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Alright, that's running. Alright. Boxing B -Sides.
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We are back to talk the fights. Holy shit, boys.
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Another week. More fights to talk. Josh, Saul,
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how goes it? Excellent. Fantastic. Oh, you know
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what's going to be fantastic? Sunday, June 14th.
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UFC Freedom 250. Can you believe it? Can I say
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something off the record? Sure. Okay, I genuinely
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think there's going to be something going on
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with that, dude. Oh. I think there's going to
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be a false flag. You think? Yeah. We're already
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going in the show. I thought it. I wasn't going
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to say it because this is a professional environment.
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But... I wanted to take that off the record.
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Yeah, I'll blur it out somehow. Yeah, we all
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know why. I don't want to say why, but we all
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know why. He's going to put AI text over it that
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says the exact timestamp it'll happen at. Saul's
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address so we can know, so authorities can contact
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him. You guys feel the same way, right? I think
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something is going to happen, yes. Obviously.
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This has been happening for weeks on the White
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House lawn. They should slime Colby Covington
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and no one else. UFC Freedom 250, we have, just
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to give you the rundown of the card and what
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I am not an expert. The show is called Ultimate
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F 'n Casuals. It used to be called Ultimate F
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'n Casual in the singular. The F 'n Casual was
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me because I don't know what the fuck I'm talking
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about. I still don't. So let's see. We got Diego
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Lopez versus Steve Garcia. At 145 pounds. Bo
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Nickel vs. Kyle Duckhouse. At 185 pounds. Mauricio
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Hufi vs. Michael Chandler. At 155 pounds. Josh
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Hokit vs. Derek Lewis. This one should be fun.
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At 265 pounds. Shano Malley vs. Ayman Zahabi.
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At 135. Alex Behera versus Cyril Ghosn at 265.
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This is for the interim title. And Ilya Tepuria,
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the 155 -pound champ versus Justin Gaethje, the
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interim champ. I will say one thing, that Ilya
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Tepuria, the champ, Justin Gaethje was made interim
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champ. They're consolidating it within one fight.
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That's pretty cool. How funny would it be if
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Sirogan, they have another no contest because
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of a... Eye poke. Like a eye ga... No, poke.
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Poke? Double finger gouge. Yeah, like gouging.
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I was going to say poke. A poke does not leave
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you with like half blindness like it did to Aspinall.
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They use a Viltrumite special. Oh my god. Something
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that I've noticed in my time as I've ramped up
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to being a bit more of a multi -sport fan, not
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being as much of a boxing snob as I used to be,
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that one FC does not have eye poke problems.
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PFL does not have eye poke problems. It's the
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gloves. Ryzen does not have eye poke problems.
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Yeah, Ryzen's like no rules and they still don't
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have eye poke problems. You could straight up
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kick a dude's head, like soccer kick a dude's
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head while he's on the ground and that's acceptable.
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I'm all for that in MMA. I like the old pride
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rules because it's like that's the point. That's
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the point. That being said, no, that was a Brazilian
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card I remember that got the zero contact low.
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to be a rule. And it was John Grant Jr. who kept
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reaching into the other guy's trunks and just,
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like... Muscle gouging? Yeah, basically. Ugh.
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I remember watching a documentary on, like, rule
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changes in MMA, and, like, one of the big ones
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is, like, when anything goes, like, you could
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go nut shots until... It was a grapple -heavy
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fight, and he just literally kept reaching into
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his opponent's trunks and just, like, squeezing
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and crushing. Yikes. And I was like, yeah, okay,
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the rule. Yeah, it checks out that the rule got
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made. Yeah. I say it all the time, and it's a
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phrase that I learned in the military. It's like,
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rules are written in blood. Yeah. So, yeah, you
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can't reach into some dude's trunks and grab
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it and twist. why would you do that but yeah
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freedom 250 we'll be talking about it over on
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MMA's ultimate effing casuals into some not so
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fun notes but I feel they're important bxng .co
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slash survey I want to hear what you think about
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The titles. How do you rank them in terms of
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prestige? Which do you perceive to be more corrupt?
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Etc. And last bit. The Muhammad Ali Boxing Revival
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However, that does not mean that we still can't
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know what you think, that this legislation sucks.
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It creates more problems than it solves. And
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right, into the news. netflix is interested in
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hosting in a way versus bam i cannot help but
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be excited uh number one the little guys are
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getting some recognition here number two boxing
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is getting some recognition here uh overall this
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like this is a i try to reserve use of the term
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for fights that genuinely deserve it i feel this
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is a case where this is a super fight. I'm way
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too excited for this. And also the fact that
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they're talking about it on Netflix, it feels
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like the negotiation is going pretty well. Netflix
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is the sign that it will happen and will be a
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super fight because Netflix only picks up these
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novelty events. Well, it's a super fight for
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sure in Japan. Well, if Netflix knows they're
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going to make a bag, they're going to jump on
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it. They're going to take it, yeah. Because,
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like, even, like, Jake Paul Anthony Joshua was
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such a, like, Netflix sees dollar signs and Jake
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Paul comeuppance. Like, all of Netflix events
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are, like, obvious dollar signs that they just
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nudge over the finish line to get the money.
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Yeah, here's the platform. You already have the
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product. Like, we're not interested in meddling
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with that. No. It would be nice if they were.
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Netflix is a very convenient platform for boxing.
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Would be nice if they got more, but we gotta
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deal with The Zone. What do you mean? We have
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Paramount Plus, too. Oh, boy. And even worse,
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streaming service, because there's nothing on
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it. You can watch all of Taylor Sheridan's work.
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I'll have you know. Oh, shit. What was it called?
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Tom... Tom Hardy. Pierce Brosnan. Mobland. Yeah.
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That was a pretty good show. I have not watched
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anything else on Paramount+. Besides my... As
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I call it, my professional interest in MMA. And
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boxing as well. I watch Zufa. I watch... UFC.
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Because I have to. Why do I do this to myself?
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But yeah, we got Netflix interested in hosting
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Inouye vs. Bam. I would love to see what kind
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of undercard they cook up for that. Of course,
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they're going to put other Ohashi guys on it.
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But... Give me Jin Sasaki on all the undercard
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fights. Oh, man, if they don't put Jin Sasaki
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on there, because you want a knockout. It's a
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guaranteed knockout. Hey, there wasn't a knockout
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last time, and it was even better. Well, a pleasant
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disappointment. Oh, yeah. Just run that fight
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back, actually. I'm not even... Won't say no
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to that. Maybe I'll be able to watch it this
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time. Jermall Charlo is going to be returning
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on the Spence Zoo Undercard. Opponent TBD. Oh,
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man. Is he fighting a 168 now? I believe so.
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What's his deal? Okay. It's not going to be anyone
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good. I guess, bro. That's my reaction to that.
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I guess, bro. I like Jermel a lot more at this
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point in time. And even then. It's a low bar.
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Let's see Charlo versus Charlo. And I think Jermel
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washes the younger one, too. I think Jermel washes
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Jermel. But, you know. These guys are the definition
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of potential, man. They peaked, and then they
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did nothing. Jermel got paid, and then fucked
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off. Yeah, but even then, he beat Castaño. He
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stopped Castaño. Gap. Washed by Canelo. Got paid.
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Fucked off. Like... You gotta respect it. You
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got his money. You left. Jermel is... the one
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I really take issue with because 160 was so empty.
