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[BxBD] News out of Japan and a special guest · Boxing B-Sides

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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
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Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
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Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
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Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
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is Boxing Before Dark. All right. Shall we do
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the fucking thing? Let me pop. We should. This
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is the last hop that I got. What are you drinking?
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A hard seltzer. Truly is the name, and this is
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the Unruly brand. Truly Unruly. Nice. A little
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bit more potent than their usual potables. Nice.
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I already told you, but I've got the pear ciders
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from my home province in Japan. That actually
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sounds pretty good. Like Asian pear. I love Asian
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pears. I don't really like apple cider, but I
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like pear cider. Yeah, pear cider is good. Yeah.
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So there's quite a few right now. It's pear season.
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So I've been trying all the kinds I could find.
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I found these ones on Amazon. Had to get 24 of
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them. I couldn't find them in the store. That
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and Sapporo Gold Star was also on sale. Was that
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the halfie that you left behind? Yeah. I wasn't
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even drunk. I just opened it at midnight and
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was like, what the fuck am I doing? Yeah, I've
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had that happen before as well. similarly like
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i just put it back in the refrigerator like yeah
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well breakfast beer is always good yeah can't
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the only way it could be worse is if you left
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like a like a burnt out cigarette inside of it
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oh that's that's the like the limit right there
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all right anyways i'm not disgusting no let's
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get into some boxing On that fucking wonderful
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note, Boxing Before Dark, here we are, here to
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talk all the goddamn fights. Oh, Shanada, what
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is, what it do? What goes on with you? I was
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on vacation last week. It was great. I highly
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recommend if you have time and you don't want
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to be, like, surrounded by tourists, to check
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out Obihiro. Obihiro is on the big island of
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Hokkaido. It's super easy to get to from Sapporo.
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I took a bus. I got to see some countryside,
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see some wildlife. I saw some deer, a fox, there's
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cows, horses, all that good stuff. And they are
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the only place that has draft horse racing in
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the entire world. So big old draft horses pull,
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I think, well, the weight. changes depending
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on the race but it's a thousand pounds or more
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usually over a maybe three foot high hill and
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then uh five and a half six foot hill and uh
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that's the race it's just a straight line over
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two hills and who can get there first it was
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really fun though and draft horses that's like
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think budweiser commercials yeah Yeah, so these
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ones tend to be a different breed. They have
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two breeds and the... What are the Budweiser
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horses? The Clydesdales are not what these ones
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are because they're not powerful enough. These
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are Belgians and some other breed. But it was
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really cool. And the food in Hokkaido is my fucking
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favorite. It's just all meat and vegetables,
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which I really miss. living on the main island
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because it's a lot of seafood so i went and it's
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called butadon which is just pork bowls but not
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the pork bowls you think of it's like fucking
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thick ass side pork that's been marinated in
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a slightly sweet sauce with uh onions and peas
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on top of rice it's the best thing i've ever
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eaten it's fucking delicious highly recommend
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it I think Cocos would do you right. I really
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do. But I cooked that at home. You just refused
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to try it. I'll go try it. The thing is, I have
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to go talk to the people here. I can't order
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on a machine and they don't speak English. And
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I don't speak Japanese. I didn't speak Japanese
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either. And they understood my order perfectly.
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Yeah, but you were in an army base. Close enough.
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Close to. Close enough to one that, yeah, they
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kind of understood English. Basic English. But
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that's enough of that. You know who didn't understand
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basic English? Maybe he did. Lester Martinez.
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First Christian in Beely who did not. That was
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a great fight, and I'm so happy the rematch seems
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to be on. They're talking dates and everything
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already. What are the dates being floated at
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the moment? I think it was January that I heard,
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maybe, or December. I'm trying to think of what's
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going on at that time frame. I don't think anything's
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been set yet. Like, if they're going to make
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this an undercard, I don't know of what they
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would attach this to yet. Inouye is in December.
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Yeah. I don't think they would do this one on
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an Inouye undercard. No. Yeah, so it was ordered
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by the WBC. It might theoretically be for a belt
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if... Crawford decides to vacate them? Yeah,
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that is one of the questions that's hanging around
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with 168 just in general. What's he going to
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do with his titles? Yeah, I don't see any reputable
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places throwing around dates. Maybe I made up
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the beginning of next year thing. That does seem
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like a reasonable time frame, though. Just based
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on going from mid -September going to December
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or early January, that's a reasonable time frame
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to guess. Yeah, but I might have just made that
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up. That might have been a complete guess. But
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it has been ordered. The two camps seem to be
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on board. It seems like it's actually going to
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happen. It's going to happen next, which is good.
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Like, that's one that I think needs to be soon.
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Yeah, like, Lester Martinez and Christian Mbili,
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they don't have the luxury of sitting back and
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waiting to decide their next move. They don't
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have, like, the notoriety or the fame or whatever
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you want to call it. They have to step into challenging
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fights. as often as possible if they want to
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get their name profile built up. Yeah, but I'm
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excited that for, well, not for once, but you
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know how sometimes it just doesn't happen? Yeah.
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Rematches that need to happen. I'm super excited
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that this one seems to be happening and happening
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when it should, not in five years when they both
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suck. I don't think it'll take five years, but...
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if it didn't happen immediately, it would, it
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would have taken like one or two, two years.
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And that would have, uh, it would have killed
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a lot of the momentum that was behind their original
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fight coming off of such a high, high profile
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platform, like having the Canelo Crawford being,
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being the on Netflix. That's your platform. You
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got, Not dozens, tens of millions of people watching.
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You can't just sit back and let a draw be what
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you're remembered by. Exactly. Well, and you
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were saying, what card will it be on? Honestly,
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after that, with that kind of profile, they could
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headline. I think people would tune in to watch
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that rematch. just to watch that rematch like
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if they did it on netflix again yes but if they
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tried to put that onto a something else that's
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where i'm not so sure i don't know like if you
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put it on espn or something that's pretty easy
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for people to get that's i think what it what
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i was trying to get at is ease of access because
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getting it on netflix that puts it in front of
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we'll say I think Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul
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was 40 million. Something crazy. That's the number
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of people that you're putting this fight in front
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of again. Or you could take the Canelo Crawford
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number and say this is the same number that you're
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putting in front of. But if they try to put it
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on something else, like Christian and Billy,
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Versus Lester Martinez 2. On Eye of the Tiger
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promotions. Get the fuck out of my face. That
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would be fucking atrocious. Yeah. That would
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be a complete waste of everybody's fucking time.
