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Zayas-Boots weekend · Boxing B-Sides

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  Joined by Josh, Saul, fellas, how we doing? Fantastic.
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  news. Michaela Mayer, Chantel Cameron, a three
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  -title fight on August 29th. It's MVP 6, I think
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  it is. I'm glad MVP is still really doing the
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  women's boxing support thing. Even if Jake Paul
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  looks to be out of boxing, it seems. I'm glad
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  they're still doing this. Is he out of boxing?
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  Well, he's being kind of forced to. Oh, it's
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  his mouth, right? Yeah, his jaw was really messed
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  up by AJ. Yeah, so even if there's no serious
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  plans for him to come back, at least in the short
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  term, I'm glad it's not just like... a thing
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  that he drops like influencers do when their
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  fans do die out. This is something he's committing
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  to that I appreciate. Caroline Dubois versus
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  Amelia Moore will be the co -main for that. It's
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  not a bad fight either. Are you ready for Demetrius
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  Andre to return? Opponent TBA, but July 24th,
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  he will be back at the Mohegan Sun. He's got
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  to be fighting someone that's not that good,
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  dude. He's got to be fighting a who knows. Which
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  promotion is it? Fuck. CES Boxing. CES, that's
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  right. He's not getting that PBC bag anymore,
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  I'll tell you that. No, I think the biggest drop
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  -off is going from Matchroom of USA. Let's see,
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  what is this? You know what? I'm not that mad
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  that he's coming back. I think it'd be pretty
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  funny to see him get into another big fight and
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  get washed. Yeah, I'm trying to look for any
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  news on CES fights. I want to see what they are,
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  what they do. I've seen Rashidi Ellis on CES
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  before. There we go. Jermaine Ortiz. That's a
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  name. Yeah. Yeah, interesting. You know, there's
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  worse places to be. I can't even blame him. He'd
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  not be fighting at all. Or he could be worse.
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  He could be with Don King. That's true. Or whatever
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  Triller or Triller's up to or if BLK Prime made
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  a comeback ever. Yeah. Don't know who he's fighting
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  but it's his first one back since he got beat
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  by Benavidez. Benavidez. You know what? Power
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  to him as long as he doesn't look like complete,
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  like, what are we doing in the ring? Like, washed
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  up, you know? Two and a half years. Do you think
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  he's going to be washed? I'm going to say, yeah,
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  it's been a long time. Oh, he's going to look
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  washed up, but there's, like, degrees of washed
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  up, you know? I think he's going to look horrible.
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  Well, the thing is that I will say, it'll be
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  his legs that aren't as good as they were when
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  he was in his prime. So I feel like he'll be...
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  You know that old man Rego, he has to stand and
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  fight now. Araslandi Lara as well. Yeah, like
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  the Lara old age. I feel like that's what's going
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  to hit him and not all of a sudden he's actually...
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  Regis can't stand up. Washed. So I think it'll
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  be good. It'll at least be fun to see how far
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  it goes. Yeah. I mean, imagine he unlocks his
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  crazy power. Yeah, but Lara wasn't like... Lara
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  had power, but it's not... Yeah, like Shiraz
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  is the 168 champ. If we're... If he's gonna ladder
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  his way up the WBO like he always has. Go back
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  to Matchroom? Yeah, probably. We could go back
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  to that. How about... I could see Matchroom honestly
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  getting Andrade back. Picking him back up? Yeah.
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  Picking him back up just to fill up the undercards?
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  Wouldn't be a bad undercard filler, and then
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  eventually, like, yeah, he's going to earn a
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  bigger fight, and then... Yeah, it'll work out.
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  I can honestly see something like that, dude.
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  I don't mind it this time because he's got the
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  old man legs. He can't. Can't run. Unless he
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  does a Rigo Casimero surprise, I still got it.
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  Punk still got it performance. Nah, this should
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  be good. Speaking of WBO, Devin Haney's Mandatory
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  has been made Keyshawn Davis. I would like to
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  see that fight. It's a really good fight. Honestly,
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  I feel like... First of all, that fight's not
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  happening. You don't think so? No, that's not
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  going to happen. Because that has to happen by
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  the end of July, right? Yeah, I believe they
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  have to have a deal by that time. They have to
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  have a deal by the end of July, which is... That's
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  a lot of time. Well, that is a lot of time. But
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  also, Keyshawn... I don't know. If he's a top
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  -ranking, if Devin Haney is supposedly with Zufa,
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  I don't know. I think that's just another case
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  of Zufa using the likeness of a fighter. I don't
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  know. First of all, I think Keyshawn will win
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  that fight. Well, yes. But Haney isn't. I will
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  say many things about Devin Haney inside the
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  ring. But he will generally take. the challenges
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  available to him. Oh, yeah. I mean, he took Lomachenko
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  when he didn't have to. A lot of his fights he
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  didn't have to take in his, like, ever since
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  after beating Cambosos. He never had to take
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  Ryan. He never had to take Loma. Even Norman.
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  Norman is a rebound. 100%, yeah. Norman as a
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  rebound is also with Ramirez. Ramirez, we knew
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  it was going to happen there, but even then,
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  it's like, these are guys he doesn't have to.
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  Also with how the world saw Norman as. Yeah.
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  I mean, how we saw Norman as. He really didn't
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  have to. I'm not really trying to say that Devon
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  won't take the fight because he's scared. I mean,
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  Haney, I've given him his credit. The entire
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  time I've been on this pod, I've been giving
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  him his flowers. About how the balls are fighting
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  someone. Yeah, so I don't think that'll be the
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  issue. They're both pretty top -ranked. They're
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  both pretty top -ranked adjacent guys. Yeah.
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  Haney fought on top -ranked before, had a pretty
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  good relationship. He's just... If the fight
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  presents itself on a top -ranked show, he'll
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  go. It's just that the money has to show itself,
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  too. I mean, he's always been a free agent type
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  of guy. He'll go anywhere. Yeah, so it'll work.
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  Isn't Keyshawn a top rank? Isn't he signed with
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  top rank? Yeah. Keyshawn is top rank, and Haney
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  is a free agent type guy, so there's no reason
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  it shouldn't happen. Well, the reason I say that,
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  too, is that also I thought Haney was supposedly
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  going with Zufa. Yeah. Well, that's like, I feel
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  like that's part of the Zufa marketing at this
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  point, and why those cease and desist are getting
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  sent out, because, like, where... The whole thing
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  is they're trying to make themselves seem a lot
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  bigger than they are. So, like, if you attach
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  yourself to the names in the sport, it's a lot,
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  even if you're not actually attached to those
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  names, it's a lot easier to the casual fan to
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  swallow that than to be like, oh, so we're going
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  to kill boxing, but our biggest name is Edgar
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  Berlanga. Oh, guys, we got Devin Haney on Zufa
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  over here. Yeah, we have Devin Haney coming to
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  Zufa eventually. Yeah, like, that's the, that's
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  why, same with Ryan, like, oh, Ryan on Zufa.
