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Glory at Giza - Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven · Boxing B-Sides

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The B -Side and Boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
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B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
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The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
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-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
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Let me get the timer. Recording is running. Alright.
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Boxing B -Sides. We are back, bitches. Here to
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talk the fights, I'm joined by the homies, Saul,
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how goes it, the one and only, and Josh. What's
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up? Well, we did, as you may have noticed, we
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didn't have Saul the last couple of weeks, so
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you wanted to get some stuff off of your chest?
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Oh yeah, hello everybody, I'm sorry for my bad
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audio. Fire, that's all I'm going to say. Fire,
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fire, fire. Last week, what I missed, I'm going
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to talk about the Inouye fight. Great fight.
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Tale of two halves. Let's go, Bam. For the Benavidez
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fight, holy shit. Holy shit. Benavidez, you are
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a fucking king, dog. You got to fight Bobby Bowe
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or Boba Taya and you'll become a legend. If you
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beat him, you'll become a legend. Good shit,
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good shit. Zerdo has the heart of a champion.
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Huge heart. But who else has a huge heart? Huge
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heart is Fabio Wardley. Fabio Wardley, I got
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to give it all up to you. You did not go down.
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In the words of... We're going to be talking
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about Fabio Wardley in a little bit. Oh, shit.
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That's this episode. That is this one. Spoiler
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alert. Okay, spoiler. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You
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cut that out. You cut that out. I can't believe
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let's go Bam is the conclusion we got from that
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fight. I had to go to detail. No, you don't need
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detail. That's a bad take. No, because Bam and
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Inoue might be fighting. Let's go Bam. Turkey
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and his action figures play together. Well, guess
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what? Inoue, you're crazy. Nagatani. You're also
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crazy. Good on you both. Nakatani, you could
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have done a little more in the beginning. You
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probably could have won the fight, honestly,
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if you did that. Inouye gassed out really quick.
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At the end. Never seen that happen. Gassed out
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quick at the end. I can't. I have to rush it.
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That's why. I'm sorry. This is only slightly
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better than my regular takes. If we had Inouye
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versus Bam, and just for the sake of the... Point
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I'm about to make. If Bam wins, he gets like
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a monstrous knockdown or knockout. Would the
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gif be let's go Bamden? No, the gif would be
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a PowerPoint. There you go. It would have to
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be a PowerPoint. It would have to be the Dalton
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Smith, Subril Matias one. One second per frame?
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Yeah. We like that. Too funny. We're not talking
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MMA today because we've got plenty of fights
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to talk about. But it was a good episode. If
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you want, if you want ultimate effing casuals,
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wherever you're listening to this, you can get
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that for all your MMA needs. Let's see into the
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news and shit. First things first, the boxing
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survey continues. I'm not stopping until I get
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at least triple digits of respondents. bxng .co
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slash survey. I'll stop harping on it now. The
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Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act, I will
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not stop harping on this one until it's fucking
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signed in. Hopefully not, but until it's signed
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into law, that's when I'll stop talking about
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it. Right now, we have the opportunity. Go to
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ldxmedia .net slash bsides. And there's a link
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there so you can find your senators, find their
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contact information, use the blurb that's on
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the website if you don't know what to say, or
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if you have your own points, go for it. We can't
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let them get away with fucking up our sport.
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Everybody knows, we probably more than most,
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that it needs help. This shit ain't it. So if
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you can, do. Alright. One bit of news that I
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found incredibly stupid, but I wanted to talk
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about it. Jaron Ennis, as we know, is scheduled
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to fight Xander Zayas. Xander Zayas currently
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holds the WBA super title, I think it is. He
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holds the full championship. Jaron Ennis had
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to vacate his interim title. In order to be eligible
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to compete for the full title. Interesting. Is
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this fucking track? Like, are you tracking? Is
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this shit? It's the WBA, dude. God. Why am I
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still getting myself heated up about this? It's
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the WBA. This is pretty standard. Standard bullshit.
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Like, the interim title is essentially its own
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belt now. Yeah. God. Hey, you know what? Virgil
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Ortiz is the undisputed champion of those. Motherfucker.
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I was just trying to divert the conversation
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until I knew it was coming. The second he said
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interim belts, it was over. Oh, yeah. But, yeah,
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why would they do that? What reason did they
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really give for that? Because that's bullshit.
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It's just to make it available for someone else
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to fight for it. But the thing is, if he loses,
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I mean... Come on. Then he has nothing. Exactly.
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If he wins, he's going to have the belt. If not,
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he's going to lose it anyways. It's pretty silly.
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I don't know, man. It's just WBA nonsense. Yeah,
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it's pretty bullshit. The most storied of the
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organizations is now the fucking dumbest. Well,
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it's always been like that. Like, the thing is,
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like, the whole reason the WBC and IBF formed
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was out of protest for the WBA, pretty much.
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Well, it used to be the NBA. No, the NABF, yeah,
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but then they formed the WBA because they wanted
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to be more global. Then corruption and bullshit
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reigned rampant, so you got the WBC, and then
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corruption reigned rampant there, so now you
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have the IBF. And then the WBO was just because
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Europe wanted to feel more represented. And they
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wanted to do whatever Bob orders. I was going
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to say, they wanted Bob Arum to be more represented.
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Well, and Frank Warren. Warren Boxing Organization.
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Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. The WBA has
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literally always been like this. Not for a second
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has it been scrupulous. And they're also called
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the We Blow Al organization too. We Blow Al is
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a great name. I have never heard that. That's
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a good one. I have heard of We Blow Al. Yeah.
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I have not coined it. Whoever coined it, please
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step forward. If not, I'm going to coin it. No
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one's stepping forward for We Blow Al. Anyways.
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Is anyone stepping forward for Steve McKenna,
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who joins Zufa, will be making his debut on the
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early June Zufa 7 card? Is that the guy who looks
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grouchy as fuck on his little poster? Yeah. Okay.
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Well, you know, no. I've never seen less excitement
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for boxing than with Zufa, which is really funny
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to me. Because we all fucking hate it. Yeah.
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Well, I know that, but it just is funny. It doesn't
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make it less funny that everyone hates Zufa.
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Nobody gave it a shot even for a second, even
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the biggest degenerates. Yeah, which is funny.