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Yeah. That would be a missed opportunity. For
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sure. Yeah. Oh. Well. Speaking of opportunities,
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Takuma Inoue versus Tenshin Nasukawa in November.
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Tell me about this, because this is news to me.
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It just got announced last week. Little Inoue
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is fighting Tenshin in Tokyo in November. I forget
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the date. I think it might be the 14th. Are you
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going to go to cheer on Tenshin to victory? I
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actually am thinking of maybe going, but not
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to cheer on Tenshin. Not for Tenshin, of course.
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I fucking hate him. It's not going to happen
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because Takuma is not the guy to do it, but I
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want Tenshin fucking out cold on his back. I
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don't think Takuma has the power. I think he
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can beat him. He could, yes. He could school
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him. I don't think he could knock him out cold,
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though, which is what I want. It's what I desire.
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Yeah, if you wanted somebody to knock out Tenshin,
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if you want him flat on his back, just count
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it out. You're looking at, like, Nakatani. Yeah.
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It wouldn't be flat on his back, but Seiya Tsutsumi
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could get the knockout. Just straight accumulation.
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He could dog him. He could dog him. Yeah. To
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a stoppage. But not. Yeah. Takuma, you're not
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the guy in this. Not for that. But I do think
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Takuma should win this. You think so? He's not
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going to be the favorite because. fucking fangirls
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but the money the money line is gonna favor tension
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of course yeah yeah so i'm gonna put some money
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on takuma i really do think he's a better boxer
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i would agree with that even though i'm by your
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standards by what you know of the fanboy the
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tension fanboy i i am not at all to that level
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But as a foreigner, I am a bit of a tension fanboy.
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All things notwithstanding, Floyd Mayweather's
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fight, all of that stuff, not at all discounted.
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I think tension's got the goods. I think he's
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got the goods. tension has more power but i this
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is definitely a step up and i i think he's gonna
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stumble a hundred percent a step you think this
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is a bigger how big how much bigger of a step
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up from uh maloney is this because maloney was
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a bit of a step up as well maloney was a step
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up but maloney has negative power and maloney
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was tagging him true absolutely true absolutely
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true And I think Takuma's just as good a boxer
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with slightly more pop. I think Takuma would
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beat Maloney as well. I would agree with that.
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But no, I think Maloney was a bigger step up,
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and I expected Tenshin to stumble on that one.
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And I think he stumbled, but he didn't fall.
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He kind of did. Yeah, he did stumble to a degree.
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For what a hater would want, not that big of
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a stumble, but he did. No, but. Almost. He did.
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I'm not. I can't deny it. Anyways, I'm going
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to hate watch the fuck out of this one. I do
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think it should actually be a fun fight. I am
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excited for this. This is just for me as. tension
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fanboy like me throwing my hands up for the people
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who can't see like I'm throwing them up yeah
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I'm a fanboy I'm really hoping that tension is
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gonna he's gonna prove the doubters wrong once
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again no there's only so much hate that you can
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throw at him and there's only so much of him
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proving you wrong that he can do I have an unlimited
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supply of hate. Do not doubt my hate stories.
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All right. Well, we'll keep an eye on it because,
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man, that is exciting. And that's in November.
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Yeah, I should have written down the date. But
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I'm thinking of grabbing a hate ticket. But I'm
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waiting to see what the undercard is. As far
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as I know, they haven't announced any of the
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undercard yet. So this is the main event. Oh,
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shit. Man, if I could make arrangements for...
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If it was... This would end up on a lottery,
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right? No, it's not nearly that big. I thought
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Tension was big enough to be a lottery. No, not
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a lottery. No. And it's in some weird -ass little
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arena I've never heard of. It's in the Toyota
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Arena. That's silly. I mean, it probably holds
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almost as many as Ariaka. I don't know. Still,
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you should. If you could, you should do it in
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Ariaka. It's in the same area. There's a whole
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bunch of arenas there. Oh, in the Tokyo Prefecture?
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Yeah, well, it's in... So there's Ariaka Arena,
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Ariaka Coliseum, and this is in that same area,
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the Toyota Arena. I don't know. I'm going to
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see what tickets are and if there's anyone I
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recognize on the undercard. But I bought a ticket
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to the one event in November, so it'll also depend
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if I can get time off work. Or not time off work,
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really, but if I have to work the weekend. Should
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be fun. Yeah, it'll be. I am sure that they're
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going to make it a good card. It'll probably
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be a lot of local prospects, but still, it should
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be enjoyable. I still want to... I'm kind of
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hoping, although he signed with the wrong promoter,
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but I was kind of hoping Yokoyama would get on
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this one. That would be a good placement. That
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was the name I was trying to remember as I was
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thinking of local names that you want to throw
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onto a... Solid domestic dust -up. Yeah. I think
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that's what the Ireland boys like to call them.
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Yeah. Speaking of dust -ups, Pitbull vs. Roach
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on Prime Pay -Per -View. I wrote this down. I
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must have seen it, but... Yeah. It's a great
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fight. Let me double check that. Because pay
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-per -view seems odd. It's a great fight. It's
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fantastic. Pitbull vs. Roach. That's the type
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of shit that you, we, us, the fans, this is what
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we want to see. This type of matchup. Pay -per
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-view. I don't know about all that, dawg. Yeah.
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Yeah, no, I didn't make a mistake. It is being
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reported as a prime pay -per -view. So I haven't
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seen any number, like, prices, but I don't know,
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man. My biggest problem with these pay -per -view
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cards is they're all fucking $80. Like, if you
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want to charge me $20, $25 for this, I think
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it's worth it. But $80 fucking dollars for Pitbull
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versus Roach? It's just too much. I know that
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everybody's always like, well, if you charge
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less, you're going to get the same amount of
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people buying it. And I just don't think that's
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true anymore. The millennials have $25. And they
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will pay $25 to avoid streaming fuck -ups. That
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sort of shit. To get the legit feed. Yeah, yeah,
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like... People our age, like, around 40, we all
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know how to steal shit. But we all also generally
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have $25. Like... And I'm willing to pay for...
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It's not that I can't. It's that when you're
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making it $80, I don't want to. exactly like
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and i think maybe it's a bad comparison but silk
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song just came out for 20 bucks and like even
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the pirates are saying fuck you guys we're not
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pirating this it's 20 bucks don't be a broke
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bitch and go buy it right and i not that the
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pirating people aren't going to still pipe like
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stream these ones. But I think there's a big
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group of people that would pay 20, 25 bucks that
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are not going to pay $80. I must, for legal purposes,
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say I would never, ever, ever pirate something.
