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- 0:31The B-Side in boxing.
- 0:33B-Side shit.
- 0:34B-Side.
- 0:35B-Side.
- 0:35And the B-Side.
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- 0:37The B-Side.
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- 0:42This is the B-Sides boxing podcast.
- 0:58All right.
- 0:59You ready to rock?
- 1:00Yes, sir.
- 1:02Loose end limber.
- 1:04Limber.
- 1:06All right.
- 1:06Boxing B-Sides, baby.
- 1:08Back up in your ears.
- 1:10I'm joined by the one and only.
- 1:11Was it Alex was the one and only?
- 1:15Alex, yep.
- 1:16Yes, sir.
- 1:17So it's just going to be me and him?
- 1:19Shannada was out.
- 1:20Frost is out.
- 1:21It's all good.
- 1:23We'll make it work.
- 1:24On the eighth, UFC 312.
- 1:28Not a whole lot to say here because I need to look.
- 1:34See if it's Duplessis.
- 1:36Duplessis.
- 1:38Mr. Strickland.
- 1:39Keeps his title.
- 1:41He beat Strickland just absolutely convincingly.
- 1:44Wasn't even a question.
- 1:45I think the fight of the night was John Guailly beating Tatiana Suarez.
- 1:51Also domination, but I think that they were, I don't know.
- 1:57Strickland's more of a striker type.
- 2:00And Duplessis beat him at his own game.
- 2:02And Suarez was trying to grapple.
- 2:05Just did not have anything for her.
- 2:07It's always a fun fighter to watch.
- 2:09I'll tell you that.
- 2:09Yeah, Waley's amazing.
- 2:11Waley's, yeah, she's one of the greatest for the women in UFC.
- 2:17She actually made me raise the question of, is it possible?
- 2:21How would it work to have women, to have a gender neutral pound for pound list?
- 2:29You know, I've thought about that before.
- 2:30Honestly, like there's, let me tell you, even with boxing too, there's a lot of women that
- 2:34I think could be a lot of the men in boxing.
- 2:37It's very valid.
- 2:37I was thinking instead of calling it pound for pound, calling it like skill for skill.
- 2:43Skill for skill, maybe something like that.
- 2:44Because like Waley, skill for skill can beat the shit out of a lot of guys.
- 2:49A lot of the male UFC roster.
- 2:53Clarissa Shields probably could also beat the shit out of a lot of the male boxers.
- 2:57And I don't even really remember.
- 2:59I don't. Yeah, I don't mean pulling up like in a way up to 175 or something like that.
- 3:05Oh, I don't know.
- 3:07Someone like, let's say like, like Roley or maybe freaking Jake Paul.
- 3:12Jake Paul. Yeah, honestly.
- 3:13Skill for skill.
- 3:16Well, I must say she would lose to him.
- 3:17I'm saying like if she got paid.
- 3:19Oh, yeah. She would think she would take the dive.
- 3:21But you get the note right before you walk out.
- 3:26Yeah. You're either going to lose or you're going to die.
- 3:31That's the only that's the only time Jake Paul could ever be undisputed.
- 3:35Undisputed women's champion. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- 3:43But moving on to one coming up, this one's on the 20th.
- 3:46It's going to be pretty early in the morning.
- 3:48Zero six on the West Coast.
- 3:51One FC is having their 171 event in Qatar.
- 3:57There's a lot of stuff on here.
- 4:00The only one really worth pointing out to for for non MMA fans.
- 4:05Like people bitch, like I don't like the grappling.
- 4:09Jonathan Haggerty, fantastic kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter.
- 4:13He's fighting Wei Rui, the number one challenger.
- 4:18Kickboxing and Muay Thai.
- 4:20If you don't like grappling, I don't know why you're not watching these.
- 4:23I really don't. They're lost. People are just lost, man.
- 4:26Yeah. And another one fight night on the 22nd.
- 4:29This one's Sehud over Song Yedong.
- 4:32I Edson Barbosa is on it.
- 4:34He's really exciting to watch.
- 4:37Brendan Allen should be fun.
- 4:40Brianna, these always fun.
- 4:42Yeah. Never bad fight.
- 4:44But that's it. That's it for that stuff.
- 4:47It's good to box. Yeah. Yeah.
- 4:49News. Some new fights have been that I picked up anyway.
- 4:54I saw them on the Queensbury cart or Queensbury site on the 15th of March.
- 4:58Nick Ball fights TJ Doheny, WBA featherweight title is going to be on the line.
- 5:03And first, initial thoughts.
- 5:05Nick Ball versus Doheny.
- 5:08First of all, it's what was the last time Nick Ball fought?
- 5:12Oh, yes.
- 5:14It was that was I feels pretty recent.
- 5:17Right. I think so.
- 5:19I feel like we defined like last month or my driven
- 5:23Nick Ball, Nick, the wrecking ball.
- 5:26He fought in October.
- 5:29OK, October. OK.
- 5:30Yeah, no, it has been a little bit.
- 5:32No, that surprising.
- 5:34It feels like yesterday just fought.
- 5:36It was a challenge in it, though.
- 5:38Wasn't that difficult of a fight?
- 5:39It was a pretty. Yeah.
- 5:41I remember watching that fight. It was all right.
- 5:44No, but Nick Ball versus TJ Doheny.
- 5:47That's that's going to be a big fight.
- 5:49Yeah, I think that could be a
- 5:53well, not fight of the year.
- 5:53That's that's that's that's a bit much.
- 5:57That's too bold. That's way too bold.
- 5:58I would say a war for TJ Doheny.
- 6:03Because the honey, doheny's a
- 6:05he will put up a fight if you want to.
- 6:06Scrappy, he can be scrappy, but he can be scrappy if you want.
- 6:10And because when you have another fighter that's scrappy,
- 6:13TJ Doheny is going to be scrappy as well.
- 6:16He likes to match the in a way made him
- 6:19kind of cower, though.
- 6:22That's what I think everyone's going to be thinking going into it.
- 6:25Way to ways anyway, though, that's my thing.
- 6:26Right. Yeah, that's you're absolutely right.
- 6:29Like if you take in a way out of the picture,
- 6:31one twenty two is extremely competitive
- 6:34because he's at the top of it.
- 6:36People are going to cower. Right.
- 6:38So you can really do hope to survive it.
- 6:42Hope you can survive to the 12th.
- 6:44We'll see if you can do that with Nick Ball.
- 6:47Well, Nick Ball is Nick Ball's ferocious man.
- 6:50I'll tell you, he's he's he's great.
- 6:52He's great to watch.
- 6:54I first watched him when he fought Raymond Ford.
