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Ryan Garcia dominates Barrios, Shields sweeps, & Opetaia's Zuffa debut · Boxing B-Sides

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  The one and only Saul. Welcome. Welcome back,
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  guys. We were not talking anything about you.
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  Oh, my God. Don't even bring it up. Don't even
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  bring it up. Don't even bring it up, man. Come
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  on. And Josh. I'm going to bring it up. Hello.
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  Let's start with extending the hand of friendship
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  to our buddies over at Ultimate FN Casuals. This
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  week on March 7th, UFC 326. I should probably
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  have checked if this card was updated, but looking
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  at... In the early prelims, a good fight. Sumu
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  Derji versus Jesus Aguilar. Should be a good
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  time. The main portion of the event, I can't
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  say pay -per -view anymore. Rob Font versus Raul
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  Rosas. That should be a good fight. That kid
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  who was in high school, right? He was, yes. When
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  he started. Yeah. Caio Borralo versus Rainier
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  de Ritter. Rainier de Ritter is one of my personal
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  favorites. He moved from the organization 1FC
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  and he moved to UFC. So, I like him for that.
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  Max Holloway versus Charles Oliveira for the...
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  It's not really a title, but it... I don't know.
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  It physically is one. The BMF title. The Mickey
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  Mouse BMF. Yes, yes. So it's... First, it has...
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  It started off as a gimmick and has since taken
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  on a life of its own and is being treated like
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  some kind of seriousness when it's not. But that
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  is on the line. Max Holloway, Charles Oliveira.
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  I think I would say this is a boxing fan friendly
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  fight. Two heavy strikers. Can they grapple?
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  Yes. Do they often grapple? Not really. So it
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  should be fun. I'll say that much. And looking
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  at the preview block, like, fuck. There's not
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  a whole lot else going on. No, there is not.
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  If you are hard up for fights, this is a good
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  one to check out. All right. Into the boxing
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  news. We're starting off. We're going to keep
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  the disappointments rolling. Mark Magsayo goes
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  to the dark side. He signs with Zufa. Disappointing.
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  I like Mark Magsayo. When we were talking about
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  Brandon Figueroa beating Nick Ball to claim a
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  title at featherweight, I had said Mark Magsayo
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  would be the perfect first defense because they
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  had a fight at featherweight previously that
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  had a questionable result. having that rematch
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  would be perfect for Mark because he gets a title
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  fight. And then Brandon gets to, you know, settle
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  the questions. But instead, we got this. Yep,
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  he's got it. I mean, like, you're making your
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  own life choices. Like, that's his own fault.
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  And then watch him in, like, a year or even a
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  couple months be like, oh, why am I not getting
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  any title fights? and the other belts. Why am
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  I not getting a legitimate title fight? Yeah,
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  that's been the common thread between Zufa guys.
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  And it's been a month of this experiment, so
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  I don't know what you guys expected, honestly.
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  Maybe I'm just silly, though. No. This one...
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  Andy Ruiz also signed. This was like a little
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  bit more on the rumor side, but I did see it
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  in multiple places. Andy Ruiz looking like he's
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  going to Zufa. Right now, your only opposition
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  is fucking F .A. at Jogba and Charles Martin.
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  One thing that I could say for Mark McSayo about
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  this is that. At his weight class, there's more
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  competition. So at the very least, he can say,
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  I'm going to a steady stream of fights, like
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  a regular schedule of fights. I guess. If nothing
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  else, he knows that he has a fight coming up.
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  Andy Ruiz is not quite the same. Their heavyweight
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  stable is two people. He's going to fight F .A.
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  Jagua and maybe Jai Opataya. That's it. Right.
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  Just fodder for Opataya when he moves up. Yeah.
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  See, I don't even mind Andy signing with them
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  because it's kind of cool. We don't actually
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  have to... We know you're not serious. Yeah,
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  you're not in title contention anymore. Yeah,
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  we know you're not serious. It's whatever. Andy
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  will at least make money from there. He could
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  be a Zufa champion, whatever. But... MarkMexayo...
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  MarkMexayo could still be... Could still have
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  been competitive. I think. Yeah. At 126 or 130,
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  yes. But now he has to move up to 135. Where
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  he's gonna be undersized. So... Just like everyone
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  else. They're going to look a little soft. Like
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  a Bo Hachuk looks soft. Callum Walsh looked soft.
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  These alleged weight classes, oh yeah. Yeah,
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  because they're having to move up X amount of
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  pounds. Last Zufa signing, Connor Benn. Signs
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  with Zufa. This one is pretty hilarious. One
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  fight deal. Worth eight figures somewhere. I've
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  heard 10 to $15 million for the one fight. This
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  is pretty hilarious. It's like, what are you
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  doing, man? You've just soured the only promoter
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  who actually wants you. Like your relationship
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  with the only guy who wants you. Yeah. You want
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  you because the relationship with the father
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  said to turn your back on someone that supports
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  you when you were at your lowest. built up their
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  entire career, man. Like, I'm not saying there
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  should be, like, loyalties owed. Exactly. I feel
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  like this is a unique case where, like, this
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  is the only guy who wants him. Like, Matchroom's
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  the only guy who wants him long -term. Like,
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  let's be real. This is going to be a one -off
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  against Callum Walsh, and that's it. I got a
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  theory about this, and I'm not going to lie.
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  It's a weird theory, but it just might be real.
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  What if Dana paid Connor Ben 10 to 15 million?
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  And Eddie Hearns is saying, yeah, yeah, you took
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  my guy, but they're wasting money on someone
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  like Connor Ben just to spy Eddie, right? I'm
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  pretty sure it's just to spy Eddie, by the way.
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  Oh, probably. And I feel like Connor Ben is going
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  to go back to Eddie afterwards. Just to take
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  that money from the Saudis. I feel like he would
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  go back to Eddie, and Eddie's going to take him
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  back with open arms. I mean, that's just a theory.
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  Either way, it's still kind of scummy what he
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  did. Again, I agree with Josh. There should be
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  no loyalty in boxing, but this is a special case
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  where, I mean, this guy supported you when you
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  were at your lowest. No one wanted you. No one
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  wanted to even put you in a fight. And Eddie
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  gave you two of your biggest paydays. I'm going
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  to say, it's not even like he's a name, like
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  a superstar that's worth going through this trouble
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  for. Oh, yeah. They say he's super strong because
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  of you being that those fights are big. Oh, yeah.
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  And her name, good promotion. Like, again, I
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  hate giving Pern his props because, like, he
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  doesn't often deserve them. But with Ben, like,
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  come on. When Ben had, when he, like, pissed
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  hot for overeating eggs or whatever it was. Yes.
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  That's what it was. Pern put on fights in the
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  U .S. like on Sunday mornings so that they would
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  be at UK, like a prime time. If he's made like
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  no money too. He lost money on those fucking
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  events, but he still put them on to have Connor
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  been busy and working. So that, that is one situation
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  to me where like if, if Eddie has not demonstrated
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  that he's willing to take care of you at this
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  point, if you don't feel that way, I don't know
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  what else he can do. Yeah, well, like, I don't
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  know, man. I think even the case is when he started
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  giving, like, Tevin Farmer, like, a million billion.
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  Andre, or Demetrius Andre. Andre and Tevin Farmer
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  were very well taken care of this fight. Probably,
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  like, you know, I wrote an article a while back
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  how, like, okay, I understand that fighters should
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  get paid what they're worth, but they should
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  be getting paid what they're worth, not exorbitantly
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  more. And ruin the market. Like, Eddie totally
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  contributed to that, but I will not fault him
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  as a person for taking care of these guys. You
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  know? Another situation that I think Connor Ben
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  could have looked at was the situation with Bam.
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  Where Bam's contract ended, Zufa tried to court
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  him, and... And Bam, to his credit, I think,
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  he brought it back to Eddie and said, hey, this
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  is what Zufa's offering me. What can you do with
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  this? And Eddie said, I will beat that. I'll
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  do better than that. And Bam, like we had talked
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  about, at that point in the negotiation, still
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  had time to shop with other promoters. And he's
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  still going back to Matchroom. Clearly, Mashroom
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  is fucking taking care of their people. Yeah.
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  So, whatever... Connor, Ben, man, like, if you
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  want to get the bag, get the bag, dude. I'm not...
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  Nobody can fault you for that. I sincerely doubt
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  that Eddie would have gotten you 15 mil for one
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  fight. Oh, fuck no. But... Maybe against, like,
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  Boots? Maybe? Maybe. That's a big maybe. But
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  I suppose one thing that Shanada has said that
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  I kind of like is I hope that these guys go sign
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  big contracts and then leave. So here's Connor
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  Ben taking 15 mil out of the coffers and then
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  leaves. And there's Zufa short 15 mil. If that
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  hastens their demise, then cool. Oh, yeah. Let's
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  see here. Manny Pacquiao Promotions wins Angelo
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  Leo's first defense. They win the purse bid.
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  Rais Alim, the number one contender, will be
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  getting the hometown fight instead of Probox
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  winning Angelo Leo's defense. And they would
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  have put it on in Albuquerque for... Angelo to
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  have a hometown fight. But yeah, Manny Pacquiao
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  Promotions is making moves. Something I'm curious
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  about is to this point, all we've really seen
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  out of Manny Pacquiao Promotions is lower level
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  stuff like four rounders, debutants, six rounds.
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  But now they're making bids on world title fights.
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  I'm curious where the... The money's coming from?
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  Yeah, where's that capital coming from? From
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  the Filipino economy? Yeah, Sean Gibbons fucking
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  cashing, putting up the cash. It would make sense
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  if the... For the cards that MP has put on before...
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  that have been in the philippines like i was
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  saying with like the debutantes and stuff it
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  would make sense for like the for the philippine
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  government to kind of have a hand in that and
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  say like oh yeah put on a card for us but this
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  one is like what where is this coming from um
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  moving on callum smith versus david morel is
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  official April 18th in Liverpool. That's going
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  to be a great fight. Yes. That's going to be
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  a fun one. I don't think Smith has gotten in
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  for a second to beat Morrell, but it's going
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  to be fun. Maybe not beat him, but to survive
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  in there with him and trade? Oh, Lord. He's going
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  to go to war. That would be a mistake. They're
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  going to go to war. Smith demonstrably cannot
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  box on his back foot. And Smith would absolutely
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  go to war. Yeah, you're right. I gotta say that
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  Smith's probably one of, if not the most exciting
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  British fighter out there right now. Obviously,
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  he's not the best fighter, but man, he will put
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  up a fight. You know? I think that once he fights
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  Morel, Morel doesn't back down either as much
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  as other fighters, but if Smith keeps pushing,
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  if Smith pushes the initiative to you know, maybe
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  put a hurtin' on Morel, he might knock him out.
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  I know that sounds crazy to say. I know that
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  sounds crazy to say. But Morel got knocked down
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  his last fight. And the fight with Benavidez,
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  he got outworked. Katayev doesn't count, dude.
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  I get it. I get it. The living P .E .D. Katayev?
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  Yeah, I was gonna say, like, he is Balko, bro.
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  Like, that doesn't count. But the thing is...
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  He didn't lose that. He didn't get close to losing
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  that fight because the guy was on PEDs. Not just
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  because of that. He lost because he was not fighting
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  the right fight. He was kind of goofing off.