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And I, of course, would always gladly pay the
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full price. So with that being said, like, there's
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no goddamn way I'm paying $80. For Pitbull Roach.
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This is a fucking excellent fight that I would
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love to see. I'm not paying $80 for it. No, we're
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going to end up fucking watching highlights the
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next day, which sucks. Well, we'll figure a way
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to watch it because we're crafty. I will say
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that the $80 ones, just as a general tip. If
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you have any fucking friends that watch boxing
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at all. If you can get four people to come to
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your house and everybody pays a $20 cover fee
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to watch it, then it's a $20 pay -per -view for
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you. But you shouldn't have to do that. Right.
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Because that's what I used to do. I just put
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like a little jar by the door and I almost never
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got enough money to cover the pay -per -views.
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Not everybody paid what they were quote -unquote
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supposed to, but somebody always paid something.
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Yeah, I was just thinking of the one time I had
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a pay -per -view party, but I went all out. I
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grilled up food and all sorts of stuff. Even
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if you paid for the pay -per -view, or if you
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tipped in for the pay -per -view, it was still
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not nearly enough for what... all the money that
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i put together for food and everything but still
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it was uh i've had people people over for pay
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-per -views and if just thinking of how many
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people came over if i did just put like a five
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five dollar cover that would have been enough
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to i don't know cover beer pretty like pretty
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much It would have been enough to cover something.
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And fuck me, but that pay -per -view was not
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$80. Yeah, and also, I'm a bitch when I'm watching
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boxing. Don't fucking talk to me during the rounds.
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There's lots of time between fights. We can talk
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about whatever the hell you want to talk about
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when they're not boxing. So I actually hate throwing
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the parties because I just want everybody to
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fuck off until the fight's over. So I'm not a
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good host. That's fair. Like when I was watching,
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I was also doing like live scoring for SP at
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the time. Right. So I was. It was the same thing.
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Don't fucking talk to me during the round because
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I'm watching the fight. I'm glued to the television.
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I'm just not going to talk to you. If you're
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going to try to say something to me, I will say
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things out loud as I see them. That is me taking
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notes for myself. But if you try to talk to me
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about what I just said, I'm going to ignore you.
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Yeah. Sorry to tell you, I'm quote -unquote working
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at the moment. Yeah, but... And you expect me
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to pay $80 for Pitbull vs. Roach. Well, like
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I said, I haven't seen that. I haven't seen a
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price, but that's what they all are. So far,
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all the prime pay -per -views have been in that
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neighborhood. $60 to $80, we'll say. Even if
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they made it $40, they'd get more people buying
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it. Yeah. Lowering the price. Because a strong
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majority of people are already prime subscribers.
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Yeah. There's really no reason to make the price...
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as high as it is like 80 per 80 bucks we'll just
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say for the for the sake of argument 80 there's
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no reason that it has to be 80 for everyone like
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you could give a discount to the prime subscribers
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yeah i mean the zone did that for a while they
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did for a while but anyways enough about pay
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-per -view numbers and how stupid they are yeah
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well there's only yeah there's only so much i
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can well before i just start repeating myself
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uh boxing death in ghana yeah so ghana's actually
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had two deaths this year which is a big deal
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obviously it is So they had one, I think it was
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May or March. And then just last week, I got
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his name here, but I'm really bad at names. Ernest
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Akashe. He's a light heavyweight boxer. He died
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a couple days after his fight on September 12th.
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And unlike Japan, Ghana is really, really taking
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this serious. And they have stopped all boxing
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in Ghana. indefinitely while they do some investigating
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on why there's been two deaths and how they can
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avoid it uh this this guy uh ernest he was like
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locally famous as a boxer and he wasn't he wasn't
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young but Anyways, Ghana has put all boxing on
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hold, and AJ had planned to be fighting in Ghana,
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I want to say December, he was going to have
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a fight there, starting a bit of a world tour
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type thing. So that obviously is also on hold.
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I have seen some people speculating that they'll
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pick a different African country. to host an
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AJ fight in. I haven't seen anything official
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about that. I actually haven't seen anything
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official saying that AJ's fight is cancelled
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in December or January. I can't remember when
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it was. But if all boxing is on hold for now,
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they might have to just straight up reorganize
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his kind of African debut. Yeah. If Ghana is
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your... Where you decided to make your first
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bout. Ghana's a pretty good boxing country, actually.
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There's been quite a few very famous Ghana fighters.
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I can't think of anybody right now. I think Quarterly?
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What was his name? He fought Delahoya. I think
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it's Quarterly. Quarry? No. Quarry's the white
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guys. Korti. Ika Korti is the one that I always
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think of from Ghana, but I think, like, Comey's
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from Ghana as well. Yeah, Richard Comey is also
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from Ghana. Like, they've had a few world stars
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come out of Ghana. And I wonder how many other
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countries that AJ would consider wouldn't also,
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like, suspend. suspend their boxing for i don't
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think any other countries have responded in that
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way but because anthony joshua his family is
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gone and right that's what i was wondering is
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where i think his tattoo no he's nigerian yeah
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i was gonna man i fucking knew it i fucking knew
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it I just wasn't sure where his roots, where
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he claims his roots from. Nigerian. So maybe
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they could move it to Nigeria, but I assume they
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were doing Ghana because there's more of an audience.
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Yeah. Major shrug on my part. I'm surprised they
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didn't make it Nigeria in the first place. Because
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there's a decent enough boxing crowd in Nigeria.
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It's not like AJ claiming the roots. He's not
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the only one. F .A. Adjogba claims Nigeria. That's
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just for one other. I don't know how many actual...
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big boxing matches they host in Nigeria. True.
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Okay. All those guys are kind of famous from
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elsewhere. Right. And Ghana is pretty close to
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Nigeria. I think that's why they chose it. Also,
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I might be talking out my ass. What's the official
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language in Nigeria? Because Ghana is English.
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Everybody speaks English in Ghana. The official
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language in Nigeria is also English. Yep. Anyways,
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I just thought I'd bring that up as news that
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AJ's world tour has been slightly... Derailed.
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Derailed. Slightly. But, speaking of British
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boxing, Calzaghe was voted into the British Boxing
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Hall of Fame and was also voted as the best British
30:52
boxer of all time. Best British boxer of all
30:57
time. This has sparked some debate online. A
31:04
lot of people are saying Lennox Lewis, but I
31:06
don't know if he really counts as British. He
31:09
gets counted as whoever wants to count him as.
