The countdown is on to fight time. This is Big Fight Weekend. Now
here is your host DJ Leaves. We are ready to go. It is
Canelo Fight Weekend. It is a big pay per view from Amazon Prime and
our friends at PPV dot Com. Canello is back. He's fighting Jimi Mangia
unbeating Mexican former junior middleweight world champ. All of Canelo's belts on the line.
We're ready to preview that here on the Big Fight Weekend Preview. I
am merely TJ Reeves. He is our insider Dan Rayfield. Has he been
busy at all this week? I think so? He is with me from
Vegas on scene, OL on location. Lots to talk about with Canelo's fight,
anything going on with Ryan Garcia by the way, Thanks, How are
things because you have had quite as we're doing this Thursday night into Friday,
You've had quite the twenty four to thirty six hours in Las Vegas. How
are things just overall in Vegas as we ramp up to Canelo and Canelo pay
per view fight? We can Yeah, things are good. You know,
haven't been out here since the last Canelo fight in September, so it's been
a bit that's probably one of the longest times between fights in Las Vegas I've
had in a long long time. So it's exciting. You know, people
are already in the casino, in the hotel, and there's a lot of
signage, and you know there's a big event here and so that's cool.
And then of course I was going to be busy doing stuff for the fight.
And then of course our good friend mister Ryan Garcia pop positive, which
we'll get to which I broke that story. So my phone. You're lucky
I can talk to you right now because it was melting down last night with
all the phone calls and text messages and emails I was getting. It was
absolutely crazy, But we persevere and on we go. Yes, we do
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you follow and subscribe. Again, you'll hear from Canelo and the Wednesday press
conference that he had, you know, the whole fight press conference, the
main event fight press conference where he and Oscar dal La Hooya. Okay,
I mean, we knew it was bad and it reared its ugly head and
Dan was right there. So you're gonna hear from Canelo in his own words
in a few minutes. We'll talk more about Ryan Garcia in a little bit,
but Canelo is the main thing we're doing here with the preview. Set
the scene, because again, you were at the press conference. I know
it's Thursday leading to Friday as we're doing this, but set the scene,
Sinko de myio weekend as we're getting ready for the return of Canal well TG.
I think pretty much everybody expect us to be a good fight but he
hasn't really been that kind of promotion. And the reason is because himI Mangia
is a nice guy, a humble guy, doesn't say anything bad about anybody.
And while Canelo has no problem mfing anybody and given him the proverbial backhand,
he doesn't do it unless the other person starts with him. He's like
he can be in the ring. He's a counterpuncher at heart, and when
it comes to the trash talk, he's a counter talker, I guess.
So if Mangia has started to press his buttons and get out of the line
with him and start to say nasty things and you know, get up in
his face and all that kind of business, Canelo would give it right back
to him. But if Mogia is going to keep it cool and be reserved
and be humble and nice, and we're gonna have a great uh, you
know, We're gonna give a great fan, a great fight for our Mexican
fans and for all the boxing world, and we'll we'll beat each other up
in the ring. They're not going to get on each other outside of the
ring. So that has made for a high anticipation for a great fight,
but a rather sleepy promotion. I mean the promotion kickoff when they did the
news conference in La was like, you know, I've seen more exciting ballets,
uh and and now we get to fight week. And it was looking
like it was going to be sort of similar to that with the at the
Randa rivals. And so whether it was by calculation or just because they really
have that kind of beef and they went at each other. You have extremely
bad blood from Oscar and Canelo towards each other. Yeah, they're very acrimonious.
Break them and you know when there was a lot of disagreements about how
things were going and that that ended in twenty eighteen, and you know,
here we go. They they could not resist because canelos taking lots of shots
at Oscar, and Oscar pretty much had it up to hear with it.
And when he got to the podium and he lauded his Vanjimi Mangia and then
he went off on Canelo and like said, you know, all you've done
this whole promotion is not me and haven't promoted the fight, And then Oscar
went on like a self deprecating kind of rant, which he's like, yeah,
I've been in rehab I've had a lot of problems. I dealt with
my mental health, you know, And yeah, I missed your fight with
Mayweather because they brought me to rehab and and you know, you're stepping on
me when I'm down, and you know whatever. And then it just did
kind of devolve from there. And you know, he brought up the drug
test that Canelo failed back in the uh in the free rematch with Triple G
right, which really got under Canelo's skin because he hates that topic. And
he stood up and he started to go towards Oscar and and you know,
it looked like they were going to fight in that moment you were in the
room, did you consider at that moment, this is not hyping the pay
per view, this is legit? Or how did you perceive it? Because
you've been around a lot of these I think Oscar said what he said for
two reasons. One a little bit of catharsis to finally get it off his
chest, because Canelo has really been pissing him off, and he had the
big stage in front of him. And I do think because he's a promoter
and he was a great fighter who knew how to promote his pay per views.
He was doing it knowing that Haimi Mungie was not going to do anything
to ignite any fireworks, and that it was going to be on somebody to
bring this promotion to a little bit of a higher fever pitch. So I
think it was a combination of I'm gonna say what I have to say and
and one of the by products is going to be it's going to career a
lot of buzz. And so that was the perspective I had about how Oscar
handle it. I think Canelo was ready to throw down with Oscar without question.
He would have definitely gone after him, so that, you know,
that was the highlight of the press convers It wasn't anything that Mongi has said
about Canelo or Canelo about Mongia. They they're they're you know, being hugely
respectful. You know the you know, Eddie Renoso and Freddie Roach, the
trainers aren't gonna get into it, Freddy and renosso they are also the respectful
types. And uh that was the way Tom Brown, who's the TGB promotions
promoter from PBC, he doesn't really engage in a lot of shit talk either.
So you know, somebody had us stir it up a little bit and
and leave it to the golden boy who knows the drill on selling pay per
view. He did it all right, So we're gonna hear from Canelo in
just a second. I'm with you though there. I mean, there is
no doubt Mangia brings two things offense and he gets hit a lot. So
for the most part, I think we are in. I get the feeling
you think this too. I think we're in for some excitement here more than
likely, and maybe quickly in this fight. For that reason, because of
the type of fighter that Mongia is is right, real quick, absolutely.
I mean, Mongia is an offense said, and he's not afraid to take
one, you know, to give too or give two to take one.