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  Exactly. He was goofing off. Goofing off in that
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  fight. He kind of goofed off in the Benavidez
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  fight just a little bit. I mean, I think against
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  Smith, Smith is, whether you guys like it or
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  not, a top 10 guy at 175. You're right. You're
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  right. So if he puts Beltas to Morel, he might
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  just fucking win. You think he's got to, like,
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  exert the pressure and keep Morel on his back
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  foot? I genuinely think he's going to put Morel
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  on the back foot. Morel's going to be dancing
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  on the back foot, and he should be fighting on
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  the back foot anyways. But knowing Morel in the
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  past couple fights, he's been the one to push
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  the fight. He was usually the pressure guy. That
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  was, like, his big deal. That's what made him
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  so fun to watch. Well, he was a pressure guy,
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  but it was a different type of pressure. It wasn't
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  so much like a Pitbull -Cruz pressure or even
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  a David Benavidez pressure. It was more like
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  a pick -your -shots type of pressure. At least
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  that's how I see it. Not so much like a relentless
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  barrage of punches. But even in other fights,
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  he's been on the back foot. And I think he should
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  be against Cal Smith. Because the only guy who's
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  been able to knock Cal Smith out was Betterbeef.
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  Canelo fought Cal Smith, couldn't knock him out.
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  Who else fought? It was Cal Smith lost to Canelo,
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  Betterbeef. And John Ryder. And John Ryder. He
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  watched the fight. He didn't lose to him. He
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  didn't, not on paper. And honestly, with Kyle
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  Smith and Bwatsi, as much as we don't see Bwatsi
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  as how we saw him before, Bwatsi still put up
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  a great fight against Kyle Smith. Couldn't knock
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  him out. He had him close, but I don't know.
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  Who'd say that Kyle Smith can't out -pressure
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  David Murrell? I mean, the British have had a
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  good year so far. I can't not expect an upset
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  like that. Now, this would be... I was thinking
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  that this is the point where the UFC guy, Paddy
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  Pimblitt, he's another Liverpool fighter, combat
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  sports guy. And he says, scousers don't get knocked
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  out. But then we saw what happened to fucking
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  Nick Ball. Has the Liverpool chin been cracked?
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  Is David Morel going to fucking... If he can
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  be a little extra spicy. That'd be crazy. Like,
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  I'd be off my seat watching Morel ice a guy just
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  clean. I mean, Morel, I'll be honest, dude. Morel
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  hasn't knocked out an elite. Not elite, but he
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  hasn't really put a lot of a hurt on a top 10
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  guy. On a top 10 guy? No. No, not particularly.
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  I think Smith is just very hittable. Tail end
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  of his career, too. If we really, really want
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  to downplay Morrell, we can say that at worst,
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  he's a bigger, stronger, better John Ryder. I'm
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  not going to go that far and say that he's a
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  bigger, stronger John Ryder. I just think that...
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  If we're downplaying... Morel to the, like, extreme.
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  I'm not trying to downplay Morel. I'm just saying
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  that from what I've seen, he hasn't been put
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  against... I'm not saying he's not an elite fighter.
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  He's a pretty great fighter for what I've seen
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  so far. But also from what I've seen, he got
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  put on his behind by fucking Kataev. Benavidez
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  put a hurtin' on him. And Hot Rod, you know?
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  I mean, say what you want, but Hot Rod... Hard
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  work. Yeah, give him hard work. That's Hot Rod.
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  God bless Hot Rod for the record. Yeah, Hot Rod
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  put a hurt on Gavazdic. I mean, come on. He's
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  a decent guy. He's a great guy from what I've
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  seen, but he's also kind of untested at, not
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  the elite level, but like at the contender level,
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  if you want to say that, you know? At the contender
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  level, he's at very, very mixed. He's a very
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  mixed bag. Hot take of the week. Moreau wins,
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  then that puts him back in contention for a title.
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  But if he doesn't win, or if he looks bad, I
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  think that people are going to start calling
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  him a fraud. As if they aren't already calling
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  him a fraud. My only thing is that Callum Smith,
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  to this point, his mileage is more than... like
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  it's higher than the his number of fights would
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  indicate and the the british style of fighting
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  um the like the stereo i think callum smith does
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  sort of fit the bill of the stereotypical brit
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  um yeah somewhat he he goes to war and i don't
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  think going to war with David Morrell at this
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  stage of your career is a really good idea. That's,
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  that's really it for me is that Callum Smith,
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  like if this was five plus years ago, like, fuck
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  yeah, this is an amazing fight. But right now,
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  Callum Smith, I think he's on his like farewell
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  tour and David Morrell is going to be the one
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  to cash the biggest amount out of it. So let
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  me ask you guys. If Calvin Smith wins, he gets
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  the WBO Mando, right? He becomes the interim.
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  I know that's for a trinket. He becomes the interim
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  champion, okay? At that point, he's kind of on
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  the way back up if he beats David Murrell. If
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  he beats David Murrell, that shows that he still
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  has a lot of life left in him. And honestly,
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  if he beats David Murrell, I mean... What you
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  said is a great point because at the same time,
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  he's an exciting fighter, but he's not like David
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  Benavidez level. If he beats David Morel, what
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  do you guys think about – how do you think that
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  would alter the look on David Benavidez's career?
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  Because Benavidez's best fight was with Morel.
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  Well, he's about to fight Zerdo, so we're going
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  to see then. Yeah, we'll see then. I understand.
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  Yeah, like Zerdo I feel like is a better picture
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  of where he's at right now. And I hope he wins,
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  but that's another story for another day. Actually,
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  that's the story for today, actually. Yeah, it's
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  the story for right now. Fucking segue into Benevita
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  Zerto. Fuck it. Last, just last picks. Callum
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  Smith versus David Morrell. Who are you taking?
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  Like, your money's on the table. Who are you
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  taking? Oh, I got Morrell. I got Morrell, too.
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  I would say Morrell, but honestly... I might
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  just, it might be a toss -up for me. I mean,
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  that sounds crazy, but I feel like Calvin Smith
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  does have a chance to put Belta as to Morel.
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  I'm still going to choose Morel, but I really
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  don't have as much faith as I did in Morel compared
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  to what I did when he was first coming up before
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  the Hot Rod fight, even before the David Benavidez
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  fight. Even before Katia, I still had a lot of
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  trust, I had a lot of faith in him. Now, he does
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  have a new trainer, I believe, right? In Ismael
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  Salas? Yeah, so we'll see how that is. I was
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  thinking Barroso, but... I know. I was about
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  to say that. I was thinking Barroso for a second.
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  No, but, I mean, we'll see how he is with that
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  new trainer, so we'll never know until we see
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  him fight in the ring again. So I got David Morrell,
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  too, but I'm not opposed to a Smith win as well.
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  Also, considering it's a matchroom card as well...
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  You would hedge your bet and... Put a little
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  small amount on Callum Smith. Exactly, yeah.
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  It's a match from cards. So if it goes to the
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  cards, then who knows what kind of fucker. It
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  might be stinky. Yeah. Yeah, it could be smelly.
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  Just like Rick. Last question on this fight.
• 25:02
  Robbie, who you know from Discord, he lives in
• 25:07
  Liverpool. The question has come up. Should he
• 25:12
  go to Fabio Wardley versus Daniel Dubois? Or
• 25:17
  should he go to Callum Smith versus David Moreau?
• 25:19
  Well, Fabio Wardley, Daniel Dubois is going to
• 25:21
  be gangbusters. Is that even a question? Yeah.
• 25:24
  Is it? That one's straight up going to be gangbusters.
• 25:28
  Those two guys have no defense. Two, I don't
• 25:32
  know if I sound crazy, but two prime heavyweight
• 25:35
  knockout punchers. With no defense. They got
• 25:39
  no defense and they're all hard. Can I say something?
• 25:42
  This might sound controversial, but I genuinely
• 25:45
  feel like this might be a George Foreman, Ron
• 25:47
  Lyle type fight. Oh, yeah. It's going to be gangbusters.
• 25:50
  It's going to be so fucking fun. Assuming Dubois
• 25:53
  doesn't, like, fold at the adversity, which I
• 25:57
  really don't think he will, it's going to be
• 25:59
  fabulous. I don't think so. I think Dubois has
• 26:01
  found his heart. He's fucking built for the big
• 26:05
  show now. I would love to see him again, you
• 26:09
  know? He lost to Usyk, who is a generational
• 26:11
  talent. That is no shame. No shame whatsoever.
• 26:15
  The one thing for... The one thing was about
• 26:22
  Callum Smith, David Morrell, is when will a guy
• 26:28
  like David Morrell be in your hometown again?
• 26:33
  That's true. But when are you ever going to experience
• 26:36
  Fabio Wardley versus... Heavyweight title fight,
• 26:40
  baby. Like, damn, dude. No, but like, it's not
• 26:43
  just like a heavyweight title fight, like a standard
• 26:46
  defense or like, like this fight is genuinely
• 26:49
  like, I've like, I've never seen such a fight
• 26:53
  like gangbusters in my life. The battle for Britain.
• 26:56
  Like, like it's so obviously like, like again,
• 27:01
  like it's going to be all heart, all power. Like,
• 27:06
  oh my god. Not going to the cards. No, not in
• 27:10
  the slightest. And if it does, it's like the
• 27:14
  easiest fight of the year ever if it somehow
• 27:17
  goes to the cards. Alright, so moving on to Benavidez
• 27:22
  vs. Zerto at Cruiserweight. Interesting choice
• 27:27
  for Benavidez. Part of me thinks... He doesn't
• 27:33
  want to have to cut for a fight right now. It's...
• 27:39
  Zerto's easy enough. Right. Yeah, Zerto's an
• 27:42
  easy enough win. Or, not win, necessarily, but...
• 27:46
  It's an easy enough fight to take at a higher
• 27:49
  weight class without being worried about adjusting
• 27:53
  to the power or anything. I honestly don't...
• 28:01
  I think that Zerto, or not Zerto, Benavidez will
• 28:06
  adjust fine to Cruiser, and he's going to be
• 28:12
  too much for Zerto the whole time. I don't see
• 28:17
  this going well for Ramirez at all. I have a
• 28:25
  bit of an interesting opinion about this fight
• 28:27
  as well, honestly. Fire away. I'm going to say
• 28:31
  this first and foremost. I think Dave Benavidez
• 28:33
  is going to beat Zerto. 100%. No doubt about
• 28:36
  it. However, I do believe that this has the potential
• 28:41
  to be a disaster for David as well. Absolutely.
• 28:47
  In the sense that... Oh, yeah. Everything can
• 28:49
  go sideways so fast. 100%. If the size catches
• 28:53
  up to Benavidez. 100 % because... Zerto, I'm
• 28:58
  going to say this. You looked at both men. Did
• 28:59
  you guys see that press conference? You guys
• 29:03
  saw that, right? Zerto with the bloody shorts?
• 29:06
  Or no, Benavidez with the bloody shorts. Yeah,
• 29:09
  and then Zerto, the initial fight press conference,
• 29:13
  and they did the face -off. Dude, Zerto is a
• 29:16
  fucking heavyweight. He is huge. And I know that...
