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- 0:00This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
- 0:03Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
- 0:06Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
- 0:11Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
- 0:15is Boxing Before Dark. Well. Ready? Let's do
- 0:27the thing. Boxing Before Dark is back, bitch.
- 0:34Took a little time off. Went to the countryside.
- 0:38Went to the seaside. Globe traveling. Yeah, had
- 0:41to do a little globe trotting. Man, it's like
- 0:4610, 11 hour flights. Like, non -stop. I don't
- 0:53know. I personally, I think I would prefer a
- 0:56stop. No, no you don't. I've traveled with lots
- 1:01of stops. But sitting cramped for 12 hours straight
- 1:08is not very pleasant. I couldn't sleep as shit.
- 1:12It takes half the time as if you have a stop.
- 1:16Yeah, it does take longer. Get to stretch your
- 1:20legs. Reload on snacks. I guess. I'm just...
- 1:27Just tough it out person. The longer the flight,
- 1:29the better. Oh, well, but we're not here for
- 1:35my fucking traveling stories. If you want, we
- 1:38were talking about it before we started. So you're
- 1:41going to have to go to Patreon. Look at that.
- 1:43I'm already back in the swing of things. Plug
- 1:46in the Patreon. So professional. Yeah, man. Just
- 1:51really quickly. How was you went to one 173?
- 1:56I did. It was super cool. I was so devastated
- 2:00that Rod Tang didn't fight, though. Yeah, that
- 2:03was a bummer. He was like 40 % of why I bought
- 2:08a ticket. But I got to see the one -armed Canadian.
- 2:11Yeah. Peacock. I did see him lose, but that was
- 2:15still pretty fun. People, I guess, didn't know
- 2:19who he was. I could hear people in the crowd
- 2:21being like, what arm? Like, oh. And when he punched
- 2:25the guy with his nub, the crowd would go wild.
- 2:28It was great. But yeah, it was just super fun.
- 2:33A super long day, though. Even with the couple
- 2:35cancellations, I think there was 17 fights. Jesus.
- 2:40So definitely worth the $100. I'll say that.
- 2:46But it was a good time. Got to see Superbond.
- 2:52That was a long time ago. I don't remember any
- 2:55specifics, to be honest. Muay Thai is way better
- 2:59than MMA, though. Oh, absolutely. One was a lot
- 3:05more fun than Ryzen, and I don't think it's just
- 3:09because it was a bigger card. Well, kickboxing
- 3:13and Muay Thai is all action. Yeah, this one was
- 3:18in a cage. It did have some grappling stuff,
- 3:21but... Because the ladies... What was... She's
- 3:28not the hand. What's the girl's name? Stamp?
- 3:32Stamp, yes. She's MMA, right? She competes in
- 3:40all the sports for one. Okay, well, it was an
- 3:44MMA fight, so I think that was part of it. And
- 3:47they had two old Japanese guys go at it. That
- 3:50was pretty fun. Yeah, that MMA one. But they
- 3:58weren't doing a whole lot of grappling. And when
- 4:00they were grappling, they were actively trying
- 4:02to submit each other. Yeah, they had one Brazilian
- 4:08jiu -jitsu or something. I went to the bathroom
- 4:11and bought some beer and stuff. I wasn't sitting
- 4:13through that. Oh, yeah. That one, I've been catching
- 4:16up on the card. I kind of tuned out after like
- 4:20three minutes. the arena emptied it was crazy
- 4:24like i'd say three quarters of the people went
- 4:27to the bathroom during that one intermission
- 4:29yeah but no the whole card was fun though as
- 4:34a whole um japan is really quiet so it didn't
- 4:40have the same feel as like watching one on tv
- 4:42when it's in thailand but Yeah, I did notice
- 4:48when I was rewatching that the crowd is not the
- 4:51best. Quiet. Yeah. Yeah. There was none of the,
- 4:54like, series of knees with people screaming at
- 4:59each knee. Yeah. Let's get to some news. Fucking
- 5:07not breaking, but breaking my heart. Janubek.
- 5:12Piss is hot. What a fucking idiot. Swears up
- 5:17and down that he did. I haven't changed my regimen
- 5:21at all. The first time I was tested by Vada,
- 5:24everything came back clean. I haven't changed
- 5:31my vitamin regimen or my supplement regimen.
- 5:35Yeah. Well, and what did he test positive for?
- 5:40It sounded like some fucking radioactive chemical.
- 5:45Like Melbonium or something. I haven't. I didn't
- 5:47see what it was. The name is funny. Give me a
- 5:51second. Everybody just says banned substance.
- 6:02Yeah, that's all I've been seeing. Yeah. Nah,
- 6:05I saw it. It starts with an M and it sounds radioactive.
- 6:10It may very well have been. Anyways, I'm not
- 6:16going to find it quickly enough. Yeah, it just...
- 6:22I mean, I'm not super surprised, but it makes
- 6:28me sad. And he just fucked himself. Like, he
- 6:31already had trouble getting fights. This is going
- 6:33to make it worse. Yeah, definitely. There's this
- 6:39old... Some old post on, I think, Reddit or something
- 6:44that I saw is like, what's a life hack or secret
- 6:47tip you have? It's whenever there's like a disaster,
- 6:52a man -made disaster in whatever region, travel
- 6:59there because no one wants to go there. So there's
- 7:04not going to be a lot of tourists around. Oh,
- 7:08yeah, yeah. Security's going to be beefed up
- 7:10and everything. If it was like a violent event.
- 7:14And so I'm thinking now might be the perfect
- 7:18time to fight Janabek because he's going to be
- 7:20under a lot higher scrutiny. That's true. And
- 7:24I did find it. The substance is meldonium. You
- 7:28almost had that. I was pretty close. Yeah. So
- 7:33it just sounds like something at the bottom of
- 7:35the periodic table. What is that? Maldonium.
- 7:42Give me a second. So it was banned in 2016, so
- 7:53it's probably pretty new. And it's famous from
- 7:58Russia and the Eastern Bloc. Cardiovascular,
- 8:04neurological, and medical conditions is the...
- 8:09Proper use. So I assume it helps with your cardiovascular.
- 8:14Yeah, stamina. Stamina, yeah. It's a metabolic
- 8:19modulator altering enzyme reactions in the body.
- 8:25Maria Sharapova used meldonium before the bat.
- 8:31That explains that. She was really successful
- 8:36in her... She was a tennis player? uh yep yeah
- 8:40okay because well before it before it was banned
- 8:44uh people just used it openly because it wasn't
- 8:48yeah because it wasn't yeah so so it's proper
- 8:55uses to treat problems with brain circulation
- 8:58uh and has been reported to improve mood motor
- 9:05symptoms dizziness and nausea so Anyways, it's
- 9:12an old school Eastern Bloc performance enhancer,
- 9:17which tracks for Janabek, I guess. Yeah, that's
- 9:21what I was thinking. He's from Kazakhstan, so
- 9:23it kind of makes sense. But it's been around
- 9:28since the, I think, 80s, but only got banned
- 9:32in 2016. Nobody agrees if it actually enhances
- 9:39your performance or not. Interesting. Bro science.
- 9:46Yeah. Speaking of testing positive, though, Matias
- 9:50popped for Osterine. But then he didn't. Yeah,
- 9:54I was going to say, like, I saw that he was in
- 9:56trouble, but then he wasn't. Yeah. I don't know.
- 9:59I wasn't in my phone at that time. I haven't
- 10:06gotten, I don't think anybody has really said
- 10:09why they say it wasn't a problem. So they changed
- 10:16their mind in three days. So it's not because
- 10:19of an investigation or anything. And he did test
- 10:23very low, like Ryan Garcia. But I wonder if the
- 10:26B sample came in not positive. Everybody reported
- 10:33the A sample was positive, and then the B sample
- 10:36wasn't. But I haven't seen anything concrete
- 10:43on that, but that's the only reasonable explanation
- 10:45I can think of for the three -day turnaround
- 10:49on him not being in trouble. But, who was it?
- 10:56It wasn't VADA that said it wasn't an issue,
- 11:01it was... Is it the WBC? It was the belt organization.