I mean, that's just the style. And I think the one thing that
people mistake about Canelo Albarez is that they sometimes, in my opinion, misidentify
him as a prototypical stereotypical however you want to describe as a Mexican boxer who
simply straight, you know, straight ahead, and wants to brawl. He
certainly can do that, he has done that, but at his heart,
in his nature, his most comfortable way of fighting is to counter. So
that's why I feel like the fight is going to be a tremendous battle because
he's gonna let Haimi Mungie walk right to him and he's going to try to
counter him, and that's gonna make for a really, I think, a
good style fight. So I think Canelo is in a position where he can
brawl, but he can counter, and I don't think Mongia can do both
of those very well. He can come forward and try to lay the leather
on you. Going to be exciting early on. I do think though,
when it comes push to shove, they're both going to get their shots.
And to me, I've never you know, you got to go back to
the Jose Miguel Koto fight and many many years ago here at the MGM Grand
in Las Vegas where I am presently, where he got really hurt bad in
the first round, and everybody kind of thought that he was a hype job.
Well, I've never seen him really physically hurt in any kind of meaningful
way in all the you know what fifteen years or so since then, So
I know he's got one of the all time great chints because he's been in
with some way bigger punches than Mangia. Two fights with with a triple g
in there with Kovalev, you know, not the beebles a big puncher,
but he was obviously a much bigger guy. Fought Alfredo Angulo who was a
top puncher, James Kirkland, who was a tremendous puncher. I mean,
Miguelkota, who was a top puncher. We can just go on through the
line of all the guys he's faced. Mangia. Dude gets hit and like
you said, do we not see him rock numerous times against devren Chengo was
not a puncher, right, So I feel like we'll see that happen early
and he'll be able to take it for a while because of the youth and
the and the and the the less wear and tear and that kind of thing.
But you gotta figure, at least in my mind, you know that
by mid fight, you know, Canelo starts to kind of wear him down.
Now, maybe maybe Monkey can land some big, big punch and look,
we know the Canelo, the end will come at some point. He's
got over sixty fights, he's got a lot of hard rounds. He's you
know, he's into his You know what, he's the thirty three thirty four
now when term pro when's like fifteen sixteen or whatever. Not a young fighter.
I mean a lot of mileage. Still great, but is he at
his absolute best. I think he might be like eighty five to ninety percent
of what he was when he was at his best. He's still really fucking
good, but at some point it's not going to be considered that big of
an upset because you can see it coming. When you get that many fights
in that many rounds and now you're in with another young, strong, hungry,
good puncher, you know, unfortunate things can happen. I don't think
it's gonna be Saturday, but I'll have to be honest, I wouldn't be
totally shocked if it was all right, well handicap. This more first mentioned
on the bet US Boxing show one Eastern Time or Dan Time ten Pacific in
Las Vegas. On the Full Breakdown, We're going to break down the rest
of the car in a moment that has a couple of intriguing names on it,
but without further delay, and I promise we're getting to the Ryan Garcia
conversation too, because there's a lot of people frothing and wanting to hear more
about what you broke and that kind of stuff, how you found it out,
the reaction to it. But without delay. Again when the press conference
was over, this is good stuff. Where you said to me, Canelo
waved at you, like get over here, because you would interviewed him recently
and you've got a chance to talk with him in the aftermath of the back
and forth with Oscar. That's kind of cranked this up a little bit,
right, Yeah, No, I mean he knows me for many years.
It wasn't like he motioned me. I was there waiting to take my turn.
But what happens is a lot of times afterwards are we kind of they
tell you TV side goes to one fighter and then the writer's slash, I
guess whatever not not the guys with the cameras anyway goes to the other fighter,
and then they're supposed to switch. I've done a thousand press commerce.
The switch is really tough. I mean, so I just hung by Canelo
who was doing the TV first, because I needed to talk to him more
than Mangia. Uh, and so I just mind my business. But Canelo
saw me, you know, shook my hand and was like basically gave me
the hey wait and did a couple of his things that were ahead of me,
and then uh, a lot of the guys that were talking to him,
they make them do it in a group, but I guess I have
some special dispensation and he, you know, did it with me on just
one on one. Uh, and they called me over. And then you'll
when they hear the audio, my good pow. Lance Pugmeyer a longtime boxing
writer for the La Times and also for a while at the Athletic. Now
he's writing at Boxing Scene, who also has covered for Canlo for many years,
so he kind of was in there at the end. So if you
hear when you hear the few minutes that we're going to play, you'll hear
Lance towards the end ask one or two questions in between some of the questions
that I had. Good way to set it up. So here was Canelo
Wednesday afternoon, after the press conference, cranked up at Oscar de la Jolla
and more. Let's go to that right now. What was it that set
you off? What Oscar said at the press conference? What made you show
at this card title, get up into front? He insulted, me.
He insulted me, and that's why I get he insulted me, and and
I don't want to permit that. You look like you were gonna puncher.
Yeah, I will if he if he if he comes closer, and I
fuck him. What were you saying him in Spanish when you first started to
shout at him. No, he's he's on a fucking asshole and he's he
tried to steal money from the fighters, and he maybe steal money from their
fires. I don't know, but I had proves why he tried to steal
my money from me, from all in everything, but you know, he's
a fucking an asshole. So when I asked you did that he don't care
about his fighter because he tried to to. He tried, he tried to.
He tried to to to to bring all the attention for him. And
he don't care about the Hemi mung Heir, his best fight, his base
waken from Mungia. He don't care anything about his fighter. He just about
him. When we did our zoom together, I asked you if it would
give you more satisfaction beyond just winning and beating an undefeated fighter, would he
give you bigger satisfaction by taking down Oscars number one fighter. You said you
didn't care. Then you kind of said, well, yeah, I guess
when I kind of pressed you. Now that you've had the confrontation, Yeah,
I'm gonna be so happy that night you will see, Well, what
will you do to that? Besides I'm gonna I'm gonna fucking motherfucker son of
a bitch. I don't think there's much more to say than that. Yeah,
Okay, I'm very I'm very strong. I'm very strong fighter behind what
was that when you made a reference? Look, we did a lot of
recording this flight, the part that you mentioned about the steeling, did I
bro he tred to steal money from me? Not that ideal that he did
his own fight with. No, no, no, he tried to steal
money from me from my five with the Love fis and he tried to steal
money from love for the second fighter the first fight. I don't I don't
remember maybe phrase one two one three one three one not because it was second
one of these one but if he tried to stand on and I prove I
have proofs, did you have a feeling that something like this is gonna go
down today? Or you forget Yeah, I cannot have the feeling he already
because he just wont attention to him no matter what I noticed. He wasn't
in the picture when all the teams were together like Kimi and the home.