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The biggest degenerates will give fucking the
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IBA shit a chance. IBA, bro. IBA Pro, they'll
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light up for anything. Oh boy, Bivol's gonna
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fight. Hell yeah. I can't wait. That's next episode.
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That'll be next time. Wish you guys should have
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told me too. Nah. In other news of shit nobody
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really cares about, Galalia5 is injured and he's
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pulling out of the card on June 6th. I actually
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care about that because it affects my buddy,
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Ricky Sandy. How is that? Ricky Semenki? Well,
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no. No, because Ricardo Sandoval is not going
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to fight. That's why. Ah, okay. Well, then look
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at that, Galal. You've disappointed at least
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one person. Yeah. Well, his whole country because
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he got knocked out. Well, not knocked out, but
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he got blown away by... one of my people, so
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it's easy. Juice to the gills, though. Wasn't
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he? Yeah, but they all juice. They all juice.
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They all pull out. They all juice. They all juice.
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Ryan Garcia versus Connor Ben has been confirmed
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by Ryan Garcia himself. It's looking like it's
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going to be a go for September 12th. On Jimmy
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Fallon. On Jimmy Fallon. Hilarious. That's pretty
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cool, though. You don't really see fighters a
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lot on big -time TV like that. Yeah. I got to
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say, that's some good publicity. But it is Ryan
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Garcia, so he already has kind of that. Yeah,
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I was going to say. He has the gravitas. Yeah.
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But yeah, cool to see the nighttime shows. having
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a boxer on. That's pretty cool. Clarissa Shields
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will not be at any MVP events ever again. Barred.
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What did she do to Alicia Baumgartner? She slapped
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Alicia Baumgartner like the Chris Rock incident.
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Yeah. Was it Chris Rock? Yeah, Chris Rock and
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Will Smith. Chris Rock got slapped by Will Smith.
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That was basically that. I did not like... I
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went on social media for one second to see what
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they were saying about it and I turned that shit
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off on me too. Yeah, bro. You went on Twitter
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to see what people were saying about Clarissa
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Shields. That wouldn't have changed. That wouldn't
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have changed even if she did nothing. She could
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have hugged her and it wouldn't have changed.
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Yeah, we'd still... They would have been calling
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her some interesting names. I don't know. I've
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seen some interesting things and I forgot how
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racist we can be sometimes. Not we, but the box
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community. I think people are doing too much
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regardless for this incident. Yeah. It's not
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that big of a deal. It's not like they were going
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to fight, right? No. Not likely. Clarissa Shields.
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Just mad because it's Alicia Bame Gardner. Are
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you kidding me? Hater. Let the hate continue.
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Lomachenko coming out of retirement. He looks
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like he's trying to fight Emmanuel Navarrete.
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That's going to be a hilarious fight. The ballerina
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versus the construction worker? That for the
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nutritionist, though, is just... That's a different
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beast. I don't think it's good news. I don't
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think it's good news here. He's no longer sipping
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a beer during Zoom interviews. It's over. I got
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a really unpopular opinion about that fight.
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I'm sorry. What is it? I think Lomachink is going
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to win. It's not unpopular. It's literally like
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Nav's... The discussion on Nav is basically Mexicans
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who support him or realists who... saw him break
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the scales against Liam Wilson and still barely
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win. Yeah. As much as we joke about him with
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a nutritionist, like, he is still very sloppy
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and his footwork is dog shit. Yeah. We all saw
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him against Dennis Branchick and he lost. Like,
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it just depends on how washed Lomachenko is.
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I got a feeling he's not that washed in the sense
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that, like, he's had a lot of wars. He's been
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like crazy knocked down. I feel like he's also
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got the miles on the clock. We haven't seen them
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in the professional ring, but you have to remember
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he spent way too long in the amateurs. 400 fights
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or some shit. Yeah, those are miles on the clock
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because you're sparring for every single one
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of those fights and everything. It's a lot of
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miles we don't see. I'm not saying he ever looked
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washed, but I'm also going to say we never really
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got a peak version of him. If that makes sense.
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Yeah, I get you. I just think that Navarrete
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losing to Baranchuk was not the best Ukrainian
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fighter. It can go either way. It depends a lot
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on both guys. Which is such a fence -sitter answer,
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but genuinely Lomachenko could show up looking
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like dog shit and we'd have to eat our words
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here if we predicted his win. Is this going to
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be at 130 or 135? That's the thing. 130, I believe.
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I think Lomachenko wants those titles. Yeah,
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130 is a bit more populated now. He only wanted
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135 because that's where the guys were for it.
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I mean, if he becomes champion again at 130,
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that's pretty crazy against Navarrete. Yeah,
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that's pretty crazy. Coming off one of his best
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wins. Yeah. But, you know, I also think that,
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like, you know, you guys have a good point about
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Navarrete. He has a good chance of winning. Doesn't
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have much ring rust. You know? He seems to be
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more on the up and up instead of, like... Yeah,
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he's dialing in. He was already slipping a bit,
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and then... How many years has it been? Three?
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I think so. Three more years on the clock, so
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it might not turn out the way people really think
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or want. Only thing is that Nunez was a big win.
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It was a very dominant win, but Nunez is tailor
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-made for someone who has an orthodoxy. Yeah,
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absolutely. And Lomachenko is unorthodox in his
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own way. Yeah. But Lomachenko is kind of already
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on the way down, even after the Teofimo fight.
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After the Haney fight, he really, like, you know,
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he takes a long time. He took a really long time
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to start that one. This one, he's probably going
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to do the same thing. I mean... I get he's always
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kind of been like that, but in the Haney fight...
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I do want him to get past Nav. Yeah. I do think
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there's more amusing ways. Like, even if you
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don't like Lomachenko, I think there's more amusing
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ways for him to lose and go out than sad. Yeah.
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What about the possibility of him fighting Tank?
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That's what I was thinking. That's exactly what
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I was going to say by more amusing. Like, if
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you're like, I shouldn't come back. I fucking
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hate him. He's Reddit's darling. Like, that mindset.
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Like, wouldn't you rather, like... Tank be the
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one to knock him off? Like, Tank fries him instead
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of, like, Navarrete. Like, it's pretty sad. Well,
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Tank's already coming off a year away, too. That's
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a good amount of ring rust. It's more compelling.
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That's what I'm saying. It's a more compelling
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type of encounter than him going outside with
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Nav. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I think a Tank fight...
