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[BxBD] Jake Paul beats Chavez · Boxing B-Sides

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This shit ain't nothing to me, man. This is Boxing
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Before Dark. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Back. Back.
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Back. Back. Back. Before. Before. Before. Before.
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Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing Before Dark. This
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is Boxing Before Dark. I watched the one FC card
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last night. Holy shit. Those last three fights
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were all fucking amazing. Did they finish or
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were they decisions? So the... Okay, three. The
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first of the three was a decision and then the
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last two were fucking brutal knockouts. I'm gonna
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have to peep those. You're gonna have to. Like,
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highly recommend. The first one I'm talking about,
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I watched the whole card, but those last three
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are the ones I would recommend. The first one
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there, the one that went to decision, I don't
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know how that man kept standing. He was fucking
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eating bombs and then he ate like two kicks to
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the face. It was crazy. Thai people are different.
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Legitimately just built different. Yeah. And
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then spinning back fist knockout. Oh, that's
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cool. Yeah. What was the last one? The last one
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I think was just like a straight right, but he
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fucking out cold. It was crazy. Did you see any
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knockdown rule stoppages? No. I don't think I
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saw any knockdowns that anybody got up from.
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Like, if they went down, they were out. The co
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-main, I was like, why the fuck are you counting?
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Like, get this man to the hospital. The main
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event, they did not count. They, like, caught
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him mid -air. Like, no, stop. One of the referees
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seems like he has bloodlust. Does he just let
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everything go, the bald guy? I wasn't paying
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that kind of attention, I don't think. If you
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keep watching the cards, you'll definitely notice
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that he's a little bit more open to let things
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continue when they don't really have to. Need
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to. Yeah. Now, I was clicking through you next.
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I decided to use my free trial. It's the most
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expensive of the streamers, but it has boxing
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sometimes, and it's got a lot of other combat
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sports. That's cool. But it's also got the HBO
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stuff. The only problem is if you watch it in
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English, it's got hard -coded Japanese subtitles.
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It's not the end of the world, but if it's also
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on Amazon Prime, I can shut those off sometimes.
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Right. Yeah. But it's like... 2 ,000 yen a month.
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It's by far the most expensive. That's the most
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expensive? Yeah, I know, but like Amazon Prime
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is 600 and the DAZN one I have, the Combat Sports
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Only, is 1000. It's 10 bucks a month, Canadian.
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There's a Combat Sports Only DAZN subscription?
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In Japan there is. I don't get any of the, well,
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I think I get horse jumping. And I get FIFA World
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Cup for some reason. I just got an email saying
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they added it for free on my subscription. I
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guess trying to get me to pay for soccer. And
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I don't get the baseball either. Soccer and baseball,
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I think, are the big ones. And they're each kind
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of... You can get the total thing, which is probably
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$20 a month. Ah, okay. Or you can add baseball
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or soccer for an extra $5. I think if here it's
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20 for everything and like a lot of it I don't
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really want. Yeah. They had the combat sports
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only thing and I was like fuck yes please. The
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only combat sport they really show is boxing
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I think. I haven't seen much for MMA stuff. Alright.
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Cool. Canada Day. Yeah. July 1st. July 1st. Yeah.
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I just wanted to throw out a happy Canada Day
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to everybody. But today is July 4th when we're
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recording, isn't it? Yeah, I think this is United
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States Day. Yeah, I guess Independence Day makes
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sense for you guys because it was actually like
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a war type thing. But for Canada, it's just like,
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we signed a piece of paper today. Thanks, Dad.
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I got my own apartment. Yeah, 4th of July. I
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don't know. There's a lot of sales and stuff
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going on right now, but I don't know. I don't
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really care. I don't really do anything to celebrate.
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I like fireworks, so we would always drive to
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the fireworks when I was at home. And since my
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birthday is so late in June, it was always a
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long weekend after my birthday, usually for...
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July 1st. Worked out nicely. You know what else
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works out nicely? What? This transition. Boxing
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before dark. That was really good. Ah! The before
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dark. Ryan Garcia has been throwing some shade
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at Oscar De La Hoya. I saw he took it down a
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few hours after, but he was posting the fishnet
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pictures all over his socials again. Why? I think.
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Ryan Garcia is in a fight with Oscar. He's mad
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that he has whatever left on his contract. That's
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not fun. No. Of all the things that you're going
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to make fun of him for, make fun of him for being
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a shitty businessman or whatever. Call him that
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kind of thing. Bad promoter. Well, and especially
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in this day and age. And everybody's already
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seen them. It's not like it's a secret. This
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is nothing new to anyone. What's the point? Yeah.
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That's exactly right. If Oscar wants to wear
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ladies' clothes in his own time, who gives a
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shit? Go for it, buddy. Not my cup of tea, but
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you enjoy. Worst things you can do. Yeah. It's
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a weird angle to take, but I think Ryan Garcia
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is like a conservative type. So to him, this
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is like the ultimate emasculation or the ultimate
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humiliation. Yeah, I don't know. I don't get
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it, but whatever. You know, speaking of things
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that I don't get, Jake Paul. Oh, fuck. This made
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me sad. Why? Why sad? What's he done? Like, really,
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what's he done to be raided by any of the organizations?
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Who's he beaten? Tommy Fury? No. He didn't beat
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Tommy Fury. Oh, right! He lost to Tommy Fury.
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Like, who's he beaten that should get him ranked?
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Yeah. Like, if beating JCC Jr. is getting you
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ranked as a cruiserweight, like, fucking... That's
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sad. I mean, he's winning his fights. Are they
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spectacular? No. Should he be ranked 14th within
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title contention? No. But he's fine. He's winning
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his fights. They put whoever weirdo in front
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of him and he wins. Sure, but that... That shouldn't
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get you ranked. Especially not that highly. If
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they wanted to rank him like 50th or something,
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I don't give a shit. Even top 25, I guess. I
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don't know if I can name 25 cruiserweights, so
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sure. But top 15? No. Like... He should have
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to fight somebody else who's ranked as a cruiserweight
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before he gets in the top 15. On the UFC side
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of things, it's kind of similar, like where you
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climb up towards the top 15 and you don't necessarily
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have to beat someone who is ranked to become
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ranked. I'm not saying he needs to beat somebody
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ranked top 15. I mean like ranked top 30. Oh,
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just anything. In the system. Yeah. Like, I don't
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think he's beaten anybody that is in any ranking
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system in boxing. I don't think so. I don't think
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he has. So, like, to get top 15, I think he should
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have to beat somebody in the system. Yes. Like,
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top 40 even, I don't really care, but beat somebody.
