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on July 24th in Thailand. This is an interesting...
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Is Marius Walk. I remember him from... He was
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signed to fight Deontay Wilder way back in the
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day, and he popped for straight -up steroids.
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That's all I remember. Not great. Okay, I pulled
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him up on BoxRec. He has a shit record. It's
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not the best. He's 39 and 13. Which is whatever.
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But it's definitely a losing record lately. He
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won one fight in 2025 and two fights in 2023.
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And then to find more wins, you have to go back
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to 2020. That's not good. He lost to Huey Fury
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in 2020. Pathetic. This is such a waste of time.
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Tyson Fury, Mariusz Wach. Clearly he's just marking
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time until he gets to AJ later this year. It's
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the day before the AJ fight anyway. AJ Pranga.
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Just getting the timing together. Yeah, I think
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so. He still could have picked somebody slightly
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better. I know he doesn't want to, like, lose,
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but this does not make me think Tyson Fury is
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very confident. I guess the Thailand location
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makes sense. Because he was training in Thailand
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for his last fight, right? Yes. Fury? That's
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correct. But just a weird fight overall. I don't
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think anybody's going to be very excited about
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this one. No. It's, like, Makhmudov, you can
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kind of see it. But Mariusz Wach, like, that's...
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I guess it's the same... It's a similar level
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to Christian Prega, I think. I guess. Like...
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I don't know. This guy's also 46. Like, you're
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just beating up old guys. Holy shit, he is 46.
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Alright. This one doesn't make any sense to me.
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No, there are better opponents. Even if you wanted
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to keep it in the really beatable range. There's
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still a lot better you could have done. Like,
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you're selecting somebody that your much worse
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younger brother beat six years ago. I'm just
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saying. No, it's a very valid point. Also, I
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think, valid. Usyk vacates the titles. The speculation
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is he's fighting either Deontay Wilder or Jon
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Jones. So Usyk has definitely realized that he's
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past it. Yeah. So smart business move. And it
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is nice that he's not holding up any belts. Like,
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kudos for that. Yeah. Kabayel got elevated right
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away. Murat Gassiev, if you remember him, got
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elevated. I mean, it lets the division move on,
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so I'm all for that. Yeah. But, yeah, Usyk deserves
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his big money retirement tour, so... I have no
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problems with whatever he wants to do. Him fighting
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Jon Jones would be kind of funny. Leg one of
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the retirement tour didn't go very well. No.
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I think that's where the realization came from.
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Yeah. I don't watch UFC at all, but does Jon
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Jones punch really hard? Because he's more of
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a kicky submission guy, right? I would say...
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A striker in general, but not boxing heavy, I
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don't think. Yeah, okay. I don't know. I don't
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want to see Usyk get sparked by either of these
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guys. That would be fucking embarrassing. Last
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fight of your career. Deontay Wilder decides
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to have his one last hurrah. That would be...
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The worst thing to ever happen to Usyk's legacy.
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That would be fucking terrible. How badly would
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that stain his legacy? It would be bad. You think?
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A lot of people already don't like him. Like,
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the haters would feed on that forever. But...
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I would... I would celebrate that Deontay Wilder
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is now the lineal heavyweight champion. Jesus,
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I forgot about lineal. That would be hilarious.
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Yep. And then lineal will go to some fucking
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nobody from Kansas or something. I think that'll
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be the signal for Wilder to ride off as well.
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If he were to get a win like that. Fair enough.
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Yeah, that's true. But, like, what happens if
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the lineal guy gets beat by some, like, regional
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bum and then the lineal just stays regional for
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decades? That would be hilarious. That would
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give... I think that would be a good... Don't
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want to reuse the word stain, but it would diminish...
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prestige that the lineal title has in people's
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minds. Yeah. Because there's been some pretty
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mid -boxers that were lineal champions. Right.
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Exactly right. But, I don't know. Usyk, go get
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your money, but try not to embarrass yourself,
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I guess. Tank has been named champion in recess.
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Just strip this fucking clown. And it will be
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Lucas Body facing Floyd Schofield for the title.
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Which one's Lucas Body? He got a really good
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knockout last year, right? Over Ashton Sylvie.
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Yeah, okay. He was getting soundly outboxed and
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then he got that one hitter. That was awesome,
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though. Yeah, it was a good win. It was a good
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knockout. I think that was one of my comeback
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of the year. Yeah, I think so, too. I don't know.
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I just don't want to see Tank's name anymore.
