The countdown is on to fight time. This is Big Fight Weekend. No.
Here is your host, t J. Leaves. Well, Hello there
and welcome in as we get ready for another preview edition of the pod.
Thank you for finding us however you've done so. I'm the somewhat confident host,
t J. Reeves. He is our insider Fight Freaks Unite, Substack,
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Dan, Raphael, we're gonna be able to do this together, presumably out
in Las Vegas for Spence and Crawford. Looking forward to being out there with
you and I guess the most prominent fight card that we have to preview this
week before that massive one next week is George cambosas the former unified lightweight champion.
He is in Action headlining for them in of all places, Oklahoma.
As we like to joke, as I've always said, if you're gonna come
back off you're losing your championships, you might as well debut as an Australian
redbut in Oklahoma. In any event, Dan Rayphel, how are you feeling.
I'm good. I feel like this is the calm before the storm,
Amen, because you and I are trying to figure out, Okay, next
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Ray feel in attendance, along with a bunch of other boxing media that we'll
be there for this event and you're gonna hear from Errol Spence and Terrence Crawford
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forward to giving those things away. With that out of the way, let's
get into the preview mode for Cambosis and Maxi Hughes. I'm interested from more
from you about Hughes. We know about Cambosas. This is the headlining fight
of the ESPN top ranked card in Oklahoma. Keyshan Davis is in the co
feature. So in the preview mode before we hear a little bit from Errol
Spans and Terrence Crawford speaking to the media the week before. They're about this
is the most prominent bout in the US. Tell me more about Cambosis and
Hughes. I mean, it's a pretty good matchup if you ask me.
It's not it's going to set the world on fire anything like that, but
it's an official IBF eliminator. The winner of this is going to be in
position to challenge for a title. Obviously, Devin Haney still holds the undisputed
title for how much longer it remains to be seen, because it's still not
determined whether he's gonna opt to defend that one thirty five or go to one
forty. I don't think if Cambosis wins, no matter what, we're not
seeing a rematch or a third fight anyway between Haney and Cambosas. But the
main thing is the winner is going to be in position when those belts ultimately
do become vacant at some point in the not too distant future. And like
I said about Camboss, he's coming off the two losses against Hainey in fights
that really warn't all that competitive. That we're in his home country of Australia.
But prior to that, he had obviously the biggest win of his life
when he took the unified titles from Tiafimo Lopez in a tremendous battle. And
obviously Lopez has rebounded from that because he's won his fight since then, and
including the very very outstanding performance he had just recently against Josh Tail to become
the champion junior welter rate. So anyway, Cambosa is trying to shake off
those two losses. It's the first fight of his contract extension with his promoter
lu Debella, the first fight of the co promotional contract that he's done that
now includes Top Rank as his co promoters. So this is the headline fight
on the Top Rank card, and he's fighting Max and Hughes, who a
lot of people may not know about. He doesn't have the greatest record in
the world. He's twenty six five and two, he only has five knockouts.
He's a left handed fighter from England. But he's red hot. He's
a hot fighter right now, and it's don't let the record be deceptive.
He may not have beaten like huge world leaders, but he has won seven
fights in a row. He's pulled off in his last fight a big upset
against the former featherweight title holder Kid Galahad, which was an upset decision,
and he's looked pretty good in recent fights. I mean he's fought on some
of the Zone shows because he had been with Eddie Hearn and anyway, so
he's a he's a hot fighter. So he got he got cambosis coming off
two losses. God Hughes has been in a you know, pulling upsets and
looking pretty sharp in his fights, in a nice winning streak. They're fighting
this fight on neutral territory because like you said, it's Oklahoma, it's not
less in Australia, so there's no hometown advantage for either guy, and I
just expect it to be like a pretty nice fight on this card. And
there are some stakes, as I mentioned, because the winner is going to
position themselves to fight for one of the one hundred and thirty five pound titles.
So I don't want to. I don't want to make too much about
it, but I don't want to downplay it. It's just a it's a
nice matchup. It is interesting that Cambosis on the bet Us line and we'll
talk more about it plug coming up for the bet Us Handicapping Show Live Friday
one Eastern Time. Cambosis is a three and a half to one favorite.
This is a twelve round fight and over under his ten and a half rounds
on this one for Cambosis and Hughes in this matchup, and look, Cambosis
is a volume puncher. I know you know more about Hughes than I do.
Do we suspect that both of these guys will throw a punch and for
that reason, maybe not the biggest power punching guys, but at least entertaining
action from they both volume punching wise. Do you think Hughes is likely to
comply with the way he fights. Yeah, I think that's a good chance.
I think it's got a good chance to be entertaining. And I say
that because neither guy is a tremendous puncher. Hughes has got very few knockouts.
You know, Cambosis can hurt you more that more so than than Max
and hughes Ken, But I do suspect that'll be there'll be some entertainment value
to it. It'll be interesting to me, Like you know, it's they're
gonna be in a in the hard Rock Casino in their facility there. It'll
be interesting to see who the crowd roots for, because neither guy has got
any particular roots or anything whatsoever to do with the local area. Uh,
you know, I guess there's some guys on the undercarter from the Midwest Oklahoma
that are fighting that there'll be some people rooting it for then listen. I'm
also also very interested to see how Keishan Davis performs. He's only eight and
oh right now, but everybody thinks, as does he, that he's moving
very quickly and that it's not going to be too long before he's stepping up
and fighting legit top guys in a in a very deep lightweight division. His
opponent is Francisco Petero, who has got a good record twenty eight and three
with ten knockouts. He's the former European champion from Belgium. Being the European
champion, it's not like being a former world champion. But you know,
there's a lot of guys who've gone on from being European champion to become legit
world champions. It's an important stop along the way for the top fighters that
come out of Europe. It's you know that if you take a look at
some of the best fighters we've seen come from Europe in recent years. You
know, certainly some of the heavyweights for example, you know, Lennox Lewis
was the European champion. You know Klitchko was the heavyweight champion of Europe.