- 11:06Yeah, I remember seeing that. That they weren't
- 11:09going to hold it against him. Yeah, that's also
- 11:12very weird. So probably they just don't want
- 11:15to cancel the... Because he's Puerto Rican? Cuban?
- 11:20Puerto Rican. They don't want to cancel the main
- 11:24event on their Puerto Rican card. I think is
- 11:27all it is. But people are especially pissed that
- 11:32Matias popped because that guy died after their
- 11:38fight. So now everybody's calling him a murderer
- 11:42because he probably was on steroids when he killed
- 11:48a guy. I don't think you can do that, but...
- 11:51I mean... That's a little bit of a reach. Yeah.
- 12:00Man, but it comes with the, like, my personal
- 12:05mantra of, like, everyone's on something. Yeah.
- 12:10So. Yeah, I, this looks really, like, belt corruption
- 12:18to me, so I'm not very happy about it, but it
- 12:23is what it is, I guess. Hmm. I don't know if
- 12:28this is speaking of belt corruption, but Moses
- 12:31Atauma and Lawrence Okoli are... Are a WBC eliminator.
- 12:37Fun. Is it? No. No, I can only hope that Atauma
- 12:46puts Okoli out early. Okoli is so boring. He's
- 12:54a negative fighter, for sure. But at least they're
- 13:01both coming off of wins. For a Tauma, yes. But
- 13:06for like a Koli, I guess you can call that a
- 13:09win. I mean, he's had a couple wins in a row.
- 13:13They're just not very good competition. I think.
- 13:16And they're not very exciting to watch. Yeah,
- 13:20he's got three wins in a row. So I can't really
- 13:23complain about that. It's weird that Okoli ends
- 13:31up in that position. Well, no, not so much. You
- 13:33said he's got three wins in a row. Heavyweight
- 13:36is desperate for anyone they can get. He's got
- 13:40the WBC silver. Okoli does? Yeah. Okay, so he's
- 13:48earned it. Kind of. Yeah, I do not care about
- 13:53this fight for many reasons, but Okoli is so
- 13:56fucking boring. Some other orders from the WBC.
- 14:02Ben Whitaker versus Joshua Buozzi. I think this
- 14:06is a good step up for Whitaker. Yeah. I gotta
- 14:12look up which one is Buozzi. I forget what he
- 14:18looks like. Callum Smith. I think that was his
- 14:23first loss. Yeah, yeah. I recognize him. Obviously,
- 14:30I recognize him, but I just need a picture. Yeah,
- 14:35that could be fun. I kind of hope Whitaker loses.
- 14:37He's not going to, but I kind of hope he does.
- 14:42He hasn't been doing a whole lot of the dancing
- 14:45shit, though, has he? No, I just don't like him.
- 14:51He's the one who pulled the guy over and then
- 14:53hurt himself, right? Yes. Yeah. Come on, Leo.
- 14:58You can't cheer for that. I liked him when he
- 15:01was doing the dancing stuff. I didn't like him
- 15:04then either. Emmanuel Augustus 2 .0. No. Not
- 15:10nearly as cool as Emmanuel Augustus. Another
- 15:14one. Mbili vs Shiraz. I wanted the rematch. I
- 15:19did too. This is actually a good fight, yes.
- 15:26Lester Martinez and Mbili got unsettled business.
- 15:31Yeah. Well, and Lester Martinez, I think, will
- 15:35win the rematch. I think Mbili's slightly ducking
- 15:39here. Lester was making good adjustments and
- 15:44Mbili was not. What's this an eliminator for
- 15:54again? 168? Which would be Crawford now, right?
- 16:02Yes. Well, no. Not anymore. Oh, right. No, not
- 16:08anymore. Because Crawford got stripped of the
- 16:10WBC. Because he didn't want to pay extortion
- 16:14fees. Whiny. I think the... They were talking
- 16:21about it in Discord an hour or so ago. About
- 16:25how the other organizations have set percentages
- 16:29that they take of purses. And the WBC doesn't.
- 16:35And they take a percentage of overall income,
- 16:41I guess. Okay, that does sound kind of shit.
- 16:45Yeah, it's a little funky. I think Terrence Crawford
- 16:50was good. It was a good move to stand on his
- 16:52business for that one because like he paid the
- 16:54other ones. So it's not like he doesn't want
- 16:56to just he just doesn't want to pay the sanctioning
- 16:59fees. Right. He just doesn't agree with the WBC.
- 17:04Yeah. They're wanting a bigger slice for reasons.
- 17:11Yeah. No, I hadn't. I hadn't heard the specifics
- 17:16there. I guess that makes sense. Like, I assumed
- 17:19it was also a set percentage. He just didn't
- 17:21like how high the percentage was. But if it's
- 17:25not, that's... They don't operate the same as
- 17:28everyone else. Yeah, I can see his point. Tinfoil
- 17:34hat. They're saying that, like, the chat was
- 17:36saying that, like, the WBC is intentionally making
- 17:41shit look really bad to give Turkey and Dana
- 17:45White... better clearance for the Oli reform?
- 17:50Yeah, I saw not just on Discord. I saw that in
- 17:54a couple places. They might use Terrence Crawford
- 17:59for that, but I don't know if Terrence is doing
- 18:02that on purpose. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
- 18:08His situation is just convenient for them. Yeah.
- 18:13He has been having a bit of a meltdown on Twitter,
- 18:17though, that I have not been following. Because
- 18:20one of the things I like about Terrence is he's
- 18:23usually pretty quiet and just does his stuff.
- 18:26I follow him on Instagram where he's not crazy.
- 18:29He just puts up training videos and hunting videos
- 18:35and stuff. Because he likes to hunt and fish.
- 18:37But his Twitter seems to have gone off last week.
- 18:43Yeah, I guess that's the difference between the
- 18:46two platforms, because I don't use Twitter either,
- 18:49so I don't really know the full extent of the
- 18:52meltdown, or what he's been saying. Yeah, I guess
- 18:59probably the guys over on B -Sides will have
- 19:02Twitter. Yeah. I can't imagine that Alex doesn't
- 19:06have Twitter. Hmm. Usyk wants to fight Deontay
- 19:19Wilder. Nice. Is this a good move? I think Usyk
- 19:26should retire. I've said this a bunch. Who's
- 19:29left that he actually needs to beat? Fucking
- 19:32nobody. He's beat everybody twice. If I were
- 19:39to say anyone, I would say Deontay Wilder. But
- 19:43with his recent history, kind of puts that out
- 19:47of the picture. Yeah, like, I can kind of see
- 19:53it. He's the last big name from that era that
- 19:57Usyk hasn't fought. But Wilder has looked so
- 20:01shit lately. Yeah, exactly. That I don't, I guess
- 20:07in history people will forget. And it'll look
- 20:10like another good name on his resume in like
- 20:1310, 20 years. But right now, I don't think it
- 20:18adds anything to U6's resume. Not fighting Deontay
- 20:23Wilder in 2026. It just doesn't mean anything
- 20:26to me. Yeah, I don't see a lot of value. Well,
- 20:30there's money to be made here, I suppose. I don't
- 20:35even know if it will sell that good. Hmm. Maybe.
- 20:41Maybe the casuals that haven't seen Wilder fight
- 20:44in a few years. Three years. Yeah. Like, if the
- 20:48last Wilder fight you saw was Fury 3, maybe you
- 20:54would be excited. But, like, even if they saw
- 20:56Zhang beat the crap out of him, I don't... I
- 21:01don't know if they would be excited to see Usyk
- 21:03do the same thing. Or if you saw Parker piece
- 21:07him up. You want to see Usyk do it better? I
- 21:12think Usyk might actually get the knockout. But,
- 21:15like, it's not going to be a stunning, like,
- 21:19knockout. It's going to be an accumulation make
- 21:22you sad for Wilder knockout. Like, I don't know.
- 21:27I guess somebody's excited for this. I am not
- 21:30excited for this. I would rather see Usyk fight.
- 21:33Well, I wanted to see Usyk fight Parker, but
- 21:36Parker fucked that up, so... What was the...
- 21:42Howard Foster? Was that the referee? For Wardley...
