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Dan Rayfield, good to be back with you in the preview mode in the
throes of July. How you're feeling as we rev up for Jeron boots Innis's
return. Hope they caught him on the podcast feed. Also Jana Beeck defending
two of the middleweight crowns in Vegas. We got a lot to go over
and here from Amanda Serrando. Dan, First off, how you how you
feeling? Everything is good right now? We got a little quiet going on
because the guys have been redoing my back deck in this like three week project.
That's driving me crazy. So we got some peace and quiet. Now
this is a time when I get to say, better you than me on
having the bad deck done. I have been to Las Vegas. Speaking of
Vegas and the Janebeck fact, I have been to Vegas and back since you
and I last talked for the Big twelve College Football media days. I'm not
too jet lagged at the moment. I was staying right in the shadow of
what's the michelob Ultra Areno what used to be Mandalay Bays Arena, right where
Rayfael Cole. You covered like fifty sixty three and nine tremendous fights in that
building. The nostalgia was dripping off of you when I told you I was
staying right there, right by the Raiders Allegiant Stadium. It's still the same
arena. They just changed it from the Mandalay Bay Events Center to the michelob
Ultra Arena, but it's the same venue. It's the same. Yeah.
The thing about that arena is they had a ton of fights when it first
opened for years and years, and then when they were bought by the MGM
Company, they did much fewer fights. And then there was a period of
time we did like four years or five years, so I had no fights,
and then they've only had just a few in recent years. But then
the reason why I think it was in my mind and yours because you were
there, is because the Virgil Artis boat chuck fight that is set for August
tenth is going to take place in that building. How about that? And
by the way, MGM's buying up everything they got, the ben MGM stuff
up on the luck soore on the side of the pyramid. Now the only
thing they haven't bought is Rayfield at this point going back and forth to Vegas,
So Vegas for the JANABEC World title fight. We'll talk about that in
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you know what, Let's start with Friday night. We've got fight card in
Nicaragua with Choco La Tito Ramon Choco La Tito Gonzalez is back, first fight
in what a year and a half for so tell me more first before we
get to Boots Enns and the Janaback world title fights. About Friday night as
we released his Thursday into Friday. Oh, you got a future Hall of
Famer back in action. One of the all time greats among smaller weight fighters
in the history of boxing, not just of the recent era or the last
twenty years or thirty years, but literally since you know men put padded gloves
on their hands, that is the level that he's at. He is one
of the greats in the history of the sport, particularly when you get to
the small weight divisions. He also hasn't fought at home in Nicaragua, by
the way, since twenty fifteen because post that, you know, he had
all of his major fights took place mostly in the United States. He fought
in Japan. He's associated with mister Handa from Teaking boxing, so he had
one doubt in Japan. During that period of time. He had one fight
in Mexico where he shared a card with his great rival Wan Francisco Estrada,
But he hasn't fought as you mentioned since December of twenty twenty two. That's
when he had the third fight, the trilogy fight, the rubber match with
Estrata. He won their first fight in a great, blazing battle. The
second fight, that was in twenty twenty one, he lost a split decision
for two of the belts in the one hundred and fifteen pound weight class.
I thought he won the fight. A lot of people thought he won the
fight. It was a fantastic fight, but I thought he got he just
I just thought he won that fight. A lot of guys did. That
was just I felt bad for him that night. And then he goes and
they have the third fight and he loses a majority of decision. Another fight
that could have either gone, you know, could have gone maybe either way,
in another really outstanding battle. I mean, these three guys, these
two guys in those three fights are just made for each other. And there
have been the class of those weight classes for a long time. So he's
back. This fight's going to be in the bantamweight division. I believe it's
contracted at one hundred and seventeen pounds, so not the full bantam weight limit.
But the point here for Roman Gonzalez is in this fight against Robert Barrera,
who was twenty seven to five. You know, journeyman Ish has fought
for a world title in the past, but certainly Choclatito, he's got anything
left, should be the clear favorite in this fight. But what he wants
to do is shake off that layoff, come back, you know, put
a win under his belt in the new weight class, and then he wants
to challenge for a bantamweight title. And a fighter of his stature and his
accomplishment I think, you know, because of his his level of popularity is
certainly in his country, his accomplishments. You know, if he wins this
fight, he should be able to get a bandon wait title shot, you
know, even if he hasn't fought like all the top contenders. But this
is a guy that fought everybody, you know, from one hundred and five
all the way up to one hundred and fifteen. So if he looks okay
and does his job, I think there'll be an opportunity for him because if
he can do that, that will separate him further from you know, the
his mentor and the you know, what most consider the greatest fighter in nic
Araguan history is Alexis Arguay who won world titles in three weight classes. Chuck
Latito has done it at one hundred and five, one hundred and eight,
one hundred, twelve hundred and fifteen. He'd be going for a title and
get another weight class, and he is already a law Hall of Famer,
so he wants to see if he can get one more big thing done before
he ends his career, which clearly doesn't have much time left. So I
would say to anybody that is a fan of Roman or hasn't really paid too
close attention to him, or someone who you know, watch that fight.
It's on ESPN Plus. Tatiko Zibala from All Star Boxing is the promoter,
but he's got a close relationship with Top Rank. They made a deal for
Top Rank to acquire the American right, so it'll be on ESPN Plus and
anytime I can watch Roman Chuck with Tito Gonzalez, it's a huge pleasure.
I got a chance to meet him several times, interview him several times,
I know his team over the years, I've covered numerous of his American fights.
An all time great, legendary fighter and a tremendous action fighter throughout his
career, so and you're right, how many more times are we going to
get to see him? You get an opportunity to see him here and again.
That's Friday night. As we released the podcast from Nicaragua. ESPN Plus
will have it here in the US. Check around for that, Okay,
So that segues into Saturday. We'll lead with the fight that we've talked a
lot in the build up about with Jeron boots In as he now fights David
Avanzi and Avanezian, best known for having been knocked out by Terrence Crawford in
the fight before Crawford brutalized Errol Spence that fight in Omahon as a first full
title defense of the IBF welterweight crown. I looked we're going to handicap this
first reference again to the US Boxing show on Friday. The over under is
five and a half rounds in Philly, in his hometown. Now, the
one thing I will say, I want your thoughts. We've seen some guys
in the hometown fight distracted, et cetera, not as good as what they
would be. I don't know. I'm on the outside. I don't know
that that's really going to even be an issue. Even if Boots in this
is distracted. Does that mean he knocks him out in the fourth round instead
of the third round. I don't know what that means, but we're looking
for a big night from Boots Wells Fargo Center. Give me, give me
some more on this. And what's your thought now that I told you that
over under that we're going to handicap is five and a half rounds. Well,
it's funny because you say over unders five and a half rounds. The
loss that he took against Terence Crawford was a sixth round knockout, like right
in the middle of the sixth round, right, So I was I'm thinking
in my mind, you know, if people listen to the interview that I
had with Boots that was on that's on our podcast that we have as a
standalone in the previous show in the full show, but we also have at
a standalone in that interview. I asked him because he didn't get a chance
to fight Crawford, because Crawford was the full champion and he was interim champion
when the Arrow spencefight was over. Crawford just was not going to fight him,
certainly not on the kind of notice that the GUYBF wanted him to fight
on so he was tripped of the title and Boots was elevated to the full
champion. And so I asked him, I said, you know, in
the back of your mind, are you're trying to maybe thinking about maybe,
hey, I could show up Terrence to some degree if I get rid of
the same opponent earlier than he did, which is the sixth round, which
is the over runner being five and a half. So he was like,
not not a big deal to me. But look, you said, David,
Evan Aesty is probably most famous for being knocked out by Crawford. When
I think about Evan Asteyan, besides that particular appearance, you know, he
is the guy for better for worse. Maybe Shane Moseley was not at his
best and he was near done obviously, but he sent Shane Mosey into retirement
in what at that time was considered a big upset, even though it turned
out to be Shane's final fight. He scored a twelve round decision that was
clear cut, not controversial whatsoever, in an interim title fight in the welterweight
division. That was back in twenty sixteen, so it's quite a number of
years ago. Uh. And the time that we go over this stuff,
I stand corrected by the great ray Field. Continue. Well, I'm not
saying you're corrected. I'm just saying that there's two notable things that you might
know him for. So no, it's not just to remember more than the
other. Yes, very true. He did beat mostly but Evanescin. You
know, he may not be the most known guy. Okay, fair enough,
and he might have gotten as you said, brutalized and knocked out badly
by Crawford. Uh. And he did did beat the remnants of Mosley.
He gave and so just to go through his resume a little bit. He
gave when Lamon Peterson was the WBA welterweight champion. This was his fight after
he defeated Shane Moseley. He you know, Lamont beat him on a unanimous
decision, but he gave him a pretty good fight. That was a showtime
fight. He went the route with him. It was competitive. Uh So
that was a you know, Lamont was a top guy at that time.
He also has a a got knocked out also in the sixth round by the
then undefeated mean Machine Kavalowskis, which was probably another one of the more notable
opponents that he has faced Kabalaskas that time was undefeated, who later also lost
that fight to Terrence Crawford. He's got a win where he traveled to the
other guy's hometown. There was a very popular action fighter named Kerman Leharaga from
Spain who was like a European champion and made, you know, some series
of exciting fights. But he fought him twice in his home area in Spain.
He knocked him out twice, once in the ninth round and then in
that first round. So those were big wins for him. He has a
victory against Josh Kelly, who was the undefeated fighter who was a big prospect.