I mean, there's plenty of you guys have done that. So I'm just
saying, you know, it's not one of the bogus sort of like you
know, where you're the so and so intercontinental champion or whatever. European champions
got some background and whatever. So he does have some level of accomplishment and
h you know, he's very experienced. H But Keshan Davis is on the
on the fast move and it'll be it'll be interesting to see if he can
you know, dominate this guy. To be quite honest, and my correct
it's his first scheduled ten round or do you have one scheduled ten rounder before
this one, because this is a ten rounder for Keishan Davis against Francesco Petera
in this matchup. I'm just wondering because we talked last week in the preview
mode that Andy Cruse making his pro debut, the Cuban who had beaten Keishan
several times and the amateurs, including the gold medal final match at the Olympics,
he fought a ten rounder right away. What about for Keishan this will
be a second ten rounder. His last fight was a scheduled ten rounder that
took place in April. He scored a knockout of Anthony Yiggett, who had
fought for a world title, but he did him in the ninth round even
though his scheduled for ten. So this is his second scheduled ten rounder.
Before that, he obviously had you know, a handful of eight round fight
set war schedule, all right. Interesting to see this fight card come off
from a top rank and ESPN and I should make mention I did not do
it at the top that because of our schedule and the fact that we've got
the fight Freaks Unite recap that Rayfield loves so much off the weekend before the
upcoming Stephen Fulton Naoya in a way battle in Japan Tuesday morning, US time,
Tuesday night in Japan. We'll save our insight and analysis on this show
for the Sunday night show, even though that's called a Everybody's standing with me
right feels with me, even though that's called a recap show. We will
talk Fulton in a way Sunday night on our podcast feed you and I will
talk Fulton in a way on the bet US Show from a handicapping standpoint live
Friday, because there's only one bet US show a week and because of this
falling on Tuesday, so don't feel like you're not going to get analysis of
Stephen Fulton and Naolia in a way. And I don't know about you,
but I can talk about that fight for ten minutes or fifteen I can't.
I can't wait for that fight. Now we're gonna discuss. Gonna be honest,
I'm actually almost as I can say, I'm more interested, but I'm
I'm on a similar emotional excitement level for Fulton and in a way as I
am even for a spend Send Crawford, maybe not quite as much, but
we're gonna get these both TJ in the same week. Yes, it's crazy,
it is to whisper it. It might be a better fight. Might
it might better fight Fulton And in a way we'll say I don't know if
I with that. Sorry, but I said bottomized. You heard my might
I said might be. I didn't say it would be. I said it
might be. I don't know. I don't know. What I know is
you're seeing four guys who are at the top of their game, who are
BONIFI championship level fighters. Three of them are champions in a way, just
gave up his titles because he's challenging in the new weight class. I mean,
for for a sport that we have so many problems sometime of getting the
biggest fights, you know what, that we want to see to get two
of them in the same span of what five days is a great thing.
Because I will say to you this, if at the beginning of this year,
before these fights were finalized and signed, and you went to your average
boxing fan and said, hey, make me a list of the five fights
you most desire in boxing, I think a lot of people, well certainly
most everybody would have put Spence and Crawford absolutely, And I dare say,
quite a few people would have included in a way against Steven Fulton on that
list also, and we're getting both of them and so that's a beautiful thing.
We love that. And again more insight in the preview mode on Sunday
show, and we've got some news coming. We've got some excellent nostalgia on
the late Vernon Forest and Sugar Shane Mosley to get to. But before we
do that, speaking of Spence and Crawford, and again we're gonna be there
next week, all things being equal, and all of this with a ton
of time to break this fight down from every which direction. But they are
already in Vegas. They've been working out for the media, they've had media
availability the two world champions in the welterweight division. So let me set it
up this way. These were not exclusive conversations for Dan with the fighters,
but you were part of the media conversations with both these guys. And I
want the fans to hear your Q and A. That's why they're listening to
us here on this. So you've got a couple of questions in for each
so you will hear Dan Q and A with er Old Spence. Dan,
you and a for a couple of questions with Terrence Crawford again here on the
week before the fight. So let's listen to you getting a couple of questions
in for each of the combatants of Spence and Crawford right now. Thanks a
lot, o, Errol. How are you today? Good to talk to
you. My question for you, Look, a lot of people have when
they think about this matchup, they have compared it potentially to what occurred many
years ago between Sugar Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns. They find that the styles
maybe of you two guys mirror those guys. Obviously you're both black American fighters,
huge fights, same way, class unification, that sort of thing they
were for the undisputed. What is it when you hear that? Do you
think that's a valid comparison? And when you hear that this fight is being
compared to those guys legendary fight and two fights that they had, what do
you think about that? How does that make you feel? It makes feel
great? I'm just getting compared to those guys. Is that the amount of
towns kids that they But um, I think, you know, just thinking
about our fight, I think more it's more comple I feel like how big
it is? Okay, Time Rehearns and Ray Lander or but I feel like
it was more Marva Haley against Ray Landing in anything as far as you know,
just a style wise, how far and Ray far that fight? Because
I mean, I don't think I fight like Ray Leonard or or Time Rehearns.
But I get to staying. You know, I'm the man who loved
it. But style wise, I would say probably Ray and Marvin Hagler.
All right, Not just one other question for you? You know you,
uh, I know how much you wanted to make this fight so much to
the extent that you didn't take an intern fight when everything with this fight kind
of fell apart at the end of last year and he ended up taking the
fight that he had against David Essien, And I wondered, did you how
much did you consider also taking a fight while still trying to make this one
or just a matter off? You know what, forget it, I'm gonna
just wait this out, let him do his fight, and we're gonna get
this done. Like how did you deal with the question should I fight or
should I wait? Because now you're coming off obviously a much longer layoff than
he is, Oh yeah, I um, you know I was getting that
question a lot. You know, well I was getting yeah, question a
lot, and uh, you know they wanted me to fight and you know,
get another fight. But I didn't want to risk you know, anything
happening or you know, or injury or anything like there he could anything to
happen. So I decided to just sitting the half chills and uh and just
wait to until we can get the terms fight or was for sure not happening,
and then I fight. But I wouldn't sacrifice, you just sacrifice the
payday and another win, just waiting and waiting on Terrance, because I just
I know the man until this fight, to know the man, unto whos
fin on how big it is and this this is the legs seemed to find
a fight. So I didn't want to just go out as you go out,
just oh he foss somebody. I won't to fight somebody, you know,
I would just put into the eagle to the side and it was like
as around as as just weight on him. All great, Thanks a lot,
Eril appreciate it. Hello, Terrence, good to talk to you today.