- 21:49Wardley Parker? Yeah. Yeah. I still say he fucked
- 21:55it up. Well, he did. Yeah. That was the most
- 21:58Brit of Brit stoppages ever. You can't stop a
- 22:03fight after four misses. Like, the last punch
- 22:08landed in that fight was from Parker. Such a
- 22:13shit stoppage. What else do we have on here?
- 22:21Callum Smith and David Morrell are all but set.
- 22:27It's all but official. I like Callum Smith, but
- 22:31he's getting to the end. Yeah. If you know what
- 22:36I mean. Yeah, he's towards the end of his career.
- 22:40Unfortunate, but that's the way it goes. Yeah,
- 22:44I just... I want Callum Smith to win. And he
- 22:49might. I don't think he's completely washed.
- 22:52But this might be a good fight. David Murrell
- 22:58looks shaky. Even though the guy was on every
- 23:01PED in the pantry, or in the cupboard. He looked
- 23:11shaky, but eh. I hope Callum Smith can pull something
- 23:15out. I would like him to get this win. Would
- 23:19that seal David Morrell's career? Like relegate
- 23:22him to the B tier? It might. Like, losing to
- 23:28Callum Smith now, it's gonna hurt you. That's
- 23:31a bad sign. Yeah, like... But... Yeah, Callum
- 23:40Smith's just getting too old, I think. I know
- 23:42he's not, like, ancient, but... He's taken a
- 23:46couple pretty bad beatings, I think. Ooh, he
- 23:55is pretty ancient, actually. I take it back.
- 23:57I know the higher weight classes, you get to
- 24:00be older, but he's 35. That's still, like, up
- 24:05there in years. Yeah. Well, and he took an ass
- 24:09-kicking from Canelo, and he took an ass -kicking
- 24:12from Beterbiev. Like... Gotta add up, right?
- 24:18Yeah. He's been doing alright, though, hasn't
- 24:21he? He's been putting them together. He's had
- 24:25two wins. Yeah, but... I mean... Carlos Galvin,
- 24:32and then he beat Buatsi. Surprised me in the
- 24:37Buatsi fight. I was so happy. That was a pretty
- 24:43clear win, too, I thought. I know one of the
- 24:45cards was really close, but... Competitive, but
- 24:49clear. Yeah. I don't know. I hope Calum Smith
- 24:54pulls out another win. I don't have any feelings
- 24:57about David Morrell, so if it ruins his career,
- 24:59I'm okay with that. Eat shit, David Morrell.
- 25:05That's what I just heard. Yeah, yeah. That's
- 25:08what everybody heard. You know who can eat shit?
- 25:14I know we're not there yet, but tension can eat
- 25:16shit. I'm eating Dookie right there with him.
- 25:23I don't know if this is eating shit, but this
- 25:26is not the most impressive class for the Hall
- 25:29of Fame. Triple G, 100%. I'm 100 % behind that.
- 25:33But Nigel Benn and Antonio Tarver, I'm not too
- 25:38sure about either of those. See, I don't think
- 25:45any of them are super strong contenders. I don't
- 25:48know if Triple G should be first ballot. To be
- 25:51honest. Like, he was really good, but was he
- 26:00amazing? Or did he just have really fun fights?
- 26:06Really fun fights. I think some of the intangibles
- 26:11here, like, He lost the biggest ones, though.
- 26:18Well, he lost the Canelo one. Yeah, two Canelos,
- 26:22I guess. I do think Triple G should be in the
- 26:27Hall of Fame. I just don't know if he's first
- 26:29ballot. I'd have made him wait. I'd have made
- 26:39Antonio Tarver wait. Is this his first time up
- 26:44for it? It's gotta be more than the first, not
- 26:50the first time. He's been inactive for quite
- 26:54some time. Yeah. So has Nigel Benn, obviously.
- 27:00Nigel Benn, I'm fine with him getting in. Mostly
- 27:05just... I guess because of the rivalry with Eubank.
- 27:12Like... That's been fun. And I think now is a
- 27:19good time to put him in after his son had the...
- 27:22Whatever. Yeah. But Antonio Tarver, I'm not gonna
- 27:29lie, I'm not 100 % sure who Antonio Tarver is.
- 27:31I don't think I ever watched any of his fights.
- 27:34He fell in that time when I just... Didn't watch
- 27:38boxing as much as I do. I only watched the small
- 27:43weight classes when he was fighting. You got
- 27:47any excuses tonight, Roy? Oh, okay. Yeah, I know
- 27:54who he is. He's also in Rocky 6. I did not watch
- 28:00Rocky 6. It's too many. I think it's good. I
- 28:05think it's worth watching. If you're not doing
- 28:08anything else, then it's worth giving it a gander.
- 28:16Yeah, I don't have an opinion on Tarver because
- 28:18I don't know enough about him, I guess. But they
- 28:23have him as a color commentator sometimes, right?
- 28:26Yes. Yeah. That's the other thing. Like, I guess
- 28:32Triple G does a lot of amateur stuff. Outside
- 28:37of just boxing, he's been good for boxing. Yes.
- 28:42Because he got elected as the president of something,
- 28:46right? I think the Asia Boxing Association. I
- 28:51think he got really recently, like last week.
- 28:55Yeah. President of the National Olympic Committee.
- 29:03No, that was last year. I swear to God, he just
- 29:11got elected to something. Yeah, I saw it on Instagram.
- 29:14He got something. I think it was... World Boxing
- 29:19President. Okay. That's what it is. World President
- 29:23of Boxing. Yep. Man, I... Yeah, so he's going
- 29:31to be in charge of amateur boxing going into
- 29:34the Olympics. Nice. Yeah. I got ghosted by his
- 29:45energy drink company. I was trying to order some.
- 29:50Yeah. And they stopped replying. I don't think
- 29:54they ship to the U .S., do they? Small amounts,
- 29:58yes, but they don't sell commercially here. Oh,
- 30:08I think that's all we got in the news. Yeah,
- 30:12I'm sure we missed some stuff, but we can always
- 30:14bring it back. Well, let me throw some notes
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- 33:28go into the Wayback Machine. Matchroom at the
- 33:36Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on November 15th. It
- 33:41was chilly in the stadium. You know what was
- 33:47fucking cool? I went up to the beer counter and
- 33:53I had been buying two at a time. Yeah, easy to
- 33:57carry. That's what I'm used to. You're only allowed
- 34:00to buy two in the U .S. You can't buy more. Only
- 34:03two? That's crazy. If you buy more, you have
- 34:06to have other people there with you. The States
- 34:10is so lame about alcohol. It's weird. It sucks.
- 34:14So I asked, can I get whatever the brew was?
- 34:20I forgot the name. Like Madrid or something like
- 34:23that? And they're like, how many do you want?
- 34:26I'm like, shit, how many can I get? I'm like,
- 34:29you can get up to four. And they put a little
- 34:31carrier. I'm like, oh, fuck me. I can get four
- 34:34of these? That's what Canada does at university
- 34:39games. And the rider games, you can get six.
- 34:43Jesus. Well, they assume it's not just for you.
- 34:48That's a poor assumption on their part. uh like
- 34:53i was there i got there for first belt um i was
- 34:57waiting outside to get in and whatever i was
- 35:02there for first belt so like there was nobody
- 35:05else there it was really sparsely uh the crowd
- 35:12was really sparse but they always are at the
- 35:15beginning so i was getting like four of them
- 35:18and So I'm just sitting there by myself with
- 35:21my beers. Like, there's nobody else around. Like,
- 35:24man, this is cool. And then you accidentally
- 35:28drink them too fast because they're just sitting
- 35:30there. And you might spill them if you don't.
- 35:32Somebody spilled one of my beers, actually. Yeah.
- 35:35He replaced it for me, but it was all good. So
- 35:42Mikey Talon gets the KO5 over Faison Shahid.
- 35:48I don't know either of these people. Yeah, it
- 35:50was, they were like, whatever, kids. These aren't
- 35:58in running order. I just kind of, the order I
- 36:02had them in before. Richard Reakpour knocked
- 36:06out Tommy Welsh in two. By that point, I remember
- 36:12the guys, people were starting to fill in around
- 36:15me. And they're like, I just hear like, who are
- 36:18these people? Yeah. All right. That's fun. Uh,
- 36:25Ishmael Davis versus Sam Gilly. Uh, there was
- 36:29a lot of cheering for Sam Gilly. Yeah. Yeah.