Because he comes closer, I really beat him. I really punched him.
If he come really close to me, I I bunched him in that situation.
Again, how much of it is hyping the pay per view? How
much of it is genuine? I get the sense from Canelo's point of view
that if he got a chance to take a crack at an Oscar, he
probably would because of previous bad blood, and if Oscars was ten years younger,
maybe be setting up his own fight with Canelo. Nonetheless, he's the
promoter. Okay, So we've talked a lot about that rest of this car
that includes Mario Barrios finding Fabio Maidonna uh for the WBC Interim welterweight title.
That's the co feature Brandon figure Rola, who we heard from on this podcast
this past weekend, fighting Jesse Magdaleno interim featherweight title for the WBC on the
line. Wait, there's more in my Tistanionis is also on this card.
WBA Regular Welterweight title, and a couple of other fights. So let's just
go through what else intrigues you here? I went down the laundry list on
this pay per view from a PBC and our friends at PPV dot com,
etc. What else intrigues you here? Well, in terms of the matchups,
like, I don't there's not one overwhelming matchup. I think they're all
pretty solid. Like, I don't think there's one that truly like stands out
like, oh it's a can't misfight. But I happen to think that Figaro
and Magdaleno is a pretty good fight. I feel like the welterweights, they're
sort of setting up the future because, as everybody knows, the welterweight division
is about to become kind of open season for a lot of people. There's
no more stranglehold. There's you know, Spence is done in the weight class,
and coming off the loss, Crawford's as the unified champion's already giving up
one belt, the boots Tennis you know who it's the interim champion. But
clearly with his fight against Madromov's schedule for August third, it'll be sooner than
later that he will vacate all the rest of the belts. And what will
me what that will mean was that Mario Barrios or whoever wins between Mario Barrios
and Fabian Maydonna is going to become the WBC champion. Same thing will happen
with the WBA, because once Crawford gives up that belt as standionis winner against
Mayestre will be the champion. They're with PBC, so they're you know,
both guys have talked about standing on with Sambaris, about maybe fighting each other,
so but they got to get there first. In Fabian Madonna, who
Barrios this fighting. That's the the younger brother, probably not as good younger
brother as Marcos Maydon, who made many great fights, including two memorable matchups
with with Floyd Mayweather and the beatdown that he gave to Adrian Broner, and
you know a bunch of other exciting fights. Uh. I feel like Barrios
is sort of coming into his own a little bit, Like I was never
really that high on him, but he's looked pretty good in recent fights.
He's got to win by a knockout against Giovanni Santiago, who a lot of
people thought beat Broner. He had a very good performance where he busted up
or Dennis Ugus and was pretty dominant, uh to win this vacant interim belt.
Now he's fighting Madonna, who's being tested for the first time. So
Barrios is still sort of on the upswing. He's taken a couple of tough
losses, but he's kind of gotten over them. He lost the decision to
Keith Thurman a few years ago. He also got knocked out at one forty
in a regular title fight by Gervonta Davis, the one time the Tank went
up in that into that weight class. But Barrio's obviously is gonna be a
big favorite against mcdonna. And with Stanionis he's fighting Mayestra, he's you know,
a two time of limping only six and oh or six to a draw,
six oh one. I believe it is. I don't know what the
obsession is with them with this guy. He's okay and he's coming off a
nice knockout against the young, unproven fighter trayvon Marshall. That took place,
actually I was at that card. It took place near DC and the the
MGM National Harbor. But whatever, I'm Glad Stanionis is back because this is
a poor guy that has been out of the ring from his two years,
not to his own fault. He got sick with that and needed an epidectomy.
He dealt with the medical issues of Victor Ortiz finally when it was rescheduled
the second time, then it was canceled altogether on fight week because of martizes
in a ability to make the weight in dehydration, and he's just been languishing.
So he's a young, prime guy, undefeated. It's great to see
him back in the ring. He's exciting. Look, the last fight he
had against Boutayev was a fucking sensational fight, and we haven't seen him perform
since then. So we're seeing these good guys in there, and it's mostly
not been his fault. Yes, he had the appendicitis back what almost two
years ago, but the rest of this has not been his fault. So
I'm with you, We're ready to see him. We're ready to see what
he's going with. Yeah, and with Figureoa, he's another guy been off
for a long time, you know. Has just a one very really close
loss in a unification against Stephen Fulton that a lot of people thought that Brandon
was the winner. He did fight, you know, a couple times since
then. When he went up to Featherate, he looked very solid and beating
Castro in an eliminator, he got the title shot, he beat Magsiah won
the WBC interim belt, and now again that was fourteen months ago. Uh,
and so he's back in there against Magdalena. I'm looking to get back
and get busy. And Magdaleno is a credible guy. He's been a title
holder in one hundred and twenty two pound weight class. You know, he
does have a recent or not too passed lost by a decision Torey Ford,
who then went on to win the WBA title. So it's an okay fight.
And then you know, in terms of the preliminaries that you can see
for free on Prime Video, you've got, you know, two young guys
that are trying to make their way. You got the return of Jesus Ramos,
who we all know got ripped off against ericson lubin. He's back in
action in a ten rounder at junior middle eight. And then the other fighter
is the young prospect who's only twenty one years old. He's till a a
young kid, he's eighteen. And one is that Vito mil Nicki Junior taking
on the you know, pretty solid veteran Ronald Cruz. And so you know,
Rainmos and mil Nicky are say, let's say the future a guys that
can rise up the level for the PBC group of fights. And so they're
for free. So look, I can't sit here and tell you it's not
August third in terms of the depth of the card or the five on five
plus better bv than and Dimitri Biobo, but this is this is a pretty
good card, particularly when you have such an attractive main event, no doubt.
Speaking of that excellent segue, they're mighty one. Let's find out more
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This is becoming a good habit for you and me to be talking about these
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Canelo Alvarez good to have you back. And full disclosure to the audience.