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Like... I'm pretty done with him. Lloyd Schofield's
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not bad, though. No, he's okay. It does feel
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a little quick for him to be in a title fight.
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He's been really inactive lately. Yeah, I guess
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it's been a year since he fought. Then he had
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that one incident where he got allegedly poisoned.
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Oh, right. The hospital picture? Yeah. That's
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fucking ridiculous. It would be pretty funny
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if Luca's body sparked Floyd Schofield. I would
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enjoy that. Moving on, just to not give the fugitive
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any more time than he really deserves right now.
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Yeah. Canelo Mbili has been postponed. The likely
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new date is October. I hadn't heard about this.
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Did they give a reason? No. Not that I recall.
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That's weird. Yeah. Because it was supposed to
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be September, right? Yeah, it was the September
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16th weekend thing. Canelo is officially just
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giving up on his Mexico dates, eh? It seems like
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it. Do you think it's to not compete with a...
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I'm drawing blanks on names. Benavidez fight?
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I don't know if there is a Benavidez fight on
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that date. Yeah, I don't know either. The only
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other event that was scheduled around that time
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was Ryan Garcia versus Conor Benn, which I guess
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it's something worth mentioning that Oscar's
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not interested in making that fight. I mean,
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I don't think it's a good fight, but it would
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be a lot of money. It's just mandatory, if nothing
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else. Yeah. But WBC and rules, what the fuck
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does that mean? Absolutely nothing. If you have
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a name... Do whatever. Yeah, I guess they don't
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have a date. It just says advanced discussions
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for Benavidez against Mikaelian. It wouldn't
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surprise me if that ends up in September, though.
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Ooh, Benavidez claims the dates. I wonder if
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that's what's happening. That's my conspiracy
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theory. You might be right. That Canelo's moving
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out of the way. Which, I mean, it's kind of time,
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but I'm a little surprised he's doing it himself.
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If you know what I mean. Right. Shakur wants
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to fight GAR next. His words, he will bring the
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best out of me. I think he's right. Yeah, you
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think it's a good style matchup? Yes, I do. Gar
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doesn't have that much power, does he? Let's
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have a look. Like, I don't think of him as a
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potent... Shit. Like, really hard hitter. He's
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17 of 19. For KOs. Oh, that's higher than I thought
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it was. Mostly TKOs, though, right? Yeah. So,
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accumulation stuff. Because he... Go on. He is
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a bit of a numbers guy. Yes. Right, like I don't
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think he hits individual punches that hard. He's
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an accumulation. Knockout? Would be similar to
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the... What was it? William Zapata? Yes. Shrimpy.
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So, yeah, I can see it making Shakur less defensive.
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If there's not another serious power. Yeah, and
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he can display his skills in a more active way
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without being worried. Because Shakur really
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does seem worried when he's against power. Like,
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he stays really out of range and negative. Yeah,
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the De Los Santos fight is the best recollection
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of that. That was boring as fuck. It was terrible.
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I'm not opposed to this fight. I don't think
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Gar has much of a chance. Unfortunately, I don't
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think so either. I like him, but Shakur's just
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too hard to hit, I think. Yeah, I think you're
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right. It's hard to accumulate. damage when you're
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missing most of the time. Speaking of missing
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most of the time... That's rude. Sorry, Vito.
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Vito Melnicki signs with Matchroom. So, that's
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cool. Who was he with before? Or was he just
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kind of on his own? Self -promo. Yeah. That's
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probably a good move, then. yeah plus he's he
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does have a pretty sizable stable of uh like
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tri -state area guys like in the new york new
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jersey region yeah i've noticed they're collecting
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those guys yeah yeah so that he'll probably bring
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some of those over to match room with him so
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more more young young guys getting a shot it's
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always a good thing Matchroom's got the platform
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and the big promotion power. I think it's a good
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idea. Is it a good idea for Marlon Tapalas to
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move up to 126? I don't think he's going to be
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able to hang at 126, to be honest. I don't think
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so either. I like Tapalas, but I guess he's probably
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having trouble making 122. He is getting older.
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Yeah, so it's probably more of a I need to do
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this than a I want to do this, but this might
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be the beginning of the end for Topalas. Just
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thinking of the champs at 126, they're gonna
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fucking smoke him. He's tiny, and he's 34. Like,
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it's not a good combination. And I mean, he got
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beat by Oguni last fight. That's not somebody
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who should be beating you. Maybe it's a weight
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problem. Like he was really struggling to make
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the weight. That's what I was thinking. But man,
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I don't know. I don't think this is going to
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go well. You know what else is not going well?
