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[BxBD] Taylor-Serrano 3, Berlanga-Sheeraz, Zayas-Perez · Boxing B-Sides

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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. Boxing before
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dark. What time is it where you are? Is it dark
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there? Zero dark dirty for you? Lux pods. Whatever
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the number is. 833. Lux pods. We're here to talk
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a whole lot of fucking boxing. And there's a
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lot of bit in the news. Here's a fun one. Speaking
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of stuff you've never heard of. Kenneth Lover.
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Yeah. My new face of the half year has broke
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the rankings. I was super excited when I saw.
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He's number 9 by the IBF and number 15 by the
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WBC. He's definitely not ready for a world title,
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but it's cool to see him on the list. What weight
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class is he at again? Same as Nakatani. 18. Yeah,
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118. So, yeah, I think... 15, he's under Nakatani's
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belt. And who has the IVF? Didn't Nakatani just
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win that one too? Yeah, I think he's on both
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Nakatani's list, which is not good. Yeah, that's
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not a place you want to be if you're trying to
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contend for legitimacy. I think somebody said
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he's also high up on the Asia Pacific stuff.
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Which is much more his level. I'm hoping he gets
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one of those kind of regional belts soon. I thought
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he won the OPBF in his last time out. Did he?
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I'm so bad at news. I was trying so hard because
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I didn't want to do the same stuff as we did
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over on B -Sides. Well, this is coming out first,
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so... Well, it doesn't matter which order you
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have to listen to me say the same thing twice,
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does it? True. Ah, you're right. He did get the
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OPV. Interesting. OPVF Phantom Way Champion.
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Nice. Maybe that's why he broke the list. Yeah,
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getting yourself on those regionals does put
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you into the... get you into the world rankings
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as well yeah i was thought it was cool to see
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that and that tomoya su boy who was my pick last
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year he's number 15 uh with the wbo so all right
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my yearly picks are good you guys should listen
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to me yeah yeah if your people are getting ranked
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Those are like gambles, too, because it's people
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nobody's ever heard of. Yeah. Pretty obscure
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picks, but for me, it's like Emiliano Vargas.
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Wow, you really went out on a limb with that
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one. I do sometimes think your picks are not
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new faces, for sure. Yeah, I should probably
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do better about that. It's more fun. This way,
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when he wins a title and like... three or four
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years, I can be like, I fucking told you guys.
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And if he doesn't, everybody forgets that you
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ever said anything about him anyway. Yeah, we'll
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send a Lux award. Yeah. It'll be like a medallion,
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I think. That's what I'm thinking anyway. Rather
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than a trophy. Papercraft. Like a small child
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makes. Could do. But we've got... I think I could...
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Make something moderately nice. You could make
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something much better. If I made it, it would
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be cardboard on a ribbon. Speaking of hanging
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on ribbons, Boxer, the 2X, they find a home at
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BBC. What is this about? The bomb linked a couple
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stories that they're trying. They're trying to
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work something out with BBC and their streaming
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service. Are they ITV or something? IFL? I can't
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remember now. I think ITV is right. So I guess
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they'd probably have, like, some... I guess they'd
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have some on, like, regular TV, but then on the...
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The iPlayer is what it is. The BBC iPlayer. It's
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like Peacock for ABC. So I suspect a lot of it
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would probably be on the internet streaming rather
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than on actual television. But that would be
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kind of cool to get it back on TV, I think. Like,
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just boxing in general. Yeah, that seems to be
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the direction that parties are taking. He's trying
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to get it back onto broadcast television. Or
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at least a modern equivalent. Yeah, or at least,
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like, less pay -per -view bullshit. Less paywalls.
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Yeah. Like, having a... I don't know how England
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works, but in Canada, like, everybody gets CBC.
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And the streaming for CBC is... free as long
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as you're in Canada. But CTV is one where you
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have to have a cable subscription or a new version
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of a cable subscription, but then you just sign
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in and you get a bunch of extra shit. That's
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nice. Yeah, actually for Canadian listeners,
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I used to watch a bunch of BBC television on
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CBC Jam as their streaming thing. Because they
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have some sort of two -way deal. You can also
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get Aussie TV. Some of that's pretty fun. I think
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it's Commonwealth. Maybe that's why there's the
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interchangeability. Yeah, it's the government
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-owned Commonwealth ones have all made deals.
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ABC and CBC. Also, apparently Eubank Jr. has
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signed with Boxer. Yeah, he's been signed with
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Boxer. Yeah, okay. Old news. Yeah, but we'll
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be talking about him in a second. Turkey and
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Taken. Not playing nicely. Yeah, so that card
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in December was supposed to be Japan versus Mexico.