- 6:57And I was surprised that he did that well, especially as a as a British fighter.
- 7:03I mean, I know I hate to give shit on British fighters, man.
- 7:07But I a lot of them, they're not any time of the day.
- 7:11I'll tell you this, they're not they're not like they're no they're no
- 7:15they're no Isaac Cruz.
- 7:16There are no Juan Manuel Marquez, you know. Yeah.
- 7:20But Nick Ball, I would consider him an honorary
- 7:23honorary Mexican fighter.
- 7:25I'll tell you that he does.
- 7:27I can fight that.
- 7:28He can fight for sure.
- 7:30OK. He's fun. He's fun to watch.
- 7:32I'm hoping that Doheny puts up a good fight.
- 7:35I expect he's probably going to lose, but hopefully he puts up a good fight.
- 7:39And so people can it's like Bolton winning against Figueroa.
- 7:43If you're looking for reasons to shit on Naoya in a way,
- 7:47you're you're running out.
- 7:50You're you got to you got to pull stuff off the barrel.
- 7:52Yeah, you got it. You're going to scrape the bottom of it.
- 7:55Yeah. And exactly.
- 7:57It's going to at the end of day, still going to be bullshit, because I mean,
- 8:00I'm not the glaze anyway, but he he is amazing.
- 8:03Yeah, I'll tell you that.
- 8:06Another one, April 5th, Dillion White versus Joe Joyce.
- 8:11That one, I'm surprised doing my stuff in the game.
- 8:13Speaking of bottom of the barrel, good job.
- 8:16Bottom of the barrel. Yeah.
- 8:18And I'm speaking of. Yeah, exactly, man.
- 8:19I mean, Dillion White and Joe Joyce guys, I mean, we haven't heard of in
- 8:23in a minute. Yeah, it's been a while.
- 8:26Dillion White's been on his rehab plan, fighting in really obscure places
- 8:31against obscure opponents and still leaving a lot to be desired.
- 8:39I mean, was this this is the most last time Joe Joyce even fought
- 8:44so when he got beat by Jeng, I think.
- 8:47That was that was a long time ago.
- 8:49It was what a year and a half ago, I think, right?
- 8:52It was before. February, he lost to Derek Chazora.
- 8:58Hmm. That's right.
- 9:00The two Jeng losses, then he fights Kash Ali, gets us
- 9:03like a really mid performance to get a stoppage.
- 9:07And he loses to Derek Chazora.
- 9:09I remember that that was that was crazy.
- 9:11That's crazy. He has something scheduled for March 1st.
- 9:15And then this fight on the 5th of April.
- 9:19That's what you're looking past your opponent.
- 9:23I. Yeah. Stopped.
- 9:25I really I hope you lose.
- 9:27Well, we'll see what happens.
- 9:28Yeah, we will see what happens.
- 9:30I mean, the British people watch for sure.
- 9:32That's I might tune in a little bit, but I do like the I do like cutting in the
- 9:39juggernaut song.
- 9:41Big juggernaut, big juggernaut.
- 9:43It's always fun.
- 9:45For sure, for sure.
- 9:47That's all.
- 9:48That's it. I think for the news, Felix Sturm is still fighting.
- 9:53What? Who? Exactly.
- 9:56I'm like Felix.
- 9:58That's my cousin.
- 10:02All right. Into some recaps here.
- 10:04First things first.
- 10:06On Sunday, February 2nd, we didn't mention a pre-fight.
- 10:09And previously, the timing just kind of worked out weird.
- 10:11But here we are.
- 10:13Salida promotions in Flint, Michigan.
- 10:15Clarissa Shields beats the ever loving fuck out of Danielle Perkins to be to,
- 10:23I think, retain her undisputed crown at.
- 10:26Yeah, I'm pretty sure she retained it.
- 10:28Yeah, she didn't earn it.
- 10:29I think her last fight she she won.
- 10:32Yeah.
- 10:34Yeah, I believe so.
- 10:36That Canadian lady.
- 10:37That's right.
- 10:39I remember that because the WBO and the other titles,
- 10:44WBO considers they call it light heavyweight.
- 10:48Everyone else calls it heavyweight for the women.
- 10:50Yeah.
- 10:51I remember that mismatch was kind of weird.
- 10:54Yeah, it was a little weird, my Goliath.
- 10:56But there's Clarissa Shields, skill for skill.
- 11:01It's a considerable portion of the men's ranks.
- 11:05Well, that's what we're doing now.
- 11:09We're the spiciest takes that down on BoxingBeeSide.
- 11:14You have the B-Side takes, which makes the greatest boxing podcast in the world.
- 11:20Another on the 6th of February.
- 11:25This was a Thursday.
- 11:26I have the Tiger up in Montreal.
- 11:28The only one that I really cared about was Jalalov.
- 11:31And he got sick or some shit a few days before the fight.
- 11:36And so he had to pull out.
- 11:38Yeah, it was just the main event.
- 11:39B.R. Slanov stops Mimoon.
- 11:44Yeah, I don't know these guys.
- 11:46Yeah, I don't either.
- 11:48I was seriously after the Jalalov fight, which was down the bill.
- 11:52I was going to turn it off.
- 11:54Well, you didn't even turn on the first place, huh?
- 11:56Yep, because I didn't.
- 11:57Not anymore.
- 12:00Quickly before we get to the Queensbury card on the 8th.
- 12:05Pro Box in San Antonio.
- 12:07I only of all of these, there's a lot of shit on here as Pro Box cards tend to have.
- 12:13But the only ones I really watched were the top three.
- 12:16Michael Angeletti stops Judy Flores.
- 12:20That's a dude from the Philippines.
- 12:24Name Judy.
- 12:25Yeah, a guy named Judy.
- 12:27Whatever works for you, buddy.
- 12:30So that was KO3.
- 12:32Moving up, Shavkat Rakhmov gets stopped in eight.
- 12:37Nobody picked him to lose in our pick week.
- 12:41Everyone thought he was going to win.
- 12:42I did, too.
- 12:44Really?
- 12:45Yeah, he got beat pillar to post all eight rounds.
- 12:47He was just getting his ass kicked the whole time.
- 12:50Dang.
- 12:51Yeah, I can imagine.
- 12:53Go on.
- 12:54I'm saying I can imagine.
- 12:55That's crazy.
- 12:57The Mighty Have Fallen used to be an IBF 130 champion.
- 13:03And yeah, just got his ass kicked.
- 13:06Nasty, nasty knockout.
- 13:08He did not look good.
- 13:11They had to basically carry him to a stretcher.
- 13:15Really?
- 13:15Yeah.
- 13:16Yeah, I didn't catch that one, man.
