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- 0:00The B -Side in boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
- 0:04B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
- 0:06The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
- 0:10-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
- 0:20Alright. Fucking... Boxing B -Sides. Back up
- 0:27in your ears. I am joined by the comrades. Josh,
- 0:31how goes it? Excellent. Enjoying being Chinese
- 0:35every second. And the one and only Saul. Hello,
- 0:40guys. Yeah, hello. If I kind of had to fucking
- 0:46blame mine there, Jesus Christ. All right. Before
- 0:50we get into the news. Extending the hand of friendship
- 0:54to our fellows over at Ultimate FN Casuals. January
- 0:5931st, UFC 325. There were some good stuff on
- 1:06here. Let's see. In the early prelims, Khan Ofli,
- 1:11the majority decision over Yiza, was a really
- 1:15fun fight. I thought it went the other way, but
- 1:18what do I know? And in the prelims, Billy Alacana
- 1:24submits Junior Taffa. It was actually a pretty
- 1:28fun fight. And in the main portion, Alexander
- 1:32Volkanovsky beats Diego Lopez again, more convincingly
- 1:36this time. So hopefully we don't have to rehash
- 1:39that fight later down the line. We knew that
- 1:42was going to happen. Yeah, who would have guessed
- 1:44it? But we definitely talk more about it over
- 1:48on Ultimate FM Casual. So wherever you're listening
- 1:50to this, you can find that too. So, into the
- 1:53news. The, uh, what did you call it? The dwarf
- 1:59police? The goblin police or something? Gnome
- 2:01hunters. Gnome hunters, that's what it was. Yeah,
- 2:04Geronte Davis was arrested in Miami, was released
- 2:08on bail. There's a new warrant for his arrest
- 2:11out of, he's in Miami, that's where he lives
- 2:14now, and there's a new warrant for his arrest
- 2:17in Maryland, where he's from. Because of parole
- 2:21violations, or probation violations, excuse me,
- 2:24where he was supposed to stay at his trainer
- 2:29Calvin Ford's house, but he was instead staying
- 2:34at, like, fancy hotels and stuff. Well done.
- 2:38What a dumbass. This fucking guy, man. Well done.
- 2:45Sorry, but that's a very idiotic move to do.
- 2:49That's just... There's not much to say. That's
- 2:53just idiotic to do. Like, it's really stupid,
- 2:56yeah. Yeah. When I was in the military, when
- 3:01I was young, underage, under drinking age, there...
- 3:05On Fridays, before you leave, before you... Before
- 3:11weekend leave, right? Yeah, before you leave
- 3:13for the weekend, they give you, like, they call
- 3:16it a safety brief. Like, don't... Add or subtract
- 3:20from the population. Don't drink and drive. Dumb
- 3:24shit that you would think is common sense. But
- 3:26when it got to the platoon level, my platoon
- 3:31sergeant would say, there's a right way to do
- 3:33the wrong thing. And he would look at us, the
- 3:37underage kids. I know what you're thinking. And
- 3:41I know what you want to do this weekend. So don't
- 3:45be a jackass. If you don't want to stay at Calvin
- 3:48Ford's house, maybe don't post it on social media.
- 3:52I don't know. Just an idea. Mayweather and his
- 4:00$340 million lawsuit against Showtime and Steven
- 4:05Espinoza. We all know what this is. My man is
- 4:14broke and he needs money. Yeah, my man is broke
- 4:16and he needs money. Crazy that him out of everyone
- 4:20could go broke, but... Crazy to sue fucking Al
- 4:24Heyman, too. Al Heyman is listed in the lawsuit,
- 4:30but not accused directly. Yeah. Interesting.
- 4:37Yeah, weird how that's strange that you would
- 4:40make that separation, because... If you're alleging
- 4:44that Steven Espinosa and Showtime were funneling
- 4:48your money to Al Heyman instead of you, then
- 4:52why is Al Heyman not included in the lawsuit?
- 4:56It's really weird. This seems desperate for money.
- 5:01Why didn't he do it eight years earlier? Right.
- 5:03Oh, I'm sorry. It's probably because Rick Glazer
- 5:06just told him now. Fucking Rick Glazer, dude.
- 5:09I can't. Rick Glazer cited. His, like, tweets
- 5:14are cited in the lawsuit as, like, evidence.
- 5:18Oh, my God. That is so... I thought I haven't
- 5:22seen some crazy shit in the sport. I don't know.
- 5:26That's a dumb shit. Yeah. I thought I've seen
- 5:29some crazy shit. That is the most dumb motherfucking
- 5:32shit I've heard of in the sport. Citing Twitter
- 5:38posts? At that point, I get to say that Dan Raphael...
- 5:42Ate my fucking kitchen pantry during COVID. And
- 5:46I could sue him for money. It's off the Twitter
- 5:48post. I don't know. That's some dumb shit. You
- 5:54know what? You can't blame Dan Raphael due to
- 5:57our proximity to Isaac, though. No one's body
- 6:01shaming Dan Raphael here. Well, we are, but...
- 6:05I'm saying there's more likely culprits. Yeah.
- 6:12It's like $340 million is not a small number.
- 6:19To file a suit on Rick Glazer's word, I don't
- 6:28know what level of fucking down bad you have
- 6:32to be. It's so delusion, yeah. The thing is,
- 6:35it's not even like a rumor that he's suing him.
- 6:36You could actually see the fucking court filings
- 6:39are there. yeah the court filings are there i
- 6:41mean you can see uh his evidence and obviously
- 6:45his evidence is just a bunch of bullshit so hey
- 6:48man's gotta make some food man man's gotta eat
- 6:51man's gotta eat in the following weeks i saw
- 6:58the uh an article that was outlining how he's
- 7:02it's the new york post not the most reputable
- 7:05source but it was um a couple who own a condo
- 7:12in New York, and they were alleging he was behind
- 7:15on rent, like, four or five months. Jesus. At,
- 7:21like, $100K a month. So, also not a small amount
- 7:28of money. This is kind of room tank, and the
- 7:35water tank's like this, man. It's pretty good.
- 7:38Yeah, I guess you're going to have to... Two
- 7:40peas in an idiot pod, I guess. Two bums. Two
- 7:45bums. Yeah, two money bums. Oh, that's literal
- 7:49bums in this case. Oh, yeah, you're right. Two
- 7:52bums for no money now. I might have more money
- 7:54than Mayweather at this point. Mayweather still
- 7:58has assets, I guess. He has really expensive...
- 8:00He's not very liquid. He's not liquid. I got
- 8:06a liquid acid, the Boxing B -Sides podcast. Kind
- 8:09of, right? And all my ramen that I have stored
- 8:13up. And all my ramen. And I can put that in liquid.
- 8:17And I eat it myself. That's what they call eating
- 8:20what you kill. Let's roll on. Angelo Leo. His
- 8:28intended voluntary defense fell through. And
- 8:34IBF has mandated that he has to face Raees Alim.
- 8:41And this fight, or yeah, the fight is probably
- 8:44going to Perspid, but we'll find out within,
- 8:47I think, the next week or so. So that's fun.
- 8:52Might be a Provox fight, you never know. That
- 8:56would be interesting if Provox won Perspid. True.
- 9:00That would be cool. Nah, we need it on Redneck
- 9:05Brawl. Oh my god. Redneck Brawl in Albuquerque?
- 9:14Exactly. That's where we need it. The saviors
- 9:16of the sport, man. Errol Spence and Tim Zhu.
- 9:23Looking like they're going to be opponents. Tim
- 9:26wants a tune -up. Errol Spence, of course, doesn't.
- 9:31I would suggest, if I know you're listening,
- 9:34Errol, it would be a really good idea to, after
- 9:39a two -year layoff, two -plus years, maybe take
- 9:45another fight. Yeah. Honestly, that beating you
- 9:50took last time with Crawford, he's going to need
- 9:51a tune -up, but obviously the man's not about
- 9:54tune -ups. Right. And one other thing, too, I
- 9:57sincerely doubt this fight's going to happen.
- 9:59How many times have I heard in the last two years?
- 10:01How many times have we heard in the last two
- 10:02years that Spencer's going to come back and fight
- 10:03someone? First it was Crawford, then it was Fandora,
- 10:06then it was Charlo, then it was Virgil, then
- 10:09it was Fandora again, and now it's fucking Tim
- 10:11Zhu. I'm pretty sure it was already rumored in
- 10:14the past to be with Tim Zhu. But, fuck it. You
- 10:18know? We'll see what happens. If it happens,
- 10:21it happens. I sincerely doubt it. Tim is beatable,
- 10:26though. Oh, Tim is beatable, 100%. So beatable,
- 10:30but, I mean, he's even remotely close to the
- 10:34same Spence. And that Spence was even close to
- 10:38how he was in the past. Pre -Yugas. Pre -Garcia,
- 10:43you know? Pre -car crash. Yeah, pre -car crash,
- 10:46you know? So, I mean, this is a Spence that's
- 10:49been out of the ring. Out of the bat, I was primed
- 10:52for over, fuck, five years? Hmm. I mean, come
- 10:56on. To say that Tim Zhu doesn't have a chance
- 10:58is a little silly. He does have a chance, but
- 11:00he is also very beatable. I favor Tim Zhu in
- 11:03this, to be honest with you. Also, the fact that
- 11:06Spence has never fought at 154. You never know.
- 11:08He might not be used to the weight. Tim Zhu's
- 11:10at 160 now. Oh, it's at 160? Tim Zhu's fighting
- 11:15at 160, so I'm expecting that's where they would
- 11:18do it. I feel like... That's just another Danny
- 11:24Garcia vs. Landy Lard type of fight. Two old
- 11:28men fighting for some glory that's already been
- 11:32taken up by other fighters in other divisions.
- 11:34Does Errol Spence have any name value left? In
- 11:39Texas, yeah. Like how he used to with the broader
- 11:44community? I mean, is he considered a credible
- 11:47win? No. At this point, no. Unless he KO's Tim
- 11:55Zu, knocks him out cold. Round one. Jermel Charlo.
- 12:02Fucking Erickson Lubin fashion. Yeah. Then maybe.
- 12:06But if he just goes to this decision with Tim
- 12:10Zu, and it was a very close fight, that man's
- 12:16shot. To me, he's already shot enough. But we'll
- 12:21see. You never know. How old is Cyril Spence?
- 12:24Like, what, 39 now? 38? You're not far off. I'm
- 12:30not far. I think 37. He's late 30s. 37. That's
- 12:34pretty damn old. Late 30s has been fighting.
- 12:38Oh, he's 35? Yeah. Oh, never mind. Well, still.
- 12:45Decently getting up there in age. In the fight
- 12:47game, that's pretty old. Yeah. I would say decently.
- 12:52He's not made for longevity the way he carries
- 12:54himself outside the ring either. Exactly. Yeah,
- 12:59this would be a different talk if he was keeping
- 13:03himself nice outside the ring. But, you know,
- 13:07I don't know how that went twice. Let's see.