• 29:21
  He's fat as fuck, though. It's not like he's
• 29:24
  in super shape. No, like, Ben, let's be real.
• 29:29
  B -Ball, like, you saw the B -Ball fight. Like,
• 29:32
  oh my god. Zerto's huge, but like, he's not...
• 29:37
  He's not in a position to punch back when he
• 29:41
  gets hit. Just because he's not that athletic.
• 29:45
  Fast hands are going to be a problem for Fatboy.
• 29:48
  Yeah, like, fast hands are generally... Because,
• 29:50
  like, even... You don't need, like, that much
• 29:54
  movement to route Zerdo, to be honest. You just
• 29:57
  need to hit him quick enough because he can't
• 30:00
  return fire. And I agree with you. The thing
• 30:03
  is that if Benavidez... If his speed doesn't
• 30:07
  carry up to Cruiserweight, if his power doesn't
• 30:10
  carry up to Cruiserweight... I don't think the
• 30:12
  power needs to carry. I think the speed will
• 30:15
  carry, but the power won't. You can break a two
• 30:17
  -by -four over Zerto's head, and it probably
• 30:19
  wouldn't dent him. I was about to say that, too.
• 30:23
  You need Zerto to respect you. Zerto is a durable
• 30:27
  fighter. He may not be fast, he may not be the
• 30:29
  hardest puncher, but he is a durable fighter.
• 30:31
  And if Benavidez punches himself out, that's
• 30:35
  Zerto's opportunity to come back and fucking
• 30:38
  beat the shit out of him. I will say... Bivol
• 30:42
  definitely punches softer than Benavidez and
• 30:45
  still managed to keep him on the end of it. And
• 30:49
  it's not that... Benavidez will probably keep
• 30:54
  his gas a little better since he's not cutting.
• 30:58
  I agree. Cruiserweight is probably his natural
• 31:01
  weight, if we really think about it. I agree.
• 31:05
  No cutting weight, yes. Zerto is having to cut
• 31:11
  down to Kruiser. I'm just raising the concerns
• 31:15
  of what could happen if Benavidez, if his speed
• 31:19
  and his stamina and his power doesn't really
• 31:21
  carry up. And if he kind of not drops the ball,
• 31:25
  but I would say doesn't take it seriously. I
• 31:32
  feel like he's going to take it serious, but
• 31:34
  the off chance he doesn't, he thinks it's going
• 31:35
  to be an easy shot at a title. Or two titles.
• 31:39
  I don't know. It might just be a fucking rough
• 31:43
  night for him. That can go south very quickly.
• 31:46
  I think Dave Venavita's wins are in a pretty
• 31:49
  wide decision. Yeah, pretty handily. Yeah, pretty
• 31:53
  handily, but he needs to be on his shit. He needs
• 31:56
  to be very focused. Very disciplined. One thing
• 32:03
  that... man like you you have me wanting to kind
• 32:08
  of think against who i who i'm backing because
• 32:12
  david benavidez the benavidez boys the whole
• 32:15
  fucking clan they're from my city so like i'm
• 32:18
  there is no you gotta you gotta back them there's
• 32:21
  no no fucking chance in hell that i'm backing
• 32:23
  fucking zerto over benavidez there's no question
• 32:26
  about it but what i do wonder is when Benavides
• 32:31
  moved up from super middle to light heavy, and
• 32:34
  he fought Vostok. His power very clearly did
• 32:38
  not carry in that fight. And now you're talking
• 32:43
  about adding another 25 pounds on top of that.
• 32:48
  It presents some concerns. My saving grace here
• 32:56
  is I physically watched. Zerto get knocked, fucking
• 33:02
  laid on his back by Jesse Hart. This was at a
• 33:06
  lighter weight class, yes, but nonetheless, like,
• 33:11
  if a dude like Jesse Hart's putting you on your
• 33:13
  back, then... Oh, yeah. Like, I'm not saying
• 33:17
  it's going to be, like, an accumulation thing.
• 33:19
  I'm saying, like, Zerto is slow enough for Benavidez
• 33:23
  to be able to find, like, the shot he did with
• 33:25
  Andre as an example. But will Benavidez be fast
• 33:30
  enough to get that shot in the first place? Yeah.
• 33:32
  I think so. I think Benavidez will retain his
• 33:37
  speed while Zerto being super fucking slow. Yeah.
• 33:42
  And, I mean, at the same time, you guys see that
• 33:43
  Zerto got knocked out, put on his fucking back
• 33:47
  by Jesse Hart. Benavidez was also put on his
• 33:50
  ass, too. I mean, again, it was a... It was an
• 33:53
  off -balance flash knockdown with... No, not
• 33:56
  against Morel. Not against Morel. Talk about
• 33:59
  Gabriel. Gabriel, yeah. Is that the one where
• 34:02
  he had the flu? Yeah, but that was a flash knockdown
• 34:03
  off a jab. Like, the Morel one carries more weight.
• 34:07
  Yeah, the Morel one's fine, but... The Gabriel,
• 34:11
  it was a flash knock. He was still upon his butt.
• 34:14
  Either way. Off -balance by a well -timed jab,
• 34:17
  which is something that... I don't think Zerto...
• 34:21
  He can't jump. Zerto is not good at firing back.
• 34:25
  He is good at asserting himself. Like, he fought
• 34:29
  Joe Smith Jr., right? That fight? The main thing
• 34:32
  was he asserted himself over Joe Smith Jr. And
• 34:37
  that's how he got his traffic going. But if you
• 34:40
  see, if you just keep beating him to the punch,
• 34:42
  he has no answer. Yeah, I agree. And we've seen
• 34:48
  it happen. Like, I'm not saying you have to be,
• 34:54
  like, b -ball level. I'm just saying, like, Benavidez
• 34:58
  is pretty damn close, too, so. No, I agree. He's,
• 35:03
  like, fucking elite in his own way. It's a little
• 35:07
  different from Soviet style. One thing about
• 35:11
  Benavidez is that he has fantastic defense. I
• 35:14
  would say very underrated defense. For how much
• 35:17
  his hands move? Yeah, dude. His defense is fucking
• 35:21
  solid. Utilizing a cross guard with a high guard?
• 35:25
  Yeah, fucking amazing. Let's keep rolling here.
• 35:31
  It's a little bit of small news throughout. Rising
• 35:37
  Star Promotions will be hosting Brick City Fight
• 35:40
  Night, broadcasted by ProBox TV. I'm just happy
• 35:46
  to see Pro Box getting more fucking air time.
• 35:50
  And if Rising Star, their leadership is Cornflake
• 35:57
  LaManna, I think his name is. If they let the
• 36:04
  Pro Box matchmakers have a little bit of work
• 36:07
  in here, then this is going to be an excellent
• 36:09
  card. Karen Chukudzian will be fighting Patty
• 36:19
  Donovan for an IBF eliminator at welterweight.
• 36:24
  Holy shit. The world has been waiting. Jesus.
• 36:34
  Carlos Adamas versus Amma Williams has been rescheduled.
• 36:39
  This will be in Orlando on a matchroom card March
• 36:43
  21st. So Ammo gets his title shot. Adamas gets
• 36:51
  to fight. Yeah, he gets to kick the can down
• 36:54
  the road of like, is he a legitimate champion
• 36:57
  or not? Yeah. Let's see here. Last one before
• 37:06
  we get to kind of big news. Troy Isley, the one
• 37:11
  and only. signs a multi -fight deal with Matchroom.
• 37:15
  Dude, if Top Rank's not paying you, they're not
• 37:19
  getting you work, then get after it, buddy. Troy
• 37:23
  Isley is kind of like a Zufa -level dude, to
• 37:28
  be honest. Oh, that's a rough goings. It is a
• 37:33
  rough designation. And I genuinely like Troy
• 37:38
  Isley. I really do. I really, really do. I like
• 37:41
  him more than most people, even though he exists.
• 37:46
  But, last thing. Teofimo is officially moving
• 37:53
  up to Welterweight. I brought this one up because
• 37:58
  of the card we're going to be recapping in a
• 38:00
  moment. My first gut reaction is that Teofimo
• 38:07
  is undersized. Oh yeah, his power did not carry
• 38:11
  to 140 at all. Exactly. That's exactly what I
• 38:14
  was going to say. Moving up to 140, he already
• 38:18
  had troubles there. And now he's expecting to
• 38:21
  solve his problems moving up a little bit higher.
• 38:24
  My man, the problem is in your fucking corner.
• 38:28
  I don't know how else to say it. Your father
• 38:34
  is the fucking problem. That's all I got. Joey
• 38:43
  Gamache gets vindicated every damn day that Teofimo
• 38:49
  walks this planet. Unbelievable. I think we've
• 38:58
  litigated the Teofimo Sr. slander enough at this
• 39:04
  point oh yeah like i've said the name joey gamache
• 39:06
  too many times you're right like who i don't
• 39:10
  i don't know i don't know what more signs you
• 39:12
  need that that just hit him bro just hit him
• 39:16
  bro that's the man what the fuck happened to
• 39:18
  your power you're gonna hate yourself in the
• 39:21
  morning bro it's like bro like straight up there
• 39:25
  are discord users who would do a better job Yeah.
• 39:29
  Honestly, Josh, I would trust you and Teofimo's
• 39:32
  Corner more than fucking... You know what? Hit
• 39:36
  me up. Hit us up. Hit us up. I'll fly out to...
• 39:41
  Teo, I know you're listening. We got new coaches
• 39:45
  lined up for you, buddy. Yeah. I'll bring...
• 39:48
  I got Isaac D's on nutrition. I'll bring the
• 39:56
  liquor. I'll bring the liquor. You're in good
• 40:00
  hands, man. At the very least, you won't be embarrassing
• 40:03
  yourself against Steve Claggett. Or Sandro Martin.
• 40:08
  Or taking like a million years to knock out Ocampo.
• 40:13
  And Jermaine Ortiz. Yeah, we're gonna... We're
• 40:18
  gonna sort your career out, buddy. We got this.
• 40:21
  We're gonna put you on the Anthony Kakash. career
• 40:25
  management path, you're only fighting Brits until
• 40:27
  the end of your days. That's the career rehab
• 40:31
  is we're going to have you fighting Brits. You're
• 40:33
  going to be Anthony Kakachi. You're changing
• 40:35
  your name to Knockout Lux Media. We got you.
• 40:45
  Alright, that's all we got for the news though.
• 40:48
  Any fucking say Old military phrase. Save rounds.
• 40:55
  Any last -minute things that came up that I didn't?
• 40:58
  Did we talk about Inoue Nakatani being signed?
• 41:03
  Because last week we talked about Floyd. We briefly
• 41:08
  mentioned it, but we haven't talked about it
• 41:12
  at length. Yeah, so... It's just in. How literally
• 41:16
  is this just in? Naoya Inoue versus Junto Nakatani
• 41:20
  is... is legit fucking official for may 2nd at
• 41:26
  the tokyo dome i met i know i mentioned it earlier
• 41:29
  today um or last time i don't um whatever we're
• 41:33
  talking about it now yeah this has we're gonna
• 41:37
  talk about it a lot this yeah dude um i what
• 41:41
  i'm excited about is what what they're gonna
• 41:46
  do I know this is super degenerate shit, but
• 41:50
  I'm really interested in what they're going to
• 41:51
  do with the undercard here. Because they have
• 41:54
  a guaranteed viewership worldwide here. Oh yeah,
• 42:00
  this is a super fight. So what are they going
• 42:02
  to do? Who are you going to put on? Are they
• 42:04
  going to put on fucking Reito Tsutsumi? Or who
• 42:07
  is that other fucking club? Don't say that name.