You know, that's that's got a lot of hype in the UK.
He knocked him out in the sixth round when Josh was undefeated. I'm only
making the point where he shouldn't be just known because he got stiffened by Crawford.
He has bought some solid opponents and so while he may not be if
you were making an unbiased listing of your top ten welterweights, he probably is
right outside the top ten because the division has taken a hit in terms of
the talent level because certain guys have left the way class or retired or what
have you. But you know, he's in that like way at the bottom
of the top ten, maybe into that top you know a dozen, thirteen,
fourteen. But he's a credible opponent. The problem is that Ennis is
so good and we do have the memory of that Crawford knockout. He has
won one fight since then against and you know, a guy. Unfortunately he
was eleven and fifty five with three draws, so it doesn't count. You
know, he knocked him out in the fourth round of a sixth rounder that
was back in the December. That was sort of like a stay busy,
like just get the rust off kind of pop. But look, I give
him credit. He's going to the other guy's hometown. Remember he wasn't the
original opponent for this fight. Boots was supposed to have his mandatory defense against
Cody Crowley, an undefeated fighter. They had made the match, the fight
was done, they had the press conference and got announced, and then Crowley
unfortunately this you know, Evanesten's had plenty of times so it wasn't like it's
short notice. But back you know, over a month ago, probably maybe
six weeks or whatever it's been. Crowley was forced out of the fight because
he had had retina surgery and his doctor would not clear he was not medically
fit to fight, and I I unfortunately, as I've been hearing, there's
a good likely that Cody Crowley's career may be over because of the perfect So
hopefully that's not the case. But nonetheless, he's not going to be across
the ring from Enis on Saturday. So have an essien, you know,
have gloves, will travel. I just mentioned he went to Spain to fight
the whoe hometown guy. You know he fought uh you know he's coming to
Philadelphia here now to fight jon Nso you know, I definitely respect David Evanescian.
The problem is his game is not versatile like Boots is. He doesn't
have that kind of speed, he doesn't have that kind of defense, he
doesn't have that kind of punching power. He doesn't. He just he's a
good fighter. But as as as the kids say, TJ, there's levels,
there is levels, and you may have given more analysis than the length
of the fight. I mean, Boots may get him out of there in
the first or second round, we don't know. But we'll say. That's
part of the entry on how long can I think that. I think Ennis
will thrive in front of the home crowd. I know he's super excited about
it. He's a motivated and focused guy. I think David Nevansen is in
a world of trouble. I know I'll give a good effort based on everything
I've ever seen of this man fight. That's not the issue. It's that
in boxing, most of the time, like in all sports in life,
talent wins out, and Boots is just a more talented guy. No,
there's no doubt this guy's electric in a game will handicap it. More Mattroom
Boxing Show Saturday night, Philadelphia for this title defense. It is also it
is his first fight since the contract with Matchroom and they're looking to get him
in you know, higher profile busy. He's never fought this type of fight
in Philly in terms of a main event in a big arena. He's super
pumped up about that. Matriom has been touting the fact that they're going to
have you know, well over ten twelve, fourteen thousand in the building for
this fight. Those should be quite the scene. We'll see how long it
lasts. Indeed, okay, Amanda Serrano coming up in advance of her fight
next weekend. Here where I am in West Central Florida in Tampa on the
Jake Paul Mike Perry pay perview. You'll hear from Amanda with Dan in a
few moments. First, though, another world title fight, and this one
we keep mocking the middleweight division about how much intrigue what kind of names.
Well, janebec Alim Canooley has been one of the top names. He now
has two of the titles WBO IBF championships. I got to confess Andre Makaliovich
Mikhailovitch. I don't know who this is, and again, what does this
do non hardcore boxing fan for a JANABEC title defense? This is the top
rank show ESPN plus. We alluded to that in Las Vegas. But I
need a little more ray feel insight here to get me interested in this.
I know hardcore fans might know that name. I don't know that name,
but go ahead, he's not a well known name. I mean, look,
this is not taking place in a big arena. This is taking place
in like a in the in the in the Palms casino, which is a
beautiful casino, and I've actually covered a fight there before back in the day.
But this is going to take place in a room that's probably doesn't hold
two thousand people, not a big place at all. Mkalovich, you know
he's twenty, want to know, so he does have an undefeated record.
He is Russian born, but he is he was adopted, I believe,
as a child and he's grown up and lives in New Zealand. He comes
into this fight. He asked, well, why why is he fighting this
dude? Because as we talked about, the middleweight division a is pretty terrible
overall, and so there's not a lot It's not like he's ducking a guy
and he's gonna fight this dude. They went listen, nothing would make top
rank happier than putting him in a real fight. Top Rank spends a lot
of money on the Janebek. They're not getting the bang for their buck.
They'll be the first to tell you that they're hoping that, you know,
with a little bit more exposure and some big knockouts and that sort of thing,
and maybe some talent that comes into the division, they can find a
bigger fight for him. But this does happen to be the IBF mandatory,
so they're like, we might as well get it out of the way.
So that does take care of that, you know, because Janetbeg does have
the WBO and the IBF title, so this will at least take care of
a mandatory. Because that guy is, you know, highly rated. I'm
not really quite sure why he does not have a big yeah, but we've
seen this. What is it? Your guy, William Skull is highly did
one division up by the IVF at super middleweight. So yeah, exactly one
division up right, one said super middleweight. I mean this guy's resume.
Again, I've said this before about lots of dirividers. Just because he's never
fought a top name or beaten a top name doesn't mean he's no good.
Maybe he just has not the opportunity. But his record in particular is just
like nobody's of nobody. Who's the twenty guy as you like to say,
who's the twenty one in the twenty one to zero and you don't recognize any
of the names, and that's not good TJ. To call these guys' names
on a milk carton would be an insult to the guys on a milk carton.
Uh, interesting same over under of five and a half rounds for Janabeck
listed on the us LAMB when we handicapped tomorrow, So stay tuned. He's
just I'm looking at the record, TJ. There's there's not anybody recognizable,
and a lot of the guys he's fought, our guys would like just pretty
pretty poor records. So right, I mean, but but again, it
doesn't mean he's no good. But Janet a big puncher. We've seen that
before from him. He's like, you know, anesthetized guys. We saw
what he did against when he just annihilated Gultieri. We saw what he did
against Bentley, against Danny Dingham, who I don't know if he's awaken up
from that knockout yet. Yeah, I mean, he took out Stephen Butler
in two rounds. I mean he's been just destroying guys, but guys who
are solid. Dentley solid, Dignum solid, Butler's solid. Gultieri was undefeted
but not so solid. Uh, you know, And so he's trying to
get He's trying to get a real a real big fight. But in the
meantime, he's got to do this now. Top rank would love to.
I actually asked some people at the company, you know, because they're kind
of spinning their wheels with Jannebeck to some degree. You know, what are
you gonna do with him? No? One at one point fifty four is
a big enough name or a top top guy where you could maybe make something
sexy to have that person come up. There's nothing for him at one sixty
eight. There's no title opportunity at one sixty eight because Canelos on dispute,
he has got all the belts, so he's kind of blocked from that ton
of path. So is there somebody in the midday the division now if they
can get their way, they would love to match him up with a Damas
and another unification to unify the three belts. Now right, that's you know,
he's with PBC a Damas, you know, Can I tell you that?
To me? That intrigues me. But whether that can happen is that
from like we're on a zoom is like that is the distance of that happening
from me to you right now in Virginia to Florida or not? That I
actually think, based on the way things are going right now in the business,
that it's not impossible because PBC is not playing right now from a position
of strength. It's not to knock PBC. They're dealing with their own issues.
They don't have a robust broadcaster. They don't have a guaranteed ten dates
for tens of millions of dollars from showtime. That doesn't exist anymore. So
they're trying to, you know, find their way, and I hope they
do well. And they're putting on their pay per views and they're having some
success with that, and they've got a non pay per view coming in August.
But they have a lot of guys with a lot of talent, a
lot of titles. They got to keep them busy. So if they're working
with top rank at least at the moment, to try to finalize a fight
between Gervanta Davis and Lomachenko, for example, it would strike me that making
a fight between Jenebec and Adamas is way less complicated, way less costly.
A minute, wait a minute, do I sense putting something together smart Davis
and Lomachenko fight in the main event of a pay per view and Janebec and
Carlos Adamis fight in a co feature for three of the middleweight belts call us
crazy. I'm gonna fight more value for a pay per view if you were
to do that, But who knows. The point is this, That fight,
I believe is possible that they could make if he is successful on Saturday.
But for that particular card, it's budgetarily, it's probably too much of
a heavy lift for what they're going to earn, what they would be required
to make for that kind of fight. But Jane Bec and the Damas would
be required back is what you're saying, correct, So, but that does
not mean that they can't make it and do it on an ESPN card,
or do it on a Prime card or on one of the prime pay per
views or whatever. The point is, I believe that both companies have really
nowhere to go with either guy, and at least they're talking about a much
bigger fight, so I think it's possible. First things first, let's see
how Janebec looks. And again I'm looking at his record. He was a
little more active up until I mean, he hasn't had a fight since October
of last year, but before that, he had fought in May, before
that, the previous November, before that, the previous May, so he
had had several fights leading up to last October, but now this is the
first time that we've seen him basically in nine months. Let's see what he
looks like in that main event and what happens in the middleweight division for janebec
After that, Raymond Murataiya is in the co feature against Tevin Farmer, a
former world champions a lightweight fight. We'll also handicap this fight as well on
the bet Us show. Give me a little bit on that and anything else
from this Top Rank card Saturday Night that you like well. Maritaya has been
for the last little bit one of the top younger fighters coming up for Top
Rank. He is undefeated twenty zho with sixteen knockouts. He's ready to fight
in a bigger fight. He is shining when he's fought the better opposition.