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would be the more exciting fight. It's a hater's
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dream, honestly, because you can... Everyone
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has their reasons to dislike both guys more than
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like both guys. I would love for him to fight
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Ting just because I want to... I just want to
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see that fight. Yeah. You know? I'd like to see
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a win or lose against Nev. Yeah. The fight we
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ever... The fight we lost out upon, like, years
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ago was definitely... Mikey and Lomachenko. Oh,
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Lord. I was scruffing at the mouth for that one.
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That's the real fight we're missing. All of this
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is definitely a consolation for Mikey and Lomachenko.
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For a small time, Mikey and Crawford, too. Mikey
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was probably going to cook Lomachenko if he showed
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up at his best. Top rank. I blame top rank for
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that. Well, that's why they're in the position
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they are today. Yeah, that's why we're on 2B
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and piggybacking off the zone instead of... Yeah,
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well, these are called dog zone. Yeah. Dog zone.
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I'm in that fucking Bob interview. Well, I like
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to call them dog zone. They don't make any good
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fights on Dog Zone, just British fights. I will
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never send another American fighter overseas.
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Classic. Classic Saul. Classic. Yeah, Bob. Yeah,
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that is exactly what the type of shit he would
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say. He did say that, right? Whenever the Caterall
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fight? The Caterall -Taylor fight. Yeah. That
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shit was funny. Let's see. I don't think there's
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any news I'm missing. I had an extended period
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of time where I got to browse through Instagram
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where I usually pick up the hot news. Yeah. For
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some reason. Just had time on my hands. Yeah.
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All right. Into the recaps. Really quickly, no
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limit. This was an Australian card in New South
22:56
Wales. Just some select fights. Jack Bowen stops
23:02
Tonga Tongotongo in two. Just fucking best name
23:08
ever. What a name. Yeah, he's had a chance to
23:13
talk to him via his management. He's a pretty
23:17
cool dude. Real chill Islander guy. Joshan James,
23:23
Pro Box alum, drops the decision to Callum Peters,
23:29
and Nikita Zu retires Oscar Diaz after the 6th.
23:35
Is Nikita the better Zu brother right now? Well,
23:40
he's kind of the only one. I mean, I guess he's
23:42
the only one who's doing anything, so yeah. Did
23:47
we talk about Spence Zoo being made? No. No.
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I thought we were going to talk about the next
23:55
one. YOLO. That's what we're doing. That's true.
23:59
It is in there. Yeah, let's do it. Let's keep
24:08
it rolling. Oh, this one. That was a Shinada
24:12
card. Taken at Korakuen Hall. There was a big
24:15
upset. Ryota Muto stops Kenji Fujita. Friday,
24:25
May 8th. This is just a guy that I like to keep
24:29
up on. Ivan Zuko stops Emiliano Pucheta in the
24:34
fourth. He's a super middleweight contender for
24:39
a bit, and then he had kind of slipped on a banana
24:42
peel. Calvin Simpson, yeah. Yeah, I'm hoping
24:45
that he can build himself back up. Okay. Saturday,
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May 9th. Holy shit, boys. I'm going to knock
24:59
some stuff off really quick. Gavin Gwynn, majority
25:03
decision over Khalil Majid. Bradley Ray stops
25:06
Liam Cameron in four. Jack Rafferty retires Ekow
25:10
Esumen. After the sixth. Zach fucking Chelly.
25:18
Knocks out David Morrell in 10. In the closing
25:23
fucking seconds. Closing minute. Knocks out David
25:28
Morrell. He's out on his feet. Dead man walking.
25:35
What do I have to say? This is obviously probably
25:37
the knockout. The upset of the year. This is
25:41
an upset. Zach Shelley teaching David Morel a
25:46
boxing lesson. Who would have thought? Zach Shelley
25:50
had work on Monday. He works as a fucking supply
25:55
teacher, man. What the hell? Poor guy. What the
26:00
hell even happened here? Can I gloat a little
26:04
bit? Can I gloat? Well, no. I'm going to gloat.
26:08
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Go for it. I'm
26:10
going to gloat. Fuck you. I'm going to gloat.
26:11
I mean, I'm not going to say that I was calling
26:13
David a fraud. I was not calling him a fraud.
26:16
But I was saying that David Morrell hadn't fought
26:21
the best competition that if he fought Callum
26:25
Smith, I think Callum Smith would have beaten
26:26
him. And I truly believe if they fought that
26:29
night, that Callum Smith probably would have
26:30
beaten him. I was surprised as much as you were
26:35
when fucking Zach Shelley. Zach. Who the fuck
26:39
is Zach Shelley? That shit, you know? He's the
26:42
British light heavyweight champion. Or he was,
26:45
I think. No, he's a teacher. That's weird. Now
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he's a legend. Man, that's crazy to see that
26:55
life. David Morel getting knocked out by a teacher.
26:58
Fucking nuts. Just brutal, man. I don't know
27:01
what was up with Dave Morel either. He was in
27:03
first gear. Pitter -patter, lallygagging. He
27:10
seemed completely off. This was his first fight
27:14
with Ishmael Salas, right? You just didn't look
27:18
fully there. Yeah, something was off about him.
27:21
The broadcaster will say, oh, Chelly was ahead
27:25
and topped it off with a knockout. No, Chelly
27:27
won the two rounds that he was beating the shit
27:31
out of Morel in if Morel had made it through
27:34
that last round. Like, Morel was in first year
27:40
and still pretty handily outboxing Chelly. He
27:43
just got really sloppy and lazy late. Yeah, he
27:48
got sloppy late is a good way to put it. Like,
27:51
he started slipping up. Like, I don't know, did
27:53
he just expect he was going to cruise to an easy
27:56
win here? And then just fucked up? Well, now
28:02
he's just in limbo. How do you come back from
28:07
this? You really can't, because, like, Shelly's
28:09
not doing a fucking rematch. Hell no. He's riding
28:13
off to the sunset, or he's going to take this
28:17
and try to negotiate himself a bigger fight.
28:22
Well, this is Munguia's Bruno Saras. Oh, this
28:26
is Morel's Bruno Saras. Shelly just leaped the
28:31
rankings at 175. Oh, yeah. Like, he gets a big
28:35
fight, and Morrell just, my God. Like, this is
28:39
a years -long setback for this man. Oh, yeah.
28:43
Because he couldn't keep it together for 10 rounds.