- 13:19I didn't see that.
- 13:20I recommend going back to check on these.
- 13:22The fights were really good.
- 13:23The ones that I'm mentioning anyway were really good.
- 13:26OK, sure.
- 13:28And Ramon Cardenas, UD over Brian Acosta.
- 13:33Acosta came into this 20 and 0, and he started off a little slow.
- 13:38Ramon came out quicker.
- 13:41Nonetheless, it felt there was a knockdown in the last round.
- 13:48I believe it was the 10th.
- 13:50And the scores ended up being 95 to 94, 95, 94.
- 13:57So that would have been a 6-4 without the knockdown.
- 14:01And then the other one was 8 to 2.
- 14:03So it was 97 to 92.
- 14:05Yeah, absolutely ridiculous.
- 14:07That is pretty crazy.
- 14:09They did Acosta dirty there with that one anyway.
- 14:12Yeah, they always have that one.
- 14:13The ex-Pexas judges are always like that.
- 14:16Oh, yeah.
- 14:17And all right, moving to Manchester, the Co-op Live Arena.
- 14:23A bunch of shit on here, too.
- 14:25Not a whole lot that I'm going to be pointing out.
- 14:27Walter Fury of the Fighting Fury Clan.
- 14:30I guess the points decision.
- 14:32Are you familiar with points?
- 14:36Explain it to me.
- 14:37Because I feel like I am, but I want to listen in.
- 14:41A points decision in the UK is they don't have judges.
- 14:44They just have the referee score it.
- 14:47Oh.
- 14:48So it's just one card.
- 14:49That's awesome.
- 14:51That's great.
- 14:52It streamlines it a bit.
- 14:54Yeah, that's great.
- 14:56And they usually do it for these lower level guys.
- 14:59Like Joe Hardy, the opponent is 3 and 27.
- 15:04We know what he's doing there.
- 15:06So yeah.
- 15:08Moving up, what else did I see that was fun?
- 15:11At least that I remember anyway.
- 15:12Zach Miller versus Masood Abdullah.
- 15:15Majority decision.
- 15:16That was a hard, hard fight.
- 15:18Hard fight, yeah.
- 15:20And Derek Chisora, UD over Otto Vallein.
- 15:25I caught this one.
- 15:25That was, I can't believe it.
- 15:28I cannot believe it.
- 15:30I honestly, Derek Chisora is still being around and fighting.
- 15:34I respect that a lot.
- 15:37Because that fool lives to see another day.
- 15:40He honestly, he could probably get wild after this.
- 15:42He could probably get wilder.
- 15:45He could probably beat Wilder right now.
- 15:47And what's the, I don't know.
- 15:51You got it.
- 15:51We got to see.
- 15:53Well, Deontay Wilder's fight is off.
- 15:56So hey, he might be.
- 15:58He might actually be fighting Chisora.
- 15:59You never know.
- 16:00Could be in Riyadh, too.
- 16:02He could probably fight in Riyadh.
- 16:03Maybe Derek Chisora could get one last big check from the Saudis.
- 16:08Yeah, Wilder too can take that one and fuck off.
- 16:11If you're not going to be the bronze bomber, dude, don't stop fighting.
- 16:15I know.
- 16:16Just right now, he's kind of on an AWOL.
- 16:21Yeah, kind of AWOL right now.
- 16:22But he will come back for the money.
- 16:24He'll come back.
- 16:25I'm sure.
- 16:25Yeah, I'm sure he will.
- 16:26But Derek Chisora keeps coming back after how many times he lost.
- 16:31I mean, God.
- 16:3213.
- 16:33He was coming in 13 losses.
- 16:35That man does not know what to quit.
- 16:37He's British Black Rocky.
- 16:41Black British Rocky.
- 16:43Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
- 16:45Ham and Eggr.
- 16:47We'll have five rice burgers instead.
- 16:49I'll be honest, I don't care too much for Chisora as a fighter.
- 16:53But as a man, oh, you know, I don't care too much as a boxer, but as a fighter, I love him.
- 16:59Yeah.
- 17:00I respect him.
- 17:01I'll opt for that.
- 17:02It was weird that a lot of people got all fucking miffed when I tagged.
- 17:08So there's two tags that are like reserved for bigger fights.
- 17:12At Everyone is for Tank Davis, Anthony Joshua.
- 17:17For the one that you need to watch.
- 17:19The Canelo, that stuff.
- 17:21Then there's the D-Jans is for all, just everything.
- 17:26I'm going to tag you often for everything.
- 17:29Pro Box.
- 17:29Yeah, Pro Box TV.
- 17:31And then for EOT.
- 17:33Exactly.
- 17:35Then there's At Here, which only pings people who are actively in the server at the time
- 17:41that I send it.
- 17:42And they're actively online.
- 17:44So it's a considerably smaller number.
- 17:47But everyone's like, oh, you're tagging.
- 17:50You're using a big tag for Chisora.
- 17:52Like, shut up.
- 17:54You know, you like Del Boy.
- 17:55It's Chisora.
- 17:56It's the Del Boy.
- 17:57Yeah, it's the Del Boy.
- 17:58Shut up, dude.
- 17:58Just enjoy it.
- 17:59Or go or leave.
- 18:01Enjoy while it lasts.
- 18:02Yep.
- 18:03Because Dylan got one more, probably.
- 18:05Hey, no, we said that last time.
- 18:07And we said that the time before.
- 18:09So he's calling it the last dance.
- 18:12He did this thing at the end that was fun.
- 18:16He brought out three posters.
- 18:18And he wanted the crowd to pick who he fights next.
- 18:23It was AJ, DuBois, and Usyk.
- 18:27And I don't know which one.
- 18:33I would say AJ.
- 18:33If it was my pick, I would say AJ.
- 18:37No, I disagree.
- 18:38Who do you think you should fight next time?
- 18:40I want to see him fight DuBois.
- 18:42That would be fun.
- 18:43See you again.
- 18:44I think Chisora gets beat by DuBois.
- 18:50I'm going to be completely honest.
- 18:52OK, of course, DuBois is going to win.
- 18:54It's Dan DuBois versus Derek Chisora.
- 18:57But Derek Chisora has the luck of the gods on his hands sometimes.
- 19:02True.
- 19:02You know what I mean?
- 19:03Yeah.
- 19:03So I can see an upset happening just for the fucking shits and giggles.
- 19:12Yeah.
- 19:13You know what I mean?
- 19:13I don't know why, but I can kind of imagine that happening.
- 19:16Yeah, Ares, the god of wars, like, let's fuck shit up for a little bit.
- 19:22Let's bring chaos to the world.
- 19:24Boxing.
