
50:32
I don't hate that. Not bad. What about the undisputed
50:42
Zufa champion, F .A. Ajagba? Atalma decapitates
50:51
Ajagba. Like, that's not worth anything to me.
50:58
I think he does Ajagba worse than he did Franklin,
51:01
to be honest. I would agree. I was about to say,
51:06
like, what about Charles Martin? The same way
51:10
you said don't do Yoko like that, we don't need
51:13
to do Charles Martin like that. We already know
51:15
how that's going to go. Yeah. Right now, I do
51:21
think it's hard to find somebody that's going
51:25
to push a Tauma that he's ready for. Joseph Parker.
51:32
that wouldn't be terrible but like is parker
51:35
suspended for the cocaine or what the fuck's
51:38
going on there that i i saw the i'm i'm like
51:41
shrugging my shoulders for the people who can't
51:43
see um like i i saw somebody else raise the question
51:47
like did we ever get word on the b sample because
51:51
we haven't i've never heard anything but i think
51:55
the last guy that popped for cocaine in the uk
51:58
ended up with like a six year suspension or something
52:01
crazy okay so then do the fight in like Gibraltar
52:05
or some shit yeah that yeah fair fair point but
52:09
like I have no idea what's going on with Joseph
52:11
Parker but he I think could probably give Moses
52:16
rounds just by being more defensive than any
52:19
of the guys he's fought so far yeah that was
52:22
my thinking when I suggested him But yeah, Moses
52:28
needs rounds. He needs somebody that can make
52:30
him show us something. Murat Gassiev. He's not
52:36
the most... He's not the best heavyweight, but
52:40
he is a power threat. And I think that because
52:44
he's a power threat, it would make Atalma fight
52:49
differently when he's... Possible. When he's
52:53
facing a... A legitimate threat. Someone that
52:56
can touch him and put him down. And it would
53:00
be... Practice isn't the right word. But it would
53:05
be good practice if they're going to put him
53:07
against Wardley. Yes, definitely. Because Wardley's
53:11
got that fucking triple seven power. Ridiculous.
53:17
Gassiev, I would liken to David Lemieux. Where
53:21
he's a bit of a club level guy. But his power
53:25
is, like, fucking world -changing. Yeah, yeah,
53:28
I can see that. Fuck, I miss David Lemieux. Him
53:34
and his Pidgeotto hair. Goddamn. Anything more
53:43
for the Queensberry card? No. Okay, ProBoxTV
53:49
at Thunder Studios in California. From the bottom
53:55
up, just some quick stuff. Flavio Burgenio versus
53:59
Josias Gonzalez. He retired after the first.
54:07
Cooper O 'Connell stops Jorge Garcia in the third.
54:12
Alberto Alvarez, UD over Eric Ruiz. KJ Wyalai.
54:20
I think I got that right. You nailed YLI and
54:24
you called McConnell O 'Connell. That's funny
54:27
to me. I actually miscorrected myself on the
54:33
doc. Ah, sorry. It's O 'Connell. But I had it
54:37
as O 'Connell and then I checked BoxRec and they
54:40
had it as McConnell. Then I rewatched the card
54:43
and it was O 'Connell. It was O 'Connell? Yeah.
54:46
Okay, sorry. So, yep. Leonardo Rubalcava, UD
54:53
over Juan Yanez. Excellent, Leo. I'm flexing
55:00
because it's you and me, dog. Leo's against the
55:03
world. He gets to keep the name. He gets to keep
55:05
it. Rene Taez retires Malik Montgomery after
55:11
the sixth. Man, it was competitive for like the
55:14
first three. And then Taez, just like that pressure,
55:19
man. It was just too much. And Malik, he was
55:22
trying to play it slick. He was trying to play
55:24
it mobile. He just was not able to keep Tejas
55:28
off of him. Man. Good fight, though. Very, very
55:33
good fight. It was pretty fun. I like this one.
55:38
And in the main event, Brian Acosta, UD over
55:41
Ronnie Rios. Ronnie did... Like a veteran that's
55:48
brought in to test. I don't know if prospect
55:54
is the right word here. But like a contender
55:57
working his way up. Ronnie Rios was a solid test.
56:02
And a coast to pass. Like with fantastic colors.
56:08
Yeah, Ronnie Rios is one of those guys that he's
56:11
a good step up at this point. Like a test, like
56:14
you said. gatekeeper, I guess. He's a higher
56:18
-end gatekeeper, though. Yeah, yeah. But he's
56:23
starting to rack up some losses, Ronnie Rios.