31:14
But can you count him as the best British boxer?
31:18
He wasn't born in Britain. He didn't really go
31:21
to school in Britain. He is not very British.
31:26
He technically, on a technicality, competed for
31:29
Britain. When? His Olympic gold is Canadian.
31:35
Well, then that destroys any argument that I
31:39
had. So... I never thought of Lennox Lewis as
31:46
British to begin with. But that's just me. So...
31:53
Anyways, I just thought it was kind of cool.
31:55
I like Calzaghe. Man, I think that this just
32:00
comes at the wrong time because of Ricky Hatton
32:02
passing away. Yeah, but I mean, let's be honest,
32:08
Ricky Hatton isn't in the conversation for best
32:11
British boxer of all time. Most loved, maybe.
32:15
The cold scientist. No, but... He was loved as
32:23
a person more than as a boxer. Well, he was loved
32:27
as a boxer despite his success or lack of success.
32:32
It doesn't matter. He brought the crowd out.
32:38
People loved Ricky Hatton, but Joe Calzaghe won.
32:44
People loved his boxing. People loved that he
32:46
won. People loved Ricky Hatton as Ricky Hatton.
32:54
Man, it's just difficult because Ricky Hatton
33:00
brought the people out. He would have stadiums
33:07
filled. Oh, for sure. Like, he's traveling to
33:12
the U .S. or wherever the case is, and he's filling
33:17
up stadiums. And Joe Calzaghe, it's like, I think
33:26
this is the football comparison that comes to
33:30
mind for me is Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady.
33:35
And Calzaghe is Brady. He's got the victories.
33:39
He has the rings. He has the titles. He has the
33:42
wins. But Peyton Manning has like the records.
33:49
I guess. I guess. I'm reaching there. I just
33:54
think Ricky Hatton was loved for being Ricky
33:58
Hatton, and Joe Calzaghe is only liked because
34:03
he was a boxer. I don't think people like Joe
34:07
Calzaghe very much. Well, he's Welsh. And if
34:12
he wasn't a boxer, people wouldn't like him.
34:17
But Ricky Hatton seems like people liked him
34:19
just because. Well, because he was British British
34:24
versus Calzaghe was Welsh. I guess. So that makes
34:30
him a second -class citizen, basically. Yeah.
34:35
Anyways, I thought it was interesting. It is
34:38
interesting, because... Just because that's not
34:42
a vote they needed to do either. It's not like
34:46
every year they vote on whether they're going
34:48
to name the best British boxer. And it was just
34:52
the timing of it. Like, can we really take maybe
34:55
delay the vote on the best British boxer of all
34:59
time for at least a year while we wait for the
35:04
time of a. I assume this was all done before.
35:10
Perhaps. Perhaps. In stupid news, Tank has announced,
35:16
quote -unquote announced, his retirement on Twitter.
35:20
He's not fighting after the Jake Paul fight because
35:24
boxing is dead. Is that his rationale? Yeah,
35:30
I should have found the actual tweet. But boxing
35:34
is dead and the fans are all fickle bitches and
35:37
he's done with our shit, apparently. Oh, well,
35:40
that's fantastic because he's a fickle bitch
35:44
and I'm done with his shit. So it really works
35:48
out really nicely. Yeah. Okay, here's the tweet.
35:54
Is he mad because everybody thinks that he lost
35:57
to Lamont Roche? That's definitely what he's
36:00
mad about. Here's the tweet, Leo. Boxing definitely
36:05
did a turn. It went from this side to that side,
36:08
and then it's the sunglasses emoji. And this
36:11
shit has no loyalty, so why would I care? I move
36:13
accordingly. Boxing is dead, and it's the sunglass
36:17
emoji with the peace. Yeah, you're upset that
36:21
everybody thinks you lost. That you fucking took
36:23
a knee and lost a fight. You lost to Lamont Roach,
36:27
and you're upset about it. And you're a whiny
36:30
little bitch. Oh, man. For a long time, I was
36:36
a tank defender. It wasn't until he fucking straight
36:40
up... Gervonta, I know you're listening. You
36:45
lost. To Lamont Roach, you lost. You fucking
36:49
lost. I'm not sure how else I'm supposed to phrase
36:54
that. You lost and they bailed you out because
36:59
you're the A -side. You got bailed the fuck out,
37:03
my man. You lost to Lamont Roach. You lost. Before
37:09
that, I was a staunch tank defender. Always,
37:14
um... Trying to prop him up and sing his praises.
37:18
But after that, it was like, what the fuck? What
37:21
am I even doing? Yeah. He also looks super fat
37:31
in the press conference. Well, I shouldn't throw
37:34
shade for that. I am also fat. It's like a free
37:37
weight fight anyway, right? No, but like... It
37:42
looks like he has not been taking care of himself.
37:45
Oh. Levels of gaining weight. Like Patty... Not
37:48
quite Patty Pimplet, but... Patty Pimplet is
37:52
a really good analog. Because he does not take
37:56
care of himself between fights. Ricky Hatton
37:59
did not take care of himself between fights.
38:02
Ricky Fatten. Ricky Fatten. This is not like
38:06
throwing shade at the dead. This is... The fact
38:11
of the matter was the joke name was Ricky Fatten.
38:15
He used to use it himself. I don't think he hated
38:18
it. Okay, well, so he claimed it himself. Fantastic.
38:23
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38:28
I do. I need to make these plugs now before I
38:34
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42:15
a little bit of stuff. Maybe you did, maybe you
42:19
didn't see. No limit at the Pat Rafter Arena
42:24
in Tennyson. I did not watch the Aussie card.
42:31
I was on vacation. That's all right. Liam Parrow
42:34
got a UD over David Papo. Did he get a decision?
42:42
Question mark? David Papo gave a good account
42:47
of himself. Jacob was talking about fucking Nomas
42:53
Paro. He was talking up Liam Paro's performance
42:57
like crazy on Discord. Yeah, well, he's also
43:01
Aussie, so he's like legally obligated to talk
43:07
up his people. He seemed really, really impressed
43:11
with Paro. I was not. Um, this would be a good
43:19
time to have Jacob on the show. Dude, tell me,
43:24
what did you see in Paro that I didn't? You should
43:29
send him a message and have him do a call -in
43:31
at least. Yeah, good idea. We interrupt our program
43:35
to bring you this important message. Should not
43:38
have raised a good idea. That was to get Jacob
43:41
back on the fucking show, so that's what we did.