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  I mean, I totally see Ryan go to Zufa, but that's
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  the conversation of the day. Yeah. But, it hasn't
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  happened yet, and it's, yeah. But honestly, I
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  mean, I just thought of the point that Josh said
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  a long time ago, a long, long time ago, where,
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  uh, Keyshawn is, uh, his mind, He's not champion
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  level. His ability to fight is obviously, you
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  know, 100. Yeah, the indiscipline is not. Exactly.
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  I mean, he should have finished all bright. I
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  mean, you can look at it both ways, honestly.
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  You can say that Keyshawn, he's a little more
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  unorthodox for someone like Devin Haney, where
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  Devin's going to have trouble trying to fight
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  someone like Keyshawn. Where he moves and we
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  got power. Keyshawn could get really frustrated.
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  Exactly. If Albright, Nahir Albright, is frustrating
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  Keyshawn to the point of jumping him backstage.
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  And throwing him. And throwing him to the ground.
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  Yeah. What is Devin Haney going to do? Because,
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  again, I am not a Devin Haney enjoyer. But he
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  is a very frustrating guy to fight. In and out
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  of the ring. And the biggest... Keyshawn's biggest
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  enemy is going to be himself. Yeah. Should I
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  finish the point you're saying? He's just...
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  He's very frustrating to deal with. And it's
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  not... I don't think Keyshawn has the poise to...
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  Especially 12 rounds, because I'm like, let's
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  be real. Like, Ryan... He does not have Ryan's
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  speed and timing. I think he has timing, but
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  I don't think he has speed. I think he has that
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  timing down. But the speed, a lot of Brian's
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  timing does come from the speed. Brian's also
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  weird and frustrating to fight with the silly
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  shell and everything, too. He's also, for lack
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  of a better term, he's an unorthodox fighter.
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  Yeah, like I will say, a lot of those left hooks
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  that came at Devin Haney were from the silly
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  shell. So, super very much is, it's interesting.
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  I do want to see it, but I think Haney pulls
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  it off. No, see, the more I think about it, I
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  think I might agree with you just because, like
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  I was saying, Keyshawn is his own op. You're
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  never going to know if he's going to be 100 %
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  in fight night or if he's freaking wallowing
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  away. with liquor, you know? I mean, honestly,
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  if Keyshawn is at 100 % and Devin Haney's antics
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  don't mess with his head, and if Keyshawn doesn't
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  even get it in his own mind himself... Oh, if
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  Keyshawn's dialed in and doesn't let himself
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  get frustrated, he probably stops Haney late.
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  100%. But, honestly, the way I see the fight,
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  Keyshawn probably takes way too long to start
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  and doesn't have the... the heart to finish it
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  off. Not finish it off, but... He doesn't get
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  started fast enough, and then he gets frustrated
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  and he just loses. That's a good view, actually.
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  I was thinking he'd try and box with Haney early
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  and get going, rush his work and get frustrated,
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  and then late, he just... I mean, he either bowels
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  or just kind of... Collapses. Yeah, like, it
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  collapses. Like, I'm not saying he gets stopped,
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  but I'm saying there is a clear, like... There's
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  a difference between, like, the round one where
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  he's almost boxing with Haney and late, where,
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  like, not at all, he's getting picked apart.
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  I think it's just a tale of two fights, you know?
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  Either he starts off early and falters late in
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  the fight, or he starts off slow and somewhat
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  picks it up late in the fight, but it's not enough.
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  I also really think it depends on how Keyshawn
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  is able to successfully start the fight. Because
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  you saw early with Ryan that, like, for lack
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  of a better word, Ryan took, like, 30 seconds
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  and immediately scared Haney out of engaging.
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  Meaningfully. But, I mean, Haney got up. Every
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  time he got knocked down, he got up. And every
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  time he pushed back, he came back. When Haney
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  was boxing, he was winning the rounds he boxed
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  in, but just, you know, you scare Haney out of
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  his rhythm, and he's throwing home run shots
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  against Ryan that, like, single shots that Ryan
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  can pick off. So it really depends on how Keyshawn
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  handles the early goings. Well, Devin Haney started
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  out really well against Norman, and then he just
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  took his foot off the gas. Yeah, but he stayed
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  in the rhythm. He didn't get unfocused. He didn't
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  have to take his foot off the gas, or he didn't
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  have to put his foot down. Yeah, there's that
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  rhythm that a Haney fight will go in that you've
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  seen been broken at several points, but I feel
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  like since... The Ryan fight, he's gotten hyper
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  aware of this. And while he doesn't, his defensive
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  flaws are still super there. The ability to knock
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  him off his rhythm is something that has gotten
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  a little harder for guys. Because you saw Norman
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  definitely tried, and that's how he got caught.
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  It's only, I mean, it's only been two fights.
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  Yeah, but it's been several years. Yeah. And
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  he's not a guy who goes out of camp and gets
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  shit -faced. He's a guy who stays campy around.
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  Not wrong, yeah. So, like, I'm thinking, like,
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  especially because it's not like a technical
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  flaw that you need a coach to coach out of you.
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  It's very much a mental thing that if you can
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  identify it, you can work on it pretty easily
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  with not even some soul -searching, just some
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  more focus. You think after he lost, he realized,
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  hey, I got to step it up in this way, this way,
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  this way. He actually made the adjustments. He
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  strikes me as a guy who watches tape. And, you
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  know, looking at Lomachenko, looking at his fight
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  with Ryan, looking at his fight with Linares.
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  There's like key moments in these fights where
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  he gets taken off rhythm and it costs him big
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  stretches of the fight. I feel like this is,
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  you know, it's something you can clearly identify.
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  It's not like, you know, like Andrew Gulotta
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  is a great example of a guy who would just randomly
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  lose focus and either get stopped or start hitting
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  guys in the balls. Like, there's a clear pattern
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  here where his opponent will give him a little
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  too much pressure, he'll square up, and he'll
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  get caught. And it's mainly getting the rhythm
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  back that he struggles with. Well, who will struggle
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  with the rhythm here? Gervonta Davis versus Floyd
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  Schofield. Negotiations are going well. Schofield
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  ain't making it in the ring. Well, hey, who's...
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  Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.
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  Hold up. What's the new virus? Antivirus? No,
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  he might be another woman. Tank might be another
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  woman. Isn't Tank on the run? Yeah, Tank's on
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  the run from the FBI. Schofield's looking for
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  new viruses to give himself. This is not happening.