- 36:35That's too bad. He lost. Um, Adam Azim. stops
- 36:45kurt scooby and 12. this was where i was starting
- 36:50to feel my drinks a little bit i was i i said
- 36:55in i said in the chat you if you can hear the
- 36:57crowd you're gonna hear one lone voice cheering
- 37:01for kurt scooby and it's gonna be me and it was
- 37:04true yep there's a little like uh there were
- 37:09some people booing just because they said he's
- 37:10from the u .s but yeah whatever and it was it
- 37:15went poorly kurt scooby um just could not find
- 37:20an answer for anything adamazine was doing um
- 37:24the guy sitting in front of me they heard me
- 37:27cheering for for scooby and they're like why
- 37:30are you cheering for him like because uh i'm
- 37:34american too and they're like oh shit you're
- 37:36american yeah been here the whole time yeah You
- 37:41didn't notice. Yeah. And then they turned and
- 37:47looked at me with these shit -eating grins. I'm
- 37:49like, you motherfuckers. Like, yeah, you got
- 37:52it. You were right. But I remember the chat saying
- 37:56Adam Azeem is someone we should start taking
- 38:02seriously. Yeah. I kind of thought people were
- 38:07taking him seriously before this, but I guess
- 38:09not. Not as much. Like, the Lipinets was a good
- 38:13win, but this was, like, better. This was definitely
- 38:19better, yeah. Like, Kurt Scooby is decent competition
- 38:23for most people. Yes. So, somebody, Britt to
- 38:30keep an eye on at 140 now. So, that's fun. The
- 38:35Assassin. That's way too cool of a nickname for
- 38:38him. For Azim? Yeah. Triple A? I guess. Oh boy,
- 38:49Jack Catterall stops Ekow Esumen in 11. Yeah,
- 38:55this was a hard watch. It was. I was feeling
- 38:59myself at this point, so I was like, I was all
- 39:02over it. I'm like, Jack Catterall is training
- 39:05with Bozy. Bozy Ennis. He went out to Philly.
- 39:09He's going to do the silly shell. It was about
- 39:13this fight that I realized that everybody sitting
- 39:16around me were casual fans. It took you this
- 39:20long to realize? Well, we were talking boxing,
- 39:24so I was like, okay. They seem to be passionate
- 39:28fans. Fair enough. No, let me rephrase that.
- 39:34It's not that I realized they were casuals. It's
- 39:36that I realized I was a fucking nerd. You're
- 39:40a degenerate. Yeah, I'm a degenerate. Because
- 39:42I'm sitting here talking about Jack Carroll's
- 39:44new trainer. This is true. This happens to me
- 39:49a lot. I got blank stares. Their faces went blank.
- 39:57They're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
- 39:59I'm like, man, I'm the... I'm the fucking weirdo
- 40:02here. You did fly across the ocean to go to a
- 40:07boxing match. I mean. It just so happened to
- 40:10be happening while I was there. So I did plan
- 40:12around it. Since. Yeah. Since it was there. I
- 40:16made plans. Yeah. I just mean like boxing was
- 40:21important enough to you. Oh, yes. To work it
- 40:24into your holiday. Yep. Lots of people will be
- 40:29like, oh, guess I'm going to miss the Eubank
- 40:31-Ben rematch because I'm on holiday. Nope, I'm
- 40:36going to go. I'm fucking going to it. I'm going
- 40:39to figure out how to ride the goddamn subway,
- 40:41the tube. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I fell
- 40:48asleep partway through this one. Had to rewatch
- 40:50it. The cards are just at a bad time for me.
- 40:54Yeah, I was going to say, that's understandable.
- 40:57It's not because the fight was that bad, but
- 40:59it did make me sad. I liked cheering for Esuvin,
- 41:02even though I didn't think he was going to win.
- 41:06But is Jack Catterall back? He might be. But,
- 41:14like, do I care? I think is the bigger question.
- 41:17I don't like Jack Catterall. It's another competitor
- 41:23at welterweight, which is kind of lacking, so.
- 41:27I guess. I mean, if Jack Catterall, what weight
- 41:32class are all the guys I don't like at? What
- 41:35weight class is Ryan Garcia now? 147. If Jack
- 41:40Catterall beat Ryan Garcia, I would love him.
- 41:44He can win his way into my heart. Oh, that was
- 41:48a bit of news. Ryan Garcia's fighting Mario Barrios.
- 41:53Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's not going to happen, but
- 41:57I hope Barrios beats him. I really do. I've never
- 42:03wanted a draw more in my life. That's true. A
- 42:08draw would be the funniest. But yeah, if Kataral
- 42:12started beating those guys I don't like, I would
- 42:15get behind Kataral. Even though I don't like
- 42:17him either. The lesser of two evils and all that.
- 42:20Yeah. I think he has a chance. Because Welterweight
- 42:27is pretty poor at the moment. Is it though? I
- 42:35mean, Catterall's probably not going to beat
- 42:39Amy. He's not going to beat Tio. Well, he might
- 42:44beat Tio. Anybody could beat Tio, theoretically.
- 42:47Yeah, if the stars align. Yeah. Is Shakira at
- 42:51147 now? No. Still at 35, as far as I know. But
- 42:57I think he's moving to 40 for the fight with
- 43:00Teofimo. Another bit of news we forgot. We can
- 43:05cover that one next week. It's way in the future.
- 43:07Yeah, it's in January. But yeah, that was...
- 43:14Jack Catterall was about when I realized I'm
- 43:17a fucking degenerate. I need to go outside and...
- 43:20Catch some grass. Yep. And I found a fellow degenerate
- 43:31during Connor Ben versus Chris Eubank. Nice.
- 43:37As the fight started, it was pretty obvious within
- 43:40the first two or three rounds, Chris Eubank was...
- 43:43Something was wrong with him. What was it? I
- 43:48don't know. He just can't make that weight. You
- 43:51think that's what it was? Weight gain? 100 %
- 43:54I think that's what it was. And he's too old
- 43:58to be trying now. He's 36. Weight draining yourself
- 44:07like that at 36 is bad news. Yeah. I did see
- 44:13on social media he's not sure when he's going
- 44:15to fight again. I think he was hospitalized for
- 44:20quite a while afterwards. Jesus. I better fact
- 44:25check myself there. But he was in the hospital,
- 44:27not just for like checkups. He was there overnight
- 44:30for sure. Connor Ben also looking to fight Ryan
- 44:39Garcia. Yeah, even if Ben beats Garcia, I'm still
- 44:44going to hate both of them. I was going to ask
- 44:47if that would change your mind on Ben. No, not
- 44:51enough. Yeah, Eubank was hospitalized for two
- 44:57days. Like, in the hospital, mostly unconscious
- 45:02for two days. Jeez. And, yeah, the pictures are
- 45:10him hooked up to, like, ventilators and shit.
- 45:12Like, I don't think... If he comes back to boxing,
- 45:16he needs to go to his real weight class. Like,
- 45:19it's... It was about the time of the knockdown
- 45:30that I walked away. I left early. Yeah, you left
- 45:36early. Yeah, I had seen enough. Like, Eubank
- 45:38isn't doing shit. Ben is able to do stuff. And
- 45:43this is going one way. So, what's the point?
- 45:48Fair enough. But... I bet you singing Sweet Caroline
- 45:53with everybody was a lot of fun. It was. They
- 45:58sing that at football games in Canada sometimes,
- 46:01and it's always one of my favorite parts of the
- 46:04game. Yeah, I had went to get drinks, and then
- 46:09I heard it starting, and I was like, oh shit,
- 46:12hurry up, get me my goddamn beverages already.
- 46:17Yeah, I need to go sing. Yes. And so I like I
- 46:21had my drinks and I was like taking videos and
- 46:23stuff. And then I get back to my seat and the
- 46:25guy sitting next to me is like, well, you came
- 46:27all the way from the States and like you're missing
- 46:29the best part. Yeah. Yeah. No, I was taking videos,
- 46:33man. I bet I bet you the atmosphere in England
- 46:40is like crazy more fun than it is here in Japan.
- 46:44I like going to boxing here, but the atmosphere
- 46:47is a little lacking. I can't imagine the Japanese
- 46:52people singing a song. What would they even sing?
