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[BxBD] Keyshawn's blunder, Fabio's fireworks, and some upcoming stuff · Boxing B-Sides

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Anyways, the first one's a YouTube playlist.
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on the YouTube channel. Oh, Lin, how are the
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playoffs going? Well, as of last night, at the
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time of recording, we blew a 3 -0 series lead,
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another series is tied at two, and we're going
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back to Edmonton, so that's great. Ah, yeah.
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Fucking awesome is what it is. No, it's not awesome.
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It's only awesome if you're Canadian or something.
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Or you just don't like Brad Marchand. It's just
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funny because I follow online communities and
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after the game you just see everyone hates the
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Pampers and it's just funny. I mean, you shouldn't
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have hockey in Florida, and why are they in the
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Northeast Division? What? The Northeast Division
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hasn't existed for God knows how long. Well,
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whatever they call the Northeast Division now.
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Sure. They're in the same division as Toronto.
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Yeah, the Atlantic. Is that what it is now, the
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Atlantic Division? Yeah. You've got the Atlantic
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and metropolitan out east. And then in the west,
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you've got the Pacific and central. Where's Utah?
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Utah is in the central. Central. Yeah. They didn't
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move them. They're in the same conference they've
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always been in. Oh, okay. I see. That's why Florida's
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in the northeast, too. That's why they renamed
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the conferences so they didn't have to move Florida.
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It's all stupid. I don't get it, but it's alright.
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Oh, shit. Is there any news that's come up? Because
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I didn't check. There's one piece of news I'm
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avoiding. what piece of news would that be that
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would be the recent announcement that the WBO
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I think this came out like a day or two I think
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this was like literally yesterday obviously we
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had the whole Kishon thing now apparently the
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WBO is going to order Sam Noakes the Abdullah
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Mesa for the belt which I am avoiding and I am
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pretending if it's not real it doesn't exist
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so I'm going to swiftly ignore that Yeah, I have
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not heard any news, I don't think. They had the
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robot kickboxing world championship recently.
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I don't know if you covered that on Ultimate
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Fucking Casual, but it's hilarious. That does
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sound pretty fun. Yeah, you should check it out.
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You have to build humanoid robots, and then they
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have a kickboxing fight. And it's a lot of robots
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just falling over and getting counted out. Jerron
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Ennis is moving up. Oh. Up to 147? 154. 154.
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Yep. Who's at 154 right now? Uh, names? Fonora,
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Tim Zhu. Josh Kelly? Does that count? That doesn't
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count. Kind of. I think it kind of counts. Who
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even is? Like... Keith Thurman? Yeah, well, we've
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definitely got names of that weight class. But,
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very employee. Hold on a second, I want to pull
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up. Boots can probably hang with any of those
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guys, I think. Terrence Crawford, Mortis Aliev,
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the guy who beat Tim Zu, Virgil Ortiz. Xander
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Zayas, Madrimov, Bohachuk, Fundora, Jesus Ramos.
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There's a lot of Eastern European guys I'm seeing.
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Luis Malima. So then who's at 147? Who's at 47?
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Oh, okay. Yeah, I was just mixing up weight classes
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like I always do. Rolly Romero's at 147. Yeah.
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So, did Rolly get elevated to a full belt? If
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Gerard's moving up? Once it's formal, then yes.
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Probably will be. Nice. Two -time world champion.
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Rolly is a fucking welterweight champion right
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now. But he will be. You can't tell me I'm wrong.
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No, he'll be an email champ. It's fucking stupid,
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but own it, I guess. We love email champions.
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Walter Waite's got that fight in Ota City this
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week, right? That's right. It's on a Thursday,
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so I didn't buy a ticket because it's just that
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little bit too far away. It ruins my whole next
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morning. What other news? Oscar De La Hoya's
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clapback. He's talking about Reynoso and how
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he's had six fighters test positive for banned
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substances. That's old news. We've talked about
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that here. We have. Catch up, De La Hoya. I was
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going to say, Oscar's taking our talking points.
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Catch up. That's kind of... Not surprising that
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Oscar would point that out, but it's going to
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reach a lot more people if Oscar says it than
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the boxing media. Yeah, definitely. Have they
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said anything about Jaime? I haven't seen anything.
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No, I haven't seen anything either. Yeah, I haven't
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either. About his B -simple. Yeah, on that, I...
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Probably just guess there's a bunch of underground
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stuff going on right now. Speaking of not hearing
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anything, I haven't heard any updates on Shigeoka.
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I'm going to take it as no news is good news.
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If he was taking a turn for the worse, I think
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we would have heard about it. At this point.
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Oh, actually, there is an update on the sporting
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news. So this went up June 4th. So Yudai, his
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brother, described his current state, saying,
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starting today, Jinjiro's eyes are half open
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because they've reduced his painkillers. He means
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anesthesia. And when I talked to him, he started
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chewing and yawning, and it felt like he could
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hear me. He was also blinking. I think things
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will probably start to become a little more clear
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from now on, and he will likely be transferred
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from the ICU to general care soon. So, that sounds
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reasonably good. Yeah, not out of the woods,
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but doing better. Yeah, they don't know. They
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don't know how much damage there is. Well, let's...
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Go on. No, I was going to say, let's hit the
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recaps. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going
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to say. Look at that. First one, June 6th. Wasserman.
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Yes. This... Yeah. This... So, Josh... Obviously,
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we had Josh Caddy versus Flavius B. not much
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to discuss on the undercard, because the fights,
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well, I didn't watch them, because it was, like,
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lower -level stuff, and there wasn't anyone I'd
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know. I went to Carpool, though. Um, Josh Kelly
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had also kind of been on the smoke. Like, I've
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seen him a lot calling out, like, Conor Benn.
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Like, firstly, you're not going to go Conor Benn
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fight. Just stop. Um, and then, yeah. So, this
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fight ended in a first -round stoppage win for
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Josh Kelly. Um, If I recall correctly, Bia kind
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of got dropped early, and then he kind of got
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up, but he got up at like nine and a half and
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got counted out. So it was kind of weird. Kelly
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wins a pointless fight in about two minutes.
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I'm pretty sure Nessay on Twitter passed something
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out towards calling out Mokhtar's vehicle or
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something like that, if I recall correctly. i
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want to check that but i know for a fact that
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he said like caddy should fight someone fight
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for a title sounds like yeah i gotta check the
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twitter because i swear i saw that yeah bakram
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holds the ibf right now so yeah i'm pretty sure
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that's what got tweeted but maybe i'm just losing
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i don't know no i don't think so that sounds
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like something that would happen after a really
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flashy kind of win like yeah this was it uh so
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they yeah so the cali and this a sarah land twitter
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account which is banned by them but no one in
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the uk wants a piece of josh kelly gonna go get
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a strap at background 95 fancy it oh i've just
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seen here background actually just was replied
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to that saying too easy so i mean he's not wrong
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Josh Kelly is ranked number four in the IBF though.