43:43
Good to hear from you again. Yeah, no, it's good
43:46
to be back for a brief bit before I head off.
43:48
Yeah. All right, so I wasn't as impressed. Let's
43:51
just get right into it. I wasn't as impressed
43:53
with Liam Parra as Shanada was saying you were.
43:57
Yeah, I cheated up a little. I'm not going to
43:59
lie. But, no, I was at the fight, so what it
44:04
looked like to me was that he was getting out
44:06
of the way heaps. And it looked like early on,
44:08
Papo was landing some big shots, especially with
44:10
them straights. Obviously, Boyd got his eye caught
44:12
up. But other than that, I didn't even realize
44:15
that I think I just saw this guy fighting. I
44:19
was like, he's gone good. Because it looked like
44:21
whenever he was landing, he seemed to have this
44:25
specific plan to try and exit with the check
44:27
hook. And I thought that he was in control of
44:29
that. Like, he got hit on the way out more than
44:31
I thought he did initially, you know, at the
44:34
arena. But I thought he went into that with a
44:37
specific game plan, it seemed like. And to be
44:39
honest, I didn't really expect that from him.
44:41
I'm not going to lie to you. I kind of thought
44:44
he was going to show up. He was going to try
44:46
and counterpunch from mid -range and then get
44:49
his business done just with volume that way.
44:51
But it looked a little different. He obviously
44:53
fell back into that strategy for a fair bit.
44:56
We look at those later rounds where a lot of
44:59
people thought those were his more convincing
45:00
rounds. I thought the early ones, like the first
45:02
two to three, were maybe the more convincing
45:04
ones because that's where it looked like he was
45:06
trying to just establish. you know, what he's
45:10
doing with the body, what he's doing with getting
45:12
around on the outside. Yeah, I was impressed
45:15
by the game plan. I think the execution wasn't
45:17
as good as I initially thought it was when I
45:19
was watching it in person. But I like to see
45:22
how he's developed. I think the only drawback
45:25
was that I don't think he looks like he was hurting
45:27
any of the shots, no matter how clean they were.
45:31
And I think that's going to be something out
45:33
of his upper weight division, especially for
45:35
some of the guys that are in that division. above
45:38
that division because i don't think paro is going
45:41
to stay here because he's been fighting in a
45:43
lower division since the very start of his career
45:46
so i think he's hitting that age where he kind
45:48
of naturally starts to bump up a bit so it's
45:51
going to be really interesting next few years
45:52
all right so i think the part you you noted the
45:58
part that was where i wasn't as impressed was
46:00
even though he was hitting papo pretty flush
46:03
it didn't look like he was very bothered. And
46:06
I thought, because he looked like an older gent,
46:08
so I thought that he might have less of a chin
46:11
because of it. Nah, he looks pretty unbothered.
46:16
As you said, I thought it didn't look like he
46:19
was attacking anything, which I guess comes on
46:21
to a different aspect of how you score boxing
46:23
fights as well, because I think some people make
46:26
the more damaging work better than the cleaner
46:28
work, per se. I think that's where I differ a
46:31
bit, but that's just also because I've watched.
46:33
so much amateur boxing to the point where things
46:35
like power don't register that much to me when
46:38
i'm watching the sport you know it's more just
46:40
something that i feel when i'm inspiring and
46:42
go damn that guy can hit yeah that's always how
46:46
i've judged um just because uh it's a little
46:50
bit of a carryover from watching mma where it's
46:52
like damage is supposed to be the the key component
46:55
to your scoring Yeah, it's definitely a big one
47:00
for some people and I know that's why they really
47:02
rate a lot of fighters that do Kind of you know,
47:06
they're happy to get hit three or four times
47:07
with some light set up shots That means they
47:10
can win that big counter Now like I think it's
47:13
Hank Davis and the way he fights and a lot of
47:14
wood He's built around with and he doesn't mind
47:17
if he gets peppered with a couple lazy jabs out
47:19
there so you can play like that and Completely
47:24
different for some different fighters. I think
47:26
that's that was probably power of strength early
47:28
on He was fighting the domestic competition.
47:32
He would be able to just wait and set up that
47:34
bigger shot. But, yeah, I don't think that's
47:37
something that's going to translate to this division.
47:39
There's going to need to be a lot of change in
47:41
his own individual approach. Fucking fantastic
47:46
insight. Yeah, no, it would just be interesting
47:49
to see how it goes, I think. Because he's got
47:52
a pretty decent team around him, I think. Like,
47:54
that Kuparu boxing gym, that's in my city, and
47:56
they've... Had some pretty good fighters come
47:58
out of there. They're very technically precise.
48:03
I think that's what I gather from whenever I've
48:05
seen those guys spar in a fight scenario. And
48:10
coming out of that setup, those coaches where
48:13
he initially was from, that seems to be a lot
48:16
of his philosophy and just that counterpunching.
48:18
I think one of the big things that will need
48:21
to happen in his game though, that's especially
48:24
being a Southpaw in that division. He's going
48:27
to defend that jab a lot better. I thought he
48:30
put a lot more effort into landing his own jabs
48:32
this time. He seemed happy to try and set things
48:34
up off the lead hand and off the check hook.
48:36
I thought, okay, he's being a bit more traditional
48:39
here. If you go back and watch that Hitchens
48:41
fight, watch what he's doing with his lead hand.
48:43
He's waving that shit everywhere. It's one minute,
48:47
it's above his forehead. The next minute, it's
48:49
under it. He's constantly waving it, trying to
48:51
trick Hitchens. Sometimes that rhythm works.