Appreciate your time very much. Uh you were talking about all your various
accomplishments earlier as far as that you didn't necessarily have to have this fight with
Errol because of you know, you could go on and have a great legacy
and be in all of fame and all that business. But if you win
this fight, you will be the first mailbox or anyway of the four belt
era to be undisputed in two different weight classes. That's a big deal,
it seems to me. And I wonder when you think about that in relation
to all the other accomplishments that you've had, and you mentioned Fighter of the
Year and you know, multiple division champion, lineal champions, all that business,
where do you think being the first ever guy to do that, meaning
when all four belts be undisputed in two weight classes, where would you rank
that on your list of you know, many many accomplishments in your career.
Man, it'll be up there, it'll be up there. It'll be top
three for sure. You know. Like I said, I don't think nothing
is gonna I'll do the accomplishment that I accomplished by winning my first title in
Scotland against Ricky Burns. I think that still is going to hold a big,
a big spot, a big number one spot in my heart. Yeah,
but this is gonna be a great fight, and it's gonna be a
great feeling walking away with all those belts and becoming the first mail boxer and
the four bill error to actually win all four titles in two different divisions back
to back. I feel like I started, I started this trend of these
fighters want to become undisputed. If you look when I before, I came
before I became undisputed. Look what Bernard Hopkins, Jermaine Taylor, you know
I was way back then. You know, so that was a great accomplishment.
But now you see it more frequently, you see it more, you
see it happening more often, and that's a great thing. And I think
it's going to lead to a lot of fights being made and a lot of
fighters challenging themselves and daring themselves to be great to try to accomplish the same
thing. When this fight was being negotiated, and we all know what happened
last fall, people thought maybe he was on it. Then happening you ended
up taking your fight with David EVANESSI and y'all came back to the table and
it was a difficult negotiation, and obviously everybody is very happy that the fight
is now going to happen. But I wonder at the time it was taking
place and you were going back and forth with Arrow. You mentioned about the
phone calls and that sort of thing. Can you, from your perspective of
making the deal, what was the one thing that finally sort of put you
over the top and said, at least in your mind, you know,
we're good to go, and I'm satisfied, and this fight's going to happen,
Because you know, it was seemed touch and go, at least from
those of us watching the thing unfold on the outside. What was it that
put it over the edge for you that said, you know what, this
is going to happen. It's me call on Arrow. I see it.
But they're calling him and going directly to him instead of going through other people.
It just took me calling him and us, you know, talking as
men and coming to the agreement. And that's really how fight got made,
and how I was sure that the fight was going to get made, and
how I was comfortable that the fight was about to happen. I know,
because I can see you. You're getting namped. I'm getting namped. We'll
be out there. You got to now participate, see the fighters the whole
bit. Now we'll see all of it in person when we're out there.
Just just put a bowl on this before we break it down big time next
week. Spenson Crawford. Yeah, I mean anytime there's these level of fights,
typically that week before they will do it. Used to be in the
older days, just a straight conference call on the phone. Now it's more
of a zoom thing, so you get a chance to see the fighters.
Sometimes they have you on a video, but this one it was we could
see the boxers, but they just had our names on the screen, even
though they could hear our sounds of our voice and everything. So, you
know, there was a bunch of press on there and we had a chance
to go through. Brian Custer from Showtime was the moderator. He asked a
bunch of questions, and then those of us that were also invited to the
call, we're able to, you know, ask a couple of questions.
The piece of the two fighters they did like Errol and Crawford, each of
them separately, wasn't Sometimes in years past I've had the two guys together on
a call and in a fight where there's so much interest, and you know,
both guys into their own time. It was like, you know,
probably a half an hour or so or forty minutes with Crawford and then another
similar period of time with Spence, and you know, everybody just had a
chance of throughout their questions. I felt like looking at both guys, both
guys were attentive. Both guys I thought, did a good job of answering
the questions that were presented to them. Not a lot of bullshit from these
guys. Both guys seemed awfully excited for the fight and you know, sounded
awfully confident, which they should because that's the way they always have been throughout
their whole careers. And it just kind of raised a level of everybody's excitement
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Vegas next week for all of this. As again the fighters are ramping up
final preparation and then time to make weight and then here we go with the
undisputed World weld to weight title clash. Okay News Top Rank busy not unexpected.
We talked about this that they're gonna have Jared real big Baby Anderson right
back in the ring. They've announced actually a heavyweight triple header. Give me
more about when and some of the particulars besides real Big Baby on this right,
so he headlines the show. Obviously, he's taken on a fighter named
Andre Radenko. That's a ten rounder. It's August twenty six. It's gonna
take place once again at the Hard Rock in Tulsa, which is the same
location as the kimbos of my Top Ranks down a bunch of business with them,
you know. And what I like about Top Rank to be to do
as a short side, they'll do the shows where they go to the guy's
hometown and put it in the local arena, like they did with Jared in
the last it. I'm sure that you know, in the not too distance
future, they'll come to Orford forr Jing and do the same thing with Keishan
Davis. They've done it in Newark with Shukor Stevenson recently. They've done it,
you know, with many of their fighters to the years. But by
the same token, they'll assuit with the big mega show in a big Vegas
casino. But then they also, you know, for different reasons, go
to a place that's looking to put a few dollars up to bring an event
in, like they are with Cambosis against Max Hughes. They'll do the same
thing with this event with Jared Anderson and Rodenko. So they mix it up.
