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What's going on at 154? · Boxing B-Sides

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Alright. Well, well, well. The Boxing B -Sides
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have convened for what is going to be a pretty
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light fucking episode this time. Joined by the
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one and only Saul. If you've spent any time in
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Discord, you know who this is. And another crossover.
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We got Isaac back to talk some boxing. Talking
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boxing, but first UFC 319. Holy shit. Was there
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some good stuff on here? One that I missed was,
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did King Green get knocked out? I didn't see.
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Dude, no, that fight got scrapped. Oh, it did?
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Okay. Yeah, he had like a metal core. He said
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he couldn't walk during fight week. Something
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happened. We still don't know what happened,
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but apparently he couldn't walk. Spared another
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day. Yeah. Let's see. Jared Cannoneer. Was getting
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his ass worked by Michael Venom Page. Yeah. For
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two rounds. And then MVP decided, I think I can
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grapple. Yeah. Some very not smart decisions
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by MVP. But yeah, the first two rounds, he was
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busting Cannon Era. Dropped him pretty hard twice.
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But yeah, unfortunate third round for him. Unfortunate.
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Was this the second round where Carlos Pratesh
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got Jeff Neal? Dude, no, it was first round.
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First round. At the bell. At the bell. Okay,
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that's what I thought it was. After. Dude, nasty.
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Nasty ass elbow. Spinning. What was the stat
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you had given? Like, coming into the event, there
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was only like eight spinning elbow knockouts?
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Yeah, coming into this UFC history. Yeah, this
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is a nasty, nasty knockout. I mean. We had talked
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about it, obviously, on Ultimate Fucking Casual.
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We had talked about it, how this was most likely
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going to end in a knockout. But, dude, this one
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was, like, not only a knockout, but it was very
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flashy. It was very, like, highlight reel -esque.
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And, man, Carlos Pratesh, he's on a rocket, man.
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Strapped to a rocket. He's, you know, he had
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that little loss to Ian Gary, but this is a big
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knockout. No one's knocked out Jeff Neal before.
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So this was really nice. I mean, very aesthetically
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pleasing knockout, too. Very good win. Yeah,
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very emphatic return from what was a pretty kind
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of a dull loss. So it's not like he got dominated
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or anything, but well, dominated may not be the
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right word. He didn't get ragdolled. Yeah. Yeah,
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but I'm excited to see where they go with him
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next. Excited to see where they go with Lerone
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Murphy. Another spinning knockout. Over debutant
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Aaron Pico. Continuing to make the outside orgs
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look like trash. Yeah, this was, I mean, we were
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just talking about eight spinning elbow KOs coming
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into this event. And then we got, like, back
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-to -back spinning elbow KOs, both in the first
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round. It was insane to see this was, I mean,
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this sort of, like, made the event, or the entire
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card, rather, but, like... And this one was beautiful.
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Aaron Pico was pressuring Murphy pretty hard
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throughout the first round. I mean, backing up
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Murphy to the fence consistently throughout,
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throwing good body shots. He's doing good work.
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But in between, you saw the tea leaves, man.
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Murphy was trying to get a counter as Pico was
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stepping in. We saw him throw a knee up to the
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chin of Pico that just missed. But then Murphy
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clocked that. Pico was diving off to the right
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side. during his entries, you know, trying to
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slip on any counters that Murphy was throwing.
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Murphy timed that spinning elbow. Man, completely
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flatline Pico. He was just out for some time.
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Brutal, brutal knockout from Murphy. And this
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was like, I mean, this went super viral. We're
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already talking about Volkanovski himself tweeted
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that he will see Lerone Murphy for the featherweight
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title shot. possibly later this year, November,
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December. I think we'll see. But yeah, this was
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a great win for Murphy. This was a guy that was
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coming pretty far under the radar, right? Like
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he wasn't quite as flashy. He wasn't getting
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as much accolades as like Diego Lopez was. Obviously
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not in the same... He wasn't even in the conversation
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with Volkanovski until this. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
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not really. I mean, he's been on a pretty big
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win streak, but like basically like his last
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fight versus another contender called Josh Emmett
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was like, it just wasn't like super exciting.
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He got the win. It was like conclusive that he
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got the win, but it just wasn't super exciting.
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But he just like completely erased all that and
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like just leapfrogged himself right into a title
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shot. Like this was a tremendous win. And when
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you pair that with his win streak that he has
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at the moment. I think he probably deserves to
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get the title shot, and hopefully that's what
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they do. It looks like that's what they're going
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to do at least. Yeah, strike while the iron's
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hot. Yeah, exactly. Poor Mofsvar. Yeah. He gets
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the chair in the corner. Yeah. In the main event,
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the middleweight title was on the line. Drikus
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Duplessis drops the ball. It wasn't even fucking
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close. uh four rounds dominated four and a half
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minutes of the last round dominated wasn't until
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the end that he had a close he had a catch he
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almost got a uh or was it a rear naked choke
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i think yeah he hopped on his back and like tried
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to lock it in but i mean comes out an experienced
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wrestler grappler he wasn't gonna let that happen
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but you know there was some emotion like in those
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last 30 seconds you know like could he get this
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done But no, alas, he could not. Lost heavily
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on points. And yeah, comes out as your new middleweight
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champion. Was it a sweep? I remember it being
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a sweep. Yeah, yeah. This is a sweep. I mean,
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we're talking about potentially one or two 10
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-8 rounds. It's like the third or the fourth
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rounds. One of them could be a 10 -8 round. But
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yeah, we're talking about even more than 50 -45.
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I mean, this was... This was a domination, man.
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Drikus, it was really only those last 30 seconds.
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That was really the only thing he had going for
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him this entire fight. He got dominated. He got
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ragdolled, would be a proper term. Yep. I was
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a Drikus fucking truther. And I had to get my
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words. Yeah, he's had his plot armor up until
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now. But yeah, that armor got cracked. And he's
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going to have to go back to being a contender.
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Especially after this loss. He's going to have
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to get a few wins after this. Just want to check
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who is around. Imabov has a fight coming up.
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He's the second rated contender. I don't see
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a good reason to do Strickland again. Yeah, it
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won't be Strickland. Plus, he's on suspension
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for now for something he did out of the ring.
