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[BxBD] Changes to the Ali Act · Boxing B-Sides

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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. boxing? Yeah,
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it's time for Boxing Before Dark. What time is
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it where you're at? What time is it where I'm
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at? I don't even know. It's 1720. Oh, you and
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your army time? Well, 24 hour clock. The Japanese
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use the 24 hour clock too. Yeah, that one Japanese
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girl I didn't get along with very well tried
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to tell me that Japan invented the 24 -hour clock.
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It's going to be hard negative for me. Yeah,
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yeah. She was also surprised that I knew what
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it was because English speakers don't use it.
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Not a surprise there. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's
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1720 here and it's not dark yet. It is 9 a .m.
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here. Oh, shit. I've been kind of avoiding this
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because the Ali act is on the ropes. Yeah, I
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haven't been able to find much actual information.
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I spent a fair bit of time that one day trying
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to find the actual wording because it's supposed
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to be out there. You're supposed to be able to
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read. You'd think so, right? um well and some
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of the articles say they went and read it and
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they've had lawyers read it and stuff but maybe
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i'm just bad at this i could not find the actual
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amendment to read so the way that honestly the
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way that i understand it and this is all secondhand
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like just like you said i can't i can't find
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the actual The actual verbiage itself. What I'm
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understanding is this is really taking the UFC
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model and putting it onto boxing. Yeah. That's
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really what I can get. So your manager can be
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your promoter, can be your whatever. You can
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have a one -person system. Yes. Which was...
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Kind of what the Ali Act was made to get rid
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of in the first place. That's the entire protection
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that it establishes. Yeah. Is that one person
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can't basically turn you into an indentured slave.
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To me, a really good example of this is Dana
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White's Contender series. So he has these random
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ass prospects come up and they get into his television
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show and they fight for him. And it's like, he's,
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he manages their careers from that point until
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they, if they graduate from the contender series,
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then they go into his like promotional objects.
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Yeah, so he has a say over everything they do
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in their career. Every step of their career is
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managed by him. There's nobody to negotiate for
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the fighters, and there's nobody to negotiate
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with in the UFC. You're negotiating with Dana
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White. That's about it. It's not, well, fuck
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you, I'll go fight with so -and -so instead.
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The boxers change promotions when they get in
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fights with their promoters. Ryan Garcia is in
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the middle of this right now. Yeah, like... And
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they can just say, well, fuck you, I'll go work
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with Bob. Or, you know, fuck you, Eddie said
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he'd pay me more. And it gives them some negotiating
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power. But, like... MMA doesn't have that. There's
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other promotional places, but nobody pays like
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the UFC, which still pays shit. Right, I was
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about to say, nobody pays like the UFC is a very
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generous term, a generous use of paying, because
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they sure as shit do not pay their fighters what
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they're worth. No, it's... I don't want to see...
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I don't think it'll work. I think that the system's
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been set up in boxing long enough. But I do think
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if they get this changed, some people are going
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to get fucked over that wouldn't have otherwise.
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There are going to be some who, my thinking is,
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it would be like using the, this is not what's
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going to happen. This is just me speculating.
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If the boxing Grand Prix that WBC is running
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with the Saudis at the moment. That, having that
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be the feeder system into TKO boxing. And so
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you have to get them while they're young, in
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a manner of speaking. And lock them in so that
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they can't go anywhere else. Yeah. That's how
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you have to do it. They're trying to introduce
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some minimum wage things with this change to
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the Ali Act. Which makes it sound good, but it's
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not worth it, in my opinion. The boxers, the
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fighters as a whole, are going to lose too much
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for these 20 ,000 minimums for televised fights
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to make any difference. Yeah. We had a good talk
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about it on boxing on the B -sides, and one of
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the points that we went over was exactly this,
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was that right now, there are already fighter
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minimums, depending on which state in the U .S.
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Yeah, other countries don't seem to have any
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minimums, though. That's unfortunate. Because
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they're going to be bigger targets for... I'm
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pretty sure Canada doesn't have a mandatory minimum.