Sometimes he's been a little inconsistent, but still winning handily against the guys that
are maybe not as sharp or as good fights out of the Robert Carcia is
stable, so we know he gets great sparring and he's got obviously you know
the background of that gym and what Robert brings to the table, and he's
been calling for a bigger fire remember he was offered as an opponent as one
of the various opponents that was offered to Tiafimo Lopez before he had his most
recent fight. Steve Klagett was wound up with the fight where Tai would have
loved to have that fight, he was not selected. So he keeps going
and the Dave. Finally they've matched him up with a former world champion.
As you mentioned, Tevin Farmer was a champion in the one hundred and thirty
pound way class, but he's now fighting in the lightweight division. He's had
his last you know, three fights over the one hundred and thirty pound limit.
This will be his spourts fight over that Only one of those fights has
been the full hundred thirty five pounds. Actually he was a pound over that
weight. But he hasn't been the most active guy. He went through a
period of time from where he at one point when he had won the title
before he lost it, he had been with one of the most active guys
going. He was fighting all the time and had a whole series of fights
quickly. He lost at the Joseph Diaz in twenty twenty and then he didn't
fight until middle of twenty twenty three, but when he came back in the
middle of twenty twenty three, he has fought three times. This will be
his fourth fight in about uh in about uh thirteen months, I guess,
so he has been somewhat active, even though uh you know, the last
fight was a first roun knockout. So it is a step up for Maritai.
Now he again he's fighting in new weight class. But what what Tevin
Farmer brings to the table is usually a good chin, good skills, good
speed, good reflexes, good IQ. I mean, he does a lot
of things. He's a real tricky boxer when he when he wants to be.
He's a south pop and uh, you know, I'm not sure how
he'll do with the with the brute force of a Maretiah, but Tevin Farmer
can definitely handle himself. And uh, you know, I'm encouraged if you
if you want to see a fight that's maybe more competitive then you might have
thought before Farmer had a handful of fights. He's not coming off a crazy
long layup. He just fought in March, right, so he got that
first round Knockout's only been a few months on Grant he's not fighting the top
opponents. But yeah, he's been a good professional and he can like I
said, he can handle himself. So this is what I believe to be
a fight in terms of Martaya where if he wins this fight, I do
think that it's not out of the realm of possibility that maybe in his next
fight he can be fighting for a belt. Maybe two fights from now he's
fighting for a belt. He's right on the HUSPA fighting for a world title.
You just got to keep his h keep his you know, his wins
coming, and keep the chains moving and look, you know good enough.
But uh, it's gonna be good to see him stepping up against you know,
a reputable, solid quality opponent like Farmer. Okay, again, ESPN
Plus will have this on Saturday night, and here's hoping again that at least
for the main events that we get it somewhat staggered for the match Room main
event within US and the Janabec main event with top rank on ESPN Plus.
Uh So we look forward to both of those fight cards that will be taking
place on SAD today and that leads us in to jan with a world champ
who will be in action, not this weekend. But next weekend, on
July the twentieth, Amanda Serrano is back in the co feature fight for the
Jake Paul Mike Perry pay perview. You do not have to wait until next
week fight week to hear from Amanda Serrano, because here she is right now
on the big fight we can preview. Well, it's my great pleasure to
welcome back to our podcast this week. It is none other than the unified
featherweight champion, the future Hall of Famer, one of the greatest women boxers
to ever live, Amanda Serrano. How's that for an introduction? Amazing?
I was like, fuck, keep going, keep going now, that's sure.
You gave me cusbumps. Thank you so much for great to talk to
you again. We're here to talk about your fight. You've got a fight
coming up against Stevie Morgan. It's going to take place on July twentieth on
the de Zone pay per view card that also include Jake Paul against Mike Perry
taking place in Tampa, Florida. And uh, before we get into that
fight and all the stuff around how it came about and everything that's going on,
I actually wanted to start off by going back to March. Maybe not
the fondest memory for you, Amanda, but as you know, you were
supposed to defend those featherweight titles against Nina Menke, a good opponent. Main
event. You're San Juan, Puerto Rico homecoming. Jake Paul, you know,
said led a man to have the spotlight. He was going to be
in your co feature. There's like eighteen thousand people in the arena. They're
going crazy. They're there for Jake, but they're really there for you mostly,
it seemed to me anyway. Felix Trinidad is on hand, you know,
one of the all time greats. And then the news gets broken right
after Jake wins his fight in the ring that you are not going to be
able to have your fight because you had gotten some kind of chemical in your
eye from a previous hair treatment, et cetera. And it was very heartbreaking
to see you and your opponent, you know, come out and not be
able to do the fight. I know everybody was disappointed, the fans,
obviously, the two athletes. Can you just describe him what that was like.
I mean, it's now passed and thankful, everything is good, but
I was I've never seen anything like that before. Yeah, and I don't
have I but this is boxing. Stuff like that happens. Obviously, you
saw what happened with Tyson. We moved it back to November because he has
also in his stomach, but that's what happens. Definitely heartbreaking. That was
my homecoming. It was really sad, but I can't. I went to
the arena ready to fight. I was, I was game. I was
like, I don't care, I was. The doctor just didn't allow me
to fight. I wanted to fight in front of my people. I wanted
to defend my title successfully against Nina. You know, lucky Lena Lina,
she got paid in food for that fight without getting pushing the face by me,
So lucky I didn't. I didn't get paid anything. You know,
we lost a lot of money, time and just the opportunity for that.
But I'm hoping my team, Jake and the KISA, they said that they
will give me the opportunity to get again, and and I believe in them
and they will. But you know, things happen for a reason. And
now we hear twenty for July twentieth. So July twentieth, as you mentioned
about earlier about Tyson, and Jake getting postponed until November. You and Katie
Taylor are supposed to have your rematch on that same big card Netflix at and
T Stadium was a huge event. You know it's a huge boxing event when
you watch mainstream program Saturday Night Live, CNN, whatever it is, and
they're talking about that event, so you know that it's crossed over. And
unfortunately, as you said, Tyson, he comes down with the ulcer a
flare up and it has to be postponed. And you could have done what
Tyson's gonna do because he's the one that's trying to get better. He's not
going to fight until November. Katie Taylor, she's gonna lay off until November.
Jake is doing this fight with Mike Perry. He's gambling the Tyson fight,
and you also are gambling your rematch with Katie Taylor. Can you tell
me why you decided to do this fight and not just do what Katie did
in layoff until such time as your rematch would take place at such a highly
anticipated bout. Yeah, well, I need it to fight because my last
fight, if we were scheduled to November, it was going to be over
a year that I haven't four. Obviously, I trained for the March second
but didn't fight. But plus I didn't Katie is bringing me up another division,
so I'm going up three divisions. So we took this fight because I
wanted to be able to to to feel to test my power and my endurance
at lightweight before I fighting. And well it's not even light way. Yeah,
you see Junior balls away and that's a whole nother division. I thought
that once and I did it just to make history, and after that I
said I wouldn't do it again. But obviously Katie is the champion and that
that division, so she wants me to fight and go up there, so
we're doing that. But I needed this fight July twentieth because I needed to
get in there. I need to get my the that the ring ros.
But I needed to go in there to make sure that I feel comfortable at
what forty. You know it is a high intervision. I just want to
feel good. I want to when I go in there with Katie Taylor.
I want no excuses. I just want to go out there and just go
out there and get my get my win. So do you think it's then
better for you that you're gonna fight, and she's gonna lay off because she's
gonna have been off for a while also since her fights with Chantel Cameron.
I mean, that's that's her business. I mean, she couldn't had me.
I don't know. Her team probably could have got her a fight too,
but I just wanted to feel. I don't know, they probably couldn't
afford it. But my team, I have an amazing team. MV Repete,
Jake and Akisa made sure that that I'm fighting July twentieth. They had
that date. My mind was set on that day, and yeah, that's
where we're fighting July twentieth against tough Stevie Morgan, who was a bigger girl
than Katie Taylor. Obviously she's not Katie Taylor. She's a different opponent and
I'm not thinking of Katie Taylor for this, but I'm training for Stevie Morgan
because she is a taller and bigger fighter and obviously she got punching power with
a fourteen and one thirteen knockouts, so it's different that came to. So
that's I wanted to ask you about her. First of all, she like
you said, she's fourteen and one with thirteen knockouts. You're fighting in her
hometown, she's from Tampa. But I had looked at her record. There's
really I mean all due respect to the number of knockouts that she has,
she there's really not much on her record that you would consider recognizable. A
lot of those knockouts are quick KO one knockouts against very obscure, unknown opponents
in Colombia for that matter, not a lot of video of her. I
actually looked on YouTube, knowing that you and I were going to be talking
about her. You can't really find much of anything. What do you know
about her other than when you other than what you mentioned about when you just
look at the record, maybe like look up box record something. Listen,
no matter why, she's still a big girl, she's still a taller,
bigger girl. You know, anytime I step out of my comfort zone,
out of featherweight, I'm taking risk, and I'm definitely taking a risk against
Stevie Morgan. Listen what that named sledsh hammer that tells you all she has
powers, likes to fight, She's gonna come to fight, and so do
I. Obviously I have more experience than her. I believe my power is
just a little more more harder than hers. But yes, she's she's gonna
come to fight, and she's gonna come to to make sure people remember who
Stevin Morgan is. And you figure, I mean, you're you're a great
puncher. If you just got to look at your knockout record and you've done
it against a lot of more well known opposition in a variety of different weight
divisions, you just figure that you're do you figure that your punching power will
translate once again into the one forty weight class. Yeah, one hundred percent.