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And that's kind of fallen through. I guess they
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don't have enough Mexico -specific competition
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for the Japanese boxers they want. so then turkey
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has been trying to put together japan versus
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the world instead but it sounds like he doesn't
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like dealing with honda at taken i assume he's
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not bootlicking enough would be the problem so
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turkey put out a couple uh veiled Not very veiled
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tweets about how unless Taken plays ball nicer,
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he might have to scrap Japan versus the world
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as well. I don't know. I kind of like Taken not
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just bowing the knee. I like it too. Big episode,
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Mr. Honda. Yeah. So. I don't know. I do kind
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of like when they do... the country rivalries
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to an extent, but I could see it being really
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bad when Turkey tries to do it. Yeah, because
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he's going to want Inoue and Nakatani and other
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belt holders, and Mexico doesn't really have
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that level of competition, so you're going to
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have to go a little lower down the ladder if
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you want to have competitive fights. I would
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say you'd have to pick some relatively unknown
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guys. Yeah, I think Japan versus the world works
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right now. It does. There's a few Argentinian
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boxers in those lower levels. There's Filipinos.
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There's... I don't know who else. But, like,
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if you... There's enough Japanese talent right
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now to be one side of the cards, I think. Like,
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high -level talent. And then you get everybody
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else. I think that would be kind of fun, but...
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I mean, I also don't want Honda to just be like,
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yeah, like everybody else seems to be. Yeah,
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like most people, most promoters. Yeah. It does
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also appear that Hayato Tsutsumi is getting a
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belt shot on that card. I don't think he can
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win, but I guess that's cool. How do I know this
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Tsutsumi? He's the one that fights on the Ioka
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cards. I think he's 130. Yeah, he fights at 130.
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So he's ranked number 3 by the WBA. I don't see
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him on anybody else's rankings. He's really not
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that good. Like, he's not bad, but he's not that
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good. Oh shit, you know who else is ranked at
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130? Ogawa is up to number two for the WBO belt.
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Good. Navarrete kills him, but I would love to
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see him. He's also made the WBC rankings again.
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Somebody else just called out Nav. I'm trying
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to remember who it was. It's the... We'll talk
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about him in a little bit. The dude on Probox,
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the Mongolian, Sembitar, or Danabot? Oh, yeah,
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yeah. Fuck, that'd be a fun fight. I would watch
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the shit out of that fight. I think Sembitar
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is going to have trouble adapting to the unorthodox
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sort of approach that Nav brings to the table.
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Oh, yeah. I think... Navarrete probably wins
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it, but I just think it'd be a bit of a banger.
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Yeah, it would be fun. A lot of fun. Oh, you
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know, speaking of fun, and getting a second round
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of fun, not happening. Eubank, Ben, the rematch
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seems like it's off. Dead in the water. That's
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too bad, because the first fight was fucking
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incredible. I have to say, I don't really blame
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Eubank if they're enforcing the same weight and
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the same rehydration clause. Yeah, the same.
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Like, if he had made that .05, he wouldn't have
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had a rehydration clause. Yeah, but he's not
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going to make that .05. And with all the fucking
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fines he got and all that stuff, I really...
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That's a lot of money to lose. For .05. But they
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also fined him for using the sauna. What? He
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had to pay a sign for the British Boxing Board
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of Commission because saunas aren't allowed in
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their rule set. What? He's not the first person
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to get fined for this. You're not allowed to...
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You're just not allowed to use saunas, I think,
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for the weight cut. What? What? This is blowing
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my mind. Is this how BBBOC, is this how they
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stay open by fining people for using saunas all
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the time? Yeah, he's not the first person to
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get this fine, like, recently. Yeah, I would
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be surprised if he was. This has to be like a
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low -level parking ticket. It's like $20 or something.
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So he's like, man, fuck. I'm just gonna pay.
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Just because I want to avoid the headache. I
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can't find how much they fined him for that.
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Because he lost 375 ,000 pounds. Not dollars.
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Pounds. For the .05 of a pound he was over. He
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got fined... 100 ,000 pounds for the egg slap.
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That's his own fault. That's his own fault, and
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he can avoid that one again. But I'm just saying,
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he lost... Like, that's... In American dollars,
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that's gotta be well over... Half a mil. Like...
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I was gonna say 600 ,000. Plus whatever the fine
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for the sauna is. I can't find an amount while
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we're talking here, but... But I know he got
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fined for that as well. And he's kind of a fucking
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idiot for this one because he posted that video
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of him trying to make weight that showed him
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in a sleeping bag in a sauna. A sleeping sauna?