They don't just rely just on a small casino. They'll do it the
small casino, they'll do the big casino, they'll do a big arena,
they'll do the local. I mean, they really they do a good job
mixing that up. So this particular show, as you mentioned, it's a
heavyweight triple header, which I'm intrigued by. I mean, you gotta give
heavyweights to the fans at some times because it does help make the sport go
around. People like to see the big guy. So you got Anderson is
taken on Rodenko that was already announced. They just formally announced a Ethia Jagba,
who's a big guy, big power Olympian. He's taken on Zonkoski,
who was originally the guy that was supposed to fight Jared Anderson in the last
fight. He didn't get his visa done in time and so we ended up
fighting Charles Martin that I was gonna say, we apparently can get him into
the country and now we're gonna get this fight with a Jagua. Okay,
So instead though originally Top Rank was saying we're just gonna have Jared fight him
next, you know, instead he fought Martin and then we'll just go back
and remake the Kosabutski fight. For whatever reason, they got a different opponent
in Rodenko for Jared and they're gonna have a Jagba fight Kosabutski instead. It's,
you know, kind of six to one, half a dozen of the
other. Kosabutski does have a great record as nineteen to know with eighteen knockots,
even though he hasn't fought a lot of top guys. He's a southpaw
from Kazakhstan. So that's that fight, and then the third fight of this
triple header is the eight rounder that opens it up. And as we've I've
written about it and has sort of been out there for a while. That
was talked about on Top Ranks most recent rub but now they finally made the
official announcement they have signed the twenty twenty Olympics super heavyweight gold medal winner Baka
deer Joala Loaf, who was a big, strapping, big time south paw
puncher, just a really outstanding fighter. He's kind of in a weird situation
because he's not like twenty two, he's a little older, he's twenty eight
already, but he's a big dude, six seven, two fifty. He's
also, like I said, a south pot, which is not the most
common thing for big heavyweights in any event. He's making so much money from
the government in Huzbekistan that has sort of sponsored him and supported him to continue
doing amateur tournaments and that sort of thing that he's done that so he hasn't
foughts in this November when he had the boxing match that he had on the
undercard, when we're just program foughts and pated for the title, and I
sort of was wondering to myself, well, where's he been, And then
I looked at his record and I saw he's had about a dozen amateur fights,
including participating in the World Amateur Championships, which he won. And there's
a lot of conversation that now, even though he's with top rank professionally in
this contract that he recently signed, that he's going to be like a part
time pro fighter because besides doing the fight that we'll see in August, he's
probably it's not one hundred percent, but most likely he's going to participate as
the super heavyweight representative for Ruzbekistan in the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics and have
a really good chance to become a two time super heavyweight gold medalist, which
has I don't think has ever happened since that super heavyweight division was created.
There has been guys that have won multiple, uh gold medals in the heavyweight
division. You know, if you go back you know in uh, yeah,
you know, back years ago with Felix Savone and some other you know,
the Cubans, but uh, you know, it will be a pretty
big accomplishment. So I'm not sure where he's going as a pro, but
he's going to be on that cart. Also, they announced his opponent.
Uh, and I don't know if you're gonna make me pronounce the opponent's gonna
try it, You're gonna go for it. I'm a little I'm a little
concerned about it. Looks like on a donde in a rollami. That's what
I'm gonna go with Errola me, I think. And you did so well
with Ruda, Tinko, Faa, Jogba, Kosa Bootski and Jolla Loov We'll
give everybody a pass on this opponent that is looks like Lallamray. I think
we'll find out is the heavy favorite. We know vs. Twelve and oh
at twelve knockouts and La Army twenty and two with nineteen and we'll see what
happens. But here's the thing. When I saw a heavyweight triple header,
it made me think back to the days where not all the time, but
every now and then on HBO they would do what they would call like Knight
of the Young Heavyweight Sir, and they put on like I remember reading heavyweight
fights sometimes. I think maybe once there was four heavyweight fights whatever I remember
seeing like when A very famous example, of course, was you know John
Ruise getting knocked out in nineteen seconds by David Toua on one of those shows,
and of course John was able to. I mean, if you had
said on that night, when you see David too it looked like a house
of fire and just destroy this man in nineteen seconds, you'd say to yourself,
which one is going to be a guy that wins a future heavyweight title?
You would never have been on John Ruiz, and John Ruis the one
that ended up winning the heavyweight title, and David Tooa, in my estimation
it was probably the best heavyweight of that time to never win a heavyweight title,
maybe one of the best heavyweights of all time never to win a heavyweight
title. But anyway, these those are interesting shows. So this is sort
of like in my mind then Night of the Younger and the Younger Heavyweight let's
call them, because the prospects are Anderson, A, Jola, lov and
a job But they're not being matched up with complete steps either, so you
know, it makes it fun. You gotta you gotta keep heavyweight boxing going
in a top rank hasn't been involved in it in a major way at one
point for a long time, but now they're back in it. Obviously,
they've as the co promoter of Tyson Furia over the last several years and and
they've been signing these guys. So, I mean, it's always exciting when
you see three what looked like, you know, pretty decent heavyweight matchups.
They're hard to make and I'll enjoy them. Let's keep going with the news.
There is also now a set double header championship double header in Tokyo.
Again, that's where the inn away Fulton bout is. They'll come back in
September with unified junior flyweight champ Kinshiro Taraji, very entertaining, explosive fighter,
he's in action, and also Juneto Nakatani, the WBO Junior bandomweight titlist is
also one of the herd. So give me more on this card win specifically,
it is a little more. It's on September eighteenth. It's gonna be
in Tokyo. Uh, they had that. That was announced at a news
conference this week. What was not announced, but it will be the case
from my reporting is it will like some of these past events that involved Nakatani
and Taragi, it will be on ESPM plus in the United States, which
means you will see it live from Tokyo. They wake up, you know,
whatever time they do, it will be in the early early morning the
United States sign you know, four or five in the morning. Uh.
But I just love these guys, I mean, Taraji Nakatani. Again,
they're not if you put it like this, you're a you're a die hard
boxing if you're listening to our podcast, so hopefully you heard of these guys.
But they're among the most exciting fighters in boxing. Taraji is a tremendously
exciting fighter, a unified champion at one hundred and eight pounds with a big
win a couple of fights ago against uh, you know, his his own
his countrymen, uh, you know um and that was a pretty big fight,
you know, Hiroti Kayaguchi, big win for him and uh and Nakatani,
I mean he had been a flyweight champion. In his last fight he
went up to junior band and wait won a vacant title and probably what's I
think at the moment, maybe the leader for knock out of the year against
Andrew Maloney that was on the undercard when Devin Haney fought Loma Chanko back in
May, and so they're both going to defend the title their titles on this
doubleheader and they're they're pretty good matchups. Taragi is fighting Hecky Butler, who
was a very well respected long time contender slash former champion from South Africa's won
titles and two weight classes strawweight, was a unified champion also at junior flyweight.