I've heard. I think I've heard every opponent I've faced. Obviously,
these women were tough no matter who you going there, We're tough. They
know how to hold, they know how to run, they know how to
do to make it the distance to survive. So but I one nd percent
I feel strong. I feel I always felt strong no matter what weight.
I've heard when I fought uh Reinoso, I one for and I won the
title there. I've heard her a couple of times, but I thought Miriam
Pusierres, which I thought at the Family Arena a couple of years ago,
I heard her and became really good friends, and she told me she said,
Jesus Christ, you hit so hard, and that day she weighed one
hundred and I'm sixty pounds and I weighed one hundred and thirty four pounds.
So my power comes with me wherever I go. It's real power. Now
when you're when you're defending your featherweight titles, and we've discussed this, you've
made a thing about it that as champion, you wanted to fight the same
under the same rules as the men's boxing title fights, which meant twelve round
title fights three minute rounds. Katie, Obviously, as the champion, she's
dictating certain aspects. So it's going to be a ten round fight, it's
going to be two minute rounds. But for this in between fight, if
you will, as you're saying, you're getting used to one forty, it's
a it's a non title fight, it's two minutes. What do you what
you're feeling about sort of going back and forth between having a fight that's two
minute round fight. Your previous fights were three minute rounds. That's like a
you as the athlete, I have to imagine you have to make an adjustment
for that when you're getting ready. Yeah, no, all the time.
But actually this fight. We chose to be ten too, because we're getting
ready for the Katie tail To fight. I didn't want to keep going back
and forth having to adjust myself but having to hold back a little bit with
the three minutes in twelve round. So we wanted the tools just the high
case fight, and that's what we're training for for. You know, me,
my bunchets and bungetes for every second and every minute, every round and
if it goes ten rounds, which I don't know it will go, but
if it goes ten rounds, I'll be ready for action, for war for
all those seconds and minutes. Well, I mean, I know you've been
a professional for a long time, You've got so much experience, and I
know you're going to focus on the opponent that's in front of you, But
I have to imagine you can't really go through with that fight not knowing in
the back of your mind that there's this huge fight, this rematch that everybody's
wanted to see. That I know that you and Katie have both wanted.
There's a tremendous amount of money for both of you ladies on the line,
certainly a lot more then you're gonna make against Stevie Morgan. How do you
prevent yourself from not looking ahead for this human not only the big nature of
the match, but just the whole hoopla that's gonna be around it because of
the fact that it's on the same card with Tyson and Jake Paul and at
one of the great stadiums in the United States and the world for that matter.
And to keep your vision and your foot your focus on the opponent that
you got to fight coming up on July twentieth. Listen, Dan, you
know I've been in this game for a little too long fifteen years to know
that's how upset happens when you focus on the next pace. So I'll focus
on Stevie Morgan, and I just have to go and make sure that I
shake her out early so I'm healthy enough for the Katie Tailor fight. But
no disrespect to Steve you Morgan, my concentration is one hundred percent on her
right now, and then after July twenty of July twenty first, then we
can think and talk about Katie Tailor. Well, I have one more question
for you then, and you just brought up the fact, as you said,
you've been around what fifteen years doing this as a pro as a profession.
As a profession. You're thirty five years old, You've had a decorated
career, been considered the pound for pound number one, You've won the titles
and for women a record seven different weight divisions. You've got this huge rematch
with Katie, which is sort of like going to be I would think,
you know, even bigger maybe than the first fight, just given the context
of the card it's on with Tyson and Jake. And so my question is
how much longer do you want to do this because you've also gotten to a
point where you're making great money also as opposed to the early days when you
were making shit. Yeah, it's like thirteen years so for great people to
come into my career, mean Nikisa and Jake Paul, I mean, you
know, thirteen long years. But now I'm having fun. But you know
what I think, after the Katie Taylor fight, maybe I'll have one more
fight and then the trilogy, because you know it's part of the contract.
Once I bet here she wants those boats back. You do have a rematch
clause right in that for the for the rematch, the rematch for the rematch,
Yes, yeah, so you know, her team kept talking about the
trilogy since the first fight, So I mean, yeah, I wanted to
retire actually at thirty five, but that then it happened due to COVID and
due to everything, I pushed it back. But I honestly I feel good
this camp. I'm training defferitely like the last couple of training camps. It's
all about training smarter, not harder, so I can as I can continue
to be healthy for future fights, and we're taking that in and I'm gonna
be ready for maybe for a year more. And yeah, Jeordia said,
he says two more fights, so it's up to him. Anyways, maybe
it's the Katie Taylor trilogy and maybebe it's a farewell in Puerto Rico. Oh
yes, yes, that sounds like a plan. That sounds like a plan.
Well the plan begins, I guess July twentieth with your assignment against Stevie
Morgan. Amanda. I wish you the best of luck in the fight.
Thank you very much for your time and I'll look forward to it to checking
out that pay per view. Yes, thank you so much, and it's
gonna be an amazing night to addle Arena get your ticket second Messa dot com
and catch it on the Zone pay per view and then I'll see you in
Arlington, Texas in November for the big one. Yes, yes there all
right, Amana, thank you so much alone, Thank you to having everyone.
Thank you good stuff with Amanda, who is obviously motivated. You've got
the Katie Taylor fight looming. It is. It is kind of different.
I mean, Jake Paul wanted to keep the date. Amanda wanted to fight
as you were going over. She had the mishap in March where she couldn't
headline in Puerto Rico. Wanted to fight here and not have to just simply
be idle for much of this year until fighting Katie Taylor. So she's back
in the ring. I joke with you again that I talked to a Tampa
a boxing person that really doesn't know anything about that, that's that knows boxing
in this area, et cetera, and did not know. And we're trying
to get educated more on this opponent, Stevie the Hammer Morgan. And as
you said, she's primarily fought anyway like outside the United States, so I
don't know how much of a challenge that'll be. But I'm interested as we
get to next week because it's coming here to my area to be back around
Amanda, because as you heard in that conversation, she's very personable, she's
well spoken, tremendous arc to her career, and right and right now she
is at a at a financial level that's outstanding. So I'm eager to be
around her and we'll see what what this looks like next week. Any final
wrap up thought after talking to her, I mean just that you know,
she's not defending she's the featherweight champion, she's not defending your titles. And
we spoke about that because the fight with Katie Taylors at one hundred and forty
pounds for the undisputed title. So her perspective was to let me take this
fight in that weight class. She's fought there but only I think once before
years ago, and and just see how I feel at the wait and go
there and get a couple around, you know, however many rounds it takes.
You know, we'll see if Morgan can stand up to her. I
kind of tend to doubt it, but we'll see. But like you said,
it's good to see her back, and you know, it's a when
when Jake Paul fights and Amanda's on the under car, it reminds me of
like the period of time where you'd see Gnati Glovekin in the main event and
Chockolateito Gonzalez was in the co feature, like it was like Batman and Robin,
And right now, Jake Paul and Amanda's run are almost like you know,
today's version of Batman and Robin because they've they compliment each other on their
shows and they make for interesting fights. All right, And again that is
next weekend, so we'll see what happens uh with that. Okay, So
let's get to some news and let's get to some nostalgia. You did talk
on our recap podcast off the weekend last weekend that Chris Ubank Junior's name has
been kicked around, not that it's definite, but been kicked around as a
possible September opponent for Canelo Alvarez. Update, he has signed with a promoter.
Give us the details and what, if anything does this do to enhance
the chance that he might be in front of Canelo. So when I reported
back, you know, hower logo was several days ago. Anyway, that
he was one of the candidates that was, you know, in the running
for the Canelo fight. It was it was basically come down to a U
Bank junior or Edgar Berlanga, and he had not There had been no announcement
that he had signed with boxer. But in my story that I wrote,
what I wrote was that Ben Shalom from Boxer was handling those conversations. Obviously
they don't know each other. You Bank has fought on boxer cards before.
When he fought the two fights with Liam Smith, Boxer was involved as a
promoter, and there's been at least in one other fight that that you Bank
has had that Boxer has been involved with. They just didn't have a long
term or any kind of multi fight agreement with each other. Now they do.
He's split with Washerman Boxing, that's the Cali and Nissi Sarerland that that
that group, and uh, he's gonna have this this longer term agreement with
boxer. Now the question is doesn't lead to a Canelo fight. I'm under
the impression for a lot of different reasons that you Bank is not going to
get that fight, that it's gonna probably be Edgar Berlanga. I'm not I
don't know that for sure, but that is my strong inclination based on everything
I keep hearing from. Lots of different people were involved in some capacity in
these in this event, so you know, you Bank's I guess it's good
for him to put his name out there to be associated with that, but
most likely he's going to wind up having you know, fights in the UK.