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  Yeah, at least Schofield's in the country. I
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  think he's in the country. Yeah, with a USB -C
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  cable in his mouth. When you said USB -C, I was
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  thinking like the WBCs. U .S. title? What? When
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  did he win that? When did he win that? No. When
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  did he fight? I love the hospital pictures so
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  much because nothing... Like, how do you even
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  get into a hospital to take this picture? Well,
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  I mean, he actually was in the hospital. No,
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  he was in the hospital or something. But he was
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  in the hospital because he partied too much.
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  Hey, but I'm looking at the USB cables up his
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  nose. There's an Ethernet cable in his mouth,
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  dude. You can say he's tapped into the Matrix.
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  He's improving his download speed, so he doesn't
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  have to spend eight rounds doing jack shit. When's
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  the last time Floyd Schofield was in the ring?
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  When he fought Tevin Farmer. Actually, last June.
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  It's going to be a year tomorrow. Yeah, Tevin
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  Farmer, knocking out Tevin Farmer. A year, yeah.
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  That's actually very bad. One round in two years
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  is kind of insane. What's one round in a year
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  and a half? Because I think he fought in October.
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  It will be two years. By the time he steps in
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  the ring next, it will be two years. He was supposed
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  to fight last October. What sucks is that he's
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  not even bad. He's actually a very good prospect.
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  Contender now, actually. Contender? Yeah. Tank
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  Schofield is for the vacant WBA lightweight title.
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  Oh, Jesus. You're right. Contender. He's very
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  good. I actually do not hate Schofield. It's
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  just really funny how unfortunate his career
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  has been. If I read the WBA info correctly, If
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  the fight does not materialize, then Schofield
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  will be appointed the title. Holy fuck. So, email
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  champ? Oh, email champ. Schofield. It will take
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  it. Oh my god, he'll get it directly through
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  the cables, too. That's fucked up. Yeah, I don't
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  know how a fight where one of the fighters is
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  actively on the lam. How are they negotiating?
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  This is some super extreme favoritism from the
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  WBA. Like, how the hell are you going to organize
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  a fight between a guy on the run? I mean, let's
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  just for shits and giggles. Let's say the fight
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  does. Let's say it happens. Golden Boy and PPC
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  have been pretty good with each other. I mean,
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  do you guys think Schofield got a shot? Or is
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  this another case of, you know... I mean, it
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  depends on what tank. I mean, from the fighters
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  you've seen Tank go up against in the past, I
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  mean... I think it'll go similar to the Frank
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  Martin fight. Yeah. Where Schofield will start
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  off well. And then as tank downloads, as we like
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  to say, it'll start shifting before it ends in
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  a stoppage. I don't know. I mean, I got to support
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  Skopje as my guy, but in actuality, I kind of
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  agree. I think he makes way too many mistakes
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  to the point where... Like, against Shakur, I
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  mean, he's not going to get stopped. Okay. Against
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  other guys, he's not going to get stopped. But
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  Tank, I'm not going to sit here in line and be
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  like, hey, I think he knocks out Tank. I mean,
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  he can. But I haven't personally seen enough
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  of him to confidently say, oh, he's a knockout
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  artist type of guy. I mean, he knocks out guys,
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  but he's not, you know, known to be like that
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  yet, you know? Yeah. So, for me, I've seen Tank
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  over the years. I've seen him. Whether I like
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  Tank or not, I know he's a... He's an amazing
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  counterpuncher. Probably one of the best in the
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  sport right now, depending on whether he's still
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  in the sport. But, I mean, we saw, what was that
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  fight with Rene Tejas? I mean, Schofield was,
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  yes, he took him to a decision, and yes, he won
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  the fight, but he got dropped. And, yeah, it
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  was, you know, not a crazy bad drop, but... Come
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  on. Tank's going to do it much worse. Yeah. All
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  I got to say is Schofield's got to not get hit
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  and hit hard to get the respect to Tank. And
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  that's not happening. What's the advice? The
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  punch -out advice? Join the Nintendo fan club
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  today? I don't know. All I got to say is, man,
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  Schofield... Good luck. I wish you the best.
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  Go on, my son. Go on, my son. Go on, my son.
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  I love it. I still support you, and I'm going
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  to support you in this fight no matter what.
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  But I know you got it. Go on, my son. Noel McCallion
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  will be facing his mandatory David Benavidez.
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  Fire. Look at this. Some common sense. Yeah,
• 25:00
  I think it's... We salute you for rebuffing Zufa.
• 25:07
  I think it's a decent fight. I'm not going to
• 25:11
  say it's a fight I want to see. I mean, there's
• 25:14
  many other fights I want to see, but at least
• 25:15
  it's a championship -level fight. It's unification.
• 25:19
  It's what's available. Yeah. You obviously know
• 25:22
  that B -Bowl was not going to take that fight
• 25:26
  with Benavidez right now. Not with the money
• 25:29
  that... they're offering him to fight Beterbiev
• 25:32
  for the trilogy. In his home country, too. I
• 25:36
  mean, he would be kind of silly to say, you know.
• 25:40
  It would be silly to take Benavidez instead of
• 25:42
  that. Exactly. As much as I want the coronation
• 25:50
  of Benavidez, well, more crowns anyway. Yeah,
• 26:01
  Jai Opataya, the chair is in the corner, buddy.
• 26:06
  Get ready to sit and wait. Yep. He's waiting
• 26:10
  to get his belt. He can fight Chris Willem -Smith.
• 26:15
  He's waiting to get that belt back. You guys
• 26:20
  think that's really going to happen? No. The
• 26:24
  mandatory for the IBF is already being set up.
• 26:28
  That sucks, dude. The, um, vacant fight, I mean.
• 26:33
  There's, um, Vidal Riley is the number one contender.
• 26:37
  They're setting up the number two contender.
• 26:39
  True. Do you guys really think that Opetai would
• 26:43
  have gone in the fight had he stayed with, uh,
• 26:45
  his, uh, his previous promoter? Honestly, probably.
• 26:47
  If he stayed with Boxer, especially now that
• 26:49
  they're with his own, yeah. It's doable. It's
• 26:56
  very doable. Man, I want Benavidez to actually
• 27:03
  have, like, a blockbuster fight against a huge...
• 27:06
  Someone? Yeah, like, another big name, you know?
• 27:09
  Against fucking Noah McKeelyan. Again, it's a
• 27:12
  champ, but it's... It's Noah McKeelyan, come
• 27:14
  on. Cruiserweight champ. That's true. Well, it's
• 27:19
  at least... It's better than, like, being something
• 27:22
  just bad. What, Callum Smith? Like, it could
• 27:27
  be way worse. Dragging Callum Smith up or something,
• 27:31
  it's not... That's true. At least it's not Callum
• 27:33
  Smith. But... It's a Don... Don't know if Bikilian
• 27:41
  is a Don King fighter, right? Correct. Yep. How
• 27:45
  often do you see the PBC working with Don King?