He's looking to win junior flyweight unified title once again. And No Nakatani,
for my money, is probably one of the most exciting and rising guys
in the sport, you know, at a twenty five in oh with nineteen
knockouts, big big puncher. This will be the first defense he's making since
that big giant knockout, and he's taken on a really rough, tough Mexican
fighter him Argue Cortez. And if you're like me in a totally degenerate and
you watch all the Mexico shows on Zone that match Room Boxing did. He
gave Juan Francisco Astrata everything he could possibly handle last fall in a really good
fight. This was the fight that Astrada had prior to his third fight with
Chocolate Tito Gonzalez, and you know, he didn't have a belt at that
time, but Estrada was still considered the lineal champion at that time. He
then won the vacant title in the third fight against Chocolate Tito. But but
Cortez, you know, you know, not a bad record twenty five three
and two, but you know, not not big accomplishment. He put on
a great fight that night. He gave a Strata everything you can handle.
And uh, I suspect he might be able to do the same thing with
Nakatani. But Nakatani is a bigger puncher than Astrata is and it's going to
be the great equalizer, I guess. But anyway, I just love these
Japanese shows. Two good, interesting fights that should figure for excitement and you
know, just wake up early and you get a chance to sehim. And
also not that it's for my for my purpose, not the biggest deal in
the world. But and anybody remembers watching Floyd Mayweather when he had his first
exhibition post boxing retirement, and he went to Japan and absolutely pummeled in for
in the first round. The big time superstar kickboxer Tension Nasakawa Will Tension Nasakawa
on one of the Taragi undercards. Turned pro in boxing and want to fight.
You know a few months ago he will have his second professional official boxing
match on this the card. Keep in mind when Floyd destroyed him in one
round, you know, he was a junior featherweight slash featherweight as a boxer
or kickboxer. Floyd of course was like, you know, almost one hundred
and fifty plus pounds for that fight. Now he's in he's fighting his professional
fights, you know, as a as a junior featherweight, so big difference
in terms of the size. So and he's a big star over there.
We love you so for the breakdown. But that is borderline sickness that you
do know all of that about those Japanese fighters. But that's why we Hey,
that's why we're here on the podcast feed and the Fight Freaks Unite substack
that you need to be Yes, there there are a few things I and
I actually said this to uh to my man, Evan Corn, the public
relations director from Top Rank, when we were I was emailing him about when
they had announced this show, and I was like, there's there's I don't
know if there's not that many things I enjoy more in boxing than a good
Japanese World championship card with two quality fights and exciting usually guys in smaller weight
classes. I just love that shit, and this is exactly the kind of
I love. It'd be highly entertaining in September. Let's continue on the news
items before the nostalgia. They have rescheduled the rematch between Liam Smith and Chris
Eubank Junior. It is now September. Second. They were trying to fight
this summer, and you love the word, but Liam Smith's back was injured.
He called it a niggle in the back, not a wiggle, not
a jiggle, not a giggle. The back wiggle appeared to be minor,
but then it was serious enough where he had to take a layoff from training.
So now the fight back on. Smith won surprisingly as the underdog by
knockout. This is a huge non title deal in the UK, prominent popular
fighters and so a couple of weeks before that Japanese show, you're talking about
Labor Day weekend in the US. They they don't do that in the UK.
But it is Liam Smith Chris Eubank, the rematch. It's now set
real quick. Yeah, just a good fight. I mean, the first
fight turned out to be very interesting, as you mentioned, an upset.
What was sort of been intriguing to me about the whole build up to this
Once the fight was postponed, you know, I remember they were supposed to
do it in why first bout January second, they were supposed to have the
fight in June. It got delayed by two weeks, which supposed to be
was like, as you mentioned, the niggle, not the giggle, not
the jiggle, not the wiggle, but the niggle. But that two weeks
came and went, and so it goes from July from June seventeenth, and
you didn't really hear much about it. And granted now it's rescheduled for September
second, but during that period of time when the June seventeenth date was postponed
but the September second date was not yet announced, which it was this week,
there was a lot of stuff going on about would you Bank still go
through with the fight because there was still a lot of possibilities or chatter that,
you know what, he would not do this fight, even though it
was he that picked up his contractual option to do the rematch, but he
would bypass and go once again to try to remake the canceled fight against against
Connor Ben. Remember when their fight got canceled because Connor Ben's bad drug test.
The reason why you Bank and Lean Smith happened in the first place was
because that Ben fight didn't happen. And so the people that are responsive for
you Bank's career, we're looking for a big fight for him right then.
The biggest one they could find was against Liam Smith, a very credible,
popular British fighter, former junior middleweight title holder, and they made the fighting.
Now they've created their own rivalry. So but as a so when you
heard a lot from Eddie Hern will maybe you Bank will fight Ben. Obviously
that's not happening. He's going to stick with the rematch plan. It's a
sky Box Office pay per view in the UK. No word yet on what
the deal is for the United States. When they did their first fight in
January, it ended up live on the Zone as part of your normal subscription.
I am hopeful that that will be the case again for this rematch,
and they'll just do the exact same thing they did the first time around.
We'll get it for free here in America as part of your subscription not have
to pay extra like they do in the UK. But look, it's a
it's a good as you mentioned, just a just a good old grudge match.
Well and just one more side note of this is just me putting this
out there. I know that promoters have to do whatever they can to prop
their guys or whatever, but all the endless propaganda from Eddie Hearn about this,
We're gonna get his name cleared, this, that British Boxing Board of
Control appeal this that notice Connor Ben can't get license, doesn't have a fight,
and so that at least from my standpoint, that's what should have happened.
That it should have been a long term suspension and it has stayed that
way. And plus the Smith Ubank Junior fight has sizzle for the rematch angle
on it and we can't convey enough. Just one more time, Chris you
Bank Senior immensely popular. You Bank Junior has got some of that momentum from
the dad and he took this loss. So this is a big deal.
And Smith Liam Smith, a very popular fighter out of Liverpool and his brother
will actually fight Arter better Bev on the timeline in August for the World Light
heavyweight title before. Liam Smith is back in the ring in this rematch,
So the Smith's the Smith's in action coming up later on here in in the
summer. All right, two more items. You've got some reporting on a
world title fight not yet is it official yet? What is not yet official?