• 42:10
  Hayato? I feel like they're going to put on...
• 42:11
  Anyways, brother. Don't say that fucking name.
• 42:13
  For sure. Takuma. Takuma makes sense. They might
• 42:19
  put on Hayato. The Tsutsumi pros are... I don't
• 42:26
  know. Hirooka could bounce back on that. Jin
• 42:31
  Sasaki, if he's not fighting already, can definitely
• 42:35
  make for a fun undercard scrap. Uh, fuck. We
• 42:41
  literally just talked about him last week. Why
• 42:43
  is his name eluding me? Nishida? Uh, Nishida.
• 42:48
  Ryusuke Nishida. Ryusuke Nishida. Yeah, it's
• 42:50
  a perfect gap. He fought February, fighting in
• 42:52
  May. Yeah, that's not a bad shout. Not a bad
• 42:57
  shout. I gotta say, it's an honor to talk about
• 43:00
  this before Shinata's able to talk about it on
• 43:03
  the podcast. You're real as fuck. You're real
• 43:07
  as fuck. Let's fucking go. We're the first to
• 43:11
  announce it. I'm the first boxing podcast to
• 43:15
  announce it, honestly. Might be first on the
• 43:17
  boat here. We're the best boxing podcast to announce
• 43:20
  it, and that's what matters. And it's not even
• 43:22
  close. Would you put... He is... Even though,
• 43:28
  as Shonan would say, and I would agree, he's
• 43:32
  like a fucking douchebag, but Tenshin Asakawa
• 43:34
  is a fucking pay -per -view star. You got to
• 43:37
  put all the names you can on this undercard.
• 43:40
  This is your Super Bowl. I got to say about the
• 43:46
  Super Bowl, honestly, I feel like they should
• 43:47
  put a lot of prospects on here, too. A lot of
• 43:50
  up -and -coming. You can stack prelims, too.
• 43:54
  You're right. This is the Mayweather and Pacquiao
• 44:00
  fight of the Asian territories. Mainly Japan,
• 44:05
  but obviously over there, I feel like a lot of
• 44:07
  the regions over there are going to watch it.
• 44:09
  And I generally think that if you do what they
• 44:13
  did with Mayweather Pacquiao, you can make a
• 44:17
  lot of stars in the Japanese scene. Well, what
• 44:21
  they did with Mayweather Pacquiao was they had
• 44:24
  fucking Lomachenko fight a nobody, and then they
• 44:28
  had Leo Santa Cruz fight a nobody. Just to make
• 44:34
  sure that the guy that they want to highlight
• 44:36
  gets a win. You know what I mean? It would, because
• 44:40
  honestly, those are the fights that I remember,
• 44:43
  some of the fights I remember most from their
• 44:44
  career. Or on the card. If that's the case, then
• 44:50
  I would imagine they would, I bet, I would bet
• 44:55
  a lot that they have Takuma in a way on this
• 44:59
  as well. Oh yeah, 100%. You gotta have the brother
• 45:03
  on there. I told my pops and I told my girlfriend,
• 45:06
  I said, hey, we're gonna be watching this fight
• 45:08
  at 3 in the fucking morning. Yeah. We're gonna
• 45:12
  be watching it. I'm getting, I think everybody
• 45:17
  in the boxing pod, like in the boxing discord
• 45:19
  should get up for this. This is a Super Bowl.
• 45:21
  This is an at everyone level fight. This is literally
• 45:26
  like for casuals. This is on the level of Dave
• 45:35
  Allen. Who's going to be streaming the fight?
• 45:37
  It's not talking. It's StreamEast. Sorry, sorry.
• 45:44
  Maybe I'm not allowed to say that. That was a
• 45:46
  joke. I think it said the StreamBeast of Netflix,
• 45:52
  right? I'm certain that somebody will oblige.
• 45:58
  The thing is that there's no way it's not on...
• 46:02
  It's not going to be a Saudi car, right? Someone
• 46:05
  has to pick it up, yeah. There's no way this
• 46:08
  is not a Saudi car, or there's no way this is
• 46:09
  a Saudi car, right? I don't think so. I haven't
• 46:13
  seen anything indicating that it's aligned with
• 46:17
  the ring yet. It's crazy because it's on a Saturday
• 46:23
  morning, not a Sunday morning. It's Saturday
• 46:26
  night for them. Saturday night. I thought they
• 46:32
  said it was on May 2nd. May 2nd is Saturday,
• 46:35
  right? It's Saturday night for them. For us,
• 46:39
  it's like Saturday morning. Yeah, early as shit.
• 46:42
  I think I'm just going to pull an all -nighter,
• 46:45
  honestly. Because don't they usually have their
• 46:49
  fights on Monday? They usually have theirs on
• 46:53
  Mondays, like bank holidays, whatever they're
• 46:57
  called. But yeah, Mondays that they have off,
• 47:01
  they usually put them on then. Well, I'm excited
• 47:04
  for that day because I got to wake up early,
• 47:06
  watch Inoue Nakatani, sleep on it, and then go
• 47:09
  watch fucking Benavida Zero. I love that shit.
• 47:14
  I love this sport. 2026 is looking to be fucking
• 47:16
  amazing, dude. First half is fucking awesome.
• 47:23
  Has been so far. Yeah. All right. Anything more
• 47:28
  for the news? One more thing. Have we ever talked
• 47:32
  about Jizora and Beyonce Wilder? Oh, Jesus, man.
• 47:34
  You went from Nakatane to Jizora Wilder. Yeah,
• 47:40
  one's a super fighter and one's a Japanese box.
• 47:47
  What I can really say about... Chizora Wilder
• 47:53
  Wilder Chizora, fucking excuse me. That's how
• 47:55
  the hashtag is going to go. You will find me
• 48:02
  dead before I'm going to cheer for a goddamn
• 48:05
  Brit over red, white, and blue missile fucking
• 48:10
  system Deontay Wilder. That's true. This is a
• 48:15
  battle of the boxing laundry three. Is he really
• 48:19
  going to win? Fucking probably not. Chizora has
• 48:23
  more experience being washed at this point. Wilder's
• 48:30
  still kind of trying to do the same thing, and
• 48:34
  it's just not working anymore. But goddammit,
• 48:38
  I'm riding to the fucking depths. I'm riding
• 48:43
  with Wilder. Guaranteed, if Wilder beats Chizora,
• 48:48
  he gets an AJ fight. Oh, please. At this point,
• 48:54
  it just has to happen at this point. AJ fight
• 48:58
  or even fucking Usyk. The Chizora train going
• 49:05
  on forever is also really funny. Okay, now have
• 49:10
  we hit all the news? I believe so. Okay. Well,
• 49:15
  it's okay that we went a little extra because
• 49:17
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  first. Thursday, February 19th. Ohashi Promotions
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  at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. This was quite a step
• 52:06
  down from his previous outing. Jin Sasaki gets
• 52:10
  a stoppage in two over Marlon Bagalpalan. Practice
• 52:18
  that one. Jin was very clearly behind a step.
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  Was shelled up for the majority of the time.
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  Getting hit a lot to the body. Getting hit a
• 52:33
  lot around the guard. And then he lands a fucking
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  counter. And puts Marlon on his ass. So he was
• 52:43
  losing until he won. Expected better out of Sasaki
• 52:51
  for some reason. Let's see. Saturday, February
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  21st. First, we start with Matchroom at the Nottingham
• 53:03
  Arena in the UK. From the bottom up, Leo Atang
• 53:09
  gets a stoppage in one. Congrats. You get to
• 53:12
  keep your name. David Allen stops Kareem Barragan.
• 53:19
  The GOAT. The GOAT. David GOAT Allen. Fucking
• 53:26
  romped him. The shit was not even competitive.
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  I expected it to go like six rounds just because
• 53:35
  I saw Dave Allen was weighing in at a career
• 53:37
  high. Yeah, he was like almost 280. Yeah, technically
• 53:43
  the one fight against, he was 271 for this fight.
• 53:50
  He's only weighed 272 once. That was when Eddie
• 53:57
  Hearn called him a fat piece of shit on the broadcast.
• 54:02
  Jesus Christ. And I spent all that time defending
• 54:07
  Eddie Hearn a little bit ago. Eddie Hearn is
• 54:11
  not ready. He's got to start showing up in shape.
• 54:16
  Stop gambling. Didn't bring up the piss jugs,
• 54:20
  thankfully. But we love Dave Allen, and hopefully
• 54:25
  he gets, I don't know, a trilogy with Johnny
• 54:28
  Fisher, I guess. I feel like that's kind of the
• 54:33
  appeal of Dave Allen, though. He's just a, you
• 54:35
  know, a fat, bad dude. He's an everyman. He's
• 54:39
  just an average dude. Yeah. I mean, I remember
• 54:43
  when Eddie Hearn was talking about him versus
• 54:46
  Makhmudov, he was saying, you know, he's probably
• 54:48
  not going to win, but I got to respect him for
• 54:50
  wanting to take that fight. You know what? I
• 54:53
  agree with you, Eddie Hearn. Fuck it. I'm watching
• 54:56
  this shit. Here's your boxing junk food of the
• 55:01
  day. We'll never not recommend it. Dave Allen,
• 55:04
  Ariel Esteban, Bracamonte. Just two fat dudes
• 55:08
  going balls to the wall for seven rounds. We
• 55:14
  love Dave Allen here. We love Dave Allen. He
• 55:18
  is worth an at everyone on the Discord. Moving
• 55:26
  up, Molly McCann, Meatball Molly, gets a scoring
• 55:31
  referee points decision. Sandy Ryan wins the
• 55:40
  vacant WBC super lightweight title by majority
• 55:44
  decision. This was a lot more fun than it should
• 55:50
  have been or than I expected it to be. Bilal
• 55:53
  Fawaz. Majority decision over Ishmael Davis to
• 55:57
  secure the, what was it? Like the Brit and Commonwealth
• 56:01
  titles. Bilal had a wild backstory. Like he was
• 56:09
  smuggled into the UK as a kid. And it was crazy.
• 56:17
  But overall, it was. I don't know, maybe it wasn't
• 56:24
  that good of a fight, but Fawaz was doing a lot
• 56:28
  of posing and taunting. Here is a fight where
• 56:36
  I felt a little bit of shame for being a boxing
• 56:40
  degenerate. Lee Wood, unanimous decision over
• 56:45
  Josh Warrington. Pretty one -sided affair. I'm
• 56:51
  whatever gets Joshua Warrington Josh Warrington
• 56:55
  get whatever gets him the fuck out of like my
• 56:58
  social media feed even tangentially whatever
• 57:03
  gets him the fuck away from me yes but Lee Wood
• 57:08
  did not look very good in this yeah there was
• 57:14
  proper shame in discord like you guys are still
• 57:17
  watching this oh yeah i tuned i tuned out after
• 57:21
  like the seventh or eighth round where i was
• 57:23
  like there is no way like there's no way anything
• 57:27
  happens other than like what's been going on
• 57:29
  the last couple i half tuned out i admit i was
• 57:35
  still paying attention um but i just was like
• 57:38
  i'm gonna update the podcast stuff oh yeah you
• 57:44
  guys just fight in the background Yeah, that
• 57:49
  was not the best fight. Moving on. Average Brit
• 57:57
  scrap. I think they were saying in chat... Warrington
• 58:01
  was just so washed. Leawood was not much better.