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Like a sauna bag? Yeah, yeah. So... 10 ,000 pounds
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for misuse of social media. Is what they... Oh,
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come on. They tagged him for that? Sorry, one
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second. That's absurd. Chris Eubank Jr. fined
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for misuse of social media after sauna controversy
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before the Conor Benn fight. He was handed a
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10 ,000 pound fine for misuse of social media.
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Maybe because of how much he was trying to cut.
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It was irresponsible of him to be making it public.
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Like the methodology and... I don't know. I'm
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trying to rationalize this somehow. I suspect...
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I suspect that they can find more for that than
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the sauna, perhaps. And they just wanted to tag
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him for more money. But I do know the sauna use
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is banned by the BBOC. However many B's that
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was. Triple B. Yeah. Those guys. Lame. Speaking
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of lame. Okay, yeah. That's all I can find. So
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maybe they didn't find him for the sauna. They
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just find him for social media. Hmm. For broadcasting,
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like, irresponsible cutting methods or something,
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or dangerous cutting. I mean, for shit that boxers
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put on social media, that's pretty tame. Yeah,
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it's definitely not the worst thing that you
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could be posting. And I know it's not boxing,
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but he's not posting his dick with weights on
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it. Want to hear more about that? Check out Ultimate
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F and Casual. Oh yeah, we'll be talking about
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that for sure. Yeah, speaking of lame, Francisco
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Rodriguez, remember his adverse pop, adverse
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testing? Yeah. His test came back for heptaminal.
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I don't know that one. Do you know what it is?
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I do. I have it in the notes here. Heptaminal
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is a stimulant. That is, in addition to being
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used as a masking agent for other BEDs, it in
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itself is known to boost athlete stamina, increase
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blood flow to muscles, and combat fatigue and
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boost alertness. Sounds like popping for real
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then. Yeah. So this was, it could have been masking
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something worse. Or even in itself. This in itself
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is a straight up PED. And all the combat fatigue
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and boost alertness. He was beating Yafai's ass.
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Yeah. That sucks. I was really hoping it was
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going to be weed. Something stupid. Yeah. Like
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cough syrup or something. Ridiculous. Yeah. Nah,
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that really does put an asterisk on that ass
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-beating. Doesn't undo it for Yafai, though.
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Yeah, it doesn't undo it for Nova, either. What's
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that? You gotta go to Discord to know what that's
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about. But, definitely does have to be taken
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off the official record. Yeah, no contest, at
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least. At least. Do you know how long it's been
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since Layla Ali fought? No, but it must be a
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long time. It's been a while. I know it has been.
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Jeez. 2007. Good lord. So what's that? 18 years?
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Yeah. She's been retired for a whole adult? Her
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retirement can vote. God damn. If she comes back
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and beats Clarissa Shields, that's better than
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Manny beating Barrios, hands down. How old is
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Layla? Born in 77. This is too much math for
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my brain. 1248? So she's older than Pacquiao,
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too. Yeah. She does not look that old. Holy shit.
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She looks good. But this is that slippery slope
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that I was talking about when you just start
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letting retired folks come back and fight champions.
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It's bullshit. I don't think Clarissa Shields
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is gonna hurt Layla Ali, like, life -altering
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hurt. Dangerous levels of hurt. But, if they
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keep letting people do this, somebody's gonna
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get hurt that bad eventually. Yeah, she's almost
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50, hasn't competed, like, she hasn't competed
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longer than her entire career span. She competed
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from 99 to 07. So what, eight years? She's been
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retired twice as long. And change. Yeah. I don't
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know, man. I don't like it. I don't like it.
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Explains why they had her doing the commentary
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on the women's card, though. Get her back in
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people's minds. Yeah, they were talking about
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her putting a huge price tag on her return, and
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they were able to secure the money. And so they
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kind of called her bluff. Yeah, I can't see her
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backing down from... $15 million. Fuck, I'd take
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an ass -kicking for $15 million. Yeah, so would
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I. I would take a hell of an ass -kicking for
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$15 million. I would take an ass -kicking for
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less. This is true. Alright, fair play. Like
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I said, I don't think she's going to get hurt
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that badly. I don't think it's as dangerous as
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Pacquiao coming back. No. Clarissa Shields isn't
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notorious for putting beatdowns on people. She
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schools them up, but doesn't really batter or
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knock people out in really heavy ways. Well,
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and she's much smaller. Like, what's Clarissa
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Shields' 5 '8"? According to BoxRec and Ali...
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Oh, she's only 5 '10". She always seems so much
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bigger. Never mind. I take it back. Hmm. Shields
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is 5 '10"? Shields is 5 '8". Layla Ali is listed
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as 5 '10 on BoxRec. I always thought she was
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6' tall. I guess she probably always wears heels
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when I see her on TV. Anyways, don't like it.
