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[BxBD] News, recaps, and the second coming · Boxing B-Sides

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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. Back up in your ears, bitch. Oh, there's
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a whole lot of other talk. You want to hear what
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that is? You're going to have to go to Patreon
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and hear all about fucking baseball. And how
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neither of us watch it. I just do not give a
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shit about baseball until it's October. If the
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Diamondbacks are not in the playoffs, then I
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continue to not care. I got to cheer for the
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Jays. It's like nationally required. Yeah, same
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reason I cheer for the Diamondbacks. I don't
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care about the sport, but if I'm going to be
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pulling for anyone, it's going to be for my home
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team. Yeah. I found out... today that not today
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yesterday that it's beau bichette and not beau
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bitchett beau bitchett i thought there was an
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extra t in there i've been saying it wrong for
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like years because he's been on the jays for
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years i saw this one this post on instagram it
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was like hockey players And it was, do you know
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how to say their names? And all the foreign players
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were on like saying. Oh yeah. I think I sent
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it to you. Okay. That's where I saw it then.
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Yeah. Yeah. All the Scandinavian names mostly.
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I thought it was hilarious. I was the Finnish
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players with all the, I tried to, I tried my
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best to pronounce them. Like I, I do my best
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with between boxing and, uh, keeping up with
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MMA. uh ultimate effing casuals you know just
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a subtle little slide in right there uh but keeping
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up with mma and boxing like i have i thought
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i was good with names but apparently not scandinavia
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is a whole another that's a completely different
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kettle of fish yep all right let's get into a
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little bit of the news here uh xilei zhang is
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he has accepted terms Sign the contract to fight
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Derek Chizora. I don't know how to feel about
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this one. I kind of think Chizora can win. You
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think so? If he avoids that big right hand, or
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left, or whichever one Zhang hits him with. Like,
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Chizora is so good at being washed, he keeps
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his... He keeps what little gas tank he has until
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the end. He's that little shitbox car that runs
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300 miles on empty. Like... I don't know. I think
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Chizora could outlast him. Jank has a terrible
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gas tank. He does. Oh, man. Now that... I was
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just thinking about the power and, like, Chizora
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gets hit. But Chizora's... been hit and not gone
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down too though at some point the jar's gotta
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open and i'm not i'm not saying he can't lose
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i'm saying he can win i might put 10 bucks on
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chizora i don't know i don't think this is good
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enough for me to break my my no gambling streak
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yeah i I throw small bets on bullshit all the
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time. But this might actually be a more fun fight
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than anyone is thinking. Or it could be absolutely
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terrible, where neither one of them does anything.
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But I do think Chizora will push the pace. Like,
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that's gonna be his game plan. To force Zhang's
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hand and make him gas? Yeah. I'm not so sure.
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I don't have that much faith in Chizora. Despite
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him continuing to prove me wrong every time he's
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been out in the last how many years, I continue
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to not have faith in him. You gotta have faith.
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It's Chizora. He doesn't stop. He should, but
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he doesn't. Yeah. And he sounds like a dying
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How? While he's fighting, but... Um... Well...
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Is this finally Chizora's last fight, or does
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he have two left? This is the one that's last
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on his contract. Okay, this should be, like,
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actually last. Should be the end of his career
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as well. Should. I want Chizora... I want Chizora
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to go out on a win. Yeah. He is. I don't know.
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You gotta back Delboy. Especially if it's his
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final farewell. That being said, if he wins,
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he probably doesn't retire. Oh. I forgot that
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he does that. Rather than go out on a win. Let's
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let it ride, baby. We're going to keep fucking
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going. No, dude. This was supposed to be your
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farewell. You got a big win against a big puncher.
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You outfoxed him. This is the time to go out.
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This is your glory moment. But you know he's
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not going to let that happen. Exactly. He's not
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going to let that happen. But. I still want Del
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Boy to win. Fuck it. Let it ride. Speaking of
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letting it ride, Manny Pacquiao, one of his rumored
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opponents for his return in January, Vasily Lomachenko.
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I thought Pacquiao was fighting Roley. I thought
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so too, but Lomachenko's kind of been... coming
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up on the rumor mill as the likely frontrunner.
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Do you think Loma actually comes out of retirement?
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For Pacquiao paycheck? Absolutely. Fair. I don't
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know, man. I think if Lomachenko comes out of
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retirement, the Pacquiao fairy tale might be
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over. Depending on if Lomachenko trains up for
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it and stuff. If he takes it seriously? Yeah.
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I think he will. I think he'll want to put an
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exclamation point on the win. And out -ballet
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Pacquiao's dead calves. I mean, it depends on
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what Lomachenko looks like now, I guess. But
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I can't see Pacquiao catching Lomachenko at all.