• 27:51
  I'm sure Samson would work with Don King. Don's
• 28:01
  still kicking around. Oh, yeah, there's that
• 28:04
  little thing in Discord. Who do you think is
• 28:08
  going to survive longer? Pick your role. I think
• 28:17
  the most evil lasts the longest, and it's obviously...
• 28:20
  It's Don King. It's got to go to Don King. He's
• 28:23
  got to last longer, man. It's going to be Don
• 28:27
  King, I fear. Oh, Bob. I mean, Bob's still kicking,
• 28:32
  too. Shit. No, Bob's out of hatred. Yeah. Bob's
• 28:40
  seen everything from Ali to Dave Allen. Oh, my
• 28:45
  God. You're right. Bob did probably watch a Dave
• 28:47
  Allen fight in his life. Holy fuck. I mean, he's
• 28:52
  probably seen worse than Dave Allen, honestly.
• 28:54
  Dave Allen's bad to us, but to Bob, I mean, Bob's
• 28:57
  seen... millions of fights in his time. Yeah,
• 29:00
  you're right. You're right. But we all know Dave
• 29:04
  is probably not one of the better fighters we've
• 29:08
  seen. Last bit of news. We got to keep it rolling.
• 29:16
  Oh, yeah. Anthony Joshua Tyson Fury is not officially
• 29:20
  announced yet, but we are... The word on the
• 29:25
  street is that... it will be happening in the
• 29:28
  UK. Contractually obligated to be in the UK.
• 29:31
  Well, where else would it be? Tyson Fury isn't
• 29:33
  allowed in the United States. He's on the no
• 29:35
  -fly list. Really? He was at the Freedom 250.
• 29:41
  Really? It's crazy that they let him out. They
• 29:44
  probably let him in directly somehow. What the
• 29:47
  fuck is this administration? They gave him the
• 29:50
  gold card. He's been, yeah, literally, he's been
• 29:52
  on the no -fly list for ages because of his association
• 29:55
  with Daniel Kinahan. So that's why I'm like,
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  June 11th, we had Eye of the Tiger on DAZN. Just
• 33:48
  going to point out, Leila Boudouin gets the UD
• 33:53
  over Paulina Angel for the interim WBA 130. And
• 34:00
  main event, Wilkins Matthew. stops Esquiva Falcao
• 34:05
  in the eighth. It's actually not a bad win. Is
• 34:11
  Thomas Chabot, is that the guy you used to talk
• 34:15
  about? No, that's the guy who lost to Cloutier.
• 34:18
  Oh, okay. There's one loss. Actually, Cloutier
• 34:26
  won yesterday in Saskatoon in his hometown. Oh,
• 34:29
  nice. Fun fact. Yeah. I was shocked they didn't
• 34:36
  drop Chabot like a pile of... Like a bad habit?
• 34:41
  Yeah, like, I don't know why they didn't... Like,
• 34:43
  usually they drop a guy after their first loss.
• 34:47
  Like, Eric Bazaran's been missing from these
• 34:49
  cards since he lost in the WBC Grand Prix. And
• 34:55
  that was, like, a real fight. Chabot lost to
• 34:58
  a guy they brought in to beat him. So, you know
• 35:08
  what? Power to him. Power to Eye of the Tiger.
• 35:15
  Falcao's a really good win. I can't even lie.
• 35:21
  He's a good, solid, older kind of gatekeeper.
• 35:31
  Let's roll to Saturday, June 13th. First thing
• 35:36
  to get it out of the way. MF Pro at the Manchester
• 35:43
  Arena. Tommy Fury gets the majority decision
• 35:47
  over Eddie Hall. Certainly a fight of all time.
• 35:56
  Yeah, it was... Yeah. Certainly one of the fights
• 36:03
  ever. It was Circus Act. It's Circus Act. Absolutely.
• 36:07
  Six rounds, two minute rounds. If you're 12,
• 36:11
  Tommy Fury's gotta be the GOAT, though. Oh, for
• 36:15
  beating up the fucking mountain of a person?
• 36:18
  He's beaten, no, but he's beaten everyone. All
• 36:21
  of the memes. Like, he beat Jake Paul and KSI
• 36:25
  and now Eddie Hall. He's got like the infinity
• 36:31
  gauntlet of memes. He's got to be the GOAT. Honestly,
• 36:33
  I can't lie. The GOAT boxer. The savior. If you're
• 36:38
  12, he's got to be the GOAT. That being said,
• 36:44
  I will own being wrong about this one. I thought
• 36:48
  Tommy Fury was going to lose this one. Like the
• 36:52
  Haseen Rotman, Greg Hardy fight. I thought it
• 36:57
  was going to look like that and not. like this.
• 37:00
  So I'm being wrong about a fight three people
• 37:03
  watched. Gotta eat your crow. Oh yeah. MVP W4
• 37:15
  at the Caribbean Royale in Orlando, Florida.
• 37:20
  The only stoppages on the card were the men's
• 37:25
  fights. That happens. Yeah, that's rough. It
• 37:33
  happens. It happens. I don't mind it when that
• 37:37
  happens. It's just the fights have to be less
• 37:40
  of a slog. I can't lie. But going up the list,
• 37:49
  let's see here. Estefani Alegria gets the UD
• 37:55
  to claim... The IBF, WBA, and WBO titles from
• 38:00
  Evelyn Bermudez. Natalie Delgado claims the WBA
• 38:07
  super flyweight title from Jasmine Artiga. Tiara
• 38:12
  Brown retains her WBC featherweight title with
• 38:15
  a win over Hannah Rapp. And O'Shea Jones split
• 38:21
  draw with Aliyah Carranza. IBF Super Welterweight
• 38:26
  title was on the line there. Expect a trilogy.
• 38:35
  Yep. Moving to Matchroom on DAZN at the Desert
• 38:43
  Diamond Arena here in Phoenix. Oh, shit. Starting
• 38:48
  from the bottom up. We're going through all of
• 38:51
  them. Ronnie Alvarez, TKO7 over Filip Stankovic.
• 38:56
  Stankovic was game to start, but Ronnie was really
• 39:01
  working that body. And down the stretch, it was
• 39:06
  a real problem. Yeah, it was a real problem.