- 13:13Jai Opataya versus Brandon Glanton. Jesus Christ,
- 13:19man. Just what? This is just... I mean, what
- 13:25did I expect when he signed to Zufa? Honestly,
- 13:30I expected worse. Brandon Glenn's a name, whether
- 13:34you like it or not. That's true. He's not the
- 13:37worst. As long as... I mean, it could have been
- 13:39fucking... One of your Cesar Chavez Jr. for all
- 13:42we could have known, you know? I guess you're
- 13:45right. That would have been pretty rough. Could
- 13:51be a decent scrap. I doubt it. Number 18 at cruiserweight
- 13:57on BoxRec. I mean, he went to another promotion.
- 14:04Yeah, it's cruiserweight. I mean, what else do
- 14:07you expect? He's not going to fight fucking Zerdos
- 14:08or who's busy. I would have hoped he would have
- 14:11fought McClane. Yeah. But, you know, obviously
- 14:14that's not going to happen. I don't want to do
- 14:17shit with his titles. I want to move around.
- 14:21Live opponent? What the hell is that? I don't
- 14:24know, yeah. It's kind of odd. I mean, David Benavidez
- 14:26is not even a cruiserweight. He's fighting arguably
- 14:28the second best guy in the division. So, I mean,
- 14:32hey. Go figure. Two bums. I'll leave it at that.
- 14:40Fucking goddammit, Opatayo. Good job, Dana. Frank
- 14:45Sanchez, Richard Torres. is going on the Fandora
- 14:50Thurman undercard on March 28th. That's going
- 14:54to be a pretty interesting fight. I hope, I really
- 14:58hope that Richard Torres wins, gets him even
- 15:01closer to a title, considering that Usyk's getting
- 15:03up in their age. This is a final elimination,
- 15:05right? I believe so, for the IBF. For the IBF?
- 15:10I mean, he probably, he would be, he would be
- 15:13one of the guys that will fight for the title
- 15:15win. It does become vacated, I believe, right?
- 15:18It doesn't just go down to the IBF interim. Well,
- 15:22they don't even have an interim, but... They'll
- 15:25be... Yeah, this is an eliminator, so they'll
- 15:27be in the mandatory slots for the vacant fight.
- 15:32Or he can call a mandatory for Usyk, right? Could,
- 15:37but... He could, yeah. I mean, if he wanted to.
- 15:41I don't think Usyk would want to at this point,
- 15:43to be honest. No. Well, I mean, that's a pretty
- 15:46decent way to get to a title is just call your
- 15:49mandatory and then fight someone else for it.
- 15:50Because you know who's going to fight Richard
- 15:52Torres, most likely. If he does, I'll be surprised.
- 15:57But, I mean, that would be the best shot to a
- 16:01title. However, you're going to have to fight
- 16:03a live dog like Dubois or anybody else ranked
- 16:06in the IBF. Hell, you might even need to fight
- 16:10Moe Zaitama. You know? Could be. You never know.
- 16:16I feel like that fight, to me, is going to go
- 16:19to Richard Torres. Not because of the bias, but
- 16:22also because Frank Sanchez is kind of shot a
- 16:25little bit, whereas Torres is not. He's got some
- 16:30years. He's got hella years. He's young as hell.
- 16:36I think Frank Sanchez is young 30s. Young 30s?
- 16:43Cuban. But he says he's like 32 or something.
- 16:50Yeah. We'll see. I mean, we already know his
- 16:56way to – how to beat him. Yeah. We already know
- 17:00how to beat him. So if Rich Torres can capitalize
- 17:02on that, then – There's also kind of a method
- 17:06to beat Rich Torres, and that's box. Frank Sanchez
- 17:11can box in a sense. So we'll see what happens
- 17:17with that. Speaking of Moses Itauma, the Itauma
- 17:22Jermaine Franklin card is also on the 28th. The
- 17:27whole, the entire bill got moved from its original
- 17:31date to this. So, fun. I'm glad that Itauma is
- 17:36still getting a shot. I'm glad that he's fighting
- 17:40the guy that we said he should fight, which is
- 17:43fun. Well, that's because Mosai Thomas listens
- 17:45to the show, so, you know, obviously he's going
- 17:47to fucking take our consideration. Valued listener.
- 17:50Exactly. Friend of the pod. The exact guy, too.
- 17:53Yeah, friend of the podcast. Yeah, Mosai Thomas,
- 17:57if you ever want to come back on. Yeah, real.
- 17:59Just let us know. Yeah. He apparently tore one
- 18:04of his biceps. Yeah, that hurts. Yeah, that sucks.
- 18:11I'm curious. Does that affect your power in any
- 18:12way? No, I wouldn't say so. I wouldn't think
- 18:18so either. Okay. Just want to make sure. Well,
- 18:25Deontay Wilder, Derek Chisora, April 4th. This
- 18:30one's going to be at the, I think the O2 in London.
- 18:35And it's going to be promoted by MF Pros. Speaking
- 18:40of power, that's some star power on that card
- 18:43there. I mean, whether you like it or not, I
- 18:45mean, there's people who did buy that Deontay
- 18:49Wilder pay -per -view when he fought that Richard
- 18:52Torres victim. You know? I think Derek DeJoy
- 18:56is going to win. Honestly. I feel like Deontay
- 19:00Wilder shot to hell. He's somehow less watched.
- 19:03And it's funny because you know why? Deontay
- 19:05Wilder, he seems kind of like he's back in his
- 19:09Bronze Bomber character. I doubt. He's got the
- 19:14same pop, but we'll see. A lot of him was just
- 19:18speed, which is not great for a guy. Like, he
- 19:24got old pretty quick. Just because of a very
- 19:29speed -based style. As soon as that declined,
- 19:31the rest of him kind of followed. Yeah, once
- 19:35you're not able to put your hand back up to your
- 19:37face, you're cooked, buddy. But, hey, I wish
- 19:41him the best. Mainly this jab that I've seen
- 19:43has declined the most. Like, it used to be really,
- 19:47really sharp. And it's just not there right now.
- 19:53Or hasn't been there for the past bit. Yeah,
- 19:57since, well... Since the Fury days. Yeah, since
- 20:01the Fury days. Five years ago, by the way. And
- 20:06Deontay Waters is actually up there in age, too.
- 20:10I mean, what did he pick? I'm pretty sure he
- 20:12himself is like 37, right? I think 37 or 39.
- 20:16Oh, he's inactive on Foxtrot. Yes, because he
- 20:22hasn't fought in a year. 40. Holy shit. Yeah,
- 20:30that's George Foreman age. Without the fat. Oh,
- 20:35he's not inactive. It's just he's number 43.
- 20:38I was looking at like the top 20 and he's not
- 20:42in it. Number 43 is crazy. Well, hopefully the
- 20:52undercard doesn't suck. It's MF pros. Who knows
- 20:55what they'll be able to put together. You never
- 20:59know. They might get a decent name on their up
- 21:03and comer. KSI. Yeah, KSI, fucking someone. Maybe
- 21:09Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate. Tyson Fury is fighting
- 21:17Arslanbek Makhmudov April 11th. Perfect fight
- 21:23for Fury to come back to. Perfect. In my opinion.
- 21:29Coming back to AJ, obviously AJ when I'm available.
- 21:33A fight with Dubois, too much power, you know.
- 21:38Wardley is a fucking... We already talked about
- 21:41Wardley how many fucking times this past couple
- 21:43months. We already know why he's not the safe
- 21:46option. So, Makhmudov doesn't seem to have crazy
- 21:50pop. Can also be knocked out. Can also be outboxed.
- 21:55Yeah. He's credible, though. Exactly, he's credible.
- 22:00For heavyweight. My question is, why the hell
- 22:02is this on Netflix? Not a Queensberry? It's not
- 22:06a Queensberry card. It's going directly through
- 22:08the ring. Which is odd to me. I agree. Considering
- 22:13how this fight will really get people to watch
- 22:19Netflix. I mean, it's going to be free, so people
- 22:21are going to watch it regardless. But this fight,
- 22:25rather than an Anthony Joshua fight, you never
- 22:28know. The plan is for assuming AJ is going to
- 22:38continue fighting. I think I've been seeing like
- 22:42online rumblings that he is, but assuming that
- 22:47he's going to continue fighting, they're both
- 22:48supposed to take a fight in the beginning of
- 22:50the year separately. And then they fight at the
- 22:53end of the year, according to turkeys. His brilliant
- 22:59master planning. His excellence. I can kind of
- 23:04see how they're going to market that second fight
- 23:05with AJ. And I feel like they're going to be
- 23:06rooting for AJ in that second fight just because
- 23:08of what happened with that situation. That unfortunate
- 23:12situation that happened at the beginning of the
- 23:13year. Yeah. I feel like that's how they're going
- 23:16to market it. That AJ's coming back and he's
- 23:18going to fight in the honor of his family. was
- 23:24friends but that that's that that those are basically
- 23:26that's basically yeah his chosen family his chosen
- 23:29family you know so i don't know i gotta do it
- 23:33from my way hopefully they both win their fights
- 23:36and they could fight each other that would be
- 23:37the most optimal decision but i don't know we'll
- 23:42see uh sufa is going to be involved with the
- 23:46fury aj if it happens yeah i mean I don't know
- 23:52why I got flack for saying that Ryan Garcia and
- 23:55Devin Haney would be the perfect Zufa card. Where
- 24:00AJ and fucking Fury, same thing. But, I don't
- 24:07know. They're both, I mean, but AJ, that one's
- 24:09even harder because AJ is an agent of Eddie.
- 24:14You know, he's an Eddie guy. And Fury, I think,
- 24:19is Fury a free agent now? Is that? I think he's
- 24:22still with Kingsbury. I don't know how that's
- 24:25just working, but I'll tell you this, that with
- 24:27Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, that shit would
- 24:28be a lot easier to make a Zufa card purely because
- 24:30they're both free agents. You know? I don't know
- 24:34why they wouldn't make a ring card. That would
- 24:38easily promote the ring. Fucking... The ring
- 24:41has the money. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah,
- 24:44exactly. Turkey backed. Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
- 24:47We'll see what happens with all of that, but
- 24:48I don't know. A bunch of weird decisions, I will
- 24:53say. Oh, weird decisions. Edwin De Los Santos
- 24:57signs with Zufa. That's a decent signing for
- 25:03Zufa, I will say. That's a good name for them
- 25:06to get. A guy with power, pretty good speed.
- 25:12Really good speed, actually. They're probably
- 25:15going to promote the shit out of him and get
- 25:18him up there. Maybe even have them fight a Ryo
- 25:22rematch. Yeah, that's what I was thinking would
- 25:24be the direction they would want to take him.
- 25:27But for the time being, they got to build up
- 25:31a stable before they put two of their better
- 25:34guys against each other. Exactly. Make a fucking
- 25:41manufactured super fight. A manufactured Zufa
- 25:47super fight. Zufa super fight. What a phrase.
- 25:55Speaking of Zufa, they tried to snipe Bam. Matchroom
- 26:09beat Zufa's offer. And last I heard, Bam was
- 26:15still... He still has grace period to... shop
- 26:19other promoters, but it looks like he's going
- 26:23back to Matchroom. Yeah. That's a very good decision.
- 26:27Yeah, very good move. You're either going to
- 26:30be stuck on Zufa, or you have the option to go
- 26:33to all these other promotional companies freely.
