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[BxBD] Xander Zayas vs Jaron "Boots" Ennis · 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. We are up in your ears. And we're here
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to talk the fights. Shanada, how is Japan? Japan
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is awesome. Japan is awesome. Too hot. I just
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got back from a week -long vacation up north.
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I did four days in Aomori and one day in Sendai.
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Aomori was great. I don't think very many people
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get up that far, but it's like at the very tip
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before Hokkaido. Hokkaido is that other island,
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right? Yeah, the big island up near Russia. I
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was actually really shocked about how much English
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there was. I found three different bars where
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the bartenders all spoke enough English to have
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a conversation. It was really nice. That's cool.
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Yeah, I don't get that in Chiba. That's fun.
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Unfortunately, we have to start with some not
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-so -fun news. Daisuke Sugita found dead from
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a gunshot wound. What do you know about this?
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Daisuke Sugita also worked full time as a police
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officer in Tokyo. Apparently he was found with
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a gunshot wound to the head and they're investigating
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it as a suicide. Probably used his work gun.
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Yeah, his service pistol. Yeah, but he was also
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an active boxer. I think he last fought in, like,
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March. And won, but not that that matters. Yeah,
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brain damage. We see, over on the MMA side, there's
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a guy named BJ Penn. Pretty well known. Maybe
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you've heard of him. He's from the era you might
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know. Yeah, I recognize the name. BJ Penn is
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standing trial for domestic violence, for elder
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abuse, and violating a restraining order. He
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has Capgras Syndrome, where he believes his family
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was murdered and replaced by imposters. Yeah.
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To steal his money, is what he says. The point
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is, like, the damage from combat sports is fucking
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real. Even if you... Yeah. Well, I mean, that's
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definitely a factor. But I also think he didn't
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have a great life before boxing. Oh, shit. And
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being part of the Tokyo police force, he probably
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sees a lot of bad shit. So... Type of stuff that
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they... Tried to not let us foreigners see. Yeah.
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Anyways, it's just really sad. The first announcement
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I saw, it just said gunshot wound and that he
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was wearing his police uniform. So I was conspiracy
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theories all over the place about like a Yakuza
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hit or something. But it's being investigated
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as suicide. Yikes. Yeah. Also not so fun. I don't
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have a lot of info on this one. Colin Kearney.
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He's a 10 and 0 professional out of Scotland.
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He was out in Thailand. I think it was like a
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family or recreational trip. And he was in an
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accident with one of their little taxi carts.
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They call them tuk -tuks. Yeah, this one's really
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weird, actually. So he was drunk going back to
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his hotel. And he didn't have cash. So the driver
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said he'd take him to an ATM and was speeding
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past the hotel and he fell out of the tuk -tuk
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in front of his hotel and he hit his head on
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the pavement. Jeez. So he tried to stiff the
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driver, it sounds like. Or the driver pushed
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him out is one of the conspiracy theories. Or
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he was just drunk and like, hey, that's my hotel
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and fell out. He was in the ICU for a few days,
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but he didn't make it. Well, still, when fighters
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fall for the final time, try to give our respects
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to the competitors that make what we do, you
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and I. Yeah. Yeah, he still deserves a shout
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-out, even if it was just a drunken accident.
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10 -0. Might have put Scotland on the map. Who
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fucking knows? We'll never know now. That's really
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too bad. Yeah. But, yeah. Condolences to the
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Sugita and the Kearney families. Yeah. Rest in
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peace. To slightly lighten the mood, there's
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a thing going around Instagram. Someone thinks
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they saw Tank with his kid at Disneyland. Okay.
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All right, Tank, I see you. Trying to be a dad?
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While you're on the run from the FBI? Of all
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places to go. I don't know if it was him. The
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video's from quite far away, but I mean, from
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a distance, it really does look like Tank. And
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his lady. And his definitely not gay kid. Yeah,
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his toddler in a stroller. That is somehow already
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gay. Man, what the fuck are you even on about,
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Tank? Anyways. Yeah, let me get some other not
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-so -fun stuff out of the way. The boxing survey
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continues. BXNG .co slash survey. I want to hear
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what you think about the titles. The whole picture
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brought to a vote yet. So there's still time.
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them. And tell them that this legislation is
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not good. All right. Positive news. Hiroto Kyoguchi
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and his wife are having maternity photos. They're
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pretty fucking cute, I must admit. They always
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do very adorable, like, professional photo shoots
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with them and their little dog. I was like, oh,
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this is another one of those because the first
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picture is just their faces with the dog. And
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then the next one, she's quite far along. She's
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glowing. Yeah. I was really happy to see it.
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I kind of think he was waiting to retire before
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they have kids. I would hope so. Like, you don't
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want to be getting your ass kicked. Lots of boxers
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have kids while they're active. Yeah. We'll talk
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about him in a moment, but Bam had his kid at
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the post -fight press conference. She's really
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cute. Yeah. But yeah, I'm really happy for the
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Kyoguchis. They seem like such an adorable little
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couple. Yeah, they do look like really fucking
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happy together. Yeah. Speaking of being happy
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together... Virgil Ortiz and Golden Boy are making
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positive progress on reconciling their relationship.
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It's looking like that Virgil is going to be
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back in the ring by fall or autumn. That's I
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don't like calling it fall. All right. It's this
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one. This is positive. Yes. I like this news.
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Quite positive. I'm happy for Virgil. Glad he's
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getting his like his shit back in order. Hopefully
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Goldenboy's doing right by him more than anything.
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I hope Virgil's being taken care of the way that
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he deserves. But he also needs to get a move
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on his career. Yeah. He's wasting like his prime
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years right now. Yeah. Arguing with Oscar about
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whatever. Dumb shit that I don't care about.
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Hold on a second. All right. We got way the fuck
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off topic. I'm going to cut it right there so
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that you know we went off topic. And you're going
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to have to go to Patreon to find out what we
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were talking about. So where are we left off?
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Virgil Ortiz, golden boy, making positive progress.