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Oh, right. That's right. And yeah, so it's actually
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a very interesting weight division at the moment
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because, like you said, Imoval is facing the
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Brazilian Bojalio in UFC Paris, which is coming
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up soon within the next few weeks. But then they've
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also just scheduled RDR versus Fluffy Hernandez,
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which is another pair of contenders. So, you
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know, it depends, I guess, first of all, on how
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much time comes out once off. I don't know how
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active he wants to be, but we could see the next
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middleweight, like, challenger or title challenger
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be the winner of Bohagio versus Emilov. Or potentially,
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you know, if Kamsa wants to wait a little bit
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longer, it could be the winner between RDR and
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Fluffy. So, you know, it's something you'll have
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to see. It could be one of, like, four people
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as far as the title challenger goes. So there's,
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you know, a lot is in the air at the moment.
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But, you know, it's exciting as a division, is
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what that means. How many times has DDP fought
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Adesanya? Uh, once. Once? Once. Could do that
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again. Yeah, I mean, the rematch, rematch would
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be, I mean, the first one was, like, really popular.
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There was a lot going into it. Oh, the African
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-ness. Yeah, there was a lot of... African -ness
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was ridiculous. The press conference was nice.
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You know, Adesanya looked nice early, but, I
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mean, recently, Adesanya's been looking pretty
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washed. I mean, he got knocked out by Imovov.
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You know, who is a legitimate challenger to the
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title at the moment, so perhaps it's not the
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worst loss, but... Yeah, he could be. I mean,
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he's definitely passed in better years. He's
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on his way out the door for sure. Yeah. Oh, UFC
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319. If you want to hear the full breakdown,
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Ultimate fucking Casuals, spelled F apostrophe
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N. If you want to look it up. Check us out, check
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us out. Shout out, Nathan. Yeah, Nate Dogg. Always
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doing his thing. Into some news. Virgil is going
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to be fighting Erickson Lubin. How many rounds
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does this go? I don't see this going to the end.
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If Virgil really has power at 154, then it's
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going to be a Virgil sweep. He knocks him out.
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I don't see Erickson Lubin. taken him the distance
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at all. He robbed Jesus Ramos blind in the damn
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fight on the Charlo Canelo undercard. That was
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horrible. So, I think if since it's a Golden
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Boy card, Virgil also has that advantage with
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being from his own promoter. Even if it goes
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to decision, it's going to be given to Virgil
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no matter what. But, I mean, I don't see how
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Erickson Lubin wins unless it's by knockout.
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That boy's not knocking out fucking Virgil Ortiz.
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No, he's not. If he knocks out Virgil Ortiz,
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I'm cutting off my fucking arms and my legs.
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I am that confident. On Isaac's life and on Leo's
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life, Virgil's not losing the damn fight. Oh,
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man. I got thrown into this one. I agree with
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you, though, so I'm here for it. I mean, it's
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crazy. I don't expect a lot out of Lubin. He's
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getting recycled a little too heavily. I mean,
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you got some of the biggest Virgil fans in here,
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but I feel like even if you weren't a Virgil
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fan, you have to look at this. Like, Virgil,
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look at the level of opposition he's been facing
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recently. Like, we know he's, you know, he's
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sort of been inactive this year, but even then,
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he's going to have two fights this year, which
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is not, you can't really classify two fights
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a year as inactive, really, at this level anymore.
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But yeah, dude, I think he can beat Lubin, hopefully
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by KO. I mean, Lubin has been KO'd by... Jermel
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before. Is that his only loss by knockout? No,
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Sebastian Fandora. Fandora did it too? Well,
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he didn't come out of the corner, so I'll call
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that a stoppage if you want. Yeah, I mean, okay.
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We definitely want to be seeing Virgil get that
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finish then too. I'm pretty sure Lubin knocked
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down Fandora too, right? He did. He got a knockdown.
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Yeah, he got a knockdown earlier. Yeah. Me, personally,
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as a Virgil fan, I want to see him get a knockout
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here. I mean, that's just... I mean, we already
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know he sort of deserves a title shot at 154,
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but that would just make it undeniable. His next
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fight has to be for a title. If he can get it.
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If he can get a finisher. So, yeah, that's what
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I'm looking for. That's the thing. We've been
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saying that ever since the poetry fight, though.
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In the next fight... Yeah, they do. Yeah. But
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he's been getting shafted every time. I mean,
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fucking Fandora's fighting goddamn Keith Urban.
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Gross. Bokrum, where the fuck's Bokrum? The WBA,
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they're by the guy. Yeah, dude. They have, I
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think we're going to talk about this, I don't
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know, this week or next week. For the TLS, Baru,
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Baradu. Oh, yeah, dude. It's going to be the
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next WBA champion, which they're probably most
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likely going to fight Boots next to get a, you
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know. Get a strap on. Yeah, get a strap on Boots.
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And then, fucking, the WBO is with goddamn Henry
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Saez, who's not going to fight anybody in the
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top ten for the next three years. At least from
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what I've seen. And this is, like, the weird
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part about this fight, too, because, like, was
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Lubin not supposed to fight Mertes Alia? Was
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that not the fight that was, like, supposed to
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be made? Like, I thought, like, all the rumors
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I was seeing, yeah, I thought all the rumors
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I was seeing were, like, pointing to that, but,
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which is why, like, the Lubin -Otis fight sort
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of caught me off guard, but, I mean, I will say
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this, at least it's not, like, a cam, like. Virgil
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is facing someone that has been around the title
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picture, you know, before and, like, recently.
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So, you know, if it's not a belt, I'm at least
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glad it's someone like that. But, yeah, hopefully
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he'll get the knockout. I think Lumen is probably
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the best opponent you can get right now because
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I believe everybody else is going to be taken
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up at that time. Obviously, a VootSpy is not
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going to be the best right now. But for sure,
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like, next year, mid to late next year would
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be perfect. I hope that they make that fight
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and they don't over -marinate it. I remember
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in the chat they were talking about how over
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-marinating fights is a bullshit thing. That
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term's kind of bullshit. I heavily disagree with
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that. I think there's times where obviously when
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you let fights marinate for too long when they
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don't happen, example being Deontay Wilder and
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Anthony Joshua, it just loses the hype and the
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money. So I hope they make that fight next year.
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They need to make that fight next year. Yeah,
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and this is, like, the good thing about Virgil
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is that, like, a lot of his fights have been,
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like, really successful. Like, the Bojack fight
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was fun. A lot of those fights at 147 were fun.