- 26:37Under Matchroom, you can fight anybody. Pretty
- 26:40much. I think Eddie said... The undisputed fight
- 26:47is their number one priority. Yeah, they said
- 26:53that's happening this year. Belief. Yeah. Belief
- 26:56believes it. Yeah. I know. I know. I believe
- 26:59it. Come on. That's that's going to happen. The
- 27:02guy that has that title. Willie Baldo. I mean,
- 27:04yeah, Willie Baldo. I think that. I don't think
- 27:08there's that type of guy that would hold that
- 27:11shit hostage. He's not backed by any major promoter.
- 27:15It's at least like how Amos Barra went into unification
- 27:17with Xander Zayas type of situation. I mean...
- 27:20Exactly. And you get your name out there, you
- 27:26could even win. You know? So, it'll be a good
- 27:30fight too. It's a Mexican. Mexican guy. Actually,
- 27:34I don't know. I see a BAM domination, but we'll
- 27:37go back to that when it happens. I think he fought
- 27:41Ayoka. Is it Ioka or Taraji? I'm not seeing anybody
- 27:51on his... Or no, I think he was supposed to fight
- 27:57them. Supposed to fight Kenshiro Taraji, I believe
- 28:00it was. Yeah, Taraji. He was supposed to fight
- 28:02Taraji. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. I bam
- 28:07in a unification, undisputed. Boom. Your name
- 28:11gets out there. You know, you lose to one of
- 28:15the greatest talents of this generation. No shame
- 28:18there. No shame there. Well, I'm speaking too
- 28:21quick. Because obviously, Luis Baldo has his
- 28:25chance, but I miss Bam. I love Bam. I can't talk
- 28:29ill. I'll give that guy a chance, though. 23
- 28:34wins, 13 knockouts. So, Puncher's chance is pretty
- 28:38low. And Bam does have a chin. But, yeah, we'll
- 28:44see what they do once the BAM promotional situation
- 28:49is fully settled. Christian Mbili is the WBC
- 28:57super middleweight champion, elevated from interim.
- 29:01According to WBC, they still want to do the Lester
- 29:05Martinez rematch. But, yeah, I think... I don't
- 29:12remember who I was talking to, but it was him
- 29:15being elevated. I don't know. I don't know if
- 29:20he's, if he really does rate being the full title
- 29:24list right now, because the Lester Martinez draw,
- 29:28I think really hangs heavily on it. So to have
- 29:32that be his first defense, I guess is fitting,
- 29:36but. My ears got perked up. When I heard that,
- 29:41and honestly, from the rumors I'm hearing, it
- 29:45makes total sense why he got elevated to the
- 29:47WCVC champ. Total sense. Because I've been hearing,
- 29:52I don't know if this is on the news for next
- 29:54week, that Canelo is going to be fighting him
- 29:58in September. So they want to position Nbili
- 30:03to have something worth fighting for? Exactly.
- 30:07Have something worth fighting for and... well,
- 30:12potentially lose it to Canelo. That's their plan
- 30:14because they see Canelo as the money guy. As
- 30:17far as I can expect, he still is. Well, yeah.
- 30:21He's still the money guy, but at the same time,
- 30:24I don't know. Do I see Canelo knocking him out?
- 30:27Do I see ferocious Canelo that was in the past?
- 30:30No. I don't know if he's going to come back.
- 30:34But if he does come back, then he might just
- 30:38be minting Billy. Mbili is pretty one -dimensional,
- 30:41so it would... For a style like Canelo's, even
- 30:45with him slowing down considerably, I think he
- 30:48could still manage the one gear Mbili. Well,
- 30:55I'll tell you this. I agree with you that a Canelo
- 31:00that we've seen in the past typically would beat
- 31:03Mbili any day of the week. However, again, this
- 31:07is Canelo after his... Third loss? Third. And
- 31:10he didn't take that second loss easily. That
- 31:14second loss is how it led up to that third loss.
- 31:18You know? Oh, absolutely. So, isn't Billy a mover
- 31:22like Bivol or Crawford? No. Is he going to knock
- 31:25out Canelo? Probably not. But can Canelo be chicken
- 31:28shit? Could be. I mean, you never know. I mean,
- 31:32again, the Mayweather loss is different because
- 31:34that was the beginning of his career. And, again,
- 31:37it's against the fucking one of the greatest
- 31:39of all time. Yeah, you might not be yourself
- 31:42as much as losing to someone like Bivol or Terrence
- 31:45Crawford, you know, which, again, Canelo being
- 31:50legendary in and of himself, you know, I got
- 31:54to salute him. I know this, our community sometimes
- 31:58likes to hate Canelo, but he is a legend, no
- 32:00doubt about it. Can he beat Billy? I don't know.
- 32:02It just depends on his mindset. Yeah. Speaking
- 32:11of super middleweight, it happened really quickly
- 32:16where Diego Pacheco pulled out of the WBO vacant
- 32:23fight, leaving Hamza Shiraz to face Alim Begich,
- 32:28I think it is, in May. Man. Did not expect Diego
- 32:36Pacheco to fucking pull out. All I got is one
- 32:40word. Who? Who? Like, again, I don't know what
- 32:46to expect to get. Floyd Schofield core, low key.
- 32:49Hey, no, Floyd Schofield is a name. That was
- 32:51ridiculous. Floyd Schofield is somewhat a name.
- 32:56I'm saying the pulling out. Oh, pulling out.
- 33:00Yeah, that is ridiculous. I don't know why the
- 33:02fuck. Actually, I do know why. It's chicken shit.
- 33:06Yeah. Unless there's a health reason, there's
- 33:09no reason to pull out of a fight that you already
- 33:12signed. Yeah, you already signed and have said
- 33:18in the past that you're ready for. Obviously,
- 33:21you're not ready. Yeah, you've been talking about
- 33:23going for a world title for some time. Again,
- 33:29if you don't want to fight, that's alright. Again,
- 33:33I know we kind of look down upon ducking, but
- 33:35again... At the end of the day, these guys are
- 33:37risking their lives. But again, you're still
- 33:41shaking shit no matter what. Yeah. And lastly,
- 33:48before we get on to the fucking recaps, man,
- 33:53things are fucking dire at Golden Boy Promotions.
- 33:59First thing, the... 626 Wilshire Boulevard in
- 34:06downtown LA. This is a Golden Boy Promotions
- 34:10headquarters. It is owned by Oscar De La Hoya
- 34:16and a partner. The original loan was $27 million.
- 34:21They still owes about $23. The building is currently
- 34:2734 .4 % vacant with... Golden Boy occupying 7%.
- 34:34So they're apparently not making enough on rent.
- 34:39And the building has lost value from 2015. It
- 34:43was appraised at $40 million to 2025. The valuation
- 34:48was $19 million. So yeah, Delahoya is in some
- 34:55serious financial trouble. He's on the hook.
- 34:59They haven't been paying their mortgage. They
- 35:03don't have any fighters. No fighters. No broadcast.
- 35:07No broadcast deal. All they got is a multi -year
- 35:14deal that they just signed with Swerve TV. Swerve
- 35:19TV. What that is, it's similar to Top Rank Classics.
- 35:25That's on Tubi and Roku and all that shit. It's
- 35:30a similar channel to that, but Golden Boy doesn't
- 35:35own this. They just are licensing their content
- 35:37on Swerve TV. Might as well just license it on
- 35:43fucking YouTube or something else. Anything.
- 35:47They should license it on anything, even Tubi.
- 35:50At least I know what Tubi is. They're on Tubi.
- 35:53Swerve TV is on Tubi? Yeah. Oh, okay. I thought
- 35:57it was its own thing. Nah, it's a channel on
- 36:01those streaming services. That is dire. Quite.
- 36:07That is... Same as Golden... At least TopRank
- 36:12has their prospects. And at least TopRank has
- 36:14their champions. Golden Boy, they have Gabby.
- 36:19They have Rocket. They have Floyd Schofield.
- 36:23Again, these are all decent fighters. But can
- 36:28they sell tickets and can they even be in a pay
- 36:30-per -view? No. Virgil's going to be gone. Ryan's
- 36:34going to be gone. Zerdo's going to be gone. You
- 36:37are fucked, Oscar. Oscar's fucked. And the thing
- 36:43is, it's sad because only, what, 15 years ago?
- 36:4820 years ago? Yeah. Almost 20 years ago, at least.
- 36:52Golden Boy was a monster. Until half their stable
- 36:58left. They were a monster. They were forced to
- 37:02be reckoned with. Yeah, that was where it was
- 37:06allegedly Richard Schaefer and Al Heyman allegedly
- 37:11stole all of his stable when he was just on coke
- 37:16binges all the time. He didn't know how they
- 37:21were doing. Every fighter was on a fight by fight.
- 37:25uh promotional basis and yeah so that's that's
- 37:32where he lost it well that was the beginning
- 37:35of the infirm if you think about it yeah yeah
- 37:37i think so he should have taken that i think
- 37:41they offered him like 100 million to buy out
- 37:43golden boy it probably would have been happy
- 37:46sipping sipping tea in the fucking caribbean
- 37:48all the coke you can handle oh yeah all the coke
- 37:52you can handle fucking Maybe not with Epstein,
- 37:55you know. If I can just chill. Poor Oscar. Poor,
- 38:00poor Oscar. I mean, again, it's sad because it's
- 38:03another behemoth that dying out, you know. I
- 38:07thought Top Rank was bad, but Golden Boy is fucked.
- 38:13Yeah, at least Top Rank is getting their guys'
- 38:16fights. Yeah, on a PBC card or Matchroom. Or
- 38:20whoever, it doesn't really matter. I mean, yeah,
- 38:23anywhere, but fucking Goldenboy, they can't let
- 38:27their stable out because their stable's too young.
- 38:30You know? Or the fucking... You have Oscar Coyas.
- 38:35I forgot to mention him. Great fighter, but again,
- 38:38he's at a weight class that unfortunately not
- 38:40many people pay attention to. I mean, I'll fucking...
- 38:46I'll respect the time that Goldenboy was around,
- 38:50but Jesus Christ, that's... It's dire, Oscar.
- 38:55It's dire. Yep. So that is the latest. Let me
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- 41:39recap time. Yay. Let's... This is a hell of a
- 41:45weekend. So, we're starting Friday, January 30th.
- 41:49ProBox TV was at the Live Casino and Hotel in
- 41:54Maryland. There were great stoppages, as you
- 41:59would expect from a ProBox card. I did notice
- 42:03this one was a little bit more decision -heavy
- 42:05than we're used to getting. So I think it was
- 42:08more of us being spoiled as fans. We have been
- 42:12spoiled as fans. This is more what it is expected
- 42:17to be, I guess. One prospect that stood out to
- 42:23me, Jordan Roach. He got a UD over Juan Ginastroza.
- 42:30And he beat him pretty soundly throughout all
- 42:34six rounds. I just wanted to point out Jordan
- 42:39because he looked good. I was impressed. In the
- 42:48co -main, Rene Palacios beats Suleiman Segawa.
- 42:54Man, the people's champ takes the L. And Brian
- 43:04Flores, majority decision. Over Starling Castillo.
- 43:09Love that name. My darling Starling. Alright.
- 43:19Let's continue. Saturday, January 31st. First
- 43:24thing. Primetime. On DAZN. In Kolding, Denmark.