56:28
I think Probox is going to keep him working for
56:32
some time, because they're going to be pushing
56:36
contenders at him, and it's going to be his job
56:42
to sort it out. man i fucking love provox this
56:49
like uh i had opted to watch the pbc prelims
56:54
instead and when i went back to watch this i
56:58
was like damn dude i fucked i fucked up i should
57:01
have watched this well that's the nice thing
57:03
about provox though you can always just watch
57:06
it later yeah because it's on youtube that was
57:09
my rationale as well Like, that's what I did
57:13
with the boxing last night here in Japan. I got
57:16
invited to the festival, so I went there because
57:18
I can watch it today when we're done. Yeah. And
57:22
nobody spoils the Japanese cards for me. Moving
57:28
on. Last recap card. We got PBC on Prime. Let's
57:39
go from the bottom up. Aldo Blancas stops Jamal
57:44
Johnson in two. Robert Guerrero, UD over Rigoberto
57:49
Rivera. Brian Gonzalez, fucking Arizona boy,
57:54
stops Brandon Medina in five. I think he could
58:00
have done that sooner if he had put his foot
58:02
on the gas a little bit. But it's all good. Stopping
58:08
five isn't bad, though. No, it's not. It's just
58:11
like he had him figured out. That's all. Five
58:15
is not bad, though. Not at all a bad performance.
58:26
Man, an Arizona boy doing bad. Kevin Newman,
58:38
majority decision over Elijah Garcia. Majority
58:42
decision is really fucking favorable to Elijah.
58:46
That was a... Yeah, he did not do well. Straight
58:50
ass. Poo -poo. Please take the 602 off your trunks.
58:57
Moving into the paid portion. Gergen, Hovenissian,
59:03
Big Goog. Big Goog. Sorry, stop. Cesar Navarro
59:09
in the fifth. Cesar Navarro apparently fought
59:13
at fucking like light welterweight at one point
59:17
in his career. That's crazy. Now he's a heavyweight?
59:21
That's fucking wild, man. Yeah, he started at
59:26
147 and he weighed in for this fight at 210,
59:30
which is not his heaviest. Wow. You should consider
59:38
Cruiserweight, my man. Bro needs the Winchellas
59:42
sponsor. Gook is... I don't know why we would
59:55
be talking about him in the same conversation
59:59
as elite heavyweights. He's big. He's fun. But,
1:00:05
eh, he's not that great. He seems to have fans.
1:00:10
I know. It's fucking crazy how many people showed
1:00:14
out for him. Yoenly Hernandez stops Terrell Gachet
1:00:22
in four. Gachet is starting to wear out his welcome
1:00:28
as a gatekeeper. Might be time to start thinking
1:00:31
about a different career. Yeah, he's racking
1:00:35
up some loss records here. Yep. Oh, man. Yohannes
1:00:42
Taez rebounds from the Abbas Baru loss and beats
1:00:48
Brian Mendoza by UD despite getting his fucking
1:00:53
face smashed in by a headbutt. Yeah, that was
1:00:58
crazy. I was surprised that Taez decided to continue.
1:01:03
I was really worried he was getting Tim Zood
1:01:06
there. I thought that was what was going to happen.
1:01:11
But, like, he had the out. He could have taken,
1:01:15
like, the nose smash with the headbutt and called
1:01:18
it a no contest. And... Didn't. Yeah, he chose
1:01:24
to keep going. And he boxed smart. He kept Mendoza,
1:01:28
like, off of his face. He had to sacrifice the
1:01:32
body a bit, but, like, what else are you going
1:01:35
to do? Like, you have a compromised nose. You're
1:01:39
going to have to take some damage downstairs
1:01:42
to protect yourself. Yeah, it was smashed bad.
1:01:46
Like, he must have been having trouble breathing.
1:01:49
Yeah, his mouth was open, like, the entire time.
1:01:52
But, you know, he played it smart. He fought
1:01:56
smart. He beat a high end. High -end gatekeeper.
1:02:03
Yeah, I was impressed with him. I thought that
1:02:08
was a really good win. It is. Especially coming
1:02:12
off the Barulas. I think Teyes, if Fundora vs.
1:02:19
Kelly doesn't get made, Teyes is not a bad name
1:02:23
for Fundora. I don't think anyway. I would rather
1:02:31
see Fundora go for the unification. Of course.