Mark has been in Vegas for fight week and has now traveled at the time
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So thank you for accommodating us on being able to make the interview work,
and we're excited for Canelo and Mongia and whatever is about to happen. Good
to have you, Yeah, no, thank you. It's good to be
here again. And you know what EJ this time of year, heading into
Kentucky Derby Sinko to Mayo weekend, it just feels right. It's a big
fight weekend. It's been that way for decades. And sure enough we have
our Canelo standard bearer, you know, fight this weekend, so it's gonna
be great. I see what you did there with the Big Fight Weekend reference
for the Big Fight Weekend podcast website. That's very nice on that. Again,
we say this every time that we have you on. One of the
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whichever you have and also interactive, and I love this. I will
tell you that during the Haini Garcia fight, I enjoy the interaction from Jim
Lampley, Lance poug Meyer, Dan Kenobio and of course a former fighter Chris
Aljeri is in there. You have great interaction going on as well for the
fan experience. Yeah, and DJ, thanks for mentioning that, because we
really have the best engagement we've ever had in our chat during that fight.
During Haini Garcia A there was so much going on, so much build up
to it. I think people were just anxious to talk about it. So
we had four experts, great guys, really sharp Chris, of course,
brings such a whole other dimension as a former fighter who's been in major fight.
So it was the best chat we've ever had, and I anticipate for
this one it's going to be It's going to be as good, if not
better. Love it all right, fun one for you, because we all
love the fights. This guy, Canelo, first ballot, unanimous Hall of
Famer, We get it. I don't know, I'm not wishing this.
I don't know how many more times we're going to see this. Are we
going to see it a couple of more times? Are we going to see
it four or five more times? For that, take advantage fight fans,
because you're not guaranteed how many more times you're going to see one of the
great certainly in modern boxing pound for pound and Canelo correct, Oh no,
you're You're absolutely right. And he's been, as I said earlier, a
standard bearer for the sport now for the last several years, and he clearly
wants to keep going. He definitely has a few more big fights in him.
But this kind of excitement Sinko de Mayo weekend. You know you don't
get these forever with each of the fighters, right, We had the same
thing with Floyd. We had the same thing with Oscar. At some point
he's going to pass the torch, so we got to enjoy it now while
we have him, because it's not going to be around that much longer.
I agree with you on that. Another fun one. As we talk about
what we might or might not see, we have been joking. We did
this just before you came on. The two things we know about Jimi Mongie
a big time offense and punching power. And the second thing, he's there
to be hit. So either way him coming forward and trying to land and
or being supposed to be here, it should we don't know for sure,
it should make for an intriguing fight for the fans. Yeah, I'm looking
forward to it. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it for for those reasons.
You know. I look at it as you know, this young up
and coming stud against what's become an extremely savvy veteran right Canelo's in ring,
Iq has just gone up remarkably so and throughout his career. So I think
you're right. I think we're going to have a lot of back and forth.
Monkey is going to be aggressive. I look at this as probably a
Canelo. You know you're kind of working on Mangia throughout the fight and then
has a late finish. That's that's kind of how I see this playing out.
May very well wear him down. We'll find out. One thing is
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join me under all circumstances, especially here. Again I say once more thank
you because we made all of this work. It's worth it though for Canelo
fight weekend, which it is. Thank you for the time, my friend.
I appreciate it as always. You bet, You're welcome as always,
all right, so we have given you plenty on the Canelo main event the
Amazon payperview here PPV dot com from Premiere Boxing champions. Oh that's not all,
because we have coming early Monday US time, Monday night in Tokyo,
the return of the Monster and the undisputed junior featherweight titles are on the line
for Naola in a Way and Luis Nary Tokyo Dome, the site where a
Buster Douglas upset Might Tyson some thirty four years ago. That will be on
Monday. Give me a little more about this. What a weekend as we
in the weekend, we've got the Monster coming Monday morning US time. I
mean, look, who doesn't love watching in a Way fight. I mean,
he's one of the most exciting fighters in boxing. He's a sensational talent.
He's you know, if you don't think Crawford's number one pound for pound,
you must think in a way his pound for pound number one. That's
the type of ability he has. He unified the whole division in his last
fight with a beatdown against Merlin to Polis, you know who gave a good
effort but was really outclassed pretty much completely in that fight. And now here
he goes in the first defensive all four belts against a guy who's got a
notoriety in Japan. Because of his past fights there where he didn't make the
way where he beat up a popular champion where he had a positive test.
He's like public enemy number one. The one good thing, though, is
he's on weight, like they've been showing his weight like every day, like
WBCs can keep it track. If he missed his weight, it's going to
be like a biggest chocker in the rug. They were showing pictures of him
being already at weight basically like from a few days ago. So it should
be an exciting fight because that's the kind of fights that near he makes,
and the kind of fights that in a way makes near. He was in
what I picked as the fight of the year last year in that tremendous battle,
was the eliminator to get this title shot against Hovansician that was on a
Golden Boy, his own card. And I think that the Tokyo Dome is
going to as the kids say, TJ it's going to be lit sixty thousand
people. First boxing event there since the Tyson fight. Like you mentioned,
I think only the second boxing match ever there. It's only been the Tyson
fight. There hasn't ever been another boxing match in the Tokyo Doon't to my
recollection, and you know this is going to show you the superstardom level that
NOI in a way has there to be able to basically sell this place out
put on this kind of magnitude of a fight. And for those of us
in America, these are the kind of fights that when I got into boxing,
and even in more recent years, you just never can see in America.