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The weight class matters because of exactly what
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you just said. Because if they're fighting at
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147, Lomachenko was already small for 135. Yeah,
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but I don't see Pacquiao hitting him. Pacquiao's
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not that fast anymore. No, he's not. His hands
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are pretty fast, but his feet are not. You're
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right. Like, I'm not saying he couldn't possibly
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catch Lomachenko, but I'm saying if Lomachenko
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doesn't look super old and out of shape, he just
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doesn't catch Lomachenko. Right. If Lomachenko
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has any semblance of his old form, then it's
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going to be a problem for Pacquiao. Like... This
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version of Pacquiao, let's fucking be really
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clear so that the hate mongers don't... find
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some reason to send hate mail. Well, I mean,
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if they fight now, it's this version. That's
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the only thing we can be talking about. Yeah,
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well, you know how people get when talking about
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the old favorites. I guess it hasn't even been
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a year since Lomachenko fought. I kind of completely
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forgot about that. Kambosa's fight. That's right.
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I thought he had been out longer. I did too.
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Yeah, I don't think there's any hope in hell
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of Pacquiao catching Lomachenko. Shaking my head
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for those who can't see. They also don't have
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his age on BoxRec, but he's like five years younger
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than Pacquiao? They don't put their age on when
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they're inactive. For whatever reason. Loma's
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my age. Loma's my age and Pacquiao's, what, 47?
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46, 47. So Lomachenko's a whole 11 years younger.
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10 or 11 years younger. Wow. There's no fucking
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way Pacquiao catches Loma. Not in my opinion.
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Failed segue. Fandora Thurman. rescheduled for
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Pacquiao undercard. Is this a good move? Does
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this... I don't know. I feel like Pacquiao is
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a big enough name to be worthy of having that
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big of a co -main. But at the same time, this
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could still be a main event, right? Yeah, Juan,
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it depends who's Pacquiao fighting. Pacquiao
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Lomachenko, that's two big names. Pacquiao, Rolly...
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I'd probably be more excited for the Fundora
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Thurman card, to be honest. I don't know. Thurman's
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also... I don't give a shit about Thurman anymore.
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I don't remember the last time I gave a shit
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about Keith Thurman. That's kind of what I mean,
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though. He's definitely a name, but he's not
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a name that I care about. Somebody does, but...
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Fandora's main event level, to me, every time,
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he's always exciting. But maybe they also kind
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of... How do I put it? Pacquiao's gonna bring
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in casuals, no matter who he fights. So putting
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a good fight underneath it is kind of like putting
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a good co -main on a Jake Paul event. Like, you'll
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get some casual seeing a really good fight. Right.
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Is Fandora Thurman gonna be a really good fight?
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I don't know, but... Depends a lot on Thurman.
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Oh. Fandora's always fun. Right. But... That's
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a good way to put it. This is like putting a
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good co -main on Jake Paul, Mike Tyson. Yeah.
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Like... It gets some casuals to see good boxing
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and not just a washed Pacquiao fighting whoever.
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Getting styled on by Lomachenko. I really do
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think that would be so one -sided. It would be
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sad. Usually, when it comes to situations like
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this, specifically with Jake Paul, for what you
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outlined, I always looked at it as 10 ,000 people
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are going to watch, just for example numbers,
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10 ,000 people are going to watch simply because
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it's Manny Pacquiao. Of those 10 ,000, 1 ,000
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of them... Start to follow the sport a little
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bit. And of that thousand. Maybe ten of them
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become hardcore fans. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe
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ten of them buy the next pay -per -view. Yeah.
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Like we all do. Really. I'm not sure how to.
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Just shaking my fist here. Like a real happy
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-go -lucky guy. Paying my dues. I've said it
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before. I don't mind paying for good cards. I
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have the money now. But some of the cards that
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they make pay -per -view are garbage. They're
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not even garbage. They're worth like $30. Not
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$80. Well, speaking of cards not being garbage,
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Pitbull Roach has been bolstered considerably.
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Jannybeck. versus Eris Landilara and Oshaki Foster
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versus Stephen Fulton have been added to the
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undercard. That is going to upgrade this. That's
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$80 right there. I'll pay $80 for that. Yeah,
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yeah. I was bitching last week, but with those
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two added, it's worth $80. Yep. We went on so
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long that we just kind of were repeating ourselves
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just because of how dissatisfying it was. But
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not this. Not this. Nuh -uh. This is worth it.
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Yeah, no, this is worth it. Is it one of those
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ones where you would tell a gray, stop being
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a broke little bitch, or is $80 still enough
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to be a little bit more understanding? I don't...
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If you're actually broke, like if you have to...