• 39:13
  Hector Beltran stops Shaquille Felicia in the
• 39:17
  second. Hold on a sec. Let's see. Felicia was
• 39:27
  mobile in the beginning. Hector was doing the
• 39:32
  old downloading. The mobility was giving Hector
• 39:36
  some trouble, but eventually he caught up to
• 39:38
  him. And he got him buzzed at the end of the
• 39:42
  first, but Felicia was going hard to the body
• 39:48
  in the second. But wasn't really doing more than
• 39:51
  ones and twos. Not a lot of combination punching.
• 39:58
  What else do we got here? Hector honestly did
• 40:01
  adjust decently well. Yes. I got to give it to
• 40:05
  him. The adjustments came at the end of the second.
• 40:10
  Ref pulled the plug. And you know, it's always
• 40:13
  good to see a fighter adjust pretty quickly too.
• 40:17
  You know? Yeah. A lot of top -level guys, you
• 40:19
  don't really see that ability to adjust well.
• 40:24
  Yeah. I mean, we pointed out a lot, too, where,
• 40:27
  like, the biggest if with fighters is if they
• 40:30
  adjust. Not even, like, if they gain some kind
• 40:35
  of magical property. It's just if they have that
• 40:39
  presence of mind or their coach does. Moving
• 40:50
  up the bill, I think it's Shechal. Esquivel stops
• 40:55
  Rayshon Taylor in the sixth. This was the prelim
• 40:59
  fight that I enjoyed the most. Taylor opened
• 41:02
  it up pretty cagey. They call him, he goes by
• 41:05
  X. Shechal goes by X. He was swinging for defenses
• 41:10
  pretty much from the beginning. Taylor's jab.
• 41:15
  was working nicely, but he wasn't building anything
• 41:19
  off of it. It just seemed like he wanted to keep
• 41:22
  X away from him. X continued with the combinations.
• 41:27
  He was doing this body -head combo with his left
• 41:33
  hook. It was pretty much at will. It was pretty
• 41:37
  nice. It ended up being... that X was landing
• 41:48
  a lot of shots. He was dealing out a lot of punishment
• 41:52
  all the way through the fifth. And I was starting
• 41:56
  to wonder, you're landing all the fucking punches
• 41:59
  here, dude. Where's the power? Where's the knockout
• 42:04
  power? And just as I was starting to think that,
• 42:08
  the ref pulls the plug in the sixth. Not quite
• 42:16
  the knockout as it would appear on paper. Trini
• 42:25
  Ochoa, stoppage in two over Christian Perez.
• 42:31
  It was fucking quick. It was just a feeling out
• 42:34
  round in the first, and then Trini got it done
• 42:36
  really quickly in the second. And there you go.
• 42:41
  That's the... That's the undercard. That's a
• 42:46
  pretty nice undercard. Yeah. All stoppages. Elias
• 42:55
  Montoya stops Adrian Rodriguez in the second.
• 43:00
  Nice way to open it up. The women's fight. IBF
• 43:08
  lightweight champion Alif Nur Turhan beats Gabriela
• 43:12
  Tellez. By UD. All four cards were 96 -94. Yeah.
• 43:22
  This is actually a pretty good fight, I can't
• 43:24
  lie. Yeah, Turhan is unorthodox, I think is the
• 43:32
  word. Makes for a good watch, though. I'd rather...
• 43:35
  She tries things. Yeah, she swings big. That
• 43:43
  was a little bit to her detriment. I think she
• 43:46
  was going a little bit too wide, telegraphing
• 43:48
  a little too much. Arturo Cardenas, UD over Jordan
• 43:55
  Martinez. Local boy drops the ball. He doesn't...
• 44:01
  I think this was a case of where the coaching
• 44:06
  came into play. Cardenas, it was competitive.
• 44:12
  competitive -ish in the beginning. And then Cardenas
• 44:14
  was making adjustments. He showed that he clearly
• 44:18
  has more levels to his game. And Martinez was
• 44:22
  pretty one -track. Unfortunate. I mean, he's
• 44:28
  a good local fighter. He is. And entertaining
• 44:32
  for being so local. Pro box three years. Don't
• 44:38
  forget. I guess they hit three years. Pro box
• 44:41
  three years. Pro box three years. Pro box three
• 44:43
  years and forget. Yeah. RGBA. He's 23. He could
• 44:49
  go to pro box. RGBA. No, that's Zufa. That's
• 44:57
  the Zufa pipeline. You know, honestly, like,
• 45:00
  I agree with you, Leo. I agree with you 100 %
• 45:03
  that, you know, the corner work is what made
• 45:08
  a difference. But at the same time, it's like,
• 45:11
  I know this might sound weird to say, but I felt
• 45:15
  like this fight was more of a showcase of Jordan
• 45:19
  rather than Cardenas, you know? Because the more
• 45:26
  that Cardenas fights, the worse I feel like he
• 45:31
  is, you know? I feel like with Martinez, though,
• 45:34
  you're going to, like... Look at his record,
• 45:37
  look at the guys he's fighting, and look at the
• 45:39
  step -up here. And he's missing a lot of those
• 45:43
  competitive mid -level regional fights with guys
• 45:47
  who are good and not just there to be knocked
• 45:49
  over. Again, he would be a very welcome presence
• 45:54
  on Pro Box. Because it's where you make those
• 46:00
  adjustments in camp even if you don't make them
• 46:02
  in the fight. natural basis of training for guys
• 46:06
  that are more competitive. You're not making
• 46:12
  huge leaps. Developing plan ABC. Yeah, like you
• 46:17
  actually naturally develop and instead of just
• 46:19
  going, oh, there we are. Here's a fight with
• 46:25
  a guy who is my level. You know, maybe, you know,
• 46:31
  God forbid he's actually not that level. And
• 46:35
  then, well, it still doesn't matter. You make
• 46:38
  a nice living on Provox instead of being fed
• 46:41
  to guys. I think he'll spend, he would spend
• 46:48
  a year on Provox getting the competitive matchups
• 46:52
  before they either cut him or he ends up becoming
• 46:57
  food. Yeah, he just needs a bit more polish that
• 47:00
  I think Robux gives these prospects that aren't
• 47:04
  generational, but... They're entertaining enough
• 47:08
  to be in a car. They're very solid. There's a
• 47:15
  clear path here that isn't just, alright, forget
• 47:18
  about him until he loses to the next undefeated
• 47:20
  guy. You're right, right. Alright, what's next?