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I genuinely believe Jamar could have beaten anyone
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at 160. He could have ran the division for some
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time. Because he would have gone through Lara
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and Janabek and Eubank for the three fights.
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He was a contender there. Adamas. Like... He
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would have ran through that division, and he'd
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probably still be the guy right now if he stayed
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on the horse. He would have moved up to 68 and
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gotten a payday against Canelo as well. For sure.
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Or even Crawford. Crawford could have stuck around
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to make that defense. Yeah. Because, you know,
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Crawford low -key dipped out because no one wanted
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to pay him. Yeah, who's going to drop like 50
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mil. Because he's still not a star. He was never
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a star. He was great, but he was never a star
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that could bring the money he always wanted.
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So, I just, he would have been, there would have
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been so much more to his career and we would
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have had such an interesting 160 division. And
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now it's, well, it's speculation now. Speaking
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of speculation, Adrian Broner looking at making
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a comeback and Chris Eubank is the alleged op.
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This is such a bummy fight, dude. I'm sorry.
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I can't. That's horrible. No, honestly, I've
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always liked Broner on paper. Not because he's
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a good person, but because he's like a roley
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character. I encourage him staying in boxing
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instead of killing himself with alcohol. And
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he's just a character. Like, what other boxer
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has gotten in trouble with literally everyone?
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From Al Heyman to the Italian mob to the NBA
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to the FBI. And now he's on, like, kick streams.
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Like, he's a character. I do like having him
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around, and it's not, like, yes, he's washed,
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but how bad did Eubank look last time out? At
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the same weight class he's gonna fight Broner
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at, by the way. Like, I don't mind it. Adrian
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Broner's back in the rap studio. I'll have you
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know. You ever actually listen to his music?
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Yes, I have. It's not very good. He has, like,
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one okay song, but, like, I was also 15, and
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it was the only thing listenable, the 15 -year
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-old me. I liked, of his music, the one that
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I liked was Jesse Owens. That was it. Run the
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race, Jesse Owens. Every time I see AB, like,
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he comes up a lot on my social media feed. Yeah,
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because he's hanging out with Dean the Great,
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I think. But he's such a fun character there,
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too, because he's harmless. He's a character.
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That's what I mean. When he was in his boxing
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days and it'd be like, oh, this is a serious
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problem, like a DUI or whatever, okay. But here
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it's like he seems very... He's matured to a
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20 -year -old from a 16 -year -old. You know,
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like the frontal lobe is there at least a little
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bit where he won't just go crazy. Hold on a second.
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I am pretty sure. My favorite clip I've seen
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right now is the one where he's in the kitchen.
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Like, he looks like a ball, like a circle with
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legs. And he teaches Dean the Great how to throw
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a pole counter. And he's like, no, you're doing
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it wrong. And then he just, you just, like, we
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have the eye for it because we've watched boxing
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or have done boxing. But just the, like, the
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speed that he does that is like, holy fuck. He's
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still got it? He's still, no, he doesn't still
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have it. He's just, it's so ingrained. It's such,
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it's impressive. But it's also like, damn. No
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one remembers that this guy was on pound -for
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-pound lists and that he's a four -division champ.
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Everybody just remembers the Marcos Maidana fiasco.
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Yeah, it goes Marcos Maidana and then him getting
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fucking bullied on, like, Country Box or whatever
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the fuck it was, Triller or Don King. Don King,
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it was a Don King show. But, like, you know,
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he actually didn't look that horrible against
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Mikey Garcia either. It wasn't a great performance.
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It wasn't awful. Consider the average Mikey Garcia
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opponent at this time. Did better than Lippinitz,
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at least. Oh, for sure. That's what I'm saying.
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He's almost matured to having a frontal lobe
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that he's developed. Well, if you believe the
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conspiracies, you just need a little bit of magic
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mushrooms, and that'll help you develop it. You
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know, there are studies that the psilocybin does
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help with certain aspects of rebuilding bridges
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in your brain or mental illness and stuff. I've
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heard the same. It's possible. The studies are
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real. I believe Oregon... And Washington are
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piloting psilocybin as like a rehab type of drug.
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But you have to micro -dose it. Yes, yes. Control
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dosages. Yeah, like it's not an excuse to just
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get strung out on magic mushrooms. But if you
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just want... Oh, Broner. I look at him... Because
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he's about six weeks younger than I am. So, like,
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whenever I see him, like, really fucking up,
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I always think, like, bro, do you need a grown
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-up? I'll help you out. Like, you don't have
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to pay for anything for me. No, it's just. You
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come on the pod, Adrian Broder. Yeah, dude. I
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would want Broder on the pod. I would love to
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talk to him. I would love to. I just, he's such.
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I need to hear more about how he swindled James
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Harden. With the loaded dice? They were so obvious.
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Like, have you seen the case file pictures where
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the dice are so, like, they're so obviously loaded?
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Like, because they're these, like, translucent
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red dye, and you can see the, like, weight on
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the... Through the, like, if you stick it in
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the lighting, you can see... How the fuck does
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this happen? The loaded dice game. Like, how
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the fuck are you, like, an NBA player getting
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scammed at Adrian Broner dice games? Especially
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with how crazy his, like, facial hair and build
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is. Like, if you see, and his outfits are, like,
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they look greasy as fuck. If you see him walk
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out to, like, roll dice at fucking craps, do
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you not just walk out? This guy is bad news.
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What is he doing? Let's see here. The WBC has
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elevated Skye Nicholson to full champion, and
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she'll be facing Mio Yoshida in her next fight.
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Interesting turn of events. WBC putting their
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titles onto moneymakers. We talked about that
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last time with the Benavidez fiasco and Mikaelian.
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They have to, though. In this case, I agree with
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that in that case because it's an anti -Zufa
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measure. I don't even know if Zufa's going to
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have women. It doesn't look like it at this point.
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Man, Dana White didn't even want women in the
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UFC. That stuff was made because Ronda Rousey.
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Kicking ass. Yeah. Kicking too much ass. I mean,
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you can see how they're slowly, like, winding
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down women's divisions in the UFC with how they're
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not signing as many people on, like, their full
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contracts. And, like, you can see they're starting
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to wind it up. It's upsetting, but it is what's
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happening. What else? Murat Gassia versus Tony
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Yoka. is in the cards for July 11th. The WBA
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regular title will be on the line here. Ridiculous.
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Ridiculous. It's not ridiculous. Murat Gassiev
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finally got his career together after like eight
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years. No, I'm just saying, I'm mad that Tony
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Yoka is really getting a shot like this. It's
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a nothing belt, man. Yeah, but come on, it's
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Tony Yoka though. Gassi had won this off of Kubrat
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Pulev. He didn't even be anywhere near. Daniel
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Dubois held this belt because he beat Trevor
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Bryan in a senior rec center that was leaking
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from the roof in front of like six people. This
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belt is worth less than dirt. Let's just... This
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belt was sued back into existence. Yeah, by Emmanuel
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Char. Oh, my God. Who was he supposed to fight?
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He was supposed to fight Trevor Bryan. Because
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there was a guy. There's a fight between, I think.
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Is it Manuel Char or Mahmood Char? Manuel. It
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was Mahmood. I think it's Mahmood. No, it's Manuel
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Char. The Manuel Char and Mahmood Char are the
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same people. Manuel is his. his European name.
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So Mahmoud was supposed to fight somebody and
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if you mention it to Dan Rayfield he will block
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you on social media. He was supposed to fight
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Trevor Bryan but Trevor Bryan is such a Don King
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basic and Bryan's manager did not want Bryan
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to be cashed out against A no -name German, basically.