Now, Eddie Hearn had come out and said that they had inquired with
matt you know, Mattrium about possibly signing him because they didn't know he was
a free agent. And what he told the outfit seconds out uh one of
the websites out there that that does a good job covering boxing. That Frank
Smith, who's his right hand man, the CEO of Mattrium, that that
the conversation ran through Frank, and that Eddie recounted saying, look, we
wanted to give our deal that we offer. We wanted to give you Bank
one fight and then go into a Connor Ben fight. They wanted to gimme
so called gimme fights and then the counter and they just couldn't I get it
get it done. And I guess a boxer agreed to that sort of scenario.
And you know you talk about Connor benwell, he's suspended, but he
is suspended, but they're working through that and most likely he's going to be
free to come back sometime probably in March ish and be licensed in the UK.
He'll have sat out, he'll have taken the punishment, he'll have not
fought in the UK, and they'll finally do you know, a settlement if
you will, And and that fight could probably get made sometime next year,
and that will be an absolute behemoth. He'll make a lot a lot of
money in that fight, you bank if he keeps winning. And it's a
less dangerous fight in terms of win or loss certainly than the Canelo fight.
Oh yeah, And I also happen to think that the that the Canelo people,
you know, if you're going to negotiate with Berlanga, you can't just
do that. You gotta have somebody else as a backup, so you have
some leguage in the negotiation. So they went through the process, or they're
in the process of going through the process, if you will. But I
strongly believe that sometime in the next week or so, we'll see an announcement
probably that Canelo is fighting Berlanga. I mean, when you're in the process,
do you do anything other than go through the process. I'm just trying,
you know you. I wouldn't you often get on me. I just
have to take my opportunities when they come. If you're in the process,
then you are going through the process. Let me say this about going through
that before you get to that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't like swear in
my kid that he's fighting Berlanga. You want to have something. Here's my
thing. We understood why the John Ryder fight happened, Return to Mexico,
et cetera. British fighter Chris Ubank Junior does nothing for anybody in America if
you're a hardcore fight fan, Yeah, you know that name. At least
Berlanga has a little more because you've seen him on a ESPN. You know
more about him. That's the one that makes sense. Then again, it's
boxing. But I also think one of the reasons that that you Bank was
was broached as a possibility was because from the business side of things, he
would bring some pay per view in the UK. Yeah. Now, obviously
the fight would be on at a at a four time. That's what we
get. You know, they'll be late at night, two in the morning,
whatever the case may be, So it's not that conducive to it,
but there'd be something there. And you know, he's not fighting Benavide's who.
As I've made the point, even if he decided something he wanted to
fight David, David will probably not be avail for that September tiper of anyway,
because my injuries is dealing with You spelled that out right. You basically
said it an algo and said it's not happening for September because he's got a
ligament injury in one hand and the other hand's hurt too. So no,
but me Cano hasn't shown any when he desired to fight him anyway, even
if he suddenly did, it couldn't happen in September. It is the ball
I'm making, So it'll it'll probably be Berlanga and everybody's gonna have to fucking
deal with it. That's the end of the story. Let's see, And
we should know something about that soon enough, because it's mid September. For
whomever Canelo's opponent will be okay, So the purse bid for Emanuel navarat oscar
Valdez rematch postpone currently, So what if anything does this mean. It wasn't
that the purspid was postponed. They had the WBO had given the two sides
until Tuesday of this week to make a deal or they would schedule a purse
bid, gotcha, which would be a few more week, you know,
a few more days or another week. Are you arguing semantics with me?
They're not having the purse bid this scheduled coming this Tuesday? Am I right?
No? There was never no, no, no, it wasn't scheduled.
Let me finish. There was never a purspid schedule. It was you
haven't tiled Tuesday to make a deal. If you don't make a deal,
then we're going to set the schedule and the person would probably be sometime within
the next you know, a week to ten days after that. Top rank
went to the WBO. Obviously they promote both fighters, so usually in these
cases it's not that complicated. They asked for an extension of that, they
were granted a one week extension of that, and they're working through the particulars.
They're probably going to make the fight. Both sides want to do it.
Navarette lost in the lightweight title fight he's coming back to junior lightweight where
he has the WBO title in the In the period of time where his fight
against Baranchick Baroncheck was scheduled, which he lost, Valdez was permitted to fight
for the vacant interim title, which he did and he knocked out Liam Wilson
in March. Listen, the way this was supposed to work in quote marks
is that Navarette was going to go up and beat Baroncheck and win the WBO
title, and then Valdez would have elevate. When never Atta lost, he
then had the option, I can either go back to one hundred and thirty
and retain my time, I can say one thirty five. Well, a
lot of people thought, whatever happened, he wasn't coming back to one thirty
because of his constant, you know, battles with making weight, whatever weight
class he's in. Uh. He surprised a lot of people because he made
the decision that's economically it is better to be in one hundred and thirty with
a title than one hundred and thirty five coming off a loss without a title.
So therefore the wb A follow their roles. They ordered to fight and
I and I would just submit. We talked about this at the time.
He looked sloppy and slow and out of shape at one thirty five. So
get back in better shape. Because this is a guy that progressed very quickly
to featherweight one twenty six, then to junior lightweight, then the lightweight.
What do I know. I don't take those touches, I don't train move
back down and fight Valdez for a titlet one thirty seems to make. But
the shot I hear of this, the upshot, is this, if they
get the deal done, which I believe they will, the date that is
penciled in for this fight is December, the seventh. Gotcha location to be
announced obviously, And look, some people are I wrote about this in my
newsletter in my notebook that came out just recently, and some people were complaining
about the fight. You know, what do we need to see it for?
And I understand people are like, Okay, we don't need to see
that again because the first fight was terrific, but it was very clear cut
in favor of Naverette. But I've seen worse rematches. I mean, I
lived through the Winkie right. Bronco McCart trilogy. I lived through the Evander
Holyfield John Ruiz trilogy. Yea, if we have to get a rematch of
Navarrette Valdez, I can definitely handle that. That was a hell of a
fight, so a good line, and then that does look good against Leem
Wilson, so maybe he can. And Navar by the way draw against Conte
sal and then loss after that. He's got to get his act together.
So that's I mean, for all the accolades of him dominating Valdez, what
have you done for me lately? Baby? All right? So let's see
what happens on that. By the way, there was an Australian car that
has implications from earlier this week where Sam Goodman won and is still the IBF
mandatory for Naolia in a way right now. But there there's more to the
story, rayphel is all always more to the story in boxing. So what's
going on here with Goodman status? Real quick? All right? So if
you go back to May when in a way wiped out NEARI in the Tokyo
Dome to retain the undisputed title, who was there standing in the ring within
a way after the fight to talk up the fight? I'm thinking that was
that I did see Sam Goodman. That is correct. So Sam Goodman,
who was an undefeated fighter from Australia who is the IBF's mandatory challenger. They
were in the ring together the same way has happened plenty of times in the
past where you see the next opponent in the ring doing interviews together, et
cetera, or you know, a number of different weight classes and fights.
So that the sort of the thought was, okay, fine, they're gonna
get rid of the IBF mandatory. They're going to take that fight. That'll
be in a ways fight when it comes back sometimes September time frame. For
whatever reason, Goodman took this fight instead against a Thailand fighter, war A
What Chenoi war What from Thailand. It was twenty five and one with one
draw, and they fought in Australia on Wednesday. And Goodman, you know,
he won the fight pretty clearly on the scorecards, like eleven to one
on one card, nine three whatever on the other cards. He injured his
hand. I checked in with his promoter at no Limit to find out what,
you know, how bad it was damaged. They thought it was nothing
too overly serious, that it was going to probably be, you know,
no more than like a month or two, but that would not allow him
to fight in September against anyway. Now, there's a lot of conversation that
in a way has already made the decision that his next fight around September is
going to be against the former title holder, TJ. Doheny, who was
a Irish fighter that lives in Australia, who used to have one of the
one hundred and twenty two pound title belts, who fought on the undercard when
he knocked out Louis Nearing. That appears. I was checked in with Top
Rank, who's his co promoter, and they're like, yeah, that's the
fight we're making or we're planning. But the no limit people that are with
goodmen say no, we're fighting in a way next. Then you have Ak
Mandaliev, who was the former title holder. He is the mandatory in the
WBA that fight has been ordered and his people have already sent a letter,
you know, basically threatening the WBA that you cannot bypass us, particularly for
an optional defense, unless everybody agrees that we're next and all that. So
it feels like in a way is going to do it. In a way
is going to do, which is apparently fighting team to Dohaney. Now,
I guess it's going to be a matter is he gonna have all the belts
associated with that fight if he doesn't fight Aquade If I don't think Goodman will
be a problem because the thing is in a way probably will fight two more
times this year. So he goes in September. Goodman would probably line up
as his opponent in say December slash early January, so it's kind of up
in the air. But the bottom line is dam Goodman wouldn't even be in
the conversation. He didn't win the fight that he won on Wednesday, so
he took care of that. So he maintains his position and now we'll see
them kind of fight it out. And we should make mention he did beat
TJ. Dohaney head to head all the way back in March of twenty twenty
three. The bigger upset win was a few months later in June of last
year, on an undercart of a tam Zuoman event on Showtime, he beat
the American rayis Aline. So Goodman has a couple of interesting wins. But
as you men, he's a good He's got an injured hand. I mean,
it's not hard. He's probably not next in September, depending we'll say,
but he could get a shot. But now, you know what I
find it. I took it like this when I asked the No Limit people
that that they said, well, Goodman's next fight's gonna be in a way.