You know I would see them, because we've talked about so I would
get the vhs or the DVD trade from with somebody or whatever. I'm just
gonna just wake up early Monday morning and pop on your ESPN Plus, and
not only do you have the inn Away fight, but all the other fights
that are on that card, which you know, we don't got to get
into all the details of every single one of those matchups, but here's the
bottom line. Besides that fight, which is great on paper, you got
Jason Maloney defending the w BO Manhamweight title. He got noya in Away's brother,
Takuma in a way defending the WBA banham Way title, which he picked
up after his brother vacated the undisputed title of Dannaway. And he got the
newly crowned A WBA Flyway champion Koui. He's defending his title. So you
got a plethora of title fights. Some of them are pretty solid matchups,
and you got, you know, an A level main event. So you
set your alarms. As they say, kids, ray Field's gonna be good
and screwed up because you're gonna fly back all day Sunday after Canelo and Pacific
time zone to get back and then try to figure out what time you're waking
up for this uh in a way main event on Monday morning. I gotta
tell you this, though, This is how fucked up it is. So
okay, I've been coming to Vegas for a long long time on a regular
basis. The I fly Americans, where I have all my miles forever,
so I got gazillions of miles, I use them whatever, So I'm spoiled
and I'm a militant on my airline. Here's the issue. There's one flight
a day from where I live in DC to Vegas, and there's one NonStop
a day from Vegas back to DC. I take the same flight every single
time. As a matter of fact, I got no problem getting my butt
out here for this fight. But the flight home on Sunday was sold out,
so I had to like figure out what's my alternative plan. So instead
of leaving in like the afternoon on Sunday, like I typically I hang out
after the fight, I sleep in, I leisurely packed. I go to
the airport and I hang out and have a little something to drink, something
to lunch, and get on the plane and fall asleep and come home.
Now I'm all fucked up DJ because now now I'm gonna be up super late
after the fight like usual. Right my flight leaves Vegas, I had no
choice. It was either take a flight that takes me to a stop.
So I got to figure out which is the best stop. Figured I'm going
to be super tired. I'm taking a seven am from Pacific Pacific time,
and I didn't want to stop in Phoenix because I'd rather do the long part
so I can sleep for several hours, and even if I don't, at
least when I land, I'm I'm not in a position on the East Coast
where if I had to, I could take a train back home to d
C. So I'm flying to Philadelphia. Then I got like the hour layover
in Philly. Then I got the other you know, once you take off,
it's like maybe you know, fifty minutes to get back to DC.
So I'll be home earlier than I normally would be, but I'm going to
be completely fucked up from the night before. All right, So there's the
travel travails. And by the way, somewhere in there we're going to work
a recap podcast in with my man jet lagged before in a way is in
the rings. Hey, all I can say is Monday. I know,
I know a whole bunch of people that are involved who are going to Tokyo
for the inn a a fight from top ranking others who are then going from
there to Perth, Australia, which is like a freaking crazy trip, and
then some of them are going from there. From Perth they're going to Saudi
Arabia. Yeah, well check this out. Then they're going from from Perth
Perth to Saudi for USIK, and then they're going from Saudi to UK for
Taylor Catterall and then back to Saudi for the June First. It's instaning some
of the Iteas you're saying Vegas to Philly to Washington, that is not the
same as Vegas to Tokyo to Perth to Riod, my God and the Manchester
and then back through Rio. Oh that's crazy, all right, great stuff
on the breakdowns. Again, the bet US show will have more handicapping on
those fights one Eastern time on Friday, depending on when you're hearing us,
and again you can rewatch it on the bet Us platforms, YouTube, et
cetera. Let's get to some news and some nostalgia and then we're done.
Two words, Ryan Garcia, that has consumed the midweek. I know as
we get to the weekend, the Canelo fight is the bigger deal. I
have to say this. First of all, props to you again. Great
job for faridy out this first and finding out about the positive VADA test.
I for one can't say I'm surprised with everything we saw, and it would
not have surprised me. This is not the case. If it was recreational
drugs that he had been popped forward, that was not nice thought it was
going to this. This did not surprise me. Okay, you've written a
bunch, you've said some stuff in the in the build up here, the
floor is yours for where this stands. Because Garcia has responded, he's denied
that he did it. Golden Boy is defending him to an extent and saying
we're waiting for all the facts. All right, pick it up from there
go. I mean, whether he did or he didn't, people mistake my
reporting where I'm making an accusation which is just not true. What I reported
is what Vada reported to Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney and the ABC and the
WBC and the New York State Athletic Commission and the appointed person for those various
groups who are supposed to get the knowledge of what occurred. So if he
didn't do it, though, I'll be able to prove it. I suppose
in some former fashion. But I have to tell you so, I've been
on social media for a long time and I get abused and people punish me
abouthit. I really don't give a fuck about it. Honestly, I got
a thick skin at this point. It makes no difference to me. But
I'm really with shock last night when I broke this story and I posted it.
The Sinkle fans that are involved with Ryan Garcia fanhood it is, I
don't even It's like they're from another fucking planet like that. Somehow Rayphael has
it in for Ryan Garcia and is like on Devin Haney's payroll. I have
said a thousand times from Sunday, I have been a Devin Hainey fan and
a Ryan Garcia fan for a long time. I know both of these young
men for many years. I appreciate their talents. I've covered many of their
fights. I know them a bit. I know Ryan probably better than I
know Devin. I've had many more personal interactions with Ryan on the phone,
I text messages me whatever you know, dms on Twitter and that sort of
thing. I know his parents. I mean, like, I have a
good relationship with Ryan. It does not give me joy in any way,
shape or form to report that any fighter, much less somebody that I have,
you know, a pretty decent relationship with that has this situation come up.
So for people to suggest that I'm out to get Ryan Garcia, or
that somehow the establishment or the monolithic media, which is not monolithic, is
somehow anti Ryan Garcia for reasons such as this is the wild one. Because
a few days ago, Ryan Garcia posted a video of himself with Donald Trump
and they were taking pictures together. Me were shadow boxing with Donald Trump,
and like he was, you know, complimenting Donald Trump that because maybe I'm
not the biggest Donald Trumpan, which ain't no surprise to anybody that knows me
that somehow his politics would play into my interject having a fel drug Can I
interject on your behalf, what does that have to do with the price of
eggs in Minnesota? The thanks he failed a drug test, The fact that
he is right, The fact is you found out about it and reported that
that the world wide Organization was notifying everybody he failed the drug test. It
has nothing to do with what you're like or dislike. Is you might be
phenomenal at breaking these things and you found out about it. Period. Thank
you, Thank you, thank you. Let me just say this, and
if my mom's listening, no offense. If I found out that my mother
failed a drug test and and then I could get a good scoop, I'd
write, I would be careful about scooping with your mother, if you know.
But I'm just making the point that in our business, this is what
we do it for the fighters get the rush of the fight or the fans,
and in journalism, and I'm just being real, one of the things
that is exciting about what we do is to get a great fucking scoop.