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He hasn't done anything. His best win is a short
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-notice Ishmael Davies. Go ask any American who
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that is and they probably won't know. No. He's
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also number four at the WBO. Somebody's paying
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to get him ranked. I mean, sure. We already saw
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what happens when he steps up against Amadeusian.
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When was that, the Avanisian fight? Oh, God,
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that was, I mean, that was years ago now, but
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he hasn't, I can bring up exact dates, but he
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hasn't exactly done much since, it was 2021,
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he got stopped in six rounds, and since then,
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his only real, like, his best win is literally,
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a short notice, Ishmael Davies. 2021, that's,
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Avanisian was, past his better days at that point.
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Yep. Oh well. But yeah, Kelly won. Undercard,
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there wasn't much. Very standard Channel 5 card
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in that regard. So we'll see what Kelly does.
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He'll probably fight some nobody again in about
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six months. We'll see. He should be more active.
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If he's going to be fighting fucking nobodies,
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then he should be doing it a bit more often.
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I mean, this was his first fight since the Davis
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one, so... We'll see. Sad. Sad times. Aight.
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It's Britbox. Yeah. You know, speaking of sad,
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Salida on DAZN. Brandon Moore gets the doctor's
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decision. Technical decision, I think Stanley
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Wright didn't want to continue. My man was on
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life support pretty much towards the end there,
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so I guess that's how it goes sometimes. Stanley
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Wright already has his next fight listed on BoxRec.
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He's a journeyman. Yeah, but it's for June 26th.
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That's like two weeks. Nice turnaround. So perhaps
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he just didn't want to take too much punishment
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because he has his next fight in... I don't know
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what country that is. That is the Democratic
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Republic of the Congo and it's also June 2026.
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Oh, I am reading that wrong. I did not expect
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it to be a year from now. Never mind. Yeah, I
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don't know what this card's about, but I've seen
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some people get added to it, so I don't know.
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But yeah. Never mind. That is me being unable
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to read, I guess. Yeah, it's scheduled for a
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year from now. There must be like a festival
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or something. Maybe. Yeah, I honestly just didn't
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read the year because I didn't expect it to be
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that far in the future. I wouldn't either. But
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that's it for that. Matchroom on DAZN. Jai Opataya
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gets the fucking stoppage in five. Squeo did
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not seem too interested in being there. He didn't
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seem like he belonged there. Did you hear what...
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happen, though. Like, Squeo broke his jaw. Yeah.
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It snapped. He had to go get surgery. Squeo's
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jaw broke? Yeah, yeah. Joe Opataya broke Squeo's
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jaw. So, whether he seemed very interested in
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being there or not, I think it was a good call
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to stop. Yes. Knowing that. I had heard that
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it was a... It was possibly broken, but I didn't
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hear if it actually was. No, it was. Yeah. But...
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Squeal looked like a... Like, discount Canelo.
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He just didn't look like he belonged in the ring
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with Obitai at all. No. He was too short, and
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too slow, and... I mean, we kind of thought that's
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what it would be, but... Yeah, like... Oh my
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god, Oputai wins a one -sided fight and gets
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a stoppage against a dude like everyone was saying
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he was going to stop in what was literally one
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of the worst mismatches we've ever seen. I am
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so utterly shocked that that is exactly how the
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fight went. Yeah. I think that kind of... That's
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a nice little bow to put on it. Oputai needs
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to start... fighting real competition. Thank
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you. I keep saying this. Like, I'm sorry that
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I'm not impressed by a dude who, outside of beating
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Breeders twice, his best win is, like, Jack Massey,
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who's, like, not even, like, a top three cruiserweight
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in the UK at the time that they fought, because
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you had... Actually, well, I guess Akoni didn't
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want to go up to bridgeweight and heavyweight
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at that point. But, like, he wasn't even the
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best cruiserweight in the UK. But sure. Yeah,
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I just... Cruiser sucks anyways, but knocking
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over cans, especially such obvious cans, is not
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gonna get you any fans. Like... I mean, at least
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Zerto's fighting a dude like Dauticus, who I
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guess has shown some level of ability at some
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point in his career. Like, 99 .9 % of boxing
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fans have never even seen Skiobox, let alone
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know if he's good. I didn't know he existed.
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He never fought outside of Italy. How would you
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know he existed? Yep. He also came into this
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fight... Yeah, I mean... I guess. Gio came into
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this fight at 191, so maybe he should try and
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move down to light heavyweight, I don't know.
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Probably it was the light heavyweight that got
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dragged up. I mean, he's a 5 '10 cruise away.
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He's only back in Las Vegas. He didn't look dumpy
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or anything. He looked like he was in shape.
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Yeah. I think he just doesn't do a cut at all.
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Didn't need to. No, but I just mean, I think
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he likes not cutting and fighting in Italy. I
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think that's kind of a little more time than
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Jai Dopataya deserves for a fight of this caliber.
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Yeah. He needs to fight Zerto. That's really
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all there is. It's the only thing anyone wants
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to see. Maybe Badu Jack rests in peace because
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he's gonna die in that one. We say that every
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time and somehow Badu Jack gets an ugly close
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decision win. Every fucking time. Imagine Badu
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Jack decisions try off a tire. I could see it.
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Absolute scenes. I would actually like that.
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All right. Moving to Queensberry. Ah, yes. I
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would like for you to prognosticate first, Lynn.
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Yes. Because we were on opposing sides of this.
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And this played out in a very interesting way.
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So I'd like for you to kick it off. So, basically...
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Now, when I said Wardley would knock out Huni,
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I never said he'd look good doing it. I just
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said he'd knock him out. Fair enough. This fight
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was, like, very interesting. So, like... What
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basically happened is Farrier -Waldi decided
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that he was going to turn into Deontay Wilder
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and just, like, literally get outboxed for 10
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rounds straight and then just decided to vaguely
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knock the guy out. I mean, it's very simple.
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Like, Eustace Hooney actually very much impressed
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me in this fight. Like, I legitimately feel like
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if Eustace Hooney wasn't Eustace Hooney and actually
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had any sort of power, he probably would have
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stopped Waldi in the first half of this fight
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because he was literally just beating him up,
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like, the entire fight. But, like, Fabio Wolsey's
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got power and it was in the UK, so somehow he
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gets the salvage. I literally turned this fight
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off after eight rounds because I was like, oh,
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it's done. Who's going to win? And I was pissed
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off because I was annoyed at Ben Davison, which
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is a usual event in boxing. And then I saw a
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chat going off, so I brought the stream back
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up and that's when I saw that he got the salvage.