48:55
Sometimes it works, but against a guy who just
48:57
has a straight person of a jab, that's not going
48:59
to work because they're just going to keep popping
49:00
the shit out. You know, guys like Hitchens, that's
49:02
been his bread and butter for his entire career,
49:04
you know, since Amateurs. He's just going to
49:06
pop that out all fight. So no amount of deception
49:09
is going to stop him. Seeing him go away from
49:13
that was something I thought was really promising,
49:15
where he just fought with this traditional guard,
49:18
you know, wanted to frame out a bit, was happy
49:21
to move, use the ring. I think it's a new style
49:24
for him. I think it's a different one and he'll
49:26
need to adjust into it a bit. But I think interesting
49:30
really is just the best word for it because it
49:34
was very different to what I expected him to
49:35
do. How much do you think Papo being a lefty
49:40
as well? Because usually lefties struggle with
49:44
lefties, don't they? Yeah, they can because you've
49:49
got the same orthodox... fighting principles
49:51
but the difference between an orthodox fighting
49:53
an orthodox and a lefty fighting lefty is that
49:56
orthodox is basically 90 of the time they go
49:59
against or as a lefty you know as a southpaw
50:02
you might spy a southpaw very very rarely and
50:06
you have to be able to understand your basic
50:09
orthodox boxing stance principles and then apply
50:15
them again and for some guys who are able to
50:19
hit in both they love that right like you look
50:21
at corporate suspense and how he approached that
50:24
he knew that that body jab was there whereas
50:26
i think with pyro there was a new experience
50:30
for him i think he knew what he was getting into
50:32
but proposal really he's hard to pick off with
50:36
his rhythm you know he can fight a few different
50:38
ways and i think that's what pyro kind of He
50:42
was trying to figure out how he was going to
50:44
approach things, but because he wasn't getting
50:46
the usual shots and angles back, then it changed
50:49
the way that he counted completely different.
50:52
You know, like if he came into that fight with
50:54
the same things that he had worked on with, you
50:56
know, the lead hand control and the check hook
50:58
and using the ring, if he had those elements
51:01
and was just going against a similarly sized
51:05
orthodox, I think that would have worked really
51:08
pretty for him. Obviously, it's just a completely
51:11
different kind of fight. But I think it's one
51:14
that for the development of Poe, I think that
51:17
was a really good fight for him to have. I think
51:20
for him to be able to walk out of that with that
51:22
experience and with a win is good. But I'm more
51:26
interested to see what happens with the title
51:29
fight discussions because I think that was the
51:31
division. Was that where Boots? Yeah, he just
51:35
left. Yeah. I tell you what, I don't want to
51:39
get into how far over his boots would go. That
51:41
would be inhumane. Because, yeah, I don't know
51:45
who else is in that division that they're looking
51:46
at stepping up. But that'll be really interesting
51:49
to see. Because I'll be honest, I think a lot
51:55
of the guys, I don't think Papo is one of the
51:57
bigger or the harder hitting guys in that division.
52:01
So for him to look like he was getting hurt there,
52:06
it does raise some questions. The eye is going
52:12
to be a big question too, if that's going to
52:14
be a recurring theme moving forward. You can't
52:22
get into those walls every fight. He's at a stage
52:26
of his career where maybe he can afford a few
52:28
because he's been boxing for a while now. But
52:30
you don't want to be doing that every single
52:32
time you step in. Because that's just going to
52:33
take away his longevity. Especially because he
52:36
thinks he has a future in this division. I'm
52:37
assuming that's why he's moved there. he's not
52:41
going to be able to just run that back and do
52:43
that sort of fight every single time. It seems
52:46
to me that his approach in terms of being more
52:49
defensively responsible with the head movement,
52:51
the footwork, it's all there. But having the
52:54
right approach and then actually having it are
52:57
different things. So we'll really just have to
53:01
see how he goes against a different competition
53:02
because, you know, it's a sport with levels in
53:05
it. And we saw the levels when it came to him
53:07
versus Hitchens. on things like lead hand control
53:10
because kitchens understood that to a t like
53:13
he fought a textbook fight he was just landing
53:16
the jab he just kept landing kept landing kept
53:19
landing and then he had that right hand in the
53:21
chamber so whenever paro wanted to kind of slip
53:24
onto that you know inside of the jab it was waiting
53:28
right for him and paro who tries to counter with
53:31
the head movement it was a bit of a strange it
53:33
was a difficult fight for him so i think he was
53:35
being a bit more responsible but It didn't pay
53:39
off as well as it should if he wants to continue
53:42
in that division. Well, this has been really
53:52
insightful. Nah, I don't know. I thought a lot
53:57
about that fight. It was not what I expected.
54:01
Still, it was good to get an insider's view.
54:07
Plus, man, I appreciate it so much, and thanks
54:10
for having me back on to talk about it. Yeah,
54:12
of course. We'll have you on for something else.
54:15
Actually, there might be another one I want to
54:17
talk to you about later, but it's Sharnika. Oh,
54:21
yes. I want to talk to you about her and the
54:25
possibility of Gabby Fandora moving up. Ooh.
54:30
That's the kind of thought I want to see. Yeah.
54:34
That would be outstanding. I hope that happens.
54:39
I think both of them will be up for that because
54:40
Fandora, she's real good. But I think Shanika,
54:44
her last couple of years of development have
54:45
seen her in a really good spot as well. All right.
54:51
Well, I have to get back to this and I will let
54:55
you go. But it was good talking with you. Thank
54:58
you very much. Of course. I appreciate it so
55:01
much. Thanks, man. Have a good day. Take care.
55:04
Moving to Saturday, September 20th. Much to my
55:12
dismay, Mickey Scala drops the ball. Stoppage
55:17
in two. Oh, my God. Mickey. What? What the fuck?
55:25
What the fuck, dog? Oh, man. Jose Perdomo. Gets
55:33
the stoppage into stoppage win into there are
55:38
in calling for an immediate rematch and they're
55:43
calling it a lucky shot that got Scala buzzed.
55:49
Yeah, was it? And I'm really I'm doing the the
55:55
Jacobs no Masparo. sort of movement here. Like,
56:00
yeah, that's exactly what did it, right? It was
56:03
just like a lucky punch. I'm just really trying
56:09
to believe that there was something else going
56:13
on and it wasn't just that Mickey Scala got fucking
56:15
popped and did not understand how to defend himself.
56:21
He didn't know how to be in trouble. And that's
56:28
not something you can kind of like be taught,
56:31
I don't think. That's something that I remember.
56:36
Who was it? Tim Bradley used to talk about being
56:42
taught how to be in trouble. Yeah. Because nobody
56:47
wants to believe I'll get buzzed. nobody of course
56:52
you will yeah and but you will exactly you will
56:56
get caught you will get tagged no matter how
57:00
good you are as you get as you climb the ranks
57:04
as you get better so do the opponents and the
57:09
chances of you getting tagged of you getting
57:11
buzzed only increase But it doesn't seem that
57:18
Mickey Scala has had that moment in his training
57:22
yet. Hopefully he learned his lesson this time.
57:29
I want to believe that he did. If I have to go
57:35
over to... I know where his gym is. Go over and
57:41
smack him yourself. Teach him how to get in trouble.