• 58:06
  No, but, like, the thing is that it could have
• 58:09
  been fun if Warrington was not completely ruined.
• 58:19
  Somebody said that Lynn had tuned out about halfway
• 58:24
  through. Sure. Yeah, that's crazy. That's a good
• 58:30
  litmus test. Let's move on to the ring high stakes
• 58:38
  in Las Vegas, Nevada from the bottom up. I don't
• 58:44
  have these necessarily in order, but these are
• 58:47
  all the fucking prelims. Mohamed Alakel gets
• 58:51
  a stoppage in two over who cares. Here was a
• 58:57
  lot of fun. Joshua Edwards. Unanimous decision
• 59:01
  over Brandon Colantonio. We were having a lot
• 59:05
  of fun in chat with this one. Colantonio was
• 59:09
  giving Edwards a lot of trouble. His mobility.
• 59:13
  He was very clearly in shape, even though he
• 59:16
  didn't look like it. And his mobility was giving
• 59:20
  Edwards quite a bit of trouble. Even though the
• 59:25
  cards had it a sweep, I feel this was an indictment
• 59:29
  on Joshua Edwards and where he is compared to
• 59:35
  the hype anyway. Do you think that this is...
• 59:42
  Kind of a fraud watch for Joshua Edwards? Or
• 59:44
  is it just like, hey, maybe just a hiccup? Yeah,
• 59:49
  we'll have to see how Edwards carries on from
• 59:54
  here. Cole Antonio, I know, won a lot of hearts.
• 59:58
  Just looking like an average Joe and really putting
• 1:00:03
  in a good fight against a blue chip prospect.
• 1:00:11
  Yeah, we'll see how Edwards carries on. Amari
• 1:00:17
  Jones stops Luis Arias in four. Not really surprised
• 1:00:24
  here. Yeah, Luis Arias is... Super washed. Yeah,
• 1:00:31
  like, washed. Never all that to begin with, but
• 1:00:37
  definitely just washed right now. You know what?
• 1:00:41
  Given that he was never all that good to begin
• 1:00:45
  with, he comes into this a level below Washed.
• 1:00:50
  He's coming into this as a trapo. Oh, yeah. Who
• 1:00:57
  just has the slightest amount of name recognition,
• 1:01:02
  and thus we pair him with our blue chip prospect,
• 1:01:09
  Amari Jones. Dude, he'd fucking handled business
• 1:01:13
  the way that you would expect. Edwards, take
• 1:01:17
  notes. Moving up, Bektimir Melikuziev stops Sina
• 1:01:23
  Agbeko in seven. This is a snoozer. Jesus Christ.
• 1:01:31
  This is a rough watch. Like, he just kind of
• 1:01:33
  dawdled his way to a knockout. Like, they would...
• 1:01:39
  They would be, like, lunging at each other, throwing
• 1:01:41
  one or two punches, and then they'd clash, and
• 1:01:46
  then they'd get pulled apart, and then repeat
• 1:01:48
  the process over and over. And it just so happened
• 1:01:51
  that Beck was landing more than Cena. That's
• 1:01:57
  really it. Mm -hmm. Leaves a bit to be desired
• 1:02:03
  what... I wanted to think this would be the chance
• 1:02:08
  for Beck the Bully to get back to his bullying
• 1:02:11
  ways. Who were we talking about last time? Were
• 1:02:18
  we talking about somebody that had a 168er? We
• 1:02:23
  were talking about Munguia. Munguia. So, yeah.
• 1:02:28
  What I was hoping for here was for Beck to...
• 1:02:34
  reassert himself into the conversation of the
• 1:02:39
  top tier guys. Like with Diego Pacheco, his team
• 1:02:46
  pulled him out of a title fight saying that he's
• 1:02:48
  not ready. Jaime Munguia, his team pulled him
• 1:02:52
  out of a title fight for reasons we don't know.
• 1:02:57
  This is like the perfect chance for someone like
• 1:03:00
  Beck to have gotten back into the conversation.
• 1:03:04
  But instead we get this. Cut on his face. What
• 1:03:12
  a disgrace. Yeah. Oh, shit. This is the first
• 1:03:20
  time I've ever seen one happen. Frank Martin
• 1:03:24
  gets a unanimous draw with Nahir Albright. This
• 1:03:30
  is... I had never had to write... on our doc
• 1:03:35
  that we work from, I usually just write UD for
• 1:03:40
  unanimous decision. I've never had to write unanimous
• 1:03:44
  draw before. Frank Martin, for what he is touted
• 1:03:53
  to be, and I guess based on the hype, he definitely
• 1:04:00
  did not deliver. I would honestly argue that
• 1:04:05
  Nahir Albright got the win there. He did enough
• 1:04:09
  to get the win. Martin threw that away, though.
• 1:04:12
  Do you think that it was more Martin throwing
• 1:04:14
  it away than... Like, Albright definitely did
• 1:04:18
  a good job exploiting the gaps that Martin left.
• 1:04:23
  But... Oh, my God. Martin left some clear holes
• 1:04:28
  in there and then didn't... really assert himself
• 1:04:31
  all that well in the early going, and then obviously
• 1:04:35
  he unraveled late. I do think Albright wins a
• 1:04:42
  rematch, though, just because of how traffic
• 1:04:45
  was going. So something that I noticed in patterns
• 1:04:54
  I've noticed, just one example was Deontay Wilder
• 1:04:57
  throughout the Fury fights. Whenever he was not
• 1:05:03
  getting his way or he was in trouble himself,
• 1:05:06
  he had this tendency to throw this pawing jab
• 1:05:11
  and then trying to land the right hand behind
• 1:05:14
  it. Frank Martin kind of did the same thing where
• 1:05:18
  he tried to throw his jab, tried to throw the
• 1:05:22
  straight left behind it and then pivot out of
• 1:05:26
  the way. For a follow -up right hook. And it
• 1:05:30
  was just not working the whole fucking time.
• 1:05:33
  And he just kept doing it. Really seems like
• 1:05:37
  they just kind of trained one move. And then
• 1:05:39
  left it at that. Maybe they didn't expect Albright
• 1:05:44
  to have the acumen that he did. We ourselves
• 1:05:49
  knew that Albright was going to be a tough challenge,
• 1:05:51
  though. Of course. I mean, we're only, not to
• 1:05:55
  be mean to us, but we're a fucking podcast. These
• 1:05:58
  guys have been doing this shit for their whole
• 1:06:01
  lives. Derek fucking James, that was the game
• 1:06:05
  plan that you came up with? Exactly. I'm not
• 1:06:11
  trying to downplay this, but... You're trying
• 1:06:13
  to tell me that they're no better than us? They
• 1:06:16
  can't see that Naheer Albright is a tough opponent?
• 1:06:20
  He gave Keyshawn Davis solid work. He beat another
• 1:06:26
  Davis brother. How do you think that this is
• 1:06:30
  going to be a gimme fight? Just because he has
• 1:06:32
  name recognition. Did he gimmick his way up here?
• 1:06:37
  Absolutely not. Honestly, I feel like Naheer
• 1:06:41
  Albright... is going to be a very popular name
• 1:06:45
  that up -and -comers are going to fight. I could
• 1:06:50
  see and hear Albright fighting Emiliano Vargas
• 1:06:51
  in the future. Oh, yeah. I was going to say that
• 1:06:55
  I honestly don't think so because he's a fucking
• 1:06:58
  banana peel. No, but the thing is that he is
• 1:07:03
  in his prime right now. Yeah. He is going to
• 1:07:07
  decline. especially like fair enough i don't
• 1:07:10
  think i don't think he's gonna age that well
• 1:07:12
  considering he generally like he gets guys to
• 1:07:16
  unravel late but it's it puts miles on the clock
• 1:07:20
  to have to unravel a guy late every time right
• 1:07:23
  yeah you have to eat a bit of traffic to like
• 1:07:27
  you need you need to eat a bit you need to really
• 1:07:30
  feel him out so like the miles are on the clock
• 1:07:33
  I see what you mean. I'm not saying in one to
• 1:07:39
  two years he's going to be that gatekeeper. I'm
• 1:07:41
  thinking more four to five when he's 34, 35 and
• 1:07:46
  lost the step and the miles catch up to him.
• 1:07:50
  Someone already knocked him out. I understand
• 1:07:53
  what you guys mean. Right now, he's in contention.
• 1:07:56
  He's probably not going to win a belt, but he's
• 1:07:59
  in contention. Then he's going to meet someone
• 1:08:01
  who is... Great, to say the least. And it's going
• 1:08:07
  to be kind of a slip and slide from there. You
• 1:08:09
  know what? I disagree with you. I feel like he
• 1:08:11
  has a chance of getting a belt if he was moved
• 1:08:12
  properly. He would have had a belt already if
• 1:08:17
  he were that guy. Honestly, he's more likely
• 1:08:20
  to get a record deal than he is a title. Let
• 1:08:25
  me tell you this. How do guys like fucking...
• 1:08:28
  Abas Baral, Lewis Crocker, Jazza Dickens, all
• 1:08:32
  these guys that... They spoil the show. They
• 1:08:36
  spoil, but they also work their way up rankings.
• 1:08:40
  Usually the IBF, if you notice. Yeah, it's always
• 1:08:43
  the IBF. It's usually the IBF. They don't fight
• 1:08:47
  names until they get into the position to fight
• 1:08:50
  names. This guy, he had his chance with Jermaine
• 1:08:55
  Ortiz to skip the line. He had a chance with
• 1:08:58
  Keyshawn to skip the line. And his chance with
• 1:09:01
  Frank Martin to skip the line. Sometimes you
• 1:09:03
  just don't. Like you gamble, you lose. That's
• 1:09:06
  what it is. I just think in a weak division,
• 1:09:10
  a weaker division, he probably... Because he
• 1:09:14
  totally would have spoiled the guy. But here,
• 1:09:16
  140 is very strong. 140 is a really good division
• 1:09:20
  right now. Like 140 is really strong. So that's
• 1:09:23
  where, again, you gamble on yourself and sometimes,
• 1:09:26
  well, you lose. That's just what it is. Yeah.