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Mayweather Pacquiao 2. Postponed indefinitely.
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Indefinitely? As far as we know. I had not heard
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about this either. I've been out of the loop.
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I'm just too busy. Did they give a reason? The
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promotional entity was having an issue. From
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what I remember. So one of the lawsuits is causing
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issues, probably? Yes. Mayweather has fumbled
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his life so badly. Fucking nearly $2 billion
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athlete. Jesus Christ. And he's somehow hard
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up for cash. Like... Cannot imagine. Yeah, that's
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really all I got on that one. Not much more to
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say about it at the moment. Yeah, I mean, nobody's
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excited for that fight and they're probably getting
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that feeling. I think they thought it would get
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more buzz and people would be more interested.
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But I really don't see any point to this rematch.
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Maybe if it was 10 years ago. Isn't that when
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the first one happened? Exactly. Like, if the
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rematch happened somewhat near to the first one,
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then we'd be having a different conversation.
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Yeah, I don't see the point in this fight. I
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know the point is for Mayweather to make some
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money so he can pay off some debts, but I don't
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like the actual point in the boxing sphere of
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this. I heard the Mayweather Mike Tyson one was
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rescheduled. Yes. That makes me sad. That they're
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still doing that? Yeah, just let Mike... Leave
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him alone. Yeah, just leave him alone. Let him
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have his cannabis farm. His podcasting. Let him
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play with his pigeons. Yeah, leave the dude alone.
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Just let him... Enjoy his retirement. Bivol is
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going to have another surgery, this time on his
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elbow. And the WBO has called their mandatory
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Callum Smith. And I know Bivol's getting a little
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old, but these injuries are really starting to
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add up. Yeah, they're in really sensitive areas,
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like your back, fucking elbows, shit that you
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need to fight. Yeah, this isn't good. Like, he
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needs to start considering being finished. It
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would be pretty funny if Callum Smith beat him,
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though. I would enjoy that. I really like the
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Smith brothers, so I would be so happy. I think
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the only person that might be happier would be
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Robbie. Yeah, probably. But yeah, Callum Smith
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beating Dimitri Bivol would be excellent. That'd
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be pretty funny. That's a hell of a get back
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after a surgery. Like the last one. What was
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the dude's name? Eifert, maybe? Michael Eifert.
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That's right. That one makes sense. You've been
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out for a while, had a back surgery, and now
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you're having another. Is this a minor one? A
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minor surgery? And your get back is Callum Smith?
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That's tough. Callum Smith's not an easy touch
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for anyone. I know he gets a lot of hate, but
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he's not bad. He's quite good. Yeah, I don't
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know. Vivo might duck this one. I wouldn't be
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surprised. Drops another title. It would be a
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gutsy move coming off of surgery to fight Callum
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Smith. And last thing that I... Oh, that I do
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have listed, actually. Last thing listed. Josh
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Kelly. will be on the AJ Undercard against Kevin
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Ajiarko. This might be a fun fight, actually.
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Ajiarko's fun. Yeah. I don't particularly like
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or dislike Josh Kelly, but this one might be
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fun. I think it's going to be a chance for Josh
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Kelly to show up. Ajiarko, he's good, but he's
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not... Quite at the title contention level might
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be a little bit below it. Yeah, I would also
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lean towards Josh Kelly, but I think it'll be
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competitive. Like, I don't think this is going
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to be a walk. That's also England versus Ireland,
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isn't it? Yes, I think those are always fun.
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Northern Ireland. so then it's just really UK
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versus UK yeah still less fun still crown people
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yeah he's from Belfast and last thing that I
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wanted to mention Tony Yoka got injured so his
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fight that was coming up on this weekend It's
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cancelled. And according to me, the event should
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be fucking scrapped. Joe Joyce versus some random
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no -hoper doesn't do it for me. Hmm. I am happy
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that Joe Joyce is back. Oh, this is Russia versus
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everyone else. This whole thing. Is it in Russia?
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Yes. Yeah, I don't recognize any names except
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Joe Joyce. Is Gassiev still fighting? He... Oh.
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Boxrec still has Tony Yoka listed, so... Okay,
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so it hasn't been updated. It should be Garcia
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versus Joe Joyce at this point. That would actually
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be kind of fun. It would save the event. We should
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make some phone calls. Yeah. Hello, Mr. Russian
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right. Recaps. First things first. Wednesday,
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June 24th. No limit boxing in Australia. Just
31:03
the one fight that mattered. Lewis Crocker loses
31:07
his title. Liam Parrow, the Croc Hunter. That
31:12
was fun. He claims the IBF welterweight title.