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Like, he has jumped the line fucking madness
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with this for beating... Some old man who doesn't
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want to be there. Yeah. Like... I don't know.
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This pisses me off. The whole ranking system
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pisses me off. Manny Pacquiao is fighting for
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a title, like, in two weeks. Yep. Why? Again,
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he should have to fight somebody that's ranked
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recently. No legacy ranking. Well, like, to some
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extent. Like, if Manny Pacquiao beat somebody
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in the top 40, top 30, sure, I guess let him
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go fight Berrios. But he hasn't even fought a
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fight in, like, four years. And Jake Paul's never
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beaten anybody that's in the boxing system. Like,
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it's bullshit. Yeah, he's money. Yeah, I mean,
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like, I don't like Jake Paul, but if he wants
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to go fight these circus fights or whatever,
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sure. And I do have to say his promotion aspect
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has grown on me. Like, he's putting good fighters
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in getting lots of people watching them. Fine.
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But leave the fucking ranking system out of it.
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Yeah, you're either like a sideshow attraction
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or you're not. And if you don't want to be, that's
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fine. But do it like everybody else does. Like,
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yeah, he's only had whatever it is, 8 or 12 or
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however many boxing matches. But if you want
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to get ranked, start at the bottom. Beat other
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contenders on the ladder on your way up. Yeah,
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that makes sense. Unlike the WBA. Makes too much
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sense for boxing, apparently. Oh, shit. Something
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else that doesn't make sense. Wilder is going
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to keep fighting? What the hell is this about?
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Yeah, so I was just listening to YouTube videos
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and stuff, but it was Dan Raphael said that he
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talked to Wilder's manager. whatever and said
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that they they're looking at another kind of
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tune -up testing the waters fight but this time
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in south korea who the fuck does south korea
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have that's a heavyweight like of any sort uh
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probably none like i just don't maybe he's not
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fighting a korean they just said in south korea
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but It seems really random to me that he would
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go over to Korea. If... I... When I was there,
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there were... There was, like, the... The Korean
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Marines had, like, a basketball team. And we
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used to play against them all the time. And they
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were, like, 6 '3 and stuff. Like, these guys
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are fucking big. But not 6 '7", 250 pounds big.
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yeah but i mean wilder's not that big of a heavyweight
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either he's tall but what's he weigh like 230
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something like that yeah i'm not saying korea
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doesn't have any heavyweight boxers i just mean
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like it seems really random to go over there
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it is for a fight it's a random spot but i think
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it's cool that the koreans are getting something
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kind of big that'll be fun should be fun anyway
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Yeah, that's fair. And this isn't signed or anything.
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This is just what they're looking at. So it might
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not happen. Do I have it on here? Or is that
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for next week? His fight. How he did. Was great.
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I think that's next week. Let me check. Just
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to be sure. Nope, that's this week. And I completely
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forgot to put it on the thing. But it's okay.
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It's Deontay Wilder. I was going to say, he fought
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on the 27th, right? Yes. So we'll get to that
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in a moment. But I'm not impressed. Yeah, I guess
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I didn't put very much thought into what order
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I put these rumors and news down. The flow is
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kind of fucked up. It's all right. We'll make
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it work. I just add stuff as I hear it. What
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the fuck, Devin Haney? Is a wife beater? What
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the shit is this? Apparently. Apparently he pushed
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his... I don't know if they are married, actually.
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They might not be married. But apparently he
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pushed his very pregnant significant other. And
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she has since filed for a restraining order and
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to make sure he doesn't see his daughter. Yikes.
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Yeah. Pretty shitty. What, did she tell him not
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to fight Brian Norman? Well, I was gonna say,
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if you're gonna get beaten by a boxer, Haney's
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probably your best bet. Yeah. Not too much damage.
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Get that bag. But... Yeah, so, uh, Haney is apparently
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fighting Norman. I think Haney might die. I really
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think Brian Norman's gonna whoop his ass. Worse
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than Ryan Garcia did. I think Norman hits harder
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than Garcia. Yes. For sure. I am a little worried
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it's not the right word because I don't care
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that much about either of these two. But I think
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Haney's just going to run. I think it's going
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to be even worse than Jose Ramirez. Is that possible?
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Well, I think Norman's more of a threat. So Haney's
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going to be even more scared to engage. Oh, shit.
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I don't know. Maybe not. But I think this is
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going to be a bad fight. Unless Norman can just
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catch him and knock him the fuck out early. I
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think it's going to be a bad fight. It's going
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to take him a while to catch up anyway. So at
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the very best case scenario, the front half of
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it is going to suck balls. Yeah. I think so.
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That's the best we could hope for. I can't imagine
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this fight actually being, like, good. It's difficult
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to envision it. I don't see a way. Yeah, it's
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difficult to envision it as entertaining. Still,
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I'm happy for Brian Norman. He's getting, like,
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a higher profile opponent. Yeah, everybody was
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talking shit about him coming to Japan to fight
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Sasaki, but that seems to be working out for
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him pretty well, actually. Yeah. That highlight
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KO got him a whole bunch of publicity. People
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are talking about him now. As they should. Yeah,
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it was impressive. I was on the... Living out
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of my truck. My rented truck at the time, so
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we didn't get a chance to talk about it, I don't
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think. Did we? Or did we not? I don't remember.
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I think we did talk about it. I think that was
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the last thing. Because I kind of remember talking
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about Sasaki losing his memories and getting
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them back. That's right. Six months of memory?
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Six weeks. Oh, six weeks. But yeah, he got most
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of it back pretty fast. But when he woke up after
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the knockout, he didn't remember signing the
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fight. So it's pretty bad. Also, absolutely no
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talk of the JBC, like, stopping him from fighting
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again anytime soon. Who, Sasaki? Yeah. Oh, boy.