• 1:09:31
  Honestly, I hope he keeps going. Because I kind
• 1:09:37
  of like watching him. Not necessarily him, but
• 1:09:41
  more like to see if a fighter can finally crack
• 1:09:43
  his ass. He is like the... premiere to me he
• 1:09:48
  is the premiere underdog story um he's been thrown
• 1:09:53
  in with higher much higher level names and he's
• 1:09:56
  given them fucking good work he fought to a draw
• 1:09:59
  with what was what was supposed to be pbc's blue
• 1:10:03
  chip guy in frank martin um and fought him to
• 1:10:08
  a draw uh really you can't what can what What
• 1:10:13
  more can you really ask for the B -side guy to
• 1:10:18
  fight the name? The house name? This is probably
• 1:10:24
  as good as it was going to get for him. Speaking
• 1:10:31
  of as good as it's going to get, Richardson Hitchens
• 1:10:39
  withdraws. Against Oscar Duarte. IBF. Super lightweight
• 1:10:47
  title fight. Is pulled from the card. Allegedly.
• 1:10:52
  This was the. Same day. Rehydration weigh in.
• 1:10:58
  Welcome. Welcome back. Lloyd Schofield Jr. And
• 1:11:04
  Richardson. Did not. He was having trouble with
• 1:11:09
  it. The. rumblings that i had read about where
• 1:11:15
  he he went like he was went to his breakfast
• 1:11:20
  or whatever for before the weigh -in and he was
• 1:11:24
  super sick afterwards after eating um but like
• 1:11:30
  you made the weigh -in you made the the actual
• 1:11:33
  weigh -in and then you're getting sick i don't
• 1:11:36
  know man yeah maybe duarte looked a little too
• 1:11:40
  big in person Sounds like a little bit of bull
• 1:11:43
  honky. It's a little weird, I will admit. A lot
• 1:11:48
  of people have been saying that because like
• 1:11:52
  this isn't the first time that somebody's had
• 1:11:54
  a problem with the same day rehydration weigh
• 1:11:58
  in. And because of that, IBF should just scrap
• 1:12:02
  it. I'm inclined to agree. Regardless of this
• 1:12:08
  Richardson -Hitchin situation, Daniel Jacobs
• 1:12:11
  had a problem with it a while ago. The same -day
• 1:12:18
  rehydration weigh -in is still fucking ridiculous.
• 1:12:22
  They have it as flat numbers, where if you're
• 1:12:27
  fighting at 140, you cannot weigh plus 10 pounds.
• 1:12:34
  the next day but if you fight at 154 it's like
• 1:12:37
  plus 12 you know what i'm saying like it's yeah
• 1:12:40
  it should be like it really should be a percentage
• 1:12:42
  yeah it should be a percentage of whatever your
• 1:12:45
  fight weight is and then there you go but overall
• 1:12:50
  uh is what do you what do you guys think is this
• 1:12:54
  is this like duck is this really a duck I genuinely
• 1:12:59
  feel... It's just really funny. Like, all this
• 1:13:02
  for Duarte is really funny. I genuinely feel
• 1:13:07
  it might just be a dunk because same day, he
• 1:13:11
  looked pretty fine the day prior. You know, I
• 1:13:15
  didn't see too much weight cut, like, the weight
• 1:13:21
  drain. Yeah, like, it's just... He might have
• 1:13:23
  been sick. You made the weight, dude. Yeah, he
• 1:13:25
  made the weight. That's what I mean. He literally
• 1:13:27
  made the weight. Yeah, that's the tough part.
• 1:13:30
  And honestly, it's hard to believe that he was,
• 1:13:33
  like, really sick, you know? Now, again, if you
• 1:13:38
  don't feel like you feel competent enough to
• 1:13:41
  get in the ring and risk your life, by all means,
• 1:13:43
  drop out. But we can still have our suspicions.
• 1:13:47
  We can still call you a duck because that does
• 1:13:49
  seem like a duck. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, it's
• 1:13:53
  funny. It's funny. I'm sorry. It's it's you're
• 1:13:57
  exactly right. Like these guys are putting their
• 1:14:01
  lives on the line for our entertainment. It's
• 1:14:05
  like if Richardson, like, bro, if you can't make
• 1:14:09
  the if you can't make the next day rehydration
• 1:14:13
  limit or whatever, then say so. Or if you just
• 1:14:19
  don't want to fight, then say so. If you're having
• 1:14:25
  problems making 140 and that is what led you
• 1:14:29
  to having issues with the rehydration limit,
• 1:14:31
  then say so. And then move up. Move up to 147
• 1:14:37
  so that you don't have these problems anymore.
• 1:14:39
  But, bro, Oscar Duarte is not... This is not
• 1:14:44
  the guy that you need to be like... having a
• 1:14:48
  fuss and pulling out of fights about. He probably
• 1:14:52
  would have won that pretty handily. As much as
• 1:14:57
  I would have liked for Duarte. Yeah, dude. Hitchens
• 1:15:01
  was perfect. Hitchens is actually good. Yes,
• 1:15:05
  as much as I don't like it. Hitchens is solid.
• 1:15:09
  Very solid. Seems like he's going to fight Delgado
• 1:15:13
  next. Oh yeah, his Mando. He has to now, because
• 1:15:18
  this was his voluntary that he fought tooth and
• 1:15:21
  nail to get. So yeah, Lendofo Delgado instead.
• 1:15:29
  They'll probably do that on the next Worst of
• 1:15:30
  the World. It's not a bad one, but out of the
• 1:15:35
  frying pan and into the fire. Well done. Moving
• 1:15:42
  up. The People's Main Event. Gary Antoine Russell,
• 1:15:48
  unanimous decision over Andy Hiraoka, retains
• 1:15:53
  his WBA super lightweight title. I was an Andy
• 1:16:01
  truther insofar as I didn't think he was going
• 1:16:06
  to win. I just thought he was going to give GAR
• 1:16:12
  a lot better of a fight. than most people were
• 1:16:15
  expecting. Other than Russell's nuts, what are
• 1:16:23
  we taking away from this? He sacrificed his nuts
• 1:16:28
  to break the curse. Russell could have made that
• 1:16:32
  easier for himself by listening to the Elder
• 1:16:36
  Gary in his corner. Definitely could have made
• 1:16:45
  that easier. I feel like he was way too trigger
• 1:16:47
  happy. Oh yeah. He definitely could have made
• 1:16:50
  that way easier. But you know what? The win's
• 1:16:53
  a win and it wasn't even uncomfortable. It was
• 1:16:57
  just... It wasn't. Honestly, if they don't make
• 1:17:02
  Albright and Martin next, fighting Albright or
• 1:17:07
  Martin is a good shout. No, I disagree. I honestly
• 1:17:11
  feel like... I think Russell should be in unification
• 1:17:16
  next. What is there at 1 -4? I'm talking about
• 1:17:20
  easy to make fights. What is there? He could
• 1:17:23
  own Dalton Smith. He could fight Hitchens. He
• 1:17:28
  could fight Shakur. I'm going to tell you this.
• 1:17:33
  He does not want to fight Shakur. When they asked
• 1:17:36
  him if he wanted to fight Shakur, he was like,
• 1:17:39
  yeah, I'll fight him last. Why? I gotta earn
• 1:17:44
  my way up the same way that he did. Get the fuck
• 1:17:47
  out of here, bro. Just so you can modify them.
• 1:17:49
  I respected the duck, but you know. Definitely
• 1:17:54
  Dalton Smith. Easiest title snipe. Easiest one.
• 1:18:01
  I was gonna say, unless Dalton Smith uses his
• 1:18:05
  time -slowing powers that we saw in the gif.
• 1:18:12
  Unless he uses his fucking time -stopping powers.
• 1:18:16
  I think it's a very easy fight. Maybe I'm just
• 1:18:22
  a hater. I really think GAR could make easy work
• 1:18:27
  of Richards and Hitchens. I think Hitchens is
• 1:18:32
  very negative, and honestly... Russell is very
• 1:18:36
  positive, though. I would have really liked to
• 1:18:39
  see Russell listen to his corner a bit more before
• 1:18:44
  engaging another negative fighter in his next
• 1:18:46
  fight. Andy wasn't that negative, was he? No,
• 1:18:50
  but I'm saying the habits of not listening to
• 1:18:57
  your corner when you don't need to. When you
• 1:19:00
  actually need to go to your plan B or C to track
• 1:19:04
  down a negative fighter. like you'll see it catch
• 1:19:07
  up then yeah like uh abdullah mason when he won
• 1:19:11
  the title yeah like he was clearly in charge
• 1:19:15
  but like he still wasn't listening to his corner
• 1:19:18
  yeah that makes sense harder and the thing is
• 1:19:20
  that andy was not like good or tough enough to
• 1:19:23
  give russell that like top check to listen to
• 1:19:28
  your damn corner But I'm just saying, a guy like
• 1:19:31
  Hitchens, you need to be dialed in with your
• 1:19:36
  corner to track him down across the ring. Okay.
• 1:19:40
  Especially because the Hitchens fight, he's going
• 1:19:42
  to get a huge ring. Oh, God. I hope not. You've
• 1:19:46
  got to find him. You're going to have to go find
• 1:19:47
  him. What if GAR fought Oscar Duarte next? The
• 1:19:56
  ultimate fuck you to Richardson Hitchens. That
• 1:19:59
  would be such a good fight, and it so sets up
• 1:20:02
  Richardson Hitchens. You can do the whole build
• 1:20:04
  -up. Like, it doesn't matter who the winner is.
• 1:20:07
  You both just take shots at Hitchens the whole
• 1:20:09
  time. It's beautiful. Like, they would actually,
• 1:20:13
  like, what is it? Carl Weathers and Arnie clapping
• 1:20:20
  hands in Predator. Dylan, you son of a bitch.
• 1:20:24
  Like, you just... Yeah, you do the entire build
• 1:20:28
  -up and you make... Sniping at Hitchens the whole
• 1:20:30
  time. Yeah, like... YSL in shambles. So real.
• 1:20:38
  Okay, so I... As much as J .R., like, the world
• 1:20:45
  is his fucking oyster, other than Shakur, like,
• 1:20:48
  I honestly think the world is right for the picking.
• 1:20:54
  I would like to take a second to think about
• 1:20:57
  what's possible for Hiraoka from here. Because
• 1:21:02
  he gave a good account of himself. He had the
• 1:21:07
  slip -ups with the low blows. Nobody's pretending
• 1:21:11
  that didn't happen. But what are some options
• 1:21:16
  here? Like Frank Martin and Hira Albright? Yeah,
• 1:21:21
  unless he's going straight for the top like you
• 1:21:23
  do Frank Martin. I'm assuming that they would
• 1:21:27
  have liked the winner from Frank Martin and Nahir
• 1:21:29
  Albright to challenge Russell next. And then
• 1:21:34
  take the loser. Yeah, like Andy takes the loser,
• 1:21:39
  you have Russell fight the winner, and then it
• 1:21:42
  all works out. That's how you align the schedule
• 1:21:44
  for them. Oh yeah, you have like a double elimination,
• 1:21:47
  like the winner of the loser fight. Gets another
• 1:21:51
  shot. Yeah, now you have... You basically set
• 1:21:55
  up your undercards really well going forward,
• 1:21:57
  but... Turkey curse. Turkey doesn't fucking listen
• 1:22:02
  to the show, apparently. Turkey curse. So it's
• 1:22:06
  a turkey curse, so nothing can go right? Still,
• 1:22:10
  I think... What I hope happens more than anything
• 1:22:14
  is Frank and Nahir do a rematch. Nahir fucking
• 1:22:18
  earned that shit if if Frank honestly like if
• 1:22:24
  Frank doesn't take it even though he did insist
• 1:22:28
  that that was what he wanted if he doesn't end
• 1:22:31
  up taking it to me that is peak quackery for
• 1:22:36
  what's supposed to be a blue chip guy yeah but
• 1:22:43
  yeah Gary like Antoine, the world's your oyster,
• 1:22:48
  man. You pretty much got your pick of the litter,
• 1:22:51
  apparently, except for Shakur Stevenson. Understandable,
• 1:22:57
  but Andy... Yeah, there are names that are on
• 1:23:03
  this card that are absolutely worth taking. I
• 1:23:08
  think that he proved he can at least hang at
• 1:23:11
  the higher end of the contender level. Maybe
• 1:23:15
  not necessarily as a champion yet, but I think
• 1:23:22
  he can still make something happen from this.