31:17
His immediate mandatory is fucking Patty Donovan.
31:24
Nice. I like Patty Donovan fights. I would just
31:29
like for Liam Parrow to... rid us of these freaks.
31:34
Brits? No, not just Brits. Patty Donovan, I think,
31:37
is Irish. And then Karen Chakadzian. He's been
31:43
hanging around the top of the IBF rankings for
31:47
a while. Get rid of these fucking people. We
31:51
need another generation of challengers and contenders.
31:55
Get rid of the Eurotrash? Yes. This was a pretty
31:59
close fight, though. I think Crocker kind of
32:02
blew it in the first half. Like, he started really
32:07
slow. Yeah, inactivity. Because, what were the
32:14
scorecards? It was 115 -113 all the way across,
32:18
right? I don't remember. It was a while ago.
32:22
Yes. Yep, 115 -113 all the way. Yeah, it was
32:35
kind of a boring first half, and then Crocker
32:41
really tried to come on late, but he just waited
32:43
too long. At least in my opinion. I think you
32:49
nailed it. Was he even downloading? Is that the
32:59
term people like to use? I don't know what the
33:01
fuck he was doing. Anyways, I also prefer Pero
33:08
over these guys. And it's nice to get Australians
33:14
kind of excited about boxing. Like, decent boxing
33:17
instead of the crap they usually watch. A lot
33:22
of football players. Aussie rules football players.
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Yeah, yeah. That makes Pero two -weight world
33:31
champ. Correct. Is that right? Yeah. Which, Australia
33:36
doesn't have those very often. Like, I think
33:38
it's been a long time. Cambosos? He only won
33:48
in one weight class, right? He was a two -time.
33:51
Oh, two -time. Yeah, two -time at 135. You're
33:54
right. Let me see. Maybe I'm making shit up,
33:59
but I think it's been a long time. Google has
34:04
gotten so shit, Leo. I know. They're leaning
34:08
on their AI shit instead of what made them synonymous
34:14
with internet searching. Okay, so Jeff Fenwick
34:20
was the last one. How old is Jeff Fenwick? He's
34:24
quite old, isn't he? So he is 62 years old. So
34:29
it's been a while. Congratulations to Liam Farrow,
34:37
though. Rockin' Fights 54, brought to you by
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Star Boxing. Only two fights I wanted to mention.
34:50
Wendy Toussaint gets a majority draw. He's one
34:54
of those contender types who usually hangs around
34:58
the higher levels, but he's a little down bad
35:04
at the moment. And my local guy, Mickey Scala,
35:10
drops the ball by UD. Son of a bitch. Ooh, pretty
35:18
badly as well. Yeah. Dropped in the first round,
35:21
I believe. And just never got better. That...
35:32
Was on Saturday, June 27th. I'm going to skip
35:36
to Sunday, June 28th. Let's get this out of the
35:39
way. Okay. Zufa Boxing 8 at the Chelsea Ballroom
35:44
at the Cosmo. What do we got here? The prelims.
35:52
Jabrio Pebenito got knocked out by Tony Hirsch.
35:57
It was a pretty nice knockout. JPB had a nice
36:02
knockout on his last time out. So I was hoping
36:06
to see him do it again. Unfortunate. How the
36:10
tables have turned. Indeed. In the main portion,
36:17
the top three fights, we had Kane Sandoval getting
36:20
a majority decision over Brandon Lee. Brandon
36:23
Lee did not look good. No, he did not. That makes
36:28
me sad. I'm surprised it was that close. I don't
36:33
know what the hell the person who gave the draw
36:37
was thinking. I think they were trying to help
36:40
Brandon save face a little bit. The cards were
36:44
actually pretty close. Not draw close, though.