57:45
How it is to be in trouble and how do you defend
57:49
yourself when you're in trouble? If I have to,
57:53
then I will. Coach Leo. I try not to pull that
58:02
thing, pull that tag out of the bag. But when
58:06
it comes to fucking Mickey, this was like the
58:11
hope for my city. Ugh. This is disappointing.
58:20
And it makes me think like he's not getting the
58:25
full spectrum of coaching. And that's where I'm
58:29
like, fuck. If I have to go down to your fucking
58:32
gym and teach you, then that's what we're doing.
58:35
Something is wrong. If I have to do this, then
58:38
something is very clearly missing. But whatever,
58:44
man, whatever it takes to get you back on top,
58:46
dog. I'm here. I'm here to help you. Moving to
58:54
a real quick one. Gabriela Fandora ass beating
59:01
over Alexis. As expected. As expected. It's unfortunate.
59:14
That Fundora beats that ass as hard as she did
59:19
because Alexis Kubicki, she's fighting today
59:25
as we're recording. But it was Naomi Valle's
59:32
opponent. Let me look. I want to get the name
59:37
right. Naomi Valle. Federica Macri. So, Federica
59:52
Macri got her ass beat by Kubicki. So, it was
59:58
just like, I don't know. Having common opponents,
1:00:03
maybe one of these women will be worthwhile for
1:00:09
Gabriela Fundora. But, Reality is that they're
1:00:14
fucking not. Gabi's one of those people that
1:00:19
just doesn't have the dance partners. She's gonna
1:00:22
have to go up or down. If she goes up, her only
1:00:26
real option is Mimi. Mizuki. Yeah, Gabi beats
1:00:33
the fuck out of Mimi. I love Mimi, but I don't
1:00:37
think that's a very close fight. I love Mimi
1:00:39
too. Keep sending letters like, hey, let's hang
1:00:47
out sometime. It doesn't matter because Gabby
1:00:53
Fundora is going to beat that ass. Ass beating.
1:01:00
This is annoying. So there's three or four websites
1:01:05
where it's really easy to get all of the standings
1:01:08
for the men together. And I don't think there
1:01:11
is one for the women's, where it has all the
1:01:14
champions in the rankings. Not having them all
1:01:18
in one place, no. That's really fucking annoying.
1:01:22
And it's not that difficult to do. BoxRec does
1:01:26
it, but they exclude the WBA. That's the unfortunate.
1:01:34
But I mean, for the men's, there's like five
1:01:37
different ones that are super easy to... just
1:01:39
click on and they're well put together. These
1:01:41
women's ones are garbage. I was trying to see
1:01:46
who's one weight class above her other than Mimi.
1:01:59
Naomi Valle is the younger sister of Yacosta.
1:02:13
Elaine Ruiz I've seen, but Gabby just beats the
1:02:15
crap out of her too. Yeah, I don't know what
1:02:24
to do with Fundora. She's just too good. No,
1:02:31
but she is. She is. I chuckle, but she is. If
1:02:37
she went up to 118, Trinica Johnson might be
1:02:41
a good fight. But that's jumping two weight classes.
1:02:45
I honestly still rate Gabrielle LaFleur over.
1:02:48
I do too. But I'm just saying like Gabby doesn't
1:02:56
have to chase people. That's where you start
1:02:59
finding challenges. Yeah. Is moving up two, three,
1:03:05
four divisions. Which is unfortunate. It is unfortunate.
1:03:17
I think Gabby is... I think she already knows
1:03:23
that's what I'm going to have to do to achieve
1:03:28
the greatness that I know that I'm worthy of
1:03:33
or deserving of. I'm going to have to move up
1:03:36
two, three, four divisions. It helps that she
1:03:44
has the height. I was gonna say, she has the
1:03:47
frame. Yeah, she has the height to do it. She
1:03:49
should be fine. So... I believe... I believe
1:03:58
in Gabi Fundoro. She's fucking good, man. She
1:04:02
is. Speaking of... Are they that good? Oscar
1:04:11
Collazo. Verse... Jason... Oh, let me... Jason
1:04:18
Vason. I don't care how they pronounced it on
1:04:21
the fucking broadcast. It's Jason Vason. Thank
1:04:24
you. I was going to say Jason Vison. No. That's
1:04:30
how they said it on the broadcast. I don't give
1:04:33
a shit how they said it on the broadcast. If
1:04:37
it's Vison, he's Jason Vison. His parents spelt
1:04:43
his name like that so they would rhyme. Jason
1:04:47
Basin. The actor, Sean Bean? No, no, no. It's
1:04:54
either Scene Bean or Sean Bond. Exactly. Make
1:05:02
a decision, asshole. Right. Oscar Collazo. This
1:05:09
was a weird main event. It wasn't a weird main
1:05:13
event. It was a good fight. I really enjoyed
1:05:16
the fight while it was happening. But it was
1:05:18
a weird corner stoppage that has caused some
1:05:21
controversy. Or not controversy, but within Jason
1:05:26
Vason's camp, controversy. He came out after
1:05:33
the fact and was really... I don't know, dismissive
1:05:41
or apologetic about his corner stopping the fight.
1:05:49
I'm really trying to figure out what the right
1:05:52
words are. Yeah. So I guess we should start at
1:05:55
the beginning because I know a bunch of people
1:05:57
probably didn't watch this one being minimum
1:05:59
weights. Of course. But it was a good fight.
1:06:02
So Jason Vason was landing some bombs, but Collazo
1:06:07
was wearing them well. And Collazo was hitting
1:06:11
Vason with probably not as hard of shots, but
1:06:15
he was getting wobbled and hurt multiple times.