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budget for $80, I probably wouldn't spend it
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on this one. But, if you budgeting for $80 is
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not going to the bar this weekend, then it's
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worth $80 to you. You know what I mean? If $80
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is going to the bar on Friday with your friends,
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then... If you have the disposable income. Yeah.
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But if $80 is like, oh, I guess I'm eating beans
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and rice for the next two weeks. Or three weeks.
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Yeah, depending where your financial status is.
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But if it's like, I'm going to stay home and
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watch the $80 pay -per -view instead of having
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drinks with my friends, it's worth it. Yeah,
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definitely. Or you could just have people over
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and charge them $5. BYOB? Yeah. Sorry, that was
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my alarm. I didn't hear it. So there you go.
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That's a callback to Patreon content. Richard
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Torres versus Tomas Salek. Who is Tomas Salek?
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Yes. He certainly is a fighter of all time. I
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don't know. He's from Czechia? All right. Yeah.
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All right. I don't know. I was trying to find
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something. I don't recognize any names on his
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box rec. It was just that it's Richard Torres.
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That's pretty much it. Yeah. I like Richard Torres.
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Yeah, I think this card's in Mexico. Oh, that's
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fun. On the Rafael Espinosa. Oh. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. I am actually starting to get a little
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excited for that card as well. Yeah, they're
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putting something together. And I need to see
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how far it is into Mexico. See if I'm going to
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try to go. Nice. It depends on how far the drive
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is. I'm going to have to take my decals off.
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A little just geopolitical problem. for people
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like me. Geopolitical problem. Kubrat Pulev versus
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Murat Gasyev. I am glad that Pulev is not Atalma's
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next fight. Why is that? I don't know. I don't
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feel like Pulev would be any of a step up for
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Atalma. Pulev's old. Yes. And he hasn't looked
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good. Gassiev is fucking donkey balls at heavyweight.
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Yeah, this is too... Whatever. This is a whatever
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fight. I'm probably not going to watch this.
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You had previously referred to... What was it?
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Ryan Garcia versus Mario Barrios as an ass -off.
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Yeah. This is another ass -off. Yeah, but this
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is a heavyweight ass -off, which is even worse.
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True, because they can be... Heavyweight slop
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is different from lower weight classes. It's
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so slow, and there's so much hugging. I mean,
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Chizora beat Pulev three years ago. Chizora beat
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Pulev? Yeah. Three years ago. I think Atalma
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can handle better competition than Kubrat Pulev,
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even if he is a name. That's why I'm glad. He's
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a name, but Murat Gassiev, this is for the WBA
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regular fucking title. Is it? Yes, it is. How?
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Jesus Christ. Yeah, because Kubrat Pulev is the
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regular champ. How? Because it's the WBA. They
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do stupid shit. Fair enough. They are among...
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Their brand of stupid shit is diluting the value
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of their own titles. That's what they do. They
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have too many... Other belts. Yeah. Super champ,
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regular champ, interim champ. We've gone on a
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couple rants about how I get so lost with the
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WBA belt. Well, this does nothing to improve
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the situation. No. Oh, speaking of improving
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situations. Rolly versus Shakram Giyasov. ordered
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for a defense of his WBA welterweight title.
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Should I know who Giyasov is? I barely know who
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he is. So, not really. Another Uzbek. Uzbek boxing
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is popping off right now. It is. It's been popping
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off since the 2016 Olympics. Fair enough. But
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they're all getting into world contention right
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now. Yes. Yeah, I don't have much of an opinion
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on this one. I like Rolly being a champ just
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because I think it's funny. It is. I was thinking
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of what I was going to say as a reply to your
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why you like Rolly being a champ. And my immediate
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thought was, it's funny. It's just too funny
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that he's a champion. Oh, two -time, two -weight
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class world champion, Rolly Romero? Like, come
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on. How could that not make you smile? It's too
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fun. Another fight ordered by the WBA, Nick Ball
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versus Brandon Figueroa. Oh. Somebody was asking
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me if Nick Ball was good. That must be why they
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saw this. Is Nick Ball good? No. Depends. If
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you're from the UK, then he's like the second
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coming of Jesus. He's the second coming of fucking
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Josh Warrington is what he is. I am not a fan.
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Yeah, he's proven himself to be pretty limited,
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but his limitations are at a high enough level
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that he can beat guys like Ray Vargas. I guess,
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yeah. Or Ray Ford. I don't know. I think Figueroa
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can handle Nick Ball. I think so, too. It's not
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a bad fight, but I think Figueroa is a good enough
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boxer that Nick Ball's not going to overwhelm
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him. The height difference is going to be humorous.
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Very humorous. Yeah, my answer to is Nick Ball
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good is usually no. I would say he's alright.