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He needs to have brain bleeds and needs to be...
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He has to have been comatose for at least a week
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for the JBC to consider pulling his boxing license.
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Gotta be near death. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and apparently,
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like, actual skull fractures you can fight ten
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months later. That's no worries. Shrug. I'm saying
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shrug because you all can't see me shrugging.
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It's bad. Man. Is that... I think I'm gonna have
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to start narrating my physical reactions. Go
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old school. Yeah, I was thinking, do you remember
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on the forums, people would put, like, all their
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actions in the little... No? Yeah, I know what
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you're talking about. I think they still do on,
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like, Tumblr. Yeah, they do, and I still do it
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in Discord. Sometimes. We are old. Yeah. We are
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old. I still get shit for using punctuation sometimes.
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Fucking children. Speaking of... No, that's not
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a good one. Hiro Tokyo Gucci. He retires. He
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announced his retirement, I think, on Wednesday.
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I'm not... I was a little surprised, actually.
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I know he lost his last fight, but he was competitive.
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Right. Like, and he's not that old. I was surprised
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he retired. I guess 31's pretty old for... That
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weight class. Smaller weights, that's a lot.
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But... I don't know. I'm a little sad. I really
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like Kiyoguchi. Me too. He's very exciting. And
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his Instagram is so fucking cute and wholesome.
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It's just him and his girlfriend and their French
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bulldog doing, like, actual professional photo
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shoots together. Excellent. Amazing. Every spring,
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they, like, take them out for the cherry blossom
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photos and they were just at the world expo in
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osaka so i will continue to follow him for cute
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puppy pictures but yeah apparently he has done
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boxing although it did so i was reading it on
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uh like google translate but it sounds like he's
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planning on coaching or something that's because
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he said He hopes the fans stick with him through
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his next career, but he didn't really say what
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his next career is. But I assume it's boxing.
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Boxing -related, tangential. Yeah, although he
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is really into fashion stuff, so maybe he's going
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to try and model or something. Who knows? Commentary?
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Not to be rude, but he's got kind of a weird
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voice. I don't know if he'd be great at commentary.
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As I shouldn't talk. I have a weird voice and
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I'm doing a podcast. It's very high -pitched.
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He's got the more high -pitched Japanese accent
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and he's tiny. That's an unfortunate combination.
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Yeah, yeah. That's too bad. Still. Anyways, I
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wish him the best of luck. Absolutely. And I'm
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kind of glad he got out before he got really
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hurt. His style was damaging. He took a lot of
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punishment. Yeah, that's what made him so fun
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to watch, though, was taking fire. He was like
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quintessential Japanese style. Like, if you wanted
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to show somebody, like, what is the Japanese
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boxing archetype? It's Kyoguchi. Yeah, exactly.
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Decent fundamentals, but not enough defense and
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all action. Yeah. And the lack of defense is
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probably by choice. I assume so. With most of
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the Japanese boxers, I kind of assume they choose
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not to learn defense. Is that it? Well, there's
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that last one. Chavez got deported. The day after
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the fight, they put out the warrant the day before
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the fight, but, you know, let him fight so nobody
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loses any money and then deported him for show.
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Because he was going to leave anyway. Yes. It's
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so stupid. Like, if he was there illegally and
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you knew that and you knew where he was going
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to be and you really cared, go fucking arrest
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him before the match. This is the only reason
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I put it on here. I think the whole thing is
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stupid and performative and just to get headlines.
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. Because if they
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could have deported him before the thing at any
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point, they could have walked into the ring while
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he was fighting. If they were so determined to
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get rid of him, they could have done it. But
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they didn't. It clearly isn't because they were
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actually worried that he was in the country.
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That's the part that pisses me off about the
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whole thing. Like, let's let him do his job that
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he came here for illegally and then, you know,
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get the headlines afterwards after everybody's
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already made their money. So stupid. We didn't
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know where he was with very thick air quotes.
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Yeah, with... 20 fucking cameras on him for the
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last... So they put out the warrant to be...
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I'm stuttering because I'm so frustrated. They
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put out the warrant before the weigh -in. Like,
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oh, we couldn't find him. It's on YouTube. Yeah.
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I don't know what... What do you mean you can't
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find him? Like... Just the whole thing is stupid.
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Makes me angry. Performative is a very good way
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to put it. But, like, let's make sure that we
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don't fuck up Jake Paul and his company making
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money and whoever else. Like... Let the event
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go on. You get to have your media sensation.
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You have a... Because of his contractual obligations,
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you have a pretty strict timeline of where Chavez
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is going to be. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I
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guess they knew he wasn't going to flee and hide
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in America, but that's not really the point,
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or it's not supposed to be the point. Right.
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The point is supposed to be that he's illegal,
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and that is the problem. Well, maybe you shouldn't
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be committing crimes in Mexico. Yeah? Then don't
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give him the fucking pass to come up in the first
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place. Yeah, if he had an arrest warrant in Mexico
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and you knew about it, then why did you give
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him a visa to begin with? And, like, the border
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should have checked that. I mean, I know people
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who get refused entry to the United States because
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of DUIs. But they're not famous, so... My dad
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had to get an actual pardon because they wouldn't
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let him cross. For DUIs, I should specify. It
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wasn't, like, anything crazy. He had to get his
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DUIs from the 70s, I think it was, pardoned because
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they wouldn't let him cross the border after,
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I think it was 2007. For some reason. They suddenly
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became a problem. Yeah. That's a really weird
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time to start caring. That's when they put in
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the passports. You couldn't, I think, you couldn't
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cross with just a driver's license anymore. So
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maybe the system changed, but I feel like his
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driver's license should have flagged him for
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DUIs. If anything flags you for DUIs. Absolutely.
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But they were also like 30 -year -old DUIs, so
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who the fuck knows. Those papers are sitting
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in some drawer in a warehouse. Yeah, well, so
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he fucked up bad enough and consistently enough
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in the 70s that he was in jail for two weeks
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for DUIs. Oh. Well. Yeah, I think back in the
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day, if you got like three in one year, you went
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to jail. Instead of just taking your license
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like normal people. But. Is it a good, speaking
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of taking licenses away, moving into some recaps.