1:02:35
That has to be what any self -respecting champion
1:02:42
would want to do the unifications. I would think.
1:02:48
I think Fundora does. He has said in the past
1:02:57
His words, they have to come to me. Yeah. I'm
1:03:06
really high on Fandora, so. Well, speaking of
1:03:11
which, Sebastian Fandora stops Keith Thurman
1:03:14
in six. Thurman was not happy with Thomas Taylor's
1:03:19
decision, and I have to disagree with you, Keith.
1:03:23
Yeah, Jesus Christ, man. It would be one thing
1:03:28
if it would be a bad Brit stoppage if Thurman
1:03:32
had done anything. But he was just getting his
1:03:37
ass kicked the entire fight. Like, and his face
1:03:41
at the press conference. That made me laugh.
1:03:45
It's like a raccoon mask of bruising. Yeah, like,
1:03:49
your face is all fucked up. and you're talking
1:03:53
about how the ref should never work again, like,
1:03:55
dude saved your ass, man. And he was saying,
1:03:59
like, yeah, so what if I had a broken orbital
1:04:02
bone? Like, what do you mean, so what? That's
1:04:06
your fucking eyesight, buddy. You only get one
1:04:10
of those. Yeah, I think that's not exactly how
1:04:13
he said it, but he's like, they let people fight
1:04:16
with broken orbitals, and this isn't broken.
1:04:19
But they let people fight with broken orbitals
1:04:22
that have a shot at winning. Thurman didn't land
1:04:26
a significant punch that entire fight. Maybe,
1:04:31
like, maybe two that you could call significant.
1:04:34
A handful tops. Like, it was crazy. And I was
1:04:39
telling fucking everybody before the fight, Fundora
1:04:42
figured out how to jab. Thurman's too old to
1:04:47
get inside. And he doesn't have one -shot power.
1:04:53
Thurman has never had one -shot power, really.
1:04:56
It was always like he'd get him hurt and then
1:04:59
he'd knock him out. And Fedora's never been knocked
1:05:02
out with one punch. It's always a... Well, he's
1:05:05
been knocked out once, but it was a big accumulation
1:05:07
of punches. Would... Well, no, never mind. I
1:05:12
was about to say, would Mendoza rematch? be at
1:05:16
all reasonable, but he lost to Tejas, so never
1:05:19
mind. And also, that's not the same Fundora.
1:05:22
Fundora's been improving so much lately. Yeah,
1:05:27
you're fighting at the... Romeo said at the beginning
1:05:32
of the fight, he said, Thurman has to overcome
1:05:34
9 inches. And then at the end, as the stoppage
1:05:40
was coming, Thurman is not overcoming 9 inches.
1:05:44
No. Not at all. And there's some fucking hilarious
1:05:48
pictures out there where Thurman was like ducking
1:05:52
a punch so he squatted down a little bit and
1:05:55
it's just fucking towering inferno fedora over
1:05:59
top of him with his fucking long ass arms. There
1:06:04
was a surprising amount of Thurman support in
1:06:08
the server that night. I was shocked at how many
1:06:12
people thought Keith still had it. like with
1:06:16
frost or josh for example like he his rationale
1:06:20
was at like as he was typing in his thurman support
1:06:24
it was it would be hilarious if thurman won so
1:06:29
i want the hilarious outcome but other yeah that's
1:06:34
one other people were serious yes exactly that
1:06:37
there were other people that were saying like
1:06:40
Thurman can do this. Thurman can make this happen.
1:06:43
In a different chat, I got into an hour -long
1:06:47
argument with someone who was dead serious that
1:06:50
Fedora is buns and Thurman's going to kill him.
1:06:53
And I was like, you're an idiot. What happened
1:06:56
after the result? I didn't. I'm a nice person.
1:07:05
You didn't follow up to fucking dunk? I showed
1:07:10
up and I said, like, I fucking told you so. And
1:07:14
they didn't respond and I didn't push it. But
1:07:17
I added them with a, like, it went exactly how
1:07:20
I told you it would. And crickets. And I just
1:07:24
left it. So, well, at least we can, we know for
1:07:30
sure that that person is not Nova. Because they'll
1:07:36
double down on their fucking stupidity. No, it's
1:07:39
definitely not Nova. It's in a different Discord
1:07:42
where I don't get along with a lot of them, so
1:07:46
I try to be nice because the six people I really
1:07:50
get along with, I want to keep talking to. Well,
1:07:57
anything more? Well, Fundora, we know he's going
1:08:01
for Kelly. If it doesn't work out with Kelly,
1:08:08
I think Tejas is a good fallback. Just because
1:08:12
he won on the co -main. When is Zaius Ennis?