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But I'm typically overly generous with my assessments.
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Like I try to be, try to give a positive spin
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to anything. I'm too nice, I guess. I don't know.
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Yeah. So I would say he's all right. Anyways,
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I'm going to be backing Espinoza. Figueroa? Figueroa.
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Whoever he's fighting. The tall Mexican guy.
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Doesn't fucking matter who it is. Not really.
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No. Oh, Figueroa is the one that looks like he's
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wearing eye makeup all the time. That's correct.
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Okay. Yes. He has very nice eyelashes. I am jealous.
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Natural eyeliner. Natural mascara. Yeah, but
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he looks like he's wearing both eyeliner and
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mascara all the time. Maybe he is. I don't know.
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If it were to come out that he was or that he
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does, it wouldn't surprise me. Just because he's
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done modeling and he's been in movies. His nickname
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is the Heartbreaker. Well, Nick Ball versus Brandon
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Figueroa. I'm riding with Figueroa. I think most
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of North America will be riding with Figueroa
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on that one. Another kind of no -name opponent,
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Diego Pacheco versus Kevin Sancho. I do not know
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who that is either. I don't either. I just know
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that Diego Pacheco is back in December. Nice.
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I'm hopeful that he's going to put another clinic
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on. Kevin Sajo. His nickname is The Punisher.
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Is this the right guy? Yes. He is French Cameroonian
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that moved to France. That is like a boxing pipeline.
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There are a ton of people from Cameroon that
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moved to France. And by a ton, I can think of
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three. that's a lot there's probably like several
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dozen others that have done it that we don't
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know about but cameroon to france it's one of
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those like they have a uh history yeah i think
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colonial cameroon speaks french yeah they're
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francophones it's a colonial thing like because
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you were a former colony you're you couldn't
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kind of get fast track to That makes sense. Sorry
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for ruining your entire fucking lives. Your governments
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and everything. Sorry about that. Come to Paris.
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It's pretty cool here. Yeah, I assume Pacheco
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is probably going to win this. Yeah, it's a safe
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assumption, but... I'm trying to think of a safe
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assumption that we had. Where someone from France
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sparked somebody? Yeah. That's exactly the one.
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I'm wondering, who could that have been? Pacheco
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better not get Sarast. Sarast is a good verb.
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Yeah. It has... come into my vocabulary. I really
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like it. Because you can almost tell what it
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means even if you don't get the reference. True.
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Because it sounds like you're saying sauced.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. It
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sounds like you're getting styled on even if
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you don't know what the styling is. Well, speaking
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of styling, Amanda Serrano. is back in January.
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She's going to be fighting in Puerto Rico. That's
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nice. Homecoming fight? I don't know if it's
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homecoming, just because she's fought in PR a
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few times. I don't think it's that she's been
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away for an extended period. It's been a long
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time, hasn't it? Now I want to check. Which one's
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the Puerto Rico flag? Red and white stripes,
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blue with a star. Like four years? Four years.
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Okay, so this is homecoming then. If that's the
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case. Yeah, the first one I can find on BoxRec
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is... 2021. Wow. Okay. Homecoming fight it is.
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Actually, she hasn't fought in Puerto Rico very
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much. Almost all her fights are in the States
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or the Dominican. Really? That's Dominican, right?
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The white cross with the red and blue? I believe
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so. Santo Domingo is Dominican? Yeah, that's
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Dominican. Yeah. That's surprising because I
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know... She lived a lot of her life in New York.
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I mean, Puerto Rican, New York. That's a fucking
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pipeline. Yeah, I only see two Puerto Rico fights
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on her box rec. So that's pretty cool. She gets
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to fight at home. Or whatever. Childhood home.
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Fought in Sweden? That's fucking random. Frida
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Wahlberg used to be a big name. Was she? Yeah.
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That's not super random. Once she got the belts,
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Frida mostly fought at home. She didn't leave
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Scandinavia. I don't think. A lot of New York
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fights. Yeah. And a lot of Dominican fights.
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It's actually pretty surprising that she has
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fought so much in Dominican Republic but not
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in PR. That's fucking weird to me. Birthplace
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and residence. I don't know. I'm just saying.
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She hasn't fought there very much. No, I got
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you. It's fucking weird. I don't know if this
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is weird. Andre Ward came out saying, prime versus
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prime, he would probably lose to Roy Jones Jr.
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Or his words were not that he would lose, but
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probably wouldn't beat him. I don't think that's
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weird. Anybody who says they beat Roy Jones Jr.