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So I was like, how the fuck has he done that?
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It was a nice punch. It was a really nice setup.
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Yeah. Yeah, he came over the top with the right
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hand. It is something they were training in camp.
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Like, there's footage of them training that exact
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punch. It wasn't entirely a fluke. They were
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training for the other 10 rounds of the fight,
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but yeah. They were training to land that punch.
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It's not a good strategy, but it's a strategy
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people employ. Yes, the Deontay Wilder strategy.
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Just train a big right hand and you'll be successful
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if you have sufficient power. They did work on
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his defense as in, this is how you take a punch
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and stay in range. Like, to try and limit how
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much shit Wardley actually had to eat. But Wardley
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has a chin. And he was relying on that. That
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was half his fucking strap. The only thing I'll
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say, yes, he has a good chin, but this is also
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Yusuf Suni, who never was a massive puncher at
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heavyweight anyway. So, I don't know how much
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you can really say about his chin based off the
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fact that he took shots of Yusuf Suni. No, I
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just mean historically. Yeah. Bobby Awardlee
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has a good chin. Oh, yeah. But, I mean, will
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he still have a good chin when he goes up? for
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the levels, and he fights fighting guys who have
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more power and a better ability to deliver that
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power, we'll see. No, I'm just saying, in this
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fight, part of their strategy was lean on the
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fact that he has enough chin to take Justice
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Huni's punches. And then wait for the timing
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on that one big right hand. It's a stupid strategy,
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but it worked. We'll see if it continues to work
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out for him. We'll see if that continues to happen,
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but if it's stupid, but it works, then it's not
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stupid. That's one of the... That's an old adage
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I got from my military years. Yeah. For, like,
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jerry -rigging stuff, but I don't know. In a
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fight, you can win and still lose. But... It
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was exciting. It was fun. I liked it. But I don't
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really care about either of these fighters. I
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wonder if Fabio Wardley continued the way he
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did because he wasn't too concerned. And that's
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why his defense was so fucking leaky. I think
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his defense is always going to be leaky. I found
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it really funny when I saw five people saying,
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oh my god, Wardley got exposed. And it's like,
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did you watch part one? Like, if you watch Clock
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1, you'd know for a fact that Wardley didn't
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have a good defense, and he probably was never
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going to have a good defense. Like, I'm pretty
24:24
sure Clock busted up his nose with the jab after
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about three rounds in that fight. That was disgusting.
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Wardley's nose just disappeared throughout that
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fight. If you want to go watch the definition
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of a heavyweight slugfest, go look up Clock vs.
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Wardley 1. Yeah, that was clobberfest. Yeah,
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for sure. Yeah. Let's keep it moving here. Boxer
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on Sky Sports. Yes. Now, I haven't actually watched
24:55
this card back. I need to at some point. I can't
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have been doing stuff. I do know that the Simpsons
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fight... Well, I do know that this card, it's
25:06
basically Sky Boxer's funeral. Because after
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this... I think it was a day or two after this,
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it came out that Sky is not renewing their contract
25:16
with Boxer. And they're going to basically look
25:19
to take a bunch of different... They're going
25:24
to rotate what promoters they do their shows
25:26
with. So I'm not sure what happens with Boxer
25:29
now. Knowing the state of boxing, they'll somehow
25:34
end up in the zone. Yeah, I was just going to
25:36
say that. Yeah, that's how it'll go. You're going
25:39
to have to pay... a lot of money a month to watch
25:42
the rebuild of Mark Jeffers after he lost to
25:45
a dude that William Scull was able to beat and
25:49
drop, by the way. Like, ow. Like, I remember
25:54
seeing that fight, like, I was like, how the
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fuck have you lost? And then they made a win.
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Simpson actually got dropped twice in this fight.
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So, like, I was kind of watching bits of this
26:06
before the Wadley fight came on because it was,
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like, on in between. I think I managed to watch
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the first two or three rounds. He got dropped
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like twice, but he wasn't really that hot. Came
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back, put his opponent down a couple of times
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in the 10th and got it done in the 10th and won
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via a technical knockout. So I had to come through
26:25
some adversity here. But I didn't watch the fight,
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so I'd have to look it back to give a more comprehensive
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breakdown. The Simpsons -Zumba fight was actually
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really enjoyable. It was really even and competitive
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throughout the entirety of it. Well, yeah, we
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were saying how if Zuko's weapon isn't a complete
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lie, he could have some issues with it. I mean,
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he came and dropped him twice, so I mean, you
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can't ask for much more, really. The first knockdown
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was a flash one, for sure. Yeah, he didn't look
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at all from that, like a couple of seconds in.
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Yeah, he was just, I think, some jitters about
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the gravity of the moment. But he rallied back
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perfectly. Even to get knocked down again, he
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still was able to keep it going, keep the momentum
27:09
building. It was really nice from Simpson. But
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now if you're at 168 and you're looking at this
27:14
fight and you're going, oh, well, Zuko can drop
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this guy twice. What can I do to him? So we'll
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see what they, well, well, firstly, before anything,
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we've got to figure out what the hell Boxer's
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doing. Because they're not going to be on Sky
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anymore. So not entirely. Like, I mean, they're
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only a real option. I can see in the UK would
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be they either go to TNT to replace the spot
27:31
that Queensbury left, but I don't know if TNT
27:33
is still doing boxing after that, or they end
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up on DAZN somehow. So we'll see. I wouldn't
27:39
be upset if they ended up on DAZN, just because
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I keep track of the boxer cards all the time
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for B -sides and now for here. So if it's somewhere
27:51
that's accessible, that would be nice. Yeah.
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I don't know. We'll see. yeah they also i think
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they showed like their accounts and like they
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they took a lot of losses when it comes to like
28:05
their financial statements as well like they're
28:07
they're like incarnate like what with origins
28:09
and shit that was hacked so we'll see what happens
28:12
um yeah if it if it goes downhill for boxer just
28:17
keep an eye on the likes of an anima team of
28:19
what he ends up doing over the next month or
28:20
two because he's like one of their biggest stars
28:22
i wouldn't be entirely shocked if they can't
28:25
get, like, a TV thing sorted out, like, there's
28:27
only, like, some of their bigger names, like,
28:29
go elsewhere, like, match, you know, Queensway.
28:32
They'd have to work on their matchmaking, but
28:35
maybe they could join Probox. Um. I'm not even
28:40
joking. No, because Probox does have a UK arm.
28:44
Do they? Yeah, they work with, um, what's his
28:48
name, in Ireland. Yeah. Conlon Promo. But boxer
28:55
cards are usually too one -sided. Like, they
28:58
want them to change the matchmaking to match
29:02
pro boxers. Yeah, I mean, this card, like, Seltzer
29:09
had a tough fight and Jeff has lost, but, like,
29:11
they were both massive favours coming in. Like,
29:13
Jeff was losing as literally a massive officer.