- 43:31Who are all of these people? Good question. I
- 43:36only got two that I paid attention to. Dina Torslund,
- 43:39UD over... Got to say, get a UD win. Like, who
- 43:43it was doesn't really matter. WBC featherweight
- 43:47title. So, congrats to Dina. And, oh, Jakub Bank
- 43:55stops William Skoll in the closing seconds of
- 44:01the fucking 12th. Was... Beautiful. I thought
- 44:05the stoppage was a little premature. I thought
- 44:08William Scull could have continued. Yeah, maybe.
- 44:12He was going to lose. Are you a QB and winning
- 44:16a title on Ape Day? On Ape Day? Ape Day was a
- 44:24fantastic fucking day. Great fucking day. It
- 44:29was a great day. And to see Williams School get
- 44:33knocked out, it was funny. It was a good appetizer.
- 44:37But, I mean, I'm more thinking not about the
- 44:42fact of Yacoub Bank, but more the fact of how
- 44:47did Canelo not get him out? How did someone like
- 44:51Yacoub? We just talked about it. I know we like
- 44:56to hate on Canelo and then Yacoub. Is here assassinating
- 45:00guys. Yeah that's fucking. Yeah that's crazy.
- 45:03I think we talked about it before but. We didn't
- 45:08know that was going to happen. I think Jacob
- 45:13Bank. Jakub Bank. That's how they say it there.
- 45:17This was for a secondary title. For the WBO.
- 45:21So he's probably going to be. Facing Hamza Shiraz.
- 45:24After Shiraz. Does what he's supposed to do.
- 45:29Or what we expect him to do. This is the guy
- 45:31that fought Canelo. He beat the guy that fought
- 45:34Canelo. So he's automatically like... You know.
- 45:38Very convincingly. The broadcast made it extremely
- 45:42clear that Skull survived Canelo and now Yakub
- 45:47Bank gets the stoppage. Yakub Bank beats Humshiraz,
- 45:53guys. Come on. Come on. We all know it. Yakub.
- 46:00I like that. I like that name. I love that name.
- 46:03It's such a fun name to say. Yakubank. Take him
- 46:10straight to the bank. Let's roll on. Matchroom
- 46:13at the Newcastle Arena in the UK. Not much to
- 46:23point out on the undercard, I think. Leo Atang
- 46:27got a stoppage in three. That was a nothing opponent,
- 46:34but his name is Leo, so I had to mention. You
- 46:39had to put him in. Yep. I know you boxed him.
- 46:45Secret second life. Only known on the boxing
- 46:48team side. Alif Nur Turhan. I think that's how
- 46:55they said her name. Split decision over Tayla
- 46:58Jensen. To, I think, retain the IBF lightweight
- 47:02title. That was a women's fight. Alif looking
- 47:07at Caroline Dubois for unification. Honestly,
- 47:13the fight wasn't bad, actually. No, Alif's pretty
- 47:16solid. I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah. And
- 47:22Josh Padley, the People's Electrician, shocks
- 47:25Joad Belmedy. Sure. I love that. I fucking love
- 47:35that so much. I'm sorry. That was so fucking
- 47:39funny. I'm sorry. Whoever's listening, I don't
- 47:41care if you guys thought that was weird. I fucking
- 47:43love the shock shit. The electrician puns? I
- 47:48love that shit. Sure, bro. I guess Josh Padley's
- 47:52still around. Top UK prospect, Josh Padley. He
- 47:58shocked me, that's for sure. Jesus. I'm surprised
- 48:03he didn't spark out Shakur. Yeah. Speaking of
- 48:12sparking out. Yeah, speaking of good fights,
- 48:17man. Josh Kelly puts an end to the charade. Majority
- 48:23decision over Bokram Murtasaliev. claims the
- 48:26IBF super welterweight title. Great fight. I
- 48:31thought that was really fun. Early fight of the
- 48:34year candidate. I would throw it in the conversation.
- 48:38100%. That was a shocking fight. I mean, I'm
- 48:43not even trying to make a pun anymore. I'm serious.
- 48:45That was... I was speechless when Josh Kelly
- 48:50knocked down Murtazilov. The boogeyman is a boogeyman
- 48:55no more. Him looking that rusty and terrible
- 48:58is just... Oh, my God. And I don't want to shoot
- 49:03too my own horn here, but I've had a pretty good
- 49:06year with calling the Brit stuff. Until next
- 49:11week. Until next week. Until next week. This
- 49:15week, this specific week, is like the last, the
- 49:18end of the British year. You can gloat right
- 49:20now. Yeah, I'm going to gloat right now. That
- 49:23was... I kind of... Josh Kelly won based on the
- 49:27fact that he rode on the British wave. They got
- 49:31that British Armada coming up. Loki won on the
- 49:3410 -10 British scoring, too, which is actually
- 49:38hilarious. That's pretty nutty, too. You should
- 49:41have me buying when you look at how it's scored.
- 49:44Steve Gray did it. Oh, yeah. Steve Gray 10 -10.
- 49:51giving a Brit a world title is, like, I can't
- 49:55even be mad. It's so funny. Steve Gray, classic,
- 49:58I'll tell you that. Classic, dude. Classic Steve
- 50:00Gray. 10 -10 to give a Brit a world title. The
- 50:0212th round, he gave a 10 -10. Yeah, like, what
- 50:05are the clearest rounds? God damn you, Steve.
- 50:10Literally, like, the clearest round outside of
- 50:13the knockdown rounds, and you give it a 10 -10.
- 50:15I'm crying, bro. Hey, you know what? I gotta
- 50:19give it to Josh Kelly. We were all talking shit,
- 50:23making fun of him. I gotta give it to him. He
- 50:24put up a damn good fight against Murda Zaylov.
- 50:27He got off the canvas, finished the fight, and
- 50:30in that 12th round, it got a tremendous gif of
- 50:32that. Of that beating that Murda Zaylov did.
- 50:36He gave it a go and they rewarded him for it.
- 50:38That's so funny. Oh, yeah. I mean, shit. That
- 50:42was a fucking... Go on, my son. Go on, my son.
- 50:45I hope he makes his money. Go on, my God. Go
- 50:48on, Kelly. Because I was, I mean, I was pleasantly
- 50:53surprised. And I'm wishing him the best. Because
- 50:55I like seeing shit like this happen. The underdog
- 50:58beats the boogeyman. I was definitely not expecting
- 51:02Josh Kelly to pull this one out. As close as
- 51:05it was, like, yeah, it makes sense. Murtazaliev
- 51:09is petitioning for the immediate rematch. I hope
- 51:13the IBF turns him down because I really don't
- 51:16want to see him fight anymore. I wouldn't mind
- 51:21seeing a rematch, but I feel like the rematch
- 51:23is going to be... The rematch is going to be
- 51:25Murda Zayli of showing up less rusty and not...
- 51:32I'm not even going to say it's not like he's
- 51:36all that. It's more... Jesus, his sense of range
- 51:42was just so off for that fight. I seriously think
- 51:51that if they did a rematch, I still got a feeling
- 51:57that Marta Zalov has a better chance of winning
- 51:59in a rematch. Because I honestly think that that
- 52:03was a mistake on our end that we didn't really
- 52:04consider too much was that ring rust. He had
- 52:07been out the ring for, yeah, he'd been out the
- 52:09ring for... Fucking, what, a year and some change?
- 52:13You know? We really should have considered how
- 52:16much that could have taken a toll on him. You
- 52:18know? I mean, of course, the first six rounds,
- 52:20he was looking off. And then after that, he got
- 52:24a little better, got a knockdown, a little cheeky
- 52:27knockdown, but Jesus Christ, he showed up a little
- 52:30too late. You know? Yeah, I think you're right.
- 52:35Oh, the conclusion of Brit year. The conclusion
- 52:40of British 2026 was at least a fun one. It was
- 52:44so short -lived. Yeah, we only made it a month
- 52:48of British 2026. Yeah, but they shot that cannonball
- 52:55at the fucking ship, the British Armada. I mean,
- 52:58come on. It needed to go anyways. But we'll talk
- 53:01about it soon. Talk about next week, yes, sir.
- 53:04Yeah, we could see if next week is just a hiccup
- 53:07versus... We'll see if that trend continues.
- 53:12But let's keep rolling here. Top rank on 2B.
- 53:17Fucking what do we got here? Juanmita Lopez gets
- 53:21a UD in 6. I was surprised he did not get the
- 53:25finish. He looked decent. He looked good. He
- 53:29did. He looked like his usual self, but I thought
- 53:31he had power because he had been bopping dudes.
- 53:39Can't stop them all. Maybe he has that late stage
- 53:42power. You know. Maybe we'll end up having that.
- 53:46Death by a thousand cuts. Giovanni Santillan.
- 53:52UD. Other than that. Xander Zayas. Split decision
- 54:00over Abbas Sparrow. Fuck. Yeah, they're taking
- 54:07the hostage. God damn it. Those belts, like,
- 54:10listen, man. Yeah, sure, Zayas is better than
- 54:13Abbas, Beru, whatever. It's about the implication
- 54:16of a guy whose only options are to be clinging
- 54:23on to these two belts for dear life. Yeah, they're
- 54:27not going to send Zayas to fight Josh Kelly on
- 54:30a matchup show. I don't know. Kelly, at least.
- 54:36Yeah, Matchroom. Boots is with Matchroom. Kelly
- 54:39basically has, he gets like, he's getting fed
- 54:43the boots pretty instantaneously if the Virgil
- 54:46fight falls through. I mean, honestly, I think
- 54:49that the Zayas fight with Virgil or Boots is
- 54:53not going to happen. I agree with you. No, Zayas
- 54:56is never going to take that. Zayas' management
- 54:58is never letting him take that. Fuck no. But
- 55:01you know what? Yeah, bro. How do you feel about
- 55:03getting humiliated by literally two of the best
- 55:09offensive forces in the sport and career -altering
- 55:14beating? I got to say this. Honestly, it might
- 55:21be a little controversial, but I'm glad Zayas
- 55:26won. I'm glad that we have a young star. on the
- 55:31rise. I gotta give him his flowers. He looked
- 55:33fucking excellent that fight. But... Beru's no
- 55:38scruff, but also, like, he's gonna, like, basically
- 55:41the next time we're gonna see him in anything
- 55:43meaningful is, like, age 28. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
- 55:46this is the end of his time of star power. Beating
- 55:51star power. Open shot. I mean, he could fight
- 55:56Tim Zhu. He could fight guys that were known.
- 55:59He could fight an Erickson Lubin. He can fight
- 56:01those guys. And honestly, I would honestly want
- 56:04him to fight those guys because he's only 22.
- 56:07He's fucking hella young. Super young. I really
- 56:11think that he still needs that experience. Granted,
- 56:15I will say this, that last night he looked better
- 56:17than I've ever seen him before. Fucking amazing.
- 56:21And I mean, that kind of reigns true to what
- 56:24I said last time about him with his last fight
- 56:26with Garcia. I mean, he has only up, and I'm
- 56:30excited to see where he goes, which hopefully
- 56:34is a Virgil beatdown, because let's go Virgil.
- 56:38He's no scrub either. Like, it's just what it
- 56:40is. Like, Boots or Virgil is not. Definitely,
- 56:45like, his management might maneuver him to the
- 56:48loser of Virgil Boots, which is going to be Virgil.