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Like, Mean Machine, for example. But, like, Virgil
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has put his name in, like, multiple hats. So,
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like, he's got stuff with Alexander Zayas going
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on at the moment that they're beating online.
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I mean, I don't know if Top Rank will make that
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fight if it comes down to it. But, like... he's
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got his name in a bunch of hats at the moment,
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which is a very good thing, too. You know, he's
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basically, like, he has a bunch of avenues where
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he can go, oh, yeah, this is, you know, step
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one, he's got to take care of business here.
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And, you know, I will be watching with great
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intent here. 100%. The thing with Virgil, though,
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is that I can't help but just feel like he's
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just going to keep getting shafted. He's with
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the WBC right now. Dude. Fucking, they're having
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fucking Pandora fight fans or tournament, whatever
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the fuck. I mean, come on. They're not going
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to give Mattel a shot. They're going to keep
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it in -house. You see, that's when it comes to,
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like, this is more of a failure on De La Hoya
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and Golden Boys. And, though, because, like,
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Virgil is, like, he's beating the dudes they
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put in front of him. Like, the Bojack fight,
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Majumov, he beat them both. Now he's going to
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beat Lubin. Like, bro, what else do you need?
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Who else does he need to beat? to get a title
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shot. He's done everything he needs to do. That's
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more promoter failure. The promoter failure and
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also on the fall of the belt organizations. Is
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Virgil not interim? Is he not interim? I believe
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he is. He is interim for the WBC, but the WBC
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is a bunch of bitches. They want to fucking...
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having the interim title not be a mandatory title.
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Yeah, they want a double dip. You gotta be kidding
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me. That's the most bullshit. If you're the number
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one guy, you should be fighting the title holder.
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Yeah, this is where it starts. This is what people
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hate about boxing. Whenever people criticize
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boxing, this is the stuff that they're talking
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about, man. Why is Virgil not fighting for a
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belt? I can tell you this. If Virgil's next fight
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is not for a belt, then, like, what are we doing?
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Like, I mean, this is tragic. If his next fight
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is not for a belt, then if he loses against Boots,
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he's never going to get a belt. That's just how
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it is. Unless he goes up to get a win, but I
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doubt it. I hate to say it, but they keep shouting
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at my guy. He's been shouting. Yeah, I mean,
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that would be horrendous. I mean, hopefully...
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Hopefully they can get him a title shot after
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this Fandora or whoever back room. Just like
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give him a shot. Word on the street is that he's
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getting ducked a lot too. Or is he getting ducked
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or he's not fucking fighting anybody? Well, I
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know he was injured. He was injured. Like he
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got surgery, but like I'm expecting him to fight
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at the end of this year. This dude keeps, he's
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been tweeting for months about like fighting
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people, but there's just no news on his end.
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This dude's a fucking Riddler, dude. He just
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spills in a damn tweet. Yeah, there's no news
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in it. It's like, bro, like, fight anyone. Anyone.
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Even if it's like, no, just get active. I mean,
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this is sort of insane. It's pretty rough to
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be a boxing fan of the 154. Yeah, dude. Because
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154, there's so many good fighters. I'm like,
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why are fights not happening? Like, what's going
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on? I know, like, where people say, oh, you gotta
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let the fights wait. You gotta hold on to these
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fights. But the thing is it's not even holding
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up with a fight in this point Seeing if the promoters
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want to play nice, you know with each other,
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you know, yeah They already hold two of the belts,
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you know the WBO holds one The PVC holds two
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in the end top ring hold one That makes Baru
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pretty prime real estate, yeah with the pvc with
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the pvc uh with the pvc they're not gonna have
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fundora fighting someone outside the outside
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their fucking uh promotional company unless it's
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for a lot of money like if it's a turkey card
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you know but i don't know though they could get
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if then they get another title onto fundora and
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baru is not going to be and you can recycle him
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into the 154 mix that they have yeah i mean i
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mean yeah but the only thing is that the boots
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is going to be getting that shot first Yeah.
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There's no way that Virgil is going to fight
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him next after he fights fucking Lubin. No? I
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mean, I would hope that if Virgil beats Lubin,
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then he becomes the mandatory, and maybe he could
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activate that mandatory clause, but I don't know
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how the functional companies work or the organizations
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work with each other, you know? Because I think
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you're only allowed to have one fucking, you're
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not supposed to be part of one organization.
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have the interim in one organization and not
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be the mandatory in another. I think that's how
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it works. I don't know how that bullshit works,
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honestly. And this is the issue, though, because,
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like, in my eyes, and, like, of course, this
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is just my opinion, but, like, for me, like,
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154, like, as far as, like, the king of 154 goes,
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like, that really is just between Virgil and
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Boots, in my opinion. Like, it is between, it's
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one of those two that's going to rule this division.
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And, like, that seems like the Super Bowl fight
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at 154. Like, that is the best fight you can
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make at 154. And I think we'll get it at the
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end of next year. Yeah, I think we'll get it
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end of next year. But, like, it would be nice
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if one of them had a title. It would be nice.
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It's not necessary, but it would be nice if one
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of them had a title. I mean, Shane Mosley and
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Floyd Mayweather, that wasn't for a title, but
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it was still a Super Bowl fight. But this is
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not Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather. Don't
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need it, but it would be nice. It would be helpful.
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Yeah. Speaking of boots. Yeah, speaking of boots.
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Leesma Lima. The IBO. The fucking prestigious
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IBO title. The IBO Titleist. It's gonna be on
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the line here. Leesma Lima. We hardly knew ya.
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Good luck, buddy. You never know. Maybe you get
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to knock it over Lutz. No. That would ruin. No.
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Dude, that would actually. Chance of Virgil and
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Lutz. That would actually, like, shatter, like,
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the boxing sphere for some time. And it's losing
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to. Because this is a hometown fight, too. Yes.
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John Aaron, like. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, have you
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guys ever seen Lima fight? Yes, once. No, honestly.
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Let me see. Hold on. He's fine. Yeah, I don't
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think I've ever seen this dude fight. I mean,
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he is ranked. He's ranked in the WBA, right?
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Gotta be. Yeah. Maybe the Aaron McKenna fight.