28:46
He was already set back by the caveman. Now he's
28:50
really set back by the teacher. Well, because
28:52
I kind of have, like, whatever. Like, yeah, like,
28:55
it wasn't a great performance, but also, like,
28:58
one guy was literally drinking Jarrell Miller's
29:00
blood. The entire pharmacy via blood transfusion.
29:07
Who gives a shit, right? Like, he's drinking
29:10
the pharmacy and, like, stuff that gives the
29:12
rats tumors or whatever. But what are we doing
29:17
with... What are we doing here with, uh... Old
29:23
morale. Yeah, like, what are we doing here? There's
29:26
no... There's no point, really. To... Yes. Checking
29:38
the sanctioning bodies to see if Zach Shelley
29:43
has made a debut. These may not be up to date
29:48
because WBO still has David Morales number one.
29:52
So I don't think these have been updated. No,
29:55
probably not. Yeah, I don't see Zach Shelley
29:59
on here. Oh, well. Yeah, I think it's a nice
30:05
way to put it. This is Morel's Bruno Saras. Yeah,
30:11
but Saras, he fixed it, whatever. The perception
30:17
is that he fixed it, you know? Yeah. No way,
30:21
nothing here. Nothing to do with here. Something
30:26
that makes the Saras situation a little different.
30:30
that I had pointed out to Shinada was that Saras
30:34
was, say whatever about his record, he was still
30:37
like a professional fighter. Yeah, this is just
30:41
some guy. It's just some fucking dude. Literally
30:44
some guy. No, that'd be mean. That'd be mean.
30:50
I was about to say, it's like if this Japanese
30:53
superstar got knocked down by a Lyft driver,
30:55
but no, I would have, that's... That was a little
31:00
too mean. At least Cardenas was a professional
31:04
boxer at the time of that fight. Yeah, Zach Shelley
31:10
was a... He literally was a guy just clocking
31:13
in to get knocked out. Oh, well. We'll see what
31:20
Morel's going to do from here. Fuck. Or we won't.
31:25
Back to Pro Box for three years and forget, buddy.
31:31
Will we forget? Daniel Dubois stops Fabio Wardley
31:38
in the 11th to claim the WBO heavyweight title.
31:42
Someone finally did it. Someone beat the slot
31:48
machine? Someone finally did it. I'm glad. I'm
31:53
glad. I mean, it would have been funny to see
31:56
Bobby Wardley win and fight Usyk. But, I mean...
32:00
No, it wouldn't have. It would have been pretty
32:02
funny. Don't lie. It would have been... I wouldn't
32:06
say it would have been good, but... I would have
32:09
preferred it, too, because... I mean, we've already
32:11
seen him fight Dan Dubois. At least it's another
32:13
new fighter. But that's pretty fucking funny.
32:19
Just... Oh, my God. Honestly, that was a great
32:24
fight that honestly pissed me off at the end
32:28
because there was multiple factors that were
32:30
playing into Wardley getting fucked. It was Fowler
32:35
Foster's incompetence. Well, not incompetence,
32:37
but I would say his, what do you call it? Criminal
32:42
negligence. Yeah, criminal negligence. It's a
32:45
hilarious way of putting it. I think it's, you
32:48
know when you make a deal with... Baphomet and
32:50
he comes to collect. Yeah. That's Howard Foster.
32:54
Oh, Faustian bargain. Yeah, Faustian bargain.
32:57
Yeah, it was like, let's be real. Foster probably
33:01
should have stopped that way sooner, but also
33:03
he shouldn't have stopped Parker, so. Well, there's
33:08
a reason why you stopped Parker and didn't stop
33:10
Wardley early. Because honestly, my theory is
33:13
that Howard Foster probably favored Fabio Wardley.
33:17
You think he's a gambler? Not a gamble or something,
33:20
dude, because he really let Wardley fucking almost
33:24
die in that ring. Oh, listen, man. Fucking like
33:26
Jake LaMotta. You never got me down, Ray. You
33:29
never got me down. Nah, nah. I was like, you
33:32
know what, man? Whatever. This would not be top
33:37
10 worst Howard Foster moments, really. That's
33:44
probably been way worse. Because I was going
33:46
to say, I'm like, I'm going to say, Wardley,
33:48
at every point, still kept throwing back. He's
33:52
never really able to defend himself. Defense
33:55
was never something he was taught. Oh, yeah.
34:00
So, like, if you're going to go by, he can't
34:03
defend himself, then, like, don't even let him
34:04
in the ring. This guy cannot defend himself.
34:07
But he was still throwing back. One thing I got
34:12
to say, too, Ben Davidson, incompetence. Well,
34:15
yeah. That one was horrible to watch. And I also
34:19
think he also had his own pride in there. You
34:23
know, he had the story with Don Charles before.
34:25
He had AJ, his previous fighter, fight with Don
34:29
Charles' fighter, Daniel Dubois. I think he also
34:32
had a little bit of a play in there, too. He
34:34
had some ego in it. He wanted to defeat Don Charles.
34:38
He wanted to defeat the guy that beat one of
34:40
his fighters. And he didn't. He almost got his
34:43
guy killed because of it. I mean, that's kind
34:45
of an exaggeration, but, I mean, still, your
34:48
guy can get killed like that. You know, running
34:50
back. Long -term damage. I mean, I do want to
34:53
see that man back. Wardley actually activated
34:56
the rematch clause, so we are running it back.
34:59
And you know what? You know what, too? I got
35:02
to say, Fabio Wardley, for the first, like, round
35:04
or two, fucking... He had a decent game plan.
35:09
But then once he got the knockdowns, he just
35:11
kept spamming and spamming and spamming. He wasn't
35:14
patient. Wasn't setting anything up. Abandoned
35:19
the jab. Abandoned the body. Just fell in love
35:23
with his own right hand. Exactly. That first
35:26
round, he had a great game plan. He was doing
35:28
short shots perfect. And he was beating Danny
35:31
Dubois. But then Danny Dubois held it together
35:33
and let Wardley just fucking tire himself out.
35:37
And you know what? At first, I was getting pissed
35:40
in the fight because Daniel kept smothering his
35:42
work. Well, I thought he was smothering his work,
35:45
but in reality, he was towering worldly out.