29:16
He was basically just taking this fight, waiting
29:18
for the Simpson fight, because that's what they
29:20
were talking about. And now that he lost, it
29:22
kind of fucked it up. Next. Okay, from the UK,
29:28
we are off to top rank on ESPN. Obviously, Keyshawn
29:34
kind of did a fuck -up, but we still had Mason,
29:38
so that was... Before we get to the Keyshawn
29:42
drama, I want to go through what... The rest
29:45
of the card. Keon Davis got a dub over Michael
29:50
Velez. Who is that? They're both 3 -0 at coming
29:53
into it, so whatever. They're still developing.
29:59
Troy Isley. UD over Attundi. Michelle William.
30:06
William in the singular. Has a surname. That's
30:09
fun. I don't know why. I just thought that was
30:16
funny. I found that funny when I was watching
30:19
it. Troy Isley. The reach. Attundi had a fucking
30:27
massive reach advantage. And Troy Isley struggled
30:30
with it. In the first half of the fight. So he
30:35
kind of looked like ass. But I still believe.
30:38
I'm still on the. What does he call himself?
30:42
The transformer? Yeah. Fucking Autobots, roll
30:46
out, baby. I'm still with you, Troy. Does he
30:50
walk out to the 80s, 90s cartoon theme? I don't
30:54
know. I don't think so. He should. That's a banger
30:58
song. Robots in disguise. Speaking of bangers,
31:05
but here, all right. Majority decision over Kelvin
31:08
Davis. Speaking of bangers, that's a little bit
31:12
of a... Foreshadowing. Nahir was better. Calvin
31:21
had no adjustments or answers for what Nahir
31:26
brought to the table. And fucking, what's his
31:30
name? Bomack. He kind of gave up on coaching
31:33
pretty early and just went straight to the motivational
31:37
talk. Which is a little weird for BOMAC. I wonder
31:42
if that means that Kelvin Davis isn't very coachable.
31:46
You know what I mean? Yeah, he's not very good.
31:50
Well, there's that too. But I was trying to be
31:53
more... Personality? Yeah. Yeah, I got you. Oh,
31:58
we know for sure that there's some personality
32:00
issues. Kelvin Davis. Kelvin Davis did not do
32:06
anything. He was not involved. I don't know.
32:08
To be fair, no, he wasn't in on any of the bullshit,
32:13
as far as I can tell. As far as we know, yeah,
32:17
Kelvin Davis was not involved. He was just the
32:19
catalyst. Abdullah Mason retires. Jeremiah Nakatilla.
32:28
Nakatilla. Gotta keep fucking that one up. Young
32:33
man continues to impress. Yeah, Mason looked
32:38
really good. Like we expected. I mean, yeah,
32:42
his opponent sucked. Nakatil is not the worst
32:46
opponent. This was a decent step up. But he's
32:50
not great. Let's not pretend he's something he
32:53
isn't. But it wasn't terrible. He looked very
32:57
limited in this fight. Mason just completely
33:01
destroyed him for a couple of rounds and that's
33:03
all this was. But I think part of that is just
33:07
that Mason's that good. I already said before,
33:11
Nakatiniya got stopped in two rounds by Moriteta
33:13
and Mercado. So he's not like some high -level
33:17
genius who's like a dark horse at 135. No, but
33:21
that's not what this was supposed to be. I mean,
33:25
he got a few rounds, and that was about it. It's
33:30
a systematic breakdown from Mason. Basically.
33:34
And now he's apparently going to fight Sam Notch
33:36
next, so whenever we do the podcast after that
33:39
fight, I may or may not seriously disappear.
33:42
You're not going to disappear. It'll be fine.
33:46
You'll be a bittersweet celebration of Mason.
33:50
Because I like Mason, but it's like, why does
33:54
it have to be Notch of all people that he's fighting
33:56
for a world title? Like, why? Yeah, why does
34:00
his... Why does his title ascension have to come
34:03
at the expense of Sam Noakes? Exactly. I want
34:06
them both to do well. I mean, just be happy that
34:11
Sam Noakes gets to fight for a title. Yay. I
34:16
mean, he's going to leave that fight probably
34:19
completely fucked. I don't think Mason's one
34:25
that really damages people. Is he? We'll see.
34:29
No, he's a breakdown over time. Yeah, he's more
34:34
of a schooling than a beating. Yes. Speaking...
34:41
Do we have anything else to say on this? No,
34:43
no notes. Abdullah Mason looked awesome. I am
34:46
a fucking glazer, so full disclosure there, but
34:51
no notes. Mason looked fucking awesome. I'm really
34:54
excited to see him in a title shot. Well, we
35:00
were talking about beating, so I feel like now
35:02
is a good time to segue onto the last recent
35:05
shit, which was the Nakatani and Nishida fight.
35:07
Are we not going to talk about the beating that
35:10
got put onto Nahir Albright behind the curtains?
35:14
Because that was fucking ridiculous. Yeah, we
35:17
can do that stuff. I was going to... A little
35:20
bit of the drama. Not like the Sean who saw it
35:25
or something. It was. Kion and Kishan went to
35:31
the locker room and I think it's pretty common
35:34
for guys to go to the locker room and be like
35:38
good fight like whatever sportsman like and it's
35:44
that's what Albright thought was happening so
35:47
he went out to like talk to them and be like
35:49
yeah you know sorry for beating your brother
35:53
but no hard feelings type thing. And they fucking
35:56
headbutted him. I hadn't seen the cut, but he
36:02
hit, I'm not sure which Davis brother, headbutted
36:05
him and cut his forehead open. Yeah, because
36:08
when he came on the interview, he hit that big,
36:10
like, fucking bow on his head. Yeah, he had a
36:12
big knot. And it was cut open. Looked like they
36:17
had it under control. Outside of the ring, that's
36:21
just straight up assault. And I did see that
36:24
the cops took the Davis brothers away. I haven't
36:27
heard if they've been charged with anything or
36:29
anything else, but the cops were involved and
36:33
that's just straight up illegal, like assault.
36:37
And I saw a bunch of people online being like,
36:40
Oh, Albright's such a pussy, like tattling to
36:44
the cops and you don't bring cops into a fight
36:47
and all this stuff. And I'm like, that's just
36:49
stupid. That is a stupid response. Who's been
36:53
seeing this? Because anything I've seen relating
36:56
to this is just people calling Katrina fucking
36:58
more. Yeah, that's all I have been seeing as
37:01
well. I'm not surprised to hear that there's
37:04
people that are like, oh, he's what a fucking
37:07
crybaby pulling the police into it. That headbutt
37:11
and that cut could cost him his next fight because
37:16
he has to let that heal up now. Yeah. Yeah, on
37:21
the topic of pay as well, apparently TopPine
37:23
paid him like 50%. They paid, what was his name,
37:28
Delos Santos, like 50 % of his purse for this
37:31
fight, when apparently they weren't even obligated
37:33
to. Yeah, that was really cool of them. Yeah.