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Maybe. That one sounds sort of familiar, but
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I don't know. But yeah, I mean, everything is
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pointing to, you know, this is like a hometown,
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you know, sort of laying out the mat. to boots
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at 154 like you know it's it's his like red carpet
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entrance uh to the division so everything it
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seems to be set up for him to get you know some
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flashy finish or some dominant win at 154 or
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his debut fight at 154 and hopefully that's what
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happens uh but yeah i mean it's this is most
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likely just like set up for everything that's
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to come for boots at 154 i mean we could be getting
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you know maybe a boots versus majima fight in
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-house. I think he also has Josh Kelly. Josh
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Kelly is also, I think, with Eddie Hearn. There's
23:37
a few other fights. But yeah, everything is building.
23:40
Like we said before, these are building blocks
23:43
for Virgil vs. Boots to be made. I would love
23:50
for that fight to be made, but it's not going
23:52
to be made for a long time. I mean, Golden Boy
23:56
is kind of, they are more willing to let their
23:59
fighters at the stable, you know? As we've seen
24:03
in the past. Yeah, I mean, the whole PBC. Majima,
24:07
yeah, that was cross promotion. And honestly,
24:13
if there's a guy to fight for Virgil, it's got
24:19
to be Majima. Or for a title, but besides for
24:22
a title, Majima. Just, you know, to do the comparison,
24:25
you know? I will say it would be really whack
24:28
if, like, Boots got a title shot off of Lima,
24:30
like, directly. I feel like he has to fight one
24:32
top name. You know, like, a Majumov fight would
24:35
be... I don't know how Majumov would feel about
24:38
that. You know, he's coming off some surgery.
24:41
I forget where. Maybe he's back. But, yeah, just
24:45
one name that's, like, relevant at 154 would
24:49
be nice before a title shot. Yeah. this was like
24:54
really weird though like because you know there
24:56
was there was we knew boots was gonna be fighting
24:58
like obviously hometown and like they were looking
25:00
for an opponent but there was a bunch of rumors
25:02
on who the opponent would be and like this dude
25:05
this dude's name wasn't even tossed around until
25:08
like the last few hours or like or like the last
25:11
day uh before the fight was confirmed and it
25:15
was like sort of out of nowhere yeah it was sort
25:17
of wild like i don't know like josh kelly i thought
25:20
was gonna be the one that was gonna be made but
25:22
i guess he wanted too much money or like you
25:25
know he wanted like a saudi tight bag uh but
25:29
it didn't end up happening so my thing who the
25:33
is josh keller to be saying that you need to
25:36
pay me more money i mean you want to fight for
25:38
the same thing this is the issue this is the
25:41
issue with like saudi bags like it's like inflated
25:44
purses yeah people get spoiled you get paid once
25:47
you know who paid that for who paid that for
25:50
that much money in the past Did Turkey really
25:53
pay fucking Josh Kelly that much money? I think
25:55
he's been on, yeah, I think he's gotten one Saudi
25:57
bag. Hold up. But who did he fight that deserved
26:00
that payday? I don't think he fought anybody
26:06
worth, that would be worth that much. But just
26:10
because he was on such a big card, he got a big
26:12
cut. That'd be fucking camey. Who the fuck is
26:18
he to be saying that shit, dude? Seriously. Who
26:20
the fuck is he? Oh, wait. Yeah, hold on. He's
26:23
a fucking cocksucker. Seriously. He fought Ishmael
26:26
Davis on the Dubois Joshua card, which was, like,
26:33
Saudi -sponsored. Like, but who? Fucking Ishmael
26:37
Davis got knocked out by fucking Bochuk. That's
26:41
what I'm saying, but Saudi -sponsored. Saudi
26:43
-sponsored. Saudi wants fucking all this money
26:46
to fight fucking... He's a C -level at best.
26:56
Yeah. Not even B -level, bro. I was really hoping
27:01
they would do Boots versus Josh Kelly, to be
27:03
honest, because at least he is more of a name
27:06
than these other people, at the very least. Yeah.
27:11
I've seen Josh Kelly fights, at least. But yeah,
27:15
I mean, I guess the... Pickings vs. Lignum. He's
27:17
got a recognizable name at the least. Yeah. Some
27:21
people at least. But yeah, that's what they said
27:25
about Lignum. So yeah, we will be watching boots
27:30
vs. Lignum. So the WBA rankings, Terrence Crawford
27:35
has the full title. Ioannis Tejas is the interim
27:38
champ. Probably going to be elevated after, what,
27:43
two weeks from now? Something like that, three
27:46
weeks. Well, Ioannis is not really champ anymore.
27:49
Oh yeah, not him, but the number one contender
27:52
was Abbas Barrow, who beat Tejas, we'll talk
27:55
about in a little bit, or I think next time.
27:58
Yeah, next time. And then Drawn Ennis is number
28:03
two. That's fucking ridiculous. Jesus Rambo is
28:08
number four. That's a solid fight right there.
28:11
Jesus Ramos deserves that shot way more than
28:16
freaking Ramos. I think they should have fought.
28:19
Them two should have fought. Dude, boots versus
28:23
Ramos. That's a crazy good fight. I would favor
28:28
boots for sure, but Ramos, that's about as big
28:31
of a test as you can get at 154. That is a tremendous
28:38
fight. That is a tremendous fight. I think that
28:43
this whole 154 situation is kind of bullshit
28:47
now. You look back on it, it's starting to look
28:51
bad. I mean, they have fucking Jamal Charlo coming
28:53
back. I mean, come on. Oh, the hint that he's
28:56
going to be fighting Spence? Spence, Spendora.
29:00
He's talking about fighting Bud. He's talking
29:04
about fighting Virgil, Boots. He's literally
29:07
called out everyone. I guarantee you the WBA
29:12
is going to fucking rank his ass like one when
29:16
he comes back. Or the WBC. Either one of them.
29:18
I don't know what kind of dirt fucking Charlo
29:20
has on these people, dude. Just champ and resource
29:23
type of situation. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, come on.
29:26
I don't know what the hell is up with these TBC
29:29
fighters, especially the WBA. The WBA loves PBC.
29:35
It's like how WBO loves Top Rank. I mean, I could
29:39
talk about the WBA with fucking Gervonta Davis
29:41
himself, but I could talk about shit all day.
29:45
Gross. It's fucking gross. I mean, demoting a
29:50
fighter, taking away a fighter's champion status
29:55
to elevate someone else, you know what I mean?