What are we hearing about a September featherweight title fight that and Himie Mungia
is on the rundown. I'm intrigued. What do we got? Well,
first and foremost, you have the IBF featherweight champion Louis Alberto Lopez, who
of course went to England bumped off Josh Warrington to win the belt. Went
back to that neck of the woods in Belfast, Northern Ireland in his last
fight that took place a few months ago, and he knocked out Michael Collin
in his hometown. So he wins the belt on the road in the hometown
of Warrington, goes back to Belfast for his first defense, knocks out Michael
Colin and two very significant and important wins for the guy. So now he's
coming back finally to what will be a friendly atmosphere for his next defense that
will take place September fifteenth on an ESPN top ranked card. It is of
consequence the night before Mexican Independence Day. That fight will take place in Corpus
Christi, Texas. Obviously will be a big Mexican crowd. His opponent will
be the very tough, very durable, always interesting to watch Joet Gonzalez,
who I believe is finally in a position where it's a winnable fight for him,
because he's got three losses. Two of them have come by decision in
world title fights that were fights that he probably didn't have the greatest chance to
win. One was for against Shakor Stevenson, which he that was for the
vacant title of the WBO back when Shakur won his first world title. That
was probably the worst possible style matchup that you could have given to Joet Gonzalz.
He just had no chance against the very dazzling boxer and Stevenson. The
next one came in two twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty one, he got
an opportunity to fight Emmanuel Navarette for that same belt, because remember Navarette won
the belt after Stevenson vacated and moved up and wait and Navarette, you know
was I think was at his absolute best at that time and just buzz through.
You know, it didn't buzz through him in the sense he knocked him
out, but it was a very, very punishing fight. Navarette was throwing
eight billion punches and it was just too much for Joett. And you know,
he lost a pretty clear but a hugely exciting fight against Lopez. Despite
his two big wins on his last two fights, I think he's more a
more vulnerable, let's say, a more beatable guy. I don't know if
I picked Joette to win, but it seems like he's got the better chance
to win this one than he would have against Navarette or Shakoor. But for
those of us who aren't in the ring worrying about who's got the title,
I think we're going to get a good, exciting action fight. I don't
see any way you put Joett Gonzalz in the ring with Lopez that it's not
going to be something entertaining. So that will be the headline fight of that
upcoming Free Mexican Independence Day boxing card in Corpus Christi. Corpus Christie, tex
is one of the most southern, maybe a practically the most southern point in
the United States. It's right on the right, on the parallel line across
the bottom of Florida. I love how we get your geography and geography,
and right across the bottom of California there as well. Himimungia is on the
rundown. Please tell me this is a relevant, important fight that he may
be about to have. He had a he had a heck of a fight
with Sergey to Revanchenko earlier this year. Are we following it up with a
relevant fight if not a title fight? Why is he on the rundown?
What's the update? First of all, there has been conversation between the Mungia
camp and the devin Chenko camp about the possibility they rematch. Okay, and
there's no one is I'm not saying that they won't do it, but I
am told they're not like jumping up and down for the rematch, even though
it was probably I mean, honestly, it's it's one of the top one
or two three, you know, in that upper echelon of the handful of
fights that are in the clear running for fight of the year so far,
just a was an absolute freaking slug fest war. If he didn't see it,
you know, hit up your zone. App and look for the replay.
But just that was a bad ass fect. I agree with you,
it's got to be any conversation it was, so why don't I think anybody
would moan and complain about having a rematchew those two guys. What the Zone
is interested to do and whether it can actually happen or not, this remains
to be seen. But my sources tell me without question that the Zone has
gone to people at at Golden Boy, and they've gone to people with Matchroom,
and they are trying to sort of play the groundwork to try to see
if they can get a fight done between Hemi Mangia and Edgar Berlanga. That's
a very exciting, interesting fight, super middleweight match Mexico versus Puerto Rico.
Two guys who are undefeated with great records, two guys who have generally made
entertaining fights. And again, I don't want to like bullshit people and say
it's happening or it's like deep in negotiations. I'm just telling you as a
matter of fact that they're at least exploring the possibility of trying to make that
fight. I don't think either side is on board yet. My understanding from
the sources who would know is that the Mungia camp would certainly entertain that fight,
but they need to hear the details. Okay, what's what's what's the
money, what's what's the status of everything else associated with the event. Same
thing with Berlanga. You know, the Berlanga camp is going to be maybe
a little trickier because remember, they thought they were going to get a fight
with Canello Oberas. They signed with match Room Boxing under the pretense of you're
probably gonna we're gonna get you a fight with Canello. Then Cannello up and
leaves match Room Boxing right and he's got an Allo fight. So he's not
the most thrilled guy in the world. So that's that's an issue for them,
without question. So it's gonna take probably a lot of money to get
him to take a fight with Hamimungia. That's first and foremost. But you
know, at least at least the zone is it seems to be they're trying
to do the right thing to make that fight, and that would be you
know, that's a really good matchup if they can make it happen. Again,
I'm skeptical, but at least they're they're seemingly trying to make the effort
and that's a good match, all right. So clarify one thing for me,
Because Mungia moved up to fight Derevanchenko to one sixty eight, I thought,
this is me saying this. He looked somewhat out of shape. He
looked a little flabby. Mungia to me around the middle and whatever, Why
would he not moved back down to middleweight and fight for one of these world
titles? In particular, he was the number one contender forever for the w
BO title. Why would that not be attractive while you're trying to make a
fight to go get a world title at one sixty just because from the standpoint,
you're not going to get a shot at Canelo Alvarez in the next couple
of fights probably anyway, No matter what Oscar dal Lajoya hopes or wishes for,
or prays for, or buys a lottery ticket for, that's not going
to happen right now in the next six to nine months. He's not getting
a shot at Caneloy. Why not drop back down to middleweight, getting great
shape and go fight for a world title in a lucrative payday. No,
I don't listen, that's a good question. I think that he just doesn't
want to make the waiter, says he can't make the waiter. Whatever the
reason is. I mean, he's gone to super midaway and I think that's
where he's going to stay. Feels stronger, sturdier, or whatever the case
may be. You know, he won to a dealt at Junior Middlewait and
defended it a few times, you know. And I tell you what,
the anniversary of his biggest win against Lean Smith is coming up this week,
and that win looks better now than it did back then after seeing what Lilliam
Smith was able to do with with U Bank Junior. But anyway, you
know, listen, Monia is a trek towards a title or not a title,
I mean whatever I mean, But you know what, I'm happy if
they make against Berlanga title multiple. That would be a big time of fighting.