- 19:24DuBois like breaks his hand or something in the middle of round three.
- 19:30That would be something, huh?
- 19:31If Derek Chisora beat Daniel DuBois.
- 19:35That would be wild.
- 19:37I would cry, honestly.
- 19:40I would be gutted for DuBois because he's on this high ride right now.
- 19:47Oh, yeah.
- 19:48Confidence at an all time high.
- 19:50He's really feeling himself.
- 19:51We'll get more into that in a bit, huh?
- 19:53Yeah, we will.
- 19:54In a bit.
- 19:55Yeah, that's right.
- 19:57So actually...
- 19:58You're getting me excited, man.
- 19:59You're getting me excited because I'm going to talk about Daniel DuBois right now.
- 20:02All right.
- 20:03Let's get into that one second here.
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- 22:51Let's knock some other shit out of the way.
- 22:53Probox, on the 19th, this is Wednesday.
- 22:57This is, I saw in their last broadcast, they said, this is the last Wednesday night fights
- 23:03of the year.
- 23:04Of the year?
- 23:05Yeah, they're going to Saturdays now.
- 23:08That's good.
- 23:10From here out, they're doing Saturdays.
- 23:12I'd rather do Saturdays.
- 23:15I kind of like the schtick, the gimmick of it being on a Wednesday.
- 23:20It was fun.
- 23:21It's the middle of the week.
- 23:24Not a whole lot going on.
- 23:25Oh yeah.
- 23:26Well, at least we're looking forward to it.
- 23:27Yeah, exactly.
- 23:28The boys get together in the server and we just watch some fights.
- 23:32Yeah, actually, I do like that.
- 23:35But I've always watched boxing on Saturdays.
- 23:38I've done that my whole life.
- 23:40I'm just used to that, you know?
- 23:42Yeah, those are the big lights.
- 23:45You're fighting on Saturday.
- 23:47You probably made it.
- 23:49All these other Joker promotions need to stop.
- 23:52It's like, dude, I'm not going to watch you over Canelo.
- 23:57Exactly, yeah.
- 23:58And one of them is a local one.
- 24:00And I like watching their stuff.
- 24:03I like watching my local guys fight.
- 24:05But it's like, dude, I'm not skipping whatever's on Saturday.
- 24:08I'm not skipping Tank Roach for you.
- 24:10Well, not funny.
- 24:12That card is fucking stacked.
- 24:16At least I won't know what happens on Pro Box.
- 24:18Yeah.
- 24:19We'll talk about that next week.
- 24:21Yes, that's when we'll be chatting over the upcoming Tank First Roach.
- 24:27So Pro Box and it's called the Chicken Ranch Casino Resort.
- 24:34Chicken Ranch?
- 24:35That sounds like a Taco Bell.
- 24:37Jamestown, California.
- 24:38Interesting.
- 24:39Jamestown.
- 24:40Yeah.
- 24:41Where's that at?
- 24:42Is that an old school?
- 24:43Is that a weird old western town?
- 24:44Yeah, old west.
- 24:45Yeah, like the old west.
- 24:46Yeah, that's crazy.
- 24:47That's beautiful, actually.
- 24:48That's nice.
- 24:49Jamestown Casino, though.
- 24:50I didn't know they had a casino.
- 24:51The Chicken Ranch Casino is on People of the Mountains Road.
- 24:54Interesting.
- 24:55And one of Robert's fighters is going to be on there.
- 25:02Actually, that's exactly who I'm talking about.
- 25:05He's going to be on there.
- 25:07Actually, that's exactly who this card is for.
- 25:09It's being promoted by Robert Garcia.
- 25:13Oh, this is the Robert Garcia card.
- 25:15Yeah, this is the Robert Garcia card.
- 25:16I've been hearing about.
- 25:17Yep, this is his.
- 25:18So a lot of them are going to be his.
- 25:20The Boxing Academy guys.
- 25:23The only one that I don't know if either of them are signed with him or managed by him
- 25:29is the main event.
- 25:30Gabriel Flores, the guy from SAC, SACTOWN, that's not very good.
- 25:38I love SACTOWN.
- 25:39Jose Arellano.
- 25:40Yeah, my favorite band is from SACTOWN.
- 25:42But there you go.
- 25:44That's the Pro Box at the Chicken Ranch Casino.
- 25:48They're calling it like Coming Home to Roost.
- 25:50That's the name of the event.
- 25:52Hey, well, that's something, right?
- 25:54Lean into the chicken.
- 25:55Lean into it.
- 25:56The Chicken Bacon Ranch Casino.
- 25:58There you go.
- 26:00There you go.
- 26:02I'm getting kicked out of this podcast.
- 26:07No, that's exactly the type of shit that I like.
- 26:12I'm playing.
- 26:13Saturday, February 22nd.
- 26:15First things first, just to get it out of the way, Xanfer.
- 26:19There's a lot of shit on here.
- 26:20I'm going to be honest, I don't know who a lot of these guys are.
- 26:22But headlining, Luis Neri versus Kyonosuke Kameda.
- 26:27So one of the Fighting Kameda clan.
- 26:29I don't think he's one of the brothers.
- 26:31I think he's like a relative, like a cousin, I think he is.
- 26:36But yeah, I don't know.
- 26:38Luis Neri, he like punched him at the face off.
- 26:42I saw that.
- 26:43I saw that.
- 26:44Man, like you just are determined to make sure Japan fucking hates you.
- 26:49Well, they don't hate him right now.
- 26:53They hate him even more.
- 26:54Yeah.
- 26:55They I'm sure they do still, even though in a way beat him up.
- 27:00They're still upset about the Shinsuke Yamanaka stuff back.
- 27:05God damn, those like 10 years ago.
- 27:07Back in the day.
- 27:08Yeah.
- 27:09Back in the day.
- 27:11I'm honestly not.
- 27:12I'm expecting Luis Neri to win.
- 27:14He's probably that slap was probably like roid rage.
- 27:18Luis Neri is not exactly a being a clean fighter.
- 27:22Yeah, he hasn't been a clean fighter ever.
- 27:25He's always been on some fuck shit.
- 27:26But Saturday, February 22nd, the reason that
- 27:30In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the Kingdom Arena,
- 27:36Archer Better Bia vs. Dimitri Bevil rematch undisputed light heavyweight crown on the line.
- 27:42We will be starting from the bottom up as usual.
- 27:45Bradley Rhea vs. Constantin, Constantino Nanga.
- 27:49That's a 10 round light heavyweight fight.
- 27:51Joshua Buatzi vs. Callum Smith.
- 27:5412 rounds for the interim WBO light heavyweight title.