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Fucking MVP at the Honda Center in Ontario. Or
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Anaheim, excuse me. Anaheim, California. Raul
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Correal gets a stoppage in four. over victor
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rodriguez so that's cool i thought he looked
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good yeah um holly holm gets the ud over yolanda
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ochoa i did not see that coming i expected no
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i expected holly holm to lose she's like 40 something
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yeah but holly holmes is good and you know she's
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she's gonna come in shape like i don't think
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she would step in the ring if she wasn't in shape
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I think I might have had Holly Holmes by knockout
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on my box picks. I was expecting her to do well.
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I had her losing by decision. That shit wasn't
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even close. You know what else wasn't close?
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Tevin Farmer getting his ass beat by Floyd Schofield.
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I did not see this one coming. I didn't either.
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I did not expect Farmer to get blown out like
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that. Like my opinion of Schofield has gone way
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up. I think somebody, I don't remember who it
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was, but they would refer to it as the opening
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the jar where somebody is like busting their
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ass trying to open it and they can't get it open
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and they pass it to someone who gets it on the
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first try. It's like the first person was the
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one who did all the work. So Tevin Farmer got.
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The jar was Zepeda's, and then Scofield gets
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the praise for it. I don't know how much I believe
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that, to be honest. Maybe. Just a theory. With
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Tevin Farmer and his health concerns... Yeah,
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I had been defending Farmer once I found out
29:45
he didn't have brain damage, but... Might be
29:48
time for Farmer to hang it up. Yeah. Still, good
29:55
win for Schofield. To stop Kevin Farmer. That's
29:59
pretty good. And to stop him like that. Like,
30:02
that wasn't just a stoppage. That was a fucking
30:05
train wreck for Kevin Farmer. Sickest beatdown.
30:13
Schofield looked real good. I was impressed.
30:18
But I don't know who they should line him up
30:22
with next. Like, what's a good follow -up? At
30:28
lightweight? For Floyd Schofield, Sam Noakes
30:34
and Abdullah Mason are busy. Hip hip hurrah.
30:44
Zepeda's fighting this weekend? Or next weekend.
30:49
Next weekend. But yeah, the timing would work
30:51
out pretty well. Do you think... Schofield versus
30:57
Zepeda? That's tough. It could be a banger. It
31:01
could be. But I know everybody's going to say
31:05
that Zepeda looked like shit against Farmer.
31:08
But, I mean, I think he's still a harder test
31:12
than what Farmer gave. Yeah. And depending on
31:19
how Zepeda looks against Shakur. Zepeda's going
31:22
to look like shit against Shakur. Shittier than
31:26
he did with Farmer. What about Magzayo? I haven't
31:31
seen Mark Magzayo in a while. If he's still fighting.
31:34
That could be a banger. He's ranked number four
31:37
by somebody here. The IBF. Maxie Hughes? Maxie
31:47
Hughes doesn't need another beating like that,
31:49
though. That's not a good test for Floyd Schofield.
31:53
Yeah, you're right. That's not a good one. Andy
31:59
Cruz. Josh Padley. Padley would be a good one.
32:04
Josh fucking Padley. That's a good one. All right.
32:09
We need to make some phone calls. Make this happen.
32:12
I'll text. Who the fuck is Floyd Schofield with?
32:16
I don't know. I'll text it. I don't remember.
32:22
Yeah, no, that would be a good one. Speaking
32:26
of good ones, was this one of them? Gilberto
32:29
Ramirez, I guess, UD over Juniel Dorticos. Now,
32:36
it wasn't like a flashy win. No, but it was a
32:40
solid win, I think. Yeah, I think so. I don't
32:45
know. I don't care who Zerdo fights unless it's
32:49
Opitaya. I think that's how it's going to be.
32:53
For a while. Until that fight happens, no one's
32:56
going to care. It's very miniature, scaled down
33:01
to like an atom's worth, but of like Mayweather
33:07
versus Pacquiao. We don't give a shit who your
33:10
opponent is. If it's not the other one, then
33:13
I don't care. Fury AJ, that style. Yeah, exactly.
33:18
I do think Zerto's fighting much stiffer competition
33:22
than Opataya. Like, I think this is... Dordakos'
33:26
win is a better win than Jai's had in a while.
33:29
Isn't that Italian guy? Squeo? Yeah. Squeo. Squeo?
33:38
Yeah. Yeah. I think it was Squeo. Yeah. Dordakos
33:46
is always a power threat. So that's always something
33:49
you have to be cautious of. And Zerto navigated
33:54
it perfectly. Yeah. It was kind of a boring fight,
34:01
to be honest. Right. Yeah, speaking of boring.
34:05
Jake versus JCC. JCC threw zero punches. Like,
34:14
what the fuck were you doing? For the first,
34:16
like, three or four rounds, he seriously didn't
34:18
throw anything. Like, it would surprise me if
34:21
it was more than zero. He'd walk into range and
34:26
just not do anything. Like, I mean, I'm not a
34:32
boxer, but you were a fucking world champion.
34:36
Like, do better. Right, have some fucking pride.
34:40
Yeah, like... He was out of shape, so that's
34:45
probably the excuse, but he did actually throw
34:47
punches in the last two rounds, and he won them
34:50
both. Yeah. Like, do that. Except more. Yeah,
34:58
just do that the whole time. Yeah. I don't know.
35:02
I don't think it, but this is going to bring
35:05
out the conspiracy theories of they're paid not
35:08
to throw punches when they fight Jake Paul. i
35:14
hadn't heard the no win clause oh you haven't
35:17
heard the like no win clause no oh so i don't
35:22
think it's true but the rumors online are that
35:25
like when they signed a fight jake paul they
35:27
have to um throw the fight basically or like
35:32
mike tyson wasn't allowed to throw uppercuts
35:34
was one of the rumors and that sort of thing
35:37
and i'm like guys that's not what's happening
35:41
But this isn't going to help that because JCC
35:48
just didn't throw any punches for eight rounds.
35:53
Like, he made sure he was losing the fight and
35:56
then made it look good. Big air quotes on that
35:59
for the last two rounds. I don't know. I don't
36:06
believe the rumors. I think JCC is just a piece
36:09
of shit. didn't train and is kind of slow, but...