36:49
Well, one was 96 -94, so it was one round off,
36:53
and the other was 97 -93. That's a little bit
36:57
more accurate. I guess 96 -94 is possible, but
37:01
not quite to my liking. The cards were much closer
37:06
than the fight was to me, anyways. Yeah. I would
37:12
agree with that. Omar Trinidad gets the UD over
37:18
Jerwin on Cajas. This one also made me sad. Yeah,
37:23
Jerwin's had a hell of a run, so... cool, you're
37:27
getting paid as best you can in the tail end
37:32
of your career. He gave a hell of a fight. It
37:37
was really obvious, though, that he was in the
37:41
shop -worn category. Yeah, he was definitely
37:44
outclassed, but you have to give it to him. He
37:46
didn't just sit down. He tried. Yeah. But Omar
37:51
Trinidad was just much better. And in the main
37:58
event, Rayo Valenzuela knocks out Edwin De Los
38:02
Santos. There was a bit of a late hit. In the
38:07
second, there was a bit of a late hit. Edwin
38:10
is going to be contesting the results of the
38:13
fight based on that late hit. I think... So they
38:19
insisted on the video replay. And the video replay
38:24
guys said that there was no problem. So they're
38:29
contesting it more than that, but it's already
38:32
been upheld once. It was a late hit. It really
38:35
was. There's no excuse for it. I don't know if
38:41
it changed the outcome. I don't think so. He
38:45
was on his ass already. Doesn't really matter,
38:48
does it? It shouldn't really matter. A late hit
38:54
is a late hit. And he was clearly down on his
38:57
knee. Like, Valenzuela had time to stop it. Yeah,
39:01
you're right. I really like Jose Valenzuela,
39:06
but that was a late hit. It was. Do I think it
39:09
changed the outcome? No. Do I want it overturned?
39:14
No. But it was a late hit. If they do it again,
39:21
I think it's going to go the same way. I kind
39:25
of do, too. Although, Delos Santos caught him
39:31
a couple times. Like, Jose Valenzuela gets hit.
39:34
He just has a much better chin, I think. It was
39:41
a fun fight while it lasted, though. I'd watch
39:44
a rematch. A third trilogy. Oh, was that already
39:51
a rematch? Yes. The first time Edwin knocked
39:54
out Valenzuela. Right. I forgot about that. Oh,
40:02
I had forgotten about this. So BoxRec said De
40:07
Los Santos was down once in round two and deducted
40:11
a point for hitting Valenzuela after he was down.
40:14
So perhaps a little payback. That adds a layer
40:21
to it. That might have been more intentional
40:24
than I thought it was. It didn't look like he
40:30
was putting his full weight behind it. It's like
40:34
Edwin was down on his knee and then he kind of
40:38
tapped him a little bit. I think it was more
40:43
than a tap. But it was not full power. Yeah,
40:46
he didn't have his full weight behind it. He
40:48
just kind of like, yeah, bitch, I can do it too.
40:51
Yeah. Hmm. I wonder. I wonder if that was more
40:55
intentional than I thought it was. Hmm. But yeah,
41:02
I'd watch a third one. Fuck it. Yeah, why not?
41:06
So it looks like Valenzuela is going to be the
41:10
king of Zufa. I mean, I don't like Zufa, but
41:16
there's worse things, I guess. If he's happy
41:24
with it, if he's happy with where he is, then
41:26
all right. Who am I to begrudge? So I know Bodhi
41:32
and Schofield are fighting for that vacant WBA
41:35
soon. Valenzuela's positioned at number three
41:39
right now. So I don't know if the WBA is going
41:44
to play with Zufa or not, but he might get another
41:46
title shot soon. All right. Last thing. Matchroom
42:02
and Top Rank collab on DAZN at the Barclays Center
42:06
in Brooklyn. From... The bottom up, just going
42:13
to list off some. Stop me if you want. Dennis
42:18
Thompson split decision over Edwin Rodriguez
42:20
was an okay fight. Quincy Williams, UD over Jerome
42:27
Baxter. Juanmita Lopez, K01 over Alberto Motos.
42:35
Juanma is stringing them together nicely. Yeah.
42:41
He's looking good. Yeah, he doesn't look like
42:44
a 5 -0 fighter, 6 -0 fighter. No, and he's really
42:48
young still, right? He's 20, I think. I think
42:52
he's in his early 20s. Yeah. Ben Whittaker stops
43:00
Popeye Rivera in two. I don't like Ben Whittaker.
43:12
I mean, it was a very... He's fine. Bastard.
43:16
No. He's the one who jumped over the ropes, right?
43:20
Yes, and then said it was his back, then it was
43:23
his ankle or some shit. Yeah. Yeah, fuck him.
43:33
Jahai Tucker gets the majority decision over
43:35
Yuri Sedano. Emiliano Vargas. stops Bryce Mills
43:42
in the fourth. Emiliano looked good in this fight.
43:48
He did. I thought he looked very sharp. I'm surprised
43:58
at how quickly things turned around because I
44:01
thought in the very beginning Bryce Mills was
44:04
looking pretty game. Yeah, the first round. First
44:11
round, round and a half, it looked like it was
44:14
going to be like a close fight. And then Vargas
44:17
just figured it out. Yeah. And then quickly beat
44:24
the... Yeah, very quickly beat the piss out of
44:27
him. Jaron Ennis stops Xander Zayas in the seventh.