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So that's when it was sued back into existence.
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Famously, the first fight Char had when it got
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sued back into existence was a defense against
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Chris Lovejoy. Wonderful. So that was the culmination
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of it, because I think he got stripped and it
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ended up going to Brian, who then lost to Dubois.
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I remember the Brian Dubois fight. There was
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a fucking banshee in the Miami high school gym
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or wherever it is that they were fighting. Oh,
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that gets better. Guess who Brian won that belt
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off of? Who's that? Bermane Stiverne. Oh, fuck.
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It gets worse. So the lineage of this belt and
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it's been vacant. But Pulev picked it up because
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someone needs to have it. Of course. And then
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Gassiev put him out the pasture. So now we're
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here. Actually, no. Now we're here. Sorry, I
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just saw. Pulev won a UD over Char. When it opened
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itself back up. That's how he got it. Char sued
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to get it back and Pulev took it. Lost it. You
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know, he sued to get it back. Lost it. Trevor
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Bryan beats Davern for it. Lost to Dubois. It
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goes vacant again. Char and Pulev fight for it.
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Oh, what a beautiful lineage of such a remarkable,
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important belt for this landscape. Well, now
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Tony Yoka is in play for a minor title. Tony
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Yoka is not winning this fight. There's no chance.
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He shouldn't even be anywhere near the minors.
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That came out wrong. I'm sorry. Gassiev came
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off of a loss to Otto Wallin for his shot at
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Pulev. Gassiev, as the adage goes, power is the
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last thing to go. So, maybe. Gassiev can still
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land a ICBM on the Frenchman. Gassiev is 32,
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by the way. He was like 25 when he fought Usyk.
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He just looks... He's just aged very badly. I
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remember when he actually made his move up, I
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was talking to people, they're like, he's been
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around forever, and I'm like, no, he like...
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He accelerated very quickly. He's easier than
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me. Fuck. It's like Lubin. He's just been around
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for a long time. Yeah, he's just been around
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for a long time. By the way, Cody Yoka is two
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years older than Gassio. Damn. Yoka's 34. It's
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okay, Leo. Okay. I am having an existential crisis
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at the moment. Well, what are you going to do?
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Time stops for no man. So that's what I mean
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by, like, both of these idiots have been around
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forever. Like, Dave Allen has had, like, six
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career revivals and downfalls in the time that
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it's taken Yoka to get here since Yoka fought
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him. Yoka fought him eight years ago. That's
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what I mean by this is really a fight. It feels
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like a fight of geriatrics, and they're like,
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no, they should be in their prime still. They
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should be, especially at heavyweight. This is
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maybe the tail end of your prime, but nonetheless.
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Oh, it's so funny. I love it. For the WBA regular,
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by the way. So there's a non -zero chance Usyk
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-Gasiev 2 is in play for next year. The long
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-awaited rematch of a 12 -round shutout that
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happened in 2017. Can't wait to watch that one.
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We will all be seated. Yeah, no, sorry. 2018
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shutout in Moscow. You know how hard it is to
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shut a Russian fighter out in Moscow? Especially
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for a Ukrainian. Ukrainian shutting out a Russian
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fighter in Moscow was crazy. That is wild. That
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is crazy work. You know what though? That's probably
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why they invaded. They could have handled that
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loss. I go back and watch Gassiev -Dartikos because
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it's such a nice little cruiserweight fight.
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And honestly, I really hope it goes like this.
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It goes like that with Gassiev. Usyk beating
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Gassiev. And then, like Saul said, that being
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the catalyst for the invasion. Usyk is from Crimea.
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And that was the land that they immediately took.
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Oh, my God. And the invasion was Crimea. Brutal.
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They had no other choice, honestly. We have to
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make Usyk Russian. If Isaac were in power, he
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would have done the same shit when Canelo lost
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to Bud. Annex Omaha. Troops on the border trying
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to get to Omaha. The hate's understandable. Let's
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roll on. Diego Pacheco is returning on July 18th.
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Opponent TBD. It's going to be a no name. Apparently
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Matchroom is going to be the promoter for this.
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I just remember Diego Pacheco signing with that
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new management firm and then he let his contract
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with matchroom expire he disappeared like he
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goes off the radar and now here he is back with
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matchroom you know i don't care i just want him
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to fight osleys and like i'm not good get wrecked
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i i just want osleys to fight some like fight
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lester fight osleys just get a move on harlem
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eubank versus david papo In London on July 18th.
30:34
So that's nice. David Papo has a chance. That's
30:38
what we were saying when this fight got announced.
30:40
Like, Vom, of course, was like, yeah, you know,
30:43
David Papo could really pull this off. As you
30:46
would expect, supporting his countrymen. But
30:49
seriously, David Papo could fucking pull this
30:52
off. Oh, he's got a chance. He's not that bad
30:56
of a French guy. He just... He has five knockouts
31:00
in 31 fights. That's the only... He gave Liam
31:04
Parra good work. Yeah, he gave him a better fight.
31:07
Hey, you know who else has a low knockout ratio?
31:10
Brunello. Okay, fucker. No, but the Harlem U
31:17
-Bank can't crack an egg either, so... Papo could
31:21
really... If Papo gets in control early... Unless
31:27
he gets the note, the old Chalino. Chalino Sanchez
31:32
note? Yeah. No, he's a French fighter, though,
31:35
so who cares? They will. Often it is their capacity
31:40
to win fights rather than any corruption. Where's
31:45
Papo from? France. Oh, yeah, France, but where
31:49
in France? Saint -Nazaire. Never heard of it.
31:55
Just, I was thinking, because Saras is from Marseille,
32:01
which is, like, historically, it's a seafaring,
32:07
like, a port city. So, like, pirates used to
32:10
frequent through there. So, I was like, Saras
32:12
is a fucking pirate. He's a pirate man. So, trying
32:16
to give Pat Poe the same benefit, but apparently
32:19
not. Michael Soro is the example I'll use with,
32:23
like, refused to go away. Like, Madribov still
32:29
does not have a convincing win over that guy.
32:32
And it took two tries. Because there was the
32:36
fake knockout that the commission immediately
32:38
put bell to ass on the referee for. And then
32:42
there was a technical draw. And he wasn't in
32:46
his prime yet, though. No, what I'm saying was
32:48
Michael Sorrell. Like, there's these guys, these
32:51
French guys. sometimes they just don't want to
32:56
go away and they will cause a lot of problems
32:58
and honestly Harlem Eubank is not enough of a
33:03
prospect for like it to be like your status can
33:09
carry your status or your like being a step above
33:12
can carry you he's just not that I feel like
33:15
his name though does give him the ability to
33:21
carry a decision that he doesn't really deserve.
33:25
Perhaps. Like they're bringing in a somewhat
33:30
recognizable Frenchman for the sake of being
33:34
beaten by a Brit. I really think this is like
33:39
a little bit higher of a level of Munguia picking
33:45
Saras thinking it's like an easy scalp. But this
33:50
is like Harlem Eubank picking David Papo is...
33:53
The gap is smaller between the two of them. But,
34:01
rolling on. Richardson Hitchens, likely opponent
34:06
Ricardo Salas on Hitchens' Zufa debut on July
34:12
26th. What weight was this going to be at? 147.