- 27:59So that's a one of the mandatory slots for the winner of the main.
- 28:05Gile Zhang vs. Ajit Kabayel.
- 28:0812 rounds interim WBC heavyweight title.
- 28:12Moving up, Virgil Ortiz vs. Israel Bandrimov.
- 28:15Interim WBC 154 pound title on the line.
- 28:18So that will be mandatory to Fundora.
- 28:21Carlos Adamas vs. Hamza Sharaz.
- 28:24WBC middleweight title on the line.
- 28:26Co-main event, Daniel Dubois vs. Joseph Parker.
- 28:29IBF heavyweight title.
- 28:31And the main event, Archer Better Bia vs. Dimitri Bevil.
- 28:35So, you wanted to start at Joshua Buatzi vs. Callum Smith.
- 28:40Let it rip.
- 28:41Well, I honestly think Buatzi is going to win.
- 28:44I mean, I think a lot of people have that same opinion.
- 28:46And honestly, I think he's probably going to win my knockout against Callum Smith.
- 28:50How do you feel about that?
- 28:51I agree.
- 28:52I agree.
- 28:53It's going to be a stoppage in the mid late.
- 28:57The third quarter of the rounds.
- 29:00Shannadath also thinks that Buatzi is probably going to win.
- 29:04But if you want to hear that conversation, you have to go to Patreon.
- 29:08She's too good for the Phlebeans.
- 29:11I believe this is going to be a passing of the torch for the British heavyweights.
- 29:17A retirement for Callum?
- 29:19Yeah. Yeah.
- 29:20I honestly think I don't see Callum fighting after this.
- 29:23If he loses, I don't see him fighting again.
- 29:25He just he's not very he used to he used to get by on being like a bit of a weight bully.
- 29:30And now he can't anymore.
- 29:32Now that he's up at he's getting older, so he can't cut down as much.
- 29:36You can't bully guys that are the same size as you really.
- 29:39You don't have power to back it up.
- 29:41Yeah, it's easy.
- 29:42He's at least he made money with Cano.
- 29:44Yeah.
- 29:45Yeah. At least he has that going for him.
- 29:47He fought better.
- 29:48I'll tell you, he's got to see whatever you want about Councilman.
- 29:51He's fought a good amount of greats.
- 29:53Yeah, he's fought good fighters for sure.
- 29:55He's fought some good fighters, you know, and I got to respect that.
- 29:58He's had a good run.
- 29:59Good.
- 30:00Very good run in the I guess in the British context.
- 30:04Yeah.
- 30:05There about in the British context.
- 30:07Yeah.
- 30:09He's he's all right.
- 30:10But yeah, this is it.
- 30:12What he he's he's the guy taking the crown here.
- 30:16He's young, too.
- 30:17He's 31.
- 30:20Smith is 34.
- 30:21I thought you bought what he was 25.
- 30:25Oh, I was looking the wrong one.
- 30:26I've been around for a minute.
- 30:28He has been around for a minute.
- 30:29I was looking at the wrong stat.
- 30:31That's my bad.
- 30:32Anything more for Boatse?
- 30:34No, I'm all good with that.
- 30:36Anything for John Cabello?
- 30:37I have Cabello winning this one on youth.
- 30:40Oh, OK.
- 30:42Youth and skill.
- 30:44Jang, you want super powerful.
- 30:46Yes.
- 30:47Nobody's doubting that.
- 30:48We're going to go.
- 30:49We're going to go against this one, buddy.
- 30:51Yeah, that's that's fine.
- 30:53That's what we're here for.
- 30:55And I think he's got the skills to not let Jane connect with anything too damaging.
- 31:02Jang can't is not very mobile.
- 31:06He's not very limber.
- 31:07We saw that against Joseph Parker.
- 31:09So I think I can replicate the same success that Parker did.
- 31:14Well, I'll tell you this.
- 31:17I think Julie Jong is going to win the fight.
- 31:21I honestly think he's I think he's mainly going to win mainly because of the power.
- 31:25I mean, I'm honest.
- 31:28Cabello, his chin, has it really been tested?
- 31:31Not that I can recall.
- 31:32He's fought a lot.
- 31:33I mean, yeah, you could say he's a he's he's a good boxer.
- 31:36He's a good boxer.
- 31:37He's he's pretty mobile.
- 31:38You know, he's got some power.
- 31:41You know what I mean?
- 31:42But has he really received power in a fight is my point.
- 31:46You know what I mean?
- 31:47And typically what I've seen with Julie Jong, the example being Joseph Parker.
- 31:53OK, he in my opinion, if he pressed the action after the knockdown and I think he could have won the fight.
- 32:00He can knock them out.
- 32:01Joseph Parker, he was on he was on some wobbly legs.
- 32:04He was he was on some wobbly legs.
- 32:06But but Julie Jong, he just he didn't press the action after that.
- 32:10So that's the only thing that I could that's the only way I could see Julie Jong losing is because of that.
- 32:16If he if he lets his foot off the gas, I don't I didn't see him do that really with with Wilder.
- 32:21I feel like he improved a little bit on that.
- 32:24Yeah, he did.
- 32:25So I mean, I don't know, maybe I could I could also see Cabell winning because again, I'm not trying to take a side too much because it is a 50-50 fight, honestly.
- 32:34You know what I mean?
- 32:35But I got my boy Big Bang Jang win the fight.
- 32:39It's the only concern I have is his age.
- 32:43And yeah, is he going to show his age because Wilder being able to stock down Wilder, not quite as impressive of a feat as it used to be.
- 32:54So that's true.
- 32:56That's true.
- 32:57The power threat's always there, though, with with Jang.
- 33:00He's Big Bang.
- 33:01They don't call him that for no reason.
- 33:03For no reason. Yeah.
- 33:04Yeah. I mean, remember George Foreman, man.
- 33:06He was he was big and fat.
- 33:08Yep. Big fat old man.
- 33:10But you know what? He still knocked everybody out.
- 33:13So I mean, I'm not trying to compare Big Bang to George Foreman by no means.
- 33:18But I'll tell you this, that power can make a difference.
- 33:22It's a good analog, though.
- 33:24It's a good analog.
- 33:25It's a good frame of reference, I think, for people.
- 33:28Maybe they don't know who Jang is.
- 33:30They're not sure what to think of this, like, 40 year old man, 40 going on 42.
- 33:36Not sure what to think about that.
- 33:38And you got some Big Bang in there.
- 33:40I'll tell you that. Yeah.
- 33:42Hey, so we recorded this before the Floyd Schofield gets sick situation came about. So we didn't really talk over the Shakur Stevenson with his new opponent.
- 33:55But if you want to hear the conversation as it was before I cut it down, then go to Patreon.LVX.BE.