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This is all setting a bad precedent. Somebody's
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gonna end up real hurt. Yeah. You know, speaking
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of things that I... that I do like... but it
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comes from somebody I don't like. The worst person
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you know just made a good point. Turkey. Go ahead.
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No more pay -per -views for any card, any ring
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or Riyadh season card. That's not what he said,
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though. It's not? No, he wants a tiered subscription
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system on DAZN. And if you pay for the ring tier
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that's more expensive, you don't pay for ring
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pay -per -views. Oh, what the fuck? So basically
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you're buying a battle pass, is how Damel put
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it, and it makes sense. Yes, DLC. But, yeah,
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but then the ring just has somebody else promote
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the fucking fight. Make it a Queensberry card
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and it's pay -per -view again. Yeah. Yeah, no,
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what you thought it was is really cool, but that's
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not what they're proposing. Or my understanding
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is that they want to tier system the Zone subscription
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and you get the pay -per -views in your more
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expensive subscription. Depending on the price
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point, it really could be worth it. And depending
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on if it is just ring pay -per -views or if it's
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all pay -per -views onto Zone. That is a lot
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of questions that need to be answered before
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I can say this sucks. Well, it does seem to suck,
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but we'll see how badly it sucks. But, like,
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let's say you're... I assume it's going to be
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a year subscription. I don't understand how they
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would do this monthly. So let's say your year
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subscription includes the cost of three pay -per
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-views. DAZN puts up three pay -per -views a
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year that I pay for anyways, realistically. So
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then it's still a fine deal because I'm going
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to spend that much money at least. But if it's
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like the price of six pay -per -views, DAZN does
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not put up six pay -per -views that I pay for.
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Right. So they've already started doing those
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weird packages. They don't do that here in Japan,
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but you were saying that you bundled Usyk and
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something? When you do pay -per -views, you can
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buy more than one at a time. And it's a cost
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savings, I assume? Yeah. I mean, that's better
25:30
than nothing, I suppose. Yeah. But I did see
25:36
something on there like the Club World Cup has
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been added to your subscription or whatever.
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I got FIFA, I thought. I don't know. That's what
25:48
the Club World Cup is, is FIFA. Oh, okay. Shows
25:51
how much I know about soccer. But yeah, they
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added that to my subscription as well. And I
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pay specifically for the combat sports option
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in Japan. Which I really like. I wish they did
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that in Canada as well. Because it wasn't an
26:08
option. In Canada, you just have to pay for the
26:10
subscription. But here they have a combat sports
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only one, which is kind of treated like the base
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one, I think. And then you add on baseball and
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soccer and other things as you want them. that's
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kind of what i'm thinking ring and yeah turkey
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wants to do is an extra the difference is here
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in japan it's just way cheaper like my combat
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sports one is 990 not 999 just 990 yen a month
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not sure why they also don't do the yearly subscription
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here um which i I haven't seen that for anything.
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So I assume that maybe there's some Japan legislature
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that you have to be able to cancel every month.
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But that's me guessing. I have no idea. Probably
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like a consumer protection thing. Yeah. Oh, man.
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LEO33862. Buzz, motherfucker. Fun. All right,
32:01
recent shit. Friday, July 11th. MVP. Madison
32:07
Square Garden. This was the women's card. I still
32:13
have not caught any but the main event. Is there
32:20
anything on the undercard that really stood out?
32:26
That really stood out? Overall, I was... Tongue
32:35
-tied. Pleasantly surprised by the card. We mostly
32:39
covered this when I was covering on B -side,
32:42
so I don't want to repeat myself too much. Romla
32:46
Ali got gifted that unanimous decision. I don't
32:51
think she won at all. Shadesia Green versus Savannah
33:00
Marshall. I just want to brag about being the
33:02
only person calling that upset on the pick league
33:05
again. Baumgartner, kind of lackluster performance,
33:12
in my opinion, yeah. I expected her to have a
33:16
better showing. But she did win, so a win's a
33:20
win. Ellie Scottney looked good. Very convincing,
33:27
unanimous decision. I kind of thought everybody
33:30
knew who Ellie Scottney was, but apparently not.
33:34
A lot of people on Discord didn't recognize her.
33:37
She's pretty good. I mean, she's a unified champion.
33:46
And then I'm the opposite of you. I still haven't
33:49
watched the main event because everybody said
33:51
it was kind of boring. Kind of. Underwhelming.
33:55
If only Jacob was here, he'd be telling us about
33:57
Chernika. Johnson, the Australian fighter that
34:02
went for Undisputed and won. Nice. Very cool.