In my mind, I don't know if this is what they meant.
I haven't clarified it with them. It seemed to me that it might be
Goodman's next fight against in a way, but not in a way's next fight.
In other words, in a way could go forward with this TJ.
Doaney fight and then fight Goodman in the next fight. Now, what happens
in terms of the akmadaliav. Mandatory, you know, we'll see what happens
with the BELTA, what happens with their pressure on the WBA. Matter of
fact, in the letter that they sent to the WBA, which I wrote
about, you know, a week or so ago, they cited a lawsuit
under this exact same circumstance where the WBA lost in federal court. And you
could just take the names, you know, Akmadaliev in a way, Dohaney,
and just change them out of that paperwork. And it would be the
same exact let us make this simple for you, WBA. We've seen this
movie before, and we are going to argue the exact same thing and insert
our names. So we'll see, we'll see what happens. Uh. The
main thing here though, is in a way he's just gonna fight whoever,
and he's probably anyway. All right, one more note and then nostalgia time,
and then we are finished up. Golden Boy did officially announced Virgil Ortiz
will now be on a standalone a title fight on August the tenth, not
part of the August third Los Angeles show from the Saudi Entertainment Authority. Boachuk
is the opponent, and you've got more news on Virgil and also a little
bit on this undercard for August the tenth as they were having the press conference
also on Thursday. Yeah, so I mean we know that the fight's happening.
Boachuk won the interim WBC belt on that Fundora tien Zuo undercard. Virgil
was supposed to fight Tim Zoo August third. He was not ready to come
back because of the terrible laceration on his scalp the blood everywhere, so he
was out and the Saudi's for whatever the reasons why they didn't want to do
the Boicheck fight, which was what was present to them as one of the
possibilities. But Golden Boy and his own and Tom Loffler, who is the
Boachick promoter, still wanted to go forward and have the fight done. So
they were like, Okay, we're not going to do the fight in August
start, so we're gonna have Virgil and Boacheck headline the next Golden Boys show
after that, which is August the tenth. They'll headline that show at Andelai
Bay. And it's a hell of a fight. I mean, these two
guys combined have you know, forty four knockouts in their combined forty five wins,
and the only loss Boacheck has won defeat. But they've they've scored well.
Virgil's perfect in terms of his knockouts, won every fight by knockout,
and Boacheck has won, you know, all of his fights except for one
by knockout. So, and the interesting thing is, and we'll get more
into it as the fight gets closer, but Boachick and Virgil have had a
lot of sparring rounds together. They know each other and Virgil is like,
you know, this is gonna be a brutal fight, so you know that's
from his mouth. So it shapes up as a very interesting fight for high
stakes. Obviously the title the vacant, that the vacant, but the interim
titles at stake, which in and of itself is just sort of like a
whatever, but it puts you in a great position to either be elevated or
to get a fight against one of the bigger name champions, and so that
that's gonna be uh No, that's that's a significant fight, and it's gonna
be it. It's one of the better fights on Maybe it's not the biggest
name fight, as Bocheks not really got a big name, but in terms
of what in my mind with the action to expect, that shapes up to
me is like one of the better fights of this summer. Now you asked,
Now, they didn't announce the undercard just yet, but I am told
that among the fighters that will be that will be on that undercard are two
of the better golden boy fighters that they have in their stable. And that
is and I wrote this before the excellent junior welterweight contender Kenneth Simms, who
had been with PBC, who's off a one year layoff, who signed with
them back in May. He's going to fight on that under card in his
first fight of the contract. And also Charles Conwell, the twenty sixteen United
States Olympian undefeated junior middleweight contender nineteen and zero, who had reached as high
as number one in the WBC, but he went into all kinds of layoffs
and issues, hadn't fought for seventeen months, had promotional problems, manager problems,
you know whatever. So but he did sign with Goldenway, and he
came back and had his first fight with the company back in April and got
a nice knockout against Nathaniel Gallimore. So he got these two good young contenders,
you know, really providing Golden Boy. In my opinion, they're like
sneaky quiet, like building up a really solid, good stable of contenders and
champions. Re signing Virgil Artis to a contract, which is the other thing
I wanted to mention that that was the other part of what you were talking
about. When they did the press conference to announce the fight in the hours
prior to actually having the press comments, Golden Boy announced that they had signed
Virgil to a contract extension. His contract was coming up, and now he's
got everything handled. He's a loyal guy. Golden Boy was loyal to him.
They've enjoyed working with each other, and they got he got a great
deal and he's going to stay with Golden Boy. So unlike Chaquar Stevenson and
some others who wanted to go out and test the market. And trust me
when I tell you, if Virgil Ortiz was on the open market, I
promise you that the other promoters to come shooting, whether it was PBC,
Top Rank, Match Room, maybe Frank Warren, everybody would have been after
Virgil Ortiz. Twenty six years old, undefeated all by knockout, highly rated,
good, good puncher, good fighter, good fan base. You know,
the guy you want to have. Anyway, he didn't want to do
that. He likes where he's at. He's staying with Golden Boy. They
resign him and they're gonna build around him. I mean there are other big
star. Ryan Garcia is on the shelf for who knows how long, of
course, but Ortiz is a guy you can definitely, you know, don't
have to worry you. You match him up with. He's gonna probably compete
and beat most guys if he doesn't. He's always exciting anyway, So it's
a big day for them. They announced this excellent matchup. They've got two
of the newer fighters that they've signed who are top contender level guys, gonna
fight on the undercard, and they got the main event guy who's the A
side challenging for an interim title. And by the way, we got his
name on a contract to keep him with us for the next few years.
So that's a good week for Golden Boy Promotions. Let me tell you that's
coming RN, that's coming into August, all right, nostalgia time. Always
love the nostalgia. Man, oh man, I remember this by July twelfth,
twenty eight years ago, nineteen eighty six. Well, no, wait
a minute, it's even more than that, right, it's thirty eight years
ago? Am I correct? July twelfth, nineteen eighty six on the math
for Evander Holyfield thirty eight years ago. Oh my god, I'm reading from
my ray Field Rundown that says twenty eight. You're trying to make me feel
younger, but that's actually that's actually thirty eight years ago. I remember Dwight
Muhammad Kawe of vander Holyfield for the WBA Junior Heavyweight title as it was known
at that time. And I remember it because it was holy Field in Atlanta,
his home and on Wide World of Sports, by the way, with
Jim Lampley still on the call at that point in nineteen eighty six, and
Jim, Jim Lampley talked to you about during that time period where he had
a boss at ABC that basically put him on boxing to try to get him
to wit and Lampsley embraced the role and instead was calling Mike Tyson fights and
this fight, this was an amazing fight. When we talk now thirty eight
years ago, holy Field in the former Dwight Braxton converted, converted to Islam,
became Dwight Mohammed Kawei. They could have fired You love it when I
give the analogy. They could have fought it in a bathtop. They did
not require a lot of lateral movement, a lot of the right. See.
I thought you were to say they could have found a phone booth,
and then we'd have to explain to the kids with a phone both they don't
know what a phone booth does. Anymore. They don't know what a newspaper
is. They don't know what a TV with a knob on it is.
They have no idea what those things were. But Kawee and holy Field went
toe to toe in one of the final fifteen round fights. By the way,
fifteen round fights fight that way. And by the way, Lampy.
Lampley wasn't just a guy that embraced doing these types of fights. Lampley was
a diehard boxing fan from his child, but his Boston agency didn't know that.
But Kauie and holy Field, now they're both in the Hall of Fame.
Kawi was one of the one of the top fighters of his day.
This was TJ And you have to tell you you want to talk about a
grueling, violent, lacious, fucking fight, that is what this is.
I mean, it is grueling. I mean I think about it, I'm
like, I cannot believe that these guys took and dished out what they did.
Now, keep in mind, when most people think about the great Evander
Holyfield and all the tremendous battles he has, this fight is not top of
mind, right. They think of the Great Rittick Bow Trilogy, they think
of his victories against Mike Tyson particularly. You know, they obviously the earbite,
but the great fight was the first fight where it was an all time
action kind of fight. They think about a plenty of other fights that Evander
Holyfield has this fight action for action, and maybe it's not at the level
of some of those bow fights, but this is every bit as good as
a fight you'll ever see. When I talk about the greatest cruiserweight fights in
the history of the division, this is in the short list of those fights.
There's this, There's James Tony against Vasili Jiroff. There's one of the
what was a John Mark Mormack Dell fights. I can't remember as the first
one or the second one. If you say so, you losing me on
that, I'll take your work. I'm just making the point though, if
you were making your list of, like say, the top three four to
five cruiserweight title fights of all time, this is in the top toura at
worse. I mean just I haven't gone back and watched recently. I don't
know that I have really ever gone back and watched the fight. I remember
seeing a highlight here or there, but it was in the old Omnium I
correct where the Hawks played basketball, and it was blazing hot in July without
much air, and there was a lot of concern in both corners as this
fight wore on heat exhaustion. I remember, I think Lampley even bringing it
up about how hot it was late in the fight, and they just kept
wailing on each other. Now remember also, yeah about this, Evander had
won a medal, a bronze medal where he kind of was robbed the Olympics
of anything further than that. But he was in the nineteen eighty four Olympics,
and this is in July of nineteen eighty six, so he's barely two
years into his professional career. So for him to go through this type of
a fifteen round war at the very early stages of his career, he was
only eleven and oh going into this fight, and he put this fifteen rounder
that's like as brutal as anything you'll ever see, you know, in your
life. He was eleven to Ozho with eight knockouts. But it was just
absolutely sensational and it was close and it was competitive, and Evander found a
way in those last few rounds to get the job done. I mean,
it was I'm in odd when I think about this fight and I'm gonna pull
the curtain back a little bit. You know you follow me in my social
media, you know I'm always tweeting out right, posting on Instagram or Facebook
whatever, like pictures of my programs and posters, and I usually link those
postings to the anniversaries of these significant fights I'm in. I've been embarrassed to
say this. I have a beautiful mint program from this fight TG. I
can't fucking find it. Where is that? Where is the what? This
is unheard of? Because usually you have this stuff catalogs me winced in a
certain drawer, in a certain file. Sea up, I have this program.