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Some of those guys are fighting for basically
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free. And I know in South America, they always,
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especially the ladies boxing, they always talk
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about how the women actually pay to fight at
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the beginning of their career. They sell tickets.
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And they'll sell the tickets for like an extra.
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I'm making up numbers here, guys. Like, don't
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quote me on any of this. But if a ticket is 50
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bucks, they'll ask their fans to pay $52. And
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those $2 will go towards them paying the promoter
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to let them fight. Oh, my goodness. You hear
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about this stuff if you watch those like Venezuelan,
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Nicaraguan, like those kind of American. Yeah,
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and it'll be like, she's fighting for a world
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title, and at the beginning of her boxing career,
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she was selling empanadas to pay to fight where
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people would see her so she could get her career
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started, and that sort of thing. Like, when she
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was 15, she sold whatever to pay to be seen.
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Working this menial job just to get a chance.
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Yeah. That sounds a lot like what... That's not
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that dissimilar from what we see in UFC where
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guys are doing their Uber drivers or working
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other menial jobs because their minimums, the
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minimums that are established by the supposedly
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caring promotional companies, no, these guys
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can't survive off of that. To expect anything
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different from an MMA promoter who has been waiting
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his entire fucking life, like frothing at his
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mouth to get into boxing so that he could exploit
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the fighters the same way that he does in MMA.
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If you're expecting him to do something benevolent
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and take care of his dudes, you're completely...
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I don't know what to say to you. Naive, at the
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best. At best, you're naive. At worst, you're
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just like him. Yeah. Oh, God. Man, Dana White
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is... I never watched UFC. I never watched MMA
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at all before I started doing the ultimate effing
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casuals. Never, ever in my life. I just didn't
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care. It was not important to me. But as I've
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gotten to know UFC, I've gotten to know 1FC,
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PFL, and Bellator, I've gotten to know the different
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organizations that are in the MMA world. Dana
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White is a complete piece of fucking garbage.
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Yeah. He is a garbage human being. I don't know
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how much more kindly I can put it. He is a terrible
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person. Than calling him a garbage human being.
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Him moving into boxing is not going to benefit
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boxers. At all. Definitely not. He's going to
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be the next Don King if he gets in there. I would
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call that succinct. Yeah, that's what it's going
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to be. And if they remove the Ali Act, he's not
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going to get sued nearly as much as Don King.
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There will not be any guardrails that are going
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to prevent him from being the piece of shit that
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he actually is. Yeah. Oh, man. I really hope...
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It's asking a lot, but... This... The Ali Boxing
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Revival Act, as they're calling it. Which is
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just a fucking slap in the face. It really is.
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That's terrible. If you could... If you care...
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If you genuinely care about boxing... the integrity
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of the sport, which we already know is questionable
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at best. But if you really do want to protect
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it from this type of person, you genuinely have
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to call your legislators. And you have to keep
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them from allowing this type of legislation to
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pass. I'm not sure how else... How else is this
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supposed to happen? How else are we supposed
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to block something like this? Well, and I should
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have put it on the outline. I completely forgot.
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What's the boxing union? It's not a real union,
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but you know what I mean. The Fighters Association?