44:39
WBA, WBO. super welterweight titles have been
44:43
claimed. I know everyone knew that Boots was
44:51
going to win, or everyone was pretty sure. I
44:54
thought Xander put on a good showing. He did.
44:58
I think he did better than everyone expected.
45:02
And he had Boots rocked a couple times. Like,
45:05
he had him hurt. Yeah, I agree. so excited. I
45:11
thought maybe Zayas was gonna pull off the crazy
45:13
upset KO. What round was that? Maybe three? Three
45:19
or four. Yeah. It was a fun fight, though. Like,
45:26
if you missed it, it's definitely worth a replay.
45:31
Pretty good back and forth action. Xander looked...
45:39
A lot better. Than I. Absolutely I was. Giving
45:44
him credit for. I was expecting him to get fucking.
45:48
Schooled pretty much. I think that was. What
45:52
I was calling for. Before the fight was. Ennis
45:56
sweeps. Worst case. He sweeps a decision. Best
46:02
case it's a late stoppage. But as you pointed
46:06
out. Xander had. Great spots. He's got a hell
46:11
of a chin. He can game plan. He's wily. He's
46:17
got pretty solid power. Yeah. He's pretty damn
46:22
good. I think he'll be back in the title picture
46:25
pretty soon. Oh, for sure. And Xander's young.
46:30
He's only, what, 24, 23? Something like that?
46:35
Something like that. I don't think this loss
46:41
is going to hurt him very much. No. I think this
46:44
was him pushing himself too far. Like, he wasn't
46:50
ready for this fight, but good on him for taking
46:52
it. I wonder if Ennis a little bit underestimated
46:58
him. Like, I think Boots thought it was going
47:02
to be a bit of a walk until he got really cracked
47:06
there. There was talk of... I'm trying to...
47:17
Okay, BoxRec, you are stupid now. There was talk
47:25
of Jaron Ennis was trying to make a unification
47:29
fight with Fundora. I don't know if that's a
47:34
good choice for Jaron Ennis after seeing this
47:37
fight. I think Fandora hits pretty hard. He does.
47:44
And Ennis' chin seems a little suspect. And Fandora's
47:49
getting smarter. Like, every fight, I think Fandora
47:55
improves. But Fandora is going to be fighting
48:02
his mandatory. It's... I'm trying to remember
48:07
the guy's name. But it's kind of odd that Sebastian
48:17
Fundora has never really had to deal with a mandatory
48:19
situation before. Now suddenly that Boots wants
48:24
the action. Oh, you think it's a little suspect?
48:30
Yeah. What is this? Ermal Hadribe. I think I
48:37
butchered that properly. It's a dude from Albania.
48:42
I have never heard of this dude. I mean, Fundora's
48:49
allowed to take his mandatories. I don't think
48:53
it's ducking to take your mandatory. He kind
48:55
of has to. I mean, it's a mandatory after all.
48:58
Yeah, he wants to keep his belt. It's just strange.
49:03
The timing of it is strange. On the WBC side?
49:09
Yeah. You mean? Yeah. How is Tim Zhu still number
49:18
one in the WBO? That's crazy. Fight the fights,
49:29
I guess. I guess. If Jaron Ennis isn't going
49:42
to be facing Fundora for the unification, Josh
49:45
Kelly is busy. What else is there for him to
49:50
do? Virgil Ortiz? Is that it? I mean, that would
49:57
be the biggest fight. For sure. I don't know.
50:03
This weight class is kind of weird. Like, there's
50:06
a handful of big names, but the rest of them
50:09
are all people I don't recognize. Like, boots
50:20
against... Like, I don't even know who these
50:25
people are. Who is Pavel Sosulin? Never heard
50:31
of him. He's number one in the WBA. Boots isn't
50:36
fighting Kim Zu. I guess he could fight Madrimov.
50:40
Not bad. Bakram Mertazaliev, not a bad one. Yeah.
50:47
Like a bunch of these names at the top here,
50:50
I just have no idea who the fuck they are. Bakari
50:54
Samake? No idea. Fergiolio Ruhe? Megamed Kurbanov,
51:06
I feel like I might have heard of him. I've heard
51:08
of him. Yeah. I think he got sparked by Madrimov
51:13
one time. Yeah, he did. Jackson Blanco? Like,
51:19
who are these people? Danny Garcia's still in
51:26
the picture. Yeah, I just... This is a weird
51:34
weight class. Honestly, if they could make it
51:37
happen, Virgil's the best fight. And it would
51:42
finally give Virgil his title shot. Virgil loses
51:50
title shot before Virgil champ? I guess... Josh
52:01
Kelly just fought, right? Or is fighting soon?