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Congratulations. I hope, Virgil, I hope you get
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what you're looking for. You fucking deserve
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it. You're like a world -class athlete. Goldenboy's
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just another promoter. Hamza Shiraz will be ordered
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to defend his WBO super middleweight title against
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Jakob Bank. Fist pumping. Nice. Jakob Bank getting
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his shot. Getting his just desserts. Yeah. Hell
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yeah, dude. That's all I really got is... Like,
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fucking hell yeah, brother. Fucking get after
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it, man. Get it. Yeah. I wonder where that fight
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will be. Like, geography -wise. Yeah, yeah. They
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could do it in UK. Like, Denmark can travel.
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They could do it in Denmark. The UK travels better,
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probably. I would agree with you. That UKlings
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are more accustomed to traveling for their people.
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And it's not that far. I can't imagine, like,
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plane tickets to Copenhagen are crazy expensive.
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Nah. Nonetheless, we will be watching. I will
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be fucking 100 % team Jakub. Of course. I actually
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have friends in Copenhagen. If it wasn't so soon,
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I would consider visiting them. It looks like
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they have a few months to set up a deal before
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it goes to purse bids. And so from the time that
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they have to make a deal for themselves, there's
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also a time break when purse bids will be called.
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That's true. You do have time. If you really
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wanted to go, you have time. Yeah. That's a lot
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of flying in one year, though. I've got like
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27 hours of flights to get home. Ish. Yeah. I
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do not envy you one bit. That's going to suck
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hard. Let's see here. Bam. Targeting a unification
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with WBO champ Christian Medina. I think it goes
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by Chispa. Good, but not the one I want to see.
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What are you hoping for? I want to see him in
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Takuma if he's unifying. Yeah, that would be
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the more fun unification. They were... I'm not
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complaining, like, loudly. This is really good.
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It's just not my, like, ideal. Your preference.
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Not your preference. Yeah. I'm just glad to see
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Bam is getting busy real quick. We talked about
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already the Kameda card. If Willie Baldo really
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fucked up, he could have had a payout with Bam.
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He could have. Instead, he loses to his fucking
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mandatory. Like, purse bid -ass mandatory. I
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don't know if it was a purse bid, but it was
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like that level of... It probably was. If the
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Kamedas are winning it, yeah, probably. Yeah.
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Anyway, Bam, Christian Medina, nice. Of course,
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the Takuma storyline, it writes itself. I also
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just think Takuma is the hardest fight for Bam
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at that weight class. Who's the IBF? Um... Jose
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Salas Reyes. Jose Reyes. Okay. And then WBA is
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Antonio Vargas. No, Bam just beat him. No, that's
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Bam. Yeah. Yeah. Boxing team needs to update
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their website. I would say Takuma is probably
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the better call. Like, as far as who presents
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the biggest challenge. Yeah. Here's a fun one.
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Ryosuke Nishida and Sam Goodman are going to
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be fighting for a 122 belt IBF interim. IBF does
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not call interims very often. I know this is
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a little weird to say, but the IBF is really
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doing Naoya a solid here and not making him fight
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one of these two clowns. Yeah, I kind of feel
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like they're preparing the division for Naoya
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to leave. Getting their interims in place. So
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that they can just elevate them day one. Are
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the other belt holders or belts similarly setting
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up? I can't find any news. The WBA has an interim.
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It's Victor Santillan. And the WBC and WBO do
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not. WBC doesn't have an interim? Not at that
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weight class. Holy shit. I know. But I'm excited
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for this fight. I am expecting Sam Goodman to
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get, well, not knocked out, because Nishida doesn't
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hit that hard, but just outclassed. Embarrassingly
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outclassed. I'm kind of on the other side of
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it, where I think Sam Goodman has the toolkit
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to keep Nishida at bay. I don't think so. I think
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Nishida's more skilled than people give him credit
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for. And I think your hatred for Sam Goodman
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runs deep. Also might be showing, yes. But I
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think this is a good matchup. It's a good fight.
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Very, very good fight. Triple G inducted into
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the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Motherfucking
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congratulations. You deserve it. The haters online
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are out to fucking lunch on this one. I can't
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believe how many people are upset about Triple
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G getting into the Hall of Fame. The one thing
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that I don't like about Triple G's success. is
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the way that they say most title defenses at
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middleweight when a solid 60 -70 % of those were
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a regular title. WBA regular. Yeah. Doesn't fucking
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count. Regardless, that does not change Triple
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G's... The success of those fights, WBA regular
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be damned, he still had a lot of success in his
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career. Very deserving of this induction. Yeah.
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Moses Itauma Filip Hergovich will be fighting
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at the O2 Arena in London August 29th. Another
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step up for Itauma here. I'm liking that he's
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getting the step ups now. He needs them. He's
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just been making everyone look stupid. He sure
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has. How many steps before we call it, like,
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he's world class. Like, he should be, like, title
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contention world class, I mean. Maybe one more
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step up after Hergovich. Hergovich has been not
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great lately. True. Where is he in the rankings?
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Maybe one more. I guess Hergovich is ranked number
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two by the WBO and number four by the IBF. Six
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by the WBA and four by the WBC. So maybe this
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fight. This might be it. Yeah, this might be
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it. Usyk, bless his heart. fucking all -timer,
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hall -of -famer. But his time in the sport is
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extremely limited, and I sincerely doubt he's
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going to fight someone like Atalma with the little
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time he has left. Yeah, I don't think so. But
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if Atalma beats Hergovich, especially if he beats
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him really convincingly, I'd say he's in title
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contention. He'll just have to wait for Usyk
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to... Age out. Which isn't going to be a long
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wait. Do the interim picture. To get himself.
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Positioned for. Like to be. The if not elevated.
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He'll be. The number one contender. To fight
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the number two. Or whatever. Atalma is already
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number one for Dubois. According to boxing scene.