34:17
147. 37? Yeah. He moved up? Why? He had to. He
34:25
wasn't even good at 140. What the fuck? I can't
34:30
wait to fall asleep to that fight. Man, what
34:34
the hell? All this to avoid Oscar Duarte, by
34:37
the way. Who was it? By no means an unbeatable
34:42
demon. No, Fierro. I mean, he almost lost to
34:47
Lemos. Made it pretty clear. Fierro had, like,
34:51
blood gushing out of his ears and, like, had
34:54
him up, like, he had no idea where he was. He
34:58
would have easily been Duarte, but, you know,
35:00
Duarte also could have given him problems, too.
35:02
This is a guy who almost lost Lemos. Talk about.
35:06
I mean, this is the mighty George Cambosos vanquisher,
35:09
Richardson Hitchens. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
35:12
Whatever. We love that. We love that here. I'm
35:15
over it. I'm over it. I hate Sufa. Devin did
35:18
it twice. Devin did it twice. Lomachenko did
35:23
it better. Lomachenko did do it better. That's
35:25
the one I'll say. Tyson Fury returning on August
35:31
1st in Dublin. Opponent to be determined. It's
35:37
got to be some mid -tier contender, I will say.
35:41
It's going to be Hergovich. I gotta say, I was
35:46
thinking Hergovich, too. Dave Allen is the Tyson
35:50
Fury gatekeeper, it seems. They're not gonna
35:52
put... Moses Atalma returning August 8th. Hergovich
35:59
being the likely opponent. I only doubt it'll
36:03
be Hergovich, because if Usyk drops that IBF
36:06
belt, because they don't have Usyk has to make
36:10
a fight with Sanchez now that that mandatory's
36:13
been called. Or he's got to drop the belt. WBC
36:15
is also ordering their mandatory be filled with
36:18
Caballel. And they have time limits, and the
36:21
time limit is end of June for both, which gives
36:24
July, late August. If they just bump the card
36:28
back three weeks, Itama can fight for a belt
36:31
instead of Herkovich. So we'll know in, like,
36:35
two weeks whether it's going to be Herkovich
36:38
or Sanchez for Itama. Because... As much as Hergovich
36:44
will give a family -sized bag of chips instead
36:49
of jack shit, Sanchez will give Itama the belt
36:53
means a lot more than fighting Hergovich. A full
36:57
belt versus a mandatory position. Yeah, so you're
37:00
just gonna... We're gonna have to see, but it
37:04
is... It's not unlikely that Usyk just drops
37:08
the IBF, fights Caballel, and then Itama... being
37:12
the second number two contender now. Honestly,
37:17
I feel like Queensborough would want to spread
37:19
their cards out, you know? Have each guy on one
37:24
of the belts. You know, they got Dubois, WBO.
37:29
They got Itauma and IBF. Potentially Caballel
37:34
on the WBC. Just, you know, have a champion.
37:41
Three champions, I think. And then WBA being,
37:45
what, Murat Gassiev, Tony Yoko winner? Yeah.
37:48
Come on, man. Obvious, like, weakest champion
37:53
of the crop. But, yeah, dude, like, heavyweight,
38:05
it might not be heating up as far as American
38:09
heavyweights. Or Canadian heavyweights. But it's
38:14
fucking hot right now. Let's see. What is also
38:21
hot? Sharnika Johnson facing Dina Torslund on
38:26
August 5th. Different kind of hot, but what are
38:30
you going to do? WBO and IBF will be hosting
38:35
a joint convention in December. They're doing
38:40
this a joint thing because they are both under
38:45
the U .S. jurisdiction. WBO being based in Puerto
38:49
Rico. So, yeah. We talked about last time the
38:56
IBF rulings. I expect by the time this convention
39:02
rolls around in December, all of those mandatory
39:06
calls that they made. will have been fulfilled
39:09
and they'll be they'll be making their next round
39:12
of calls um wbo with their new their new chief
39:17
it sounds like they mean business the same way
39:21
the ibf does i believe they told the wbf chief
39:30
is a lawyer um i don't remember his name but
39:35
somebody made a like somebody On Twitter, they
39:40
said something about corruption in the WBO. It's
39:43
like, oh, well, if you have proof, here's the
39:45
phone number to the FBI. Like, prove it, bitch.
39:51
Yeah. I don't know. I think this new WBO chief
39:56
means business. I like it. Well, he has to with
40:00
Zufa around. Like, when you're the least legitimate
40:03
belt. Right. And Zufa is whole big on the no
40:10
belts thing. Got to defend whatever little territory
40:15
you have. You got to defend that. You got to
40:17
nut up. You got to nut up. I mean, there's room
40:20
to get some notoriety here with all the recent
40:23
WBA and WBC BS going on. There's a way to legitimize.
40:28
It is. That's how the IBF. This conversation
40:32
has been had with the WBO since 2008 when they
40:36
gained legitimacy. And they always seem to do
40:42
their own brand of shenanigans. So I will wait
40:47
and see to see if they actually mean business
40:52
or if they just kind of go with everyone else.
40:56
The IBF is the only one that's ever really stood
40:58
on business, being honest. When they got raided
41:02
in the 90s, early 90s. Yeah. I think if the WBO
41:08
kind of takes a little brother role to the IBF
41:13
here, it's a really big step in the right direction.
41:20
With what WBA continues to do, with what WBC
41:25
has been doing lately, If they lose the branding,
41:33
whatever Bob orders, then that's a step in the
41:37
right direction. The biggest thing, I think,
41:42
for the WBO to gain legitimacy is that they need
41:45
to step away from the clear public perception
41:50
of favoritism to top rank and Queensberry. The
41:58
Queensbury one has always been so baffling to
42:01
me because I get that they're like, they were
42:03
made because, you know, the WBC and the OPBF
42:08
as a result formed to represent like different
42:10
areas of the world that traditionally it's very
42:12
America centric. But why would a Europe focused
42:16
one exclusively favor a UK, a smaller UK promotion?
42:23
It's very weird. I understand Top Rank because
42:25
they pull guys from Europe. They have good talent
42:28
scouting stemming from when they'd have to find
42:30
opponents for Ali. Get guys to compete for WBO
42:35
instead of EBU on their client. I get Top Rank's
42:40
affiliation because their talent scouting is
42:43
very similar. But, like, the Queensbury one's
42:46
always been baffling to me. Because the UK has
42:50
always kind of rejected the WBO, too. Like, they're
42:56
big, like, Bruno and Lewis and, like, Nigel Benn
43:00
and everything. They're always more friendly
43:02
with the WBC. Well, it was back in the day. I
43:07
mean, you have a couple more Brit fighters. But
43:10
it's not a new thing, is the thing. Like, when
43:13
Tommy Morrison lost, like, Michael Bent was a
43:16
British guy. who got or out of nowhere got the
43:20
WBO shot against Morrison so like it's always
43:26
been a thing that the WBO always favors Queensbury
43:29
guys but like the UK at large doesn't reciprocate
43:33
this so I'm just curious to know why where this
43:37
historical relation got created if that makes
43:40
sense Last bit, Lomachenko is looking to fight
43:51
Charlie Suarez on his return. On Zufa, I'm guessing.
43:56
I hope not. If Charlie Suarez is the opponent
44:00
we're picking. Suarez is a top -ranked guy. I
44:05
don't think it's going to be a top -ranked fight,
44:06
though, because, I mean, unless he resigns, because
44:10
his deal with top -ranked ended, and he immediately
44:13
came out of retirement afterwards. You guys know
44:16
that? He did wait out his deal. He did wait out
44:18
his deal. He tricked everybody. I'm thinking
44:27
that he wants to take away Suarez's mandatory
44:31
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44:45
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44:48
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48:21
Uzbekistan. Murojan Akhmadaliev, also known as
48:26
MJ, gets a stoppage in four over Hegley Mosqueda.