37:39
Not something you'd expect from a huge... I mean,
37:44
they probably realized what a complete PR mess
37:46
this all was and just paid De Los Santos some
37:48
money because they wanted to at least kind of
37:50
come out of it looking good. I thought I had
37:52
heard that they paid him his full purse. I had
37:55
heard full purse as well, but... Yeah, I'd heard
37:57
full purse, and then it came out that they paid
37:59
like 50 % when they apparently legally didn't
38:02
even know how to pay him anything. 50 % for being
38:04
a fucking professional, I guess. It was like,
38:07
I think it was like $175 ,000 or something like
38:10
that. I don't recall the exact number. Nice day
38:12
at the office. It's not exactly doing nothing,
38:16
though. Yeah, that's why I meant he was a professional
38:20
about the fight. He was... Yeah. He showed up.
38:23
And he still has to... He still has to pay all
38:26
those people from his camp. True. Like... Yeah.
38:29
That might be why. Like, they still put in months
38:32
of work. Man, Keyshawn. I was on the hype train.
38:39
But after this... The train has derailed. No,
38:43
the train hasn't just derailed. It derailed and
38:46
then fucking flipped into the ocean. Yeah, fell
38:48
off a cliff into the fucking ocean. Yes. And
38:52
then somehow lit on fire underwater. I don't
38:57
know what Kershawn's doing. Like, I don't even
38:59
know. Like, I don't even know how, like, to be
39:02
fair, I already know for a fact he'll come back
39:04
after, like, a year out, win, like, one or two
39:06
fights, and everyone will just forget to see
39:08
what happened, but whatever. I fully, fully buy
39:11
into, um, Alex's conspiracy theory that this
39:16
is all him hanging out with Floyd Mayweather.
39:18
Oh, Floyd Mayweather getting in his head like
39:21
you're too good for this and you can blow weight
39:24
and they'll still fight you anyways. And a side
39:28
stuff. Oh, no. Yeah. Especially when he starts
39:32
talking about how the belts don't matter and
39:35
it's all about the money. That's just Floyd.
39:38
Yeah. The way we had we had discussed it was
39:41
like they might be symbolic. Once you reach a
39:46
certain level, they become symbolic. But you're
39:48
not at that level, Keyshawn. No, he needs the
39:53
belts still. You need the belts to bolster your
39:55
resume so that you can elevate to the point where
39:58
you can say, I don't give a shit what belt I'm
40:00
holding, if I'm even holding one. I've said it
40:04
before, a bunch of these guys are trying to be
40:06
Money Mayweather without ever being Pretty Boy
40:08
Floyd. Like, you can't do it. That's not how
40:11
it works. Yeah. You have to earn your bullshit.
40:17
And Khashoggi's best win was Denis Bovinchik.
40:21
Like... Not a great one. Yeah. Anyways. Anyways.
40:30
What weight class is this? 135. Okay. I was trying
40:37
to segue into something I noticed while I was
40:39
looking and it didn't work. But anyways. Kenichi
40:41
Ogawa is now ranked number 2 with the WBO at
40:46
130. He's in line for a Navarrete title shot,
40:50
which is fucking madness. I would love that.
40:55
Yeah. I wonder if they would do that in Japan.
41:00
It'd be pretty cool. I would go. Sorry, total
41:06
non -sequitur. No, perfect, because speaking
41:08
of Japan, on the 8th, Taken Promotions. I only
41:15
have two listed here. Shanada, did you have a
41:20
third that was worth paying attention to? Well,
41:24
the Riku Masuda knockout takes zero time to watch,
41:32
and it's super fun. You were watching this card,
41:34
Lin. I think it might be the first punch that
41:37
landed was the knockout punch. Something like
41:40
that. Ouch. It was crazy. The funniest part of
41:46
that fight was the dude he was fighting came
41:49
out to some dance. He looked like a sample or
41:52
something like that. And then he slept in about
41:54
a minute. It was pretty funny. So just for the
41:59
memes, that one's worth a rewatch. And then that
42:03
old debutante that I like, Tomoya Suboi, he was
42:09
on this card as well. He beat up a guy from Vietnam
42:16
for 10 rounds. I will say this one makes me wonder
42:22
if maybe he doesn't have any power. Because he
42:26
did try for the knockout about three different
42:29
times. Like he really pushed for it and the guy
42:33
just absorbed it. But it was a clean sweep, like
42:37
10 rounds to none. I think maybe one judge. gave
42:41
Van Tautran one round, I think. So, pretty dominant
42:48
performance again. And, I mean, it's his second
42:52
fight. So, his second fight's 10 rounds against
42:55
a guy who's 18 -1. And then, that's the only
42:59
two from the undercard that I think are worth
43:01
mentioning. And then we have Tenchin Nashikawa
43:05
versus Victor Santillan. Ten... Tension won on
43:10
the cards. Some question marks came up here.
43:17
He's my favorite fuckboy of all time. Fucking
43:22
hate him. I know. But what I noticed here was
43:26
Tension had it figured out pretty quickly. He
43:32
has solid ring IQ. But for how quickly he had
43:36
this figured out, for... how much he was able
43:42
to land on Santian. He did not seem to be bothering
43:47
Santian all that much. No, Santian never looked
43:51
hurt. And I do think Tenshin tried for the knockout
43:55
a couple times. Yeah, he did. And Santian cut
43:59
him. It's not like Tenshin wasn't taking any
44:02
damage. And there are also people in Japan who
44:07
hate him as much as I do because I was getting
44:09
some hate chanting going on for Victor Santillan.
44:12
Not really chanting, but like people cheering
44:15
for Santillan. And I was like, yes. It's fucking
44:19
awesome. They were nowhere close to me or I would
44:22
have went and tried to buy them a beer somewhere.
44:26
Yeah, I don't know. Tension looked like tension.
44:29
I do think once he steps up and fights anybody
44:32
who's good, he's... He's going to have trouble.
44:37
Well, I hate him. So I keep saying he's going
44:40
to lose to everyone. The lack of power is a problem.
44:45
Because Yoshiki Takei, how the fuck does he have
44:49
it? I don't know. But he has power for 118. Big
44:54
time. And Takei will land on Tenshin. Tenshin's
44:58
defense is not that good. He relies on his athleticism.
45:04
A little too much. Yeah. I don't know. I hope
45:10
they step up tension and I hope he gets knocked
45:12
the fuck out. Yeah. Let's keep it moving, though,
45:17
just so we don't get your blood pressure up too
45:20
badly. Junto Nakatani. Ryosuke Nishida. Retires.