- 34:05So my parlay to the people that are listening, Carlos Dames, Daniel Dubois, Joshua Boizzi, Jirle Zhang, my Big Bang, and obviously Archer Better Beef.
- 34:16And I'll get into that a little later.
- 34:17But that is a six leg parlay I'm going to do for $50.
- 34:21Let's see if I can get rich.
- 34:23Now, actually, I don't want to tell the story on here, but maybe another time.
- 34:26But I could have made 30 grand off a parlay when Fundora and Tim Zufat on a fight.
- 34:32I never told you that story, Leo.
- 34:33I could have made 30 grand. Your picks were all landed.
- 34:36Yeah, but I was too sissy to put them all down.
- 34:40Roli got knocked out.
- 34:42I picked the round Roli got knocked out and then I put Fundora winning and then I put Aris Landi Lara and then I actually picked that one for the knock it as well.
- 34:51Yeah.
- 34:53I mean, what was the dude?
- 34:54Was it Michael Zarafa? Yeah. Not very good.
- 34:57But I think it's because I picked the rounds.
- 35:00Oh, I see.
- 35:01Oh, so these weren't just straight picks?
- 35:03No, they were that pick the rounds that they were going to.
- 35:06And they all ended up happening.
- 35:08And when I hit the parlay, the people were calling in.
- 35:12You could tell me whatever you want. Yeah.
- 35:14833-589-7637.
- 35:17All right. Moving up.
- 35:18Virgil Ortiz versus Israel Madrimov fucking Virgil bros up.
- 35:22I am eager for to see what he does against Madrimov because Madrimov can present them with.
- 35:30Some looks that he hasn't seen yet.
- 35:34So.
- 35:36I'm not expecting it to go very far for Madrimov.
- 35:40I.E. that fight. I'm going to win.
- 35:42But I'm surprised you kind of don't put Madrimov too highly.
- 35:47I honestly I feel like you would put him up like up there in the one fifty four rankings.
- 35:53I can appreciate his skill for sure.
- 35:57Sure. Yeah.
- 35:58He's mad about me. Fuck Crawford.
- 36:00I mean, a lot of people argue below a lot of people think he won.
- 36:05Really?
- 36:07There's this guy I talked to you about.
- 36:09He made a whole argument with me about how Madrimov actually won the fight and not to get into old things, but he's a he's a big he's a big Bud fan.
- 36:17I'm this guy.
- 36:19And he was saying that Bud lost the fight, which I was surprised.
- 36:22I mean, I've always been a big Bud fan too.
- 36:27But it was close.
- 36:29It was close, but he didn't lose the fight at all.
- 36:31It was it was close.
- 36:32No, he didn't get his ass burned.
- 36:34Yeah, he was in it.
- 36:35But I got Virgil Ortiz winning by knockout.
- 36:39I think he has to win my knockout.
- 36:41Actually, I if it goes to UD, I don't think Israel I don't think he's going to be Israel Madrimov on skill.
- 36:48In my opinion, Madrimov's a tricky fighter.
- 36:50If someone like Crawford had problems with Madrimov and Crawford is it's the Bud is King Bud, you know, if Bud had problems Madrimov, I think Ortiz is going to have an even harder night where he's going to have to go back to his old ways and bang it out Madrimov.
- 37:06He's going to be losing until he wins kind of thing.
- 37:10Yeah, I think so.
- 37:11Because I don't think that Ortiz can win on points unless it's a war in the middle of the ring in the center of the ring and he obviously is going to look more powerful.
- 37:22Yes.
- 37:23The thing with that the thing with that whole fight.
- 37:25It really depends on who has more power.
- 37:27That's if Ortiz respects Madrimov's power Madrimov's winning.
- 37:32If Madrimov respects Ortiz's power Ortiz is winning.
- 37:37But Ortiz wins by knockout.
- 37:41There's I don't see any other way.
- 37:43I was thinking it would be more Virgil Ortiz pushing the envelope where Madrimov tries to fights off his back foot and Ortiz putting the with the forward pressure is going to sway the judges more than the the technical prowess of Madrimov.
- 38:04So I was thinking it goes to close decision that Virgil Ortiz pulls off just landing cleaner harder punches.
- 38:13I'll tell you this man I truly truly believe I said this for the Benavides fight too which I was wrong but I truly believe this fight there's going to be a knockdown.
- 38:23There has to be a knockdown this fight whether it be Virgil Ortiz or Madrimov.
- 38:27Someone's getting knocked down and honestly I I see Virgil Ortiz getting knocked down in this fight.
- 38:32I can see that because if you see I've seen Virgil Ortiz fight for years I've I've I've followed his career for a while now.
- 38:40He is not the greatest defensive boxer out of no more than out of the 154 pounders.
- 38:48And if Mad if Madrimov does his weird overhand that's not going to be good at all.
- 38:55That's going to be a hard night Ortiz if he gets caught because Ortiz has already been down by Boa Chuck right.
- 39:00He got knocked down by Boa Chuck.
- 39:03Yeah and he was twice twice yes twice by Boa Chuck and then he got I'm pretty sure he was down by Mean Machine.
- 39:10I don't know if you remember that I think I'm pretty sure he was down by Mean Machine.
- 39:12He's been down before that before Boa Chuck once and I'm pretty sure that was Mean Machine.
- 39:17I need to amend what I said I don't think it's going to be that Virgil's landing the cleaner punches but he's going to be landing the volume.
- 39:25Oh for sure yeah volume.
- 39:27Oh yeah and they're going to be heavy heavy heavy.
- 39:30Yeah it really it really just depends on on if Madrimov respects Ortiz's power or not.
- 39:36Yeah that's because at the same time with 154 Ortiz is kind of still in the in the fraud watch.
- 39:43Not so much like as a boxer but just like power wise you know what I mean.
- 39:47Yes I don't know what I forgot the word but Boa Chuck was knocked out by what was it Brandon Adams.
- 39:55Yeah it's kind of a flash freakish kind of thing but it was a flash freakish knock yeah but the thing was with it still happened right.
- 40:04For Ortiz not that I mean Ortiz at 147 had a lot of power but we don't know if that carried up to 154.
- 40:12Not yet.
- 40:13Not yet we don't know I think in this fight if if he knocks out Madrimov or at least gets him down we can kind of gauge how much power Ortiz has.
- 40:23You know what I mean. Yeah this is actually the proving time for Ortiz.
- 40:28I think another natural like a natural 154 guy not pulling up a different guy.
- 40:34Exactly I think this fight potentially can break Virgil Ortiz his what's the word he's kind of fun that he's been in these last couple years.