- 46:58Sweet Caroline? Some J -pop stuff of some sort?
- 47:03I mean, Japan has a lot of music. Yeah, yeah.
- 47:08I just can't imagine them being that loud. I
- 47:15can't imagine a Japanese person being loud, period.
- 47:20I mean, they can be, but usually when they're
- 47:23drinking. Anything more for Eubank? Nah, this
- 47:32one made me a little sad. Like, clearly Eubank
- 47:38was not, shouldn't have been there for whatever
- 47:42reason. I do not want to see a third one either.
- 47:49No. That's the guy sitting behind me. Major Eubank
- 47:56Stan. He kept calling Eubank my son. Nice. Go
- 48:03on, my son. All right. You really like this guy.
- 48:10Fair enough. Yeah. But he was I that was like
- 48:14I knew I had found another degenerate. He was
- 48:16talking about a BOMAC. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah,
- 48:21yeah. Like, oh, shit. I'm not alone. Let's move
- 48:30to ring four in Riyadh. Just one disappointment
- 48:42on Brian Norman getting dropped by Devin Haney.
- 48:49Soundly outboxed. Haney does look better at this
- 48:54weight class. Because this was his first move
- 48:56up, right? I believe so. Yeah. He looked different.
- 49:04He looked like he had more power. For sure. Or
- 49:09maybe Brian Norman just isn't as good as I thought
- 49:12he was. But I thought Devin Haney looked really
- 49:14good in this fight. And not as boring as usual.
- 49:20He was feeling himself. Yeah, I really thought
- 49:23he was still going to be a little shell -shocked,
- 49:25and I was expecting him to fight better, but
- 49:29similar to the Ramirez fight, and he did not.
- 49:34Devin Haney looked good. I have to give him his
- 49:36props. Like, I was impressed with Haney's performance.
- 49:45Oh. Bam Rodriguez stops Fernando Martinez. Bam
- 49:55is suffering from success. Bam made that look
- 49:58so easy. Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out
- 50:01how to phrase that. Because Bam didn't really
- 50:03have trouble from the very beginning. No, and
- 50:06nobody watches these weight classes. But Puma
- 50:12Martinez is a world -class fighter. Like, this
- 50:17was supposed to be a test. Cafu was supposed
- 50:20to be a step up, but Martinez was supposed to
- 50:24be a test. And I expected it to be a fight, and
- 50:27it just wasn't. It was just, damn, doing damn
- 50:32things. Like, he looked so good. He made Martinez
- 50:36look so average. Yeah, he made Martinez look,
- 50:40like, completely flat -footed. looked like amateurish
- 50:44the way that he was throwing the way he was throwing
- 50:49his punches like trying to loop around bam's
- 50:51guard and like it was comical just how wide of
- 50:55a shot he was throwing and yeah just to get pivoted
- 50:59on martinez kind of always throws like that but
- 51:04it's an awkward thing that usually works for
- 51:07him like I don't know how to explain it. And
- 51:11I think he was exaggerating it a little because
- 51:13Bam cuts angles so good. He was trying to catch
- 51:17Bam moving. But it just didn't work. Nothing
- 51:22he did worked. It was crazy. Bam just looked
- 51:27like he doesn't belong in the ring with anyone
- 51:30else right now. He looked like what everybody
- 51:35said Loma looked like. I don't think there's
- 51:41any competition for Bam anywhere near his actual
- 51:44weight class. He's gonna have to move up. Only
- 51:48thing I could think of him wanting to do still
- 51:51at 115 would be getting undisputed. And that
- 51:57would be it. Yeah. Yeah. And I think he said
- 52:00that he would like to do that. Because right
- 52:04now he sits on the outside. of Inouye, Crawford,
- 52:09and Usyk, who are all multi -division undisputed
- 52:14champions. So you kind of, I don't know, by merit,
- 52:19you can't really put Bam above them in a pound
- 52:23-for -pound discussion, could you? No, no. But
- 52:28I'm just saying that Bam looked like he didn't
- 52:30belong there with anybody. But yeah, he only
- 52:36needs the one more fight to become Undisputed
- 52:392. Right? Because Bam's got three belts now.
- 52:43Correct. So he just has to beat Willie Baldo.
- 52:47Such a great name. So I could see him doing that
- 52:54before moving up. And I'm not saying he shouldn't.
- 52:56I just mean, I don't think Garcia has any chance.
- 53:02Like, I think Puma's a better fighter than Willy
- 53:06Baldo Garcia. So. But I also kind of don't want
- 53:15Bam to come up to 118, because that's where my
- 53:18favorites are, and they're not that good. Bam
- 53:23will run through all of them. But that's just
- 53:29my personal biases showing. Well, we did see
- 53:35Takuma Inoue is able to put the work on somebody
- 53:41who cuts serious angles. Does Tenchin cut angles?
- 53:47Tenchin sucks. He can cut angles. He didn't against
- 53:51Takuma because it wasn't working. Yeah, that's
- 53:55true. No, I don't think anybody at 118 has a
- 53:59fucking snowball's chance in hell against Bam.
- 54:02Unless Bam comes up and his power doesn't carry
- 54:04at all. And I think Bam could just outbox them.
- 54:10But unless he suddenly becomes pillow -fisted,
- 54:13which he won't, and they just walk through it,
- 54:16I don't see Bam having trouble with anybody at
- 54:18118. Damn. Do you? No, not really. Like, I know
- 54:28it's... It's a bold state, not bold, but it's
- 54:33a big statement. But like, I really just don't
- 54:35see anyone that's going to stand against Bam.
- 54:43The commentary kept like, Todd Grisham and Mike
- 54:50Coppinger were both saying that he should fight
- 54:52Inouye. Yeah, they're fucking idiots. Yeah, Sergio
- 54:58was talking about. Bam should go to 118. 118
- 55:04makes sense. And I'm not saying Bam couldn't
- 55:08go up to 122, but Inouye's going to 126. Like,
- 55:12you want Bam to jump three weight classes to
- 55:16fight the pound -for -pound best under 140 pounds
- 55:22for sure? Like, it sounds stupid. Just because
- 55:29Crawford went up and beat Canelo doesn't mean
- 55:33that... Anyone can do that. Well, also, Inouye's
- 55:37not as washed as Canelo. At all. Like... No matter
- 55:46what you think of Canelo and stuff, he's not
- 55:49as good as he was. No. No, he's not. But Inoue's
- 55:54still looking pretty prime, and you're expecting
- 55:56Bam to go up at least two weight classes to fight
- 55:59him? I think that's stupid. The other option
- 56:05would be, what, Nakatani? If he were to jump
- 56:09to 22. Yeah. Again, I'm not saying Bam can't
- 56:16take these fights, but I would want him to take
- 56:18a couple in -between step -up... make sure you're
- 56:22gaining weight decently. Yeah. Like... I mean,
- 56:29Crawford took a whole year off to get up to size.
- 56:32Bam's not gonna take a year off. You need some
- 56:37time to... You need time to bulk up. Also, how
- 56:44tall is Bam? I think 5 '4". Like... Okay. I thought
- 56:52he was shorter than that. I think Inouye's the
- 56:55same size, isn't he? Yeah, okay. For some reason
- 56:59I thought Bam was 5 '2". Never mind. His size
- 57:05probably isn't an issue then. Abdullah Mason
- 57:14beats the piss out of Sam Noakes. does beat the
- 57:20piss out of Sam Noakes. But Sam Noakes did impress
- 57:24me. Why is that? With how much fucking damage
- 57:29he could take. I just didn't think Sam Noakes
- 57:34would do as well as he did. He lost well. It
- 57:38was a fun fight. Yeah, the cards had it pretty
- 57:41wide. I think one of them was like 9 -3. The
- 57:47other two were Mason by one round, though. Okay,
- 57:51that's a little bit more reasonable. Yeah, two
- 57:54of them were 115, 113. Noakes did have good moments.
- 58:01It was a much more fun fight than I thought it
- 58:04was going to be. Like... Abdullah Mason seems
- 58:12to choose to... To get hit more than. I feel
- 58:19like he needs to. I always liken this to the.