45:27
Medically retired. What was it? They didn't say
45:31
it was because of this, but he had his shoulder
45:34
popped out. Yeah, his shoulder dislocated at
45:38
the beginning of round six. I watched it back
45:41
on the broadcast, and I think you can see when
45:43
it happens. It went back into place, mostly,
45:47
and he's using that arm, but you could see it
45:49
pop when Junto had him in a weird lock and kind
45:53
of spun him. Yeah, I remember exactly what moment
45:57
you're talking about. yeah i was like man junto
46:00
like what are you doing dude this isn't you i
46:05
i said it on the other podcast and i like junto
46:08
so i don't want to rag on him too much but i
46:10
was disappointed with how dirty he was fighting
46:14
yeah this is the first kind of tough fight he's
46:17
had in a while and he didn't react to it the
46:21
way i wanted him to there was a lot of weird
46:24
like wrestling throwing stuff and at one point
46:28
he punched nishida when his knee was down not
46:31
super hard like it wasn't super blatant but i
46:35
don't know nakatani was better like definitely
46:39
nakatani was winning but that head clash really
46:42
kind of fucked over nishida as well is that how
46:47
the eye got so shitty was from a headbutt yeah
46:50
it wasn't on the broadcast as far as i can tell
46:54
um they switched to commercials but in the arena
46:57
between rounds they announced that there was
47:00
an accidental head clash on the loudspeaker um
47:04
and then it was the next round that his eye really
47:07
started to swell shut so i think by the rules
47:12
that eye swelling shot was a accidental head
47:16
clash so i was a Little disappointed they didn't
47:20
take it to the cards and give Nakatani the win
47:23
that way and let Nishida have the moral victory
47:26
of not quitting. Because that eye was fucked.
47:30
That eye was completely closed. It's just kind
47:34
of like semantics. For the ref to say, I am calling
47:40
the fight because of that eye versus the corner
47:43
saying, this eye is too bad, we cannot continue.
47:47
Yeah, I mean, it's really not any difference,
47:50
but it makes a difference to me. No, it makes
47:53
a difference on Nishida's resume. Like, for it
47:57
to be, like, referee stops it on a bad eye swelling,
48:01
so we go to the scorecards versus TKO or, you
48:06
know, doctor stoppage. Yeah. So, I don't know.
48:13
Overall, like... Nakatani looked good, but I
48:18
do think the southpaw versus southpaw was a factor.
48:21
Like I said, it was going to be. I don't think
48:22
Nakatani is super good against southpaws. And
48:25
I think Nishida did better than people thought
48:27
he would. Overall, it was a fun fight, though.
48:31
I really enjoyed the whole night. The only thing
48:34
that was fucking stupid is that Arena doesn't
48:36
have a concession stand of any kind. It was absolutely
48:40
ridiculous. I had to go to a convenience store
48:42
to buy snacks and drinks. At this point, you
48:45
should just bet on bringing them yourself every
48:49
time you go. I still have that feeling that I'm
48:53
doing something wrong, and I don't really like
48:55
it. Because technically, I didn't check this
48:59
website, but a lot of the websites do say no
49:01
outside food and drink. They just don't enforce
49:04
it at all. Like, Ariaka Arena says no outside
49:07
food and drink, but people walk in with 7 -Eleven
49:10
bags just stuffed full of stuff. Like... So I
49:14
don't know. But yeah, I should just start bringing
49:18
at least two drinks. Because sitting there the
49:20
whole night yelling with nothing to drink is...
49:22
That's rough. And the crowd was actually pretty
49:28
loud. There was a lot of... You could tell Osaka
49:30
was in town. There was a lot of bright Hawaiian
49:34
t -shirts, a lot of dyed hair, a lot of chants.
49:38
It was fun. It was a good night. A lot of hooligans?
49:42
Hmm. I like the hooligans. I was in the Tokyo
49:47
section, though. Everyone around me was kind
49:48
of boring. And I bought a Nishida shirt. The
49:52
only person I don't have a shirt from that I
49:56
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50:00
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50:03
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That's kind of fun. Yeah, it is. Actually, let
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those before we started. What I forgot. It's
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actually pretty nice. Yeah, I've never tried
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mushrooms. Coming up on the 19th, we will not
56:15
have anyone in the building for this one. Brian
56:17
Norman versus Jen Sasaki. Looking down the card,
56:21
I don't see anybody that I recognize. Just the
56:26
main event. I recognize a couple names, but there's
56:31
nobody worth worrying about. Yeah. I recognize
56:37
a couple of the B -sides as people that they
56:40
bring in to fight prospects. Reiya Abe? I think
56:46
I recognize that name. Yeah. But, main event,
56:51
Brian Norman Jr. versus Jin Sasaki. I think it's
56:56
cool that Brian's going to... Japan for this
56:59
one. I think it's kind of random, but I like
57:03
it. And it'll probably get them some international
57:07
fans. I hope so. The Japanese crowd will cheer
57:12
for people that come to Japan. Like, when they
57:15
go back home. A bunch of the guys at the bar
57:18
still talk about Ola Squaga and Leo. They are
57:25
now fans of them just because they came to Japan.
57:29
Yeah. If I had to stay up or wake up at the ass
57:34
crack of dawn to catch fights, I would be really
57:38
grateful to anybody who flew over. Yeah, I think
57:43
that's a big part of it. I do think this doesn't
57:47
go well for Jin Sasaki. I don't either. But...
57:53
You know, stranger things have happened. I guess.
57:58
But yeah, I would put my money on Brian Norman
58:01
for sure. Probably by KO. I'm leaning. Moving
58:10
to Goldenboy on DAZN. This is Friday, June 20th.
58:17
I don't know who these people are. I don't recognize
58:22
anyone. I don't recognize anyone. Why is this
58:26
one here? Just because it's boxing and it's the
58:29
only card that's happening on that day. So just
58:33
if you're really fucking fiending and you need
58:36
boxing in your life, here you go. Sometimes these
58:40
golden boy ones do have bangers as well. Every
58:44
once in a while, there's a war on these prospect
58:46
cards. But usually it's one -sided knockout.
58:51
There is one guy I recognize on this card. Not
58:54
because he's good. Laval Wayne. He was the dude
58:59
that lost Vito. He was the guy that fought Vito
59:01
in Vito's debut. That's right. Took in the distance.
59:06
Yeah, he took that hot Japanese prospect on the...
59:13
Fatal Fury, City of the Wolves. Yeah, that was
59:16
on the New York card. That's the only name I
59:21
verified because of that. So let's keep it going.