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Yeah. They didn't even get to read this before
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it was brought before Congress. The Fighters
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Association, like, you can say whatever you want
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about Jake Paul. I will never stop singing that
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man's praises because of stuff like the Fighters
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Association. This is as close to a union as the
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fighters have. And, man, they didn't even get
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a chance to read through the actual text of this
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before it got sent to the floor. I've seen that
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in multiple articles, like the fighters representatives
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in the association didn't even get to look at
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it. So the fighters association, I don't know
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exactly how it's set up, but somebody looked
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at it, but not the people who actually interact
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with retired fighters. So somebody in that association
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approved it, but the people who actually care
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about the fighters and the fighters in the association,
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the retired fighters in the association, didn't
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get to look at it before the association gave
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it their stamp of approval. Apparently, according
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to the articles online, somebody, well, we know
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who it is. Dana White just paid somebody to stamp
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it. Well, yeah, his BFF. is in the white house
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so yeah oh my god all things are politics dudes
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if you're if you really think that you could
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just pay attention to fights just watch the fights
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and not have to ever worry about the shit like
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man your your favorite fighters today are gonna
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be retiring soon and yeah what's gonna happen
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to them when they retire Well, and speaking about
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worrying about associations and politics, the
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JBC has taken another L since we recorded the
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last one. I think it was announced the day we
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recorded, actually. Urakawa passed as well. So
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the other fighter on that August 2nd card, he
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passed away. So that's two people died on the
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same card. This is the one that was in the eight
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-round fight. And what was their move was to
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lower the round count? Yeah, so the Japanese
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titles have been 12 round fights, I think, forever.
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And they're lowering them to 10 round fights
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now. Oh, yeah, because it wasn't an eight round
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fighter that just died. Well, he hadn't died
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when they announced that. Oh, right. That makes
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a big difference. Not at all. In other JBCL news,
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Yudai Shigeoka has announced his retirement to
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become his brother's caretaker. So he put up
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a post saying he was doing hours and hours of
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rehab with his brother. But it was a little hard
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to tell whether he was awake or not. Because
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when people are in a coma, you still have to
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rehab their muscles and things. Yeah, you have
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to move them around. Yeah. Right. But since then,
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I guess he's realized that people couldn't tell.
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He put out a very short video of him talking
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to his brother. It's framed very carefully, so
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you can't see Jinjiro at all. But... He's holding
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his brother's hand up and his brother closes
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his fist and tries to do the Hawaii thing. He
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gives mostly a thumbs up. He doesn't make any
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noises at all, which I do think probably means
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that he can't talk. His brother's talking to
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him. Yudai's talking to him, but he's just moving
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his hands in the video. I assume it's really
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bad. He's responsive. He's awake, and he's not
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100 % paralyzed, but I assume if he could even
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just sit... I don't know how to put this correctly.
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I know what I'm saying isn't right, but if he
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could sit and look mostly normal with his face,
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they would show a picture. No, that's not at
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all asking too much. I don't think it is. No,
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I just... I just mean, like, I think he's probably
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really bad off. Which is not a surprise. He had
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multiple brain surgeries. But... God. And also,
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this one I forgot to put on the outline. Jin
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Sasaki's back in training camp. Jesus Christ.
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He's gonna get hurt. That man's gonna get hurt.
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Yeah. I'm expecting he better get at least two
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soft touches, but it's Japan. He's not going
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to. They're going to throw him in there with
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another contender again. He's probably going
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to have hard sparring. Yeah. In the midst of
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whatever training camps he gets. The way that
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Josh put it on B -Sides was something about that
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culture needs to change. And I don't know how
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many more people have to die before the Japanese
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Boxing Commission figures it out. Yeah, obviously,
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like, we're not the experts on this stuff. Of
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course not. But Pro Box had an episode with Chris
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Eldieri and Pauly Malignaggi there talking about
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the JBC and the Japanese culture around boxing
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and sparring. And I thought it was a good discussion.
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They were talking something I hadn't really heard
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or knew anything about because, again, I never
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boxed. But Japan goes really old school, apparently,
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according to them. And they get you on weight
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multiple days before the weigh -in, or basically
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on weight. And they're still doing sparring while
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they're dehydrated. Yeesh. Which is not good.
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No. Hard sparring when you're already dehydrated
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does not sound like a good idea. With the smaller
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gloves and probably no headgear of any kind.
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Yeah. I don't know. I am just waiting to hear
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or see that Jin Sasaki ends up in the hospital
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after his next fight. Because they're not going
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to give him a soft touch. He's going to train
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the same way he always has. I love Japanese boxing,
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but something's fucked. It's broken and you need
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to fix it. There's something very clearly wrong.