• 47:29
  Main event. Bam Rodriguez knocks out WBA Bantamweight
• 47:35
  champ Antonio Vargas. In the sixth. Hey, Vargas
• 47:44
  made it. Go on. Vargas made it competitive for
• 47:47
  a little bit. Yeah. Vargas, as much as I gave
• 47:56
  Vargas, he was game. And he landed a lot more
• 48:00
  on Bam than others have. Now, is that to say
• 48:04
  that he landed a lot on Bam? I think he landed
• 48:07
  mainly on the gloves from what I saw. Leo, you
• 48:10
  were actually in the arena. How did you feel
• 48:11
  about it? I'm curious, since you were actually
• 48:14
  there. As I was watching it, I thought Antonio
• 48:17
  Vargas was... He presented something that I think
• 48:21
  Bam might not have been expecting. And it was
• 48:24
  tenacity. Three pounds might not seem like a
• 48:29
  lot, but when you're down at those weight classes,
• 48:31
  three pounds is a considerable percentage of
• 48:34
  weight. It's a higher... Exactly what I was going
• 48:36
  to say. Yeah. Honestly, I appreciate that. You
• 48:42
  know, I feel like, especially with pound -for
• 48:45
  -pound guys, there's a sense of... You'll see
• 48:47
  with some, if not most, challengers, a sense
• 48:50
  of, like... You know, I'm not going to say they
• 48:53
  get, like, aura -mogged or whatever, but, like,
• 48:55
  you know... The sort of presence of a champion
• 48:59
  can overwhelm a guy sometimes. And I don't think
• 49:05
  it hit Vargas like that, which is good. I think
• 49:09
  Vargas, since he had been knocked down multiple
• 49:12
  times in the past, his recovery was pretty decent.
• 49:15
  I honestly thought he was going to be out the
• 49:16
  first time. Yeah. And that was a pretty nasty
• 49:19
  knockdown. But he got up and, you know, kept
• 49:24
  fighting. He had heart. I gotta give it to him.
• 49:28
  He had a lot of heart. That was something Bam
• 49:30
  said when we talked to him at the post -fight.
• 49:35
  He said that he was not expecting him to get
• 49:38
  up, but he felt more power than he was expecting.
• 49:47
  And I think that was like the weight jump is
• 49:50
  what made him... gave Vargas a little bit more
• 49:56
  pop than Bam was expecting. And he thought, once
• 49:59
  he got up, Bam said he was impressed. Number
• 50:04
  one, he got up. Number two, he got right back
• 50:07
  into the fight without losing a beat, really.
• 50:12
  He was an Olympic guy. I gotta say that. I get,
• 50:22
  you know, the amateurs. Yeah, the amateurs are
• 50:24
  not something that, you know, totally dictates
• 50:28
  how you're going to be as a fighter. But, I mean,
• 50:32
  it helps. It does help. And considering how we
• 50:36
  saw in this fight that the guy did fight, like,
• 50:41
  an Olympian champ. Yeah, but he didn't. Silver,
• 50:47
  I think. It's really good that he didn't. He
• 50:49
  still had an Olympic champ. I'm pretty sure.
• 50:52
  He fought like it. Short shots and landed a good
• 50:58
  amount and made it hard to score some of the
• 51:02
  rounds too. But still, Bam is the GOAT. That's
• 51:08
  all I'm going to say. Bam is the GOAT. How do
• 51:11
  you feel about the anyway talks now? Nah, you
• 51:16
  know what? He's got to fight the Pinoy Devil.
• 51:21
  He's got to fight the Pinoy Devil. Sorry, buddy.
• 51:26
  Anyway, he's got to wait his turn. I would love
• 51:31
  to see that fight, but I don't know if that's
• 51:33
  even happening. That Canelo Usyk level talks
• 51:36
  right now. What they were talking about, Eddie,
• 51:42
  Bam just said, like, you put whoever in front
• 51:46
  of me and I'll fight them. So he wasn't giving
• 51:48
  a committal answer at any point throughout the
• 51:51
  night. But he was just deferring to Eddie and
• 51:55
  Robert. And both of them were saying that it's
• 52:00
  a matter of negotiation at this point. If they
• 52:06
  do want to go the Inouye route, that they don't
• 52:12
  want to risk fighting Takuma first. And then
• 52:18
  the possibility of Naoya moving up. Because then
• 52:22
  the fight's gone. Yeah. Fair enough. So if they're
• 52:27
  going to go for it, they want to go directly
• 52:29
  to it. As cool as the storyline would be, you
• 52:35
  fight the brother first and then get to the monster
• 52:39
  after. I think that Honestly, Bam might have
• 52:47
  a good shot. I mean, considering Inouye's last
• 52:52
  fight, I think the only way to beat Bam is to
• 52:58
  out -volume him. Outwork him. Because, again,
• 53:04
  we have seen Bam fight semi -technical fighters,
• 53:10
  and we've seen him fight guys that are more active.
• 53:16
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• 53:19
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• 53:22
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• 53:28
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• 53:31
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• 53:45
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• 54:11
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• 54:14
  smart. Imagine that shit. Seriously, that was
• 54:19
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• 54:25
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• 54:38
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• 54:43
  meet anybody famous there? Boxing famous. Yeah,
• 54:50
  boxing famous. No. Damn. A lot of the undercard
• 55:01
  was local guys. So they weren't that big of names,
• 55:08
  really. I mean, Eddie was there, but I've seen,
• 55:15
  spoken to him a few times. Bam, same thing. Robert,
• 55:20
  same thing. Michael Carbajal was there. That
• 55:27
  was it. As far as like celebs go. That's crazy.
• 55:30
  Michael Carbajal being there is so cool. Sorry,
• 55:39
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• 55:42
  Carbajal tape by my father. Yeah, Carbajal was
• 55:49
  apparently really eager to see Bam in person.
• 55:53
  Yeah. I can see it. I love his nickname. His
• 55:58
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• 56:04
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• 56:07
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• 56:12
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  Wednesday, June 24th at the Pat Rafter Arena
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  in Queensland, Australia. The co -main event,
• 1:00:38
  Liam Wilson vs. Alexandru Marine and Lewis Crocker
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  vs. Liam Parro. IBF welterweight title on the
• 1:00:48
  line. Liam Parrow, please clear out the IBF rankings
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  once and for all. Please. You don't want to see
• 1:00:57
  Patty Donovan again? We're going to see him again.
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  Parrow's probably going to fight him after this
• 1:01:04
  fight. It's going to be great. I'm so excited.
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  I'm sick of this. Clear out the fucking rankings.
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  Saturday, June 27th. First thing... We have Rockin'
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  Fights 54. Brought to you by Starboxing. This
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  is in Huntington, New York. Only two selects
• 1:01:26
  that I got on this one. Mickey Scala. He's a
• 1:01:29
  local guy for me. He's fighting Isaiah Flaherty.
• 1:01:34
  And then main event, Wendy Toussaint versus Miguel
• 1:01:38
  Hernandez. Skipping ahead to get it out of the
• 1:01:44
  way. Sunday, June 28th. Zufa Boxing 8 at the
• 1:01:49
  Chelsea Ballroom at the Cosmopolitan in Vegas.