1:08:18
They're off schedule for each other now, right?
1:08:22
That's at late June. Right. I just want Fundora
1:08:30
to go grab the IVF belt and wait for the winner.
1:08:33
Of Boots Zayas. I think if he went for it now,
1:08:37
he could get Kelly around the same time. And
1:08:44
then they could meet later in the year. Fundora
1:08:47
took no damage in that fight. Exactly. Like,
1:08:51
he doesn't need any healing up time. Right. Let's
1:08:58
get some more notes before we get to the previews.
1:09:04
833 -589 -7637. Hit me up in WhatsApp. I want
1:09:09
to hear what you think about Fundora beating
1:09:12
Thurman. What do you think about Fundora Kelly?
1:09:14
What do you think about Fundora's chances? Let's
1:09:19
assume he beats Kelly. What do you think of his
1:09:22
chances against the winner of Boots versus Zaius,
1:09:25
which is probably Boots? i'm gonna fucking laugh
1:09:29
my ass off if zaius pulls this off absolutely
1:09:32
i'm fucking nobody is giving him a shot no uh
1:09:37
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right. We have a packed weekend. And it starts
1:14:11
on Thursday. Eye of the Tiger in Quebec. Eye
1:14:23
of the Tiger shit up the card. Co -main Arthur
1:14:27
B. Arslanov is worth watching. He's facing who?
1:14:32
Doesn't really matter. Same as every Eye of the
1:14:36
Tiger card? Right. It doesn't really matter.
1:14:40
We're watching a guy get a highlight win. Yeah.
1:14:45
The main event. Oslis Iglesias will be fighting
1:14:52
for the vacant IBF super middleweight title against
1:14:55
Pavel Silgyagin. If you're wondering who Pavel
1:15:00
is, so am I. All we really know is that Pavel
1:15:05
had a questionable draw. That is to say, he was
1:15:11
probably losing. He got a questionable draw against
1:15:16
a guy that Oslis put into a seizure in the middle
1:15:22
of the ring. Yeah. Yeah. Make of that what you
1:15:26
will. This is boxing. Anything can happen. One
1:15:30
punch can change anything. All of the adages
1:15:33
that you can think of, I don't think they apply
1:15:37
here. No, I would not be surprised if Osley's
1:15:42
gives another guy a seizure. It's highly likely.
1:15:49
Let's go to Friday, April 10th. Probox TV at
1:15:54
the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
1:15:57
I'm going from the top down this time. Sembatar
1:16:01
Ordenabat, he's fighting Muhammad Yakubov. That's
1:16:07
a 10 -round 130 fight. Herbert Conceição is facing
1:16:14
Johan Gonzalez. That's a 10 -round middleweight
1:16:18
fight. I think Herbert is related to Robson.
1:16:22
Pardon me. He is from the same area in Brazil,
1:16:29
at least. They're neighbors. They might be cousins
1:16:35
or something. Yeah. I thought I heard on the
1:16:40
last Pro Box card that they're related. Conceição
1:16:45
is not a very common name. Not that I've seen.
1:16:48
Between MMA and boxing, I haven't seen that name
1:16:53
a lot. No, my Brazilian friend, I was talking
1:16:57
about Conceição, and she's like, that's a weird
1:17:01
name. Well, I get that for my name, too, with
1:17:09
other Spanish -speaking people. Moving down the
1:17:17
list, William Foster. He's a ProBox alum. Keith
1:17:23
Colon, ProBox alum. That's really all I got.
1:17:30
The top. It's not a long -ass card. It is. But
1:17:36
it should be over pretty quick. Because it's
1:17:39
a lot of four -rounders and stuff. It's 13 fights.
1:17:44
That's crazy. I'm going to be cheering for Erdenbot
1:17:51
entirely because he's from Mongolia. I fucking
1:17:54
love Mongolians. They're my favorite. I do, though.
1:17:58
Like, legitimately, Mongolians are fun. And you
1:18:02
don't see very many Mongolians in any sport.
