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Barrios-Garcia and the GWOAT · Boxing B-Sides

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B -Sides. We're back to talk the fights. The
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comrades have assembled. Saul, the one and only.
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Welcome back to this all -American version of
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Turning Point USA. Turning Point USA. All -American
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Turning Point USA boxing b -sides, guys. Oh,
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no, there's a reason why I'm feeling pretty American
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today. Y 'all know why. Anthony Oluswaga is fighting
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Jukia Yumura. Oh, yeah, man. That's 100 % why
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I'm like that. And Josh. We are ready to fucking
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kick it off here. The news. Getting this one
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out of the way, there is a, I call it Mighty
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Minis. It's a lot of lower weight divisions.
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On March 15th on YouNext. This one's in Japan.
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KnockoutCPFreshmart is moving up to 108. By the
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way, please donate to the Patreon today. We are
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trying to purchase our own Knockout SP Discord
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fighter. It's probably going to be time. NonitoDonair
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is going to be on this in a WBA Bantamweight
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Eliminator. For whatever reason. And then Anthony
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Olasquaga is defending his WBO 112. Manny Pacquiao
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joins Team Boxing League. He will be fighting.
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He will be the primary global ambassador. He
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will be a member of the ownership group. And
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he will be the team captain for the San Diego
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TJs. Sure. This is where the older gent belongs.
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Like, if you want to keep fighting, this is where
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you should be. I don't know, man. I'm just like,
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oh, these exhibitions. Well, I guess they're
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not exhibitions. But, like, he looked really
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bad with that Korean dude before he fought Barrios.
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But then he fought Barrios and made Barrios look
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like an idiot. So, who knows? He made himself
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look young again, you know? Barrios made him
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look young. Yeah. I think that's a bad way to
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put it. Yeah. You know, when you think about
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it, this really is Keith Thurman's fault. I need
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your addition to talk about that today, man.
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I saw you say that in chat. I know. I soft launched
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it in chat. We're stuck with Manny Pacquiao because
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of Keith Thurman. This really is his fault. Maybe
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Manny Pacquiao is that good. He beat Keith Thurman.
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If Keith had not been knocked down, he would
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have squeaked by on the cards. At least with
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a draw, man. But yeah, Manny Pacquiao, Team Boxing
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League. Let's see here. Sky Nicholson is going
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to be headlining a card in April in Australia.
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Oh boy. Yeah. Nikita Zoo. Sky Nicholson, Simps,
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stay winning. Yeah, not me though. Kel Brook.
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will be returning April 11th in Dubai. This is
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not related to the Tyson Fury card. Yeah. He
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will. Yeah, he's going to be fighting. He's coming
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back to the pro ranks. Good fucking luck. Yeah.
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Let's see here. Tanongsak Simsri, the IBF 108
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champ, is facing Sergio Mendoza April 13th. Miguel
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Cotto renovated his gym, reopened to the public.
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They had a nice little PR event. That's a good
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little heartwarming thing. Yeah, it was really
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nice. They didn't show the gym much in the pictures.
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They mostly focused on the people that were there.
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And Miguel, his wife, and the other coaches that
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are in the gym. But yeah, it was really cool.
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That he's trying to keep boxing alive in Puerto
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Rico. Yeah, he's standing on the arms and shoulders
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of Dan Zayas right now. And the GOAT, Edgar Berlanga.
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Yeah, my GOAT and the King of New York. This
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is an interesting news piece. Team USA, the Olympic
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athletes, are going to be paid. This is from
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a giant donation made by some billionaire dude.
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He donated a lot of money and every athlete that
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makes the Olympic team will receive a $200 ,000
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check. That's fantastic. I wanted to include
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this because this is obviously going to include
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the boxers. It'll be nice for them to have cash
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and not have to take the... First pro contract.
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Yeah, the first promotion to put a contract in
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front of them and they just jump on it. They
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got a little bit of money to sit on. What billionaire
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game is doing this? I'm curious. Let me look
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it up. Because I don't remember. Financier Ross
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Stevens. Ross Stevens. Is he involved with Zufa
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at all? Not that I know of. If he's connected
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to Zufa, it feels like a ploy to, you know. Oh,
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to try to coax them and to push them towards
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Zufa? Yep. Yeah. Every athlete, even if they
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don't medal, gets 200k. I hope someone like Joseph
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Iwanongia. Joseph Jr. Joey Jr. I'm going to start
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calling him Joey Jr. Joey Jr. Gakes at the Olympics.
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Seeming pretty special prospect. But yeah, that's
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the little bonus that they're going to get for
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making the team. Also, that's fucking fantastic
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that they're still having the boxing at the Olympics
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this time around in America. Oh, shit. I should
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try to go to some. Did you sign up for it? Because
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I signed up for it. No, I didn't. I should, though.
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Well, the cutoff was... Let me see if I can find
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a link for you, and I'll send it to you, okay?
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All right. Ferocious Promotions. George Cambosos.
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Yeah. They're going to be putting on their first
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card in June, around that time. One of the...
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A little blurb from the press release was the
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focus will be on showcasing Australia's best
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emerging talent built around true 50 -50 matchups,
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real fights that matter with genuine competitive
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interest. Australian championships and regional
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titles will be on the line following the same
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blueprint I used to climb to the very top of
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the sport. Very top of the sport. Yeah. He did
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claw his way up with the weird IBF Eliminator
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fights that they make you do. And he took that
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one win off Teofimo and turned that into how
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many paydays? Two with Devin Haney, Lomachenko.
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So, yeah. Whoever managed his career, if they
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are managing in ferocious promotions, I would
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feel comfortable that my career would take a
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good direction. They could get a fucking mongoloid
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like George Kambosos to where he got. No limit
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boxing. Wins the purse bid for Lewis Crocker
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versus Liam Parrow. I think Parrow said something
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about not having to worry about questionable
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judges. If he had fought in the UK. Last one.
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Yuri Orkus Gamboa will be lacing back up. No,
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not lacing back up. He's going to be taking them
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off, actually. Bare knuckle boxing. Sorry, I
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don't know if you expect me to say anything about
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Lewis Crocker, Liam Parrow, first bid. I'm just,
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I was just going to let it speak for itself with
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the silence. Yeah, well. Honestly. C 'est la
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vie. There's some fun recaps to get to, so let's
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fucking do it. First things first, Friday, February
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6th, Matchroom in Mexico. Bunch of rock 'em,
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sock 'em robots. The main event, Christian Medina
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defended his WBO bantamweight title against former
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108 titleist Adrian Curiel. Pretty one -sided
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affair. But, oh, baby. This is why we're here.