29:58
It's fucking bullshit. Fucking WBA, they're a
30:02
wild card, you know? Wait, you know one thing
30:05
I just realized? What? Whenever... I've thought
30:09
about this before, but I guess we're closer to
30:11
it now. Whenever Bud steps in to fight Canelo,
30:16
is that when he gets stripped? Does the belt
30:19
vacate at that point? Or what's happening with
30:23
that belt? That's supposed to be the kill switch,
30:25
but they're probably not going to do that. They'll
30:28
wait a few days until afterwards to see if he's
30:30
going to go back down or not. That's bullshit.
30:33
Seriously. And the point that... You know, at
30:37
the point where he gets stripped, who then? Is
30:40
someone elevated to champion? Or is it like a
30:44
bacon skew? Damn. Oh, my God. David Barreau becoming
30:48
a champion before a virtual is crazy. Oh, my
30:51
God. That is. It's ridiculous. Man. Super fucking
30:58
ridiculous. And Barreau. Isn't Barreau a PBC
31:01
fighter? I don't know who said it, but someone
31:03
said that Barreau is a PBC fighter. Is he? Someone
31:08
said that. I said that he was an MVP fighter.
31:10
And someone told me he was a PBC fighter. Yeah,
31:15
time to look him up. Or he might be with some
31:19
small -time promoter like... Yeah. He lost to
31:27
Jack Colt Kay. That's fun. I'm not seeing who
31:33
he's with. Coached by Adam Booth. Oh, wait. Is
31:38
he with Wasserman? Wasserman box? He might actually
31:43
be with Wasserman. If he's with Wasserman, then
31:48
Wasserman's with... Wasserman's small time, though.
31:52
Yeah. I don't fucking know. Moving to David Allen
32:00
versus Arslanbek Makhmudov. The Neanderthal gets,
32:08
continues to put him together, I guess, until
32:11
he gets a shot at David Allen. I don't know.
32:16
Yeah, this is, man, this is about as, like, this
32:22
sort of sums up the state of the heavyweight
32:23
division. Dyer. I mean, this is, in terms of
32:29
name value, Makhmudov used to be something. Dave
32:34
Allen right now is right in the high on his knockout
32:36
over Johnny Fisher. It was a really nice knockout,
32:42
but it was Johnny Fisher. But yeah, this is just...
32:46
I'm going to watch it, but this is not big boxing,
32:51
I guess. I will say as far as matchmaking goes,
32:56
I guess this is sort of on the better end. At
32:58
least it's... I mean, they aren't can crushing,
33:01
at least. Yeah, I mean, I mean they're equal
33:05
they are equal to yeah, yeah What are they even
33:11
they're they're ratings Let's have a look My
33:20
boot off like number 12 So good top dish no No.
33:32
That's crazy. He's 77th. At that point, he needs
33:39
to fight Richard Torres Jr. 77th and Makhmudov
33:43
is 31st. That's box rec, so. Wait a minute. In
33:52
a way, Jelalov. Jelalov is ranked higher? What?
33:56
Pretty crazy. i mean but yeah i mean this isn't
34:03
elite makhmudov i mean bro it's been years since
34:07
he was like really a name a heavyweight yeah
34:11
it's been a while i mean he's gotta he's gotta
34:15
fight my mood i was gonna fight like tours or
34:18
something torres gotta fight something like him
34:20
wins this even like this is so like plotty Or
34:29
like, you know, heavyweight power type fights.
34:31
Yeah. I'm trying to think who even wins this.
34:36
I'm going to go with David Allen just because
34:38
it would be funny. Yeah, I mean. That's really
34:42
it. Yeah, I'm probably going to be backing Dave
34:45
Allen. I'm going to back my McMurdo just to be
34:50
silly. Yeah. Yeah, I could flip a coin. Really,
34:55
that's who I'll pick. I don't really care. All
34:58
that much. I'm sure the Brits will be riding
35:02
with their white rhino. Y 'all ever taken white
35:07
rhino? Definitely patient about it. Let's skip
35:15
ahead to the fucking recaps just because there's
35:18
not a whole lot else after that. So the timing
35:21
will work out pretty nicely. Provox at the Provox
35:26
event center. In Florida. This was on YouTube.
35:29
If you're not watching ProBucks, you fucking
35:31
should be. Just some highlights. Gary Antonio
35:34
Russell gets a UD over Dervin Rodriguez. He's
35:39
a 122 fighter, and he's not very good. Another
35:44
Russell, though. Yeah, he's got to keep himself
35:46
in the family business. Marques Valle gets a
35:51
stoppage in one over Luis Georges. Starling Castillo
35:57
over Chouinard Bunch. And the headline, Muhammad
36:03
Kuja Yakubov. Majority decision over William
36:07
Foster III. Yakub, you demon person. That's it.
36:19
Out of the light. That is very light. We got
36:22
two more cards, but they're all... Well, one
36:25
of them is also really light. Omar Trinidad gets
36:29
the draw. Fucking scrapes it out over Lorenzo
36:34
Parra. And Mizuki Hiruta, UD over Naomi Gomez.
36:41
So that's fun. And the meat of the dish, the
36:49
British... promoters came together to put together
36:53
a Riyadh season card that had Hayato Tsutsumi
36:58
stoppage in three over Kais Ashfak. Sorry, Saudis.
37:04
Gonna have to try better than that. Filip Hergovich
37:08
gets the UD over David Adelaide. Dude, this fight
37:13
was actually, like, really good. Especially,
37:16
like, one round. I forget. It was, like, round
37:18
eight or something like that. where Hergovich
37:21
got, like, no, he dropped Adelaide. And then,
37:26
like, towards the end of the round, like, Adelaide
37:28
rallied back and was, like, battering Hergovich.
37:31
Like, somehow Hergovich didn't go down, but,
37:33
like, it was, like, multiple hooks that he had
37:34
landed on Hergovich. I mean, that one round was
37:38
actually pretty crazy. But, yeah, Hergovich came
37:43
up with the win. Adelaide's gas tank was just,
37:45
like, non -existent. You know how bad your guys
37:48
think is to gas before her, bitch? When you put
37:52
it that way. Corrupted. Yeah. Ray Ford over Abraham
37:59
Nova. It was Tom and Jerry Trunks, man. Was it?
38:05
I think he was actually wearing Tom and Jerry
38:07
Trunks. Right? Yeah. People are taking that Tom
38:11
and Jerry shit a little too much to heart. I
38:15
mean, you know who the ones that are taking it
38:16
to heart? Tom and Jerry people? Tom and Jerry
38:20
people, yeah. I mean, Ray Ford's not too much
38:22
of a Tom and Jerry guy, but I was surprised.