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But Dubois has the Wardley rematch. Yeah, but
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so this is one versus two in the WBO. Atalma
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versus Herkovich. So this puts them on the right
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timeline, kind of. Yeah, true. Good point. Jaleel
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Hackett will be facing Sergei Derevyanchenko
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on Zufa 9, July 26th. This is the one in New
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York. I really like Sergei, but he's maybe getting
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too old for his style. I know he's not age -wise
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that old, but... Jaleel Hackett's not great,
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so... Sergei could pull this off. Khalil Hackett's
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nickname is the Black Mexican. What? Boxrack.
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El Negro Mexicano is his alias on Boxrack. I
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guess he must be a brawler. Sorry. I just pulled
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him up to see his face and that caught me off
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guard. Yeah, it should be a fun fight. I mean,
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Ervinchenko's always in fun fights. If he could
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damn near beat Imbili with one arm. One -handed.
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Yeah. I just, I cannot doubt the man. I think
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he's self -aware enough to mature his game with
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his age. and fight in a style that's a little
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bit more conservative, but wins points. You know
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what I mean? That's true. Yeah, Sergey's pretty
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smart. Yeah, he gave Triple G a hell of a fight.
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So, why not? Errol Spence vs. Tim Zhu. The undercard
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has been announced. They're doing a full US versus
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Australia. It's pretty fun. They actually played
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into it with World Cup. US beat Australia 2 -0.
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Nice. And so they're like, round one goes to
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the US. Round two on July whatever. That's kind
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of fun. I like that. So we got Errol Spence versus
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Tim Zhu. Jamal Charlo versus Cohen Mazudier.
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That is my sleeper fight of the night. I don't
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know who Mazudier is, I don't think. He's a fun
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fighter. He's not undefeated or anything like
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that, but he's super fun. Okay. So it should
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make for a good time with an older Jamal. Stephen
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Fulton versus Liam Wilson. Ivan Actis versus
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Callum Peters. Ahmad Reda versus Paul Fleming.
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And Paulo Alcuso versus Luis Tejeda. Nice. That
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was all US versus Australia. I kind of like the
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gimmicky cards like this. It's fun. Japan versus
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the world. It'll be in the U .S., right? This
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is in Australia. Oh, in Australia. The crowd's
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going to be a bunch of dickheads, and it's going
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to be great. Oh, yeah. A bunch of sick cunts,
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as the Aussies would say. I am fully expecting
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more Donald Trump chants. Oh, boy. Yeah, they
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did that at the World Cup game. They were, like,
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a lot of... I don't know how they made it rhyme,
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but something something, Trump is a pedo. Do
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you guys want to get sent home? The Scottish
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one, I think, is my favorite. What's the Scottish
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one? The Tartan Army's on a bender. Donald Trump
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is a sex offender. That is fantastic. Do you
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guys want to get sent home? Because you're going
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to get sent home. I mean, I agree with you, but
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maybe it's, it's a similar situation to where
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situations I found myself in, in the UK where
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someone was being like obnoxious and everybody
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else around, like all the Brits are like, just
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kind of like side -eyeing like, Oh God, look
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at this asshole. Like, well, okay. I'll be the
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rude. Fucking American. And I'll say something
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like, hey, can you calm the fuck down for two
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seconds, please? The funniest is them interviewing
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like mega people on the street and they're like,
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oh, they're only doing this because they can't
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do stuff like this at home. They don't have freedom
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of speech. I was like, do you really think the
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US is the only place where people have freedom
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of speech? Like, that's crazy. Silly people,
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man. Kenshiro Taraji versus Israel Gonzalez for
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the vacant WBO super flyweight title. So that's
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fun. Which one's Israel? This is Kenshiro's third
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division? Yeah. Taraji hasn't been looking super
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great lately. I thought he was going to retire.
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Kind of hoped he was going to retire, to be honest.
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But. Should be fun. Yeah. I mean, Japan versus
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Mexico is always fun. Two very similar clubber.
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Yeah. Styles. People are speculating. Devin Haney
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versus Shakur Stevenson is all but set. The hint
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was Shakur Stevenson posted a photo of him weighing
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himself, and he was like 144 and change. Oh yeah,
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I saw that post. Yeah. So that's what people
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are taking as proof that this is what's next.
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That might be a bit of a stretch, but I also
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won't be surprised if that's true. It's a bigger
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money fight than Keyshawn Davis. That's for sure.
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Yeah. I've said it before. This one doesn't super
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appeal to me. This is going to be a purists fight.
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Yeah, you're right. It'll be... If I'm... If
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I'm having beers for this fight, I'm not going
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to have fun. I'll have more fun just like bullshitting
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in chat. Yeah. watching the fight but if i'm
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sitting if i'm locked into it then i'll i'll
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have a good time but not not my style of matchup
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but for the people who like that it should be
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a really good fight oh speaking of fights turkey
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al -sheikh is apparently having health trouble
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and he's losing his cognitive functions Yeah,
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dude has a pretty big brain tumor or something,
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right? Good lord. I didn't know the details.
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I'm like 85 % sure it's a brain tumor. That's
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manageable, isn't it? It depends where it is
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and what it is. If it's too deep in there or
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something, I don't know. I'm not a doctor. One
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of my uncles had a brain tumor and they did so
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many surgeries and it kept coming back that eventually
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they can't cut any more of your brain out. He
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did say he wants to try to negotiate a peace
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between all the major promoters as one of his
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last acts before he... I don't know if he chooses
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to resign or if he becomes terminal. Yeah, what
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happens to all the Saudi money in boxing? Does
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it all just go away when the man playing with
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his action figures can't play anymore? Yeah,
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that's a good question. That's what I was wondering.
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A little cynical of me to... To be the first
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thing that I think about is what happens to the
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Saudi investment in the sport. Maybe there's
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someone's going to take over the program. I would
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say that so far, like cost, I would say that
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investing in boxing as a form of sports washing
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has been cost effective. Because they get elite
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world -class athletes for 10 mil, 15, 20 mil.