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Queensberry at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Looking
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up the bill. Andrew Cain, he will be... He's
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a relevant character later. He will be relevant
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later. He gets a stoppage in nine over Alejandro
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Gonzalez. But... The main event. Nick Ball, the
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WBA featherweight champion, is stopped in the
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12th by Brandon Figueroa. Oh, my goodness. What
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a fight. Fucking finally, though. Why does everyone
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hate Nick Ball so much? Well, he's just... He's
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a scouser. He's a scouser who shitty fanbase
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fights shitty opponents very carefully managed.
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With a shitty attitude. Struggles against these
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shitty opponents. Kicks and fouls constantly
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when fights are not going his way. And... I've
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never seen a career more built around waiting
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for the payday than Balls. Credit to his management,
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but holy fuck. He's a dreadful watch because
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he's one of those inside fighters who isn't powerful
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or that fun. He kind of just gets in your chest
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and smothers everyone's work. You're like motorboating
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all the time. Yeah, basically. Like, he's nothing.
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He's not a fun personality. He's not a fun fighter.
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Very cocky. Like, a very, very, very weak champion
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who's had more controversial results than a guy
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of his stature really should have. BFig, on the
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other hand, he's very, obviously, because he's
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very humble. He was happy to even be there. You
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know? And... He should be there. Oh, yeah. I
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mean, yeah. He's happy to be there. And he won
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the fight. He put up a good scrap. Do I think
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he's going to beat the other champions at 126?
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I don't know. Maybe he beats Leo. Maybe. But...
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I think B -Fig... Again, not to try to down his
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performance. Put down his performance. He put
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on fucking... In my opinion, obviously the knockout
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of the year because he knocked out Nick Ball.
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I'm going to fucking call him a legend for that
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because fuck, Nick Ball's... Yeah. Similar to
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Omar. He's got a basically like a... He burns
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bright for a shorter amount of time. And he's
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already... He did like... I feel like the premise
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of this fight from the Nick Ball management,
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like Nick Ball protection program was... This
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guy's kind of washed. Like, he really had to
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scrape it out against Joey Gonzalez, and it's
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definitely split on whether he actually deserved
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that win. And the Mark Maxayo fight, too. I remember
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there was some controversy there. Controversy
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there. Yep. And that's what I mean. Like, he's...
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The whole point for Nick Ball was to, like, you
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beat up on a guy whose perception is being super,
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super washed. And you get full credit as if you
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beat him when he was good. And it's hilarious
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that it backfired that spectacularly. I think
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this is mandatory, right? Was it mandatory? He
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didn't really have to fight them, honestly. I
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don't recall if it was the mandatory challenger
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or not. Which title was it? The WBA? Yeah. Yeah,
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no. There's no way he had to fight a mandatory.
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Either way. Thank good riddance to Ball. You
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don't think we see him again? Well, I think we're
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going to have to see him. Jazz Dickens? Jazz
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is at 130. He could move up, but he's 5 '2".
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He's a fucking meatball already. Yeah, so what
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I will say is he probably hangs around for Inoue
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Nakatani to happen and fights the loser. And
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gets iced by them, too. They probably get smoked
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by the loser, but it's a payday. Meanwhile, he's
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going to hang around at domestic level like he
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did pretty much his entire title reign, too.
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What about Luis Neri? Neri smokes him. Like,
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the thing is that, like, I love, like, Figueroa
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pulled it out, but just look at the shot that
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he caught ball with. Like, anyone at world, like,
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real world level could land that. Which shot?
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The first time or the second time? The big first,
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the big one that caused the knockdown. That laid
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him out? Yeah. Like, that one, anyone could land
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that. Like, Neri could land that. Like, who was
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the one who knocked Inoue down? Was it Neri too?
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Or, yeah. Neri knocked him down. Cardenas knocked
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him down. Okay, so yeah, like Neri caught him
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with a, again, huge, huge left hand. Who's to
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say that doesn't happen to Paul? Especially considering
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it could be a Joe Joyce situation because he
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hadn't been knocked down before this. It could
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totally be a case of his chin cracked right there.
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Yeah, he hadn't been down before. Not at all.
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I don't think we've seen the end of Nick Ball
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at the top level. If he could, moving down would
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probably be ideal. Yeah, but... He's going to
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have to work his way back up, either way you
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look at it. That was a pretty devastating loss.
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Like, because again, like, let's say, oh, I'm
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going to just fight a top 10 guy at 122. That's
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Cardenas. I got a good move for him. Go to what?
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I was going to say, go to 130, fight Jazza Dickens,
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and potentially get a title. If you win, you
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do unification with Oshaki Foster. You know what's
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hilarious, though? It would be Anthony Kakash.
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Anthony Kakash, yeah. He's probably beating Jazza
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Dickens. Honestly, Kakash has the best managed
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career of all time. I mean, he's not that bad
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of a fighter. He's pretty good. No, he's pretty
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good, but I'm saying he's pretty good and he's
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just tearing through all of the last generation
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Brits at this weight range. Like, if Kid Galahad
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was still around, Kid Galahad would be on the
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fucking chopping block too. That is a name I
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have not heard in a long time. Listen, I only
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keep Kid Galahad as ball knowledge because, oh
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my god, watching Kiko Martinez obliterate him
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was so, so satisfying. It's such a good gift.
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Let me see if Discord still has it. Kiko got
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brought in as an easy scout for somebody and
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he ended up sparking them, didn't he? Yeah, that
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was Kid Galahad. That was him? That was his first
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title defense. Because he beat Jazza Dickens
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for the IBF World Featherweight title. Kiko Martinez
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was the easy first defense, and then... It wasn't
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so easy. Let me pull up the highlight here for...
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Because it's so funny. It's actually so funny
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watching it happen. This is one of my, like,
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degenerate boxer fights. Degenerate boxing fan
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fights where I actually sat down and watched
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this live instead of just catching, like, this
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broadcast afterwards. Like, if you skip... It's
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so funny. It's basically... It's five seconds
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into the sixth round. Five seconds into the sixth
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round, he just destroys him with a right hand.
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I'm pretty sure that's Howard Foster, like, cradling
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him like a mother breastfeeding a child. Like...
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It's just so... It's beautiful. But, um, yeah.
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Akash, my favorite. One of my favorite Brit slayers.