- 56:51So, and Virgil's probably going to put a pasting
- 56:54on him then, but, you know, we'll have to see.
- 56:58We'll never know because Virgil is going to be
- 57:00fighting Fandora if that even happens. Virgil's
- 57:04not going to fight Boots. There's some news next
- 57:07week, I think, about it being allegedly signed
- 57:12for April or getting finalized for April. I'm
- 57:16going to keep my hope to myself because honestly,
- 57:21I've heard that how many times? Yeah, I was going
- 57:23to say, Virgil, I... How many times did Virgil
- 57:25fail to get into the ring with Stan Jonas? I
- 57:28don't know. How many times did Boots turn down
- 57:31the offer? I don't know. I don't know. I mean,
- 57:35I tend not to trust the guy managed by Golden
- 57:38Boy. I also tend not to trust all the people
- 57:42that are reporting this shit because you never
- 57:44know who's telling the truth. But I will say
- 57:47this. Going back to Xander Zayas. If you want
- 57:51another belt, you can fight Vendora. In unification,
- 57:54you could have already fought him. He didn't
- 57:56want to fight you. He dropped his belt. Do I
- 57:59think that he wins the fight? I think in about
- 58:03a year, maybe two years, he could beat Fandora.
- 58:06He could possibly beat other guys in the division.
- 58:10He could for sure beat a Boa Chuka that time.
- 58:14Beat all the Zufa guys. I'll tell you that right
- 58:18now. We'll see what happens with Xander. I'm
- 58:21excited to see where he goes from here. And also,
- 58:23he's got some star power. He's the last of the
- 58:27Mohicans in Puerto Rico. He's the last of the
- 58:30Ricans. What do you mean? Edgar Berlanga is the
- 58:33biggest name in boxing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey,
- 58:37I don't know if this is the right time to say
- 58:40it, but Xander Zayas is at the Super Bowl with
- 58:43Emiliano Vargas. I mean, come on. That's some
- 58:47star power to be seen on a world stage like that
- 58:50by, what, 138 million? Could have been 145 million
- 58:55if certain people didn't want to tune in, but
- 58:59they weren't even going to watch boxing anyways.
- 59:02I mean, that's a pretty big stage to be seen
- 59:04on. So I'm happy that the young stars of boxing
- 59:07are getting the views and the credibility from
- 59:12the people. Oh man, let's keep rolling because
- 59:15we still got a little bit to go. Ring six. Madison
- 59:19Square Garden. Let's see. From the bottom up
- 59:23because we had quite a few good fights here.
- 59:26Austin Emma Williams stops late replacement Wendy
- 59:32Toussaint. Or no, UD. He was supposed to stop
- 59:36him. He had him troubled and he didn't manage
- 59:40to do it. Yeah. God damn it, Ammo. What the hell?
- 59:47I would have had... I think Carlos Adamas would
- 59:49have beat him. Yeah, looking like that, fucking
- 59:52Adamas would have taken that easy. Let's see.
- 59:57Kevin Castillo spoils the party. Where does Castillo...
- 1:00:02Where can I send him flowers? Because beating
- 1:00:05Ziad Almayouf on a Saudi card, just fucking pinched
- 1:00:11fingers. too good. Um, Gerald Miller. Say that
- 1:00:19again? Sorry. Who? He said Ziad Amayouf? Yes,
- 1:00:24the Saudi plant. The Saudi plant, we don't. He
- 1:00:31got fucking rumbled. He got smoked, which is...
- 1:00:35Oh, no, I'm thinking of the other guy. I'm thinking
- 1:00:37of the other guy that we like. We like. Not like,
- 1:00:42but we can, well, we like. Well, actually, I
- 1:00:44like him. The guy on the Canelo card. I was like,
- 1:00:47that wasn't, I was mixing up my guys. Saudi plant
- 1:00:50cooked, by the way. Yeah, Saudi plant cooked.
- 1:00:53Let's go. Gerald Miller. Split decision over
- 1:00:58Kingsley eBay. Kingsley eBay split his hairs.
- 1:01:03Yeah. Is this the most, this is one of the most
- 1:01:07iconic moments that I've witnessed. The entire
- 1:01:12time I've been watching this sport. Which is
- 1:01:15like most of my life. Yeah, you've seen fucking...
- 1:01:19What was your first fight you've seen? Like one
- 1:01:23of the first fights that you've ever seen. Live.
- 1:01:26Live? Yeah. Like in person? Not in person, but
- 1:01:33like live on TV. Oh, like on TV. Man, I saw the
- 1:01:38ear bite. Mike Tyson? Yeah. I just got to see
- 1:01:45Mike Tyson fight Evander Holyfield's ear. This
- 1:01:48shit might trump it. Watched a lot of Chavez
- 1:01:52fights. Yeah. The Chavez versus De La Hoya. The
- 1:02:01house divided. All the women on Oscars supporting
- 1:02:06Oscar. All the men supporting Chavez. But this,
- 1:02:13I guess for non -fighting stuff, this is up there
- 1:02:20with the ear bite. That's just so funny. They
- 1:02:26were passing the fucking wig around so that everyone
- 1:02:30could take a picture with it. It just, oh my
- 1:02:34god. The way his skin was so raw under the toupee.
- 1:02:40Like, it really did look like he got scalped.
- 1:02:45Like, by the king. Fucking scalped, bro. No one
- 1:02:51even cares that he won, dude. Like, that's...
- 1:02:53That's gotta be the most embarrassing shit. Everybody
- 1:02:57in the arena was laughing at him. And it's funny,
- 1:03:01because that's probably the... I saw people that
- 1:03:03didn't even watch boxing talking about it. Oh,
- 1:03:06did you see that? You saw that boxer lose his
- 1:03:08hair last night? Yeah. He's like, that's funny
- 1:03:11as hell. Fucking people that don't even cover
- 1:03:14boxing were covering it. No, I know. I saw Hater
- 1:03:17Central, which is like a basketball one. Can't
- 1:03:21cover this shit. I mean, hey, whatever brings
- 1:03:24guys into the sport, fuck it. I got to give it
- 1:03:27to Gerald Miller. He made this sport popular
- 1:03:28again for a long time. Especially when it's funny
- 1:03:31and not like an abominable crime, you know? Like
- 1:03:35ear biting? Yeah. No, the ear biting was funny
- 1:03:38as fuck, too. I'm talking about all of Tank's
- 1:03:44shenanigans. But yeah, otherwise the fight was
- 1:03:53pretty underwhelming. Not a whole lot going on,
- 1:03:57just two big dumpy heavyweights. Oh man, Bruce
- 1:04:03Carrington claims the vacant WBC featherweight
- 1:04:07title. knocking out carlos castro in the ninth
- 1:04:11that was a good that was a good knockout it was
- 1:04:14that knockout of the year contender already well
- 1:04:18until next week until next week yes uh i still
- 1:04:26even though the knockout was really good i can't
- 1:04:30help but notice how much bruce carrington was
- 1:04:33struggling with carlos castro Castro buzzed him
- 1:04:37multiple times, and I don't know. I don't know
- 1:04:43if Castro was a few years younger, and his chin
- 1:04:46wasn't as cracked as it is. Going to war with
- 1:04:51Neary and B -Fig and Fulton, all in pretty tight
- 1:04:57succession over the past three years. Only to
- 1:05:01get knocked out by Shushu. Yeah. I got to give
- 1:05:05it to Shushu, though, that he put on a performance
- 1:05:07that he definitely needed. The PR surrounding
- 1:05:11him from up until now was he is pillow -fisted.
- 1:05:16He's good offensively. He is not so gifted defensively.
- 1:05:22But this fight showed me that he has heart. Again,
- 1:05:26he has great enough skill. as an offensive fighter,
- 1:05:32but defense, he's got to work on that, man. You
- 1:05:35should not be going to war with guys like Carlos
- 1:05:37Castro. That's what makes me think people saying,
- 1:05:41like, Carrington, Inouye gets beat by Carrington.
- 1:05:45Like, I don't know. Did you see Carlos Castro
- 1:05:48tagging him? If Inouye puts hands on him, Carrington's
- 1:05:52going to go to sleep. Oh, yeah. And Inouye's
- 1:05:55much sharper than Carlos Castro. Again, it's
- 1:05:59a great knockout. Over a guy that's never been
- 1:06:01beat by a knockout. Never been knocked out in
- 1:06:03his career. And to get knocked out like that.
- 1:06:06By someone pillow fisted. I don't know. Again.
- 1:06:09Carlos Castro. I'm happy that you got the win.
- 1:06:13I'm excited. I'm looking forward to your next
- 1:06:15fight. See how you move as a champion. You could
- 1:06:18improve. And I hope you improve. I wish him the
- 1:06:22best. I give him all his flowers. But please.
- 1:06:25Please put your hands up. When you fight an opponent.
- 1:06:28Move. Move back. Move side to side. You know.
- 1:06:33Don't mong out. Castro dropped Fulton. Losing
- 1:06:39a split decision. He was dropped by Brandon Figueroa.
- 1:06:43Stopped in the sixth. He was down in round one.
- 1:06:48And lost a split decision to Neri. I thought
- 1:06:54he lost. I thought he beat. He did not beat.
- 1:06:56But I thought he went to split decision with.
- 1:06:59I thought so too. I just wanted to check to be
- 1:07:01sure. But yeah, he'd been down against Neary
- 1:07:05and Fig, but he got back up to fight. Still,
- 1:07:16good win for Carrington. I hope with everything
- 1:07:20you were saying, Saul, I really hope this is
- 1:07:23a wake -up call for Bruce. Dude, you can't be
- 1:07:27letting these Dudes tag you up like that. One
- 1:07:32of these days, you're going to pick the wrong
- 1:07:34Mexican, and he's going to fucking chin you.
- 1:07:39I'd be fucking... He's got a whole bunch of options
- 1:07:42in that division now. He's got fucking... I was
- 1:07:45going to say Nick Ball, but... Hey -o. B -Fig.
- 1:07:49He's got B -Fig. He's got Espinoza, which that
- 1:07:52could be an easy fight to make in -house. In
- 1:07:55-house, yeah. Yeah. Or he has Angel Leo. Bantler
- 1:07:59is probably going to be taking up something.
- 1:08:00The pretty nice option would be a fight with
- 1:08:04Espinoza in -house. I think it'd be the first
- 1:08:09time that Featherweight has had a unified champion
- 1:08:15in some time. I can't recall. God knows how long.
- 1:08:21Yeah. It was definitely before Shakur. Probably,
- 1:08:28I don't know. I can't even think of it. But let's
- 1:08:34roll on. Keyshawn Davis stops Jermaine Ortiz
- 1:08:39in 12. Like right at the closing seconds, Thomas
- 1:08:45Taylor bailed him out. I'm struggling to find
- 1:08:55words. for this performance from Keyshawn. I
- 1:09:00don't know how I feel about it. Let me ask you
- 1:09:03this, because I have my opinion about it, and
- 1:09:05I'll give it right now, but do you guys think
- 1:09:06it was a good performance? Do you think it was
- 1:09:09eye -opening? What do you guys think? Underwhelming.
- 1:09:17Underwhelming? A little bit. Interesting. Okay.