38:24
I'm like, dude, nobody was talking about you.
38:28
Like, seriously. Yeah, this was sort of a weird
38:32
fight. I mean, Nova coming in on a late replacement.
38:35
Ford said that he was going to get him out of
38:37
there. There was a lot of trash talk in the press
38:41
conference, but the fight wasn't. Super crazy.
38:46
It was sort of a weird play. Nova did hurt Ford
38:50
a little bit in the beginning. I'm not going
38:52
to lie. But that was for a small amount of time.
38:54
That's what I was saying, though. Ford should
38:57
have looked way better against Nova. Yeah, for
39:02
sure. Yeah, he should have looked way better.
39:05
Yeah, I mean, he could have won at least. I don't
39:10
know. What does Ford do next? I mean, there's
39:15
only one guy I think you should fight next. In
39:18
my opinion. Because you're supposed to fight
39:21
Kikachi. Dude, Nunes would mess him up bad. Nunes
39:25
would mess him up real bad. Good -ass fight,
39:27
though. I feel like, no, yeah, yeah. Just because
39:31
I think Nunes would win doesn't mean we shouldn't
39:33
get it. I would be down for that fight. Yeah,
39:37
I mean, did Kikachi duck? That fight was supposed
39:39
to happen on this card. And it didn't happen.
39:45
Pikachu just should have abandoned this fight.
39:48
They were scheduled and should have abandoned.
39:53
Who's that guy you like? Floyd Schofield. But
40:00
he's at 135. 135. We'll talk about him next week.
40:03
Actually, we got some stuff about it. Some rumors.
40:05
That's Saul's boy. That's my boy, yeah. That's
40:09
my man. Floyd Schofield, if you're watching this,
40:12
I've been supporting you since day one, dawg.
40:18
Nick Ball has a performance. Dude, this was not
40:30
good. This was not good. I was sort of expecting
40:34
Nick Ball to nuke this dude. The only thing I
40:39
really left this fight with was that one. Now
40:43
you in a way would have absolutely nuked Sam
40:45
Goodman. probably early and two nick ball is
40:51
mid bro this dude does not you know i i actually
40:54
used to think nick ball versus in a way would
40:57
have been a competitive fight no longer and this
41:00
is after the do any fight and this this the fight
41:02
with goodman just completely like solidified
41:04
that that thought process nick ball is not good
41:08
bro he is not good and this man just Okay, yeah,
41:12
go ahead. No, actually, no, finish it, finish
41:14
it. I was going to say he's not good, bro. Like,
41:17
I think he loses to a few other fighters at this
41:22
weight division, not just, you know, in a way.
41:26
Yeah, dude, this was not a good performance,
41:30
man. I mean, Goodman had some success as well,
41:33
and this was, like, sort of the weird part. There
41:35
were some rounds where he had some success. And
41:38
he was landed on ball. But yeah, this was just
41:40
not a good performance from ball. I mean, some
41:44
of us even thought they kind of won the fight.
41:47
I don't know about that. I thought ball won.
41:51
Yeah, I thought ball won, which is not a good
41:53
performance. Yeah, I mean, some of us in the
41:58
group, though, always have like some wild scorecard.
42:02
There's always one person that has some egregious
42:05
scorecard. Yeah. Of the other title holders,
42:09
even though he's moving up, I'll still mention
42:12
him. Stephen Fulton, fucking clown stickball.
42:15
Oh, dude. So bad. So bad. Not even a little bit
42:19
close. That's pretty much a free bill. I don't
42:24
think it would happen, but that's a free bill
42:25
for Fulton. Rafael Espinoza also beats his ass.
42:33
Probably KO. I think, yeah. I was about to say,
42:35
I think Rafael could stop him. That fight would
42:38
look hilarious, bro. Oh, my God. The size difference
42:42
between Ball and Espinosa would be hilarious.
42:47
Angel, Angel, Leo would be a pretty good fight.
42:48
That would be a good one. Also, a good fight,
42:50
yeah. It'd be a nice war. I think Leo would get
42:52
it done. You guys want to hear something atrocious?
42:56
What? I'm really contemplating on saying this
42:59
because I feel like I'm going to get clowned
43:01
on. But I'm just gonna say anyways I think I
43:07
don't think I'm sure this I don't think in a
43:09
way I don't think Bobby's in a way, of course
43:12
not but I Mean anyway going up to 126. He's already
43:18
been dropped multiple times at 122 So he goes
43:22
up to 126 and he gets hit by a ball shot pause
43:26
Like I mean, yeah, Val doesn't have power for
43:33
guys that had his own weight class, but guys
43:34
that are, like, you know, under the weight class,
43:36
you never know. Sam Goodman's under the weight
43:39
class, though. He was moving up to 126 as well.
43:43
Yeah, but how many weight divisions was Sam Goodman
43:46
in before 122? Good question. I don't know. Because
43:51
anyways, he's come all the way up from freaking,
43:54
what is it, 115 or 118? Lower than 115. Oh, it's
43:58
112, right? No, I think he skipped 112. I think
44:01
he started at 108. Oh, okay. Dude, Saul, I'm
44:06
going to be real with you, boss. Inouye nukes
44:10
Ball probably like around 6 -7. Yeah, there's
44:18
no question that he doesn't nuke Ball, but it's
44:20
like it's going to be dangerous still for Inouye
44:22
because he is going up in weight still, you know?
44:25
It's like when Sugar Ray Leonard fought Daniel
44:27
Lalonde, you know? Daniel Lalonde wasn't a good...
44:29
Wasn't a really good fighter, but he was still
44:32
dangerous. The weight division, the weight difference
44:33
made it dangerous. I mean, yeah. And that's partially
44:37
why. I mean, I used to think that Ball would
44:40
be competitive with Inoue. And probably, you
44:42
know, I used to think he could beat him. But
44:44
I just think Inoue is too smart. I think Ball's
44:50
style isn't what you need to beat Inoue, even
44:53
with the weight difference. Like, you have to
44:55
be a little bit smarter. I mean, probably, like,
44:59
a better boxer, and that's not what Ball is.
45:01
He's more of a brawler. Yeah, he tried to be
45:04
a boxer this time, and it didn't go very well.