48:30
Just wanted to point that one out. He moved up
48:33
the featherweight for some reason. It's that
48:37
Nick Wall super fight. Oh, boy. It's going to
48:41
sell 10 pay -per -views. Just wait. MF Pro on
48:47
DAZN. Seiko Nkotole got the UD over Charlie Edwards
48:53
in the main event. We talked about Nkotole last
48:58
time when we were talking about the IBF mandatories.
49:02
So he is in line. for that. Saturday, May 30th,
49:10
the main event of RCC promotions on DAZN, Dimitri
49:15
Bivol gets the UD over Michael Eifert. Bivol
49:19
limits Eifert to 12 total punches landed over
49:25
the course of 12 rounds. I didn't know that statistic.
49:35
when I had formed the thought that I feel like
49:40
Beevil could have done more. This is a fight
49:44
that Beevil could have, should have stopped.
49:48
As always. He had them all be in round one. He
49:52
had them fucking figured out from the first round,
49:54
like you said. I don't understand why you're...
49:57
I don't... I don't get it. Maybe I should have
50:03
watched the post -fight. conference and gotten
50:07
a little bit more insight, but I can't imagine
50:11
the Russian reporters were asking them the hard
50:15
questions. Still, we talked about last time,
50:24
Bevo, the Russian oligarchs are wanting to put
50:28
together the Better Be Of trilogy in Russia.
50:35
Not the fight I'm very interested in seeing.
50:37
As far as I'm concerned, Bivol is 2 -0. I don't
50:43
see what further questions a trilogy really answers.
50:48
Yeah, come on. Give us Benavidez. That fight
50:50
would count as a Smith fight. We want Benavidez,
50:52
baby. We want Benavidez. Yeah. The three options
50:57
for Bivol are Benavidez, Calum Smith, and Better
51:00
Beef. Two of those options are way easier. Zach?
51:04
Zach Shelley. The teacher. Working class warrior
51:10
Zach Shelley. It would be worth if Beevil, Better
51:19
Beev, it's one of those making an offer you can't
51:23
refuse kind of things. Like the money is so good
51:25
you can't turn it down. Which that's what it
51:28
sounds like it's going to be. For For Benavidez,
51:34
I think a good use of his time would be to beat
51:40
Callum Smith, take that WBO mandatory position.
51:46
Or what organization was the Morel Celli? Was
51:55
that for a ranking? Might have been IBF. Okay.
51:58
Might have just been for fun. Because Zach Shelley
52:02
was very unheralded. I'll have you know he was
52:07
the English champion. Yeah, I already said unheralded.
52:16
But yeah, if Benavides isn't going to get the
52:20
fight right away, which it doesn't look like
52:22
he is, it would be ideal for him to position
52:28
himself to make... In such a way to make himself
52:31
undeniable. Boxer. At the Wembley Arena. What
52:44
do I got here? Fucking Francesca Hennessy gets
52:47
a stoppage in six. Congrats to her. Adam Azeem
52:52
stops Steve Claggett in three. I expected...
52:57
That was actually kind of crazy. Am I dumb? I
53:02
expected better out of Steve Claggett. Am I dumb?
53:05
A little bit. Adam Azeem is really good against
53:08
these bums. He's really good against bums. He
53:12
did what you couldn't. I will say, Azeem looks
53:16
exceptional against bums. If you are old, or
53:22
if you suck, you will... he will look like the
53:25
best fighter who ever lived. You will get Azim'd.
53:29
Yeah, like, Adam Azim looks really, really good
53:32
against a very specific kind of, like, C -tier,
53:37
like, guy. Kurt Scooby's not C -tier. Yeah. Or
53:45
Kurt Scooby. Like, you know what I mean? Kurt
53:50
Scooby, he looks really good. I'm not sure if
53:53
he'll carry that if he moves up in class anytime
53:56
soon. But, oh, he looks really good. Can crushing.
54:02
He's doing the best with what Boxer can provide
54:07
him. Yeah. Like, it's very, like, you should
54:10
probably be excited about this guy just because,
54:13
holy hell, he looks phenomenal against these
54:16
guys. 140 Dark Horse. We are not about to call
54:23
him the Boogeyman. No, hell no. I know there's
54:25
already people trying to start it. I saw some
54:31
discourse online talking about how Adam Nazeem
54:33
is the Boogeyman, how people are avoiding him
54:34
now. Hell no. Richardson Hitchens might be avoiding
54:37
him, but overall, no. I would just call him...
54:42
Hitchens is a bitch. Lo... Low reward, medium
54:51
high risk type of guy. But Boogeyman? Well, I
54:58
don't fucking think so. G .A .R. Wrecks us, dude.
55:07
Who else is at 140 right now? Heroica. Donald
55:11
Smith, fellow countryman. If Dalton Smith knocks
55:17
him out, it better be in a PowerPoint. I don't
55:20
want to see anything above 10 frames. I think
55:26
Dalton Smith is actually a good fight for them.
55:30
For Smith and Nazeem. That's a good fight. Yeah.
55:38
Like setting themselves up to be food for the
55:41
other like actual. The real contenders. Yeah.
55:47
Hirooka probably fucks up Adam Asim. I think
55:50
Josh, you pointed him out. Yeah. Hirooka is shockingly
55:56
good. I can't lie. He did surprise me with the
56:00
GR. My prediction is coming true. I didn't say
56:10
that Hirooka was going to win. But I felt that
56:13
he was going to demonstrate himself to people
56:17
in a way that made them believers. It was a high
56:26
-tier, gave -it -a -go situation. But enough
56:34
of Boxer. I'm going to skip ahead to MVP, W...
56:41
at the County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. What
56:48
do we got here? Jessica Plata, UD over Brooke
56:53
Cibrian. Lourdes Juarez beats Yocasta Valle by
56:59
split decision to retain the WBC Light Flyweight
57:03
title. Desley Robinson. retains the IBF -WBO
57:10
middleweight titles over Mary Spencer. Amanda
57:14
Serrano stops Cheyenne Hansen in two. And ties
57:20
Christy Martin's stoppage record in title fights.
57:24
That's right. I was literally about to say. Important
57:26
tidbit, even if it really wasn't that impressive,
57:31
honestly. Well, it's still something. The historical
57:35
implication is good. The opponent was not. We're
57:41
doing the best we can with what we have on the
57:44
women's side of the boxing house. Yeah, so Serrano
57:50
retains WBA, WBO featherweight titles. And in
57:54
the main event, Stephanie Hahn, the WBA lightweight
57:57
champion. retains her title by majority decision
58:01
over Holly Holm. I don't know if I agree with
58:05
this one. Yeah, I don't know. Another draw, please.
58:13
Overall, it was a good night of fights, especially
58:18
on the lady side of things. Typically, they're
58:21
not this entertaining. Did we go over the Ray
58:25
Ford -Foster fight? Not yet. I skipped. Not yet.
58:28
Just to give that one the last bit of time. Okay,
58:32
fair enough. But yeah, let's get to it. Matchroom
58:40
on the zone at the Fertitta Center in Houston,
58:42
Texas. Starting off at the bottom, we've got
58:46
Javon Woodard stopping Miguel Flores in eight.