And this was a great fucking scoop. And I'm proud to have gotten a
great fucking scoop. And I'll tell you another thing. Sometimes you'd rather be
lucky than good. So when somebody knows and you've been in the business twenty
five years or so, and they call you up and they say you might
want to check this out, and you know who you should call to check
it out, and you do your due diligence because no one's dropping the dime.
You make a few calls, you might call in a couple of favors,
you might be out over the years, and one thing leads to another.
Boom boom boom, you know. And I wasn't willing to put this
out with only one source because it's a really serious accusation. I didn't let
it fly until I had three sources dead the rice. So when the people
tell me that I'm making it up, they can go fuck themselves. Number
one. Number two I posted today the letter. The letter. I'm not
sure what did I forged the letter. Let me ask another question, TJ.
As long as you've known me, now do you think for two seconds,
for one second, that I would take nearly, like I said,
nearly twenty five years of cultivating my sources and my reputation as a fair arbiter
and somebody that reports the facts is best as I know them at that moment,
that I would take my credibility, which is the only thing we as
journalists really have in the end, and flush that fucking shit down the toilet.
If I just know not ninety And by the way, let me further
defend you, and then we're going to move on. When Canelo failed huge
drug test back a few wrote that story also, yeah, yeah, you
didn't hold back, right, you reported it. You found out stuff.
When other fighters have failed drug test or you have found out something nefarious,
there's that word about them. You up this stuff. This is what you've
done your whole career at USA today, at ESPN and now through your substack
and what we do. So I have broken FADA stories on Canelo's drug test,
on Tyson Fury's cocaine test, on Lucas Brown's drug test that cost them
the WBA heavyweight belt, on Jerald Miller's test that cost him the fight with
Anthony Joshua plenty of Lama Peterson when he had a problem in the in the
emir Con fight got canceled into the rematch got canceled. So you know,
and there's others. I'm sure, I just can't think of them off the
top of my head. So it's not my first rodeo. And the one
thing I wanted to spell the notion of, by the way, is there
are those out there who think that somehow that doctor Margaret Goodman who runs Vada
is like has me on speed dial and calls me and just tells me every
single time there's a positive test and trust me. And I tell you I
wish that was true because it would make my job a whole on It would
have been a whole lot easier on winds. What you're I mean, so
many people say that to me. So why I know Margaret and I have
none of my entire career, and I respect her, I like her.
We've you know, known each other for a very long time and we have
a cordial relationship and we do talk every once in a while. I can
tell you with one hundred percent certainty that there's not one single time ever that
she's been the one to drop the dime. Matter of fact, I did
call her the other day when I was trying to get the sources now down
on the on the Ryan Garcia thing before I actually had everything confirmed, and
you know, she didn't call me back. I'm not offended by it.
I kind of figured, but that's the way it goes. So anybody who
thinks they know where the sources are, they don't, because there's a lot
of different people that you deal with in this business. And by the way,
you got the letter that they sent to everybody saying he's flunked the test.
All right, let's wrap it like this because we need to move on
to a couple of other things. Where do we go from here? What
kind of suspension? What do they do with the result? I have a
very important one too that I would love. Was he paid in full?
And do we know he's already been paid at least whatever he was guaranteed?
Could that be held up? There's a lot of questions, go. I
don't think there's anything going to be in terms of the financial aspect of it.
He's gonna get his money to fight happen, and you know whatever.
But in terms of what happens next, first of all, he can deny
all he wants that's fine. It's it's the onus is gonna be on him
to go before the commission there. I don't know, they haven't. It's
all in the infancy because it just happened, you know, in the last
you know day or so. At some point, most likely later this summer,
there will be a hearing in the New York State Upletic Commission. He'll
have to go with his representative the happy hearing, same way they do in
any other state, and they'll question him and they'll they'll go through the situation
and again he has still he had ten days from the time that the test
was back to ask for the B sample to be tested. Now he may
do that, he may not, But on my experience and in the history
of drug testing, like ninety nine point nine percent of time, whatever is
in the A is going to be in the B, so probably it's going
to be positive as well. And like when it's all said and done,
the end result most likely not one hundred percent, because you never know.
He's going to take a suspension, don't know how long. It could be
six months, it could be eight months, could be a year, but
probably be forced to pay a fine and the result of the fight most likely
will be changed from a win for Ryan to a no contest, and a
loss for Haney will come back to you a perfect undefeated record and the thing
will go down as an O connest. Now my understanding is in the statutes
of New York State they have the option and they and I don't know this
has happened too often. I did cover a fight and coincidentally, the fighter
that this happened to also tested positive for the substance ostering, which, by
the way, is a performance enhancing drug that's not quite as heavy as a
as a as an anabolic steroid, but it helps build muscle mass, reduce
fat, and gives more notably scaling. Right. Okay, So there was
a fighter, the former a super middlewaight title holder, Luciambute, who had
a fight in Washington, d C. A few years ago, and he
fought to a draw in the fight, and he kept the title, and
he tested positive for the same substance after the fact, the Washington d C
Commission, which I did not know this rule, tell that occurred. They
didn't give him a no decision or no contest. They actually gave him from
a victory or rather from the draw to a disqualification loss. My understanding is
that the New York State Athletic Commission does have the right to make this a
disqualification loss, So that could be a possibility. That's intriguing if that's the
case. Stay tuned on the suspension, and there's lots more to come out
of this. Well said on all of it, all right, a couple
of other news items, because I mean, we've given you the biggest news
about Canelo weekend and about that. So Mike Tyson and Jake Paul this was
earlier in the week. It is now officially a fight, but a fight
that has got a couple of stipulations in it. This is coming late July
at and T Stadium in Irving in Arlington, Texas, where they're expecting seventy
thousand plus. It looks like for this from what I've been seeing, all
right, so it is an official fight. Give me the particulars here on
what has been announced and what they're going to do. Real quick in your
thoughts. I'm kind of disappointed, think of TJ. Why I figured you
would say we have an official fight with Mike Tyson and you would pause and
you would give me a druidic. What are we doing here? What are
we doing here? You're gonna have Mike Tyson on the night of the Fight's
gonna be fifty eight years old, Yeah, who had not had a professional
boxing match that was an official fight since two thousand and five, which is
by my nath genius mind, about nineteen years before year Son was born and
before my teenage sophomore in high school twins were born, back when I had
brown hair instead of gray hair, back when I had yeah right, yeah,
yeah, a twenty seven year old Jake Paul at his physical prime,
who may not be a boxer from the crib, but he's been doing pretty
well recently. Strong, no doubt about that, fighting Mike Tyson in a
fight that they're actually going to count on the records, which I'm shocked by.