45:07
Yeah, I mean, there was moments of success that
45:09
Sam Goodman was having, even, like, sort of in
45:13
the later rounds. I mean, you know, he didn't
45:15
really win a lot of rounds, but he had certain
45:17
moments where he did do good work. I don't think
45:24
he has the package. He doesn't have the tools
45:26
necessary, really, to... to be in a way, in my
45:28
opinion. I don't think so either, but at the
45:31
same time, I mean, look, this guy beat Ray Ford.
45:35
Even that was like... It was a robbery. I think
45:38
it was a robbery as well. But, you know. Either
45:41
way, I don't want to sound like I'm trying to
45:44
support Nick Ball. I hope he loses his title.
45:47
I was praying he loses his title against fucking
45:49
Sam Goodman. But, in my opinion, I just think
45:53
that that weight jumper, in a way, another weight
45:56
class like that, Any fighter he fights is going
45:58
to knock him out. But not going to knock him
46:01
out. No, no, no, no, no. He has a chance of knocking
46:04
him down. That's the better way to put it. Well,
46:08
pretty much anyone has a chance of knocking him
46:09
down, as we have learned. Yeah, but at 126, it's
46:14
a lot more dangerous. True. That jump is pretty
46:18
gnarly. No. But that's my opinion. That's my
46:23
opinion. Anybody at 126 besides Stephen Bolton,
46:27
well, probably has a better chance of knocking
46:30
down in a way. Did Fulton cut off his rat tail?
46:38
Yeah, thank God. It is? Oh, good. I was just
46:44
thinking, like, is that something he started
46:47
wearing? Like, he grew it out, like, I'll cut
46:49
it off when someone beats me kind of thing? That's
46:52
actually hilarious. That would be funny if that's
46:55
what he did. Oh, was it? Garden also has a rat
46:57
tail, no? Yeah, he does. Yeah, man, there's too
47:00
many of those. Too many of those going around.
47:05
Isaac, I thought you had a rat tail at one point.
47:07
No, no, that's never been the case. I know you
47:12
got a mullet going, right? I know you got that
47:16
mullet going. Mullets are fashionable right now.
47:19
Yeah, so I got that mullet going. I don't got
47:21
a mullet, bro. No, I know you got that mullet.
47:24
I've never had a mullet. Moses Atalma stops Dillian
47:31
White in the first. Not even remotely competitive.
47:37
Is this Dillian White being complete garbage?
47:41
Or is Atalma the truth? I think it's a mix of
47:45
both. I think it's most likely a mix of both.
47:49
White is beyond wash. Before we move on, White
47:54
is talking about... How this isn't the end. He's
47:57
going to come back. He needs to retire. He's
48:01
got to hang him up. This is beyond over. His
48:06
legs are gone. Balance gone. We saw in the Teta
48:10
fight, he gassed. It's not good. He's going to
48:15
keep getting hurt. He didn't get flatlined here
48:19
at least. He got pretty much beat up the entire
48:22
fight. He was on the ropes, barely hanging on.
48:26
And tied by being 90 seconds. Yeah, this was
48:29
bad. But yeah, I mean, Ntama, you know, did what
48:33
we expected him to do, especially considering
48:34
White, you know, his current state. But yeah,
48:40
I mean, Ntama, good man for, you know, he did
48:44
exactly what he was supposed to do in this type
48:46
of competition. Yeah, that's true. But, yeah,
48:51
I'm really excited to see who they match him
48:53
up with next, though, because, like, it's going
48:55
to be that type of step up where, you know, now
48:59
we're going to see how are you going to do if
49:04
the fight goes, you know, round five, round six,
49:06
and, you know, this is an elite competition.
49:09
You know, I've heard a few names tossed around.
49:13
One of the big ones being Herkovich, who just
49:17
beat David Adelaide and other... UK fighter.
49:21
So it's... I'd actually be down to see that fight.
49:24
Yeah, it's a reason. We're also hearing... We're
49:28
also hearing a fucking Otama versus Usyk. Yeah,
49:31
dude. Yeah, that's... I know Turkey himself has
49:35
been going... Like, he's been wanting that fight.
49:38
But, dude, he's... What is it? Otama's 20 years
49:40
old? Yeah, that's Russian. Like, come on, bro.
49:43
Let this dude... Let this dude fight someone.
49:46
Somebody sack up and tell him to sit the fuck
49:48
down. Like, dude, that's a stupid fight to make.
49:52
That is dumb. Do not do that. I'm going to ruin
49:55
this dude's career. Like, let him build up to
49:58
this point. I don't know about ruin, but it would
50:00
really set it back. Seriously derail it. Yeah,
50:05
considering how he built. But I will say, if
50:08
he did fight Usyk, I will say that would be pretty
50:10
crazy because, I don't know, I think that fucking,
50:14
like, Talma, he just, he might. He might surprise
50:17
us all. You never know. He's got the good...
50:19
No. Well, hold on, hold on, hold on. I don't
50:22
know about that. Okay, I've been kind of like
50:25
glazing Brits a little bit too much today, so
50:27
I got to stop after this. But I will say this.
50:31
Itama passed the dye test for me. I mean, yeah.
50:35
But like, you're talking about... Okay, I want
50:38
you to think about this. How big is the gap between
50:42
current Dillian White? And Alexander Usyk. How
50:45
big is that gap? That gap's fucking crazy. It's
50:48
like a double boogie type gap. It's Grand Canyon.
50:54
I'm not saying Usyk's like Dillian White. I'm
50:57
not even saying that the fight should happen.
50:59
I think that is a dumb fight as well. But the
51:01
thing is that, honestly, that would be a crazy
51:05
-ass fight to watch. As a Pocky fan myself, Just
51:10
for like pure spectacle, I would much rather
51:13
watch that than a Joseph Parker versus Usyk fight.