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Just the way he's only fought Brits for the past
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couple years. What about you, Saul? Did you watch
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all this Brit destroying? Or are you a new -gen
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Brit hater? I'm a new Jimbo hitter. I'm not going
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to lie. Shit. You got to watch it. Oh, my God.
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He just lays him the fuck out. Holy shit. I'm
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listening to it. I'm enjoying the history lesson.
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I'm not going to lie and pretend like, hey, yeah,
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that was a great fight, guys. It was not a great
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fight. It was basically like. Kid Galahad would,
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like, jab and take, like, two shuffle steps back.
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And at the start of the sixth round, he just
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times him on one of those step backs. And just
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kills him. Oh, my God. Like, it's so funny. But
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just Howard Foster instantly stepping in. Not
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even, like, a doubt. He knew he was fucked up.
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He knew he was dead. Oh, he died. Like, straight
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up, it was so funny. So that's what I mean by
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Kakashi's taking out this entire generation of,
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like, British featherweights at 130 now. Love
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to see it. Love to see it. Nick Ball can join
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this pantheon of late 2010s, 2020s British featherweights
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who only fought each other. Um, Carl Frampton,
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does he fit that bill? Let me see. Let me look
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at his box rec just to see if he fought. He did
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lose to Josh Warrington, actually. He was a part
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of this generation. Yeah, I remember. I went
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to his fight at the MGM Grand against Leo Santa
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Cruz. Yes. Really good fight. A surprising amount
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of people came out for Frampton. They always
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come out to the United States. It's actually
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weird. I'm not sure if we count him as Brit because
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he's from Northern Ireland. So technically UK.
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Close enough to British. To me, there's only
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one Ireland. And it's the fucking Republic. Exactly.
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Let's see. Let's go back to here. What does Brandon
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Figueroa do from here? Like we were talking about.
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Last time, we were talking about Bruce Carrington
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and his lapses in sound defensive judgment, but
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I don't think Figueroa can do... Can he do what
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Castro was able to do? Can he do more than Castro
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could? At an earlier point in his career, yes.
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Right now, a little dicey. Yeah, that's... He's
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washed. He's about... He's washed. I'm not going
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to sugarcoat it with beef fig. He's definitely...
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He's definitely on the tail end here. So he's
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got enough for one good effort, basically. Trilogy
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with Stephen Fulton. There you go, guys. Oh,
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shit. Maybe a 140, but... Oh my god. How do you
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move up two weight classes and still blow it,
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dude? Unification fights don't look like they're
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in the cards, though. Espinoza's a top -ranked
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guy. Carrington is a top -ranked guy. He kind
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of just gets to pick whatever non -champ in his
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vicinity that he wants to basically go out on
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a good note against. Yeah, I mean, it's going
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to be fucking... It's going to be Hell's Hostage
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and Makaladi, guys. A nice champion to add to
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your card. To your cards. Yeah, like... Who did
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Turkey extend the offer? He extended the offer
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to fight on the card, but with no specific opponent,
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right? Random Figueroa on Mexico versus the world.
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Yeah, but no specific opponent. I think it's
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going to be fucking... He didn't pick anyone.
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Some random dude. Watch me anyway. Man, that'd
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be some horrible reward. That'd be funny. What
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a shitty reward. You pull a knockout of the year
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out of your ass and immediately get rewarded
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with hate. So your head is going to land anywhere
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between the third and fifth row. That'd be funny.
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It would be pretty funny, though. I don't hate
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BFake that much, though, so I'd be a little sad.
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You think he fights Sam Goodman? I was thinking
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it. He could fight Sam Goodman. He's not a power
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threat. Big payday in Australia. Yeah. He can
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be caught, right? He's not that fleet -footed.
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He's also not that good, so it's a fight he could
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win. Exactly. Yeah, he's really not that good.
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But he's good on paper. Yeah. Hmm. I'm looking
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down the box rec list here. Omar Trinidad, that
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fucking weirdo over at Zufa. I mean, I guess
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you could do Neary or... Lewis Neary would be
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a good scrap. I'm not going to lie. That'd be
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a good scrap, but, like, again, I'm not... They
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fought before. Yeah. At 122. Yes. Neary's fat
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ass got taken out by a body shot. Mm -hmm. Still
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not a good scrap. Not a good scrap, George Gonzalez.
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George Gonzalez rematch for a world title. Not
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needed. But not unwelcome either. I mean, honestly,
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I know it sounds fucking dumb, but I seriously
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think that a Stephen Fulton rematch is a possibility.
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Those are making the weight, bro. I have a feeling
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that the PBC is going to do some weird shit like
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that. They're going to make him do a trilogy
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fight. It's not too out of the realm of possibility
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to keep it in -house, at least for the first
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one. That's true. And Stephen Fulton could probably
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win that one too. He beat him twice. Probably.
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If Fulton doesn't show up, doesn't roll into
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the ring, he'll do a good job. If anybody...
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He wanted to take an easy first defense. Could
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run it back with Mark McSayo. People thought
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he won. So it was a good fight. And put the chatter
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to rest. I don't remember who it is in Discord
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that was just livid at the McSayo decision. Oh,
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my God. We always have diehards for everything.
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I actually love that chat. I think it was toast.
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Yeah, I love that there's just diehards for everything,
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though. It's funny. Yeah, like you wouldn't expect
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a Max Ayo fucking Homer, but... Oh, there it
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is. Yeah, there's one. Well, the world is Brandon
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Figueroa's fucking oyster. right now for like
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the next six months yeah he's got he's trying
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to think of he's on borrowed time yeah who were
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we talking about last time that has recently
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won a title but josh kelly yes josh kelly that's
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what we were talking about he's got a title now
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but you got your find the highest bidder yeah
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lewis lewis crocker could not find the uh highest
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bidder it seems. So he gets to go lose to was
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it Liam Parrow? Yep. Yep. Because I'm going to
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say Liam Parrow is no joke and Lewis Crocker
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is not that good. Not enough to beat Liam Parrow.
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Anything more for Brandon Figueroa's Heroic rescue
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of the WBA title. Heroic rescues. Sorry. More
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like under new management. Under new management.
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Nah, I know that V -Fake doesn't duck. It doesn't
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duck, but I mean, it's not going to be fighting
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unifications. That's more circumstances than...