58:50
Jaden Britton stops Najee West in four. Frank
58:56
Espinoza retires Bryce Blackwell. Julian Montalvo
59:00
stops Maximus Moya in four. Zaquin Moses. Man,
59:07
when you're a blue -chip prospect, it feels like
59:10
you should be getting stoppages, but he gets
59:13
a UD over Travis Crawford, who's a battle -tested
59:19
veteran, shall we say. You'd think that, like,
59:24
you get the stoppage here, but what are you going
59:26
to do? You know who should have gotten the stoppage,
59:29
though? Omari Jones, UD over Diego Osuna. I was
59:37
joking, like, kind of jokingly saying, like,
59:40
is Omari Jones a bum? Are we overestimating what's,
59:47
like, what are we? Am I investing too much of
59:51
myself into him, and I'm being let down by my
59:55
own expectations? We're going to get to the main,
59:58
but I will say we did see the ghost of Amari
1:00:02
Jones' future, Fido Shacky Foster. The ghost
1:00:08
of Amari Jones' past, I mean. I got to tell you,
1:00:13
I don't think it was that bad of a performance.
1:00:16
I thought it was pretty standard. Pretty lopsided,
1:00:19
yes. Obviously, you should be knocking guys like
1:00:20
these out, but... Yeah, but you don't want standard.
1:00:23
Yeah, 100%. You don't want standard, but... We
1:00:25
watched Adam Azim explode, like, blow up a guy
1:00:29
who was about to blow up guys who were the same
1:00:32
caliber. Like, you want that. Well, at the same
1:00:35
time, I mean, honestly, this is what I noticed.
1:00:38
It looked like Omari just wasn't in it that night.
1:00:43
He seemed disinterested. His team looked pretty
1:00:46
disinterested. I don't know. Maybe. I feel like
1:00:52
they're maybe taking the shit too lightly because
1:00:55
Diego was clearly a class below. There was no
1:01:02
reason that Omari should be going the distance
1:01:04
with this kind of guy. No. It was a dominant
1:01:10
performance. I think it's Worth pointing that
1:01:14
out. It was a dominant performance. It's just
1:01:16
like, fuck, dude. You're clearly better. So,
1:01:20
what's the deal? I think pointing out Adam Azeem
1:01:28
sparking out Steve Claggett, it's not a bad comparison.
1:01:34
That's what you're supposed to be doing at this
1:01:37
level. Not at all. Still, Omari Jones, I'm going
1:01:43
to hold out hope. Gotta believe in my American
1:01:48
prospects. Charlie Sheehy, the recent acquisition
1:01:55
from Top Rank, stops Jarrett Gonzalez in nine.
1:02:01
I'm surprised it took you nine, my man. Yep.
1:02:10
Nine is nine. And in the main event, Oshaki Foster
1:02:15
throws Ray Ford out of the ring on his way to
1:02:21
a majority decision. It was a mistaken loss.
1:02:26
The way Ray Ford just kind of went limp and like
1:02:30
flew out like Superman. Yeah, he's Superman this
1:02:35
way out. Out of the ring. Hilarious. That could
1:02:40
have gone so wrong, dude. It could have. It could
1:02:43
have hit his head or something. When Montana
1:02:47
Love decided to be the wrestler and throw the
1:02:51
guy over the ropes a couple years ago, but you
1:02:55
know what? I don't mind. This fight was not that
1:02:59
close, honestly. Ray Ford would land some attention
1:03:02
-grabbing shots, but Foster does what he does
1:03:05
best and neutralizes his opponent. I got to give
1:03:09
my apologies to Oshaki Foster. Ever since his
1:03:13
top -ranked days, I've severely underrated him
1:03:18
as a fighter. He's an overachiever, to be fair.
1:03:21
He is an overachiever, but honestly, this performance
1:03:24
was damn good. Really damn good. It depends on
1:03:29
how much weight. It depends on how much stock
1:03:31
you put into Ray Ford, in full honesty. I would
1:03:34
say Ray Ford is... Well, I would say he's one
1:03:38
of the top contenders at 130. One of the better
1:03:41
contenders. I don't know about top. Who else
1:03:44
is there? I'm thinking more weak weight class.
1:03:51
Like, this is a weight class that Anthony Kikachi
1:03:54
holds a belt in. Yeah. And... Like, Oscar Valdez
1:04:02
is still kicking at this weight class. I mean,
1:04:07
it was fun seeing she could get pissed off at
1:04:08
the end, dude. That was funny. Nav is the top
1:04:12
dog. Foster's number two. Kakachi's three. Moussa
1:04:17
Gholam is four. Five is Mauricio Lara. Six is
1:04:23
Oscar Valdez. Seven is Sugar Nunez. Eight is
1:04:27
Masanori Rikishi. Number nine is Elnor Samadov.
1:04:32
And number ten is Sembatar Erdenbat. I can't
1:04:36
respect that ranking, dude. You're putting Nunes
1:04:38
at 27? But I'm saying, like, Lee Wood and Venado
1:04:43
Lopez are still at this weight class, too, on
1:04:46
around the Ray Ford. And I'm like, I just, it's
1:04:51
tough because it depends on how much weight you
1:04:53
put in the Ray Ford when it was, like, it was
1:04:55
so obvious pretty much from, like, the early
1:04:58
Matchroom USA days, which he was a product of
1:05:02
that he was probably going to flame out. at the
1:05:05
top of whatever division he ended up at. Well,
1:05:08
you know what? I get it what you're saying, but
1:05:11
at the same time, some of the stuff that Foster
1:05:15
was doing in the ring, too, was... I gotta say,
1:05:18
it was pretty damn sweet. Using angles? Foster,
1:05:24
absolute overachiever. Definite top -of -the
1:05:27
-weight class. Ford is... Like, this is the most
1:05:33
he was ever going to accomplish, though. I'm
1:05:35
not... Foster did what he was supposed to against
1:05:38
an opponent that had some wrinkles, but honestly
1:05:40
could not, will not reach that ceiling. I gotta
1:05:44
say, I think Foster beats Navarrete. I gotta
1:05:47
say, I think he 12 -0s him. Well, Nav, the thing
1:05:51
I hate, I hate that I have to, like, think about
1:05:54
Nav in, like, a positive light now. Nutritionist
1:05:56
Navism. The nutrition, because it's just the
1:05:59
fact that, like, Wow, he hasn't had that explosiveness
1:06:04
ever. And now he does, and it's scary because
1:06:07
he already had a physical advantage that he abused
1:06:12
the hell out of. Gorilla arms and a gas tank.
1:06:15
But now he has explosiveness, and that's... I'm
1:06:21
not saying he's a better boxer than Foster, but
1:06:23
it's scary that there's now some more mustard
1:06:26
behind what was a volume guy. Before. Foster
1:06:32
is a beautiful operator. Like, by no... No, Foster...
1:06:38
Foster's... Foster should outbox him. I'm just
1:06:43
like, Nav is dangerous. And you can't count him
1:06:46
out because that explosiveness with his gas tank
1:06:49
is a threat. Like, I don't like Nav. I think
1:07:00
he totally lost against Liam Wilson. Like, both
1:07:04
in being robbed at the stoppage, but also the
1:07:06
scales. But... Listen, man. Liam Wilson showing
1:07:13
up weighing six pounds under the limit is like,
1:07:16
what are we doing? Could you not be more obvious?