36:13
Yeah, he kept... He finally did something completely
36:18
unrelated to the actual fight, but something
36:21
that I always thought was kind of dumb is he
36:23
always tries to answer interview questions in
36:25
English, and I'm not trying to dunk on the guy
36:29
for being English as a second language, but,
36:33
like, Jesus fucking Christ, bro. Answer in Spanish.
36:36
Everybody... that's involved in this press event
36:40
has some form of translation available to them.
36:44
Yeah. And he finally stopped. It was just one
36:49
question, and he's like, okay, well, I'm gonna
36:51
answer in Spanish. Yeah, thank you. Better performance
36:58
in the interview over the fight. This... The
37:03
undercard was good. Like, legitimately, it was
37:06
a solid undercard. People were giving me some
37:09
shit when I said that before it happened, but
37:11
solid undercard. But I don't give a shit about
37:15
Jake Paul and these circus fights. Like, I just
37:19
don't care. Yeah, Ramirez -Dorticos was the main
37:22
event for me. Jake Paul's just like a fun sideshow
37:25
that happened to be on after. I honestly didn't
37:29
watch it real close. It didn't miss a whole lot.
37:33
Yeah. Is that more time than that fight fucking
37:40
deserves? Probably. Probably. So, moving to Friday,
37:45
June 27th, Eye of the Tiger in Quebec City. This
37:51
was not a good card. No, it was not. As Eye of
37:57
the Tiger is wont to do, there's a lot of one
38:02
-sided beatdowns, knockouts. Yeah, never bet
38:07
on the B -side for Eye of the Tiger fights. Ever.
38:10
I don't know if I've ever seen an upset on any
38:13
of their cards. The only time you bet on the
38:15
B -side is when it comes to your podcasts. And
38:19
you go with the boxing B -sides. Or pro box.
38:24
Wherever it is that you're listening to this.
38:28
Gets a little bit more nerdy over there. Different
38:31
kind of nerdy, I'll say. Stephen Butler KO4 over
38:36
Jose Macias. Fine. Stephen Butler moves up to
38:42
168. Does not have a great opponent. So, it's
38:47
hard to say. It's not going to translate to anything
38:51
meaningful. I don't think he's going to have
38:54
a career resurgence here at 168. Dude never fights
39:00
outside of Canada. You're never going to get...
39:02
much of a career if you only fight in canada
39:05
i hate to say it but nobody cares about wins
39:09
in canada yeah that's it would be the same as
39:13
getting like being having a 22 and 0 prospect
39:16
that's just coming out of the regional scene
39:18
like yeah nobody really but like a region that
39:23
isn't very good like 22 and 0 out of mexico means
39:27
something 22 and 0 out of russia maybe, but like
39:33
22 -0 out of Italy, nobody cares. Right. Canada's
39:39
boxing is better than Italy's, but it's not very
39:42
good. You know who else, or what else isn't very
39:47
good? Arslanbek Makhmudov. It's not good. TKO
39:51
won over Ricardo Brown. That, uh, I guess you
39:55
can call that a fight. A waste of time. Yeah.
40:00
moving along. Christian Mbili, main reason I'm
40:04
here. TKO1 over Maciej Sulecki. Mbili looked
40:10
good, I guess. His usual self. This is a career
40:15
154 guy moving up to 168. It's a name. Go fight
40:23
outside of Canada. Seriously, dude. You can fight
40:26
in Cameroon. Or France. And you're staying in
40:32
Canada. Fucking go fight in the States. I mean,
40:37
Montreal's an hour drive from the border. Go
40:40
fight in New York. It's a super short trip. Yeah.
40:45
He's a big fish, little pond situation. But you
40:50
can't tell how good he is because he fights nobodies.
40:54
Or... Derevyanchenko way past his prime. Yeah,
41:00
but he looked like shit against Derevyanchenko.
41:03
A one -armed Derevyanchenko almost beat him.
41:07
Like, two -armed old man Derev kicks Mbili's
41:12
ass and I will stand on that every day. If he
41:16
hadn't busted his arm, he'd have won that fight.
41:20
I don't know. Mbili needs to just go fight somebody.
41:24
Somebody better. Yeah, he needs to step up his
41:27
game for sure. Oh, man. Speaking of stepping
41:33
up games. I was going to say, this is where the
41:37
Wilder fight should fall under. Yes, that is
41:41
correct. Speaking of stepping up games, Deontay
41:44
Wilder needs to change games. That was not the
41:49
Deontay Wilder of old. That Deontay Wilder's
41:54
never coming back, though. I know. I can only
41:56
hope. I do kind of like that he seems to be trying
42:01
new things since... Like, he threw jabs. He threw
42:06
lots of jabs this fight. They weren't great,
42:11
but, I mean, he's not just trying to line up
42:14
that right hand anymore. He was throwing it a
42:20
lot, though. He was throwing it like a looping
42:22
sort of overhand. And it wasn't really landing
42:27
at all. It's like he was aiming for the temple,
42:29
trying to get around the guard to hit the temple.
42:31
And it was a little disheartening to see him
42:36
continue to do it for, what, like seven fucking
42:39
rounds? Yeah. Yeah, he didn't look good. I was
42:44
trying to be optimistic. He did not look good.
42:47
And he should not have taken seven rounds to
42:49
knock out Herndon if he was going to do anything,
42:52
like, in the future. I don't know, man. I think
42:57
he's still chasing the AJ fight, and he should,
43:01
but Wilder's not beating AJ. Not now. AJ's also
43:09
looking kind of shit, but I don't see AJ being
43:14
as washed as Wilder. That's what my befuddled,
43:19
bemused look was. I don't know, because AJ looks
43:22
pretty ass right now. Right, but he looked less
43:27
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43:35
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50:21
Yeah. This week is not super great. No, it's
50:26
pretty light. First thing on the 11th, we have
50:33
Katie Taylor Amanda Serrano Trilogy. Looks like
50:38
this is an all -women's card. And I know there's
50:42
those types of people that are just not going
50:44
to watch it because of that. I'm... I hate when
50:50
they make all women's cards, and it sounds terrible,
50:54
but I absolutely hate it. I like when the women
50:56
are kind of mixed in with everything else on
50:59
a good card. Yeah. Because, like, they're blowing
51:05
all of the good women's fights for the next six
51:09
months on this card, number one. So you're not
51:12
going to hear about women's boxing now for, like,
51:15
at least half a year. Nothing meaningful. Number
51:19
two, people who are on the fence or just against
51:24
women's boxing aren't even going to tune in,
51:27
but they might check it out if it's in between
51:30
two male fights, and they might be surprised
51:33
at how good the fight is and then watch again.