34:09
Where are you, Jacob? Wherefore art thou? Yeah,
34:16
no. Overall, good card. I still think that you
34:22
don't need these gendered cards. Yeah, it didn't
34:25
have to be an all -women's event to have women
34:28
headlining. Yeah. I don't know. I've mentioned
34:33
that a few times as well. I don't think I have
34:36
anything else to add, really. Unless we want
34:40
to try and do some future matchups. But I really
34:47
don't know enough about the women's boxing to
34:49
do a good job of that. No, it really does work
34:53
out the way that you had put it originally leading
34:56
up to this, is that now that all of these women
34:58
have fought, They don't really... There are no
35:03
good women's fights to put on. Like, Clarissa
35:05
Shields fights soon. Cool. But that's it. That's
35:09
all we got. Mimi fights in August, but she's
35:12
not a big name yet. She's just somebody that
35:14
we like. Yeah. But... And... Kind of derailing
35:21
again. But... Why is she on UFC Fight Pass all
35:25
the time? I don't get it. It's 360 Promotions.
35:27
That's where they have their broadcast deal.
35:30
Oh. Well, that sucks. It does. I don't like it.
35:35
I want her on actual, like... Something I can
35:38
watch. Good boxing cards that, yeah, I can watch
35:42
the way I like to watch boxing. DAZN, YouTube,
35:47
fucking... I don't really care. Just not UFC
35:50
Fight Pass. Yeah, ESPN. Yeah. I still like ESPN,
35:56
but... I just don't want to give UFC money. No,
36:03
me neither. Terrible organization. Quickly on
36:10
the main event, it was boring. It was a bit of
36:15
a letdown because you have the... The shadow
36:18
of the first two fights and just how action -packed
36:21
those were, you have that shadow hanging over
36:24
this one. So this one was, I think, was always
36:27
destined to be a little bit of a letdown. I mean,
36:31
generally, the third of any of the really close
36:35
trilogies is the worst fight. Yeah. I think.
36:39
Like, that's pretty historically how it goes.
36:42
I was... You're always hoping it's gonna be as
36:46
good as the other ones, but, like, I mean, Gaddy
36:50
Ward 3 was kinda shit. In all honesty. Like,
36:54
it wasn't great until Gaddy broke his hand. Um,
36:59
what other trilogies do we got? Pacquiao Marquez.
37:03
Uh, the third one was not so great for Pacquiao,
37:06
after two really solid performances. Um, Fury
37:10
Wilder. Number three was pretty much a beatdown.
37:18
Usually by the third fight, somebody's figured
37:21
somebody out. Like I said, I didn't watch it,
37:26
but it kind of sounds like Katie Taylor figured
37:28
out how to negate Serrano a little bit. Yeah,
37:32
Serrano didn't really have any adaptations throughout
37:35
any of the fight. It's just like her plan was
37:39
to continue to come forward. tried to pressure
37:42
Katie Taylor when she could never just get in
37:45
range to do any pressuring. It's kind of... Katie
37:49
Taylor's a good boxer. Yeah. She has that yodeling
37:58
sort of voice break. Yeah, yeah. I don't want
38:07
to make fun of her because she had a brilliant
38:09
performance. I'm not going to make fun. Moving
38:14
to the 12th Golden Boy. I think it was marketed
38:19
as Golden Boy on DAZN. This was Ring 3. A lot
38:25
of shit on here that we talked about on B -Sides.
38:30
That'll be coming out later this week. So kind
38:33
of going to gloss over. Reito Tsutsumi gets a
38:37
stoppage in two over Michael Ruiz. This guy's
38:42
signed to the ring. He's like a ring promoted
38:47
fighter. Which is kind of weird. It is very weird.
38:51
I think. It's also kind of weird that they chose
38:55
him. I don't know. Sometimes I just don't understand
38:59
the random choices. Is this guy related to Hayato?
39:05
It's his little brother. Okay. Yeah. But not
39:12
related to Rey. No, Saya's... Oh, Saya. Saya's
39:17
different. Different entirely. I don't think
39:21
there's any relation at all. Speaking of no relations,
39:27
David Morrell had no relation to this victory.
39:30
He should be... He should be counting his lucky
39:35
stars that he got the decision. He was coming
39:38
on in the end, but... As we had talked about
39:40
on B -Sides, like, it's... He was a victim of
39:45
his own hubris, and it doesn't seem like he took
39:48
Kataev as seriously as he should have. Yeah.
39:55
I'm still... Because this is the one where Kataev
40:00
had the... He popped a long time ago, and they're
40:06
just suspending him now, right? It was something
40:10
weird. So, I don't know. I don't understand how
40:15
any of that worked out. But... Anyways. The fight
40:22
was actually pretty fun. I liked this one. It
40:24
was enjoyable. Just, man, David Merrill was fighting
40:27
like a fucking moron at times. It was frustrating.