1:07:20
Yeah. And this was a COVID weigh -in, so it happened
1:07:23
behind closed doors. Like... I would like to
1:07:28
see Foster against Kakachi as a unification and
1:07:33
to finally rid us of Kakachi's company. And then
1:07:38
we can do like an undisputed situation with Nav.
1:07:41
Nav sorts out his situation with Suarez because
1:07:47
he owes Suarez the rematch. He owes Suarez the
1:07:50
rematch. So I want to see. Yeah. I was going
1:07:52
to say like we can put an end to that era of
1:07:54
weird British European. uh title uh swapping
1:08:00
so everyone gets a belt everyone gets to hold
1:08:05
the belt type thing before kakachi just takes
1:08:08
it back but we put an end i agree with leo's
1:08:11
uh plan here who is this mosa golam Yeah, I haven't
1:08:24
seen, I only found out about him today. Let's
1:08:27
see. He has a loss to Elnur Samidov. Yeah, he's
1:08:36
a gold shotter. Fights out of Spain, fought in
1:08:40
Russia where he lost by a close decision. So
1:08:44
you would, I would think you lose a close decision
1:08:47
to a Russian in Russia, you probably won. Yeah.
1:08:54
He's fought in Abu Dhabi, in Cuba, Argentina.
1:09:01
Who is this mysterious man? We'll see him eventually.
1:09:08
We will. Absolutely. Clearly, if he's in the
1:09:13
top five of BoxRec, he's climbed the fucking
1:09:15
ranks. We're going to see him eventually. Oh,
1:09:27
shit. We've only gone through the recaps and
1:09:30
we still got the whole fucking preview section
1:09:33
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1:09:37
There's one. I don't know much about them. All
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Thursday, June 11th. We have an Eye of the Tiger
1:14:01
card. I don't recognize anybody, but the main
1:14:06
event, Wilkins, Matthew. versus Esquiva Falcao.
1:14:11
I'm sorry, I'm squinting. I'm actually looking
1:14:13
at this. Yeah, no, I recognize Shevo, but that's
1:14:17
because he was... I'm surprised they kept him
1:14:19
on these cards after he lost, but... Oh, Leila
1:14:24
Boudouin. Oh, yeah, Leila Boudouin. Yeah, yeah.
1:14:29
She's fighting for the interim WBA super featherweight
1:14:33
title versus Paulina. Angel. Angel. Let's roll
1:14:41
on Saturday, June 13th. MF Pro Manchester Arena
1:14:49
in England. There's only one fight that I just
1:14:55
really struggle to care about. That's Tommy Fury
1:14:59
vs. Eddie Hall. Fight of the year. What do you
1:15:03
mean? Yeah, I'm beside myself with... You know
1:15:09
what I really want this to go? I want this to
1:15:11
go in a specific direction that is another meme
1:15:14
fight from a Jake Paul opponent. Do you remember
1:15:16
when Haseen Rotman Jr. fought Greg Hardy? No.
1:15:22
So the size difference... Rotman was like...
1:15:26
It was a Misfits fight. It was a professional
1:15:30
fight on a Misfits card. And Rotman... got dropped
1:15:36
and beaten by UD by Greg Hardy just because of
1:15:39
size. Because he really did not belong in heavyweights.
1:15:43
And Greg Hardy is this former NFL washout who
1:15:48
fights MMA. He's a horrible, horrible person.
1:15:52
Greg Hardy was on a recent UFC card. Yeah, he
1:15:55
just got flattened on the recent UFC card. It
1:15:59
was ugly. I really want this Tommy Fury fight
1:16:04
to go in the same direction where it's like you
1:16:07
just kind of get clubbed in the head by a big
1:16:09
dude and we never have to hear from you again.
1:16:11
A guy who's like 100 pounds bigger than you.
1:16:14
Yeah, you just get clubbed in the head by him
1:16:17
because it doesn't matter how nice your jab looks.
1:16:19
It's a guy 100 pounds bigger than you. Huge guy.
1:16:23
You're a light heavyweight fighting a guy who
1:16:25
weighs 300 pounds. You get clubbed in the head
1:16:27
and go down and that's it. We don't see you again.
1:16:31
He's swinging an arm that can move hundreds of
1:16:36
pounds. It's like a really big fucking arm. And
1:16:42
I don't put weight into the bodybuilders, boxers
1:16:45
thing, but Tommy Fury is also not a serious boxer
1:16:48
in the slightest. But he knows a lot more than
1:16:53
freaking Eddie Hall. Yeah, so did Rotman over
1:16:56
Greg Hardy, the football player. Yeah. so that
1:17:01
but it's just and again that's why pound for
1:17:04
pound exists sometimes the size differential
1:17:06
is so grotesque that it's like tommy fury is
1:17:11
in essence uh fat 175 flat he's a fat light heavyweight
1:17:16
in essence and eddie hall is a super super heavyweight
1:17:23
so i'm just saying i've seen this one on misfits
1:17:26
already Well, all you've done is make me care
1:17:35
even less about this. Exactly. That was the goal.
1:17:37
You do not have to care. I have a very minimal
1:17:43
professional interest in that. Just to see. I
1:17:48
just need to know the outcome. I don't really
1:17:49
give a fuck how it goes down. MVPW4 at the Caribe
1:17:56
Royale in Orlando, Florida. I'm just going to
1:18:00
cherry pick. uh jasmine artiga versus natalie
1:18:05
delgado the artiga is the wba super flyweight
1:18:10
champ tiara brown the wbc featherweight champ
1:18:16
versus hannah rapp ibf wba wbo light flyweight
1:18:23
champ evelyn bermudez versus estefani alegria
1:18:29
And O'Shea Jones versus Elia Carranza. Jones
1:18:35
is the IBF super welterweight champ. So, MVP
1:18:41
continued to put on title fights. Nothing but.
1:18:46
I would like for the winner of Bermudez and Alegria
1:18:54
to unify with... What's her fucking putz? Juarez.
1:19:08
Like, you got all the talent. Let's quit fucking
1:19:14
around here. I think as Canelo said one time,
1:19:19
hay que dejar de las mamadas. Oh, shit. Last
1:19:25
one for June 13th. Matchroom. on DAZN at the
1:19:32
Desert Diamond Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. I will
1:19:36
indeed be there. Go on, my son. The king returns.
1:19:42
Go on, my son. I think that's what I'm going
1:19:45
to say as Bam walks out. The king returns. You're
1:19:48
that much of a fan of Ronnie Alvarez, so. Oh,
1:19:52
yeah. Oh, boy. I love Ronnie Alvarez and his
1:19:55
slick attitude. It's a pretty weak card, all
1:20:00
things considered. The one fight that I did note,
1:20:05
Arturo Popoca versus Jordan Martinez. Jordan
1:20:09
is a local kid, and they had a pretty good fight
1:20:12
last time. Otherwise, Ronnie Alvarez is facing
1:20:18
Philip Stankovich. How could you? It's going
1:20:23
to be a stanky fight. How could you not be? All
1:20:27
of a dither. But the main event, WBA bantamweight
1:20:34
champion Antonio Vargas is facing super flyweight
1:20:38
three belt champ Bam Rodriguez. I go right there.
1:20:45
I want to make easy money on this fight. Actually,
1:20:48
fun fact, my dad and I made a bet. He said, oh,
1:20:51
Bam's going up to new weight. He's fighting a
1:20:53
champion. I don't think he's going to knock him
1:20:55
out. I think he's going to go the distance. I
1:20:58
was like, oh, yeah, really? He spent 50 bucks.