51:38
I hate these all -women's cards. I know it's
51:42
supposed to be promoting women's boxing, but
51:45
I think it has the exact opposite effect. And
51:48
it just seems, I don't know, like, performative
51:53
and stupid. Right. It is like an empowerment
51:57
kind of thing. I see the logic, but yeah. I don't.
52:04
I don't get it. Like, why separate it? That's
52:08
exactly what the point I was going to get to.
52:11
Separate but equal? Like, fuck off. Fuck that.
52:14
No. Having these all -women's cards, I... Like,
52:18
I get it, but you're... The idea is that we're
52:23
trying to promote it as being at least comparable
52:27
to men's fights and it's not needing to be separated.
52:32
Yeah, like, MMA never does all women's cards
52:36
that you hear about. Or maybe they do and I just
52:38
don't hear about it, but... None that I've heard
52:40
of. No, and no... Well, people... shitty people
52:45
exist, but I mean, like, most fans don't bitch
52:49
about women's MMA, because it's good. Like, it
52:53
is comparably as exciting to the men's. And boxing
52:57
at the top level is as well, but if you make
53:00
people sit through these first, like, five fights
53:03
that aren't great, and then watch three main
53:08
events that are pretty good, but, you know...
53:12
Two of them are probably going to be decisions.
53:14
And I will say Katie Taylor, Amanda Serrano 3
53:18
should be a banger unless Katie Taylor suddenly
53:20
got old, which could happen. I've been expecting
53:23
that to happen every fight. And it just doesn't.
53:27
Yeah. But like, I just, I don't get it. Just
53:31
put the good women's fights at the top of the
53:33
cards between men's fights. You'll get more people
53:37
watching it. Or as the main, Katie Taylor, Amanda
53:41
Serrano can be the main on any fucking card.
53:43
Yeah, it absolutely could. But, like, I hate
53:48
these all -women's cards. You don't get any new
53:51
fans. You're only getting people who already
53:53
watch women's boxing. I will say, if it's going
54:00
to be an all -women's card, they better not have
54:04
ring girls. That would be fucking ridiculous.
54:09
Well, the last time they did this, they had ring
54:12
boys, which is even more performative and stupid.
54:15
I've seen cards that have ring boys. This is
54:20
great. Fucking humiliate them. This is good.
54:25
I just... Why are you marketing women's boxing
54:30
to women? Women don't watch boxing very often.
54:36
That's not who is going to be your main audience
54:38
ever. It just isn't. Like, I don't know. Maybe
54:46
I'm just a Debbie Downer, but I think this is
54:48
stupid. That being said, I will probably watch
54:53
at least the last four fights. There are some
54:56
good ones on here. But that's my point. There's
54:59
going to be no good women's boxing for six months
55:02
now. Right, that you could throw on as a co -main
55:05
or third from the top of another card. Or, like,
55:11
some of these other ones could be the mains on,
55:14
you know, regular cards. Main event worthy. Savannah
55:19
Marshall in the UK. Chantel Cameron as well.
55:24
Maybe not Chantel Cameron, but... But she could
55:28
be, like, third. Yeah, definitely. Anyways, we
55:35
should talk about the actual matchups, I suppose.
55:38
I'm honestly not expecting... Well, no. Savannah
55:42
Marshall versus Shadesia Green should be enjoyable.
55:48
Don't expect... I guess women's basketball versus
55:52
men's. Don't expect high -flying dunks or anything
55:55
like that. Baumgartner is a beast. Maybe she
56:00
might get a stoppage. I don't... Should I know
56:05
who Jennifer Miranda is? I don't think so. I
56:08
don't know who it is. No. Some Spanish lady.
56:12
She might get a knockout. I mean, Baumgardner
56:16
might get a knockout. I don't know who this lady
56:18
is. She's 38. And she's from Spain. And has never
56:25
fought outside of Spain. You might see a knockout
56:29
in this one. RJ Tagovil for that one. Yeah. For
56:35
Jennifer Miranda. For both. Probably both of
56:39
them, I was going to say. I don't know if this
56:44
is the proper running order, but Ellie Scottney
56:46
versus Yamileth Mercado. They're unifying three
56:50
of the four major titles. I believe the WBA is
56:55
not on the line here. Oh, I do recognize Mercado.
57:04
This could be a bit of a banger. Although, Ellie
57:08
Scottney is more of a boxer than a fighter. What
57:12
class is this? Superbantam? Yeah, the WBA champ
57:17
is not involved in this. Oh, this is the lady
57:23
who beat Ramla Ali last time out. Ramla Ali is
57:28
down the bill. Yeah, sorry, but this Mexican
57:32
lady, Yamilis Mercado, she's the one who beat
57:36
her. Nice. This could be a hidden banger, maybe,
57:41
but I kind of expect Scottney to box on the outside
57:43
and make it boring. You know what's not going
57:51
to be boring? Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano.
57:53
Nope, never boring. They've delivered fireworks
57:56
twice now. I expect it to be similar. Yeah. Possibly
58:04
even more blood this time somehow. Because that
58:07
last fight was a bloody fight. They were both
58:10
cut bad. Katie Taylor, was she... I don't know
58:14
if she was getting frustrated and started headbutting
58:16
or if she just leads with her head. She just
58:19
leads with her head, I think. I don't think it's
58:21
intentional. I think that's just... Just how
58:24
she is. The way she fights. Yeah. Oh, wow. It's
58:27
kind of an Irish bad habits, isn't it? Like,
58:34
don't Irish boxers always kind of jump in like
58:36
that? Kind of. The ones that I've seen, yes.
58:41
But, Katie Taylor is 39. Katie Taylor is getting
58:45
old. And I've said it her last, like, six fights.