52:04
He's fighting at the end of the month. That's
52:07
not that far off timeline -wise. I mean, Boots
52:10
fought last week. One month's different. They
52:14
could make the next fight Josh Kelly, or the
52:17
winner of Kelly Aguiarco. Could. Yeah, they could
52:24
do that. I don't think anyone really wants to
52:27
see it, but it would be a unification. If they
52:30
can't get the Ortiz fight. But the jokes are
52:38
too funny to keep dunking on Virgil Ortiz. It's
52:45
true. It's too fun. He was saying on social media
52:51
that he would have smoked Ennis if he had tagged
52:55
him the way Zaius did. Yeah, I don't know if
52:59
I believe that. I don't either. I don't think
53:03
Jaron Ennis would get tagged like that by Virgil
53:09
Ortiz. I mean, if Zayas can do it, Virgil probably
53:13
can. And Virgil is a better finisher. But I do
53:20
think Boots would be more careful with Virgil.
53:22
That's what I mean. He would play it a lot more
53:26
intelligently. Yeah, Zayas really pulled him
53:32
into like a firefight. I was a little surprised.
53:37
And his coach was calling for it too. Like he
53:40
was telling him to get in there and bang. And
53:42
I'm like, you're an idiot. It worked, but it
53:47
seems stupid. Boots could have outboxed Zayas,
53:52
no problem, I think. And Boots was switching
53:59
stances, right? Yes. I don't know if I've seen
54:02
him do that before. I've seen him do it when
54:07
he's, like, in flow state. You know? But he was
54:11
coming out southpaw. Like, not switching into
54:14
it. Oh, right. Yeah, that is unusual. So I think
54:21
Boots was kind of underestimating Zaius and fucking
54:24
around a bit. I don't think he would make that
54:31
kind of mistake with Virgil Ortiz. No, I think
54:37
he would stick to stuff he's good at. I don't
54:46
know. That weight class is weird. I don't know
54:47
what's going to happen next. Anything more for...
55:00
I think that covers it. If you missed it, you
55:02
should go watch the replay. It was a good fight.
55:08
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it is certainly a weekend of all time. It is
59:03
a weekend to go do something fun and summery.
59:07
Yeah, go outside. Don't coop yourself up to watch
59:12
IBA Pro 19. Tony Yoka's off of it. They're probably
59:19
still going to go ahead with the rest of the
59:20
card, but it kind of takes the luster off of
59:26
it. Yeah. Otherwise, Sunday, July 12th. I don't
59:41
really recognize any of these people. You're
59:44
not supposed to. Top tier. On the zone. At the
59:49
Brentwood Center. In England. The only. People.
59:59
God. Of all the days. The only people I remember.
1:00:07
Tiago Osorio Muxanga. He's, I think, a top -tier,
1:00:14
like, hot prospect. From Mozambique? Yeah. And
1:00:23
he is fighting someone from Nigeria, so... Tunde
1:00:28
Segun Adeyemi. I, uh, I don't know if those countries
1:00:36
have beef, but... Let's pretend they do. Could
1:00:43
be a good grudge match. That's it. That's all
1:00:54
we got. That's all the boxing. There's just nothing
1:00:58
going on. Yeah, it's really a good weekend to
1:01:03
go find, like, a festival to hit up or something.
1:01:08
Go find a good food truck. Food trucks are underrated.
1:01:12
And almost every town has one. Grill? If you
1:01:20
have one? Yeah. Yeah, if the weather's nice,
1:01:26
barbecue. Backyard fire. I think lots of cities
1:01:31
have the fire pits in the parks. Or fishing.
1:01:39
grills that you can use yeah i think i think
1:01:44
we're probably talking about similar things i
1:01:47
just call them fire pits like a place where you
1:01:50
can put wood with a grill over top yes yeah we're
1:01:53
talking about the same thing yeah make some hot
1:01:58
dogs I got it. It was a while ago now, but I
1:02:04
got a little homesick for just like shitty North
1:02:07
American food. And they're way overpriced. But
1:02:10
I got some Johnson Smokies with the cheddar cheese.
1:02:13
Oh, nice. Fuck are those good? Yeah. No, no fires.