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Versus when they signed Cristiano Ronaldo to
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the Saudi Super League for football, it was like
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120 mil or some shit for like two years. Yeah,
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that's crazy. Yeah. Whereas Dimitri Bivol comes
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at a price of $10. That's true. And you don't
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have to set up a whole league like their soccer
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league. I mean, you're paying one guy $100 million.
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How much is all of the guys? And the golf one
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must have been pretty pricey as well. They spent
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a fuckload of money on the golfers. I remember
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that. But that's it for the news. Well, as much
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as I dislike the Saudi government, I don't know.
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Turkey, I hope it doesn't suck too badly, I guess.
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Don't want to wish ill on him, but at the same
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time, you're like a representative of a bloody
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regime. We started on Bummer News and ended on
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Bummer News. I don't like that. Let me see if
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I can find something really quick. We should
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have saved the maternity pictures for last. Here's
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an interesting question. Would Itauma beating
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Hergovich Is that better than Agit Kabayel's
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resume? Is that better than anyone on his? And
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I think Kabayel's best one is Frank Sanchez.
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I think so. Like, Hergavit is, like, he's definitely
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top 10. Probably closer to top 5. So is Frank
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Sanchez, though. That's true. And he just got,
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like, the recent win over Richard Torres, it
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helps age that win for Caballon a lot better
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than anything. Sanchez looked really good in
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that fight. He did. As short as it was, he looked
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fantastic. I mean, he looked really good because
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it was short, probably. Yeah, you're probably
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right. I mean... Frank Sanchez, well, he's Cuban
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33. How much of a gas tank does he have still?
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I would say the nature of the win makes it that
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we don't really... It's another intangible where
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the coaching was critical to that victory. Because
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Eddie Reynoso spotted that way that Torres was
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ducking, like ducking down. He caught it within
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the first round. And he told Frank how to set
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it up to get that knockout. I don't know. But
33:36
the more we talk about it, the more I think this
33:38
win really does put a Tauma up there deserving
33:41
of a title shot. I think you're right. I would
33:48
put Atauma below Kabael, but that's a testament
33:57
to how high Kabael is and how high Atauma has
34:01
come. That he wouldn't overtake Kabael, but he's
34:06
still up at that level. Yeah, I would agree with
34:10
that. Well, that's not so much of a bummer. Hitama,
34:16
you are world class, my man. You're going to
34:20
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38:01
But, recaps. Really quickly, let me just get
38:06
this out of the way. Eye of the Tiger on DAZN.
38:12
Layla Boudouin gets the UD over Paulina Angel.
38:21
Interim WBA Super Featherweight title was on
38:24
the line. And the main event. Wilkins Matthew
38:34
stops Esquiva Falcao in eight. Not surprising.
38:44
There were not that many stoppages on this one.
38:48
A lot of decisions. Close decisions, too. Maybe
38:52
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it's all good. Saturday, June 13th. It's a little
39:08
bit of a busy day. MF Pro on DAZN. Fucking out
39:14
of Manchester. Tommy Fury gets the majority decision
39:17
over Eddie Hall. It was a six -round fight, two
39:21
-minute rounds. It was as silly as it sounds.
39:30
Overall. I have to admit, I didn't watch this
39:32
one, but I saw some clips that were sped up like
39:35
times two or whatever. It looked like Tommy Fury
39:38
was just avoiding Eddie Hall, which is smart,
39:43
but like boring as fuck. Yeah, it does not make
39:46
for a fun fight. Yeah. So. Kind of what everyone
39:52
expected that knew anything, I assume. Right.
39:57
The idea. That a guy who floats between light
40:05
heavyweight and cruiserweight is going to fight
40:08
like a 350 -pound fucking muscle monster, close
40:12
range. If you genuinely thought that, I got a
40:17
bridge to sell you. Yeah. It's fucking ridiculous.
40:25
And the fight fully reflected that. ridiculousness
40:29
of the MF Pro in general. Yeah. MVP W4 at the
40:39
Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. It was fun.
40:45
A fun fact. The only stoppages on this card were
40:50
in the men's fights. All the women's fights went
40:55
to decision. let me see just some selects Estefani
41:07
Alegria takes the throne from Evelyn Bermudez
41:13
claims the IBF WBA WBO light flyweight titles
41:18
Natalie Delgado takes the WBA super flyweight
41:24
title from Jasmine Artiga Tiara Brown retains
41:30
the WBC featherweight title over Hannah Rapp
41:34
and O'Shea Jones split draw with Elia Carranza.
41:40
The IBF super welterweight title was on the line
41:43
there. I knew that main event was going to be
41:48
close. I mean, I never called draws, but I knew
41:52
it was going to be a close fight. Yeah, split
41:56
draw. You were not far off. The meat of the dish.
42:07
Matchroom on the zone at the Desert Diamond Arena
42:10
in Phoenix. Oh boy, I was present. So we're going
42:17
to go from the bottom up. Ronnie Alvarez gets
42:21
the stoppage in seven over Filip Stankovic. This
42:24
was a competitive fight. For the first like three
42:28
or four rounds. Ronnie Alvarez invested to the
42:32
body and it paid off in the later rounds. Hector
42:38
Beltran gets the stoppage in two over Shaquille
42:41
Felicia. I think Felicia is the first fighter
42:47
I've ever heard of from Alaska. Really? Yeah.
42:54
That is kind of cool. I thought that was really
42:57
cool. I saw his trunks, and they had the star
43:02
pattern from the Alaska flag. And then they called
43:06
out fighting out of, I think, Juneau. And I was
43:13
like, yeah, holy shit. I have never seen the
43:16
Alaska flag. That's actually a pretty cool flag.
43:18
I like it. Yeah, it's nice. Hector Beltran beat
43:23
his ass. Well, you know. It do be like that sometimes.
43:29
Sometimes. Shechal Esquivel gets the stoppage
43:34
in six over Rayshawn Taylor. I remember as this
43:39
fight was playing out, it was pretty scrappy.