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That's politics. Yeah, that becomes a politics
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discussion rather than a discussion on him. Well,
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I don't think anything's going to be different
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with that belt. Just a new... Maybe there might
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be. I don't know. I mean, fuck. We've been having
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our own version of Riyadh cards in America with
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these PBC cards with fucking Top Rank and Mashroom
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fighters on here. Stephen Fulton is... pretty
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dangerous defense to take. Especially considering
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you lost him twice. Exactly. Like, Stephen Fulton
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has his number. Yeah. Again, I just don't think
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it'll happen because of the weight. Yeah. This
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is a guy who moved up a weight class and still
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blew it by two weight classes. Like, he's ranked
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at lightweight right now because of how bad he
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blew weight. All right. Let me put in some notes
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Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Why are we talking about
33:43
this? Jin Sasaki is back, baby. Versus Marlon
33:48
Pagalpalan. That was mouthful. You know what?
33:53
It'll be fun. Yeah. Sasaki is fun. Fun little
33:57
card. I'm happy. And I'm always up at 3am, so
34:03
it doesn't matter. shit matchroom at the Nottingham
34:11
Arena on Saturday, February 21st. Let's see here.
34:17
Moving up the bill, David Allen. Anthony Joshua.
34:25
Dude, Anthony Joshua could have come out of that
34:29
car after the car accident and still stopped
34:31
Dave Allen in six. Like, come on. He could have
34:36
still been injured from the accident and still
34:38
done the job. No, I remember there was an infamous
34:42
TBA that ended up coming together late, and it's
34:45
probably... This one is boxing math, to use your
34:50
metaphor. So he had a barn burner against an
34:54
Argentinian dude named Ariel Esteban Bracamonte.
34:59
Bracamonte. That sounds worse than that. and
35:01
it was just a this fight was just a barn burner
35:05
they had their mouths like they were breathing
35:07
out of their mouths by the opening bell and they
35:12
just went to war it was it's probably like the
35:16
best it's probably the most fun worst fight you'll
35:18
ever see well like i will make sure to check
35:23
it out one day here i'll send you the the full
35:25
fight it's worth watching I'll watch it while
35:29
I'm playing some Nintendo. All boxing fans should
35:33
watch this fight because this should be your
35:35
bar for terrible heavyweight fights. Check it
35:40
out. If there are two guys that you know have
35:43
no aspirations to do anything ever at heavyweight,
35:46
they should at least be this fun while being
35:50
fat out of shape. Bracamonte and Gerald Miller.
35:59
Up to that point, they had the heaviest combined
36:02
weight for a professional fight. Until those
36:07
YouTubers... Yeah, they broke the scale with
36:11
their fight. It was a truck weighing scale, by
36:14
the way, so you know it's bad. It's fucking crazy.
36:18
I'm serious, dude. Boogie and Wings of Redemption.
36:24
That's what I mean by everyone has their vices.
36:26
My vices are just two fat dudes beating the shit
36:29
out of each other. Will always be my vice. Because
36:34
it's so fascinating. How are you a professional
36:39
athlete this out of shape? That's why they call
36:45
them heavyweights. Yeah, you ever jingle keys
36:47
in front of a baby? That's basically what it's
36:49
like. Moving up, the bill, Molly McCann. Meatball
37:00
Molly, the UFC chick. Meatball Molly. Meatball
37:03
Molly. Is in a six -rounder at super bantamweight.
37:09
Sandy Ryan is fighting for the vacant WBC super
37:13
lightweight title against Carla Zamora. Ishmael
37:18
Davis versus Bilal Fawaz. I think this is for
37:23
the... Like British and Commonwealth stuff. I
37:26
don't keep track of that. But I think I saw that
37:30
that's what this is. And in the headline, Lee
37:35
Wood versus Josh Warrington. What a rematch.
37:41
This is the one we've all been waiting for. It
37:44
was a barn burner. I'm so excited for the same
37:47
people to keep fighting each other forever. Josh
37:54
Warrington is one of the dirtiest fighters ever.
37:57
Literally ever. Oh, my God, dude. Like, I...
38:02
He's also probably, like... Like, Nick Ball heading
38:07
in the direction of, like, he loses and immediately
38:10
gets a shot at the same title because of politics.
38:13
Because, like, if you look at his resume, he'll
38:15
lose and then get another shot at the IBF and
38:19
then lose and get another shot at the IBF. Or
38:22
get into an eliminator with for the IBF. That's
38:27
how you game the system. Just, oh my god. And,
38:34
like, Lee Wood is probably one of the biggest
38:36
overachievers I've ever seen. Because he straight
38:41
up has, like, a rocky boxing ability. Like...
38:50
Full honesty, he's not great at boxing, but somehow
38:54
always wins. Most of the time. Most of the time.
39:00
Lost to Jazza Dickens, dude. He lost to Jazza
39:04
Dickens, and then got his ass beat pillar to
39:08
post for 12 rounds by Michael Conlon before pulling
39:12
it out. Yeah. That was one of my favorite knockouts.
39:18
Hilarious. It's just like a video. It looks like
39:20
one of, like, you know the 2007, like, punch
39:23
out on the Wii? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It looked like
39:27
one of those knockouts. Like, when you knock
39:29
Aaron Ryan out of the ring. Like, just the, like,
39:35
hilarious, like, epic knockout. Josh Warrington
39:42
was also up there. Again, also being hit pillar
39:46
to pole. Being... Punched, rabbit punched, head
39:49
butted, and need pillar to post. And then just
39:54
stops him randomly in the seventh. So, like,
40:01
as much as we can, as much as, as British as
40:03
he is, it's not, not fun to watch him. You know?
40:09
I would give him, like, the plucky underdog.
40:14
Yeah, like, he just. He just boxes like Rocky
40:17
does, but the whole thing in the Rocky movies
40:20
is that Rocky sucks. Hey, not in Rocky 3. I mean,
40:28
I guess, but he was also missing the Eye of the
40:31
Tiger, so. That's true. And those were all cherry
40:35
picks, according to Mickey. Well, he came in
40:39
being a roided out Soviet guy. Number one. Yeah,
40:44
but that was all Will. Like, let's be real. Like,
40:47
let's be real. Like, the whole point is that
40:49
he's kind of a bum who just, like, he's able
40:51
to take a hit and give it back. He's buffed Dave
40:54
Allen, you're saying? No. Dave Allen is not athletic
40:58
enough to give it back. Well, that's why he's
41:00
buffed Dave Allen. Dave Allen has been buffed
41:06
and still not giving it back. This is the thing.
41:10
We've seen him in every body shape and size.