• 1:23:25
  All right. In the main event, Mario Barrios,
• 1:23:31
  the WBC welterweight champion, drops a decision
• 1:23:36
  to Ryan Garcia. It was written from the beginning
• 1:23:45
  when Ryan Garcia just like put him on his ass.
• 1:23:51
  The shit was not even close to competitive. I
• 1:23:55
  think one, one card had it 11 to one. Another
• 1:24:00
  card had it 12 to zero. I don't remember what
• 1:24:03
  the third one was, but that was, that was like,
• 1:24:11
  Does that go under the category for our yearly
• 1:24:16
  picks? Is that a masterclass or a beatdown? I
• 1:24:20
  would say beatdown. Beatdown? Beatdown, not masterclass.
• 1:24:22
  Beatdown. Beatdown. Masterclass is Shakur. This
• 1:24:24
  was a beatdown. He beat the shit out of them.
• 1:24:27
  Like, all 12. I gotta say, this reminded people
• 1:24:31
  why there's levels to this shit. I'm not gonna
• 1:24:34
  start saying that Ryan Garcia is elite like Shakur,
• 1:24:36
  but... I mean, last night... On Saturday. It
• 1:24:40
  proved. That Ryan. If. In. Top. Condition. With.
• 1:24:48
  Decent. Training. I guess. If you can say that.
• 1:24:53
  You. Is. The world's oyster. Because he's a star.
• 1:24:59
  And. He can fight. Fucking. Pretty much anybody.
• 1:25:03
  Honestly. And. I think that. He beats a lot of.
• 1:25:08
  Opponents. If he's dedicated. If he's dedicated.
• 1:25:12
  If not, he loses. What's kind of crazy is how
• 1:25:18
  good his dad was in the corner. I was about to
• 1:25:22
  say. Take notes. This is what it's like to coach
• 1:25:27
  your kid. Like, very suspicious. Like, I get
• 1:25:32
  it's Mario Barrios. So, like, he don't really
• 1:25:35
  need it. But just the way he, like, Like, this
• 1:25:40
  is how a dad is supposed to know his fighter.
• 1:25:45
  Like, he kept him dialed in. And, like, because
• 1:25:49
  Ryan, like, probably could have flown off the
• 1:25:51
  handle and made a dumb mistake and let Barrios
• 1:25:54
  into the fight. But, I don't know. I think he
• 1:25:59
  did a really good job keeping Ryan dialed in.
• 1:26:04
  Honestly, whatever he's doing in camp is working
• 1:26:06
  because we saw him use his right hand. That's
• 1:26:11
  how he scored the knockdown to start. Exactly.
• 1:26:14
  And a very good jab. Pretty nice uppercut too.
• 1:26:21
  I barely saw any of that left hook shit. I saw
• 1:26:27
  a lot of the right hook. The left hook came in
• 1:26:30
  strictly on checks. That was it. And honestly,
• 1:26:35
  that was a very good Ryan Garcia. I'm not saying
• 1:26:40
  this, but people are saying that he can fight
• 1:26:43
  Shakur and he has a chance of winning. They're
• 1:26:45
  building that fight up. I think that's a little
• 1:26:48
  bit of being intoxicated on the moment, to be
• 1:26:51
  honest with you. I got to agree, but I generally
• 1:26:56
  feel like... I did hear the chatter too, yeah.
• 1:26:59
  I think Ryan looked gangbusters last night and
• 1:27:02
  it proved why... There's champions that are moved
• 1:27:05
  properly and just fall into a belt. And there's
• 1:27:09
  also people that, like Ryan, he has the talent.
• 1:27:15
  He has the God -given gift of the quick twitch.
• 1:27:19
  But if you're not on your shit, you're never
• 1:27:22
  going to win. And Ryan proved it. He was on his
• 1:27:25
  shit and that he belongs with the other guys
• 1:27:29
  in the division. I think it was a very... great
• 1:27:32
  performance and I I earned $50 off my dad which
• 1:27:36
  he doesn't want to pay because he thinks that
• 1:27:38
  Ryan was cheating so we'll see maybe Ryan looked
• 1:27:45
  jacked he looked really fucking his physical
• 1:27:49
  I'm not gonna say like he looked I've spent some
• 1:27:53
  time in the power lifting circuit he doesn't
• 1:27:57
  look that kind of jacked you know what I mean
• 1:28:00
  He looks super muscular, yes. He's super ripped,
• 1:28:05
  but I think that's just good training, good discipline.
• 1:28:10
  I don't think that he was out of his mind on
• 1:28:14
  juice of any kind. Just my estimation of what
• 1:28:21
  I saw. For boxing, he looked like he was determined.
• 1:28:29
  Physically. So, the conversation, I think, for
• 1:28:37
  Ryan Garcia turns to... He now holds the WBC
• 1:28:42
  belt. To me, what should be his immediate opposition
• 1:28:48
  are, what, Lewis Crocker with the IBF, Raleigh
• 1:28:53
  Romero rematch with the WBA, and Devin Haney,
• 1:28:57
  run it back with him. um get an actual fucking
• 1:29:02
  result on your records with that um the like
• 1:29:08
  the easy the easy answer is lewis crocker like
• 1:29:13
  this i'm sorry buddy you don't like you don't
• 1:29:18
  fucking rate with the other guys even roly romero
• 1:29:23
  fucking mocks you um I think that Ryan Garcia
• 1:29:31
  is in the command seat right now. He gets to
• 1:29:37
  decide what the big unification fight will be.
• 1:29:42
  It's not even close. He's easily the name in
• 1:29:45
  the division, too. It's not even close. And,
• 1:29:49
  more importantly than anything, he has a world
• 1:29:53
  title before Virgil. Shut the fuck up. Shut the
• 1:29:58
  fuck up. Oh, my God. Look at this. A world title.
• 1:30:05
  Not just a world title fight. A full belt. Before
• 1:30:10
  Virgil could even get in the ring for one. Yeah.
• 1:30:16
  Well, that's what you call poor management. But
• 1:30:21
  back to Ryan. Virgil could not manage the butts
• 1:30:24
  he ate. Shut the fuck up. It's like the ass he's
• 1:30:28
  eating, he's also being treated like ass too.
• 1:30:32
  He's like an auroribos, the snake that eats its
• 1:30:36
  own ass. Hey, we're talking about Ryan right
• 1:30:39
  now. Hey, keep my hands off Virgil. Keep my hands
• 1:30:43
  off. Eat the hands off my Virgil. So the obvious,
• 1:30:48
  well, to me, what are the obvious next steps
• 1:30:51
  is one of those three unification bites. What?
• 1:30:58
  Let me check the WBC rankings. I want to see
• 1:31:02
  who they have in the first position for him.
• 1:31:08
  Walter Wade. Ryan Garcia's a champ. No shit.
• 1:31:12
  Connor Ben. What the fuck? They just placed him
• 1:31:16
  there. Oh, yeah. They just placed him there and
• 1:31:20
  then he signed a Zufa. And then they have Suleiman
• 1:31:24
  Sishko. From France. Okay. Manny Pacquiao, who
• 1:31:32
  we know is back. He's not going to fight Ryan.
• 1:31:35
  They have Ryan Garcia in the fourth position.
• 1:31:40
  So that's nice. He's both champ and number four.
• 1:31:45
  That's weird. Raul Curiel. That, I imagine, would
• 1:31:52
  be Oscar's dream. Jack Catterall, number six.
• 1:31:59
  Jaron Catterall. Oh, my God. Can I tell you guys
• 1:32:03
  something? I'm going to keep it up with you guys.
• 1:32:05
  I doubt Ryan is going to fight anybody on that
• 1:32:09
  list. That's not a big name. I agree. WBC, right?
• 1:32:14
  Yeah. He doesn't even have to. He's going to
• 1:32:20
  call the shots. WBC aren't making him fight anyone,
• 1:32:23
  bro. Yeah. Money, but just pay me. I don't care
• 1:32:28
  who you fight. I would say, honestly, the biggest
• 1:32:32
  money fights are either Shakur or Devin Haney.
• 1:32:34
  And one's a lot more winnable, and that's Devin
• 1:32:36
  Haney. But I feel like the more interesting fight
• 1:32:39
  right now would be Shakur. Because with Devin
• 1:32:43
  Haney, you don't know if, obviously, the performance
• 1:32:47
  he had with Devin was because of the pads, the
• 1:32:51
  beaties, or because Devin shit. That may have
• 1:32:55
  been proved. I really, like, the fight will go
• 1:33:00
  the same way. It just depends on how in shape
• 1:33:03
  Ryan is. And that's purely because it wasn't
• 1:33:06
  like, oh, Ryan caught him. Like, straight up,
• 1:33:09
  first, like, minute of the fight, Haney was on
• 1:33:12
  skates. I want to see that fight. I genuinely
• 1:33:16
  feel like I determined Ryan that we saw. I'm
• 1:33:18
  not going to say it's unnecessary. I'm just like.
• 1:33:19
  No, 100%, no. It's so clear. But Ryan versus
• 1:33:25
  Devin rematch would be very interesting. That
• 1:33:29
  would bring a lot of ice to the sport. However,
• 1:33:32
  a Ryan versus Shakur fight is something that
• 1:33:34
  I would say feels more like building the story
• 1:33:40
  of Shakur, building the career of Shakur, rather
• 1:33:42
  than building the career of Ryan, in my opinion.
• 1:33:45
  I feel like it's an easy Shakur win. Granted,
• 1:33:49
  if he does lose, they could just say that. He
• 1:33:52
  tried to be great. You know, the weight was too
• 1:33:56
  much. It took the biggest challenger. Yeah. I
• 1:34:00
  think when it comes to, as you put it, building
• 1:34:04
  the story of Ryan Garcia as like a champion or
• 1:34:09
  whatever, Teofimo, that's an easy fucking win,
• 1:34:12
  in my opinion. As long as Teofimo does not change
• 1:34:15
  his corner, he's like sitting. Out in the middle
• 1:34:22
  of the ocean with a little dingy raft. And Ryan
• 1:34:27
  is like a fucking giant whale and he's just going
• 1:34:30
  to smash him. It's not even close, dude. I was
• 1:34:34
  thinking in the chat about that fight that that
• 1:34:35
  fight is also a likely option, but they were
• 1:34:37
  making fun of me like, oh, Tew doesn't make any
• 1:34:39
  money. Because Tew really doesn't make money.