When is the last time that you looked for it before? Now?
Did you look forward to a year ago? This time? Probably last year?
I know I have it, I mean I know where I have it,
like on your spreadsheet. I have this, I obtained it. But
where is it? I have all of my programs cataloged and a you know
word. Did you potentially trade it and not remember for something else? No?
No, no, no, because I know you do trade sometimes I
do, but that would not have traded this because I don't have duplicates of
it, so wouldn't be saying so somewhere in either in my office or in
the poster room where I have my program boxes, it's it's I didn't lose
it. It's here, but you got to find it. There's two programs
that I have that I can't fucking find. There's second one am I A.
There's this one that I just cannot find. I'm going to fucking tear
my office apart. I think, what we're done taping this and look for
I also can't find my program from Tyson versus Razorotic number one? I have
that awesome all right, So we got two am as, but this one
is the big one because I can't fucking find it. And this was a
tremendous fight. All right, I'm going to hit you with something. Don't
look at anything, because you are who you are. I did not know
this till I just saw this. So Dwight Braxton or Dwight Muhammed Kawei was
on the rise. He was known, he had fought on ABC. Some
had notoriety before this fight. Who was Dwight Mohammed Kawi's win over immediately before
the Holy Field fight, famous name. I didn't know this I didn't know
they ever beat this guy. Do you know the name pop Quiz. I'm
going to use a quote from the great Mike Tyson. How dare you challenge
me with your somewhat primitive skills? Go Leon Spinks today? The day they
were Kyaween's. Yeah, today, were taping this. I believe this would
be Leon Spinks's birthday, who passed a couple of years ago. Wow,
but Lee, look, I'm going to look up while we're while we're doing
this, well, no, I'm looking at it right now. His birthday
was July eleventh, nineteen fifty three. You're correct, we're taping it on
Thursday of the eleventh. Would have been spinkx's birthday. After I had such
a great a hold on hold on. So he had such a great Olympic
career and was a world champion and Dwight Mohammed Kawei beat him in March of
that year, and then he fought the Olympic fighter that had been disqualified for
a late punch to keep him from the being in the gold medal match in
Evander Holyfield. So that's just interesting. I never knew that Kawe and Leon
Spinks fought, and that was was pretty much you know, I understand,
but still a hit wonder. Let's be honest, let's but still I mean
it's tonight, it's a good win. I mean, that's that's a name,
that's a noteworthy name that they fought. All right, So go back
kids and YouTube that went upween. This is this is another great stat So
that nineteen eighty four Olympic team. Obviously the Russians and the and the and
the Soviet Bloc countries Cuba, they did not compete because they boycotted because the
United States had boycotted the nineteen eighty Olympics unfortunately, so the greatest amateurs from
a significant portion were not present in Los Angeles to compete. But the United
States dominated and won, uh, you know, a whole I think they
won nine medals in the Olympic boxing, a bunch of gold. I can't
remember how many, but a whole bunch of gold medals in boxing. Evander
did not get the gold. As I mentioned, he was disqualified against Kevin
Berry, who went on to become a top trainer, trained people like David
Tua. That's probably what he was best known for. But was you know,
still around boxing. I I still see Kevin every now and again.
He's from New Zealand, but he lives in Vegas, so I still see
him around it. Fights always got along gray with Kevin. But anyway,
that was the fighter that Evander got decuted against and he ended up getting the
bronze medal. So all these great fighters that won Olympic gold from his team,
Meldrich, Taylor, Hearnel, Whittaker, Tyrrell Biggs, I mean,
Mark Breeland, they had a great team, Henry Tail, Henry Tilman exactly.
But Evander became among all of those Olympic medal winners from the United States
team. Even though he didn't get the gold, he did become the first
from that group to win a professional world title in this fight against Dwaye,
MOhm and Kawie. And also, by the way, when he won that
fight against Kawie, he went on to he actually knocked Kawie out in a
rematch a couple of years later. He went on to become the undisputed cruiserweight
champion, and then became of course when he was the first ever undisputed cruiserweight
champion, and then he became the first ever undisputed cruiserweight to also become the
undisputed heavyweight. I mean, that's but it wouldn't. This was what started
all that by winning that title against Kouei in one of the great fights of
all time. All right, quickly, a couple of more things on the
nostalgia also all the time program. Well, I mean, you got to
find the program. You're you're looking at me like that's somehow my responsibility.
I mean, let me just pull the curtain back on my own household.
I show back up after being gone to Las Vegas for three days, and
I'm being blamed for things in my house by the wife and twins that have
nothing to do with me because I was three time zones away. Are you?
I mean, if you're gonna come at me now the same way when
I've been in Vegas about your program for Holyfield, Kawi, I'm not responsible
for the cataloging and the caretaking in the ray Field collection. Yet here you
put me on the payroll and I'm now the curator of the collection. That
that's a different role for me. Then you can yell at me about that.
Go find it yourself right now, figure out what you did with it.
But also on Friday July twelfth, ten years ago, I don't feel
as old Canelo, Alvarez, Aris Landy, Laura, you were ringside at
the MGM Grand and this was a lot closer than what a lot of people
may remember to Canelo taking a loss that night. What else stands out was
Laura good? Was Canelo just eh? Or both? Or what was it?
Well, let's put it in perspective so people understand where in the career
of Canelo this took place. He had lost to Floyd Mayweather in their humongous
mega fight. His next fight after that, he dominated and stopped Alfredo Angulo,
who was a pretty good contender at that time, but it was a
very one sided fight. At the press conference after that fight, Arislani Laara
showed up and called him out in front of everybody at the MGM the same
way you know, years later Dimitri's Andre would do. It. Wasn't not
Canelo's first time experiencing that. When when when Andre did that a few years
ago? So Lara did that like that's you know, the old tried and
true method to try to get the big fight is to go to your desired
opponent's postfight press conference and try to insult him and call him out and Canelo
resisted. He's like, basically, you know, who are you? You
know? And I remember this Actually at that press conference, Canelo through the
train. He didn't speak much English back then, so it was through the
translitter. He basically said, we're in the MGM, in the main press
room wherever you know, the big fights are always hosted for the the you
know, A and B ballroom at the MGM Grand and he basically said something
to the extent of, you know, talking to the media and to all
the people that were in the room, you know, raise your hand if
you want to see me fight. ARISONI Laara, and I remember this.
Did you put your hand up? No? I didn't because I wasn't going
to participate in the boxer's poll. I was there as a journalist, not
to offer my viewpoint on what he should be doing. But the point is
at that news conference when he said that, there was one per person that
raised their hand, and it was Laura's manager, Louis the Koubas was Laura
well obviously wanted to fight anyway. So now fast forward, that was in
that press conference was in after the fight. This is March of twenty fourteen.
Now fast forward to like you know, early May of twenty fourteen,
and they ended up making the fight. Canelo basically changed his mind and went
against his promoters at Golden Boy at the time, his team they did not
want him to fight Laara. They thought it was a dangerous fights like left
hander Arislani at the time was the the WBA's junior middleweight champion, and they
did not want him to fight the fight. But Canelo basically said I'm taking
the fight, and they made the match. Now, it was a showtime
pay per view fight. It was the title was not on the line.
They for whatever the reason was, I don't know if it was Canelo just
don't want to fight for the WBA, don't want to pay the sanctuity,
whatever the case is. They contracted the fight at one hundred and fifty five
pounds, one pound over the limits, so the title was not on the
line, but in essence, it was determined to determine who is the number
one fighter at one hundred and fifty four pounds, and Canelo ended up winning
the fight. Now, there are some people that want to insist that he
got that he got a gift that night, that Lara got robbed. I
wholeheartedly disagreed with that. Now, I went back to my article that I
wrote the night of the fight on ESPN, and I dug it out,
and I knew I had Canelo winning the fight, but I couldn't remember what
my score was, so I looked up. So just for the sake of
the whole thing, here you had the official judges, very familiar judges by
the way, LeVar Martinez one seventeen, one eleven in favor of Canelo,
Dave Moretti won fifteen one to thirteen in favor of Canelo, and Jerry Roth
one fifteen to one thirteen in favor of Canelo, and Rayfhael had it in
the middle one sixteen to one twelve in favor of Canelo. The reason why
Canelo won that fight is because Arislani Laura literally at times ran and ran and
ran backed up, just refused to do anything that we even remotely looked like
an offensive moment in the fight. And I'm sorry, but you cannot give
a guy the fight. Meanwhile, Canelo's landing shot, he's doing his thing,
and you know you're gonna get the benefit of the doubt when one guy's
pressing the action and they're both having some success and the other guy's not doing
anything. Uh, And it was just one of those things where there was
just no way that that he was going to win and anything that. Even
though I think CompuBox wise, which again not official, de Laara was I
guess had a few more landed punches, he did absolutely no damage. They
were just little amateur like jebs because that's what he was. He was a
at that time, he was a gifted boxer. Look, he hadn't broken
that amateur mole. I am already I'm not going to send us down the
rabbit hole for ten more minutes, but I'm already reflecting on last week's Consissau
Oshaki Foster robbery of Foster. I'm not saying that that this is different,
but but like Consissau, didn't do anything to win the fight. I'm not
going to go back and rewatch this because I got other things to do.