- 1:09:21Underwhelming. Frost, what do you think? What
- 1:09:24was the question again? I literally blanked out
- 1:09:26for like two seconds. How do you feel about Keyshawn's
- 1:09:30performance against Jermaine? Oh yeah, underwhelming.
- 1:09:34Just a little bit. You guys think it's underwhelming,
- 1:09:39seriously. Like, if he's just... Keyshawn's ceiling
- 1:09:44is just so high, right? So, so high that like...
- 1:09:52you know, having to pilot onto a guy who notoriously
- 1:09:56loses fights late. Gives good work to, like,
- 1:10:01top -level people, too. Yeah, like, it isn't
- 1:10:05cutting it, really, for, like, separating yourself
- 1:10:08from those top -level people. I humbly disagree
- 1:10:14with you guys. I think that Keyshawn, it was
- 1:10:19a domination by Keyshawn. Complete domination
- 1:10:23over Jermaine Ortiz. I think it showed me that
- 1:10:25he is 100 % special. Teofimo couldn't, and we'll
- 1:10:29talk about it right now, but Teofimo couldn't
- 1:10:31beat him the way that Keyshawn beat him. Same
- 1:10:35thing with Loma. Loma had problems with him.
- 1:10:37Keyshawn dominated him the whole time. Again,
- 1:10:38Styles makes fights, but Keyshawn showed me that
- 1:10:41he can put out with the fucking boxer. And Jermaine
- 1:10:46Ortiz is a decent boxer. He knocked him out in
- 1:10:49the 12th. and showed initiative. He looked great.
- 1:10:53He looked fantastic. Is this me glazing Keyshawn
- 1:10:55because I was a Keyshawn supporter? Yeah, kind
- 1:10:57of. I still am a Keyshawn fan. Not a fan of his
- 1:11:01antics outside the ring, but inside the ring,
- 1:11:03he's a fucking, he's a demon. And I'm glad that
- 1:11:07he showed out against someone like that. You
- 1:11:09guys cannot say that that wasn't a domination.
- 1:11:12I fail to see that Jermaine Ortiz won more than,
- 1:11:15what, three rounds? That would be generous. Three
- 1:11:19would be generous. Yeah. Maybe underwhelming
- 1:11:22is too strong of a word, but... Like, it's just...
- 1:11:25I expect so much of Keyshawn. I expect a lot
- 1:11:28of him. There's no... Like, underwhelming is...
- 1:11:32Like, it seems harsh, but it's not that underwhelming.
- 1:11:37It's just still below what we believe he can
- 1:11:39perform at. I mean, there's a couple caveats
- 1:11:44to this thing. He's been out the ring for a year.
- 1:11:47And, again, this is at a new weight class. Jermaine
- 1:11:51Ortiz is also a little bigger than him in a sense.
- 1:11:56I mean, Jermaine was already used to weight,
- 1:11:59fought guys at 140. And, I mean, he's never been
- 1:12:04knocked down in his career, I believe. Come on.
- 1:12:08I got to give Jermaine Ortiz his flowers too
- 1:12:12because he's a very good contender. There's more
- 1:12:15expectation of Keyshawn than putting down Jermaine
- 1:12:20Ortiz. Well, I got to flip it because I feel
- 1:12:22like to break down Jermaine Ortiz is a feat in
- 1:12:24and of itself because I haven't seen any other
- 1:12:26top fighter do that. But he always loses fights
- 1:12:29late. That's the thing. Yeah, he always loses
- 1:12:32fights late. He throws them away late. He loses
- 1:12:35steam and throws them away late. He lost the
- 1:12:37fight very early as well. And he just held on.
- 1:12:41He had a great chin. He could have broken down
- 1:12:43a bit earlier. Being like a top, top, top prospect.
- 1:12:48Especially because it's not like Ortiz was being
- 1:12:50negative. Like he was there to be taken out.
- 1:12:54I see it as a nomination that Keyshawn did amazing
- 1:12:57work. For being back after a year. I got to see
- 1:13:03after the next fight how he is. Again, the mental
- 1:13:08health aspect, we got to see, too. He's going
- 1:13:13to make it to his next fight without missing
- 1:13:16weight or just throwing babies at people. I can't
- 1:13:24say the mental aspect is something that's considerable,
- 1:13:27considering it's all stuff that he does to himself.
- 1:13:31Yeah. Like assaulting guys in their change rooms
- 1:13:34and blowing weight with BOMAC next to you. Yeah,
- 1:13:39I mean. Is all stuff you do to yourself. Yeah.
- 1:13:43That's what I'm saying. I don't know what's going
- 1:13:46to happen. Yeah. We shall see. I thought it was
- 1:13:50dominant. It was very dominant, just not to the
- 1:13:53potential that he showed. Man, potential on display.
- 1:14:04Shakur Stevenson, 12 O's Teofimo to claim the
- 1:14:12WBO 140 title. What round did Teofimo win? A
- 1:14:21lot of people saw 11 -1. There was a round that
- 1:14:29Shakur took off, I want to say, like, in the
- 1:14:31mid -lates. Yeah, basically the round he took
- 1:14:32off. Yeah. It's the round with all the highlights
- 1:14:35of, like, Teofimo punching, like, arm and, like,
- 1:14:39hip. Yeah. The one with all the highlights. I
- 1:14:45got to say, man, I expected a lot more out of
- 1:14:47Teofimo. This was, it looked like an amateur
- 1:14:49in there. I don't know Teofimo. Ever since he
- 1:14:55got rid of Joey Gamache, he's had the worst corner
- 1:14:57in boxing. There was so many problems with that
- 1:15:02fight with him. He had the wrong game plan. He
- 1:15:05had no plan B, in fact. His corner was fucking
- 1:15:10telling him, what the fuck happened to your power?
- 1:15:13Why the fuck would you say that to your fucking
- 1:15:15fighter mid -fight? That's going to discourage
- 1:15:17his ass. I mean, you'd think it's going to light
- 1:15:20a fire on him. I don't know, but... I mean, come
- 1:15:22on. Not telling him clear instructions. He just
- 1:15:25goes out there and fucking swings at air against
- 1:15:28one of the best defensive fighters in the sport.
- 1:15:32I mean, come on. This is that fucking dumbass
- 1:15:34corner where you... Yeah, Ross has always been
- 1:15:36right about Joey Gamache. He needs to go Joey
- 1:15:38Gamache in his corner. He needs someone new in
- 1:15:40his corner. Get rid of Senior. He's a problem.
- 1:15:44You gotta do better. You gotta do better. Outside
- 1:15:47of... Inside the ring. You know? Outside of that,
- 1:15:52he's got to get people around him that are fucking
- 1:15:54good. You know? I thought I heard a fucking baby
- 1:16:01screaming outside. Scared the shit out of me.
- 1:16:04I think that the day Teofimo gets his father
- 1:16:10out of his corner and gets an actual trainer.
- 1:16:14Sell your house, buy an apartment, and get Joey
- 1:16:17Gamache back in there. Yeah, like he's going
- 1:16:20to have to, I think because of the way Teofimo
- 1:16:23Seniors appears to me to be, he would probably
- 1:16:27lose his father in his life altogether. Bro,
- 1:16:32at this rate with how like, it's going to come
- 1:16:34out like five years after his career that his
- 1:16:37father like stole most of his money. Like, if
- 1:16:42this is how he presents himself publicly, like
- 1:16:46how bad is it behind closed doors? Considering
- 1:16:50he's literally the only guy that Teofimo has
- 1:16:54in his personal life. The guy can't even see
- 1:17:00his kid. He's got no friends. It's only him and
- 1:17:05his dad. How bad is his dad behind closed doors?
- 1:17:11Well, he did say in the post -fight, he was talking
- 1:17:14about he's expecting a new kid. And it sounded
- 1:17:19like he patched things up with his wife and they're
- 1:17:24back together. No more baby Yoda doll then? Yeah,
- 1:17:27I guess not. No, but I'm serious. How nasty is
- 1:17:32his father? We're seeing him in the corner of
- 1:17:35a championship fight. Ask his son, where'd your
- 1:17:38power go? Just fuck him up, bro. You fucking
- 1:17:41suck. Just fuck him up. Post -fight media tour
- 1:17:46being like, my kid fucking sucks. Yeah, my kid
- 1:17:50didn't have a game plan. Bitch, you're his coach.
- 1:17:53Where's your game plan? Like, I'm serious. Are
- 1:17:57you Dexter Namas or whatever? Cut your dad off,
- 1:17:59sell your apartment, rehire Joey Gamache. Because
- 1:18:03clearly, out of anybody he's worked with in his
- 1:18:06entire career, Joey Gamache is the one that brought
- 1:18:09the best out of him. And it was only for two
- 1:18:11fights. And one of them was his star -making
- 1:18:15performance. It was two fights. It was the Richard
- 1:18:18Comey and Lomachenko fights. And both of those,
- 1:18:22he actually looked elite. He had a plan B. And,
- 1:18:27like, you know what? Like, that's... More than
- 1:18:30anything, it looked like he actually wanted the
- 1:18:32B in there. And you know what? I mean, I can't
- 1:18:36say that Teo didn't try. He definitely tried
- 1:18:40in that fight. No, it's just... Everyone around
- 1:18:42him has been failing him for, like, five years
- 1:18:45at this point. You know what? We've been talking
- 1:18:49too much about Teo and his shortcomings. I got
- 1:18:51to give it to Shakur and fucking how beautiful
- 1:18:54all the fighting is. Fucking performance. Oh,
- 1:18:57my goodness. Shakur, what are you going to say?
- 1:18:59Everything literally went right. And he lived
- 1:19:02up to his potential, finally. He's seen his lead
- 1:19:06now. Yeah, finally lived up to his potential
- 1:19:09by fighting someone worth a damn and just dominating
- 1:19:12them straight up. Didn't put on a tracksuit or
- 1:19:16anything. Kind of just dog walked him. He walked
- 1:19:19him down. Shakur was on the front foot most of
- 1:19:23the time. Yeah. That's what I mean. Like, just
- 1:19:25completely dog walked a good, solid opponent.
- 1:19:28No asterisks, no bullshit that you'd expected
- 1:19:34him to put on once he fought someone good. Just
- 1:19:38a very, very good performance. That was the sweet
- 1:19:44science. If they've ever seen it, you know. I
- 1:19:46hope we stay at at least, like, a similar level
- 1:19:49of opponent. Like, we don't drop too. My thing
- 1:19:53is, I don't even know how Ibisheker at this point.
- 1:19:56I mean, I feel like someone like Gary Antoine
- 1:20:00Russell. It's a very specific style. Like, it's
- 1:20:03a very specific, like, pressure, power, and finesse
- 1:20:07that, like, does not exist near him. If you had
- 1:20:11the pressure of Pitbull with the accuracy of
- 1:20:14Tank and the power of Ryan Garcia, you'd maybe
- 1:20:17be Shakur. Like, four to six years ago with a
- 1:20:25bit more finesse. Yeah. And at that point, we're
- 1:20:30just making up fighters. Yeah, we're just splitting
- 1:20:32hairs here. Come on. So, Shakur mentioned Just
- 1:20:39the week before, he was watching his cousin fight
- 1:20:43or whatever, and they asked him if he's going
- 1:20:48to stay at 140 if he wins, and he said, if I
- 1:20:51get big fights or whatever, but I plan to go
- 1:20:54back to 135. WBC stripped him of his 135 title
- 1:20:59because he did not pay a sanctioning fee. The
- 1:21:02fucking belt was not on the line against Teofimo.