• 1:34:42
  I feel like it's more likely that he's going
• 1:34:46
  to end up unifying for more money because he
• 1:34:49
  has... Rolly and Haney in the same weight class.
• 1:34:55
  History with both of them. I understand, but
• 1:34:58
  if none of them want to fight Ryan and Conor
• 1:35:01
  Zufa, which I doubt the WBC is going to want
• 1:35:03
  Conor to fight Ryan right now. I don't think
• 1:35:07
  that either of those two would turn it down.
• 1:35:12
  With Devin and Shakur? No, with Devin and Rolly.
• 1:35:17
  Devin and Rolly. They don't turn it down. I feel
• 1:35:20
  like Devin has a possibility of turning down
• 1:35:22
  just because I don't think he wants to experience
• 1:35:25
  what he went through again. I feel like you might
• 1:35:28
  still be a little nervous over that. Would that
• 1:35:30
  be ducking? I'm not saying it's going to happen.
• 1:35:34
  I'm just saying that's a possibility. If he did,
• 1:35:38
  would it be ducking? If he did, honestly, that
• 1:35:42
  would be ducking. I kind of feel like it would
• 1:35:43
  be. Because he already fought him before. Right.
• 1:35:48
  Get him on the testing regimen that you're satisfied
• 1:35:51
  with and leave it at that. The thing is, I mean,
• 1:35:57
  Ryan was using, who was using this for this fight?
• 1:36:02
  Was it USADA or was it VADA? He was, I think,
• 1:36:06
  on USADA. I think. But the thing is that WBC
• 1:36:11
  uses VADA for their whatever testing. I mean,
• 1:36:19
  I'm pretty sure Vata probably tested his ass
• 1:36:21
  at the very end. Yeah, I'm sure he has been tested
• 1:36:25
  thoroughly. Especially after popping. Especially
• 1:36:29
  after popping before. Yeah, dude. They've been
• 1:36:33
  on top of his ass. Ryan Garcia is a champ and
• 1:36:37
  the world is oyster. Yeah. Ryan is in control
• 1:36:42
  of this division. Including the other champs.
• 1:36:47
  Ryan is in charge. Yeah. Which it's unfortunate
• 1:36:53
  because like Devin Haney is super fucking talented
• 1:36:56
  but the other two like fucking fuck them. Yeah.
• 1:37:04
  Anything more for high stakes? Not at all. Got
• 1:37:11
  one more. Salida. On DAZN in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1:37:21
  Only three that I was tracking. Danielle Perkins
• 1:37:25
  stops. Che Canale. I think I got that right.
• 1:37:31
  For the WBA light heavyweight title. And this
• 1:37:37
  one was a little wacky. Atif Olberton. gets gets
• 1:37:45
  the win it was a retirement after the first over
• 1:37:49
  joseph george uh apparently joseph was he was
• 1:37:56
  sitting in the corner right after the round it's
• 1:37:58
  fully responsive and then he just fucking slumps
• 1:38:01
  over completely oh yeah this happened he just
• 1:38:04
  falls completely over and he was like a fucking
• 1:38:08
  corpse on the ground it was really fucking frightening
• 1:38:12
  So that happened. It was only one round. I would
• 1:38:17
  suggest checking it out. Apparently, Joseph George
• 1:38:24
  is doing well. He's been discharged from the
• 1:38:28
  hospital. He's like no lingering issues. Should
• 1:38:33
  be OK. So that's good. And in the main undisputed
• 1:38:40
  heavyweight champion. Clarissa Shields. Yeah,
• 1:38:44
  heavyweight. Gets the UD over Franchon Cruz to
• 1:38:48
  CERN. The shit wasn't even close. Franchon didn't
• 1:38:55
  need to be within 25 pounds of that division.
• 1:39:02
  Overall, this was a... I'm trying to decide.
• 1:39:10
  What was the worst use of my time? Lee Woods,
• 1:39:14
  Josh Warrington, or this? Easily Lee Woods, Josh
• 1:39:18
  Warrington. This was at least okay for a round.
• 1:39:24
  Overall, I watched this shit so that you don't
• 1:39:27
  have to. It was certainly a fight. Clarissa Shields
• 1:39:35
  spent the post -fight interview talking about
• 1:39:39
  The just general lack of opposition. No shit.
• 1:39:46
  And talking about rematching people she's already
• 1:39:49
  beat. So it was a good time. Again, she could
• 1:39:54
  have probably won two more gold medals. Same
• 1:39:58
  career. And still had the exact same career with
• 1:40:01
  the same accolades and we'd still be talking
• 1:40:03
  about the same shit right now. Well, we would
• 1:40:08
  just be talking about her having beaten these
• 1:40:10
  people once. Yeah, instead of two to three times.
• 1:40:14
  Exactly, instead of multiple rematches that we
• 1:40:17
  don't need. But you get it. We would still be
• 1:40:19
  having the conversation of, this woman has no
• 1:40:22
  opposition. I wish she had anyone to fight. And
• 1:40:25
  alternate universe Josh is probably like, hey,
• 1:40:28
  why didn't she just go for another gold medal
• 1:40:30
  on top of that? Why not? Why not? The gold medal's
• 1:40:34
  at least like... they bring you i'm gonna say
• 1:40:39
  more good press than olympic pedigree is a lot
• 1:40:43
  i would say is a lot bigger than uh these trinkets
• 1:40:46
  baby yeah like at what point do you like start
• 1:40:52
  like throwing them out this is an ollie foreman
• 1:40:55
  yeah it's shields for cruz discern too it this
• 1:41:01
  is not fucking ollie joe frazier too Yeah, I
• 1:41:05
  had someone, I think I saw someone on Discord
• 1:41:07
  complaining, like, why does Cruz Dizern look,
• 1:41:10
  like, low -key out of shape? And I'm like, that's
• 1:41:12
  because she moved up. Five fucking divisions.
• 1:41:17
  Yeah. Like, Cruz Dizern moved up a fuck ton just
• 1:41:21
  to get fights. Like, this is heavyweight. I don't
• 1:41:26
  know. I will, I want to leave it at this. Jake
• 1:41:32
  Paul's next, I guess. Clarissa Shields, very
• 1:41:36
  clearly, super fucking dominant. It's not really
• 1:41:41
  her fault that there's nobody around her to fight.
• 1:41:45
  That's how it goes for the ladies. Sorry. I don't
• 1:41:51
  know how someone could be blamed for having other
• 1:41:58
  fighters above her in the pound -for -pound list.
• 1:42:00
  You're not beating anybody. I don't know. That
• 1:42:06
  was a conversation that I saw happening online.
• 1:42:09
  Why Shields has to be number one? Super talented,
• 1:42:15
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• 1:42:23
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• 1:42:27
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  Previews are really light. This is a... This,
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  I would... I'm going to preface what we talk
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  about with this. This is a good time to maybe
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  think about other activities that you can do.
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  Go... Going outside in particular. Start looking
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  into maybe some nice trail walks you can do.
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  Other stuff because there's not a whole lot of
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  boxing. Thursday, March 5th. Eye of the Tiger.
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  This will be free on the web streaming service
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  called Punching Grace. Yeah. Sure. Hold on. I
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  want to check. I want to be sure before I...
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  Okay, he's still... Okay. Moving from the bottom
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  up. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Steve Claggett
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  is on this one. It's an Eye of the Tiger card,
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  so expect a lot of Canadian names here. Steve
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  Claggett's opponent as of right now, TBA. So
• 1:46:52
  whenever fight night comes, you can expect just
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  quality. Quality op. Moving up. I don't reckon.
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  Oh, Isaac Chalemba. Are you fucking kidding me?
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  Oh my God. The goop face guy. That's him. Isaac
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  Chalemba. Holy fuck. Boys are back in town for
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  this one. You said Isaac Chalemba and I lit up
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  thinking of the... What's the command again?
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  I think it's Chalemba. It's Chalemba. Isaac Chalemba
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  versus Lennar Perez. God bless. Oh, this is at
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  Cruiserweight. So Chalemba has stepped up. Yeah,
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  he stepped up in competition, right? In the main
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  event, Stephen Butler versus Ramadan Hisani at
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  Super Middleweight. If your name is Ramadan,
• 1:48:06
  you should be named Christmas. That's the equivalent.
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  He's a Swiss guy, too. Named Ramadan? Yeah. Excellent.
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  Makes perfect sense. This guy named Ramadan.
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  Sure. Whatever, man. Sure. Isaac Chalimba. Man,
• 1:48:28
  maybe it's worth watching this just for Isaac
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  Chalimba. And Sunday, March 8th. I have not to
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  date seen what else is going to be on this card.
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  It is highly likely it's not going to be very
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  good. Or at the very least, it's not going to
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  be anyone you've heard of. Zufa Boxing 4 at the
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  Meta Apex in Las Vegas. The headliner, IBF Cruiserweight
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  Champion Jai Albataya vs. Brandon Glanton. Sure,
• 1:49:18
  whatever. It is a fight. It is one of the fights
• 1:49:22
  of all time. Sure. Go outside. Like I said, this
• 1:49:31
  is a good weekend to plan an activity outside
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  of your home. You don't have to sit home and
• 1:49:43
  watch this shit. There's nothing going on. Honestly,
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  the UFC card, if you are desperate for fucking
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  fighting, but that, no. That ain't it, man. This
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  weekend, this ain't it. Go elsewhere. Do otherwise.
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  Isaac Chalimba. Jesus Christ. This is what dreams
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  are made of, is fighting Isaac Chalemba. Oh,
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  shit. All right, so we are definitely up on time
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  here. It is a super light weekend. Not a whole
• 1:50:42
  lot of boxing going on. Parting words. What do
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  you got? I would like to say, you know, besides
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  the boxing stuff, you know, I just want to let
• 1:51:00
  everybody know if you're dealing with anything
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  that was mental, that if you're not doing so
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  well, I would 100 % recommend reaching out. I
• 1:51:12
  hope everybody that's listening to this pod is
• 1:51:14
  doing great. But I just want to support mental
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  health awareness. I just want to raise mental
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  health awareness for my closing statement. I
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  hope everybody's doing well. It's very wholesome.
• 1:51:31
  Yeah, I guess. Let's see. On the opposite end,
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  just for the... The counterbalance. I hope you're
• 1:51:48
  all doing poorly. Yeah. I hope you're feeling
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  nauseous at like 90 % of the time and the other
• 1:51:58
  10 % you're having diarrhea. Well, Washington
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  D. Allen. I hope you piss in jugs and waste all
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  your paychecks gambling like Dave Allen. I can't
• 1:52:16
  even bring myself to finish that. All right.
• 1:52:22
  So, yeah, we are heading into a light fucking
• 1:52:24
  weekend. Like I said, dude, find something else.
• 1:52:28
  There's plenty of things you could do other than
• 1:52:32
  sit in your fucking cave. Yeah, you can listen
• 1:52:35
  to this podcast. That's true. Well, that's like
• 1:52:41
  a given. Well, you can do it again. You can do
• 1:52:45
  it again. While you're on your trail nature walk,
• 1:52:49
  you can listen to this. All right. That's it
• 1:52:53
  for this edition of The Boxing B -Sides. We'll
• 1:52:57
  fucking see you on the other side with some boxing.