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is a bit delusional, I think. Yeah, when I saw
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that, I was thinking at first, like, eh. Andre
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Ward does have, like, the jab and grab kind of
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style that could upset someone as dynamic as
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Roy Jones. But at the same time, like, Roy Jones
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was a fucking machine. He was a... Fucking untouchable
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in his prime. Oh my god, it was disgusting. It
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was unbelievable. I don't think he'd be able
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to grab him. I don't think so either. Prime Roy
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Jones was... Slippery is not the right word,
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but nobody was fucking grabbing onto him. He
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was very good at avoiding the clinch. Yeah. Well,
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he held his hands behind his back all the time,
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so he didn't have to clench at all. Exactly.
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I just thought that was interesting for someone
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who has been as successful as Andre Ward, for
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him to say. Yeah. But I mean, it's just being
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honest. It's that little bit of humility. that
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you wouldn't expect from someone who retired
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undefeated, who beat a lot of good names, for
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them to say, I don't think I'd win that fight.
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But I guess it's easy to pay homage to the legends,
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or to pay credence to the legends, rather than
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hyping yourself up even more. To the point of
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sounding silly enough saying I would beat Roy
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Jones in his prime. Yeah, I don't think anybody
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really can say that. Well, that's it for the
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news stuff. Unless you have anything more for
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I always love Josh's rants. It's my favorite
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We were making sales. I don't know what the problem
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38:24
the electrician in our hearts. Did he drop the
38:28
ball here? I think he did. Though he may have
38:33
gotten the nod, I don't think. Those scorecards
38:39
were fucking madness. Atrocious. Like, maybe
38:45
he won, but he didn't win every fucking round.
38:49
Steve Gray, he's often, oftentimes he's a scoring
38:55
referee, but he scored it 99 to 92. That's fucked.
39:02
That is unbelievable. And the other two judges,
39:06
97 -93. I think that's wide, but you could convince
39:12
me, probably. You could convince me that there
39:15
were some really close rounds and Padley pulled
39:20
it out. Maybe. That's what I mean. Yeah, maybe.
39:24
But, just on its face, 97 -93. absolutely the
39:30
fuck not yeah i don't know this also it wasn't
39:35
that exciting of a fight it was just because
39:38
it was josh padley and he's been the the electrician
39:43
yeah what did somebody in the chat say like the
39:49
only guy to get worse when he went full time
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i remember that yeah that's funny I don't know.
40:00
I would not tell people to go find this one if
40:02
they missed it. You didn't miss much. But the
40:06
scorecards were wider than I would have given.
40:13
Well, actually, that's a good segue. Speaking
40:15
of scorecards that are wider than I would have
40:18
given, David Allen drops the UD to Arslanbek
40:23
Makhmudov. What? 109, 117, 110, 116, 111, 115.
40:35
Because Mahmoudov got a point deduction for twice
40:41
for holding. And it should have been, well, that
40:45
second point should have been taken earlier,
40:47
I think. Absolutely. Because he took a point
40:51
and Mahmoudov didn't stop at all. Like, at all.
40:56
He should have taken a point earlier. The second
40:59
point would have come sooner as well. That third
41:02
point might have been a DQ. Because he was bear
41:08
-hugging like he had just reunited with his long
41:14
-lost fucking relatives. Yeah. And he was getting
41:17
in behind the head as well. I don't... He wasn't
41:23
hitting him behind the head. I don't want it
41:24
to sound like that's what I'm saying. But he
41:26
was, like, grabbing behind his head and, like,
41:29
pulling him in for a hug. Yeah. It was weird.
41:34
But Dave Allen did Dave Allen things. Like, he
41:38
just didn't have enough output either. That's
41:42
what I was wondering as I was watching. Because,
41:45
like, the commentary, they were slurping on Makhmudov
41:49
pretty hard. And I was wondering. Yeah, I thought
41:53
they were being unfair. Yeah. A bit. And I was
41:56
wondering, like, it made me think, like, I overcorrected.
42:00
And I was like, Dave Allen's not doing that bad.
42:02
Like, what are you talking about? He rocked Mahmoud
42:06
Ab a couple times. Right. Like, there were a
42:09
couple times I actually thought the KO was coming.
42:13
Yes. I believed. I believed in Dave Allen, which
42:16
is the dumbest shit you could ever do. And I
42:20
was so sad. British slop, but he's just such
42:25
a likable guy. I don't know. I got sucked in
42:28
by the personality. Yeah. It was an interesting
42:35
way that Josh put it in the rant that he had
42:40
on Dave Allen was that Dave Allen is like an
42:45
average Joe that you can relate to. He seems
42:51
like he's a bit of a scummer because he keeps
42:58
piss jugs in his bedroom. He does seem to have
43:06
some mental health shit that happens sometimes.