41:14
And it's been the same thing. That's why I love
41:17
him. He's terrible. Let's move on to the ring
41:25
high stakes at the T -Mobile Arena. Starting
41:31
from the bottom, Bektamir Melikuziev, Versina
41:36
Akbeko. in a super middleweight fight. Yeah,
41:43
I'm not mad at this. It's, like, Beko isn't terrible.
41:48
Ish. No, yeah, he's not bad. I think, like, his
41:52
only losses are to really good people. His losses
41:56
are to Dave Morrell and Osley's Iglesias. No
42:00
shame there. And then in the 2010s, there's stuff
42:03
to, like, Vladimir Shishkin and Raymond Goetz,
42:05
but, like, whatever. Beck the Bully comes to
42:09
Rumble. He's vulnerable. He's vulnerable enough
42:15
to make it interesting. Frank Martin versus Nahir
42:20
Albright. 10 rounds at 140. My God. Keyshawn
42:25
Davis' son. Keyshawn Davis' father, I mean. Sorry.
42:30
Nahir Albright. Nahir Albright. Keyshawn Davis'
42:33
father. You know what? It would be really funny
42:37
if Frank Martin does him like he did Rance's
42:39
Bartholomew. That would be pretty fucking awesome.
42:44
It would be the funniest possible outcome for
42:46
just another, like... I mean, yeah, he's like...
42:49
He's like better than him, I guess. And then
42:52
he just kills him. I hear Albright took... He
43:02
pivoted from having a baby thrown at him. To
43:06
this. So, that's nice. Yes. Well, not just that.
43:14
He also won his last fight, too. Yeah, he also
43:16
beat Kelvin Davis, the inferior Davis brother.
43:22
And then got jumped in his dressing room by Keyshawn
43:26
Davis. Who had a stroller with a baby in it.
43:31
With a baby in it, yeah. Just on standby, by
43:35
the way. Just on standby. But you know what?
43:40
It'd be really funny if Frank Martin just plastered
43:43
him. No disrespect to Keyshawn Davis' father.
43:47
But I need more GIFs. They're really funny. More
43:54
Frank Martin GIFs. Frank Martin GIFs are always
43:57
so funny. Because the two we have of him are...
44:00
One is Tank, literally just... disintegrating
44:04
him. And the other one is of him disintegrating
44:07
Rance's Bartholomew. It's good. He also got rid
44:13
of the Muhammad Ali cosplayer Michelle Rivera,
44:16
so I will forever appreciate him for that. Will
44:25
you appreciate Richardson Hitchens? defending
44:29
his IBF super lightweight title against Oscar
44:32
Duarte. Good fight. Yeah, it's a good fight.
44:39
I'm just like, oh, my God. I want to be so high
44:41
on Hitchens, but he's like a caricature of how
44:45
people describe Shakur, how I describe Shakur
44:47
Stevenson. Yeah, no, I mean, Shakur never went
44:52
and almost lost to Gustavo Lemos and pretty much
44:55
had to get robbed. I'd rob him. I don't know.
45:00
Like, that's what I mean. Like, he's a caricature
45:02
of how people describe Shakur Stevenson. Africa!
45:07
Africa! It makes me, like, I want to like Hitchens.
45:12
He's clearly good, but also, like, fuck. Yeah,
45:16
he's talented, but at the same time, he's not
45:19
all that. I want to rip my hair out every time
45:23
I watch him fight because he could engage more.
45:25
He very much has the skill to engage more. And
45:29
it's not like he has pillow fists. He's just
45:31
a very negative fighter. I was going to say,
45:33
I was going to use that term. He's a very negative
45:36
fighter. He's just so negative because he clearly
45:40
has the pop to at least bother guys and then
45:44
just, oh my god. Like, even, like, yeah, him
45:49
stopping Cambosos, he was cool and all, but,
45:52
like, there were seven other rounds of NyQuil.
45:56
Whatever, man. Maybe Duarte will bring it out
45:59
of him, though. I'm hopeful that Duarte could
46:05
catch him with something. Oh, yeah. Just at least,
46:08
like, not even the win, just to make him do something.
46:13
Something that he's never done before. I was
46:17
telling... When I was talking with Shanada about
46:19
this fight a while ago, it said the same thing.
46:24
Just that Duarte catches him with something.
46:29
But I was thinking that that would make Hitchens
46:32
retreat into his cave a little more. Just be
46:39
more negative to avoid any more damage. He probably
46:44
will be. Next. Yep. Gary Antoine Russell defends
46:52
his WBA 140 title against Andy Hidaoka. Okay,
46:58
this fight's going to be gangbusters. I'm so
47:00
excited for this one. Me too. I like Andy. He's
47:05
really athletic, really explosive. Should be
47:11
fun. Fun clash. He's fun. Gary Antoine Russell
47:16
is good and fun. That's good. Great co -main.
47:21
This is probably going to be a way better fight
47:26
than the main itself. Let's be fully honest.
47:29
Yeah, I think you're right. As a fight, this
47:33
is so much better than the main. As much as I
47:37
do like Andy, there's always... There is always
47:42
talk when he comes up in Discord about whether
47:46
he's, you know, is he actually, who has he fought?
47:49
Is he actually that good? You know? Real. And
47:54
yeah, to an extent it's true, but this is the
47:58
time to find out. Because he's got a really fucking
48:02
elite opponent in front of him. So we're going
48:06
to see if the Andy stories are real. Let's see,
48:11
but I mean, I honestly feel like a guy that way.
48:14
I can't even call this one. See, unlike the Hitchens
48:18
fight, where I know Hitchens is probably going
48:19
to win, this fight, I can't decide. Because,
48:25
again, Gary Antoine Russell, great fighter, but,
48:29
I mean, have we ever seen him fight a guy kind
48:36
of like Andy Arauca with the... Same kind of
48:40
amount of closeness. I mean, come on. Pueyo.
48:51
Pueyo is a totally different skill set. I was
48:54
going to say, Pueyo, you've got to really get
48:56
a tang of the in and out, and it doesn't help
48:59
that. Who in his camp died that really threw
49:02
him off for that? His father? His father, yes.
49:06
So that fight is kind of a write -off. I can
49:12
agree with you on that. But I just think this
49:15
fight is just... In my opinion, it's going to
49:17
be the hardest fight of his career. Oh, absolutely.
49:19
Like, hardest fight of his career that he's present
49:21
for. Yeah. Like, this will show you what he's
49:24
made of. I agree. Like, if he gets... There's
49:28
a chance that either man can get knocked down.