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Josh put it perfectly with this is a cultural
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problem. Yeah. The warrior spirit is commendable.
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It really is. And I don't think... It's impossible
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to maintain that warrior spirit with cutting
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down on the hard sparring. There was a 1FC situation
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where a Thai fighter versus a Japanese. It was
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a kickboxing fight. And the Thai fighter had
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a lingering injury. from fucking sparring coming
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into a fight. Like, I do not think that this
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is too dissimilar from just regular boxing. I
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do. I have not very much basis to base this on,
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but I do think the JBC ignores injuries more.
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Like, I think they let people back into fights,
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hard fights. right away when they probably should.
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Well, we can't let the world... I am waving my
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hands in really thick quotation marks or thick
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irony. We can't let the world think that we're
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pussies. Yeah. Is what it is. Oh, man. How many
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more people have to die before you figure out
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that you need to fucking change something? Well,
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that's four people this year. This year, let
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alone... So two died, but I mean, that's four
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people whose lives are probably fucked. They're
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never boxing again. Right now, Jin Sasaki...
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Well, right now, Jin Sasaki is. But I'm not thinking
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this is going to go well for him. I'm very pessimistic
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on his... As am I. Everything. Just based on
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the track record. I am not betting that he's
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going to be doing very well. But I do have a
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funny Japanese boxing thing to throw in here
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to lighten the mood just a little. So I think
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I mentioned last week that Seiya Satsumi is in
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Mexico. And he's been live streaming his walk
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to the gym every morning. is right before bed
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for me. So I've been jumping on and watching
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his live stream. He cannot figure out the fucking
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coffee machine at a Mexican convenience store.
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It has been so hilarious. So the very first day
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it made sense. It's one of those ones where you
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press the button and you put the cup underneath
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and it comes down and he lined it up with the
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little half circle. He lined the cup, pushed
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it all the way in and the coffee completely missed
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the cup. That one's perfectly understandable.
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And he freaked out, like moved it. And it was
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really funny. The next day he came in the convenience
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store and he was talking about buying a monster
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energy drink instead. And the chat's like, no,
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you have to use the machine. So he puts it against
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the backstop, pulls it ahead a bit. but not far
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enough and still misses his coffee all over the
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outside of his cup. And he's holding his phone,
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freaking out, trying to get it, gets it all over
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his hands. He pays for his coffee and he's walking
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down the street with his coffee stained cup.
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And like his hand was red, like it's hot coffee.
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He got fucking burned. The next morning, he walks
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in and the chat's just losing their mind. They're
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like, you can do it. Today's the day. I believe
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in you. And he goes, and he's like, okay, so
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I got to put it right at the front. Right at
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the front. And he's so worried about that, that
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when he goes to press the button, he knocks the
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cup over. hadn't pressed the button yet so this
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time he got his coffee but it's just like you
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can tell he's like i can't fuck it up this time
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there's i think it was 130 people watching him
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make his coffee the steaks are too great i can't
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put it i can't i can't let my coffee spill this
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time yeah so he did he didn't spill any coffee
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but he did knock the cup over once and then everybody's
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like is it delicious and he's like no This is
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not good coffee. Not worth all the effort. Three
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days of effort that I put into getting this.
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Not worth it at all. It's been absolutely hilarious
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to me. You know what's not absolutely hilarious?
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Tank. Gervonta Davis. All charges dropped. Yeah,
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I wonder how that happened. I wonder that as
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well. Yeah. I guess... I hope she got paid well.
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I hope perhaps he doesn't go near his kid anytime
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soon, but he probably will. His very, very gay
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child. Who is a toddler that probably can't talk.
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Has no understanding of any of this whatsoever.
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Tank needs to get his shit together. Yeah, it's...
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Maybe we get the Rotary match now, though? Maybe.