That would be a bit. But on the Rayphael bs Meter, d'anchanna
always up chan would be it absolutely happens one it has no shot of happening.
Give me a number I would say I would I would put it like
five six. I think it's because listen, here's here's Here's what I've been
told. Manelo Alvarez has left the Zone, not that he was tied to
them, but he's been with them, working with them for a while.
Well. Whenever he would fight, they would put up these huge guarantees of
tens of millions of dollars or those fights. And while that's not going to
suddenly become tens of million dollars, they're gonna start throwing around to other fights.
There is the sense that the Zone has a little bit more free will
to make a specific fight two, three, four here and there that aren't
even close to that kind of money but still costly. The day can now
take some of that money that was maybe earmark for that big time fight and
do it for reasons that make more sense if your zone. I don't know
what was the impetus to pay Canello. I'm not knocking Canello, but from
their perspective, why would you put up that kind of money when he's going
to go on pay per view and it doesn't necessarily generate subscriptions for your service
because anybody that doesn't want a long term commitment can just on one night go
buy the pay per view or buy a month of the Zone and get the
pay per view and then no longer subscribe. Like it doesn't seem like it's
a way to build your subscriber base, which in the end is what the
goal here is is subscriber creation and subscriber retention, something I have learned about
when it comes to my own endeavors with my newsletter. You know, you
got to give the people that subscribe a reason to keep subscribing, but you
also got to bring in new subscribers. And if you make fights like Berlanga
against Mongia or any number of other fights we could talk about, that's not
only a way to retain your subscribers by giving them quality product month after a
month, but it's gonna maybe generate new subscribers and not take them to pay
per view because doing Canello for tens of millions and having it as a pay
per view did not help your bottom line, which is the subscriber business.
That's what's got to drive that bus. So I think there's a chance because
they may decide we can afford or we're going to tap into our resources to
put up a little bit more of the money it would take to make that
fight than just your average sort of event that they may do on a week
to week or month or basically and money talks, and that matchup is easier
to be made if there's a lot more money involved. And we could go
for another fifteen minutes on how screwed up the zone got with do we want
people to subscribe? That was the whole premise with Canello, And now we
can't get enough subscribers and pay enough to make this work as a business model,
So now we have to go to pay per view and admit that we
were wrong and couldn't make this work, and we got to go to pay
per view anyway. So there's a hybrid that they're currently in with that one
piece of nostalgia that you are very intrigued to talk about. It is twenty
one years ago tonight as we record this podcast. We released it overnight Thursday
into Friday, July twentieth, two thousand and two. Tremendous fight the late
Vernon Forests and Sugar Shane Mosley their immediate rematch for the WBC Welterweight title one
Dan Raphael ringside and we talk about different places where the fight was. I'm
intoed Indianapolis is where the fight was for this not Vegas, not La Sugar
Shane Mosley, a California guy. This one in Indianapolis. So tell me
more about the nostalgia of Vernon Forest and Sugar Shane Mosley. The rematch.
Well, the reason that it was in Indianapolis was because every summer in Indianapolis
they put on what's called Black Expo, which is a big, exposed,
you know, big activity, big event sort of thing geared towards African Americans.
And this was a cornerstone event of that of that Expo, which you
have to h you know, renowned American black fighters and uh, you know,
both were you know, you know, big names. Or Vernon had
become a bigger name after beating Sugar Shane, but Sugar saying, prior to
the first fight was considered pound for pounds. So they were bringing basically a
black oriented fight to that event and to make it at one of the cornerstones
of this big festival that went on for a number of days that also had
concerts and other cultural activities and that sort of thing. So it's really to
this day, it's the only time I've ever off top of my head is
I think it's the only time I've ever been to Indianapolis certainly the only time
I went there for a fight. This was a big time fight. I
mean, I can't tell you it's as big as Errol Spence of Terrence Crawford,
but you know, it was a pretty big deal. They had a
big crowd there that night. That took place in the Consaco Field House,
where as the home I don't I get. I don't know if it's still
called that these days. There's like two names later, I think one.
Okay, I want to say now it's like the Banker's Life. Well whatever
it was. The Pacers play basketball exactly, and it was it was pretty
new at the time back when they did this event. Yeah, you know,
for this fight. So if you if you go back, this is
two thousand and two in January. If two thousand and two in what was
a huge upset, you know, Sugar Shane Moseley was like thirty eight and
oh he was coming off of uh, you know, he had been Oscar
dal Lajoya to win the Walter Waight title. He had defended it with knockout
victories against you know, not big big top guys, but quality guys,
and and Vernon had been the IBF champion. He gave up that title because
of the opportunity to fight the Shane Moseley fight instead of a much lower profile,
lesser money, you know, less lucrative mandatory. By all rights,
their first fight should have been a unification. That wasn't because of what I
just said. But anyway, that fight took place at the Madison Square Garden
Theater. Fight I also covered, and Shane Moseley got his ass kicked that
night in a big, big shocker. Now the talking points about the rivalry
routine and Sugar Shane Mosley and Vernon Forrest was even though Sugar Shane was the
pound for pound number one and the Walter Waight champon undefeated and all that,
Vernon was this guy with who had height, a great jab in a long
reach, who had won a big amateur fight against Shane Mosey that kept him
from making the nineteen ninety two Olympic team. And Vernon is the one that
ended up on the nineteen ninety two Olympic team, you know, along with
Oscar dal Lajoya and you know other Chris Byrd and Tim Austen and other you
know guys that would go on to have excellent professional careers. So the talking
point was is it gonna be he's gonna repeat what he did in the amateurs
or is it a whole new ball game in the pros. As it turned
out, he was able to win the fight in the in the pro.