- 1:21:07It wasn't even in the same weight class. Why
- 1:21:09does he have to pay a sanctioning fee? For what?
- 1:21:13My question to that is, did Canelo pay a sanctioning
- 1:21:16fee to the WBC when he fought Bivol, or even
- 1:21:19fucking, uh, what the fuck is his name? Uh, fucking,
- 1:21:22uh, the, uh, Kovalev, when he fought at 175.
- 1:21:27Did he have to pay sanctioning fees? No. Yeah,
- 1:21:30let him go up to fight for the WBO belt. without
- 1:21:37a sanctioning fee because he'll come back and
- 1:21:39we'll make money then. If we strip him, then...
- 1:21:43Same shit applies to Shakur Stevenson, though.
- 1:21:49Like, why? Why? This is why Zufa is gonna get
- 1:21:55fucking Steam. I was about to say, yeah, that's
- 1:21:58bullshit. This is how Zufa and entities like
- 1:22:02it pick up Steam. And who the fuck is going to
- 1:22:06get WBC at this point at 135? Who's going to
- 1:22:09get it? Oh, let's see. Let's look. They have
- 1:22:14a beautiful game of Let's Look Up Rankings. Yeah,
- 1:22:17it's my favorite. My favorite game. This edition
- 1:22:20on Let's Look Up Rankings. Who is the WBC number
- 1:22:24one? I don't care about the world champions.
- 1:22:26Come on. Give me. What is it? Lightweight? It's
- 1:22:30vacant right now. Javier Herrera is the interim
- 1:22:34champ. So they could elevate him? William Cepeda,
- 1:22:39Lamont Roach, Andy Cruz as the top three. Bro,
- 1:22:45they could have elevated Oshaki. Oh, my God.
- 1:22:48Oshaki still had it. Imagine. Stephen Fulton
- 1:22:52gave Oshaki Foster the WBC belt from Chris Stevenson.
- 1:22:55Hilarious. Love that turn of events. Lamont Roach
- 1:23:00might be doing WBA. Yeah, he's definitely doing
- 1:23:03WBA. Andy Cruz, it wouldn't be a bad bounce back
- 1:23:07for Andy Cruz, actually. Another title fight?
- 1:23:10No. Yeah. But he needs another, he needs a tune
- 1:23:15-up, at least beforehand. Yeah, for sure. Sure.
- 1:23:19I mean, I mean, who else is there? What are you,
- 1:23:22Shinaba? The, they can't come into a title fight
- 1:23:25off a loss? No, you shouldn't. You shouldn't.
- 1:23:28I know you shouldn't, but when the options are
- 1:23:31guys like Sam Noakes, I'd rather Andy Cruz. Andy
- 1:23:35Cruz versus Sam Noakes is not a bad bounce back.
- 1:23:38That's a banger. Actually, isn't Andy Cruz going
- 1:23:41to move down because he clearly is not cutting
- 1:23:43it at 135 power -wise? I have not heard anything
- 1:23:46about that. That was Moritaya suggesting it after
- 1:23:50the... Yeah. Move down, bro. That's such a, like
- 1:23:56a, that's so funny to say, hey, move down, bro.
- 1:23:57You gotta, you can't hang up here with the big
- 1:23:59dogs. The big dogs that are fucking cutting me
- 1:24:01like crazy. Like, to some extent, like, if you
- 1:24:04absolutely cannot, like, because, like, he was
- 1:24:07touching up Murataya. Yeah. Like, zero damage,
- 1:24:12I guess, like. You have Hydrogen Baby versus
- 1:24:16fucking Hydrogen Bomb versus Coughing Baby. Hydrogen
- 1:24:19Bomb versus Coughing Baby, dude. The hydrogen
- 1:24:22baby beats the coughing bomb, dude. Come on,
- 1:24:27dude. I don't know what the fuck's up with me
- 1:24:28today. I'm like, I gotta get on that clavicular
- 1:24:32shit, whatever the fuck they call him. He's decomposing,
- 1:24:36dude. I gotta decompose my brain and then recompose
- 1:24:39it. You gotta microdose meth and steroids, dude.
- 1:24:42I gotta get whatever fucking shit Shea Moses
- 1:24:45on. It was on 10 years ago. Clear my head. Anything
- 1:24:51more for Stevenson, Teofimo? Let's talk about
- 1:24:57where they could go next because I know Stevenson
- 1:24:59is looking to fight Conor Benn, which is fucking...
- 1:25:02What the fuck? What kind of fucking move is that?
- 1:25:07What kind of fucking move is to fight Conor Benn?
- 1:25:11I mean, the fight I would love to see... What
- 1:25:13do you mean, who is Conor Benn? Who's fighting?
- 1:25:16It's Shakur fighting Conor Benn, right? Yeah.
- 1:25:19Oh, my God. Exactly. Why? I did a double take.
- 1:25:23Like, I am listening. I swear. It's just like,
- 1:25:25oh, my God. There's a fight I think that I would
- 1:25:29love to see Shakur in at 140, and that would
- 1:25:33be against Gary Antoine Russell. That would be
- 1:25:35a fantastic fight of relentless pressure versus
- 1:25:38relentless defense. That would be amazing. For
- 1:25:41boxing purists, that is. Really. I don't care
- 1:25:47if Tank comes back or not. Shakur, Tank. Now
- 1:25:50that he's finally a guy with profile. Yeah, I
- 1:25:54mean... Not that I have Tank winning that by
- 1:25:58any means, but it's like... It's a good fight
- 1:26:01to make. I will say that. That fight would sell
- 1:26:05over fucking 800 ,000 pay -per -view. That would
- 1:26:08do good pay -per -view and gate. That fight is
- 1:26:11big. Put that shit in Baltimore as Tank's comeback.
- 1:26:16Put that shit in New York. Jersey. Brick City.
- 1:26:21Put it somewhere where they have a big arena.
- 1:26:25Fucking fantastic fans. Oh my god, that would
- 1:26:28be amazing. Doubt it's going to happen though.
- 1:26:30The best next thing is Gary Antoine Russell.
- 1:26:33Yeah. No, absolutely. I'm just saying in terms
- 1:26:36of like, if we're talking about big, big profile
- 1:26:38fights, like the Hank comeback with Shakur would
- 1:26:43be so good to see. I'm thinking I'm going to
- 1:26:47find him though. I got one for the degenerates.
- 1:26:50I think I know what you're going to say, and
- 1:26:52I fucking agree with you on this. Let's hear
- 1:26:54it. The one for the degenerates, Sandor Martin.
- 1:26:59Oh, Jesus Christ, man. Where the fuck did that
- 1:27:02come from? Jesus Christ. The who's who of 140
- 1:27:06has fought him. Yeah, but we don't want to see
- 1:27:10him, dude. The only reason we got him fighting
- 1:27:14the who's who of 140 is because Mikey Garcia
- 1:27:16was checked out. Too busy destroying low -income
- 1:27:20housing instead of being focused in the ring,
- 1:27:23and now he's the problem of the fans. Now we
- 1:27:29have to deal with him. He's the problem of the
- 1:27:31fans, but... I was going to say, Puyo just beat
- 1:27:34him last year. Teal Fimo? Where can he go from
- 1:27:41here? I think his options are pretty limited.
- 1:27:47Regardless of who it is, it's not going to go
- 1:27:50well if it's with his father in his corner. 100%.
- 1:27:56Where he goes from here is a new camp. I mean,
- 1:28:01if you want money, you could easily get a Devin
- 1:28:08Haney fight. You're going to lose that, but you
- 1:28:09can get Devin Haney fight with your pull from
- 1:28:11the WBO. If you'd like, you could fight like
- 1:28:16a fucking Matias. That could be a good comeback
- 1:28:19fight. A good one, honestly, and you guys can
- 1:28:21disagree, is a move up to 147 and fight George
- 1:28:23Kambosis. Kambosis is still fighting. Yeah. I
- 1:28:29believe he's still fighting on 147. Get your
- 1:28:32get back. There's definitely a level fighter
- 1:28:38that Teofimo cannot beat. It's kind of... Not
- 1:28:44to say it's a little fair, but like... I mean,
- 1:28:48see, at this point, it's basically guys who are
- 1:28:51good, who you would not want to rebound against,
- 1:28:55per se. Or guys you've basically beat already.
- 1:29:02I know a good fight that, honestly, I think Teofimo
- 1:29:04can win. In my opinion. And you guys can disagree.
- 1:29:09Two fights, actually. I think Teofimo can beat
- 1:29:12Ryan. A 147 Ryan. Maybe not with power, but obviously
- 1:29:17with finesse. Obviously his counterpunch skills
- 1:29:18are phenomenal. But it would either be Ryan or
- 1:29:23Roley. Again, both guys have power. But both
- 1:29:30guys also don't. Roley Teofimo would be one of
- 1:29:33the funniest buildups I've seen in my life, though.
- 1:29:35That would be a great fight that could be like
- 1:29:38a co -main. You know, co -main to... Most racist
- 1:29:41build -up you've seen in your entire life. And
- 1:29:45I think they used to be buddies, too. They used
- 1:29:46to have a relationship. You could market that
- 1:29:50pretty easily. Maybe sell, you know, sell pretty
- 1:29:53nice. I don't know. I think he could beat both
- 1:29:57those opponents. Give him some time. Rolly's
- 1:30:00fucking tragic. 100%, you know, and they spar
- 1:30:04together too. I think that Teofimo put his hands
- 1:30:06on the sparring, but Teofimo, you could get it
- 1:30:09back. Don't be racist anymore, dude. This is
- 1:30:13probably karma for being racist. You lost in
- 1:30:15front of a whole bunch of fucking your fans,
- 1:30:17you know. So the guy that you said that, well,
- 1:30:22I don't want to repeat the comments, but we all
- 1:30:24know what he said about fucking African -American
- 1:30:26people. He was talking about liquor. Oh yeah,
- 1:30:29I'm sorry. He's talking about liquor. I hope
- 1:30:34he comes back and fights another opponent. Oh,
- 1:30:42man. We have to keep rolling. We still have one
- 1:30:46more card to recap and all the previews. So,
- 1:30:52Sunday, February 1st. Zufa Boxing 2. At the meta
- 1:31:00apex. It seems that Zufa, for the most part,
- 1:31:08are going to be decision merchants. They had
- 1:31:12one stoppage in the prelims. Jamar Talley stops
- 1:31:16Devante Williams in two. Moving up, a lot of
- 1:31:22pretty okay performances, I guess. Until we get
- 1:31:28to Hot Rod Kalachik. God bless Hot Rod. Oleksandr
- 1:31:33Vozdik gets bopped in seven. That was so... Oh,
- 1:31:39my God. That was a damn good performance from
- 1:31:42both of them. No, it wasn't. Yes, it was. Dude,
- 1:31:48they came back from the fucking death to hell.
- 1:31:50No, I was saying good performance. No. Fun? Yes.