But that's gonna happen. But like you mentioned, there are two caveats.
One is well one of the cavet it's not that length. It's gonna
be a eight round fight. Not a shock because Jake's been fighting it.
You only had the one ten against Tommy Fury, and obviously Tyson hasn't fought
a real fight for you know, twenty years, You're not going to have
him in a ten round or twelve round fight. So they decided on the
eight round or no issue there. The thing that was sort of gives me
pause to really kind of even think about this as an official fight, that
they're going to make a men's boxing match two minute rounds and they're going to
use fourteen ounce clubs. No, normally heavy weights would use ten ounce clubs.
That is I think a compromise because you know, they feel like that
would do less damage but also may less than the impact of Jay kids him.
Also, I don't know how what the reasons for the fourteen ounces are,
but certainly the length of round benefits Mike Tyson because when you watch his
videos that his team places on social media on Instagram and on Twitter and everything,
you see him with these crazy combinations and explosive you know, jobs to
the midst or to the body bag, but they're like ten, fifteen,
twenty seconds, and so he can you know, he's still a good enough
athlete and still has the muscle memory to summon that up to make for a
nice looking video. My question is, when Mike Tyson's in the ring against
another man who's half his age who's throwing real right hands at him. Is
he gonna be able to do that same type of activity, And even if
he can, can he sustain it for more than like the Isaiah the fifteen
or twenty seconds. And the reason I'm saying that is because I think that
a lot of people think about Mike Tyson and they remember the highlights of them
knocking out Trevor Burbick in a knocking out, you know, all these other
top fighters that he was destroying back in the day. What I remember more
than that I watched those fights as a kid. I was a teenager when
that was happening. But my memories are going to fucking Tennessee and watching the
Lenning s Lewis beat the living shit out of him and he had, you
know, an explosion of offense in round one and then couldn't do anything because
he was so gassed, or going and watching him get knocked out by just
journeyman, you know, guys who were just regular nothings like Danny Williams and
and uh and Kevin McBride, And it was nearly twenty years ago when that
was happening, by the way, and then sitting with Kevin mc kid sitting
with Tyson, myself and my former USA Today colleague John Saracino for like a
half an hour thirty five minutes after the press comments of McBride where he poured
his soul in his heart out about how much he hates boxing, how he
doesn't like the smell of the gym, how he never wants to wear gloves
again, how he doesn't have it in him anymore to do this, how
he just wants to never fight again. And now he's doing Obviously it's for
the money Netflix, which is gonna air this event along with the real fight,
which is the women's rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. They're paying
massive amounts of money for this event, so he's gonna do it for the
money. I can't blame it for that, but you know, it's gonna
be a fucking spectacle, dude, and I'm gonna travel to Texas to cover
it because it is what it is. It is. So there's the parameters
again, and people are also looking at Tyson having fought Roy Jones, fought
Eric Quotes, and the exhibition they had that was nearly four years ago,
three and a half years. So let me tell you something about that.
I heard that same thing right. Andy Foster, who is the executive director
at the Cowlfornia Athletic Commission. It had a conversation with both teams, basically
called them into the officer went into the dress rooms and reiterated, once again,
we are here to entertain the fans. We're not going for knockouts.
Now they it's been misreported that that they there couldn't be a knockout because if
a guy lands, you might knock a guy out. But they were not
supposed to go for the knockout. They were supposed to like not really go
all out move around, and there were not official judges, and that was
said up front. So it was more of an exhibition in that exactly what
it was. And where another older legendary, yes, punchy fighter who's in
his forties. This is a younger guy who's twenty seven, who if he
lands, who knows what happened? So and where Tyson and Roy Jones,
whatever the age discrepancy was. My feeling was that Roy Jones was more shot
than Tyson, right, and the only judging where the celebrity just which ruled
a draw to my recollection with which which we basically understood that if it goes
the route, they're not going to declare a winter, They're going to declare
to draw it. So my point is this, you cannot you cannot look
and use that in any way break to handicap how Tyson will look against Jake
Palm four years later nearly all right, so well done. That's coming late
late in July. We got more on that. The the eight two minute
rounds is interesting. The bigger gloves are interesting. One more item. Oh,
by the way, we do have upcoming that Deontay Wilder is fighting Jelai
Jiang in this five on five matchup June the first, and now look at
this Turkey Ala Chic wasted no time in saying Jared Anderson and Deontay Wilder is
a fight that he wants for that August third card in Los Angeles. Should
Wilder be victorious and come out of it unscathed, how surprised are you at
that? Real quick, before we get the nostalgia and get out of here.
I'm surprised because it's just kind of a fight that comes out of the
blue. I mean, it's it's not a fight that it has been demanding,
but it's still a tremendous interesting fight if you ask me, You've got
the hop young up and coming American against the you know, the the huge
punching former American top star who's you know, trying to find his way back.
Makes for like the tort of you know, sort of an obvious crossroads
kind of fight. Uh. But if they add that to the show,
But we went through the show when they announced it, and we went through
all the different fights. It's the official tj uh and and you get more
and how much? How much more? How much would you pay now?
Forty ninety five? There's more, Wait, there's more. So this would
take it from the six fights that we've discussed, which are all interesting for
various reasons, to now suddenly adding a super interesting fight between these two heavyweights.
Now again he's gotta beat he beats exactly right, right, but but
just to so when when Turkey how she put this on his social media,
it was a picture of him with Jared Anderson saying this is what he wants
to do. Obviously they're working with Deontay Wilder for the fight that's upcoming.
In the recent fight where he had against Joseph Parker, I called up Shelley
Finkel, who is Deontay Wilder's manager, and I said, is this like
actually happening or is this something that just Turkey says he'd like to do.