1:06:21
And I rewatched it this morning just to make
1:06:24
sure I could talk about it properly. And I do
1:06:27
think there must have been something a little
1:06:29
off because... who's the ref thomas taylor started
1:06:34
checking on jason in the corner after the fifth
1:06:39
and he would come over and talk to him and talk
1:06:42
to the coaches and make sure he's okay so i think
1:06:45
there must have been something that people were
1:06:48
seeing in the ring about him being more hurt
1:06:51
than maybe it looked on the broadcast like maybe
1:06:55
he wasn't talking well or something and he did
1:06:58
get buzzed a few times And in the sixth round,
1:07:02
he looked pretty hurt, actually. And he wasn't
1:07:06
walking great going back to the corner. Now,
1:07:10
all that being said, it was not the head coach
1:07:14
that stopped it. It was the chief second that
1:07:18
stopped the fight. And the head coach was pissed
1:07:20
about it. During, like, during the broadcast,
1:07:23
he was yelling at him. And they're like, no,
1:07:26
we didn't stop the fight. And the ref's like,
1:07:29
nah, he stopped the fight. Like, there's no take
1:07:31
backs in boxing. So. Yeah. But, I will say, Colossal
1:07:40
was getting tagged. Like, Jason was doing pretty
1:07:45
good work. I did not expect it to be that close
1:07:48
a fight. But. Kalaza was taking the punches way
1:07:51
better, hands down. Like, Jason was getting wobbled
1:07:55
and looking hurt, but he was throwing back bombs
1:07:59
and fucking landing them. So, I don't know, it
1:08:03
was a really good competitive fight. And that,
1:08:06
I don't know if that plays a factor or not, but
1:08:11
Vason had been, he fought all the way up at 115
1:08:17
for a few fights. So I wonder if he didn't maybe
1:08:20
have not a great weight cut, and that's why one
1:08:24
of his coaches was more worried about him than
1:08:26
maybe everybody else was. That adds a wrinkle
1:08:32
that I was not aware of. Let me double check,
1:08:37
but I'm pretty sure he fought up at 115 for a
1:08:39
little while. But, I mean, he didn't look super
1:08:42
weight -drained. He looked okay. He was up at
1:08:46
112, not 115. Oh, no, he did have one fight at
1:08:51
115, and then he went back down to 112. And then
1:08:55
he went down to... Yeah, he was up at 115 for
1:09:00
one fight, and then down to 108, and then 112,
1:09:04
and then 108, 108. And then his weights aren't
1:09:07
listed for two fights in Thailand. So, I'm assuming
1:09:12
they were 105 fights, maybe? Maybe. Yeah, I saw
1:09:18
Jason Basin at the fights in Osaka, I think.
1:09:24
When I went. I'm pretty sure that's the event
1:09:26
I was at. And he was fighting at 108. Jason Basin.
1:09:34
Fucking great name. I love it. It is. But just
1:09:39
in general, I wonder if maybe there's some stuff
1:09:41
kind of behind the scenes that we... are unaware
1:09:46
of that makes this not a terrible stoppage and
1:09:50
the fact that the ref was checking on him for
1:09:52
two rounds ahead of time makes me think that
1:09:55
maybe there were some signs in the ring that
1:09:58
didn't come across on the broadcast perhaps because
1:10:02
usually like usually thomas taylor doesn't go
1:10:05
do that especially not at the beginning of fights
1:10:08
and if he is doing it he does it to both corners
1:10:11
he's a good he never he never checked on collazo
1:10:16
He went over and he tried talking to Jason, who
1:10:19
didn't answer him, and then he was talking to
1:10:21
the coach. And a couple times he turned to the
1:10:23
doctor and said, the coroner says he's fine.
1:10:26
So this is watching it back in hindsight. I wouldn't
1:10:30
have probably noticed if I didn't know that it
1:10:33
was a controversial stoppage. But Thomas Taylor
1:10:37
checking on him that much and, like, giving the
1:10:39
doctor a heads up, like, they say he's okay.
1:10:43
Makes me think maybe it's not that bad a corner
1:10:46
stoppage. Well, you're the expert. For me, when
1:10:52
it comes to the smaller weight classes, I defer
1:10:55
to your opinion. It was a really good competitive
1:10:59
fight. That's what I saw. A good competitive
1:11:03
fight. I would also rather have it stop too soon
1:11:07
than too late. Oh, well, with what we've seen
1:11:11
in Japan. and also Ghana. Yeah, and that sixth
1:11:16
and seventh round, Collazo was starting to put
1:11:19
the beating on his ass. He could have gone more
1:11:23
rounds. I'm sure he could have. But I'm also
1:11:27
relatively sure that he was going to lose that
1:11:30
fight. Unless he magically landed something big,
1:11:35
which he could. Like, Vason has power for 105.
1:11:40
But... Kalazo was wearing the punches really
1:11:42
well. I would say it's a fun fight to go watch
1:11:47
for those seven rounds that it existed. There's
1:11:53
a lot of cool little angles and shit. Kalazo
1:11:56
hits some great angles. He's really good at that
1:11:59
duck under quarter step to the corner and then
1:12:04
the body shot underneath. He's really good at
1:12:07
that. And Basin was landing some really solid
1:12:11
power shots like you had mentioned. He was. Yeah,
1:12:15
yeah. And the great thing about the little guys
1:12:20
is they were both throwing combinations and just
1:12:22
punching in between each other. Which is always
1:12:26
fun. Alright. If there's anything else... No.
1:12:35
That's all we got on the docket. There's nothing
1:12:38
upcoming at all? Not for this week. That's crazy.
1:12:45
Yeah. There is minor stuff, but nothing. Okay.
1:12:53
I trust you, Leo. It's not very often that there's
1:12:56
nothing. Yeah, it's a rare thing, but it happens
1:13:00
towards the end of the year. November, December
1:13:04
is starting to look good. Yeah, for sure. And
1:13:07
even mid -October is solid. So it's just right
1:13:16
now. Not a lot coming up. But it's all right
1:13:21
because we've had some good stuff pass by. And
1:13:26
there's going to be news. Always news. Are we
1:13:32
good? I think we're good. Okay, no parting words
1:13:36
this week? Yeah, that's actually exactly what
1:13:39
I was going to get to, was parting words. Parting
1:13:45
words. If we have nothing else, then that's where
1:13:48
we're at. Try a new drink this season. I've been
1:13:53
branching out away from just beers. But even
1:13:58
if you don't drink alcohol, go try a new juice.
1:14:00
There's so many juices out there that I've never
1:14:02
tried. I'm sure some of them are not terrible.
1:14:06
I tried melon milk. Disappointing. I thought
1:14:10
it would be better. Melon milk? Yeah, you know,
1:14:14
like strawberry milk? Yeah, yeah. But it's those
1:14:16
green honeydew melons they have in Japan. I thought
1:14:22
I would really like it. I did not. But I tried
1:14:26
it, and now I know I don't like it. Well, I'm
1:14:29
going to throw out a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1:14:36
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Oh. Super
1:14:43
helpful. I know. Shoot for the moon and you'll
1:14:47
land in the stars? Yeah, basically. That's what
1:14:50
Emerson was going for. It's not bad advice. But
1:14:59
if that's going to do it for this edition, then
1:15:02
that's going to do it for this edition.