43:09
But he also just seems a little bit lazy. He
43:13
had a... crippling gambling addiction like he
43:17
has no control over any of his money anymore
43:19
he gave it all to he didn't give the money but
43:21
he gave control all to his sister to stop him
43:24
from gambling it away conservatorship or whatever
43:27
yeah whatever like yeah his first run he gambled
43:32
away all his money he was basically fighting
43:34
for free and he got super depressed and had piss
43:38
jokes because he's too lazy to walk to the toilet
43:43
That is, like, that is some crazy work. Too lazy
43:50
to walk to the toilet. Jesus. But he's in, like,
43:55
an average show, and he's, like, your local school
44:00
janitor. But he's just so shitty at his job.
44:04
He's, like, really terrible at his job. But he's
44:08
there. But you still love him. You still love
44:11
him. And he's so bad at his job. You gotta cheer
44:14
for him. Even though, as a janitor, he smears
44:19
shit all over the walls. But only sometimes.
44:24
Sometimes he cleans it really well. He cleans
44:26
it up nicely, but he still smears shit all over
44:31
the walls. Yeah, I don't know, man. I was legitimately
44:38
sad about this one. Yeah. And, like, Makhlodov
44:44
isn't good, and he seems to have a pretty suspect
44:47
chin. Like, Dave Allen doesn't have world -ending
44:51
power, and he was cracking them. I don't know.
44:55
This was a shit Brit slop, heavyweight, bullshit
45:00
clinch fest. And the guy I wanted to win lost.
45:06
This is not a good fight. Bad day. Bad day all
45:10
around. I woke up fucking early for this, just
45:12
to be sad. Didn't wake up from that at everyone?
45:20
I was awake before that. I legitimately set a
45:24
4 a .m. alarm so I could watch Dave Allen. You
45:28
should be ashamed. I am ashamed. That's possibly
45:32
worse than having piss jokes. Waking up at 4?
45:37
In the morning. To watch Dave Allen. To watch
45:40
Dave Allen. Specifically. Why, of all the fights
45:44
that you would wake up at four, why this one?
45:49
I wake up at four for a lot of fights living
45:51
in Japan. But why this one? Because it's Dave
45:54
Allen. You gotta cheer for the guy. I feel bad
46:02
for him. For the school janitor who happens to
46:06
box. Yeah, like, I don't know. I wanted him to
46:11
not blow it this time. He almost didn't. Several
46:17
times. He almost didn't. That is a summary of
46:23
Dave Allen's whole fucking career. He almost
46:26
didn't blow it this time. Because he's had like
46:31
three runs. he keeps fucking getting himself
46:35
into these positions yeah and then just fucks
46:40
it up i really i really thought this time i thought
46:44
this time he was gonna i believe in dave allen
46:49
as well because arsalan beck makhmudov is hot
46:52
fucking garbage yeah anyways Yeah, speaking of
47:02
not hot garbage, the Duran Ennis card. Quickly,
47:09
Guido Vianello stops Alexi Barillet in the fifth,
47:15
calls out AJ right afterwards. Oh, so did Makhmudov.
47:21
Both of them, they called out AJ. Makhmudov had
47:25
been saying before that if he won, he gets AJ.
47:28
I think Eddie's been... spreading lies. I can't
47:33
see AJ fighting Makhmadov. He does need a soft
47:37
comeback. That would be a soft touch. Knock him
47:41
out like he did in Ghanu. Speaking of knocking
47:49
out like in Ghanu, Jaron Ennis ends Uesma Lima
47:54
in the fucking first. In the first minute and
47:58
a half. Yeah, besides I said, I need to eat crow,
48:07
and I need to do it here as well, just because
48:11
I believed Uesma Lima could provide some semblance
48:16
of a test. I believed it. I expected it to go
48:22
a few rounds. Like, I thought Boots was going
48:24
to win, but I didn't think he'd blow him out
48:27
like that. Not like that. That was crazy. Yeah.
48:37
I don't even know what to say, because there's
48:39
not much to say. Like, go to YouTube and watch
48:42
the whole fight. It's a minute and a half long.
48:45
He beats his ass. Yeah. It was difficult. It
48:52
was... I was trying to defend Boots fighting
48:57
Lima as Lima being not that bad. But Boots needs
49:04
to start fighting better people. I can't defend
49:08
it anymore. The immediate call out was Virgil
49:14
Ortiz. Do you think that actually happens though?
49:19
It's possible. I think all of the political logistical
49:25
stuff is out of the way. It's just a matter of
49:29
whether or not the promoters want to put their
49:31
guy on the line, which Eddie Hearn seems ready.
49:35
Ennis is ready to do it. Because Virgil fights
49:42
soon, right? Like in a couple weeks? In a couple
49:45
weeks, he fights Erickson Lubin. Which might...
49:51
Well, I said it with Lima and was fucking wrong
49:54
as hell, but Lubin should be a bit of a test.