1:02:18
I don't know the rules around fires. So I just
1:02:21
had to like, well, I microwave mine, but still
1:02:26
delicious. Well, we are heading into a nothing
1:02:38
weekend. Parting words. Yeah. Good weekend to
1:02:45
go touch grass in the summer. Always a good time
1:02:48
to touch grass, but now you don't have any excuses.
1:02:53
Yeah. People should go fishing. I miss fishing.
1:03:00
It's going to be one of the first things I do
1:03:02
when I go back to Canada. Catch some pike. Maybe
1:03:07
a pickerel if I'm lucky. You guys don't call
1:03:11
them pickerel, though. What's the other word?
1:03:14
Walleye. You're speaking a different language
1:03:19
right now. Yeah. Anyways, Saskatchewan, they're
1:03:22
pickerel. Everywhere else, they're walleye. I
1:03:30
don't know how common they are, but the city
1:03:33
I lived in, Saskatoon, they have a trout pond
1:03:36
where you can pay $2 to go catch trout and you
1:03:40
can rent fishing rods for $5. But the library
1:03:45
near there had fishing rods you could just borrow
1:03:48
with your library card for a day. Nice. Yeah,
1:03:52
so no excuses for not fishing if your town city
1:03:55
has that sort of thing. library of things. Yeah.
1:04:01
I know we've talked about it before, but libraries
1:04:04
have a lot more than just books. People should
1:04:08
go check them out. Oof. I got nothing to add
1:04:17
on this one. How's the weather in Arizona these
1:04:21
days, Leo? Hot as fucking fuck. We're in the
1:04:27
mid -40s. Oh shit, it's going to be cloudy tomorrow.
1:04:34
It's only going to be 39. That fucking sucks.
1:04:38
My hometown is in its bipolar phase for the year.
1:04:42
So tomorrow the high is 27 degrees and the nighttime
1:04:46
low is 11. Wow. Quite the change. Yeah, we get
1:04:55
these huge temperature swings in the summer if
1:04:57
it's not cloudy. I'm going to have bonfires and
1:05:04
I'm going to go fishing and I'm going to shoot
1:05:06
some shit. I'm excited to go be a redneck again.
1:05:10
I miss it. I miss it so much. Yeah, I'll leave
1:05:18
it there. That's going to do it for this edition
1:05:20
of Boxing Before Dark. Fuck, we'll see you on
1:05:25
the other side when we have some boxing again.
1:05:28
Bye. How do you want to convince them to watch
1:05:45
MMA instead? Or not instead, but just to start
1:05:48
watching MMA. I'm going to go like a different
1:05:51
route than Nathan went. I'm going to go with,
1:05:54
first of all, I think MMA has more frequent watchable
1:05:59
events. You know, there's some weeks in boxing
1:06:03
where it's, like, it's either super degenerate
1:06:05
or, like, no names, whatever. I think in UFC,
1:06:08
there's, like, it's slightly better at times.
1:06:11
And then the big, big point, it's just more hectic.
1:06:14
I think MMA at times is just more hectic. You're
1:06:18
seeing stuff from street fights all the way to,
1:06:20
like, movie -type fights. Uh, you know, you got
1:06:23
roundhouse kicks, uh, straight up like bar fights
1:06:26
at times. Uh, you just, you get a wider range
1:06:29
of enjoyable fights, I would say. Um, and then
1:06:35
just like, I don't know, it's just, it's more
1:06:38
enjoyable. The fact, the fact that at times you
1:06:40
get to see just guys like standing and banging,
1:06:42
it's, it's just more primal in a way, uh, is
1:06:45
what I'd say. That's how I would try to convince,
1:06:48
uh, like boxing only fans. that it's just more
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if you enjoy chaos we saw it in the wild which
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is or fight if you enjoy that type chaos uh you
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know because that wasn't exactly like a bunch
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of technique in that fight but if you enjoyed
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something like that i would definitely try out
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mma um just because at times there is high level
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things and that is incredible to watch you know
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people like marisa hoofy uh you're seeing like
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incredible knockouts with uh with kicks um But
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even the lower level stuff can be enjoyable with
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people just going to town on each other, standing
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and banging. That'd probably be the driving point
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that I would say to boxing only fans is that
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if you enjoy that chaos, I would say definitely
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give MMA a try. If you like chaos, I like that.
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If you do decide to give MMA a shot, well, you
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can check out Ultimate FN Casuals. You can hear
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us chat about all the fights that happen every
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weekend, just like on the boxing side.