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Maybe that can happen now. Yeah. Speaking of
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babies... Dillion White. The Baby Snatcher. I
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laughed so fucking hard when I saw this. And
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every interview since, it's just been, Dillion,
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what do you think of that? What do you think
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of being called the Baby Snatcher? Like, of all
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the ways to mess up a nickname, I guess I can
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kind of see it. Body snatcher to baby snatcher
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is pretty easy. It isn't easy. But for a professional
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journalist, I would expect better. Yeah. So I
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did see one interview where Dillion was like,
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oh, they did it on purpose just to mess with
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me. It's all mind games. He's like, they rerouted
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some of my team. their um plane got lost or something
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or their plane tickets got changed so they had
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like a six hour layover i don't know what the
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hell he's talking about but the baby snatcher
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is going to stick so long the baby snatcher if
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i if i had the chance to talk to him like even
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it it's um One of the things that you have to
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think about is when you're doing this, like the
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floor for boxing, to get into like boxing media,
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boxing journalism, the floor is pretty low. Yeah.
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So it is possible that we could get somebody
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into Dillian White's vicinity to ask him about
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baby snatching. We need to send Robbie. We could
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send somebody. This is not out of the realm of
27:37
possibility. It's not that I haven't, that we,
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Lux Media, it's not that we don't have access
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to these things, it's that we don't have personnel
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to go to them. Yeah. That's really what it comes
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down to. Well, and in my case, I... I'm too nervous
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trying to talk to people. Yeah, trying to get
28:03
yourself ingratiated with a Japanese as a foreigner
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is not easy. I've had several attempts in my
28:12
life and usually didn't go well. No, they're
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very polite. Overly polite. in my opinion but
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well i'm canadian so actually a lot of these
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oh it's so japanese and foreigners would never
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get it i'm like we do that too guys like people
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don't say no to things like oh yeah maybe i'll
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see if i can come that's just a no like i i don't
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think the politeness is as strange as japan thinks
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it is but they just assume that you can't get
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it because you're foreign And I'm like, you guys
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don't get sarcasm. True. That's actually completely
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true. Which ruins like 90 % of my communication
29:03
with my friends. I have had to really think about,
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like, they don't understand tone changes change
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the meaning of words in English. That's so interesting.
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Yeah. They don't get that? No, like you can make
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it as obvious as possible. How obvious could
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it possibly be? Yeah, yeah. Like somebody was
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like, oh, Benita, do you want to try these shrimp
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crackers? And I don't eat seafood at all. And
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I was like, oh, yeah, that sounds fucking delicious.
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They bought me shrimp crackers. I was like, God
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damn it. It's not what I meant. So then I had
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to try them and I was like, no, still tastes
29:47
like shrimp. What was the expected outcome here,
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guys? But I'd had a couple beers, and I just
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forgot I was talking to people who don't understand.
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Yeah. It's my fault, but... Oh, shit. Anything
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more for the news? Probox is on right now, and
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I forget who... pro box good but somebody blew
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weight by seven pounds i forget who that is obscene
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yo yeah pro box is good so let's uh let's keep
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LEO33862. Buzz, motherfucker. And we're back.
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We have previews this week, Leo. We do. We don't
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have any recamps, but we have some previews.
35:33
So let's get right into it. Wednesday, August
35:37
20th. In the U .S., this will be starting around
35:42
midnight, 01 timeframe. If you're in Japan, probably
35:50
like 16 or 1700. But we have a bunch of shit
35:58
that I don't really care about. Moving to Jasmine
36:02
Parr, jazzy, decent prospect on the ladies' side.
36:07
So if you want to get yourself more well -versed
36:11
in the women's part of the sport. Brock Jarvis,
36:15
that same Brock Jarvis who fought Keith Thurman
36:20
versus Sam Beck. This is really fucked up. Brock
36:25
Jarvis is 22 -2 versus Sam Beck, 7 -0. Throwing
36:30
the young man to the wolves. He's not that young,
36:33
though. He's 30. 30. The low experience, I guess.