58:49
But eventually, she is just going to be too old
58:52
to be taking this much damage. Serrano's 36.
58:58
Yeah, but she's taken way less damage in her
59:01
career, I feel. Like, the only real war she's
59:05
been in is with Katie Taylor. Yeah, that's true.
59:08
But Katie Taylor has taken some ass kickings.
59:13
Even when she wins, sometimes she takes an ass
59:16
kicking, and I don't understand how that works,
59:18
but... Thinking about ass kickings, it was Amanda
59:26
Serrano beating the shit out of Heather Hardy.
59:29
Her eyes got swollen up her forehead. And she
59:35
had fucking bug eyes that were giant bruises.
59:39
It was gross. But that was one of my go -to's.
59:46
Women's fights are boring. Have you seen Serrano?
59:49
Are you kidding me? Yeah, well, and nobody can
59:53
say Serrano -Taylor, either of those. Nobody
59:56
can say those were boring. So, I do expect the
1:00:01
main event to be a banger. I just, I hate that
1:00:04
they're blowing all of these good women's fights
1:00:07
in one night, and then women's boxing's gonna
1:00:10
disappear for months. Yep. Oh, well. It is what
1:00:17
it is. Let's... Keep it rolling here. The next
1:00:24
day in Central Park at the Louis Armstrong Stadium.
1:00:32
Fuck, that is a big -ass park. I never think
1:00:36
about it. But they have a whole -ass stadium
1:00:39
inside of it. That's fucking wild. This isn't
1:00:45
the exact running order. I haven't found one
1:00:48
that I liked. Like a reliable one that I liked.
1:00:53
So I'm just going to go with picking fights off
1:00:55
the list. Hamza Shiraz versus Edgar Berlanga
1:00:57
at super middleweight. Fun stuff. Please beat
1:01:05
the shit out of each other. That would just be
1:01:07
fantastic for me. No favorites in this one? No.
1:01:13
I kind of want Berlanga to lose. Just because?
1:01:19
I have no valid reason for it. Fair enough. I
1:01:24
have no strong opinion on this one either, but
1:01:27
I'll cheer for Belanga just because it's in New
1:01:30
York. That's his hometown, right? Yeah, it is.
1:01:33
Although, I have no idea where Shiraz is from.
1:01:36
Is he British? Yes. I think his heritage is Palestinian?
1:01:48
Or Lebanese? It says he's born in Berkshire.
1:01:53
Ah, well. So, I don't know. Anyways, this is
1:01:59
kind of a lose -lose, though. Do I cheer for
1:02:02
a Brit or do I cheer for an American? Yeah, let's
1:02:08
just go with I hope they punch each other a lot.
1:02:11
Yeah, that's really it. I hope they beat each
1:02:13
other up. David Morrell versus Imam Kataev. I
1:02:19
don't know who this is. He's 10 -0 at light heavy.
1:02:23
I'm assuming this is a get back for David Morrell.
1:02:27
It looks like it's some Russian -Australian that's
1:02:33
only fought in Russia, Australia, and Canada.
1:02:36
Probably not that good. Serbia, one time. I just
1:02:43
skipped that one because I didn't know where
1:02:45
it was. Nowhere noteworthy, we'll say. He is
1:02:54
10 -0 with nine knockouts. Looks like a threat
1:02:59
on paper. So, like I said, this is a get back
1:03:03
for David Morrell. Yeah. Moving up, Alberto Pueyo.
1:03:11
The WBC super lightweight champion. Who am I
1:03:19
thinking of with Gary Antoine Russell? Won the
1:03:23
WBA. Versus Subaru Matias. Pueyo is the champ.
1:03:27
Subaru Matias is rated eighth in the WBC. Cool.
1:03:33
This one should be fun, I think. This is a classic
1:03:37
boxer versus puncher scenario. Matias, his reputation
1:03:44
precedes him. And Pueyo's a boxer? I don't think
1:03:50
I recognize Pueyo, to be honest. I know you saw
1:03:55
his fight with Sandor Martin. Maybe it's just
1:04:00
a bad picture on BoxRec. I definitely watched
1:04:03
a couple of these fights. Because he beat Gary
1:04:06
Anton Russell, too. I would have watched that
1:04:08
one. Yeah, that was for the interim title. And
1:04:13
he got emailed the full thing. And he robbed
1:04:18
Sandor Martins. It wasn't a robbery. I will say
1:04:23
that it was, just because. Me and Mark Constantino
1:04:31
think so. Mark Constantino? He was the judge
1:04:37
that gave it to Sandor. Anyways, that one should
1:04:43
be fun. I hope. I think so. And what won't be
1:04:50
fun? Shakur Stevenson. Never fun. The WBC lightweight
1:04:56
champion versus William Zepeda. The interim champion.
1:04:59
They are consolidating their titles. Fucking
1:05:04
good. That's how it's supposed to be. These fucking
1:05:08
interim shits need to go away. Shakur Stevenson.
1:05:15
Is boring as fuck. Always. He is. But. God. Can't
1:05:24
deny the skills. But god damn. The bills that
1:05:28
are getting. It's like paying your bills. In
1:05:30
fucking pennies. That's what skills paying the
1:05:33
bills is here. Like Jesus Christ. I gotta count
1:05:37
all this shit. Yeah. He is very skillful. I can't
1:05:42
say he's not. But I have one small hope, very
1:05:48
small hope, that Shakur just breaks his fucking
1:05:51
hand on Zepeda's big Mexican head and Zepeda
1:05:55
can swarm him somehow. I really don't think Shakur
1:05:59
can hit him hard enough to keep him off, but
1:06:02
I just don't think Zepeda's gonna catch him either.
1:06:04
It's not too far out of the realm of possibility
1:06:07
that Shakur breaks a hand, either. Yeah, but
1:06:11
if he breaks a hand, can Zepeda actually catch
1:06:13
him? Oh, before he takes off on a bike? Yeah.
1:06:20
Like, I can kind of see Shaker just outboxing
1:06:25
him so badly one -handed that Zepeda still loses.
1:06:30
But my hope is that Shakira breaks his hand and
1:06:33
Zepeda somehow swarms him and catches him and
1:06:36
knocks him out. And that would be the best timeline,
1:06:39
in my opinion. Do I think it's going to happen?