1:18:05
I know. That's why, like, in 1FC, the bantamweight
1:18:10
MMA champ in 1FC is Enkorgil Batarku. He's from
1:18:17
Physical Asia. Yes. The TV show, yeah. That is
1:18:24
correct. He looks like some sort of, like, throwback
1:18:30
nomad guy. His look is crazy. Like, Sambatar
1:18:35
is, like, clean -cut, modern -looking dude. But,
1:18:40
like, Angkor Gil is... He looks like he's riding...
1:18:44
He lives in a cave. Yeah, he looks like he's
1:18:47
riding with Genghis Khan. He looks crazy. Let's
1:18:54
roll on to Saturday, April 11th. We've got three
1:18:58
cards and the timing works out nicely. First
1:19:04
things first. Taken at the Ryokoku Kokugikan
1:19:10
in Tokyo. And guess who has a ticket? Oh, who
1:19:14
has a ticket? I am so fucking excited. I'm pissed
1:19:19
off. Because I couldn't figure out how to buy
1:19:22
from Suboi. I had to buy a ticket that had Nasakawa's
1:19:27
name on it, which pissed me off. But I'm really
1:19:34
excited to see, like, four of these five fights.
1:19:38
So I had to do it. Let's go from the bottom up.
1:19:42
I don't know necessarily if this is the running
1:19:44
order. This is just what BoxRec had. Keita Kubotera
1:19:51
versus Chris Aldi Beltran. That's a lightweight
1:19:54
fight. Katsuma Akitsugi versus Jose Calderon.
1:20:01
I am so excited to see Akitsugi in person. Are
1:20:06
you going to get him to sign something? They
1:20:09
never do that. I could go to Tokyo the day before
1:20:15
and try and stalk him after the weigh -in. I
1:20:19
might get a... Can you go to the weigh -in? They
1:20:24
charge for that here. It's not super expensive,
1:20:29
but I would have to pay. It's also, I would have
1:20:35
to leave work early on Friday. So, I probably
1:20:39
won't. But what's his nickname? Because it's
1:20:44
Spanish and I'll say it wrong. It's the Japanese
1:20:47
Firework. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I want you to
1:20:50
say it because I think it's cute. Let me make
1:20:52
sure I got it in the right order. El Cuete Japonesito.
1:20:57
Japonesito is so cute. Yeah. I love it. The Little
1:21:02
Japanese Firework. It's such a great nickname.
1:21:08
Yeah, for a dude at 118. It's very fitting. Jose
1:21:13
Calderon's also a fun fighter. Is he? I've never
1:21:16
seen him before. Yeah, he got beat by Masuda.
1:21:22
Oh, that Masuda. On one of the cards, yeah. The
1:21:25
one that fucking destroyed Donair. Yeah. But
1:21:31
he's fun. Like, it should be fireworks. Literally.
1:21:40
Excellent. Excellent usage there. Moving up.
1:21:45
Kyosuke Takami versus Angel Lardisapal. Don't
1:21:52
know who these guys are. That's a flyweight fight.
1:21:55
Takami is the one I have a t -shirt. His nickname
1:22:00
is the Silent Bomb. It's got a ninja on it. I
1:22:04
like Takami. Tomoya Suboi. Versus Pedro Guevara.
1:22:16
I'm excited for this one because I like Suboi.
1:22:18
I know he's old and started really late, but
1:22:22
I think he's really good. Are you excited for
1:22:29
Tenshin Nasukawa? No. Versus Juan Francisco Estrada.
1:22:37
I'm so excited to see El Gallo in person. I am
1:22:41
so excited for Estrada. He's been my favorite
1:22:46
fighter pretty much since I started watching
1:22:48
boxing. Intently watching. He's been my favorite.
1:22:53
I want him to win because he's been my favorite
1:22:59
for the longest time. But at the same time, if
1:23:02
he does pass the torch here, I'm not... Too fussed,
1:23:07
personally? Personally. I'm going to be pissed.
1:23:10
Of course, of course. I want Estrada to fucking
1:23:17
shut tension off. Like, I want a knockout so
1:23:22
badly. I've been to three different shrines asking
1:23:25
for a knockout. Well, you've been, like, asking
1:23:30
for tension to be shut off. That's like standard
1:23:35
for every single one of his fights. That's what
1:23:37
you want. It hasn't happened yet. But Estrada
1:23:41
still has the power. He can do it. He does have
1:23:44
the power. I want to see tension knocked out
1:23:48
so badly. I've even been hitting up the Mexicans
1:23:54
in chat to go to church and pray for it. Asus
1:23:58
promised me he would ask for a knockout. Oh,
1:24:02
for the Holy Week? Yeah, like, it's Easter, right?