36:42
Yeah. Moving up into the co -main, Michael Zarafa.
36:50
That Michael Zarafa. If you've been watching,
36:54
he's been on like some PBC cards like a handful
36:59
of times. And if you've been paying attention
37:03
to Australian boxing, which if you listen to
37:06
us, then you are familiar with this name. He'll
37:11
be fighting Mikey Dahlman. From America. Oh,
37:19
he's got to get himself international again.
37:23
I actually don't know who Mikey Dolman is. I
37:25
don't either, but... Nikita Zoo and the headline
37:30
verse, Lulzim Ismaili. Right now... From Macedonia.
37:39
Oh, well. Right now, this is the better of the
37:45
Zoo Brothers. Unfortunately, for Tim. This is
37:53
the hope for the Zoo Clan. Yeah. I hope it goes
37:59
well. I can't... I don't know. I assume this
38:03
guy was kind of brought in to lose. You would
38:06
think. I would think as well. But you never know,
38:13
I guess. Has he fought outside of Macedonia?
38:20
Germany? Albania, Germany. A lot of Germany fights.
38:27
Okay. So he's Euro level. No big deal. Still,
38:36
I expect Nikita to take care of business. But
38:45
it's always good to watch the Australian fights.
38:49
At least for me, they're at a time I can watch
38:51
during the week. Yeah, they should be on your
38:54
Wednesday evening. Yeah. Let's move on to Friday,
39:01
August 22nd in the U .S. Oh, actually, Leo, can
39:06
I step back real quick? Go ahead. Tuesday, August
39:09
19th, Aoi Yokoyama is fighting. Oh, shit. I have
39:15
a ticket. I forget who his opponent is, but it
39:20
is for some sort of trinket belt. I just need
39:24
to look it up real quick. Very nice. The Oriental
39:28
Pacific... Yeah. OPBF what? Superfly. Oh, shit.
39:39
So he's going for a legit regional title. Yeah.
39:46
against rusey baba who doesn't seem to have a
39:54
pitcher on box rec so also seems pretty prospecty
40:00
uh four and two but i bought a ticket i think
40:04
it should be fun i'm uh i'm excited So this is
40:12
Yokoyama's fourth fight. Going for a regional
40:15
belt in four fights is pretty Japanese, but pretty
40:19
good. Is it going to be on any streaming services
40:23
in JP? Probably Lemino, I think. This is the
40:29
one that is like a triple promotion. It's Watanabe,
40:34
The Kamedas, and someone else. The Kamedas? Yeah,
40:41
that 360 lush thing. Yokoyama's with Watanabe.
40:48
He's not with the Kamedas. Anyways, I'm excited.
40:53
It's his first time headlining. The old folks
40:57
home did a really cute video, a cheer video for
41:00
him. I missed out on the merchandise. I ordered
41:03
my ticket too late, but I'm hoping they're selling
41:05
something at the place. I'm sure they will be.
41:09
Yeah. Second batch. All right. Friday, August
41:15
22nd. It's the MVP Prospects. Most Valuable Prospects
41:22
series. I think this is their 14th iteration.
41:32
I don't think I've... recognize any of those
41:35
names. Yeah, it's Prospects. Not anybody really
41:39
to recognize. Queensberry on the 23rd. This will
41:47
be about midday on the west coast of the US at
41:51
the Planet Ice in Altrincham. Fucking Mark Chamberlain.
42:00
The only reason I brought this guy up is because
42:02
Eddie Hearn has highlighted him a few times.
42:08
And he's one of his fuckselency's favorites.
42:15
I do recognize Rafferty. Yeah, Jack Rafferty.
42:20
I recognize this picture. And last thing. MVP
42:29
fight night at the Caribe Royale Orlando in the
42:35
U .S. There's some good fights on here, even
42:40
if you don't know the main or co -main. Lucas
42:42
Body is a pretty decent name for Roger Gutierrez.