In the pro first you know, the pro rematch if you will, Uh
knocked Sugar Shane down and took the title and Sugar Shane had a rematch clause
which he exercised. Now, this was the whole business between Vernon and Shane
was really one of the first big events that al Haman was involved in boxing.
He was Vernon Forrest manager. That was his first ever client. This
is when he first got involved in boxing, and he helped negotiate those fights
and he was, you know, one of the reasons why that fight wound
up in Indianapolis. And so that's you know, part of the early evolution
of Al Hayman's involved in boxing. But anyway, they went to any outs
for this rematch and Uh, it was was it repeat or revenge? And
it turned out to be repeat because and once again Vernon Forrest put on a
masterclass of boxing one by pretty similar scores in the second fight as the first
fight not as much drama because there was no knockdowns where Shane, you know,
was so badly hurt in the first fight, was able to survive.
But Vernon, you know, at that moment, you know, you could
argue Vernon was the best fighter in the world. That I ended up losing
the next fight to Ricard on my Orga in that great three round shootout where
he lost in a unification fight. But on a jet July twentieth, two
thousand and two, when he beat Shane Mosley for the second time, he
was on top of the world and he was easily one of the best handful
of fighters in boxing. Y had, you know, just a big,
big event, big HBO fight you know which uh you know, no pay
per view or anything like that. And what what people also don't maybe don't
remember, but on that undercard was the then hot pot up and coming or
not up and coming, but the top light heavyweight contenders, Eric Harding and
Antonio Tarverer fighting in a I believe, if my memory is maybe favored a
little, I believe it was a an elimination fight and uh, Antonio Tarbert
looked great then now he dropped Eric Carting a bunch of times and won by
a fifth round knock at. And the thing that that always stands out to
me is when he dropped him at one point in the fight and the referee,
uh you know, was giving him the account and questioned him after harding
it up. He said, uh, something to the effect of do you
know where you are? He says, yeah, I know where I am.
He says, I'm a Philadelphia fighter. In other words, he didn't
say in the NAVIS, but he was given the referee of the notion.
But yeah, I'm good. I'm a Philadelphia fighter, so I'm I'm here
to fight, which was a great answer even on the referee let the fighter.
You gotta be careful though, of answering that question wrong, because sometimes
that can lead to a stopage. It's a good point you make. And
Tarber time I got to know him around this time in the Tampa Bay media.
He came and sat with me in a radio studio for an hour and
it was obvious then he was a great talker, long before the World Championship
wins, obviously over Roy Joe, long before the Rocky bau balla movie which
Raphael once again to point out that you were on the cutting room floor.
You had a scene in the Rocky movie, the Rocky Balboa Movie with Antonio
tarver So, I just you bade me, you jogged me on him beating
Eric Harting. I do remember well Erica, and then I remember him today.
But at that time, Eric Harting was one of the best light heavyweights
in the world. He had given a very credible, excellent performance when he
challenged Roy Jones for the undisputed title a couple of fights earlier. You know
what, Roy Jones stopped him in round ten because Eric Harting's bicep was torn.
And two things about that one, there were a few of us at
ringside that had Eric Harding, you know, either even or winning the fight
against Roy Jones at the time of the knockout. And the second thing I
remember, because I also covered that fight in New Orleans, is the morning
after the fight, very very early, was still dark out, as I
recall, and my main man, Tim Smith, who was currently at that
time the writer for the New York Daily News. Now he's the vice president
of communications for Hayman Boxing. We were going to the airport and we ran
into Eric Harding in the in the valet area. As we're going to get
the car to go to the airport, and Harding and his guys were coming
in from the hospital and he pulled up his sweatshirt and we saw like his
bicyball curled up in his arm, and I never forget that image. I
mean, his bicy was really nice in the Roy Jones fight, but he
gave you know, he was a top contender. And so that Tarvor fight
on that undercard of the fight we're talking about was Sugar Shane and Vernon.
That was like an important light heavyweight fight back at the time. That was
a big time HBO double hidder Vernon against Shane and the rematch and Eric Carding
against Antonio Trvor. I believe in an entitle eliminator on. Everybody put on
a good show and the Magic Man had been an Olympian two at one point,
and the Magic Man scored a knockout that night of Harding and it led
eventually to his win after that over Montell Griffin. And that's when he came
in the radio studio with one T. J. Reeves and we talked for
an hour about him being a world champion, being from the area. Um
Tarvor time always love a little love a little nostalgias. Shout out to Antonio
Tory fought when he fought uh Montell Griffin in that fight, I was.
I was ringside for that also at the Foxwood Resort when he when he won,
and that was one of those rare fights, by the way, doesn't
happen a lot. When he beat Montell Griffin in that fight on that night
in Foxwoods, both vacant titles were at stakes, so he went from being
no title twinning the WBC and the IBF vacant light heavyweight belts in the same
night. But what's more notable than that, You know, he got stuck
on some of these undercards even though they put on good fights. His harding
rematch or his harding fight was on the undercard of the big fight between Jane
and Vernon. You mentioned him against Montell Griffin. That was on the undercard
of one of the great fights I'd ever covered period. That was the legendary
epic fucking slugfest. Only one f bomb this show so far. James Tony
went in the cruiserweight title against Bacilli Durrovn what some people picked as the twenty
three fight of the year. Spectacular fucking fight, too. There's two and
now I gotta go back on YouTube and see that one as well, along
with the Magic Man. Great nostalgia here on the show Man, we've given
you a bunch again. We've got Cambosis and Maxi Hughes. We will handicap
that fight more the bet US show one Eastern time on Friday, depending on
when you're hearing us here and when you can see that on the bet Us
platforms on Friday live at one Eastern or later in the day again when we
come off the weekend on this podcast feed with the Fight Freaks Unite recap will
recap what happens with the top ranked show, but we will also dan preview
the Fulton in Away fight at length on the show coming late Sunday into Monday.
Before that fight Tuesday morning, United States time, Tuesday night in Japan.
Looking forward to all of that and then next week, my friend,
all things being equal, we're in Las Vegas for Spence and Crawford and the
big fight Weeken preview will originate from how about that we're OEL on location.
You've always been on location at a lot of these places, but now both
of us to be OEL on location. Looking forward to that coming up,
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