35:48
He was, Jesus Christ, I'm so sorry. I was yelling
35:52
yesterday. I had a fucking, what do you call
35:55
it? My voice cracked. Sorry. No, yeah, he was
36:03
towering worldly out. He came in. 10 pounds heavier
36:06
than usual and put all his weight on fucking
36:10
Wardley. And, I mean, that obviously did have
36:13
an effect on him until the very end. I think
36:15
that's how he won his fight. That was a very,
36:16
very smart, very intelligent way to fight. Man,
36:26
you already outlined a lot of the points that
36:28
I had. And what I had already mentioned, like
36:32
Fabio Wardley, this... He came out okay, but
36:39
the second knockdown, I think that was the catalyst
36:42
for his downfall, was Dubois, like you said,
36:47
was kind of like leaning on and tying up Wardley
36:53
and leaning on him. And Wardley, I don't know,
36:59
like I said, did he fall in love with his right
37:02
hand? He was just spamming quarters into the
37:06
fucking slot machine and not a single one was
37:09
hitting and nothing was landing. And something
37:14
that kind of, it miffed me a bit, was Ben Davison
37:20
on social media saying, like half of the coaches,
37:26
or like most of the coaches that are questioning
37:29
my decision to keep Wardley in the fight. haven't
37:34
even operated as close to the level as I have.
37:38
You're just lucky that fucking Tyson Fury felt
37:41
bad for you. That's true. Well, no, Tyson Fury
37:45
was fat as shit and needed a boxer -size coach.
37:49
That's it. That's literally it. He needed a guy
37:53
to help him lose weight, and that's his entire
37:55
career. Yeah, that's how you got into this position.
37:59
I have yet to see him have a successful fighter.
38:04
Tyson Fury doesn't count because he was good
38:06
on his own. Lee Wood barely counts, but that's
38:10
more strength of will for Lee Wood. I remember
38:15
right after Lee Wood had that fluke knockout
38:19
against Mick Conlin, right? Oh, yeah. He opts
38:24
on Twitter being like, boxer size band does it
38:26
again or something. And I'm like, you are not
38:29
responsible for this win. Your dude was straight
38:32
up losing every second of that. Yeah, like he,
38:37
like any normal coach probably pulls his fighter
38:40
out. Like, just ridiculous. Yeah, so the rematch
38:52
is next. Up top, Saul, you had mentioned, like,
38:58
hell of a heart from Wardley. All the usual,
39:03
you know, adages or whatever about heart and
39:09
chin and toughness whenever a fighter's getting
39:12
their ass kicked. But does this go any better?
39:17
Like, what can... Honestly, I don't know if it
39:19
can with Ben Davison in this corner. That guy
39:22
is a fucking moron. Yeah, he sucks. Yeah, but
39:28
also, you know what? I have enough hate in my
39:30
heart to watch it. Yeah, I'll be watching it.
39:37
I have enough hate in my heart. It's pretty...
39:39
I'll watch it. The fight was pretty fun, and
39:42
like, honestly... Listen, man, one could only
39:46
dream John Ruiz would have received these beatings.
39:54
With all the hate in my heart, there's nothing
39:57
worse than a bad heavyweight champion, honestly.
40:03
Maybe this was just Wardley got high on his own
40:08
supply. And maybe he could correct it. Who knows?
40:12
He's always been like this, though. Whenever
40:14
he hurts a guy, he just, like, the boxing goes
40:16
out. It just leaves his soul. You can see it.
40:23
It's just, he's always been like this, and he
40:25
just, he has a coach who has never corrected
40:27
it. Straight up. What I also coach is Moses Atalma.
40:37
And I was thinking about it after this fight.
40:40
I know Aitama's a great talent. And I'm not going
40:44
to fucking come on here and say Aitama is going
40:46
to lose to another heavyweight just because of
40:48
his trainer. But when you're in deep waters,
40:52
which one day Aitama will get into, right now
40:56
he's taking care of demolishing all his other
40:59
competition because they're below him. Of course
41:01
he is. But once you meet an equal force, that's
41:04
where the trainer comes in. And guides you to
41:07
the win. And with someone like Ben Davidson,
41:10
who is obviously incompetent and has not really
41:18
had a lot of success late rounds, I mean, come
41:22
on. This is – I got to say that. I tell them
41:28
I might need a new trainer. A trainer that's
41:30
more experienced. That's true. You know, that's
41:35
going to be bad in the future for him. Because,
41:37
again, you fight, let's say, I tell him to fight
41:40
someone like Daniel Dubois. Okay. Now, I'm not
41:43
trying to say Don Charles is doted, but he's
41:46
way better than Train. He's a real trainer. Yeah,
41:49
he's a real trainer. Like, wait, he's not a boxer
41:50
-sized motherfucker. That's what I'm saying.
41:53
Like, yeah. So, Moza. Yeah, sorry. Are you talking?
41:57
No, I was just going to rehash. The Tyson Fury
41:59
connection only exists because the badass need
42:02
to lose weight. Yeah. Like... I'm honestly calling
42:11
it on here. This might be the first take ever
42:14
about Ben Davison versus Itama, but Itama might
42:18
lose with a trainer like Ben Davison in the future.
42:21
Yeah, like tactical error is probably the only
42:24
way you can even see a guy like that losing,
42:26
so I see it. Yeah. Putting a stamp on that one.
42:34
Coined. Boom. Yeah, I think that'll be interesting
42:40
to call back to if it happens. I hope not. I
42:46
want Moses to win. Yeah, I was going to say,
42:48
it'd be nice if we had a heavyweight champion
42:50
who was more skilled. Yeah, fast as feet. Tough.
43:00
Anything more for Queensberry? Let's go Zach
43:05
Shelley. Yeah, I was going to say, I guess Zach
43:08
Shelley will be watching his career with great
43:10
interest now. How good is Zach Shelley? Jesus.
43:14
He might be able to beat David Benavidez, right,
43:16
guys? Come on. Fuck no. We should have done this
43:20
with Shanada. She should have taken that long
43:21
lunge. Anyways. Last thing, Sunday, May 10th,
43:30
Zufa Boxing 6. On the undercard, on the prelims,
43:36
we had Rakhmatullo Boimatov stopping Caleb Hall
43:41
in one. That was a six -rounder at light heavyweight.
43:48
Demasian Vanhouder stops Raphael Murphy in one.