43:42
And Rayshawn was cagey, but he was tough. And
43:47
Shechal. At round three and four, I was like,
43:53
okay, you got this in the bag. Let's go ahead
43:57
and wrap it up here. And then the fifth goes
44:01
all the way through. I'm like, okay. I remember
44:04
writing down as I was taking my notes. I got
44:10
some questions about stopping power. And then
44:13
sixth round starts and he gets the stoppage.
44:16
Of course. Yeah, because you were in press row
44:20
for this, right? Yes. Nice. Got to take your
44:26
notes and look professional. The two fucking
44:29
goobers that were sitting on either side of me
44:32
were just talking to each other the whole time.
44:35
I fucking hate that. I would have switched seats
44:38
with one of them. I was doing my fucking job,
44:42
taking notes, observing the fights, watching.
44:46
like trying to be as detailed as i can and they're
44:51
just like talking to each other like i'm not
44:53
there i would have switched seats like what why
44:57
are you guys fucking here why are you here if
45:01
you're uh you're not watching you're not paying
45:03
attention yeah yeah um well well i remember very
45:08
clearly what outlets they were with but Unprofessional.
45:14
Yes, I'll save that for another time. Trainee
45:20
Ochoa stops Christian Perez in two. This one
45:24
got going before I really had any observations.
45:29
It got done before I could really see anything.
45:33
I mean, stoppage in two, there's usually not
45:36
much to see. Right. It was a cagey first round,
45:39
too, I remember, because I was like, man. How
45:43
like did if this is as as the second started
45:48
and it looked like he was gonna get the stoppage
45:50
man, I Didn't I didn't see anything in the first
45:54
round like it's like you were downloading and
45:57
you've download complete But I didn't you got
46:02
it done really fast like there's nothing nothing
46:05
really for me to say That was the end of the
46:12
prelims, I believe. Elias Montoya stops Adrian
46:19
Rodriguez in the second. Don't really remember
46:22
this one, to be honest. I mean, those fast fights
46:27
are hard to remember sometimes. Especially when
46:31
people are talking around you. Yeah. I made sure
46:35
to take notes for the prelims. Just because once
46:39
I figured out that they weren't televised, it's
46:42
like, man, I'm going to be... We gotta... I'm
46:47
the only way that people... We gotta let our
46:48
listeners know. Yeah. This is the only way you're
46:51
gonna know is me telling you what I saw. I should
46:56
have published it by the time you're hearing
46:58
this, but I should have put up my prelim report
47:00
on the website. Let's see. This one was a surprise.
47:09
I wasn't expecting this one. Alif Nur Turhan,
47:12
the IBF lightweight champion, gets the UD 96
47:18
-94 across the board over Gabriela Tellez. Alif
47:26
was very unusual, very unorthodox. I haven't
47:32
seen her before. Swinging out of the most random
47:35
places. It was surprising. I mean, she's defended
47:40
a couple times. It seems to be working. Yeah.
47:45
We've got Lady Nav out here. You know what? You
47:49
might be onto something with that. They should
47:55
actually start pairing those two on cards together.
48:02
I really like when unorthodox styles work out.
48:07
Like, you do everything wrong, but somehow you
48:10
keep winning, so who am I to say you're doing
48:12
it wrong? Yeah. All it really does is fly in
48:17
the face of fucking nerds like me. I'm like,
48:20
uh, here I thought. Yeah. I thought there were
48:24
rules to this game. God damn it. I thought you
48:26
couldn't throw leaping lead uppercuts, but I
48:29
guess fuck it. Why not? Fuck it, we ball. Arturo
48:38
Cardenas gets the UD over Jordan Martinez. Jordan
48:44
is the hometown kid. And this one was a case
48:51
of Arturo. The intangibles came into play here
48:58
where Arturo had better coaching. and he showed
49:05
different wrinkles to the game, whereas Jordan
49:10
Martinez was just kind of doing the same thing,
49:12
and it wasn't working. So Cardenas was able to
49:17
adapt and overcome. And last bit, Jesse Bam Rodriguez
49:27
knocks out Antonio Vargas in six. man that was
49:35
almost it was almost a blink and you miss it
49:37
kind of situation for me I fucking love body
49:41
shot knockouts they're my favorite and it's been
49:43
a while since we had like a really big one on
49:46
a big famous card and I know the undercard on
49:50
this wasn't super stacked but I fucking love
49:53
body shot knockouts and I love when everyone
49:56
sees them I remember as the fight was starting,
50:05
I thought Antonio opened up really well. Even
50:13
though you might think it's only three pounds.
50:17
Can't be that big of a difference, right? But
50:20
I feel like the difference was evident here.
50:23
And Antonio used his weight, used his size to
50:28
the best of his advantage. And he was able to
50:32
find success in the opening two or three. Three.
50:38
When did he get the knockdown? I don't remember.
50:44
Sorry. That's all right. Box rec doesn't have
50:48
it. Of course not. I just I remember the opening
50:52
rounds that Vargas was having success. I even
50:56
asked in chat and I was like, hey, is. Is it
51:01
just me, or is Bam getting mogged right now?
51:04
I used that specific brain rot word. And one
51:09
of the responses was, yeah, he kind of is. But
51:13
that was only in the beginning. As the fight
51:18
went on, Bam turned that shit around real quick.
51:24
AI says the knockdown was in the fifth. Fifth
51:29
and sixth. Okay. Yeah, fifth round he dropped
51:32
them, sixth round he stopped them. Makes sense.
51:37
Yeah. I am not double -checking the AI, so if
51:43
it's wrong, let us know. No, I thought Vargas
51:48
looked like he could hang for a little while,
51:52
and then Bam just pieced him up. Like, we all
51:56
kind of thought he would. Started doing Bam stuff.
51:59
Yeah. That liver shot, like, as soon as he went
52:03
down, I was like, no fucking way he's getting
52:05
up. There is no chance in hell he is standing
52:08
up the way he dropped. When he was on his knee,
52:12
I was like, okay, he might be able to do it.