49:57
Like, Lubin's not terrible. Lubin has experience,
50:02
so he can make it grimy if he wanted to. Like,
50:07
who's Lubin lost to? He lost to Fundora, which
50:12
is a respectable, and Charlo. He's only lost
50:16
to the really bad. That was a while ago, though.
50:22
And he hasn't fought anybody. He robbed Jesus
50:27
Ramos. So, I'm not going to let that go. That
50:37
even was a couple years ago, though. Yes. He
50:41
hasn't been super active. Well, I guess he'll
50:44
have two fights this year. Active -ish. No fights
50:51
last year, though. Shaking my head. I don't know.
50:59
I would like to see Virgil versus Boots. Who
51:04
wouldn't? I can't see what other fight there
51:09
is to make at 154. That is the number one versus
51:13
number two. Who is at 154? The champs are...
51:20
Murtazaliev has the IBF. Abbas Baru has the WBA.
51:26
Oh, right. The German guy. Yeah. WBC is Fundora.
51:32
And WBO is Xander Zayas. Either of those guys
51:37
beat Xander Zayas. I think. Boots or Tees. Murtazaliev
51:47
would be... I don't remember even watching Beru.
51:51
I have no idea who this man is. It's not a whole
51:55
lot to remember. Somebody said he looks like
51:58
Terrence Crawford, and they're right. Like, their
52:00
eyes are the same. And now I can't unsee it.
52:06
But, like, Myrta is a tough fight for anyone,
52:12
I think. And Fundora's a tough fight for anyone.
52:21
Yeah, that's what I was saying. In the immediate
52:25
aftermath, it was... Just his frame is a challenge
52:32
for even someone as talented as Jaron Ennis.
52:38
Well, and Fundora is still improving. Like, he's
52:41
actually showing improvement between fights.
52:45
Which... Once you get to the world level, not
52:48
everybody does. You know what I mean? Yeah, I
52:53
got you. But, I don't know. Unified Interim is
52:58
kind of funny, so. Unified Interim? What? Boots
53:04
is Interim WBA and Virgil's Interim WBC. Oh,
53:09
shit. Unified Interim. Undisputed interim. Yeah.
53:20
I find that funny. But I would be surprised if
53:27
they don't make them fight. I'd be surprised
53:31
if they don't wait for one of them to get a belt.
53:34
Which I assume would be Enes. Fighting Beru.
53:38
Yeah. If Thurman somehow beats Fundora, Virgil
53:47
would kick Thurman's ass, I think. I don't think
53:51
that would be very pretty. It would be a colossal
53:55
beatdown. Might be an injury off on the way to
54:00
the fight, too. Oh, shit. I still can't believe
54:05
it's Fundora that caused that delay and not Thurman.
54:08
That's crazy. But, yeah, I don't know. Boots
54:15
fucking steamrolled Lima. Boots needs to fight
54:18
somebody good. Like, somebody I don't need to
54:22
defend. That being said, if he went for a belt
54:30
against Beru, I mean, that makes sense too. Yeah,
54:33
it's the logical step. Yeah. Anything more for
54:43
Ennis? I don't think so. And last thing on the
54:49
docket, coming up this week, we have a Queensberry
54:54
card at the O2 Arena in London. Whole bunch of
54:58
shit on here that I do not care about, even a
55:01
little bit. Where's Lynn? Because somebody needs
55:07
to put this shit into context for me. Jimmy Dean
55:11
is a fuck of a name. Yep. All one word. Jimmy
55:15
Dean. All one word, though. It's not Jimmy Dean.
55:19
It's not James Dean Wood. It's Jimmy Dean. Jimmy
55:23
Dean. That's such an American name. How is he
55:27
from Kent? Like, that sounds straight out of
55:35
Alabama. It does. My boy, Jimmy Dean Wood. Okay.
55:42
Oh, is your name James? No, it's Jimmy Dean.
55:46
Yeah, so James Dean. No, Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Dean.
55:52
I sell sausages. Yeah, I don't recognize any
55:58
of these. Danny Quartermain? I think I've heard
56:00
that name. I have not. I might be confusing him
56:05
with somebody then. Juergen Alden? Doug? Oldadai?
56:14
Is it an I? No, it's a J, but it's from a place
56:18
where the J's are Y's. I see. Where's he from?
56:26
Albania. Anyways. Headlining this card, Joseph
56:31
Parker versus Fabio Wardley. This one might be
56:35
fun. I'm surprised Joseph Parker took this fight.