- 58:25The theory that. They. They don't worry about
- 58:30the power. That they're feeling. Like they're
- 58:32not concerned by it. Maybe. But you get bad habits.
- 58:36And then what happens when you come against.
- 58:38Somebody who does have power. It was a really
- 58:45fun fight. Which I like. And I don't particularly
- 58:49have strong feelings about either of these fighters.
- 58:51So I just enjoyed the very fun fight. But if
- 58:55Abdullah Mason is as good as you and other people
- 58:58think he is, he shouldn't be in that fun of a
- 59:02fight with Sam Noakes. Interesting. Is my take
- 59:08on it. As a... Neutral -ish observer. Yeah, like...
- 59:16I think Abdullah Mason could have just outboxed
- 59:20him. I'm glad he didn't, but I think he could
- 59:23have. Yeah, his corner kept telling him to. That
- 59:27was the other thing. He wasn't really listening
- 59:29to his coaches, which is always a bad thing,
- 59:32I think. Yeah, usually a bad sign. A really fun
- 59:40fight, though. If anybody missed it, they should
- 59:42go back and watch it. And another fun one. David
- 59:49Benavidez stops Anthony Yard. Was this one fun?
- 59:55It's pretty one -sided. Yeah, if you like one
- 59:57-sided beatdowns, then this one's pretty good.
- 1:00:02I expected Anthony Yard to do better. I really
- 1:00:06did. He did okay in the first few rounds. Yeah.
- 1:00:13I guess. Benavidez just kind of beat it out of
- 1:00:18him partway through, though. Yes. Did Benavidez
- 1:00:23get docked two points? Two points, yeah. I saw
- 1:00:26that correctly. Okay. Two points for... I don't
- 1:00:31remember what it was for. Hitting a downed opponent,
- 1:00:34I'm pretty sure. Yeah, okay. Yeah, sorry. It's
- 1:00:37been a while since this fight. I honestly think
- 1:00:42he could have been DQ'd there. That was pretty
- 1:00:44blatant. That was bad. Yikes. I thought it was.
- 1:00:51Two points I have no problem with. Mostly because
- 1:00:56it was a one -sided beatdown before that as well.
- 1:01:00But, like, it was a pretty blatant he was down
- 1:01:04and he hit him anyways. Not a good look. First
- 1:01:11time I've ever seen anybody get docked two points.
- 1:01:15At once. Yeah, I can't think of it either, but...
- 1:01:19So it's pulling up... 175. Beevil, better be
- 1:01:30it. That's pretty much all there is. Yeah, I
- 1:01:35think Beevil just outboxes Benavidez. You think
- 1:01:38so? As long as his back surgery went well, I
- 1:01:43think so. You disagree? Um... Beevil's 34. But
- 1:01:55we haven't seen him slow down much. Yeah, his
- 1:01:59style doesn't depend necessarily on athleticism.
- 1:02:02It's like textbook fucking Soviet boxing. Yeah,
- 1:02:09like... I don't know. I could be wrong. I just,
- 1:02:15I don't think it's a problem. Man, I could see
- 1:02:22either guy winning that. It would be a fun fight.
- 1:02:26I would like that. And that would be for Undisputed,
- 1:02:30right? Yes. Which means it's not going to happen,
- 1:02:36probably, because boxing. And then better be
- 1:02:42if he's a... It's 40. Yeah, I don't... I was
- 1:02:49never as high on Better Be Of as other people
- 1:02:52anyways. Oh, American beer. But power is the
- 1:02:57last thing to go, so... Yeah, and Better Be Of
- 1:03:01has a lot of it. Yeah. Oh, shit. Anthony Yard,
- 1:03:09not much for you to do. I mean, David Morrell
- 1:03:15is there, I guess. Which one's Gwazdik? Gwazdik?
- 1:03:26The guy that Benavides fought? Okay. Yeah, he's
- 1:03:32not... I don't think he's... I don't think he's
- 1:03:39quite at the top either. Not a bad fight for
- 1:03:41Anthony Yard, though. Like on a rebound. Yeah.
- 1:03:47But for Benavidez, it's just Bivol and Beterbiev.
- 1:03:50That's really all there is. And honestly, I don't
- 1:03:54really care about Beterbiev in this situation.
- 1:03:56I know other people do, but I mean, that's just
- 1:03:59old power versus younger power, isn't it? Power
- 1:04:03plus speed. Should be fireworks. Yeah, should
- 1:04:06be a fun fight. Both guys come forward. Yeah,
- 1:04:11maybe that would be more fun. B -Ball's just
- 1:04:14gonna outbox him, I think. But didn't... Am I
- 1:04:22misremembering? Didn't Benavidez say he was gonna
- 1:04:26go up and fight Zerno? Oh, that's right. He did
- 1:04:30say that. But I'm not sure why he would do that,
- 1:04:34but... For a big Cinco de Mayo weekend fight?
- 1:04:40I guess. Puerto Rico versus Mexico? It's Mexico
- 1:04:44versus Mexican -American. Zergo's Mexican. No,
- 1:04:52I'm confusing Benavides with the other guy. Who's
- 1:04:57the other guy? Starts with a B. That's Puerto
- 1:05:01Rican. From New York. Berlanga? Yes. That's the
- 1:05:09confusion I made. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, no. Mexican
- 1:05:16versus Mexican Cinco de Mayo. I can see why.
- 1:05:22I also wonder if Benavidez is starting to struggle
- 1:05:27to make 175 a little. He just got there. He looked
- 1:05:34pretty chubby. He's always looked that way, though.
- 1:05:37Even when he was 168. Maybe he wants... Maybe
- 1:05:44the fight is for the Winchellas sponsorship.
- 1:05:53Anything more for this card? No, I don't think
- 1:05:56so. All right. Time for you to rub it in my face.
- 1:06:00First, Tomoyo Suboi knocks out Carlos Cuadras
- 1:06:04in eight. It's pretty nice. Quadris looked so
- 1:06:07bad. Yeah, he did. It made me really sad. I do
- 1:06:11like Saboy, and I'm glad he won, but man, Quadris
- 1:06:15needs to hang him up. That made me sad. There
- 1:06:24was another one on here that I wanted to talk
- 1:06:27about. No. Was there? Is Masuda the one that
- 1:06:35had the five knockdowns on an Inoue undercard
- 1:06:38last year? I don't remember. I'm getting all
- 1:06:44my names mixed up already. Sorry, one second.
- 1:06:51No, he is not. Never mind then. That was Nakano,
- 1:07:02was it? At the T -Mobile Arena? Was that a...
- 1:07:10No. What date? May 4th? Yes. Okay. On the Cardenas
- 1:07:22undercard, Makito Nakano just beat the piss out
- 1:07:28of... some Mexican guy, he knocked him down five
- 1:07:31times that led to a TKO in the fifth round or
- 1:07:35something. And I was super excited to see him
- 1:07:40on this card because I had missed that fight
- 1:07:42because I was on the train to the bar to watch
- 1:07:45the show. And then he fucking loses. I was so
- 1:07:50mad. I was really excited about Nakano and then
- 1:07:58he got unanimous decision. Yeah. I didn't know
- 1:08:03who this Aleem guy was. People had been telling
- 1:08:07me that he was going to beat him, but I thought
- 1:08:09it was just Americans cheering for the American.
- 1:08:11But I guess not. I guess they knew what they
- 1:08:14were talking about. That was disappointing. But.
- 1:08:21The main event. Speaking of knowing what you
- 1:08:24were talking about. Takuma beats the piss on
- 1:08:31attention Nasukawa. I was so happy and so excited.
- 1:08:37Takuma lost the first two rounds and I was nervous
- 1:08:40and a little angry and I like got off discord.
- 1:08:45I was like, fuck this shit. I'm done. Obviously
- 1:08:48still watching it, but I wasn't gonna like. Yeah.
- 1:08:52And then the third round, Takuma figured out
- 1:08:57how to get the distance because Tenshin's pretty
- 1:09:03tall. And he was keeping him on the outside until
- 1:09:07Takuma figured out, I guess, the timing or something.