52:15
But then he flopped over. I'm like, yep, never
52:19
mind. Never mind. Yeah, done. Done. I was kidding.
52:22
He tried. Like, you gotta give it to Vartan.
52:26
He tried to stay up. He did not give up. Yeah,
52:28
he really did. A bunch of people are always like,
52:31
oh, it's just a body shot. How does that keep
52:34
you down? Like the fucking idiots on the internet.
52:37
And I'm like, dude, I would throw up my liver
52:41
and just die. Like legitimately just die. One
52:46
time I got my shit fucking wrecked from a solar
52:50
plexus punch. It's like hitting a button on your
52:57
body. That sends all of the air out of your lungs.
53:01
Yeah. And all you're doing is you collapse trying
53:06
to suck in air. Yeah. I've never boxed or anything,
53:13
but I got kicked by a calf right in that spot
53:17
once. And they literally had to drag me out of
53:20
the area with the cows so I could lay on the
53:24
ground. Catch my wind. It fucking sucks. I'm
53:29
not familiar with a liver punch, but I cannot
53:32
imagine that it's any better. I expect it would
53:36
be worse. The science behind why liver punches
53:41
suck so hard is really interesting, actually.
53:44
So your liver is like a great big sponge that's
53:47
full of blood. And then when it gets punched,
53:51
the blood gets pushed out. that part doesn't
53:54
hurt so the reason there's usually a little delay
53:57
is that you're you've squeezed the sponge and
54:01
then when the pressure's taken off all the blood
54:04
comes back in but with too much force and that's
54:09
what hurts so that's why there's usually that
54:11
second or two yeah yeah because like you can
54:15
feel your organ like over expanding because it's
54:20
a negative pressure and the blood all runs in
54:23
And then your organs aren't supposed to move
54:26
like that. So the liver punches scientifically
54:32
fascinate me. I know that sounds really weird.
54:38
No, no. It's very fitting that you would know
54:42
that. I went into a huge internet hole on the
54:47
science of why liver punches hurt so bad a couple
54:50
times. But yeah, your organs aren't meant to
54:54
move around that much, just in general. I know
54:58
that they do, they mildly shift around. Yeah,
55:05
but slowly. Yeah, it's like a writhing kind of
55:09
situation, not getting it fucking rocked by a
55:14
brute force. Yeah, and it's more the blood rushing
55:19
inside the liver. that causes like blood vessels
55:22
to expand and stuff and the really small ones
55:25
tear a little oh boy which your liver heals really
55:29
fast but in the moment that cannot feel yeah
55:33
yeah but speaking of like ribbing around fun
55:38
fact if you get like intestinal surgery they
55:41
just stuff them back in yeah and it repositions
55:44
itself perfectly it's yeah but like i always
55:47
assumed that they had to like Because if you
55:50
see the diagram, your lower colon is a straight
55:53
line coming from the top down. I always thought
55:56
they at least repositioned that. And I was talking
55:59
to one of my friends who's a surgeon, and she
56:02
was like, no, we don't reposition anything. We
56:04
just stuff it in there and sew you up. And I
56:08
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56:10
why they don't let you leave the hospital until
56:13
you've passed gas or... or feces because they
56:19
want to make sure that it realigned in a straight
56:21
line like that the way it's supposed to yeah
56:24
it's crazy all right uh that's it though that's
56:31
all we got for the matchroom card in phoenix
56:34
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56:40
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56:51
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56:57
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57:01
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bees. Be the change. Alright. Fucking Wednesday,
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June 24th. Only fight that matters on this card.
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No limit. I am struggling to find a way to watch
1:01:18
this outside of Australia. It's on KO Sports.
1:01:26
Lewis Crocker defends his IBF welterweight title
1:01:31
against Liam Parrow. I saw a poster for this
1:01:35
that I wanted to be the real poster so badly,
1:01:38
and it wasn't. And it had Liam Parrow dressed
1:01:41
up as Crocodile Dundee. And it was the Croc Hunter.
1:01:46
And I was like... That's too good. Fuck yes.
1:01:50
Way too good. But then VOM had to burst my bubble
1:01:54
and be like, I don't think this is the official
1:01:56
poster. It's a fan -made one. And I'm like, hire
1:01:59
this fan. The Croc Hunter? Come on. Australian
1:02:07
dude? The Croc Hunter? Come on. Come on. Also
1:02:13
might be a bit of when was Crocodile Dundee like
1:02:15
90s? Might be a bit of nostalgia. Yeah. It is.
1:02:20
I think you could have also done a little Steve
1:02:24
Irwin with it. Yeah. Yeah. I should say Irwin
1:02:32
family, because they're all doing it now. But,
1:02:37
yeah, that would be less nostalgic and maybe
1:02:40
more in the, like, current. Is it still too soon
1:02:45
for... No, it's not too soon, but it's too violent
1:02:50
for Steve Irwin. True. He was a little bit more
1:02:53
of a... He liked, um... He liked crocodiles.
1:02:58
He wasn't gonna hurt them. He liked jujitsu.
1:03:01
He was a fan of jujitsu. Yeah, I don't mean that
1:03:06
way, but he was nice to crocodiles. Yeah, he
1:03:11
wasn't trying to jujitsu them. Yeah. That's not
1:03:17
a knife. This is a knife. Much more slaying crocodiles.
1:03:27
Anyways, the fight itself I think is a good matchup.
1:03:29
I'm actually kind of excited for this one. And
1:03:33
I don't know if we can put it in the podcast,
1:03:35
but I'm pretty sure KO you can watch with a VPN
1:03:38
and just like a random Aussie area code. A lot
1:03:45
of the times those... I've seen that there are
1:03:48
pay -per -views. Ah, okay. Yeah, if it's pay
1:03:52
-per -view, that won't work. I'll give it a shot.
1:03:57
Yeah, of course, not encouraging anybody to...