49:30
There's a chance it could be a fight of the year.
49:32
You know? It could be fucking... It could be...
49:35
I don't see no way that this is not a gangbusters.
49:38
Oh, yeah. No, like, there's no... Both these
49:40
guys are going to engage and engage good. It'll
49:42
be... It is going to be gangbusters. Mm -hmm.
49:46
Just sucks that it's not going to be a PBC quality,
49:49
but... I mean, maybe they'll stop the 4K that
49:53
they used for Stevenson Lopez. Did they use 4K
49:59
for that? Hmm? Did they use 4K for that? It looked
50:03
like it. I don't know. We'd need Hazy's TV to
50:07
really tell. Yeah, that's true. We'd need a top
50:14
-quality TV, not the plasma TV that has been
50:18
so often discussed in chat. Noted. Hitchens Truther.
50:26
Hitchens Truther. That was for the main. And
50:33
in the main event. WBC welterweight champion
50:36
Mario Barrios fights Ryan Garcia. Ooh, we're
50:42
going to have a good one for this. Man, I'm going
50:43
to gouge my eyes out. I look at his box rack,
50:46
and every time I see two consecutive draws...
50:49
That shit is too funny, man. It's too funny.
50:53
It's so funny. I think we're going for number
50:54
three, depending on how Ryan shows up, too. I
50:59
got my last prediction with Ryan wrong. And I'm
51:06
going to go out on the land and say he's going
51:07
to win this fight. I think he's going to beat
51:09
Mario Barrios. He's more than good enough to
51:11
beat Mario Barrios. The question is, is he going
51:15
to show up locked in enough to do so? Well...
51:20
Because Mario Barrios is not durable at all.
51:24
I hate to say it, but it's not the tank fight
51:27
that makes me question the durability. It's the
51:30
Keith Thurman fight where the contractually...
51:32
Keith was wearing, like, 12 -ounce gloves and
51:35
still knocking him pillar to post. He rearranged
51:38
his face. Yeah, and those were with pillows.
51:42
Honestly, I'm going to keep it real with you.
51:44
I agree to a sense, but I think the fight that
51:47
shows me his vulnerability is with the Abel Ramos
51:49
fight. Well, I'm trying to ignore the two draws
51:52
in terms of, like... Vulnerability? No, just
51:57
in general, because, like, it's kind of... The
51:59
longest -lasting welterweight champion is a dude
52:03
who just gets nonstop draws. I mean, let's be
52:06
for real. I mean, the Keith Thurman fight, I
52:08
know the 12 -ounce gloves, pillow fist, but also
52:13
Keith Thurman's also pretty damn good. At the
52:15
time, he was pretty good. Oh, I know, but he
52:17
was coming off an insane amount of ring rust
52:19
and just, like... beat his ass with pillows like
52:24
that's I'm not saying they should be doing no
52:26
damage but it's like every shot was wobbling
52:30
him yeah which is like that's more damning like
52:34
he took Keith Thurman yeah home run right hand
52:37
whatever he took it off the gloves and still
52:39
shook as he's a big guy dude and the thing is
52:45
but one thing is that Keith Thurman was accurate
52:48
as fuck is Ryan accurate? He can be if he's fast.
52:53
Ryan hits harder. Yeah, 100%. I genuinely wonder
53:00
how big the ring is going to be on the site.
53:03
But if Ryan wins, it's going to be my knockout.
53:05
There's no way that Ryan's going to win. I think
53:06
Ryan's confounding. He's got that silly shell
53:08
that he still uses. It'll be really funny if
53:12
he gets confounded against the silly shell. What
53:18
I will say is... I genuinely think that Ryan's
53:21
going to fight. I think Ryan's going to fight
53:23
desperate in this fight, and so is Mario Barrios.
53:26
Both of them are at the... Obviously, Mario Barrios
53:29
is champion, but he's coming off two draws, and
53:32
Ryan is coming off a loss. His last fight was,
53:37
before that loss, was Devin Haney, where it was
53:39
overturned. The fight before that is Oscar Duarte
53:42
in, like, what, 2023? 2023. That's the last time
53:46
he legitimately... Won a fight fair and square.
53:50
Nothing being overturned. Not a loss. Last time
53:53
he was in a championship bout was, I believe,
53:55
with Tank. And he lost too. No, wasn't Rowley
53:58
for... I meant the time before that too. So all
54:03
championship fights that he had, he lost. So
54:08
we'll see what happens with Barrios. I generally
54:12
think this is going to be the time he becomes
54:14
champ. He really has to. A, the universe needs
54:19
to make it happen before Virgil gets a world
54:21
title fight. B, that's the number one way to
54:27
get a Devin Haney rematch or to run it back with
54:29
Rowley. One thing I will say is that Mario Barrios,
54:38
he's coming into imminent enemy territory. I
54:41
will say, though. Haney -Ryan unification does
54:46
a crazy gait. Oh, yeah. 100%. Crazy gait. Crazy
54:51
gait review. That's a crazy gait. That's a crazy
54:54
fight, like, commercially. People are not going
54:58
to remember Mario Barrios, or they're not going
55:00
to remember Roley if Ryan knocks out Mario Barrios,
55:04
who is arguably might be better than Roley in
55:08
terms of skill. He's better than... Well, if
55:11
you use Tank as the measuring stick, one, like,
55:14
kept it close with Tank down the stretch. The
55:17
other guy got nuked in as soon as Tank got sick
55:21
of carrying him. Yeah. I gotta say that. I think
55:27
Mario Barrios, if he wins, he's gotta knock out
55:29
Ryan. He can't go wait for it, Ryan, because
55:32
someone's... Tim Cheatham's gonna put a fucking
55:34
7 -5 Ryan card in there. Or, like, 9 -3. I don't
55:40
even care if Mario Barrios got robbed low -key
55:43
after the double draw robbery. The drawberry,
55:47
as Leo says. Yeah, the drawberry. Two consecutive,
55:52
by the way, drawberries. But I have not... I
55:57
can see it happening. I can see some shit happening.
55:59
It'd be really funny if he just has three fights
56:03
in a row that are all ridiculously controversial.
56:07
My thing is that Ryan's for sure going to get
56:09
that Devin Haney fight no matter what. Oh, yeah.
56:12
Whether it happens now or later. I don't know.