59:29
Baja Boxing in Tijuana. Why is this here? Jojo
59:36
Diaz is still fighting. Oh my god. Why is he
59:42
still fighting? Yes. I just really wanted to
59:51
point him out just because he's a name that people
59:53
will recognize. He's recent enough. He's got
59:57
three losses in a row. He lost on Pro Box. Dude,
1:00:03
if he can't win on Pro Box, just stop. He's lost
1:00:09
six of his last seven. I don't know what the
1:00:12
point is anymore, but sure. Well, ProBox was
1:00:16
part of his rehab, 100%. Yeah, definitely. Getting
1:00:21
him on that ProBox card was part of his rehab
1:00:24
with the program they have there. But now, maybe
1:00:31
that's all this is. He's busy trying to box.
1:00:35
He doesn't do as many drugs. Maybe. Stops touching
1:00:41
14 -year -olds. Hey, she was 15, alright? No,
1:00:49
that's not alright. I know. Definitely not. Fucking
1:00:54
Jojo Diddler. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, enough of
1:01:01
his fucking ass, but there you go. 360 promotions.
1:01:06
The only one... I recognize as Callum Walsh.
1:01:11
Lynn, do you know who this is? Oh, he's fighting?
1:01:13
Yeah. He's fighting? Oh, damn. Yeah, I've seen
1:01:18
that. Yeah, because I watched his last fight,
1:01:20
which was against some absolute bum from Scotland
1:01:22
that he won in a round. So I was like, okay,
1:01:24
he may have something. So I didn't see he was
1:01:28
fighting, but sure. Yep, he's pretty much it.
1:01:31
From this card. Yeah, Jesus Christ. It's a battle.
1:01:37
We're in dire straits here. I know about Jonathan
1:01:40
Inej because he's kind of a journeyman who goes
1:01:42
around and fights people. But that's the only
1:01:45
other name on that card. Let's go to Matchroom.
1:01:51
Also on the 21st. Galalia 5 versus Francisco
1:01:56
Rodriguez. Now. There's actually a couple of
1:01:59
fights on this card. Now, we have got a couple
1:02:01
of prospects. Pat Brown, you know, former amateur.
1:02:05
Well, they say he's an Olympian, but he lost
1:02:08
the preliminary, so I'm not entirely sure how
1:02:10
that counts as an Olympian, but I guess because
1:02:12
he technically fought for a preliminary to the
1:02:14
Olympics, it somehow counts. He made the team.
1:02:15
That's about it. And then Peter McGrail is on
1:02:22
this card. He was scheduled to fight Shabazz
1:02:26
Masood. But Masood pulled out with an injury.
1:02:29
So now. If you guys know the British domestic
1:02:32
scene. His short notice. I don't know how short
1:02:36
notice is. I think it's like a couple of weeks.
1:02:38
Is now Iona Baluta. If you know you know. This
1:02:42
guy has fought like. Fucking everyone it feels
1:02:46
like in this country. And I swear to god. The
1:02:47
only time he lost a fight one sidedly. Was when
1:02:50
he fought Dennis McCann. And then like. It was
1:02:53
after that fight. That McCann. was then going
1:02:57
to fight McGrail and then tested positive. And
1:03:00
I haven't heard anything like that. So you might
1:03:03
even put an asterisk in that fight with what
1:03:06
McCann was almost definitely on for that fight.
1:03:09
So that should be a really good test for McGrail.
1:03:12
Because, like, Balluma always gets in fun fights.
1:03:14
And I swear to God, he always comes in and does
1:03:16
his job well as a B -side. He beat TJ Doheny,
1:03:20
according to Buckrec. Yeah, I mean, you can look
1:03:23
at Bott's record. You can look at the days that
1:03:24
he's been in the ring with and what his result
1:03:26
against him has been. This guy is like no pushover
1:03:29
despite his record. Sounds good. Yeah. Conor
1:03:36
Walker defends his British Waterweight title
1:03:39
against Liam Taylor. Now, we want to discuss
1:03:41
Xavier Woodley just finally knocking a guy out
1:03:44
after getting beat up for the entire fight. This
1:03:47
guy basically did the same thing to Harry Scarfe.
1:03:49
He went down 10 -0 in that fight and then stopped
1:03:51
him in the 11th. Well done. Yep. He's now fighting
1:03:56
a dude called Liam Taylor, who I wasn't too familiar
1:03:59
with. He got stopped in two rounds by Amnesian
1:04:01
back in 2021. He was actually on a card back
1:04:06
in March. He was on some YouTube prelims for
1:04:10
a matching card to set this fight off, and he
1:04:12
won on points. I would expect Walker to win this
1:04:15
fight, but it's a British title. Anything can
1:04:19
happen. And then the main event is Galaria 5
1:04:22
versus Francisco Rodriguez Jr. Now, the first
1:04:25
immediate point to raise, this is a Brit versus
1:04:28
a Mexican. We do have to consider this going
1:04:31
into this fight. Because on paper, this should
1:04:35
be a relatively easy... I don't know how easy,
1:04:39
because Shannara would know more about the 115
1:04:41
dudes. But on paper, your fight should win this
1:04:46
fight. But he's also fighting a Mexican. So we'll
1:04:49
see how much that evens itself. I don't know
1:04:51
if Shanata knows much on Rodriguez Jr. And a
1:04:54
Mexican that's only lost to Ioka and Nakatani
1:04:59
in the last five years. So, I mean, he hasn't
1:05:06
been losing to bums. This is a hard test for
1:05:10
Golov. Yeah. And I also fucking hate the Yafis,
1:05:15
so I'm going to put money on Rodriguez. I assume
1:05:18
he's an underdog. I can check the British book
1:05:22
here I have to get the odds on this. Hang on.
1:05:25
Well, I don't want to. No, I know I don't want
1:05:26
to. I used some really sketchy thing based out
1:05:30
of Madagascar. My odds are going to be different
1:05:32
anyways. Okay, well, hang on. Well, on the UK
1:05:36
site, I have Kalau, your fight, two to five favorite,
1:05:39
Francisco Rodriguez Jr. at 11 to five. Yeah.
1:05:44
So he's a slight underdog, but not that crazy.
1:05:48
Still, I'm going to put some money on Rodriguez.
1:05:50
I think he's going to knock out your five. I
1:05:53
mean, he's Mexican, so I wouldn't say no. I mean,
1:05:59
if there's one weakness we have, it seems to
1:06:01
be the bloody Mexicans. So, sure. This is for
1:06:06
the WBC end to end flyweight title. I don't know
1:06:09
who the WBC flyweight title holder is. I think
1:06:12
it was Taraji. What weight class? 115? 112. It's
1:06:20
112. This is flyweight. Oh, is it 1 -12? Okay,
1:06:23
1 -12. I looked at the record and saw Rodriguez
1:06:26
was at 1 -15, so I thought it was at 1 -15. You
1:06:29
said WBO? WBC. Oh, WBC is Taraji. Well, Yafai's
1:06:36
the interim right now. Yeah. He picked up that,
1:06:39
but what he beat, sorry. On DraftKings, Galal
1:06:43
Yafai's minus 300, and Rodriguez is plus 230.