56:39
He has an interim title. He's in the running
56:44
for an Usyk fight, and he chose instead to do
56:51
this against a guy who can absolutely be outboxed,
56:57
but has proven time and again, you can be outboxing
57:02
him 10 -0. but he will spark your ass out in
57:09
the 11th. It's a pretty dangerous fight. I was
57:14
also a little surprised. I mean, Parker's definitely
57:20
the better boxer. Of course. And he has a decent
57:26
chin, but he's been knocked out before. It's
57:29
by Joe Joyce, I believe. Yeah. Joe Joyce hits...
57:35
harder than people give him credit for i think
57:38
harder than fabio wardley no i just mean like
57:44
i i think parker has a decent chin but it can
57:49
be cracked and wardley has the power to crack
57:52
it okay he's just gotta hit him like and this
57:58
might be a bit of a stinker because parker's
58:00
gonna have to fight careful Right, he's going
58:03
to have to outbox, and it's not going to look
58:05
fun. Yeah. But, I mean, I like Joseph Parker.
58:15
Again, more for his personality than anything
58:18
else. But, I don't know. It is a fight of all
58:22
time. I will watch it. Yeah. The crowd will probably
58:26
be pretty cool. The O2 arena is always loud.
58:31
Yeah, I'm sure Fabio Wardley is going to pull
58:33
the people out. And Joseph Parker. I don't know
58:39
if he lives in the UK, but I know he trains there
58:42
a lot. Yeah, I think he still lives in New Zealand.
58:49
Or his family does. I don't know. I'll probably
58:54
tune in, but I don't have high hopes for this
58:56
being super fun. Yeah. I don't either. And it's
59:00
totally understandable from Joseph Parker's perspective.
59:04
You're not going to sit there and trade with
59:06
Fabio Wardley, who does have that one -touch
59:10
power. Yeah. I mean, I guess if you like heavyweights
59:14
because they're not my thing, it'll be exciting
59:16
because you never know if Wardley's going to
59:18
land that or not. Like, you'll be sitting waiting
59:21
for it. I will be sitting there waiting for it.
59:29
Not my thing. I don't want to wait for action.
59:35
I don't care if people get knocked out. I just
59:37
want shit happening. 5 ,000 punches in the first
59:42
round. Yeah. As Damel would say, I like the shiny
59:46
keys jingling in front of me. That's the type
59:52
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What? It is now... 13 hours. No, no. I sent you
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1:04:13
I have to leave my house at 9am to get there
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before the fights start, I gotta eat something
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during the day. Like, I can't just drink for
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12 hours and not cause problems. Not cause problems.
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That's a good caveat. I could drink for 12 hours,
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but it would cause problems. But I'm super excited
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about that, and that email made me more excited.
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Fucking 12 hours of fights, Leo. That is a lot.
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The closest to me is Denver. And that's like
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a 10 -hour drive. Or I'd have to fly. I'm just
1:05:00
saying, like, it might be worth it. If I could,
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you know, I might. Depending on the card, depending
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on the event, who's on it, I might go. Well,
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so the headline for this one is Super Bon, which
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is exciting as fuck. Or at least to me it's exciting
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as fuck. And Rod Tang's on it too. I've always
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wanted to see Rod Tang. Super Lek is on it. He's
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fighting kickboxing, not Muay Thai, but he should
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still be a fun watch. Super Lek's on it too?
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Yep. Nice. takaru sagawa's on it like okay how
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many this is the main card so like not the other
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stuff one two three four five six 11 12 13 14
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15 16 fights on the main card kickboxing and
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mma and muay thai um Looking at 30 minutes of
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fight. Yeah, I'm just saying. That's a lot of
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fights. That's a lot of stuff. And, like, I don't
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even follow one, really. And I recognize a bunch
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of these names. I'm super excited for it. You're
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following one now. Super like's way down. He
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is. Yeah, but I follow. exclusively watch the
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Friday Night Fights. Like, and I don't know who
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any of those people are. Exciting. Super exciting,
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but no name recognition at all. I guess my parting
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words is I'm fucking excited for 1FC in Tokyo,
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and if it's anywhere near you, you're gonna get
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your money's worth, because I know tickets are
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cheap here, but I'm only paying like a hundred
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bucks Canadian for my ticket. That's like 85,
1:07:15
80 American. Yeah, it's, it's not much. I am
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in the, I'm in the upper deck this time, but
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still gonna be fun. uh i don't have the only
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parting words i have i'm gonna i'm gonna use
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uh josh's old refrain of pro box good yeah pro
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box is good watch pro box the next pro box card
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is on november 7th god and it it has a couple
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guys i really like yeah like this is gonna be
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a better than normal pro box card yeah good stuff
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All right. That's it for this edition of Boxing
1:08:00
Before Dark. My battery is getting low. And it
1:08:04
is getting dark. All right. See you on the other
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side of Joseph Parker.