56:16
Or if it's even big. Yeah. You know? Because
56:20
if Ryan loses, I mean, Ryan is not... Obviously,
56:24
he's still a star, but he's not seen as how he
56:26
was years ago. He's not at that same level at
56:29
all. He fell from grace pretty hard. Yeah, he
56:33
fell from grace pretty hard. He's surviving off...
56:35
Going on kick streams with fucking some dude
56:37
named Oblivion. Who, again, he's a streamer.
56:41
But, I mean, he's not as big as the other guys
56:43
that are out there. Before he was doing Aiden
56:46
Ross and all this shit with fucking other people.
56:50
Jake Paul before. But, I mean, now he's doing
56:53
fucking with, what, Oblivion? He's scraping the
56:57
bottom of the barrel. And Ryan needs this win.
56:59
He needs it. And honestly... I think he sounds
57:01
pretty good. I haven't heard his Vice voice recently,
57:04
the one he had with Demi Haney. So that's pretty
57:06
good. I don't think he's drinking or partying
57:11
like crazy. You think he's locked in? I genuinely
57:14
think he's locked in. I think he was locked in
57:18
last time too, in a sense, but I think he uses
57:21
the excuse that he wasn't. I don't know. That's
57:24
my opinion of it. Granted, also, he's also popping
57:29
up on stream, so what the fuck do I know? I'm
57:31
a fucking boxing fan. I'm not an analyst like
57:32
fucking all these other guys. I'm in the fucking
57:36
gym every day. What the fuck do I know? He might
57:41
just be in it for the money. All very compelling
57:43
points that you made, both of you. I am going
57:47
to stand by. I would very much like for there
57:51
to be another draw. Simply because it's too fucking
57:55
funny. To have three draws in a row. Arguably
57:59
lost. More than likely. Probably did lose. But
58:05
you got a draw anyway. Oh my god. Let's not remember
58:11
that. The Fabian Maidana scores. Were also a
58:14
little wide. They were a little wide. Considering
58:19
that Maidana. Actually gave him trouble too.
58:23
So this is. Man, please, please, Ryan, free these
58:31
shackles. The Devin Haney rematch would be excellent
58:35
if it was a unification. It's probably going
58:38
to happen regardless. They're going to call it
58:42
the legendary unification fight, like how they
58:44
did with Crawford and Spence, Spence and Porter.
58:49
They're going to try to put it like, which it
58:52
will. It's going to be up there with. It's probably
58:54
one of the most popular welterweight unifications
58:56
in history. Yeah. But, I mean, I don't know.
59:00
If it happens naturally like that, I'll be happy.
59:03
But, I don't know. No tears will be shed for
59:08
Mario Barrios' title reign. No. Not at all. Not
59:13
even Omyra Figueroa's. Well, I don't think she's
59:18
even around anymore. No, they split up. What's
59:22
up with her now? She's back on the market, baby.
59:25
Oh, Leo. Leo, you got them B -sized connections
59:29
to Bob because he calls you up to B -fig. But
59:32
how good we've been talking about him. Like,
59:34
hey, introduce me to your sister. Oh, my God.
59:39
I wonder why they split up. That's actually kind
59:40
of interesting. Yeah, there's no rationale. All
59:44
I've found is social media posts saying something
59:47
like, I have stepped into the hardest role in...
59:51
In the world. Being a single mother. With no
59:56
mention of why. Maybe he left her. Because I
1:00:02
don't see him mentioning her. Yeah. I checked.
1:00:06
While we were watching the Figueroa fight. For
1:00:10
some reason. I got zoned in on it. And I checked
1:00:14
both of their stuff. And they scrubbed each other.
1:00:18
Jesus Christ. And they have a kid together too.
1:00:20
They do. Well, I don't know. Maybe he was, like,
1:00:25
doing some shit behind her back, or maybe she
1:00:28
was doing shit behind his back. But to scrub
1:00:30
like that with a kid, I don't know. That seems
1:00:32
kind of interesting. That's harsh. B -Sides drama.
1:00:38
Boxing B -Sides drama club over here. Yeah. Well,
1:00:42
I mean, after Saturday, when Ryan Garcia takes
1:00:47
Barrios' title, he'll still have a... The baby
1:00:51
will still have a world champion uncle. It's
1:00:56
a better role model. Yeah. And soon to be owner
1:01:03
of a podcast and ex -military. Stepfather. Why
1:01:12
not? Fuck it. I'm going for it. I gotta go to
1:01:16
Waslaco, Texas. Let's see. Last words on the
1:01:23
ring high stakes. High stakes? I'm hungry. The
1:01:30
real main event is Russell vs. Hiroko. The people's
1:01:37
main event. I wonder why it's not like a dual
1:01:40
headline. Or even like a PBC. I actually liked
1:01:46
when PBC did the two, two charlots in one night.
1:01:50
That was, that was a really, that was a really
1:01:52
good card and idea. But what I mean is like,
1:01:56
it's, it's on, it's on DAZN and PBC. Oh, have
1:02:00
it streaming on both networks. Yeah. I thought
1:02:04
you were talking about doing like the two, two
1:02:05
cards thing. And I'm like, ah, that was, that
1:02:08
was so good. No, like, seriously, it just fills
1:02:11
up. It was such a good idea, though, like, because
1:02:13
you basically have two good undercards, two good
1:02:15
mains, one price, all in one place on one afternoon.
1:02:21
It's great. Now we got that shit on the zone.
1:02:25
No, we don't. I wish we had. I wish we had cards
1:02:29
that good on the zone. Remember when Turkey said
1:02:32
he was going to do a pay -per -view for $25 and
1:02:35
then said it was going to be free? And then his
1:02:37
own remember when his own said pay -per -view
1:02:38
was dead and then gave Tevin Farmer six million
1:02:41
billion dollars. I think I saw a video the other
1:02:44
day of a generational boxing one. It was fucking
1:02:46
about Tevin Farmer. I was like, okay, I'm not
1:02:48
watching this shit. Oh, I saw that exact like
1:02:50
TikTok and I was like, we're really glazing Tevin
1:02:53
Farmer right now. Yeah. What's this? What's this
1:02:58
shit? I mean, I'll respect Tevin Farmer. Respect
1:03:01
to him like over earning and overachieving. But
1:03:04
like. The latter, like, half of his career is
1:03:10
literally just, like, Eddie Heard throwing money
1:03:13
away. And then Floyd Schofield becoming the king.