- 1:09:11And then Takuma just beat him up for the last
- 1:09:1510 rounds. I don't think Tenshin won more than
- 1:09:18three rounds in that fight. Maybe four. You could
- 1:09:22probably give him four. It would be generous
- 1:09:23to give him four. Yeah. And Tenshin looked exactly
- 1:09:28like I think Tenshin, like, his boxing level
- 1:09:32is where I think it is. I am pretty sure. He's
- 1:09:36not quite world class. I think any of the belt
- 1:09:40holders beat the piss out of him. Who are the
- 1:09:43other belt holders? He's world class, but he's
- 1:09:46not that, like, top. Yeah. So, well, in my heart,
- 1:09:51Seisatsumi, but they fucked him. Belt holders
- 1:09:56right now. One is vacant. Antonio Vargas has
- 1:10:00the WBA. Takuma won the WBC. This was to get
- 1:10:06one of the belts that Nakatani dropped. Yeah.
- 1:10:11And then the other one's Christian Medina. I
- 1:10:15don't... I gotta look at his face. I'm not sure
- 1:10:21I know who Christian Medina is. Oh, he's got
- 1:10:25that, like, comic book hairstyle. He beat Yoshiki
- 1:10:30Takei. Oh, okay, I know who he is. Uh, yeah,
- 1:10:36Medina's good, but, like, he's gonna beat the
- 1:10:40fucking Kisada Takuma, too. Er, uh, attention.
- 1:10:47Is his nickname the Viking? No. Wrong. Christian
- 1:10:52Medina. I hate trying to find people on BoxRec.
- 1:10:58He's fifth in the bantamweight. Yeah. He beat...
- 1:11:07So his last loss was to Nishida, who I think
- 1:11:13is quite good, too. Yeah, this guy definitely...
- 1:11:19beats tension tensions that just underneath being
- 1:11:25able to hold the belt to me inexperienced and
- 1:11:30I think that Takuma proved that really well inexperienced
- 1:11:36and just like I know tension was a fucking savant
- 1:11:41at kickboxing like I don't try and pretend he
- 1:11:46wasn't or take that away from him but he doesn't
- 1:11:48have that much power boxing yeah he's not hurting
- 1:11:53anybody and he cut really cool angles in kickboxing
- 1:11:58but they're not that cool in boxing because it's
- 1:12:05not setting up anything do you know what i mean
- 1:12:08yeah i just I do have a personal hate for him.
- 1:12:15But I just also think he's not that talented
- 1:12:17at boxing. It makes sense he came over. It makes
- 1:12:21sense he wants to make more money. But he's always
- 1:12:24going to be that ranked but never winning a title,
- 1:12:28I think. Perennial contender? Yeah, if he does
- 1:12:33get a title, it's going to be taking a title
- 1:12:35from someone who's not that great. Or winning
- 1:12:40a vacant one. A vacant one. Yeah. Like, honest
- 1:12:46to God, I think even Kenneth Lover, who has less
- 1:12:49boxing matches, beats Tension. Like... Damn.
- 1:12:55I just... I don't think he's that good, and I
- 1:12:59fucking hate his personality so much. I will
- 1:13:02say, Takuma got, like, bonus points from me,
- 1:13:06because in the post -fight interview, he was
- 1:13:08like, I don't care that much about the belt.
- 1:13:10i just wanted to beat tension that's like yes
- 1:13:14good work son go on my son yeah yeah oh and this
- 1:13:23is i guess news probably not news but did you
- 1:13:27see um uh naoya has gone with the pink hair no
- 1:13:36What? Yeah. So light pink hair is very popular
- 1:13:40here right now. Naoya dyed his hair this. It's
- 1:13:46almost blonde, but it's like a hint of pink.
- 1:13:49Strawberry blonde? No, that's kind of a different
- 1:13:54color. Powder pink? Romance anime character.
- 1:14:00I know what you're talking about. Not the bright
- 1:14:04pink, but like that soft pink. Yeah. Like a cherry
- 1:14:09blossom. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Doesn't look very
- 1:14:15good. I am not behind this, but... But yeah.
- 1:14:25No, I am so happy Takuma won. I don't know what's
- 1:14:32going on next. in that weight class. Well, I
- 1:14:36do know what's happening next. In two weeks,
- 1:14:39Tsutsumi's fighting for the interim. The fuck?
- 1:14:44They put Vargas champion in recess now? The fuck
- 1:14:49is the WBA doing? I've asked myself that question
- 1:14:54a lot since I started watching boxing, like,
- 1:14:59intently. Okay, so... Because this must have
- 1:15:03just happened because I think I looked like two
- 1:15:05weeks ago. But they've got Vargas on boxing scene
- 1:15:10listed as champion in recess. They recessed Tsutsumi
- 1:15:14after like two months. Like, what the fuck? Anyways,
- 1:15:17Tsutsumi Donair is in two weeks and I have a
- 1:15:20ticket and I'm so excited. Are you taking your
- 1:15:23Punchburger banner? I bought a new cheer shirt.
- 1:15:28Yes, I am going to take the banner as well. But
- 1:15:30I got a new cheer shirt. I told myself I wouldn't
- 1:15:35buy two shirts from the same boxer, but I did.
- 1:15:40The first one from Tsutsumi is black with white
- 1:15:43writing and it's all in English. It kind of looks
- 1:15:47like a Jack Daniels bottle label. I think that
- 1:15:49was the inspiration. Bad aesthetic, yeah. Yeah,
- 1:15:52but this one's... uh burgundy actually pretty
- 1:15:56similar to the shirt i have on now and uh black
- 1:15:59japanese writing so i figured they were different
- 1:16:02enough i could justify it i love when merch is
- 1:16:07not black i have way too many fucking black shirts
- 1:16:11yeah i don't know as a chubby lady i like black
- 1:16:17but uh i really like the dark red too so I'm
- 1:16:21excited about it. I would have went for it if
- 1:16:23I saw it was dark red. Yeah. And Inouye has new
- 1:16:29cheer shirts, but they're fucking ugly, like
- 1:16:30always. I don't have a nice Inouye shirt, and
- 1:16:35it makes me mad. For either brother, their shirts
- 1:16:39suck. Well, if you go to the Lux Media shop...
- 1:16:46Actually, some of our merch is quite nice. The
- 1:16:51chibi, in a way. No, chibi Japanese monster boxer
- 1:16:57is what it is. Yeah, yeah. That one, and just
- 1:17:01the B -Sides logo one is quite nice as well.
- 1:17:08Simplicity. Any more shit to rub in my face for
- 1:17:15Takuma beating Tension? Nah, I was right. Yeah.
- 1:17:20That's all I gotta say. He pretty much called
- 1:17:22it exactly how it went down. Tension's just not
- 1:17:27that good. I don't know who Takuma should fight
- 1:17:31next, though, to be honest. I'm always up for
- 1:17:35another belt holder. Unifications are always
- 1:17:38good for me. Medina, then? I don't think he wants
- 1:17:42to fight Seiya Tsutsumi again. Can't imagine
- 1:17:45he would. Not without a belt on the line, anyway.
- 1:17:50Well, I mean, after Tsutsumi beats Donera, there
- 1:17:53should be a belt, but... Higa is listed as...
- 1:17:59So, number one in the WBA is vacant right now,
- 1:18:04but Higa is listed as number two. I almost guarantee
- 1:18:09that they do Tsutsumi Higa three. Can we get
- 1:18:18another draw? I mean, it would be really funny.
- 1:18:24But... So I think... I might be wrong, but I
- 1:18:28think that's kind of taken. Estrada's high on,
- 1:18:35like, most of the lists. Takuma Estrada might
- 1:18:39be cool. Yeah, Estrada's still serviceable. Or
- 1:18:43at least we'll find out if he is. Maybe throw
- 1:18:45him in with Tsuboi. Yeah. Oh, actually, no, no,
- 1:18:51shit. I'm having my memory problems. They're
- 1:18:56talking about Takuma Ioka early next year. Interesting.
- 1:19:02So Ioka's moving up. No, Ioka's in that weight
- 1:19:07class. Oh, I thought he was at 115. Nope. Hasn't
- 1:19:11been for a while. Ioka's got his New Year's Eve
- 1:19:15standard. Against some guy I didn't recognize.