42:49
Jermaine Ortiz versus Steve Claggett should be
42:53
a good win for Jermaine Ortiz. Yeah, I mean,
42:59
technically, I have to cheer for Claygett. He's
43:03
from Calgary. Yeah, he's homegrown for you. Yeah,
43:09
and actually, like, the same part of Canada as
43:12
me, so... There is one thing. In the main and
43:25
co -main... The way that I put it on B -Sides
43:29
was, like, this is islander Spanish for those
43:38
Caribbean islanders. This dude's name is Yanquiel.
43:45
And then the main event, Yoenis. And if we jump
43:52
back really quick to the... mvp the prospect
43:56
series the co -main event there his name is yo
44:00
elvis yo elvis i thought was pretty hilarious
44:04
actually so that there you go that's that's some
44:07
islander spanish for you like i i don't know
44:10
i i don't know that's cuban right they're all
44:15
cuban not necessarily it could be uh dominican
44:18
um Most likely Cuban, but it's possible that
44:24
they're like Dominican, Dominica. It's not a
44:31
guarantee that they're Cuban. Oh, Yanquiel's
44:35
from Puerto Rico. I didn't want to mention them.
44:38
I thought they did better than that. I was just
44:43
looking on BoxRec. The other two are Cuban, but
44:45
he's from Puerto Rico. Well, there you have it.
44:53
That's all we got. Something to watch, anyway.
44:59
Yeah, there is boxing on. Not necessarily the
45:05
greatest, but of all of the stuff that we previewed,
45:11
I would have to say Nikita Zu is the one that
45:17
has my attention. More than anyone else. I do
45:24
expect that to be very lopsided, though. Yes.
45:27
Like, I don't know if it'll be a super entertaining
45:30
fight. I would like to see Nikita Zu tested a
45:35
little bit. Or to have a little bit of a challenge.
45:37
Because he's still really young. Or he's still
45:40
really young in his career. So, I'd like to see
45:44
him have something of a challenge. I think for
45:48
fun -to -watch fights, that last one, the MVP
45:52
fight night, or whatever they call it, will probably
45:55
have the closest matchups. Yeah, the top four
46:00
on there are worth watching. If you have other
46:04
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46:08
you're missing out on shit. Don't skip family
46:11
supper this week. Right, if you've got family
46:14
stuff for just... your friends want to go out
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or whatever like dude go do that all right yeah
46:21
but we have no friends so we'll watch it and
46:24
tell you about it we're the friends are on the
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podcast if they're not on if they're not here
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they're on b -sides uh they're on ultimate effing
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casuals like i i all i have is fight nerds that's
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all i got IRL friends are overrated. All right,
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.net. So, we are heading into a relatively light
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weekend. Parting words. I always forget to plan
48:20
parting words. I don't know. I'm going to keep
48:22
it simple this week. Just stay frosty. Stay frosty.
48:27
Yeah. It's hard this time of year. That is a
48:31
full -time job for me, staying frosty. If your
48:34
brother has post -comatose... situations then
48:42
be there to do hang loose with him I do think
48:48
that's that's not surprising or anything but
48:52
I do think that's a very good thing for Yudai
48:57
to do it is it's a really noble thing for him
49:01
to do yeah like he he has relatives other than
49:07
Yudai that could become the primary caretaker.
49:11
He didn't have to do that for him. Let me see.
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I'm going to throw one out by Maya Angelou just
49:18
to give something substantial. You are the sum
49:23
total of everything you've ever seen, heard,
49:26
eaten, smelled, been told, or forgot. It's all
49:30
there. Everything influences each of us. And
49:34
because of that, I try to make sure that my experiences
49:37
are positive. That's Maya Angelou. I'm not that
49:44
smart. Sorry. Surprising no one. To the surprise
49:50
of fucking nobody. But there you go. We opened
49:54
up with cat shit and we end with Maya Angelou.
49:57
Yeah. What can I say? Alright, that's it. Boxing
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Before Dark. See you on the other side. Bye.