• 1:01:54
  The main portion, the top three fights, Omar
• 1:01:58
  Trinidad vs. Jerwin Oncajas. Not bad. Kane Sandoval
• 1:02:02
  vs. Brandon Lee. I'm happy to see Brandon Lee
• 1:02:05
  back in action. And Rayo Valenzuela vs. Edwin
• 1:02:10
  De Los Santos 2. God, Brandon Lee is 30 -0. Jesus
• 1:02:15
  Christ. Yeah. He's got one of those padded records.
• 1:02:20
  Hella padded. He's still padding it. That's what
• 1:02:29
  it is. But here is why we're here. Matchroom
• 1:02:36
  and Top Rank collab on DAZN from Brooklyn. From
• 1:02:43
  the bottom up. Let's see. I think this is the
• 1:02:47
  proper running order. Not 100 % sure. But we
• 1:02:51
  have Juanita Lopez versus Alberto Motos. Six
• 1:02:57
  rounds at Superfly. Dennis Thompson versus Edwin
• 1:03:01
  Rodriguez. Eight rounds at Superbantam. Quincy
• 1:03:06
  Williams versus Jerome Baxter. Eight rounds at
• 1:03:09
  Welter. Ben Whitaker versus Richard Rivera. 10
• 1:03:14
  rounds at light heavy. Hold on. Is this fucking
• 1:03:18
  Popeye Rivera? I'm pretty sure. Maybe. It is
• 1:03:22
  Popeye Rivera. It is Popeye Rivera. That's his
• 1:03:27
  nickname. Yes, Popeye. Jahai Tucker versus Yuri
• 1:03:35
  Sedano. 10 rounds at middleweight. Emiliano Vargas
• 1:03:39
  versus Bryce Mills. 10 rounds at super light.
• 1:03:43
  And Xander Zayas, the WBA -WBO Unified Super
• 1:03:49
  Welterweight Champion vs. Jaron Boots Ennis.
• 1:03:56
  Woof. Who's gonna go first? You can go first.
• 1:04:04
  Well, I gotta... Ooh, okay. How do I start this?
• 1:04:16
  Honestly, I'm going to give my praises to Xander
• 1:04:19
  again. You do not have to take this fight at
• 1:04:21
  all. So all my respect, all my love goes out
• 1:04:28
  to you, Xander. But I am basically also praying
• 1:04:35
  for you on your funeral. Because this is a...
• 1:04:40
  You don't need to pray for that. Not praying
• 1:04:42
  for it, but I'm like, I'm mourning you early
• 1:04:45
  is what I'm saying. Because it's Boots. I don't
• 1:04:49
  see any way that... I don't see many ways that
• 1:04:52
  Xander beats Boots. Only thing that comes to
• 1:04:57
  mind really is... I mean, the only fight I've
• 1:05:02
  seen Boots really struggle is the Karen fight.
• 1:05:06
  You know? That's struggle in heavy air quotations.
• 1:05:10
  Struggled as in he lost two rounds out of 24,
• 1:05:13
  by the way. Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:05:16
  That's the only fight I really saw him struggle.
• 1:05:19
  Now, there's some ways that Xander can, you know,
• 1:05:26
  outwork Boots. He can do short shots and have
• 1:05:33
  Boots respect him. Bring the fight to Boots.
• 1:05:37
  Not be fearful of him. Which, I mean, side note,
• 1:05:41
  considering how young Xander is, I feel like
• 1:05:45
  the lights might just also be too bright for
• 1:05:47
  him as well. I mean, this is his first pay -per
• 1:05:50
  -view fight. This is definitely his biggest fight
• 1:05:53
  of his career. I also expect Xander to be fighting
• 1:05:58
  off more than he can shoot in this fight. Again,
• 1:06:00
  I can't think of many ways, but you gotta bring
• 1:06:04
  the fight to boots. That's all I'm gonna say.
• 1:06:07
  Make it hard. Make it a hard fight. Make it rough.
• 1:06:12
  Go on, my son. Go on, my son. Go on, my son.
• 1:06:15
  That's all I got to say is go on, my son. Good
• 1:06:18
  luck. It's difficult. Like you said, it's hard
• 1:06:27
  to think of ways that Xander can really do this.
• 1:06:32
  Yeah, like, unless he turns out to be an all
• 1:06:35
  -time great, like, that we just haven't seen
• 1:06:37
  yet. He shows us skills heretofore not seen.
• 1:06:45
  Because nothing about his, like, in his resume
• 1:06:48
  really gives me the confidence that he shows.
• 1:06:52
  We also watched him. We also actually watched
• 1:06:54
  him fight. Exactly. Like, Amas Baru, too. So,
• 1:06:57
  like... What is... Like, why wasn't it there
• 1:07:04
  with, like, Abbas Baru, you know? That should
• 1:07:08
  have been a pretty easy scalp. Yeah. So. Oh,
• 1:07:15
  well. Can I make a prediction? For taking it,
• 1:07:18
  like Solo said, you didn't have to take the slide.
• 1:07:20
  Oh, huge credit for taking it. He did not. He
• 1:07:22
  could have held that belt hostage. Both belts.
• 1:07:29
  I'm going to make an official prediction. And
• 1:07:31
  this is going to be kind of interesting. I think
• 1:07:36
  it's going to go the way of Charlo versus Lubin.
• 1:07:42
  Really? That's bold. I think so. That's a bold
• 1:07:46
  prediction. I was thinking Boots is going to
• 1:07:48
  beat the shit out of him and stop him late. Or
• 1:07:51
  mid to late. Mid to late. If I had to pick a
• 1:07:57
  round, it's seven. I either see Boots. knocking
• 1:08:01
  him out super early, or this is going to decision.
• 1:08:05
  Because I don't see any other way that this fight
• 1:08:10
  goes. I mean, again, what the hell do I know?
• 1:08:14
  I'm a casual. You know? That's kind of a joke,
• 1:08:19
  but I mean, again, I don't know shit about boxing.
• 1:08:25
  Nobody does. Nobody does. Everybody's a casual.
• 1:08:30
  Boots and seven. I'm saying, like, boots under
• 1:08:33
  four. I was thinking it goes to decision, but
• 1:08:37
  it'll be, like, really wide. I don't think Zayas
• 1:08:40
  is that durable. Like, with the firepower Boots
• 1:08:43
  has, and, like, unless Zayas shows up with, like,
• 1:08:47
  astounding levels of negativity. He's gotta make
• 1:08:53
  it. You guys gotta make an ugly fight. That's
• 1:08:55
  what I'm saying. And Zayas has to be super negative
• 1:08:57
  in a way that, like, in his soul, he cannot operate
• 1:09:01
  with. So negative he's going to hell. Yeah, like,
• 1:09:05
  he's got to sell his soul to beat boots. Deadass.