- 1:31:54Oh, yeah, I think that's what I mean. Obviously,
- 1:31:56that's what I mean. Good performance, getting
- 1:31:58your ass beat until you find a just monster right
- 1:32:03hand. And we're losing the whole fight. And then
- 1:32:06boom. Holy fuck. Victory from the jaws of defeat
- 1:32:09with that one. Wonderful fucking knockout. I
- 1:32:15don't even think the commentary expected it,
- 1:32:17considering how the night had gone. Yeah. Were
- 1:32:22they pushing Vazdik more or were they pushing
- 1:32:25Hot Rod more? They were just kind of like, yeah,
- 1:32:29like, not unenthused, but, you know, it felt
- 1:32:34like Vazdik was gonna take it pretty handily
- 1:32:39and then the shot came out of nowhere. Good for
- 1:32:44Hot Rod, though. Sets him up for a nice payday
- 1:32:47against whoever in the future. Well, maybe not
- 1:32:52payday, but an interesting fight with a higher
- 1:32:54-ranked opponent. Maybe higher profile. Yeah,
- 1:32:57that'd be fucking Jai Obataya. That's true. They
- 1:33:00could bump him up to fight Jai Obataya. I don't
- 1:33:05know who this guy beat. Alexander Gvazdik. Put
- 1:33:07him up with Obataya. Sergei Bohachuk gets the
- 1:33:14split decision over Ratsa Butaev. Clobberfest.
- 1:33:21Didn't learn anything new about either guy, really.
- 1:33:24Yeah, not really. Sad to see Bo Hatruk on fucking
- 1:33:30Zufa. But what are you going to do? He knew exactly
- 1:33:36where he was going when he signed on to fight
- 1:33:42Brandon Adams a second time. Did I call it or
- 1:33:47did I not call it? They're getting rid of him
- 1:33:50because Brandon Adams is easier to beat. For
- 1:33:55the record, Brandon Adams has a fight against
- 1:33:59an undefeated Irish prospect next. Brandon Adams
- 1:34:06does? Yes. Oh, Aji Arco. Yeah. So his name is
- 1:34:17spelled just like a vomit of letters, but I think
- 1:34:21it's like Kevin. Yeah. It's like Kevin at Yarko.
- 1:34:24Yeah. But you see, you see my point that I made
- 1:34:28about like, let's get Boa Chuck, who is actually
- 1:34:31like a stern threat to prospects out of the way
- 1:34:34for a much more beatable guy who. technically
- 1:34:41gives our prospect a little more sheen since
- 1:34:43he took down Boachuk twice. And if you lose to
- 1:34:48him, it's not like a taking years off of your
- 1:34:52life kind of beating? No, like Boachuk has some
- 1:34:55pretty hard hands. Brandon Adams does not. Yeah.
- 1:35:00So, case in point, look, it came to pass. So.
- 1:35:06Mmm. Rayo Valenzuela. UD over Diego Torres. Ryo
- 1:35:13got pretty bloody. Looked like Ryo. Good job.
- 1:35:21Looked good. Pretty nothing opponent. Andy, what
- 1:35:28you got to do? The Ryo's Ryo. Get that Zufo pack.
- 1:35:35Let's roll into our fucking previews. Man, it
- 1:35:39is a light week. Like, I really scraped the fucking
- 1:35:45bottom of the barrel for these. Let's see. February
- 1:35:4814th. Dream Boxing on DAZN. At the Haristo Arena
- 1:35:54in Germany. Prepare yourselves. Marco Hook is
- 1:36:00back. 10 round fight at Cruiserweight. Oh my
- 1:36:03god. Versus... Vaclav Pesar. Where is this taking
- 1:36:10place? Haristo Arena in North... Germany. Okay,
- 1:36:15excellent. Okay, that crowd's going to be insane.
- 1:36:21Honestly, that's the only card kind of worth
- 1:36:24anything that's on the 14th. To the surprise
- 1:36:28of no one, I suppose. And capping off... We've
- 1:36:35got three. Sunday is a pretty good card. Sunday,
- 1:36:38February 15th, we've got three. First, in the
- 1:36:43early -ass morning, Muto Promotions in Osaka,
- 1:36:48Japan. Ryosuke Nishida, Super Bantamweight guy,
- 1:36:53versus Brian Mercado. That should be a good fight.
- 1:36:59Don't know who anyone else is. Let's see here.
- 1:37:05Zufa Boxing 3 on Paramount+. Scroll up, bitch.
- 1:37:13Looking at these names, only one I'm going to
- 1:37:20point out is Leo Ruiz fighting Casey Streeter.
- 1:37:26If you lose, you have to change your name. And
- 1:37:32the headline, F .A. Ajagba versus Charles Martin.
- 1:37:37What the fuck? Yeah. Hey, what do you mean? I'm
- 1:37:41always happy with these heavyweight fights, even
- 1:37:46if it's on Zufa. They're not great. They're going
- 1:37:52to punch the hell out of each other. It'll be
- 1:37:53fun. Is it, though? I hope FA at Jogba sparks
- 1:37:58him. What do you mean, man? Like, Charles Martin,
- 1:38:01say what you will, man. He's not in, like, boring
- 1:38:03fights. How long ago was that? What do you mean?
- 1:38:09It's just in general. How long ago was it? When
- 1:38:13was the last time you've seen an exciting Charles
- 1:38:17Martin fight? Jared Anderson. Seeing him start
- 1:38:20to put it on Jared Anderson late was pretty fun.
- 1:38:25What is it, though? Was he really putting it
- 1:38:27on, though? Was it something that you would get
- 1:38:30fucking, oh, my God, whole shit? Hey, by fun,
- 1:38:33I mean, I have my vices, like everyone, and my
- 1:38:36vices are I like watching really shitty heavyweights
- 1:38:39beat the hell out of each other because there's
- 1:38:41no defense or footwork. That's like some heroin,
- 1:38:44man. Like, that's why I like Dave Allen, dude.
- 1:38:47There's no risk of Dave Allen boxing. Yeah, but
- 1:38:51Dave Allen's funny, though. That's a meme. Charles
- 1:38:53Martin's just like... Charles Martin's a former
- 1:38:55world champion. Come on. Yeah, but that's just
- 1:38:58sad. You got a former world champion fighting.
- 1:39:00No, it was hilarious because his opponent's knee
- 1:39:04turned to glue mid -fight while he was losing
- 1:39:08the fight, by the way. And then he called it.
- 1:39:11My power broke his knee. Yeah. That woman got
- 1:39:17a chuckle out of him. Then AJ immediately nuked
- 1:39:19him. Come on. The bar for fun for heavyweights
- 1:39:26is different because, like, it's not, like, it's
- 1:39:29basically power slap. That's out of point. That
- 1:39:34makes sense why it's fucking Zufa. Yeah, like,
- 1:39:37it's basically power slap with some of these
- 1:39:39guys. Like, I'm not expecting, like, a display
- 1:39:42of the sweet science. Like, no. These are two
- 1:39:45fat dudes who, at this point, they have no aspirations
- 1:39:49for anything serious. They're going to beat the
- 1:39:51hell out of each other. It'll be fun. And then
- 1:39:52I'm going to go to bed. We'll see. We'll see.
- 1:39:55If it's not fun, I'm going to be so surprised
- 1:39:58because that'll mean that a guy's trying to box
- 1:40:01and then he's going to gas and then he's going
- 1:40:03to lose. You can't tell me that Jarrell Miller
- 1:40:06fights, excluding the toupee incident, are not
- 1:40:09sort of entertaining for the same reason. There's
- 1:40:12no risk of him moving enough to bore you. We
- 1:40:17shall see what happens. It's like boxing junk
- 1:40:20food, basically. Like, this is boxing Beth. No,
- 1:40:24it's like boxing junk food. Like, every once
- 1:40:27in a while, like, you order some really shitty
- 1:40:30food and you just enjoy it. And that's how I
- 1:40:32see heavyweight fights that aren't, like, world
- 1:40:35beaters. Yeah, but that's like Dave Allen and
- 1:40:39Mac Mudoff type fights. This fight's more like
- 1:40:42fucking taking meth because you need it. Both
- 1:40:45of these guys probably beat Dave Allen. Hey.
- 1:40:50I'm not saying that it's not going to be a watchable
- 1:40:54fight. We'll see what happens, dude, but I sincerely
- 1:40:58doubt it's going to be a fun, fun fight. Yes,
- 1:41:02we all sat down for redneck brawl. This is just...
- 1:41:05Yeah, but that's different. That's its own thing.
- 1:41:09That's its own sexy thing, you know? Those guys
- 1:41:12could be world -ranked heavyweights if they actually
- 1:41:14train. Come on. It's pretty sad. Yeah, man. It's
- 1:41:17pretty sad out here. Yeah, they'd be the likes
- 1:41:21of Moses Aitama and fucking Daniel Dubois. World
- 1:41:25-ranked is like top 20 is a lot of people. Yeah.
- 1:41:29You're right. Top 20 is a lot of guys. I don't
- 1:41:34see him going that far, but that's my whole book
- 1:41:37opinion. That's what I'm saying. Even top 50,
- 1:41:41top 100 for world rank, you have to go really
- 1:41:44far to justify heavyweights. We'll see what happens
- 1:41:49with that. Let me find the 100th ranked heavyweight
- 1:41:53for you. Probably fucking Shannon Briggs. The
- 1:41:5899th ranked heavyweight is Tom Schwartz. The
- 1:42:03guy that fought Fury? Yes. His most recent fight
- 1:42:09is a UD loss to Sanad Gashi. Who? What the fuck?
- 1:42:17He's a guy who lost to Derek Chisora. And like
- 1:42:24a real stinker. So that's what I mean by, like,
- 1:42:29you get – so you say it gets really weird in,
- 1:42:32like, if you, like, qualify world ranking as,
- 1:42:35like, top 100, top 150. Yeah. No, you're right.
- 1:42:39You're right. So, like, Dave Allen is 79. Still
- 1:42:46meth, guys. I'm going to go with pork belly because
- 1:42:51it's really fatty. The pork rinds. Pork rinds
- 1:42:54still have some nutritional value. They're pork
- 1:42:56rinds. Yeah, pork rinds is a good one. You have
- 1:43:00too much of it, it's gonna make you sick. Pork
- 1:43:03rinds have a dollar tree. Pork belly still has
- 1:43:06the nutritional value in it, but like... Pork
- 1:43:11rinds, that shit got fried out. And let's wrap
- 1:43:16it up here. I had... Before I got the full card
- 1:43:20for Zufa... And this Muto card, which those I
- 1:43:27got later. So I had a placeholder here. Top tier
- 1:43:31boxing on DAZN at the Brentwood Center. Fucking
- 1:43:37long ass card. The headline is Tiago Osorio Muxanga
- 1:43:44versus Asenia Byfield. That's going to be a great
- 1:43:52scrap. The only thing is the matchmaker for top
- 1:43:58tier is this British social media personality
- 1:44:04for boxing. Her name is Allie Drew. I sat next
- 1:44:09to her at a Golovkin Canelo 3. Oh. That's interesting.
- 1:44:18So, yeah. That's the time I met Allie Drew. She's
- 1:44:25pretty good looking, but whatever. That's it
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