43:54
That was a heavyweight fight. Hold on. It says
43:58
split decision on my end. For which? For, what
44:05
is it, Raphael? No, hold on, wrong one. There's
44:10
two Raphaels on this card. I misclicked it. My
44:12
bad. Yeah, that's Raphael Moni. Moni, yeah, that's
44:17
my bad. Lost the split decision. Split decision,
44:20
that's my bad. Justin Valoria dropped a UD to
44:23
Ivan Ortiz. He's related to the Hawaiian Punch,
44:29
Brian Valoria. In the main portion, Andreas Katsarakis,
44:37
UD over Misael Rodriguez. That was that middleweight
44:41
10 -rounder. Julian Rodriguez, UD over James
44:45
Perella. And Shane Mosley stops Sergei Bohachuk
44:49
in six. You know what? Damn. Sorry, Virgil. How
44:58
does this affect Virgil's legacy? Not well. Yeah.
45:05
I gotta say, that's a bad look. I was gonna say,
45:08
I don't even think Saul can defend Virgil here.
45:10
Like, that's tough. Isaac did. Yes. Isaac did?
45:14
Yeah, he said that this has nothing to do with
45:16
Virgil and his legacy. No, Virgil doesn't have
45:20
much of a legacy, but... I could try it. I'm
45:23
gonna try it. I'm gonna try to defend him. Let's
45:26
go. Let's hear it. Patty Donovan. He lost to...
45:35
He beat... What's his fucking name? Karen Chukazadazian.
45:40
Right? He gave Boots his hardest fight. No, and
45:44
Kane, but Boots also has a win over Stanionis.
45:48
And Virgil has not had a Stanionis to win against.
45:53
Yes, he has. Twice. He just didn't get in the
45:56
ring. Well, that's... That's a moot point. That's
46:01
what I'm saying. It's so hard to defend Virgil
46:03
just because, like, this is... And we blame Rick
46:07
Meridian in this house. Oh, my God. Two title
46:13
shots. On some real shit? I mean, it's not like
46:17
Virgil lost to him. I mean, I think Virgil won
46:19
the fight. Nah, I don't think Virgil lost. They're
46:22
just hating. That is just hating. Yeah, it is
46:25
just hating at that point. But he did have a
46:28
hard fight with him. Whether Bochuk is an elite
46:30
opponent or ever was is besides the point. I'm
46:34
surprised that Shane Mosley Jr. really was the
46:37
one to do it, though. Stopping him like that
46:40
was kind of crazy. Yeah. Shane Mosley Jr. I mean,
46:44
he gave Jesus Ramos a good fight, too. Oh, my
46:47
God. He's a gave -it -a -go fighter. He's my
46:52
Derek Chisora. I get it now. Actually, that's
46:55
a great analogy. He is basically middleweight
46:58
Derek Chisora. I got to give it to the Brits.
47:02
I understand y 'all. I'll give you that. I'll
47:04
give you that. That's fair. You back your guy.
47:09
I'm going to back my guy. Only because he's the
47:12
son of my guy who is also, you know, not everybody's
47:16
favorite. Chemos, he was good, though. Oh, he
47:21
was good, but he's not going to come up in the
47:23
conversations about who's their favorite fighter
47:25
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47:30
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them eerily right. Sometimes. Friday, May 22nd.
51:15
Golden Boy on DAZN at the SAP Center in San Jose,
51:20
California. I wonder if Damos go into this. Moving
51:27
up the... Oh, something Shinada pointed out.
51:32
This is a really international card. There's
51:35
like a lot of different nationalities on here.
51:39
There's an Anel Dudo. I think he's opening the
51:42
card. He's from Bosnia. Jose Medrano. Enkmadak
51:47
Karhu. He's Mongolian. Versus Adrian Ibarra.
51:52
Darius Fulgham versus Joanki Urrutia. Oh, shit.
51:58
Robin Safar. Been a while since I heard of him.
52:05
Versus Yamil Peralta. Jordan Panthen, the Patriot.
52:11
Versus John Rivera Pacheco. Scrappy Ramirez versus
52:15
Lucas Fernandez. And Amari Jones versus Vincenzo
52:21
Gualtieri. To cap it off. What an exciting card.
52:28
I'm excited for Amari Jones. That's true, actually.
52:32
I can't hate that much on Amari Jones. But yeah,
52:39
it's... That's a card. For Golden Boy, given
52:44
the state that Golden Boy is in, this is actually
52:46
pretty good. Actually, yeah, you're right, actually.
52:49
This is like a... You know, it's below Pro Box,
52:52
but still. This is like their version of a five
52:56
-star event. That's true. But a real 5 -star,
53:02
then. Glory at Giza. On DAZN. At the Pyramids.
53:11
Holy shit. This is happening. I'm genuinely curious
53:18
what it's going to look like. Yeah, this card
53:21
isn't that terrible. That's pretty good. Yeah,
53:25
like the card itself has some good fights in
53:27
there. We got the Philly Cat. We got a Philly
53:33
Cat. We got a Richie. Yeah, I was going to say
53:37
Frank Sanchez, Richard Torres is actually probably
53:40
carrying my most intriguing matchup. The other
53:44
ones seem a little... Actually, Kaderil Gyasov,
53:47
but Kaderil didn't train with Bozy for this fight.
53:53
He went back to the UK. He's not Philly Cat this
53:56
time. So he might get same old, same old. The
54:02
once -in -a -lifetime fighter. Jackron Katarenis.
54:07
Yeah. I'll never see that one again. It could
54:12
have been a legendary fight. We got a Saudi plant.
54:16
Sultan Al -Muhammad versus Deddy Imprax. That's
54:23
fun. It could be a fun fight. I think Soliman
54:26
was a good guy that we liked watching. Yeah,
54:29
he's alright. For a Saudi plant, he's actually
54:31
not terrible. He could be worse. Mizuki Hiruta,
54:38
the WBO super flyweight champ versus Mai Soliman.
54:43
Mai Soliman is Egyptian. I thought that was pretty
54:45
cool. Bless Hiruta's soul. This is her last fight
54:49
before they try and put her in with Gabby. Oh,
54:54
jeez. If we remember that news fight from a bit
54:58
back, this is her last fight before they try
55:02
and throw her in with Gabby. Rest in pieces.
55:05
God bless your soul, man. I'm excited for her
55:11
ring walk attire and everything. Oh, it's going
55:13
to be so heat, especially on a higher budget
55:15
event. Yeah. It's exciting. It's at the pyramids.