• 1:09:10
  I'm glad we're in agreement. I thought this was
• 1:09:12
  going to be an argument. Well, the thing is that
• 1:09:16
  I'm trying to make the case a little bit for
• 1:09:18
  Zayas, and I... It's not like the case with Josh,
• 1:09:22
  Kelly, and Vakram or Zayas where... Baccarin
• 1:09:25
  is a boogeyman. But it's... Boots either takes
• 1:09:29
  you dead serious or he will still beat the shit
• 1:09:34
  out of you with a full smile on his face. That
• 1:09:37
  guy's... Immediately after his last fight, he
• 1:09:39
  was already in the gym. He's a psychopath. But
• 1:09:42
  I will say, I think the example of like, oh,
• 1:09:45
  he's a complete psychopath is the Via fight.
• 1:09:49
  Like, realistically, Via's arms are... Not long.
• 1:09:53
  He's not good at boxing. And instead of just
• 1:09:57
  beating the shit out of him at range, Boots gets
• 1:09:59
  right up in his face, does the whole slow -mo
• 1:10:03
  shit, just trades with him. Like, this guy is
• 1:10:07
  a bit of a monster. But that's where you see
• 1:10:10
  a guy trading with Boots, and they don't win.
• 1:10:12
  They don't win. Again, Villa was, at the time,
• 1:10:17
  by far the strongest guy at 147. Just on punching
• 1:10:22
  power. Not on skill, not on anything else. Just
• 1:10:25
  pure power. Vivio was the absolute strongest
• 1:10:28
  guy. And Boots gladly traded with him with a
• 1:10:33
  smile and won. So... I don't see... Like, he
• 1:10:39
  can outbox you. He can style on you. He can get
• 1:10:42
  in the mud with you. So what does... And Zayas
• 1:10:47
  has no, like... He's a very good all -rounder.
• 1:10:50
  But, you know, he doesn't have any aspect to
• 1:10:54
  his game that makes me say, wow, he can actually
• 1:10:57
  do it if this happens. I mean, the reason why
• 1:11:03
  I think Virgil would beat Boots in a fight is
• 1:11:06
  because he's going to bring it. That's what the
• 1:11:11
  difference is to me between the Virgil fight
• 1:11:13
  and the Zayas fight. Zayas is more of a technical
• 1:11:16
  fighter. But he's a technical fighter with not
• 1:11:19
  a lot of power. He's got decent power, but not
• 1:11:23
  enough to make Boots respect him, in my opinion.
• 1:11:27
  But again, we might get surprised. We might have
• 1:11:32
  a decision where it's like, oh, crap. Maybe Boots
• 1:11:37
  ends up not being as... The thing is that if
• 1:11:41
  it were Virgil, who Virgil's technically quite
• 1:11:45
  unproven in a sense, sure. Sure, like, there's
• 1:11:51
  a, like, oh, maybe it was all smoke and mirrors,
• 1:11:54
  but, like, Boots has been through those fights
• 1:11:56
  that you could claim are, you know, that would
• 1:12:04
  show that he's the goods. Yeah. I gotta say,
• 1:12:13
  dude, it's, it's, it's the fight. It's, I just
• 1:12:18
  don't see it going for long. Yeah, it's tough
• 1:12:23
  to make a case for Xander. Knowing, like, my
• 1:12:29
  fucking luck, now Xander's going to turn into
• 1:12:33
  the next, I don't know, Floyd Mayweather or something,
• 1:12:37
  or he's going to Manny Pacquiao it up. Yeah,
• 1:12:41
  like, Zayas, I'm shocked Zayas made it as far
• 1:12:44
  as he has to now because, again, he was on those
• 1:12:48
  top -ranked cards, the top -ranked protection
• 1:12:49
  program. like, at the end of top -ranked CSPN
• 1:12:54
  deal, and, like, he didn't really impress. Like,
• 1:12:56
  it's a bunch of decisions where you go, yeah,
• 1:13:00
  you probably could have done more, you know?
• 1:13:07
  Like, so that's, like, it's just, it's hard,
• 1:13:11
  it's really hard to make a case for Zayas other
• 1:13:13
  than Boots is completely unfocused and Zayas
• 1:13:16
  has a performance that we've never seen from
• 1:13:19
  him. But I feel like we saw the best of Zaius
• 1:13:25
  to overcome Abbas Baru. So I don't think it's
• 1:13:29
  enough. What is up with this search feature?
• 1:13:51
  But anyways. Did we already talk about the Sunday
• 1:13:56
  card, the silly one? Yes. Yes. Okay, good. Good,
• 1:14:03
  good. Yeah, that's it. That's all we got on the
• 1:14:08
  document. That's it. Yeah. Do we need to break
• 1:14:14
  the glass? That one was pretty healthy. That
• 1:14:16
  one was pretty healthy, I can't lie. Yeah, we're
• 1:14:18
  good on time. I got used to the four -hour ones.
• 1:14:22
  That's why we've been well -fed. We've been well
• 1:14:26
  -fed lately. Yeah, I think we'll have more to
• 1:14:29
  talk about, especially on the other side of it.
• 1:14:32
  Oh, yeah, in the aftermath? Yeah. Well, as we
• 1:14:39
  head into Boots Zayas weekend, parting words.
• 1:14:47
  Please don't die, Zayas. I'm rooting for you.
• 1:14:51
  Please don't fucking die. Zayas, you gotta remember,
• 1:14:56
  your corner is always there to throw in the towel.
• 1:15:02
  Don't be a hero. Don't be a hero is crazy. Don't
• 1:15:06
  be a hero, buddy. Don't be a hero, buddy. Well,
• 1:15:16
  If that's it, then that's it for this edition
• 1:15:18
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• 1:15:20
  other side of Boots. Zaius. Why should a boxing
• 1:15:40
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• 1:15:47
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• 1:15:49
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• 1:15:53
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• 1:15:55
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• 1:15:59
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• 1:16:01
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• 1:16:11
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• 1:16:13
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• 1:16:21
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• 1:16:24
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• 1:16:27
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• 1:16:28
  But boxing fans can relate to the gap of skill
• 1:16:32
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• 1:16:36
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• 1:16:38
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• 1:16:41
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• 1:16:45
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• 1:16:47
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• 1:16:51
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• 1:16:55
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• 1:16:58
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• 1:17:01
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• 1:17:04
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• 1:17:09
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• 1:17:12
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• 1:17:15
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• 1:17:19
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• 1:17:43
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• 1:17:45
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• 1:17:47
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• 1:17:50
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