I'd rather watch Holyfield Kawi. But I'm gonna take your word for it.
If he's backpedaling the whole fight and not putting up a whole lot of offense,
then you don't have a real legitimate gripe that you somehow won seven or
eight rounds, and the other thing about it was clear as day when Canelo
landed, they were much much heavier punches. And we talk about that all
the time. If my five aren't the same as the ray as the ray
field thunderous right hand, that the thundering, you know, the thunder's right
hand landing three or four times can outweigh ten or fifteen reeves flick tabs and
my using my reach and my wiry frame. So yes, and by the
way, impact somewhat competitive. People just have to deal with the fact that
the guy that's the making the fight and is the crowd favorite and is the
money guy. You put all that shit together, and he was landing the
heavier shots is probably going to get the benefit of the doubt, which he
did and deservedly so. And Laura went on to have a good career after
that one titles and you know, made some big fights and obviously was involved
when his legs weren't what they were the ninety fuckingalo years later against Jared Hurd
in a in a loss, but made the fight of the year. So
you know, I don't I'm not I don't. I don't dislike Laura,
but on that night. Despite some people's very vocal insistence on the fact that
Canello got a gift that night, I would say that's not correct. All
right, one more piece of nostalgia and I cannot. I don't want to
accept this. Fifteen years ago, Arturo Gotti, who is your all time
favorite fighter. You've talked numerous times, and we've talked about this before on
the podcast. With the controversy around his death. It's now fifteen years ago
Thursday, as we released the podcast July eleventh, two thousand and nine,
he was found dead in Brazil. Mysterious circumstances with the with the ex wife
or with the girlfriend, whichever it was. Did he really kill himself?
It was his wife, it was a wife, But did he really kill
himself? And they, even if I am not mistaken, they even continued
the investigation by exhuming the body and doing another autopsy, trying to determine because
God, He's family believed was not a suicide. Nefarious circumstances in Brazil,
But go ahead, yes, fifteen years ago, yeah, I mean,
listen, the circumstances of his death are mysterious. I have always been in
the camp that does not believe he killed himself, that there was some funny
business that the wife was involved. And I say that based on what I
have read, what I have heard, what I have seen, people I
have talked to that knew him very well, certainly a lot better than me.
But I also I also think about the time that I the couple of
times I met the wife, and I swear to god, I actually met
her for the first time that one of like Arturo's postfight parties in Atlantic City,
and I said to somebody at the time, they weren't married, they
were boyfriend girlfriend, they were they had started dating. But I was introduced
to her obviously that you know, seemed like it was serious. And I
turned to somebody that was there, a boxing person, and I swear to
you, I said something to the extent of like, she's not there's something
off about her, Like I was sort of like suspicious. Having met her
for like two minutes, I was like, something did not sit right with
me about just Raypheel Antenna was up. So I was sort of like,
whatever. Now, now years I do I do remember this. They did?
They do. They did an extensive HBO Real Sports like investigative segment.
What a great show. That was for so many years, and we don't
have to get I'm just I'm more than talking about the circums this I wanted
to celebrate, I understand, But just one one more quick thing. It
is not conclusive, and they did a great job. Go back and watch
it. That how he supposedly had hanged himself is in question fifteen years later,
there is no doubt, all right. So also has no doubt is
that the Brazilian authorities and the way they investigated and the way they handled the
scene did a very poor job. That's one of the reason why there's loss
disaster. But you want to say one more time why he's your favorite fighter
on the on the anniversary of his passing, Go, well, it's just
that, you know, I've said this before. You know, people want
to complain he's in the Hall of fameus and that all I know is that
in my time of covering boxing, I don't think there's ever been a fighter
that emotionally had an attachment to his fans and vice versa more so than ar
Tururo got And that includes Tyson and pak yeah, and and and and plenty
of other great fighters. Canelo and you know, Floyd Mayweather pick pick your
pick, your top star. That the passion that the people felt for him,
that when you went to a Gaddy fight, it was the experience,
was the whole weekend of being in the boardwalk hall, of of the love
from the fans, whoever the opponent was, uh, you know, whether
it was Mickey or somebody you never heard of. Uh. And he always
gave you your money's worth, win or lose. He was that type of
fighter where you know, I say this to you before, if you ask
a boxing fan, they will have to stop and think. If I said,
you will who won the first Gatty Word fight, who won the second
fight? Who? You know? They'll know he won the third fight because
they know he won the trilogy. But there's not like you have to think
for a second, like what the outcome was. And the reason why is
because it didn't matter. There was such an awesome fight that the result was
almost irrelevant. Uh. And And by the way, ur Turro had again
win or lose, probably about seven legitimate Fight of the Year candidates. He
ended up was in the Fight of the Year on numerous occasions. But he
had so many tremendous fights, and by the way, a lot of those
great fights were even befre He had already a litany of incredible fights before he
ever swapped one punch with Mickey Ward in their first fight in two thousand and
two. I mean, if you go back and think about some of the
amazing fights this guy had, you know, there's there's the to me.
Anyway, My all time greatest Gaddy fight, not Mickey Ward opponent, was
his first title defense at one hundred and thirty pounds, when he fought at
the Madison Square Guarden Theater and had an absolute spectacular comeback and a brutal,
grinding fight against Wilson Rodriguez, and he knocked him on in the sixth round
with like a spectacular shot. That was the fight where if you ever watched
the HBO broadcast, you see the doctor go to the talk. You've talked
to us right about it. Yeah, So I don't remember what round it
was. The doctor's checking his eye, so got his eyes like basically closed,
and he's like, how many things he's put your hand over your eye
or he put his hand over the eye, how man fingers that I have
up? And God is like I'm fine, I'm fine, And he's like
tell me or I'm going to call the fight. Gaddy guessed then that he
had whatever it was, one or two fingers up there right, so as
the as the legend goes, he couldn't see Joe Susa, the late great
cutman that saved Gaddy's career on more than one occasion by keeping the swelling down
and allowing him to continue fighting and stopping cuts. Padded Gaddy twice to tell
him it was two fingers, and he gets too like the uh, like
the baseball stealing of the signs here comes the fast exact. But hey,
it worked and then he and then he scored the knockout. And you've told
us about that as well. So YouTube that fight up as well. And
also you go through your you look up the Gabriel Roveellas fight Fight of the
Year in nineteen ninety seven losses and great fights against Ivan Robinson twice as the
spectacular those are underrated. Bathroom or bathroom matt stand right next to each other,
beat the daylights out of each other fights as well with Daddy and Robinson.
So the ninety seven fight of the year, uh that that was our
ninety six rather was the from Ariguez fight, arguably the Fight of the Year,
and then you go to the fights against Ivan Robinson that was the Ring
Magazine voted the ninety eight fight of the Year, upset of the year.
He could have won that fight. It was very close split decision. Lost
the rematch also lost on Cutstar Angel Man Freddy and like kind of a grudge
match, another terrific fight. He has gone down the line. Even the
Daily Quay fight where he got beat up was a very exciting fight. Then
he comes back after that, he has the three Mickey Ward fights, and
then he has the GM Luca Bronco fight, which to me is one of
the most underrated fights in his career. That was a sensational fight where he
won a decision. He ended up winning another title at one hundred and forty
pounds sports some big knockouts, and then obviously met you know, the match
against Floyd Mayweather, who just you know, he was completely outclassed by.
But this guy had such a memorable career, like to me, the great
If you said to me, Rayfhael, you can go back and of all
your time covering boxing, you can go back and re experience one thing I
would pick. Let me go to and I would you could pick the fight.
Put me in Boardwalk Hall on Saturday night and in the pre fight of
an artural Gotti fight hit the music of Thunderstruck, and I would be loving
to experience that again, to be with all those great fans who just showed
that love and see Gotti come into the ring. It was like a religious
experience. I can't explain it any other way. I love it. It's
a shame. And I know you mentioned Alexis Arguayo all the way back at
the beginning of the podcast. This this time frame is awful on the remember
remembrances of Argueyo taking his life and Vernon Florest being murdered in a in a
robbery gone wrong where he chased the robbers. All of that happened right around
now, right around the same right around the same anniversary is coming up in
like a week. Yeah, and all of that around the same time.
Uh wow. So on this on this time frame, so ar Turo Gotti
rip, great fighter. Rayphiel loves him. Man. We have covered a
bunch in the preview mode again. Uh, going all the way back to
the beginning of the program, Chacola Tito Friday Night in Action on ESPN Plus
non title fight Boots and US on Zone in Philadelphia in his hometown, will
defend the IBF World Welterweight title fight he's been elevated. And then the Saturday
night at Las Vegas card. Keep an eye on Jannabeck with two of the
belts at middleweight, bigger fights, maybe ahead title defense for him. We
previewed all of those. You heard from Amanda Serrano. You got news in
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