- 1:19:20At the hotel gym? Yep. Of course. I'm considering
- 1:19:25buying a ticket. Just because. Tradition. And
- 1:19:30Hyouka's getting old. I can't imagine he's going
- 1:19:32to be around much longer. No, I remember seeing
- 1:19:35you in the chat saying this might be the last
- 1:19:37Hyouka fight. One of the last Hyouka fights.
- 1:19:40It might be his last New Year's. I'm not going
- 1:19:43to lie. I might just bite the bullet. The only
- 1:19:48problem is it's on the other side of Tokyo. So
- 1:19:53getting back on the train before they stop for
- 1:19:57New Year's. I don't know why Japan doesn't run
- 1:19:5924 -hour trains on New Year's Eve. Like, every
- 1:20:05other fucking city in the world does, but Tokyo
- 1:20:10doesn't. Anyways, the listeners don't want to
- 1:20:17listen to me about Japanese boxing anymore. Well,
- 1:20:22if you didn't want to hear about Japanese boxing,
- 1:20:25then... This is a wrong podcast. Yeah, this is
- 1:20:28not the place to be. We got B -sides for you.
- 1:20:33Talk more about it. Less about the smaller weight
- 1:20:37classes there. Oh, speaking of the not -so -small
- 1:20:42weight classes. Upcoming shit. Bash boxing on
- 1:20:48Prime Video. Badu Jack vs. Norer Mikaelian. Rematch.
- 1:20:55I always gotta back Badu Jack. Whoever this is,
- 1:21:05they're Opitaya or Zurdo Food. Whoever wins this.
- 1:21:13I guess. I mean, I think Badoo Jack will do what
- 1:21:17he always does and barely win. Just enough to
- 1:21:23get the decision. Or be really hard done by if
- 1:21:32he doesn't win the decision, loses it close.
- 1:21:38Or gets a draw. I don't think he's ever had Or
- 1:21:43it's been a long time since he really lost -lost.
- 1:21:49It does say he was knocked out once, so that
- 1:21:52must be pretty... 2014, though. I don't know.
- 1:22:00I hope Badoo Jack pulls it out. That last fight
- 1:22:03was kind of boring, not gonna lie. It was rough.
- 1:22:07I'll watch this one, just because you have to
- 1:22:10back the Swedish boxers. Matchroom on DAZN. There's
- 1:22:20a bunch of shit on here. Let me just cherry pick
- 1:22:22on my way up from the bottom. Chavon Clark versus
- 1:22:25Anthony Holloway. Chavon's in an eight -round
- 1:22:29fight at Cruiserweight, so that's fun. Arturo
- 1:22:33Popoca has a fun name. Ten rounds at Super Bantam.
- 1:22:39Oh. Boxing's fucking princess, Skye Nicholson
- 1:22:43versus Yuliana Luna Avila. Interim 122. Oh, the
- 1:22:51other lady might be an RJ alert. Really? Avila.
- 1:22:55Let's have a look. Yeah, I think so. I would
- 1:23:01say anyway. It's a double RJ tag. It does look
- 1:23:06like she almost exclusively fights in Mexico,
- 1:23:09which can be sketchy for women's boxing. She
- 1:23:16lost to Dina Thorsland a couple years ago. I
- 1:23:21suspect Skye Nicholson will probably pull this
- 1:23:24one out. Which sucks, because I don't like Skye
- 1:23:29Nicholson. Skye Nicholson Hearn? She hyphenated.
- 1:23:34Yeah. Gabe Flores. Still doing it. Versus Joe
- 1:23:44Cordina. Huh. This is the Gabe Flores I'm thinking
- 1:23:53of, right? Yes, it is. He has a very squared
- 1:24:03up hairline on BoxRec. Oh my goodness, what a
- 1:24:07hairline. I'm going to have to cheer for Joe
- 1:24:12Cordina on this one. But I have to admit, I don't
- 1:24:14know who Gabe Flores is. He was really hyped
- 1:24:18as a prospect when he was with Top Rank. He seems
- 1:24:23quite busy. And he's been winning. He hasn't
- 1:24:29been looking great in his wins, though. Of those
- 1:24:32that I've seen. Okay. I don't know. I like Joe
- 1:24:37Cordina. I don't think anyone else does, but
- 1:24:41I do. And Diego Pacheco versus Kevin Lele Sajo.
- 1:24:50I mean, Pacheco should win? Question mark? Yeah,
- 1:24:55you'd think. 24 -0 Pacheco versus 26 -0 Sajo.
- 1:25:03Who mostly fights in France. Well, now I have
- 1:25:07to cheer against him. He also lives in France,
- 1:25:12so I guess we're Pacheco bros this time. He's
- 1:25:17from Cameroon. Honestly, I like Pacheco. Yeah,
- 1:25:23I do too. I kind of hope he's as good as people
- 1:25:27think he is, but I don't think he's as good as
- 1:25:29people think he is. What makes you think that?
- 1:25:35I just think people are too excited about him.
- 1:25:38Nothing he's done, really. But people are talking
- 1:25:43about him like he's going to be the next whatever.
- 1:25:48Yeah. The next Canelo. That's not a good comparison.
- 1:25:51The next big thing. Yeah. People are really hyping
- 1:25:56him up. And I just think it's premature to hype
- 1:25:58him up like that. He hasn't done anything to
- 1:26:00make me dislike him or think he'll be bad, but
- 1:26:03he hasn't done anything to make me think he's
- 1:26:05the next big thing either. He is only 24. Yeah.
- 1:26:11He's only 24. He has time. But they've really
- 1:26:17pushed him kind of as being the next big thing.
- 1:26:25The next Mexican -American star yeah i mean and
- 1:26:31he has looked good i don't have any reason to
- 1:26:34think he won't be good but um but that's actually
- 1:26:39that's all we got so yeah five minutes should
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- 1:29:46bitch. So, we've got Diego Pacheco and Badu Jack
- 1:29:53on the horizon. Parting words. Yay. Might be
- 1:29:59a good weekend to go touch grass. No, that's
- 1:30:03not fair. Parting words. Make sure you get your
- 1:30:08Christmas shopping done. That shit's coming up
- 1:30:11fast. Oh, fuck. We're recording on the 5th. Holy
- 1:30:15shit. Yeah, I have done none of my Christmas
- 1:30:19shopping, and I have to mail it around the world,
- 1:30:21and it's all going to be late. But I only buy
- 1:30:25presents for adults, so it's okay. Yeah, understandable.
- 1:30:33Parting words for me? Go touch grass in a different
- 1:30:37country. Traveling's really fun. It is. If you
- 1:30:42can't afford a different country, there's really
- 1:30:44cool shit to do in your country, in your area.
- 1:30:47I guarantee it. I also, I second that. There's
- 1:30:51absolutely shit you can do that's close by and
- 1:30:54very low cost. Go Google cheap touristy shit
- 1:30:59in your area and do it on the weekend. It's fun.
- 1:31:03Don't let people judge you for being a tourist
- 1:31:05in your own town. There's this phrase I came
- 1:31:12across recently. It's... Everyone knows to travel
- 1:31:15like a local. You know? Like a... Yeah, yeah.
- 1:31:20Do the shit locals do, but it's also local like
- 1:31:23a traveler. I love being a tourist. Which is
- 1:31:26what you were just talking about. Yeah, I...
- 1:31:29I move around a lot, and I'm always a tourist
- 1:31:32where I move to, but even my hometown has fun
- 1:31:35tourist stuff that people never do. And, like,
- 1:31:39history stuff. It's just really fun. Don't be
- 1:31:44embarrassed to be a tourist. People talk about
- 1:31:46tourists like they're shit. Don't be stupid,
- 1:31:49but, like, go see stuff. Go enjoy stuff. This
- 1:31:55is actually not a bad weekend if you wanted to
- 1:31:57go do something. Not missing all that much. Yeah.
- 1:32:04DAZN will still be there when you get back. Like
- 1:32:10a bad smell. Alright. Well, fuck. We've been
- 1:32:15running for a while. Whatever. We had stuff to
- 1:32:19talk about because I wasn't here. So deal with
- 1:32:22it. Alright. That's it for this edition of Boxing
- 1:32:27Before Dark. See you on the other side of Pacheco
- 1:32:30and Badoo. Bye.