1:03:19
All right, one more card before we get out of
1:03:22
here. Sunday, February 22nd, Salida promotions
1:03:27
on DAZN in Detroit. Oh. There's really only one
1:03:35
fight on here that really matters. Clarissa Shields,
1:03:39
the undisputed heavyweight champion. Oh, this
1:03:43
is at heavyweight too? Yeah. Oh man, Cruz Dizern
1:03:47
is going to be immobile. Rematching Franchon
1:03:52
Cruz Dizern. They've made their pro debut against
1:03:55
each other. Fuckin' 2016. What was that at like...
1:04:03
Super welterweight? Super middleweight. Heavyweight
1:04:09
is such a... This is the fakest division ever
1:04:11
to exist in boxing. Women's heavyweight? Women's
1:04:14
heavyweight. Oh my god. Like, I can't... For
1:04:21
the record, Cruz Dizern is getting dragged up
1:04:23
from super middleweight for this fight. Like...
1:04:29
Man. Like, Clarissa really, I don't think she
1:04:34
has better uses of her time, frankly, but I also
1:04:38
don't think getting mad when people say no one
1:04:40
watches your fights is also, like, there's both,
1:04:44
this is a rare, like, both sides of a fighter's
1:04:48
validity in regards to viewership argument are
1:04:51
actually correct. I really wish Shadesha Green
1:04:55
didn't suck. If she didn't suck, we would have
1:04:57
had... It would have been actually a pretty good
1:04:59
name for a shield. But, uh, no. The... Just to
1:05:06
add to the, like, calling this the fakest division,
1:05:10
the different sanctioning bodies have the weight
1:05:15
the same, and I believe it's 175. Some of them
1:05:19
call that heavyweight, others call that light
1:05:21
heavyweight. But, uh, yeah. Oh, shit! The WBF?
1:05:25
title's gonna be on the line too oh my god holy
1:05:31
shit oh my god dude i'm just oh my god i'm just
1:05:39
so over like this isn't like a fighter i can
1:05:43
say when will you fight anyone good like no when
1:05:45
will someone good appear at your weight class
1:05:46
before you age out she is currently 30. I know,
1:05:54
which means we got like 10 more years for someone
1:05:57
else to pop up who's okay. By age 45, I think
1:06:06
she'll be beatable by the people around her,
1:06:08
though. BoxRec only has one page of women's heavyweights.
1:06:17
Only 49 women on those. And only four, no, five,
1:06:25
hold on, only six with winning records above
1:06:29
1 -0. Yeah, a good chunk of these are 0 -2, 0
1:06:35
-3. 9 -12 -1, 16 -38 -0. 16 -38 -0 is such an
1:06:45
entertaining record because how did you fight?
1:06:48
You're just fighting people who don't exist.
1:06:52
Actually, never mind. Wait, she's at heavyweight
1:06:56
right now, but she did fight Amanda Serrano in
1:06:59
2011 at 126. 15 years ago, man. Holy shit. That's
1:07:08
how dire it is. We have featherweights fighting
1:07:10
at heavyweight. The number two ranked heavyweight
1:07:14
is a 7 -0, what is that, Colombian. She's 24
1:07:17
years old. You know what? Might as well just
1:07:19
throw her in. Throw her in with shields. There's
1:07:23
no other. She's 24, considering the rest of the
1:07:28
top five is above age 35. Yeah, and this Colombian
1:07:32
chick, she's been heavyweight the whole time,
1:07:35
so it's not like she's moving up from... Maybe
1:07:38
the size. Maybe the size will do it. I don't
1:07:44
know. I think Shields still has another 15 years
1:07:47
before she becomes beatable. No one's going to
1:07:51
be touching her. She's got another 15 years.
1:07:56
That's a crazy thing to think, though. It's not
1:08:00
even hyperbolic when I say that she has 15 years
1:08:04
on this planet before she becomes beatable. Yeah,
1:08:10
any fights that she takes from now to then, she's
1:08:15
not going to be taking any damage. No. Realist,
1:08:19
if she wanted to keep going to age 50, she could
1:08:22
still be competitive at age 50. She hasn't taken
1:08:26
any damage in her career. She's skilled on top
1:08:30
of being athletic, but the skills still remain
1:08:32
even as that wanes. It's not like there's any
1:08:35
power to fade. Yeah, there was the talk of paying
1:08:40
Layla Ali to come out of retirement just to make
1:08:43
some kind of compelling fight. I think she has
1:08:48
to start doing the George Foreman seven women
1:08:52
in one night. Just line up seven women for her
1:08:56
to fight back to back to back to back. I'd watch
1:08:59
it. I'd watch it and you don't even have to fill
1:09:03
in an undercard. That's the card. The only ones
1:09:06
who really have a chance are at the end. Yeah,
1:09:09
at the end. You put the best opponents at the
1:09:11
end, and that's how you do it. It's not even...
1:09:14
I can't even... Most fighters, you can come up
1:09:18
with a reason to slander them. Clarissa Shield
1:09:20
has no... Zero people within 50 pounds of her
1:09:24
that can give any sort of reasonable challenge.
1:09:28
It's just hilarious, honestly. Maybe she should
1:09:32
have stayed an amateur, honestly. Until recently.
1:09:37
She probably could have had another Olympic medal.
1:09:40
Yeah, probably could have gotten endorsements.
1:09:44
Yeah, more endorsements, another Olympic medal,
1:09:46
and then still turn pro and have the same career.
1:09:49
And the 200K for making the Olympic team. Yeah.
1:09:53
She would have had the same career no matter
1:09:55
what moment she turned pro in. So, like, I don't
1:09:59
know. The fact that we're even discussing this
1:10:02
instead of the quality of the fight itself speaks
1:10:04
volumes with her at this point. Yep. There's
1:10:09
not a whole lot to say on it, because Clarissa's
1:10:12
going to whip that ass, and that's pretty much
1:10:14
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Warrington. Nah, we're doing Antoine Russell
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and Andy Hiroka. That's the weekend we got. Parting
1:13:32
words. I hope Ryan Garcia wins because that'll
1:13:41
mean a Devin Haney rematch is... Almost certain.
1:13:45
Or maybe he could fight Brian Norman Jr.? Well,
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no. I had to throw him in there, guys. I'm sorry.
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Get him out of here. On a real note, the people's
1:13:59
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1:14:02
I really hope that fight is as good as it promises.
1:14:07
Because that's such an easy fight of the year.
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Contender. Just on paper. Alright. That's going
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to do it for this edition of the Boxing B -Sides.
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We'll see you on the other side of Garcia Barrios.