51:15
Because I know for sure Joseph Parker's not winning
51:19
that fight. I know that guaranteed. Yeah, but
51:23
I'm pretty sure Italma wouldn't win either. See,
51:28
the thing is that you can make the argument,
51:30
I'm going to try to make the argument that I
51:31
think Italma has a better chance of beating Usyk
51:34
than fucking Joseph Parker. Okay, see, that is
51:37
a more like... That is a more reasonable type
51:42
of argument that you can make, but I do think
51:45
that Usyk still beats him. The speed advantage
51:49
is not... Itama wouldn't have the same type of
51:54
speed advantage. I think Itama is probably faster,
51:56
but he's not as fast as the opponents he's been
52:01
facing. Usyk isn't that slow. He's not as slow
52:03
as White. He's not as slow as the Australian
52:08
dude he fought. And laid out. I mean, Usyk is
52:11
much faster, but on top of that, Usyk is more
52:14
experienced. He's smarter. And this is the thing
52:19
as well. Usyk wouldn't even be that much smaller
52:23
than a Tama if they fought. He would not be that
52:26
much smaller. And we know Usyk can hang with
52:29
bigger dudes. I mean, it's... Yeah. Tama's only
52:33
been knocking out cans, so the thing is we don't
52:34
really know if that power is really going to
52:35
carry over to the regular contenders. You know?
52:40
But, hey, call me crazy. Call me crazy, okay?
52:43
I'm just saying, out of all the heavyweights
52:45
right now, besides Deontay Wilder, why was I
52:51
telling him he's got the best shot against this?
52:53
Call me crazy. But I'm not saying that. That's
52:56
pretty wild, man. Well, seriously, who else do
52:59
you think can, besides Cabo, actually, I take
53:01
it back. Besides Cabo, yeah. Cabo, yeah. That's
53:03
what I was going to say. Cabo, yeah. Cabo, yeah.
53:06
His body shots. I think Moses Thomas is a better
53:12
shot than Parker. The Wilder thing was kind of
53:15
a joke, by the way. That was also a joke for
53:17
anybody listening. That's a joke. This is also
53:20
a Wilder thing as well. First of all, the heavyweight
53:23
division is in a bit of a dire state at the moment.
53:26
It's in the middle of a guard change. A lot of
53:28
people are leaving. There's just not a lot of
53:31
super top talent as well. I mean... I don't know,
53:41
man. I feel like the... Like, how do you rate
53:47
Atama really? Like, yes, he nuked White. That
53:51
is good to see. It is a good indicator of, you
53:54
know, him being good. But, like, I need to see
53:57
him tested more. I need to see him... I need,
54:01
like, before I can, like, accurately sort of
54:05
start to guess how Usyk versus Atama would really
54:09
go. I need to see, you know, how would a Tomo
54:12
do versus a Michael Herkovich? You know, like,
54:15
how would he do versus, you know, another name
54:18
that was a good one. Yeah. I think Joseph Parker
54:22
would be a perfect fight for him. If he were
54:24
to, like, if they were to try to have him fight
54:26
Usyk, that would be a perfect fight. Yeah, that'd
54:28
be a good setup. Yeah. Yeah. I think Mosley Thomas
54:32
should fight a Richard Torres Jr. next, in my
54:35
opinion. Oh, dude. Well, I can step up from fucking
54:40
Dillian White. Yeah, but I don't want to see
54:42
my boy get laid out either. I mean, Richard Torres
54:44
is my boy. Hey, you never know. That would be
54:48
hilarious, but I'm going to be honest with you,
54:50
I don't think that happens. I don't think that
54:53
happens. No, that's just wishful thinking. Yeah,
54:58
but I mean, going back to it, like I do think,
55:00
I mean, Atama even said it himself in the post
55:05
-fight interview whenever they asked him. He
55:07
said he is willing to fight Usyk next, but, like,
55:10
he does think that Joseph Parker deserves that
55:14
title shot. And, like, if we're going on merit,
55:16
Joseph Parker probably deserves that title shot.
55:19
He's in a big win streak. I mean, the whole,
55:23
the circumstances revolving around that Bacoli
55:25
fight are a bit weird, with it being a short
55:29
notice, but he probably deserves it. Yeah, I
55:33
mean, it's, you know, I'm... What I'm most excited
55:36
about is what is the next opponent for Atama.
55:41
And you know what the cool part here is, is that
55:44
Atama beat Didion White in like, you know, less
55:49
than half a round, really. So no damage. It's
55:54
not like his cardio was really super tested.
55:57
So we could really, we could see him again end
55:59
of year, really. And he's young. hopefully they
56:04
can get that scheduled for him. Frank Warren
56:05
is a decent promoter, so hopefully they get someone
56:09
good for him. I mean, realistically, the most
56:14
realistic fight would probably be probably either
56:17
Hergovich or maybe even Parker. I feel like Hergovich
56:22
most likely. If Jean comes back, maybe, but he
56:28
is also... We saw it in the... in the copy i'll
56:32
find man he looked bad um just like zero gas
56:37
thing who is who is um who is hergevich with
56:42
weaver right who's this promoter who is frank
56:48
i thought he was frank warren hergevich is frank
56:50
warren yeah oh no no he's with um no he's with
56:55
uh mushroom oh okay so i'd have to be I mean,
56:59
I guess Eddie has worked with the Saudis before,
57:01
so it wouldn't be impossible. Yeah, I'm trying
57:06
to think who else. Oh, dude, wait a minute. What
57:11
if they did... Oh, this would be crazy. Dubois
57:16
versus Atama. Oh, you know what? Actually, that's
57:19
not bad. And that's in -house as well. In -house.
57:24
And Dubois is a pretty big name, too. For the
57:27
bridge? You know, if Atoma beats Dubois, now
57:31
we're really talking, okay, Atoma actually deserves
57:35
a potential shot here if he beats Dubois. Like,
57:39
that is a real elite name, top of the division.
57:44
Like, you know, we're talking about he's putting
57:46
some weight behind his name now. I got a good
57:48
one. I got a good one. Tyson Fury. Oh, come on.
57:52
Oh, my God, no. The issue with Tyson is that
57:59
he's wanting these massive purses now. That's
58:03
why he's trying to retire, un -retire as a negotiating
58:06
type. He wants these 90 million, 80 million plus
58:11
type purses. That's really only going to happen
58:14
with the likes of Usyk or Joshua. Anthony Joshua.
58:20
Yeah. Well, damn. Yeah, it's a bright future,
58:33
man. Thomas' future is indeed bright. It's good
58:38
to see. Jared Anderson, how about that? No, that's
58:41
not happening. Oh, man. Frank Warren and Bob
58:46
Arum get on pretty well. Yeah, I mean, Frank
58:52
Warren is British. You know, Bob Arum. Yeah.
59:00
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59:04
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My steak is too juicy. My lobster is too fat.
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Lobster's buttery. Can't handle it. Parting words.
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1:02:24
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