40:32
Different styles and everything else, but it
40:35
reminded me of how much Beck the Bully pisses
40:37
me off. Same stupid decisions. Yeah. Yeah, that's
40:44
a very good way to put it. Why do you keep doing
40:48
this? Why are you doing this to me? I don't understand.
40:52
Just stop being dumb. Here's an interesting one.
40:58
Subaru Matias, coming into this eighth rated
41:02
in the WBC versus Alberto Pueyo, the champion.
41:08
Wins the majority of the decision. Super close
41:11
fight. Kind of a tale of two halves? Two, three,
41:15
or thirds? What do you think? Because Matias,
41:20
his pressure was solid in the beginning. Pueyo
41:23
was having spots of success. You could say he
41:26
won a round or two, maybe. But all the middle
41:30
rounds were all Matias. And then Pueyo came back
41:35
at the end. Yeah. Yeah, the... Kind of three
41:42
to seven, I think, was mostly Matthias. Yeah.
41:47
And then, you know, depending on which other
41:50
couples you gave them or didn't. I thought the
41:55
judging was pretty fair. Yeah, it was close.
41:58
I don't think it's a robbery or anything. No,
42:01
definitely. It's really hard to call it a robbery
42:03
when one had it a draw and the other two had...
42:06
had matthias winning by one round yeah so it's
42:11
a good fight uh i like that i liked it but i
42:18
don't know matthias is just i want him to be
42:24
good but he's not that good he's just a power
42:27
puncher he's not just a power puncher but he's
42:30
mostly just a power puncher he's mostly a pressure
42:33
fighter that has Extreme power. Yeah. Yeah. And
42:38
he does not deviate from the plan. He does not
42:42
adjust. Yeah. Yeah. Which is what I think made
42:46
the fight much closer towards the end, was Pueo
42:50
was able to make adjustments, even though he
42:53
struggled to find the adjustment throughout the
42:57
middle of it. Well, all three judges did give
43:01
Pueo the last two rounds. A little too late.
43:10
Yeah, I think if they fought again, Pueyo wins,
43:12
but who knows. Yeah, conventional thinking, just
43:18
because Pueyo's the type that can make adjustments,
43:21
and because he lost, Matias has the mentality
43:25
like, I won. I don't have to do anything differently.
43:29
I just have to do the same thing. Yeah, well,
43:33
and like you said, I don't think Matias really
43:35
does anything differently ever. Yeah, he doesn't
43:38
do it anyway. Speaking of doing something differently,
43:44
Shakur Stevenson gets the... Actually put on
43:48
an exciting fight. Yep, he put on a fucking clinic
43:52
over William Zepeda. At least the cards would
43:56
have you think it's a clinic, being, what, 11
43:58
-1 and 10 -2? I don't think those are good cards.
44:03
Shakur definitely won, but not that wide. I don't
44:08
think. I think Zapata won at least three rounds.
44:11
Maybe four. At least three. Yeah. You don't think
44:18
so? Four is a stretch for me. Three, I can see
44:24
that. But I don't see that as having been a very
44:29
close fight. Ah, no, I said it wasn't close,
44:33
but he won more than one round. Yeah, yeah, he
44:37
did. Definitely did. Two or three. I mean, it
44:41
makes no difference, but... Zepeda seemed to
44:49
have the same... He had the same problem that
44:53
we were just talking about with Subaru Matias.
44:56
He doesn't do anything differently. But we know
45:01
that about Zepeda. Yeah. That's not a surprise.
45:07
I do think Zepeda did better than people were
45:10
expecting. Yes. Like, not that that really matters,
45:16
but I kind of think it does. I think maybe people's
45:19
opinion of Zepeda slightly got raised by putting
45:23
on a good fight with Shakur. Yeah, but how well
45:28
are you going to perform in what you're walking
45:30
into? Essentially, you're walking into a loss
45:33
here. Just probably the way the styles play out,
45:36
like unless Shakur gets hurt and he can't fight
45:40
back or you just lightning in a bottle. Those
45:44
are pretty much your two hopes here. But the
45:49
Peta didn't give up either. No, he tried to win
45:52
that fight the whole time. Yes, he did. but shakira
45:56
is just too good i think i probably said this
46:01
already too but it pisses me off to know that
46:03
he can fight like this and be exciting and be
46:06
somebody i would want to watch and he just chooses
46:09
not to yeah yeah a lot of people were saying
46:12
like look you see he can do it like yeah no i
46:15
always knew he could do it like i knew he could
46:20
but now i have proof that he can and he just
46:24
he said himself that he doesn't want to do that
46:27
again like he doesn't want to have to fight like
46:30
that again i think his his it's not a direct
46:34
quote but i think he used the words i took too
46:37
much damage that fight i'm like yeah you pro
46:41
like he took more damage than he usually does
46:43
100 but like you get paid millions of dollars
46:48
to do this Like, at least make it exciting for
46:52
the people who want to watch you. But I am not
46:55
his target audience. So other people love the
46:59
absolute boxing lessons, I guess. I generally
47:05
think Shakur fights are a little boring. But
47:08
he did put on a very exciting fight this time.