1:06:49
Nice. Yeah. Not that one. I'm going to put a
1:06:53
cheeseburger bet on Rodriguez. A cheeseburger,
1:06:58
not just a hamburger. Yeah. All the trimmings.
1:07:02
Avocado. No, that shit's gross. Hipster baby
1:07:07
food. I really don't like avocados. Guacamole
1:07:14
is good, but like just an avocado. Yeah. It's
1:07:19
tasteless. It just tastes like you put oil in
1:07:22
your mouth. Speaking of oil, in Newark, New Jersey,
1:07:28
there's oil refineries there. It's a long -ass
1:07:36
card, and fucking nobody on it is really noteworthy.
1:07:41
Brandon Lee is on it. There's really nobody,
1:07:46
but there's Brandon Lee. which is excellent.
1:07:49
I'm really happy to see him fighting still. There's
1:07:54
a heavyweight fight at the top. Yeah, I don't
1:07:57
care about that. Jahai Tucker is one of top -ranked
1:08:01
prospects at middleweight versus Lorenzo Simpson.
1:08:08
Yeah, I was going to say Damian Neeper I recognize.
1:08:15
Because, yeah, I looked it up, I thought it was
1:08:17
this. He's trained by the same dude who trains
1:08:20
Zhang. So... We'll see how he looks. Yeah, because
1:08:27
I remember I thought I saw before, like, Zhang
1:08:30
had mentioned he would, like, there was some
1:08:31
mention. But yeah, same camp. No idea who he
1:08:36
is in terms of a boxer, but hey, I guess we get
1:08:38
an opportunity to find out. Well, and that's...
1:08:42
polish versus polish so i'm kind of just expecting
1:08:47
a heavyweight slugfest to be honest i do not
1:08:50
expect either of these guys to know how to box
1:08:53
well i just looked at his opponent's box work
1:08:55
his last fight was in september 2022 and it was
1:09:00
a split decision draw against a past his prime
1:09:03
camille sokolowski so we will see what we're
1:09:09
in for with this fight Yeah. I'm just expecting
1:09:12
zero boxing and just fucking haymakers from both
1:09:15
of these guys. I mean, that's usually how low
1:09:17
-level heavyweight goes, yes. And then they gas
1:09:19
out. Also, like, two rounds, so the rest of the
1:09:22
fight is just a hog fight. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty
1:09:25
much. Anyways, two giant Polish guys fighting,
1:09:29
so I'll feel like I'm back at home and there's
1:09:31
a bar fight. Be great. Also, yeah, we got Malnicki
1:09:36
on this card. He's fighting a Pole. The headline
1:09:38
is Vito Malnicki. So that's a fight. I mean,
1:09:46
yeah, I saw Malnicki in his last fight. I thought
1:09:48
he beat Coyle. That fight got more than majority
1:09:50
draw. He's now fighting some unnamed Polish fighter,
1:09:55
so we'll see. I mean, he's only 23, but he can
1:09:58
still improve, but we'll see. I mean, 23 in boxing
1:10:02
is nothing. Especially not in the big weight
1:10:08
classes. Yeah, he fucks it middleweight, which
1:10:11
is weak as is anyway, so... I have never noticed
1:10:16
Malnicki's nickname on BoxRec, I don't think.
1:10:20
Is it White Magic? White Magic. Oh. Junior Malnicki
1:10:26
does not deserve White Magic. That's too cool
1:10:30
of a nickname. I mean... Hey, maybe he'll style
1:10:35
his opponent. We'll see. He's fine, but that's
1:10:39
a cool nickname. Yeah. Well, Adam Lee is also
1:10:45
on this card. Yep. I'm excited. I mean, I remember
1:10:51
he came over to the UK for one fight with Queensboy
1:10:53
and he didn't look particularly special against
1:10:55
some Colombian no -name fighter. I don't know
1:10:59
what he's doing with his career, but yeah. He's
1:11:01
on this card. He exists. I'm happy to see him.
1:11:07
Yeah, I think that's about it for that card.
1:11:11
That's it. It's not a super good weekend. It's
1:11:13
not. Better last week. I would say last week
1:11:19
is better. Yeah. A little better. Tiny bit. About
1:11:24
the same? Yeah. Better, worse, or about the same?
1:11:30
I need to get my eyes checked. Oh. anything more
1:11:37
for the previews no this is kind of a sad week
1:11:43
yeah like in the recaps we went about an hour
1:11:47
and we got all this shit done in like 10 minutes
1:11:50
sorry leo yeah it's all right yeah it's fine
1:11:58
it's all good um let me see we were faster this
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right, so given the nature of the boxing this
1:13:31
weekend, What else are you going to do since
1:13:36
you... It's a free weekend. You don't have to
1:13:39
really watch any of these. I've got... I've got
1:13:46
three animes I gotta catch up on. So, that's
1:13:50
my weekend. Anime, a little bit of work, and
1:13:54
a tiny bit of boxing. The, like, three fights
1:13:58
I wanna watch. Yeah, it's really just Brian Norman.
1:14:04
Yeah, I'll watch Brandon Lee too. And there was
1:14:09
a different one somewhere. No, that's it. It's
1:14:15
a really bad weekend. My parting words this week
1:14:19
are everybody should keep an eye on the LVXmedia
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.net website for the top 10 lists that will be
1:14:27
coming out. They'll all be put in the written
1:14:31
part and then... I think I'm going to end up
1:14:34
reading them to be put up in the YouTube shorts,
1:14:37
maybe, unless other people want to read their
1:14:39
own. I'm excited about this. I think it's a fun
1:14:45
project. Lynn, you got anything? Not overly,
1:14:54
apart from the first bit, if Rodriguez beats
1:14:56
your fight, I think we should just start a petition
1:14:58
to ban all Mexicans from entering the UK. But,
1:15:01
yeah. I think that that has been floated before.
1:15:09
I know it's been discussed. Yes, I've got the
1:15:14
new full -on policy piece. Having a boxing license
1:15:19
stops you from entering the UK if you're Mexican.
1:15:22
Exactly. It's in the immigration papers. Exactly.
1:15:28
Get that sword. Well, if that's it, then that's
1:15:34
it for this edition of Boxing Before Dark. Go
1:15:37
do something else this weekend. Touch graph.
1:15:42
Yeah, go outside. Get fresh air in your lungs.
1:15:47
Alright, we're out of here. Bye.