- 40:46You know what I mean. Yeah I mean he had a great fight with Boa Chuck but he was supposed to fight Tim Zou.
- 40:55I don't even remember that he was supposed to fight Tim Zou. I thought that was going to be his breakout of funk fight but this is going to be the one that's going to break him out for sure.
- 41:05You see what I mean. Yeah I do. I got my boy Ortiz I'm a Virgil bro man. I got to stick with my boy I've been with him for years.
- 41:13Yeah no Isaac's another Virgil guy. So anything more for Virgil? No just that I want to win. I love my boy.
- 41:23Virgil bro's up hopefully. Knock on wood. And moving up to Carlos Adames. This one I'm going to need you to defend your take on here.
- 41:34Because you're picking him to win in your parlay. So I'm assuming you're going to have him in the pick league.
- 41:40Yeah I am. Why are you picking him? Well let me ask you this. Let me ask you a question actually. Why are you picking Holmes as your rise?
- 41:50Oh I would say that he's demonstrated most recently in his last few fights he's really shown a new level to his game.
- 41:59He's taller he's naturally bigger. Those two are I think a really big factor. He can get a lot more physical with Adames.
- 42:08And Adames has left a lot to be desired in his last few outings. Okay I don't know. Let me tell you this.
- 42:17I believe Carlos Adames is going to win. And I'm going to be honest with you on my reason why.
- 42:24Is I honestly think that Holmes as your rise is a horrible fighter on the inside. True because he's longer and he doesn't fight that way. He's lanky.
- 42:33He doesn't fight that way. He cannot fight on the inside. Now for Carlos Adames. You've seen his last couple fights right? Yes.
- 42:41He. I kind of. I do have to agree with you. His last couple fights have been. What's the word? Lackluster.
- 42:52Yeah lackluster, mediocre, anticlimactic. But I still think he has it in him. I think when he has a good opponent put in front of him. He can take it home.
- 43:05I think he's a situation where he matches his opponent. Fights to the level of the opponent. Yeah. Yeah you know how Teo Fimo. Like something like Teo Fimo.
- 43:15Guillermo Rigondal is another example. Yeah. Guillermo Rigondal. I mean his fight with his. What was his name? Carlos Adames fight with Sergei Guillermo.
- 43:26That was. Have you seen the fight? No. I don't remember if I did. I don't think so.
- 43:34Oh okay. It would be kind of hard to talk about it too much. But I mean that fight was. That was a hard fought fight. But that fight proves me that Carlos Adames has it in him to bring it.
- 43:49That boy can bring it. I feel like Carlos Adames will bring it to fucking Hamza Shiraz. And I think Hamza Shiraz. If he can fight on the inside.
- 44:00If Carlos Adames can fight on the inside then I think Shiraz is going to lose. Now the thing is with Emma Williams. Again this is kind of a. I'm trying to argue my point.
- 44:10But the thing is I kind of do see Hamza Shiraz winning. But I also really. Also see Carlos Adames winning too. It really depends on how they fight. You know what I mean? Yeah.
- 44:22With Carlos Adames' game plan he needs to get in the pocket. And he needs to swap. Because he's got power. Carlos Adames does have power. Hamza Shiraz he has to fight like Tommy Hearns to win. In my opinion.
- 44:35Yeah that's a good way to put it. Yeah absolutely. He needs to keep him at the end of his reach. Otherwise he's going to be more compact on the inside than you can be. So he's going to beat you to the punch every time.
- 44:49And if fighting to the level of the opponent is what Adames does then Shiraz really bringing his A game is just going to bring the best out of Adames.
- 44:59And another thing too is that Hamza. They've both been out. They've both been down. Hamza Shiraz wasn't knocked out but they both kind of have a chin. That fight I also see one knocked down as well.
- 45:11Knockout possible. It's very possible in that fight. It could go either way in my opinion. It really depends on who has more power. I mean you've got to agree with me that Carlos Adames does have power. He still has power.
- 45:23He's a 75% knockout rate. Exactly. He's got some power. Okay. Another thing too Hamza Shiraz is a little more green. A little bit.
- 45:34I mean Carlos Adames is a veteran at the world stage. Yes. Carlos Adames is kind of a veteran of the game. He's fought a lot of opposition. Good opposition.
- 45:45He got knocked out by a guy that Hamza Shiraz knocked out. Tashira? Yeah. Patrick. The UD. Oh he got UD by Patrick. And 7 though.
- 45:59Oh I thought he got knocked out. Okay. Well he was down but he wasn't out. Okay. Now Hamza was knocked down as well. I believe he was knocked down by which fighter was that? Liam Williams?
- 46:12Liam Williams. Not Liam Williams. Francisco Torres down in the third. Now Francisco Torres look at him. Look at him. 17-4-1. He fought Jose Benavides to a draw.
- 46:28Is this post gunshot? Anyways for this fight I can see a good move boys. Hate on me. I don't care. Y'all can call the line and tell me how wrong I am. Yeah. Go ahead.
- 46:43Tell me as many times as you want how wrong I am. Cause honestly I don't see it.
- 46:51Man I try to tell everybody like the shit's anonymous dude. I don't know who you are if you don't tell me. You know what you can tell me to go fuck myself. Right.
- 47:02And everybody has a fucking opinion until it's time to put their name on it or put their voice on it. Exactly. Man. 833 Lux Pods. Why don't you just stop being a candy ass little punk.
- 47:15Anything more for Adamas Shiraz? No. That's all I got. You laid out a very compelling argument. I'm still going with Shiraz. Yeah well I'm going with Carlos Adamas. We'll see. We'll see who wins.
- 47:28Alright. Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker. This is fun. I'm thinking that the momentum behind Dubois is going to carry him through. Parker is also on a momentum wave and he's been turning in some classic vintage performances. I just think Dubois is going to be able to put it together.
- 47:47I disagree about your opinion on Joe Parker. That he's putting together, he's putting in vintage performance?
- 47:55The thing is he's putting some good performances on. Don't get me wrong. Yeah. The thing with Joseph Parker however is that those performances that he's been putting up. Look who they are.
- 48:10Jung and Wilder. Jung and Wilder. My main problem with Jung is that Jung could have won that fight. If he pressed the action and he had a good amount of stamina, he could have won that fight and knocked him out.
- 48:32With Yonty Wilder, his head was in it. His head was just not in it and he couldn't knock him out. He outboxed him. That fight.
- 48:41He's got a 66% knockout ratio. Against? That's a Parker's. And his knockouts are against not very good people. Yeah. And he lost by a knockout to Joe Joyce.