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But if there's no legal way to watch it, I don't
1:04:06
feel bad. I don't either. To be fair. If you
1:04:12
could pay for it in your area, you should. But
1:04:15
if you can't... Support good fights. Always.
1:04:23
Moving to Saturday, June 27th. Rockin' Fights
1:04:28
54 brought to you by Starboxing at the Paramount
1:04:36
in Huntington, New York. I picked this one out
1:04:40
because number one and most importantly, Mickey
1:04:48
Scala is a local guy for me. Ah, fair enough.
1:04:54
So I keep up with his career. He has a very cute
1:05:00
box rec photo. Very... He's Italian. He has that
1:05:06
very Italian greaser kind of look. I can tell.
1:05:10
Yeah. So I keep up with Mickey Scala. He's signed
1:05:15
to Starboxing. They put their stuff... I think
1:05:21
right now they put it on Millions .co. Okay.
1:05:27
We've been there. We are on there, yes. And Wendy
1:05:34
Toussaint, he's something of a competitor or
1:05:38
contender, lower level contender at 154. He's
1:05:44
fighting Miguel Angel Hernandez. Just a... Sorry,
1:05:52
Leo, just a second. If you go to BoxRef, they
1:05:54
have a different person. That fight might have
1:05:57
changed. Oh, shit. They have Aaron Coley. Aaron
1:06:02
Coley. Even better. I've never heard of Aaron
1:06:11
Coley. I've never heard of fucking Miguel Hernandez,
1:06:13
so... No, I just... When I clicked on Wendy Toussaint,
1:06:18
the opponent has changed. All right. Well...
1:06:27
Yep, Mickey Scala is still fighting Isaiah Flaherty.
1:06:33
Yes. Flaherty is a very Irish name, but that
1:06:41
dude does not look Irish. The only time... The
1:06:45
closest name I've ever seen to that, I saw Fluhardy.
1:06:51
Never heard that one. Yeah. Anyway. Moving to,
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I'm going to skip ahead. Sunday, June 28th, we've
1:07:02
got Zufa Boxing 8. What do we got? On the undercard,
1:07:09
we've got Jabrio Pei Benito, who got a just marvelous
1:07:14
knockout his last time out. He's fighting Tony
1:07:18
Hirsch in a lightweight fight. Interesting. Yeah,
1:07:26
JP Benito. Definitely someone to keep an eye
1:07:29
on. In the main portion, we have Omar Trinidad
1:07:35
versus Jerwin Ancajas. This one might be fun.
1:07:40
Yeah, this should be a good one. 10 rounds at
1:07:43
featherweight. Kane Sandoval versus Brandon Lee.
1:07:48
We stand Brandon Lee here. We do stand Brandon
1:07:52
Lee. 10 rounds at welterweight. And Rayo Valenzuela
1:07:56
versus Edwin De Los Santos. Rematch. 10 rounds
1:08:00
at lightweight. This one should also be a banger.
1:08:04
I don't like Zufa, but this is a good card. Yeah,
1:08:10
they got JP. That in itself to me sells the undercard.
1:08:18
They got something good, at least. Yeah. No,
1:08:23
these are fights worth watching. For sure. But
1:08:28
the main card to talk about today, Saturday,
1:08:33
June 27th, Matchroom and Top Rank will collab.
1:08:39
Brought to you by DAZN at the Barclays Center
1:08:42
in Brooklyn. From the bottom up, we have Juanma
1:08:48
Lopez, Juanmita Lopez. Six rounds at Superfly.
1:08:54
Dennis Thompson versus Edwin Rodriguez. Eight
1:08:58
rounds at Superbantam. Quincy Williams versus
1:09:01
Jerome Baxter. Eight rounds at Welter. Ben Whitaker
1:09:06
versus Popeye. Richard Popeye Rivera. Ten rounds
1:09:12
at Light Heavy. I do not like Ben Whitaker. You're
1:09:19
not going to be happy with his choice of opponent.
1:09:21
He is credible on paper. Upsets happen. I can
1:09:28
cheer for upsets. Cheering for Popeye? Yes. Jahai
1:09:35
Tucker vs. Yuri Sedeno. 10 rounds at middleweight.
1:09:40
Emiliano Vargas vs. Bryce Mills. 10 rounds at
1:09:44
super light. And Xander Zayas, the WBA, WBO super
1:09:50
welterweight champion, versus Jerron Ennis. I'm
1:09:56
probably not going to be happy about the main
1:09:58
event either, am I? Because I would like Zayas
1:10:04
to win. Then, yeah, you're probably not going
1:10:07
to be happy with it. Yeah. I just, I don't know.
1:10:15
I don't particularly like either of them. Like,
1:10:19
they're not high on my list. But I think Xander
1:10:21
Zayas winning would be funnier. Yeah, that's
1:10:26
what I said on B -Sides. Exactly that. It would
1:10:29
be funny if he won. Yeah, because Zayas gets
1:10:34
a lot of hate, but he's been doing well. So,
1:10:38
let the haters hate. But Zayas is so greasy.
1:10:49
I really don't know who to cheer for in this
1:10:51
one. Boots is a better boxer, and I like cheering
1:10:54
for underdogs, so... Leaves your options pretty
1:11:00
limited. But Zaius is so greasy. I don't see
1:11:08
what he has done at any point in his career.
1:11:16
that would make that would lead me to think he's
1:11:20
got a real shot against boots no i have to agree
1:11:25
but yeah i don't know i'm just gonna watch this
1:11:31
one i guess i was like on b sides we were trying
1:11:36
to we really tried to spin A positive case. How
1:11:44
can we make this a positive. Situation for Zaius.
1:11:49
And we really couldn't. But. Barring a one hitter
1:11:53
quitter. Then I don't know. He hasn't lost yet.
1:11:58
So. Now I mean. Chances are Boots is going to
1:12:05
win this. And I don't have any reason. To dislike
1:12:09
Boots. I just. I don't know. This is one of those
1:12:15
ones where, honestly, like, it's a good fight,
1:12:17
it's a good matchup, but I don't really care
1:12:20
either way, if you know what I mean. I just hope
1:12:23
the fans win. Yeah, which sounds lame as hell.