1:24:07
It is, yes. Yeah, yeah. He said he was going
1:24:10
for some special Easter mass, and I was like,
1:24:13
can you please ask for a knockout? Light a voltive
1:24:18
for... Yeah. Yeah. Do some Catholic voodoo stuff.
1:24:25
Catholic magic? Moving on to Gold Star on Netflix.
1:24:37
The fuck is Gold Star? I don't know, but they're
1:24:40
getting their hands into the boxing. From the
1:24:46
bottom up, I'm not going to stop on everything,
1:24:48
but Sultan al -Muhammad, he's a Saudi plant.
1:24:52
He's facing Hector Avila Lozano. So there's that.
1:24:59
Felix Cash. I recognize that name just because
1:25:03
it's Cash. But he's fighting Liam O 'Hare. Justice
1:25:09
Hooney is facing Frazier Clark. So we'll see
1:25:14
if Frazier can do better than Fabio Wardley did.
1:25:22
Yeah. Troy Williamson versus Simon Zakenhuber.
1:25:28
at super middleweight conor ben versus regis
1:25:34
progray that's a 15 million dollar fight not
1:25:39
even the co -main i think it is the co -main
1:25:42
i just have him in the wrong order uh uh jamie
1:25:47
chikella i think i've got that right versus richard
1:25:53
richard react pory That's actually not... Like,
1:25:57
for where these guys are at, it's not a bad fight.
1:26:01
Yeah, this is a pretty good matchup, actually.
1:26:03
Yeah. And then Tyson Fury versus Arslanbek Makhmudov.
1:26:10
Boo. I do not care about this fight at all. Yeah,
1:26:15
I don't really care that much about this card.
1:26:18
Well, that's not true. I do care about the Justice
1:26:21
Huni fight. I want... I will go light a candle
1:26:28
for fucking Regis Progre. That would be fucking
1:26:34
hilarious. That would just tickle my fucking
1:26:37
pickle so much if Regis Progre were to beat Connor
1:26:42
Ben. I'm using all my magic on the other card,
1:26:46
but that would be great. This is not going to
1:26:52
convince me to get Netflix again. But if Netflix
1:26:56
starts having consistent boxing, perhaps. Perhaps
1:27:03
Leo can oblige. I am sure I have friends with
1:27:10
Netflix. Let's move on. Last thing. Pro box.
1:27:18
At the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. I don't
1:27:25
see anything on this card that stands out to
1:27:28
me. It's just Vito Milnicki versus Omar Ulysses
1:27:32
Huerta in the main event. That's pretty much
1:27:37
it. That's pretty one -sided, too. Milnicki has
1:27:41
like three sanctioning body trinkets. versus
1:27:46
a guy that's 177th on BoxRec. There's just one
1:27:54
name I want to point out because I think it's
1:27:56
hilarious because I misread it on the poster.
1:27:59
So it's Diane Butt. But I misread the N for an
1:28:05
M and it's like, Damn, Butt. Well, we are heading
1:28:12
into a pretty nice weekend. We got Eye of the
1:28:15
Tiger. We got Oslis finally being coronated.
1:28:19
We got Semba Tar on Friday. And then we've got
1:28:24
a nice little Saturday. You're going to be busy
1:28:27
on this Saturday, actually. Yeah, yeah. This
1:28:31
might be a no sleep Saturday. Shit. So then,
1:28:35
as we head into this no sleep weekend, parting
1:28:39
words. If you dink, if you dink, if you drink,
1:28:46
don't drive, use your Chevrolegs. That's my parting
1:28:50
words. I would say try your Fitsubishi. There's
1:28:58
another one that I don't like. It's a, use your
1:29:01
Toyotas. Ah, that, yeah. It's a little, it's
1:29:06
a little bit of a harder fit, but. Yeah, yeah.
1:29:10
Lamb Graffiti's is also pretty fun. Lamb Graffiti's
1:29:12
is... That was my favorite when I was in. But...
1:29:18
Oh, shit. Man, we had like 30 fucking minutes
1:29:22
of Patreon time. Do you wonder what we talk about?
1:29:28
Maybe we do drugs. Who knows? You'll have to
1:29:33
find out. But that's it for this edition of Boxing
1:29:36
Before Dark. Shanada, my batteries are getting
1:29:39
low. And it is getting dark. God damn. We'll
1:29:44
see you on the other side.