55:20
High budget. She's going to look fucking fantastic.
55:27
She's going to shine. Hamza Shiraz versus Alan
55:31
Begich. WBO, vacant WBO super middleweight title
55:36
on the line here. We're assuming Shiraz is going
55:39
to take the cake, right? Yeah, hopefully not.
55:45
Hopefully not. I don't want Shiraz to win. I'm
55:48
a hater. Yeah, but this title is going to get
55:52
taken hostage in Germany forever. Yeah, you're
55:57
right. I was going to say, Shiraz keeps the title
56:02
and then Turkey can, I don't know, make a rematch
56:05
with Adamas or something at 168. Adamas is moving
56:10
up. Yeah, you're right. You can do more with
56:16
Shiraz having a title than... Alan Bejic having
56:19
a title and taking it home to Germany to never
56:22
be seen again. Especially, Bejic's 39, dude.
56:27
Do you really think he's going to win? I believe
56:30
the mandatory for this winner is Jakub Benk.
56:37
Okay, see, wouldn't you rather Shiraz, even if
56:40
you're a hater, Shiraz Benk? Think about it.
56:44
I would like Shiraz Benk. Shiraz Bank. Shiraz
56:48
Bank is a lot funnier than Alan Bedrick. You
56:52
ain't wrong on that one. You have to pick your
56:58
battles. You're right, you're right. Anyways.
57:05
I'm just here for the Yakub Bank fucking upset.
57:10
I want him to beat Shiraz. I want Yakub Bank
57:14
to be the one to do it. I need Jakub Bank, Osles
57:18
Iglesias to be for, like, what's left at 168.
57:23
Maybe Osles Iglesias against someone else that's,
57:25
like, interesting. Super interesting. Oh, man.
57:28
Lester Martinez got screwed. I'm going to be
57:31
honest. I was going to say, Lester Martinez should
57:34
totally be in the picture right now, but we're
57:37
fucking around with Canelo and Mbili, so. Well,
57:41
that's big money there. Yeah, I guess. This might
57:45
be another Benavidez situation where he gets
57:47
the interim and never fights for the actual belt.
57:50
Hey, Benavidez dropped that title twice. Yeah.
57:58
Benavidez had two chances to fight Canelo and
58:00
drop the title twice. That begs the question.
58:04
Do you think Benavidez would have fought Canelo
58:06
even if he had the belt? I think Canelo would
58:08
have fought him. Like, I think, especially, like,
58:12
at that point in their careers, like, Canelo
58:15
at his absolute peak and Benavidez, you know,
58:19
he wasn't quite the complete demon we know he
58:23
is. Or he hadn't shown it. Yeah, he hadn't had
58:29
the opportunity to show it. Yeah, like, the big
58:31
memory of Benavidez was getting knocked down
58:33
by Gavriel at that point. Yeah. So, I don't know.
58:38
It would have happened. I think it would have
58:40
happened. And it would have been a really good
58:42
fight. Nowadays, it's more the ceremonial Canelo
58:46
execution for ducking Benavidez. Do the people
58:51
still want to watch that fight? I don't know.
58:54
People will watch Canelo until the heat death
58:56
of the universe. If the crowd at the Benavidez
59:01
Zerto card is to be believed, a lot of people
59:04
still want to see it. You're actually incredibly
59:06
right. They did boo Canelo out of the fucking
59:08
arena, too. I mean, those are Benavidez fans
59:12
at the end of the day, so that is pretty biased.
59:14
Yeah, but those are all paying customers who
59:18
will pay to show up to watch it. And Canelo also
59:23
has a swath of paying customers who will show
59:27
up and watch, or who just hate him and will show
59:29
up and watch. I mean, honestly, if Mbili beats
59:33
him, that's pretty much the end of Canelo. Oh,
59:36
Jesus. If Mbili beats him, we're going over his
59:41
legacy. Yeah. That's a bad loss. It's not that
59:48
he's losing at this age. It's more that he's
59:50
losing to a guy that simple. Yeah, fucking Mbili.
59:55
I don't care how washed you are. You have to
59:57
beat the Mbili at all points in your career.
1:00:00
It's like if Floyd lost to Andre Berto. He's
1:00:05
tailor -made for a guy like Canelo. Even at this
1:00:08
late stage, it's still the tailor -made opponent
1:00:11
for him. This is a fight that they wanted to
1:00:15
make, but Mbili just did not progress enough.
1:00:18
It's very much his Andre Berto. Finally, we made
1:00:21
the fight at the end of his career. I still insist
1:00:26
that we should be calling him Dinero instead.
1:00:33
Anyways. Yeah. Frank Sanchez versus Richard Torres.
1:00:37
Like we had said, this one is carrying. I think
1:00:42
Frank Sanchez is damaged goods, though. I don't
1:00:45
think at... From what we know, he's a Cuban,
1:00:49
what, 33? Something like that? Let me see. It
1:00:56
doesn't show on BoxRec. He is 33 years old. Oh,
1:01:00
shit. In Cuban years. In Cuban years. He had
1:01:04
knee problems against Caballel. And I think at
1:01:08
his advanced age, those don't go away so easily.
1:01:13
Also, you know, it'll be good if Sanchez decides
1:01:16
to fight with some activity to him. Because,
1:01:21
like, when Sanchez more or less coasts, it's
1:01:28
not fun. It's really not fun. But I'm saying
1:01:32
if he brings it like he did with like a Jogba
1:01:36
or Junior Fah. Or. Yeah, I guess those are the
1:01:43
two names that I have in mind. He's pretty fun.
1:01:48
And, you know, we get to see. We get to see how
1:01:51
good Torres actually is because not a single
1:01:54
opponent we've seen from Torres except maybe
1:01:57
Guido. But even then, an Olympic medalist should
1:02:00
be beating Guido Vianello. Like, no opponent
1:02:08
we've had from Torres has been an adequate measuring
1:02:12
stick to how good he actually is. This is the
1:02:15
first measuring stick, honestly. Yeah, this is
1:02:17
his first real fight. I was going to say, beating
1:02:21
Curtis Harper, taking eight rounds to take out
1:02:25
Curtis Harper is like, come on, man. What about
1:02:27
that guy that fought Deontay? What's his name?
1:02:30
I forgot. But the guy that fought Deontay, that
1:02:35
was Richard Torres' victim. Tyrell Anthony Herndon?