1:12:29
But wanting and just, I hope it's entertaining.
1:12:32
That's not a bad ask. Zaius getting a knockout
1:12:38
would be peak entertainment. It would be fucking
1:12:40
hilarious. Yeah. I would be beside myself with
1:12:45
laughter. Chat would go off. It would be great.
1:12:49
Yeah, it would be a good time. That's all we
1:12:59
got, though. Not a bad weekend. No. Not a great
1:13:04
weekend, but not bad. Shit, man. I will be watching
1:13:08
on millions after the fact. Catch my guy, Mickey
1:13:12
Scala. Yeah. I keep up with local guys for me.
1:13:23
I try my best to suggest local guys for the rest
1:13:31
of the Lux family to keep up with. They're local
1:13:34
people. If you have a local person that I should
1:13:39
keep up with, somebody I should keep an eye on,
1:13:41
you got my phone number. It's 833 -LUX -POTS.
1:13:47
Let us know. I have no local people in Canada.
1:13:51
Oh, yeah, not in Saskatoon. No. Saskatchewan
1:13:57
is not a big boxing hub. But if you got somebody...
1:14:03
that I should be watching, then let me know.
1:14:05
I'm fucking here for it. Yeah, we'll push your
1:14:08
favorite local. At the very least, they'll get
1:14:14
as much time as Mickey Scala did. Which was not
1:14:18
all that much, but he'll get more on the recap
1:14:21
just because I have something to go off of. You
1:14:25
know what I mean? Yeah. Alright. That is it.
1:14:35
We're heading into Zaius Boots Weekend. Parting
1:14:41
words. I want to just tell a short story from
1:14:47
my trip because I thought it was hilarious. I
1:14:50
went to Sendai and I walked into the Pokemon
1:14:53
Center and a lady stops me and she's like, when
1:14:56
is your birthday? And I was like, it's the end
1:15:00
of the month. And she's like, we have free stuff
1:15:02
for you. And I was like, what? And she's like,
1:15:05
yeah, if you can show me ID, we have a birthday
1:15:09
thing going on in June. And I was like, excellent.
1:15:12
So I got a cute happy birthday card thing from
1:15:17
Pokemon and a free Pokemon in Pokemon Sword and
1:15:22
Steel. Just because it was my birthday. Is that
1:15:27
the newest games? It's not the newest. It's a
1:15:29
couple back. They also had giveaways in the newest
1:15:32
ones, but they had giveaways in, I think, like
1:15:36
four games. Nice. Oh, you just pick which one
1:15:41
you want? Well, they have QR codes for each game,
1:15:45
but I only own one of them. I haven't bought
1:15:49
any Pokemon games since I got to Japan. I'm sure
1:15:54
they have English in them, but the games themselves
1:15:56
didn't really appeal to me. I thought it was
1:16:00
super cool. I call it a card, but it's like a
1:16:03
little placard thing that will stand up on a
1:16:07
table. I'm going to take it to my birthday party
1:16:09
on Friday. Excellent. I'm putting it up on my
1:16:13
table that I have reserved at my local bar. Wonderful.
1:16:19
Super excited. That's actually really cool. That
1:16:22
you've got a table reserved. Yeah. But I also
1:16:27
have a dad joke for you, Leo. What's faster than
1:16:31
a calculator? What's... I don't know. A calc
1:16:39
-ya now? Yeah. Of course it is. I thought you
1:16:50
would like that one. Yeah, it's great. Well,
1:17:00
with that, that is it for this edition of Boxing
1:17:12
Before Dark. We'll see you on the other side
1:17:15
of Boots Zayas. Bye. How do you want to convince
1:17:34
them to watch MMA instead? Or not instead, but
1:17:38
just to start watching MMA. I'm going to go like
1:17:42
a different route than Nathan went. I'm going
1:17:44
to go with, first of all, I think. MMA has more
1:17:48
frequent watchable events. You know, there's
1:17:52
some weeks in boxing where it's, like, it's either
1:17:55
super degenerate or, like, no names, whatever.
1:17:58
I think in UFC, there's, like, it's slightly
1:17:59
better at times. And then the big, big point,
1:18:03
it's just more hectic. I think MMA at times is
1:18:07
just more hectic. You're seeing stuff from street
1:18:10
fights all the way to, like, movie -type fights.
1:18:12
You know, you got roundhouse kicks. uh straight
1:18:15
up like bar fights at times uh you just you get
1:18:19
a wider range of enjoyable fights i i would say
1:18:23
um and then just like i don't know it's just
1:18:28
it's more enjoyable the fact the fact that at
1:18:30
times you get to see just guys like standing
1:18:32
and banging it's it's just more primal in a way
1:18:35
uh is what i'd say that that's how i would try
1:18:38
to convince like boxing only fans that it's just
1:18:41
more if you enjoy chaos We saw it in the Wild
1:18:45
Riches or fight. If you enjoy that type chaos,
1:18:47
you know, because that wasn't exactly like a
1:18:49
bunch of technique in that fight. But if you
1:18:51
enjoyed something like that, I would definitely
1:18:53
try out MMA just because at times there is high
1:18:59
level things. And that is incredible to watch,
1:19:02
you know, people like Mauricio Hufi. You're seeing
1:19:04
like incredible knockouts with kicks. But even
1:19:09
like the lower level stuff can be enjoyable.
1:19:11
with people just going to town on each other,
1:19:13
you know, standing and banging. That'd probably
1:19:16
be the driving point that I would say to boxing
1:19:19
only fans is that if you enjoy that chaos, I
1:19:23
would say definitely give MMA a try. If you like
1:19:26
chaos, I like that. If you do decide to give
1:19:30
MMA a shot, well, you can check out Ultimate
1:19:32
FN Casuals. You can hear us chat about all the
1:19:35
fights that happen every weekend, just like on
1:19:37
the boxing side.