1:21:00
And we went to bet the 50 bucks. I showed him
1:21:02
his record. He's like, oh, fuck. That's good
1:21:05
money. I love Bam. I'm not high on him versus
1:21:09
Inouye, but he's going to kill Vargas. He's going
1:21:15
to get a knockout. Not much to say on this one.
1:21:17
Like, the anti -BAM agenda is not because I actually
1:21:21
hate BAM. I just don't believe he can beat either
1:21:24
of the Japanese guys in his vicinity. This is
1:21:28
not even an insult to BAM. But he's gonna completely
1:21:33
fry Vargas. No, Vargas is cooked. Like, that's
1:21:38
not... If it, like... It will go triple platinum
1:21:42
in chat if... Bam gets knocked down in any way.
1:21:46
Oh, that'll look bad. Like, at least with Estrada,
1:21:50
it's like a veteran, like a legend. Living legend.
1:21:55
Yeah, Estrada. This guy's been on the pound -for
1:21:57
-pound list since half the users on our damn
1:22:01
Discord were in diapers. It's acceptable with
1:22:05
Estrada. Yeah, but with Vargas, no. It's going
1:22:08
triple platinum. Yeah. It's going to be... I'm
1:22:22
excited for it. I'm excited to see Bam again.
1:22:26
We'll see if I have to resell my ticket. Matchroom.
1:22:32
Hook it up. Hook your boy up. If they hook me
1:22:36
up, then I can't yell, go on my son. you're supposed
1:22:41
to be neutral from the press section yeah well
1:22:45
it's okay you can get me on discord call and
1:22:48
raise your phone up and i can yell with sol and
1:22:50
i can yell go on my son we'll all say it together
1:22:53
you bring a jbl speaker and your phone and you
1:22:56
connect it you could just be like come on my
1:22:58
son well well speak it bam rodriguez take my
1:23:02
energy as vargas is like already down and out
1:23:08
take a man while he's down You know, maybe Ben
1:23:13
needed to go on my sons. Who knows? Anything
1:23:17
can happen. It's boxing. That's true. That's
1:23:21
true. Oh, man. Last card. Sunday, June 14th.
1:23:29
Salida on DAZN at the GLC Live at 20 Monroe in
1:23:35
Grand Rapids. The only reason I picked this one
1:23:41
up. As I go up the card, it's not this one, but
1:23:45
Brian Jennings, if you remember him, is back.
1:23:49
Brian Jennings is still fighting? He is back
1:23:52
in an eight -rounder against Robert Sims. I picked
1:23:59
it up because Troy Isley versus Leonardo DiStefano.
1:24:05
Troy Isley is a recent acquisition to Salida.
1:24:09
What a name, by the way. Leonardo DiStefano.
1:24:14
What a name. I usually wouldn't cheer against
1:24:19
Troy Isley, but I don't want to have to tell
1:24:22
DiStefano that he has to change his name. Like,
1:24:27
bitch, if you lose, fucking quit disgracing me.
1:24:31
Yeah, the name's a little touchy there. Brian
1:24:37
Jennings, that's crazy. Sorry. I'm just like,
1:24:41
holy hell. he's only 41 too I thought he was
1:24:46
older but whatever Joshua Pagan is basing Rodolfo
1:24:56
Bustamante and Jonathan Gonzalez versus Abraham
1:25:00
Perez interim WBA flyweight title on the line
1:25:04
and that's it that's all we got on the docket
1:25:12
uh same day like i uh fuck dude am i gonna be
1:25:15
watching selena promotions or am i gonna be yes
1:25:19
you are ufc freedom 250 oh fuck um you can doubt
1:25:25
you can uh dual wield by which i mean uh put
1:25:29
on a movie i'll re -watch the martian or you
1:25:34
know what i actually just uh bought project hail
1:25:37
mary which i hear that's it you know what it's
1:25:40
a It's not like a total masterpiece, but visually
1:25:46
it's very nice. That's what I heard. Visually,
1:25:48
it's really good. It's a great movie, too. Don't
1:25:52
undersell it. It's a fantastic movie. No, I will
1:25:55
undersell it because it's no masterpiece. The
1:25:57
novel kind of sucks. I like the book. No, no,
1:26:00
no. It's the best family -friendly movie you'll
1:26:02
ever watch. It's a great movie, man. I really
1:26:06
like it. I thought the book was fun. I don't
1:26:12
give a fuck about it. I just don't like Andy
1:26:14
Weir's prose. He interrupts the story with a
1:26:17
lot of the technical explanations. Valid. That's
1:26:21
completely valid. As a writer, I think it's a
1:26:25
little clunky. There could have been a glossary
1:26:27
at the back of the book with footnotes. Yeah,
1:26:30
that's totally valid. He does the same thing
1:26:33
in The Martian. Yeah, because there's a spot
1:26:37
in the novel. where you just cannot have a technical
1:26:42
explanation of how the atmospheres work. Like
1:26:46
the clashing atmospheres of the characters work
1:26:48
right in this moment. Like in the movie, it just
1:26:52
flows seamlessly and it's great. Well, we are
1:26:58
gonna head out. That's it for this edition of
1:27:02
The Boxing B -Sides. We'll fucking catch you
1:27:06
on the other side of BAM. Go on, my son. Go on,
1:27:12
my son. That's my parting words. Go on, my son.
1:27:28
Why should a boxing fan watch MMA? Okay, here's
1:27:35
my pitch. The reason that a boxing fan would
1:27:40
consider watching MMA in the year of our Lord,
1:27:42
2026, is that MMA is cheaper and more accessible
1:27:45
than it's ever been in its lifetime. Our biggest
1:27:49
organization, the UFC, has done away with pay
1:27:52
-per -views. It's now just like a $15 a month
1:27:55
payment to Paramount +, and you get 40 -plus
1:27:59
fight cards a year. And it's not just the UFC.
1:28:04
You have organizations like 1FC and Ryzen that
1:28:07
put stuff directly on YouTube for free to watch.
1:28:11
And you're able to see a wide variety of high
1:28:14
-level skills. Like, this is not just, like,
1:28:16
amateur hour shit, unless we're talking about
1:28:19
the heavyweight division. But boxing fans can
1:28:21
relate to the gap of skill there. These are some
1:28:26
of the most talented athletes in the world, and
1:28:28
they're fighting, especially if I can point out
1:28:31
the Muay Thai stuff that happens in 1FC. It's
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phenomenal. Another reason that a boxing fan
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would want this, would want to jump in now, is
1:28:39
that I think unlike a lot of the cards you're
1:28:42
used to watching in boxing, MMA cards are worth
1:28:47
watching from the start. You don't have to wait
1:28:50
until the co -main to see... something that isn't
1:28:53
complete nerd shit most of the times you're seeing
1:28:56
even if it's a lower skill uh feeling you're
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still seeing fights that are exciting and compelling
1:29:04
to watch um we just came off the backs of usc
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327 and that card top to bottom was like absolutely
1:29:11
stacked so great example you can watch the whole
1:29:15
thing for you know in bits and pieces or from
1:29:19
start to finish and paramount plus right now,
1:29:21
if you subscribe, so paramount, give us some
1:29:24
money. We're doing, doing marketing for you.
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So that would be my pitch. Perfect. If you do
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decide to give MMA a shot, then why don't you
1:29:32
check out ultimate effing casuals? It's kind
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of the same format. We talked the fights that
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happened in the past weekend. Then the stuff
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coming up this weekend, give it a shot. It's
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ultimate effing casuals.