- 49:01True. I think Daniel Dubois is going to kill Joe Parker. You think so? I think so. I'm not saying Joe Parker doesn't have it in him because he could outbox Daniel Dubois.
- 49:13If there's a way for Joseph Parker to win, he's going to outbox him if he wins. But Daniel Dubois is going to knock him out.
- 49:21So you're just a little bit more emphatic on Dubois than I am. Yeah. Still Dubois wins. I don't know. There are not a lot of avenues for Parker to win. Dubois has more pathways to victory than Parker does.
- 49:38Exactly. I agree. And the main thing is, Arch for Better Bia vs. Dimitri Bevold, we are opposed on this one as well. Oh yeah. I'm team yellow and you're on red.
- 49:50Well, the thing is, I'm still mixed on it. I'm team red. But there's a reason why. Go on. I mainly want Better Bia to win to see a better, I want to see a Benavides fight. Ooh. I want to see him fight Benavides. That's good.
- 50:06If he fights Benavides, I will give him all my love. It's a fight. I've been wanting Benavides to get a title shot. Not a title shot, an undisputed shot. A shot undisputed for years. Ever since, you know, he who shall not be named in this damn podcast.
- 50:26It's like Ginger fucking Menace. Cinnamon. Mr. Cinnamon. Either way, I still kind of do see Better Bia winning because, I mean, it's kind of hard to explain. But have you seen Bevold's new training videos? His recent training videos? And what he's been saying? No.
- 50:48He's been talking about wanting to get more aggressive. And from what I've seen in his sparring videos and in his training, he's planning to get me more in the pocket.
- 50:58That's just really inadvisable.
- 51:00Which, that's not Bevold's style. That is not Bevold's way of fighting. Bevold is a boxer. I think he might do that for the first couple rounds. But, I mean, in my opinion, I don't think he's going to stay like that the whole fight.
- 51:17But Better B is going to get the first couple rounds if he does that. That's just really inadvisable. And honestly, if he does do that, I can potentially see a Better B knockout if he does that. If not, then Better B is not going to knock him out.
- 51:32If I brace myself hard enough, I can withstand a sledgehammer to the face. It's exactly what Bevold's thinking right now. Yeah.
- 51:42The thing is that the only way to be Better B is boxing. Yeah. So for you to... Exactly. And honestly, arguably, and people can call into and tell me how wrong I am. I think Bevold won the fight last time.
- 52:00I thought Bevold won the first fight too. That's been the position of everyone I've spoken to.
- 52:05Just wanted to make sure. Yeah. But I think he's going to lose this fight if he does some dumb shit like fighting in the pocket. You know what I mean? Yeah.
- 52:18Standing in trading with one of the craziest punchers in recent years. Shoot, probably in the last... in this century. Yeah, so far. Yeah.
- 52:30I mean, shoot. Better B is scary, man. Better B is one of the scariest boxes I've ever laid my eyes on. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's just so menacing.
- 52:41Like, he just makes me scared. Just to look at him. I mean, it's not because he's ugly or anything, but it's just because he's menacing. He has that aura. Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, he's like a Terminator.
- 52:54Yeah, he's like the Terminator. Exactly. Remember that fight with... what was that fight with... what's his name? Marcus Brown? Yeah, Marcus Brown. Oh my God. That cut? That cut, dude.
- 53:06That gave me chills when he was boxing Marcus in the corner, dude. Oh my God. I will never forget watching that live, dude. That was crazy. Yeah. He was all bloodied up. That was nasty.
- 53:22Massive split across his forehead. Or just going down his forehead. Yeah. Oh yeah. But that was obviously some gangbusters fight. That was a gangbusters fight there.
- 53:32Bevil is like the... he's not a Terminator. He's like a boxing robot. Just stick to the plan. If you taught a robot, do perfect boxing, it would be what Bevil does.
- 53:49I have a crazy take about Bevil. Go on. I think Bevil is one of the best technical boxers within the century. Maybe even one of the best technicians within the century. Maybe even in the last... shoot, even 50 years.
- 54:09I would say Price... since Sweepee. In my opinion. Yeah. He's the best since then? One of the best. Okay. Alright. I'm not going to say the best because there's a lot of those guys out there.
- 54:29The best technicians, yeah of course. Yeah. But Bevil, oh my god. He is a perfect boxer. He can box a perfect fight. I honestly did not... I thought he was going to get knocked out last fight because I really couldn't believe someone boxing perfect enough to not get knocked out by BetterBeef.
- 54:45But he made me shut the fuck up. Yeah. Now honestly, that fight with BetterBeef... people like to say it was not really the most exciting fight they've seen in their life. It was a chess match. But in my opinion, I think it was one of the best chess matches of boxing I have actually ever seen.
- 55:02That was one of... if someone were to ask like what is world level boxing or elite boxing look like, this... I would show them this. This is what an elite fight looks like. Two extremely talented... talented at like opposed... diametrically opposed things that one can cancel out the other. It's just a matter of who gets there first.
- 55:27Exactly. Yeah. And the thing is what made it entertaining was the feints and the little things that they were doing, you know. Just watching them do that was perfect. You know what I mean? Yeah. It was awesome. I loved it. And I think I'm going to love this fight too.
- 55:46There are plenty of people who can oblige you if you want to see like Chavez style fights. There are plenty of people who can hook you up. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, dude. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's it though. That's that's all we got. Huh? All right. Let me do this real quick.
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- 57:24Phone number is gonna be put in there again. Why am I wrong? Why am I a fucking casual? You just have to let me know how casual you think I am. After having heard all of the most obscure shit that I throw out here, and you still want to call me casual, please do. I always need a good laugh.
- 57:44People still call you casual? Yes. It happens a bit. That's interesting. That is surprising actually. Yeah, well.
- 57:52Everybody's a fucking box casual in my opinion. You're always a casual. You're always a casual in boxing. That's my parting words. You're always a fucking casual. It doesn't matter. And the only people I've noticed, the only people who call other people casuals are casuals.
- 58:07Yeah, that's valid. That's actually very valid. Insecure casuals. Exactly. Like, I watched a Pro Box card one time. That means I'm not casual anymore. No, you're still casual. Okay, that's what does it for you. Go watch Floyd Patterson fight.
- 58:24Oh, did you hear Sweet Pea earlier and you don't know who we're talking about? Maybe you should rethink who you're calling a casual. Exactly. But do you have any parting words to throw out? I say this. I've said this every week. I'm going to say it again.
- 58:41Let's go Carlos D'Adamis. Let's go Big Bang Zhang. Let's go Joshua Boazzi. Let's go Daniel Dubois. And let's go Arthur Petterbieff. We'll see you next week.
- 58:59Alrighty, we're out of here.