47:14
He chose to make it exciting, and it was. Speaking
47:20
of exciting, Hamza Shiraz knocks out Edgar Berlenga.
47:26
Holy fuck. I did not expect that to go like that
47:29
that quickly. I was shocked. Everything in my
47:36
body told me don't back Berlenga. Do not do it.
47:42
The guy's a fucking moron. Do not put your name
47:47
in the Berlenga hat. And what did I do? I put
47:51
my name in the Berlinga hat. Yeah. Like a fucking
47:55
idiot. Yeah. Big ups to Shiraz. That was a domination
48:04
from start to finish. That was a good performance.
48:10
And Shiraz looks so big in the ring. Yeah. He's
48:13
a fucking giant. I don't know how the fuck. How
48:16
was he making 160? That's crazy. Somebody said
48:20
he used to fight at 154. That must have been
48:24
a while ago. Yeah, he had to have been like a
48:27
teenager or something. Let's see. 2021 was his
48:33
last 154. How old is he now? 26. So, 22. Yeah.
48:44
But... No, I was really impressed with Shiraz.
48:48
And everybody's saying, well, he knocked out
48:49
Berlanga. Berlanga sucks. But, I mean, the way
48:53
he knocked him out was pretty impressive. He
48:55
took a bum to fucking school and beat his ass
48:59
and knocked him out. I mean, this is what you
49:01
want to happen when you have a quality fighter
49:04
who can't get the quality matchups. So you keep
49:07
having to feed him shit. So you make the shit
49:11
look shit. Yeah. What else do you want? What
49:17
more do you want from the guy? Goddamn Shiraz.
49:22
Now he's going to fight Canelo, they're saying?
49:26
I think he makes that legitimate. Well, he's
49:32
better than people Canelo has been fighting,
49:34
obviously. Yes. And anytime you fight somebody
49:39
and beat them better... than the person you want
49:43
to fight, I think that makes your name legitimate
49:45
in the discussion. I think Shiraz has put himself
49:50
where he is a legitimate Canelo opponent now.
49:53
I don't think Canelo fights him, though. No,
49:57
if Canelo's going to fight anybody who's a little
50:01
bit on the unheralded side, I think it'll be
50:03
Christian Mbili, just because Mbili's like a
50:06
one -trick pony. Yeah, well, and... It's... How
50:15
do I put it? Mbili's never had to show us how
50:18
good he really is, because he fights cans. I
50:23
don't think anybody really knows how good Mbili
50:25
is. So, I think he's less scary to Canelo. Because
50:31
Mbili just has power, mostly, as far as we can
50:34
tell. And Canelo's got a fucking all -time chin.
50:39
Like... Yeah. For the sake of time, if you want
50:47
to hear about the Pro Box card, you'll have to
50:49
wait for B -Sides because we talk about it there.
50:52
Unless you have anything you want to point out
50:54
in particular? No. All right. I don't think so.
50:57
All right. So moving into the previews, there
51:00
are two. There's Salida. It's headlined by Clarissa
51:06
Shields, Rosalani Daniels. Undisputed heavyweight
51:11
title fight. That's cool. Yeah. And Tony Harrison
51:16
is back on the undercard. Fucking top rank at
51:25
the theater at Madison Square Garden. There's
51:30
good stuff kind of sprinkled throughout. Juan
51:34
Mita Lopez is on towards the beginning. Emiliano
51:41
Vargas is going to be probably towards the end
51:43
of the prelims. Back out here, Jalalov. Jalalov's
51:48
a weird cat. I can't decide if I like him or
51:52
not. I mean, I usually always cheer for people
51:56
from these smaller countries, but I just can't
52:02
decide if I like this guy or not. He's fine.
52:08
He's talented, but he fights to the level of
52:12
his opposition, and it's unfortunately not that
52:15
good. So he doesn't seem to be all that great.
52:20
Yeah. Maybe that's kind of my problem with him.
52:25
He never looks outstanding. Yep. Never has to.