1:06:47
Probably not. But I can hope and dream until
1:06:53
it doesn't happen. I think Pueyo -Matias is going
1:07:00
to be the real main event on this one. Like,
1:07:04
the most exciting fight. I'm hopeful that Kataev
1:07:11
is going to be what his resume says he is. And
1:07:16
that'll make him and David Morel like a dogfight.
1:07:20
That would be fun. I just... He... Katiev has
1:07:27
fought fucking nowhere against nobodies. I think
1:07:32
that hope is probably pretty misplaced. Yeah.
1:07:38
Well, not much you can do but hope. That's what
1:07:44
a lot of this watching shit is. Just hoping something
1:07:48
turns out good when you watch it. When you watch
1:07:51
as many fucking cards throughout the week as
1:07:53
I do. And this is in two sports, mind you. It's
1:07:58
a lot of fucking hoping. And otherwise, it's
1:08:01
like I have it on the monitor to my left, and
1:08:04
then I'm doing my work with the monitor right
1:08:07
in front of me. I do that a lot. Yeah. Because
1:08:11
sometimes they're just not fucking doing anything
1:08:15
like Morel and Kataev are liable to do. And it's
1:08:20
like, God damn it. I don't have time for this
1:08:23
shit. I don't have time to sit here and watch
1:08:26
you all not punch each other. No. I have a feeling
1:08:29
that's what the Stevenson Zapata fight's going
1:08:33
to be, too. Damn. Well, anything more for the
1:08:42
fights coming up? No. I don't think so. Cool.
1:08:47
Only two cards this week. That's kind of shitty.
1:08:51
Yeah. Taylor Serrano should be fireworks. At
1:08:56
least the main event should be. There's some
1:08:59
hidden gems, I think, on the undercard. I'm definitely
1:09:04
going to tune in for at least the last three
1:09:09
fights. Probably the last four fights. Savannah
1:09:11
Marshall is usually pretty fun, too. Those first
1:09:16
three that are listed, probably going to skip
1:09:19
them. The listeners shouldn't. They should watch
1:09:24
it and then call in and tell me what I missed.
1:09:26
Yeah. 833 Lux Ponds. All right. Let me do this.
1:09:31
Oh, I wanted... Before you do this, I wanted
1:09:34
to say that that works on WhatsApp too. That
1:09:38
phone number. Yeah. You told me to point that
1:09:41
out more. It's a good thing to... Well, I'm old
1:09:45
and I was like, nobody's going to call you because
1:09:48
it's long distance charges. But... WhatsApp is
1:09:52
free. True. If you want to call, if you want
1:09:55
to send a voice note in WhatsApp, which I think
1:09:58
is something the kids are doing these days, I
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can cut your audio in. Or if you don't want that,
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just let me know. Either way, WhatsApp works.
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And the audio is cleaner there than it is on
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the traditional phone line. Text works either
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Yeah, this makes my point. There's no girls'
1:11:44
fights on the stupid men's card because they're
1:11:48
all... busy uh parting words i bought my ticket
1:11:54
for ryzen nice so not nosebleed nosebleeds those
1:11:58
were sold out but second nosebleeds way farther
1:12:02
back than i ever am for the boxing but should
1:12:05
be fun i am busy studying japanese i realized
1:12:10
this week that i'm a fucking idiot because i
1:12:13
studied a bunch of questions To ask the people
1:12:16
beside me, like, which fighter should I cheer
1:12:18
for? And that sort of thing. Studied none of
1:12:21
the possible answers. Oh, shit. Their names.
1:12:25
Well, like, that was a bad example because it's
1:12:28
just a name. But, like, why do you like this
1:12:31
fighter? I totally forgot to study any possible
1:12:37
answers. Like, yeah. Anything more difficult
1:12:41
than somebody's name or a yes and a no. I'm fucked.
1:12:45
So this week I need to study answers. Are you
1:12:48
going to try the lottery for 1FC? I'm going to
1:12:53
try, but I have very low hopes. I've never really
1:12:58
won any of those lotteries. I got one for Inouye
1:13:02
when I was able to... I didn't win the lottery,
1:13:05
but I was able to buy a resale ticket. I don't
1:13:09
think 1FC will sell out. I don't know. I watched
1:13:14
the 1FC. I don't know if I said this before you
1:13:16
started recording, but I watched the 1FC Friday
1:13:19
Night Fights. That was fucking lit. I was told
1:13:22
that this was particularly good, but the 1FC
1:13:27
Muay Thai has slightly different rules, and it's
1:13:29
way more fun. The no clinching is big. Yeah.
1:13:34
You can clinch, but... Big butt is you have to
1:13:38
be actively attacking the person that you're
1:13:42
clinching. Like, you can't just grab on and hold
1:13:44
on. Like, no, if you clinch onto them, you have
1:13:47
to be kneeing their body or something. I don't
1:13:50
know. The announcers just said no clinching,
1:13:53
and they broke them up almost immediately every
1:13:57
time. You're right. If somebody was, like, throwing
1:14:00
a knee, the ref didn't step in, but once the
1:14:03
knee landed and... all four feet were on the
1:14:05
ground, the ref would break them up. Yeah. Anyways,
1:14:09
it was great. Highly recommend it. And I did
1:14:14
watch one, the very first fight was one of those
1:14:16
submission grappling specific things. You're
1:14:20
right. It is more fun than UFC. Or at least this
1:14:23
one was. It was a lot more dynamic. It's fun
1:14:26
when it's the only thing they're doing. And they're
1:14:30
not worried about anything else happening but
1:14:32
other grappling techniques. Yeah. I still probably
1:14:36
wouldn't watch it as the point of watching it,
1:14:41
but it being one fight on this card was fine.
1:14:47
Parting words from me. Join the Discord. LVX
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1:15:01
it for Boxing Before Dark. I forgot the line
1:15:05
again. What? It's getting dark and my batteries
1:15:11
are low. My batteries are low and it is getting
1:15:15
dark. Damn it. I'm getting there. I'm gonna get
1:15:19
it. I gotta actually check that I have it right
1:15:22
because I'm doing it from memory.