And he says, we don't have a deal done yet or anything like that,
but we're focused on June first, which is when that fight is between
him and Jane. If Deontay wins like I expect he will and he's not
injured, we're probably gonna get that fight done. So I asked him,
well, how is that going to work in terms of the timing, Because
it's only like basically eight weeks between the fights, it would be sort of
like he's gonna come out of the fight. If he's healthy and all is
good and they make the match and that's all good to go, he'll probably
take like a couple two three weeks off and he won't have to do a
full eight week camp. He'll have just fought, just been in through a
camp, So maybe he only has to do five six weeks. That should
still be more than enough to prepare for Jared and to still be in great
shape, and they'll do the fight and it will add just another very intriguing
heavy fights hard that already has Jeral Miller and Andy Ruiz as another heavyweight fight
on the show. Don't bank on this because it's a big if that Wilder
looks like something other than the awful Wilder that we saw against Joseph Parker.
We don't know, and he's got to beat. He knows his backs against
the wall. It's do or die basically in terms of his career. But
is he toast? Does he have anything left? That's part of the intrigue
for June the first, we'll find out. We're gonna find out for sure,
and if he wins, then we'll see what happens. All right,
I know you are chomping at the bit right now Pacific. Time to get
done, but not before we talk a little nostalgia to wrap the pod.
On the preview pod, it was now nine years ago Thursday May second,
as we released the podcast into Friday, that Floyd Mayweather and Manny Paqui how
finally fought the biggest money fight ever. You were there. It did not
live up to anything we had hoped for. So nine years later, you're
back in Las Vegas. Now, what do you reflect on with that?
As uh Mayweather pacquiow finally did happen. I'm sitting in the same building that
I was in that day nine years ago, because I'm I'm in my hotel
room at the MGM Grant, which is where I stayed for that fight,
where that fight took place. For all I know, I'm in the same
room. You know, they got everything there may not be the exact same
room. I understand, in like five thousand rooms at one time, I
think it was the biggest hotel in the in the world. Anyway, Anyway,
Mayweather Pacyao everything about the lead up to the fight going. If you
go back to the years that it took to make it, that was an
aged every day of the week because of the nonsense of it wouldn't they wouldn't
make it, And there was all the arguing back and forth and all the
failed negotiations and the attempts to try to get it done, and then for
a million reasons where blame was, you know, on both sides at different
times for it not happening, and then you know, came together. You
know, you can go and google the stories about how they very famously accidentally
met each other at a Miami Heat basketball game. It led to a meeting
in the hotel room and a decision let's try to get this done, and
a lot of efforts made on both sides, and you had the now disgraced
former chairman of CBS, Les moonvis Uh basically getting together with Bob Ariman al
Hayman and getting them to sit in a room together that hadn't happened for many
years and come up with a framework, and also get HBO and Showtime to
get their shit together. There's a lot of things that was a there's no
deal in boxing that you could talk to me about that would have more moving
parts and be more complicated and have more emotion on both sides in that one.
The fact that it ever did get done is still unfucking miracle to me.
But that shows you when there's that much money at stake, it finally
gets done. Because the fight ended up generating crazy six hundred and fifty million
dollars, which is the most money in the history of combat sports and many
other events that are not combat sports on one night, but the whole preparation
for the fight in terms of the build up when it got to like fight
week, when I tell you, teacher, I've covered hundreds and hundreds of
events in my time. Doing this was the single most miserable experience of my
life. The top ranked people and the Paqiao people were great to deal with.
They were professional and everything was cool like always. Everybody else, the
PR teams, HBO, Showtime, all the people involved with Mayweather, Mayweather
Promotions, the how Hyman people, PBC Teach, the whole nine absolute assholes.
From the beginning of the event, they treated the media so badly.
They were such dicks about everything. We didn't even know if we had seats
in the arena until the morning of the fight. They started kicking people out.
My old colleague from ESPN, Michelle Beadle, got kicked out because she
had the audacity to ask Floyd about his past u domestic violence issues and they
in front of that. It was it was a fucking shit show. I
hated everything about that fight week, and I've covered a million fight weeks in
Las Vegas and everywhere. Uh, the fight itself stucked, and then there
was a lot of excuses after Warts and Pacio about the shoulder, which,
if you know, I understand he didn't want to cancel the fight because he
made like fucking one hundred and fifty million dollars right exactly. There was a
clearly injured shoulder that had to have surgery after that fight. There were you
know, and he knew if he pulled out it was probably not going to
get rescaled. We're there was class action lawsuits because of that. Over the
pay per view it was soup to nuts. I mean, yes, we're
discussing it on the nostalgia, but I'm not nostalgic for it. If that
makes me. I understand it happened, But you know, the end result
is it's not a memorable classic. And I'll say this though in the end
people would ask me who was I picking. I never would answer the question
until the fight week. I tell you, I see my hand to God.
From the moment the fight was conceived to the moment that the fight belf
for round one, Ray, I always always, always, always always felt,
even though I was a huge manny pack yell fan, I knew that
Floyd Mayweather would whip his ass. Now, had the fight been a few
years earlier, it might have been closer, but I still always thought that
Floyd was gonna beat many because the fight the fight was easily three years past
when it should have happened. Pretty much, it took five years from to
finally make it once it became a thing. Yes, so Floyd Mayweather,
putting all the bullshit aside about the fight week and just the nature of how
the fight went. In the end, you can't criticize Floyd because Floyd did
what he was supposed to do. He went in there and he boxed,
and he did what he does best, and he basically ran many paccio out
of the ring and won like nine to three, probably thereabouts, maybe eight
to four if your generous could have been ten too. But he dominated and
won easily and stamped himself. And this is not insignificant. Not only was
that to unify the Welterway tunnels and all the money that was involved, it
was to determine for history who was the best fighter of the era. In
the end, it was Foy Mayweather. Doesn't mean he was the most beloved,
doesn't mean it wasn't he was the most exciting, but he was the
best fighter of the era based on that win compared to because they fought off
so many common opponents also correct, and so I don't want to accept that
was almost a decade ago. It was nine years ago, man, I'm
here'll be talking about it on the ten then. Now we have given you
a bunch. The Canelo build up continues, Dan is there in Vegas.
Who knows what else is gonna happen As Thursday night becomes Friday and you're hearing
the podcast on Friday, I know this. We'll do a live bet Us
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that whatever happens with the Canelo Mongia main event and the rest of the card,
we'll recap it on our Fight fre Each United recap and again the Monster
Naoja in away Luis nare is Monday morning as well. So it's going to
be a busy, busy weekend, my friend, go enjoy Vegas. Hopefully
your phone's not blowing up with anything else to break Thursday into Friday, and
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