52:31
That's true. Moving up, Rohan Polanco. Heavy
52:38
-handed welterweight. Someone to keep an eye
52:40
on. This might have been the good new face, because
52:44
nobody really knows who Polanco is. Bruce Carrington
52:50
vs. Mateus Heita. Yeah. I don't really like Carrington
53:00
very much. Seems like a good dude, but yeah,
53:05
I don't really care for his fights. Yes, I don't
53:10
like his style very much is what I should say.
53:13
Yeah. Oh, is this for an interim belt? Yeah,
53:19
interim WBC. The full champion is Stephen Fulton.
53:25
That would probably be a little boring. Yeah,
53:32
that style matchup doesn't seem... There would
53:35
not be a lot of action. Yeah. And Fulton is the
53:39
type that will stay in the pocket with you if
53:43
he knows he's going to be able to make you look
53:45
dumb. So to his credit, he does stand with people.
53:52
But he needs somebody to engage for him to do
53:56
that. Like Brandon Figueroa, the perfect foil.
54:00
Yeah. Bruce Carrington, best of luck to you.
54:07
Mateus is 14 -0, so it looks good. It looks like
54:11
it's a good win, but I'm not too keen. Yeah,
54:15
he's only ever fought in Nambia. I don't know
54:18
how good his competition is for that 14. Yikes.
54:24
And Xander Zayas versus Jorge Perez. Perez, you
54:28
may remember, he just beat Charles Conwell on
54:31
the Golden Boy card. And now here he is. About
54:36
to win the fucking WBO super welterweight title.
54:39
Yeah. You think so? No, not really. Could do,
54:47
but I think Xander Zayas probably takes it. Yeah.
54:52
I'll be cheering for the upset, but... Love a
54:57
good upset story. And it's Puerto Rico versus
54:59
Mexico, so... Yeah, that's why I'm going for
55:02
the upset. That's it. That's it for the shit
55:11
coming up. Pretty late weekend next weekend.
55:15
Yeah, it's not going to be the best, but it's
55:19
all right, because after that, we'll have a good
55:22
August, or August, July 19th weekend to talk
55:31
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55:33
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at Little Caesars Arena. parting words the weekend
57:03
after that yeah i have big news no i have big
57:08
news sutsumi saya is uh working at a restaurant
57:12
serving burgers for a day on august 3rd are you
57:16
gonna go and yeah you don't have to buy tickets
57:18
or anything i uh i emailed the restaurant to
57:22
ask so i just gotta go line up and he has to
57:27
get a burger he'll be there yeah Is he going
57:30
to be working the fry cooker? I think he's being
57:34
the waiter for the day. He's serving you your
57:36
food. Is my understanding. He's been doing this
57:41
at restaurants around Japan. So I've been waiting
57:44
for him to come to Tokyo. While his eye was healing
57:48
up? Yeah. Doing some viral marketing. Also, I
57:54
think he just really likes burgers. Like half
57:57
of his Instagram is just him eating. burgers
58:00
and other meat dishes yeah yeah so he's selling
58:04
a um or this restaurant is selling maybe i don't
58:09
know who's selling it but there's an event t
58:11
-shirt you can buy when you get there i don't
58:14
think i'll buy the t -shirt they're pretty ugly
58:15
but i'm excited i am sure everybody else is not
58:22
uh or I'm a little weird, I guess, because I
58:27
fangirl so bad, but I never get to meet famous
58:31
people that I like. This will be the first time
58:33
in a long time. I've met a couple hockey players
58:36
that were retired, but I've never gotten to meet
58:38
a boxer. And Seiya's one of my absolute favorites.
58:43
Take your flag and get it signed. I should. You
58:48
should. I kind of forgot about my flag. The punch
58:51
burger flag. Yeah, I should. And I really hope
58:57
I can get an actual picture with him. He puts
59:01
up pictures of him with fans all the time. I'm
59:03
sure it won't be a problem. But I've been trying
59:05
to practice a little bit of Japanese. But they
59:08
did put the ad up in English as well. So maybe
59:11
people at the restaurant speak English. They'll
59:15
be able to help. Hopefully. Hopefully, yeah.
59:21
I'm so excited. I'm already like picking out
59:24
what clothes I should wear. Yellow shoes. Yeah,
59:29
I'm going to wear my yellow shoes and I'm going
59:31
to wear my cheer t -shirt. So that's all taken
59:33
care of. And I know which hat I'm going to wear.
59:36
But I don't know what pants or skirt to wear
59:40
is mostly my hang up now. I have a cheetah print
59:46
skirt that kind of feels... Tsutsumi style -ish
59:52
I might wear. I'll send you pictures. You can
59:56
tell me which one fits best. Alright. Well, if
1:00:01
that's it, then that's it for this edition of
1:00:03
Boxing Before Dark. My battery is getting low
1:00:08
and it is getting dark. The saddest fight off
1:00:15
ever.