1:02:39
Yeah, yeah. No, he fought Guido, and I'm like,
1:02:45
you know what? Like, Guido, I love Guido. but
1:02:48
a good heavyweight he is not. Guido did beat
1:02:52
Mark Muldough. Mark Muldough. And honestly, he
1:02:55
got dropped against the Jaguar. Yeah. That is
1:02:59
something. I don't know, but it's like American
1:03:02
journeyman level. Yeah. It is, yeah. But, you
1:03:06
know, it's fucking Richard Torres. We'll see
1:03:09
who wins. Yeah, I want to see. That's what I'm
1:03:12
saying. This one has some intrigue because, you
1:03:16
know what? Torres has many flaws in his game
1:03:22
that make for a fun heavyweight. Oh, yeah. It's
1:03:28
funny. The flaws make a fun heavyweight. Yeah.
1:03:31
Well, he's never going to fix them, but let's
1:03:35
be fully honest. He's never going to fix them.
1:03:38
Unless it goes to Robert. Actually, Robert Garcia
1:03:42
would be tailor -made to train him. He's training
1:03:46
with Bomac right now. Which is actually pretty
1:03:49
nuts. You'll see what Richard Torres is? Yes,
1:03:53
he's with Bomac for this fight. Alright. Makes
1:03:58
sense. They've got that top ring connection.
1:04:00
I will say with Bomac, have you guys seen that
1:04:03
picture of Bomac? Leo showed me it. I mean, Cheetos?
1:04:10
Yeah, it's a recent picture. You remember seeing
1:04:13
it? Oh, yeah. The Keyshawn Davis card. Yeah,
1:04:17
all you could say is just, oh, my God. Yeah,
1:04:19
when I posted it, I was like, Jesus, Bomek. Come
1:04:22
on, bro. Your fighters need you. They need you
1:04:28
healthy. Yeah, I think someone called him Dave
1:04:32
Blunts. Dave Blunts, baby. Oh my god. Do you
1:04:41
think, do you think, okay, this belongs to the
1:04:44
Patreon, but do you think Bomek can reach it?
1:04:48
Sorry, I found a picture from like 2025 of like,
1:04:51
he looks exactly, he's just gotten bigger since
1:04:53
the one you posted. That was, yeah, because that
1:04:59
one had, Keyshawn was still with Bomek. Yeah,
1:05:03
but that's the Cheetos one. But oh my god. Oh
1:05:07
my god. That's all I have to say about these.
1:05:10
The state of Mr. Mac. I just can't. How do you
1:05:18
let it get to that point? As a fat bastard myself.
1:05:21
How do you let it get to that point? Eat a bag
1:05:24
of Cheetos in the dressing room before a fight.
1:05:25
A family sized bag of Cheetos. This guy went
1:05:30
from the way into Costco. and pick that shit
1:05:33
up, because it's the Cheetos Puffs from Costco.
1:05:39
This part's gonna suck the smell, dude. Imagine,
1:05:43
like, the guy's doing your hand wraps, right?
1:05:49
And you just get Cheeto dust in your hand wraps.
1:05:52
Oh, my God. Oh, bro. He's also smearing the Vaseline
1:05:56
on your face, and you got fucking Cheeto dust
1:05:58
in your eyes. Oh! It burns! It burns! Type of
1:06:04
shit. Let's roll on here. Jack Catterall, Shakram
1:06:12
Giyasov. Catterall, as we mentioned, is no longer
1:06:16
with... Well, for this fight in particular, he's
1:06:19
not training with Bozy in this. He did not want
1:06:21
to train in the US for a fight in Egypt. Allegedly,
1:06:24
Bozy was too focused on... Boots. There's the
1:06:32
parent story. Makes sense. That's fair, yeah.
1:06:37
I'm like, it's the biggest fight of his son's
1:06:39
life. No shit. It's gonna be the biggest fight
1:06:41
of his career, too. Yeah. Biggest one. Yeah,
1:06:44
so I can't... I understand both sides splitting
1:06:47
up for this encounter. And... Oleksandr Usyk
1:06:56
versus Rico Verhoeven. The WBC heavyweight title
1:07:00
is on the line. The IBF and WBA are sanctioning
1:07:07
this as a defense, but those two titles are not
1:07:15
available for Rico to win. So if Usyk loses,
1:07:21
the WBA is going to go into a special review.
1:07:26
And then the IBF is going to be vacant. So that's
1:07:34
the... That's pretty much how everything is laid
1:07:38
out for this fucking spectacle. That is about
1:07:48
as much excitement as I have for it too, guys.
1:07:53
It's not a lot. We spent more time talking about
1:07:57
Frank Sanchez and Richard Torres. We spent more
1:07:59
time talking about BOMAC. Because that's just
1:08:03
more entertaining. Oh, man. And I feel bad making
1:08:06
fun of him. Or, like, having a laugh at his expense.
1:08:14
Because he's a fucking excellent trainer. But
1:08:20
that's all we got on the docket. Unless there
1:08:24
are fights coming up this weekend that I don't
1:08:26
know about. Let's have a look on BoxRec. Nope.
1:08:40
Sorry, I'm still laughing at this picture of
1:08:42
Al from Toy Story 2 with the fucking Cheetos.
1:08:48
Oh, pull back. Tomek, don't ever change. I don't.
1:08:54
He needs to change. He needs to. I want him around
1:08:58
for a long time. Put some snap peas in there.
1:09:02
Those veggie chips. I'm thinking the snap peas,
1:09:06
like the edamame, anything. Something green.
1:09:10
Something green. Something. Like not a fluorescent
1:09:14
color. Not dyed green. Yeah, like green. Green,
1:09:20
naturally green. Grapes? Grapes are good. I only
1:09:29
say this, Bomek. I know you're listening. We
1:09:33
only say these things because we care about you.
1:09:36
We want you to be well. We want you to have longevity
1:09:40
in the sport. You're a fucking asset to anyone
1:09:44
you corner. Real. But let's see. So we're heading
1:09:51
into Gloria Giza. Parting words. I think those
1:09:59
were my parting words, but I might be seeing
1:10:00
something green. Let's go, Richie Torres. I want
1:10:08
you to win. All right. That's going to do it
1:10:13
for this edition of the Boxing B -Sides. We'll
1:10:16
see you on the other side of Gloria Giza.