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Off a weekend that has seen an
impressive win by Dalton Smith in the main

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event for Matchroom Boxing in Sheffield,
England, and a women's title defense for

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Sandy Ryan. The Dan Rayfield and
I didn't see coming. Holy smokes.

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We're ready to recap what went on
with that fight card. We've got news,

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by doing that, all right,
all the promo stuff is out of the

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way. Dalton Smith gets a body
shot KO the liver Shiver Quiver maybe with

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the body shot KO of Jose Zepeda. Big win for him in the one

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hundred and forty pound division relative it's
the biggest step up for him. He

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got the knockout. So Dan,
let's go over that and the rest of

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the card that had some other interesting
results the Matchroom shows Saturday in the recap

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book. Well, first off,
just tremendous performers from Dalton Smith. He's

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been a hot prospect, rising contender
ever you want to describe him, for

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a while. A lot of expectations
for him in especially in the UK where

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he is from. He was fighting
in Sheffield, which is his hometown,

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and he finally was able to step
up against a world level opponent, not

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just a British level or a European
level opponent, and there were some questions,

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you know. I mean, I
thought this was a fight he would

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win, but I did not think
it was going to be an easy night

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at the office. Because I don't
care whether Jose Zepida wins a fight or

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loses a fight. Rarely, if
ever, is the opponent in an easy,

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easy fight that whatever happens, he's
gonna make you know you were in

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a fight when it's over. And
Dalton Smith probably had harder sparring as a

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turnout. Now, it wasn't a
liver shot that knocked him out. The

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shot was right in like the below
the solar plexus, like in the gut,

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like they called it on the broadcast, in the bread basket, I

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mean, And it was such a
great shot. It was a punch that

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landed so perfect right in the center
of the gut and he sort of bent

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over and it was almost like in
slow motion where you could just see he's

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like the pain is going to the
spot and he just then fell almost slow

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motion, like it was a delayed
reaction to some degree, and he just

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wasn't getting up. I mean he
was down, you know, for a

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number of seconds or minute round he
folded. When he folded, when he

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folded off of his knees down onto
his four arms, face on the mat,

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that was it. And Dalton Smith
knew that was it. Heck of

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a body shot, no doubt.
And by the way, not only was

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it a great body shot, but
everything leading up to the body shot before

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the knockout. This was a very
dominating super performance. I mean, you

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can't give Dalton Smith higher marks.
That was an a plus performance. You

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know, I'm not and I don't
mean to say that it was like he

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didn't beat Floyd Mayweather or somebody like
that, but I mean in terms of

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stepping up to fight a bonafide solid
contender who's got good wins on his record

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and even in losses have been competitive, this was a very good this is

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what you call in the business was
This was a statement. This was I

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am Dalton Smith. I am a
junior welterweight contender to be taken seriously,

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and I'm ready to move in to
fights at the world level, fighting in

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fights that are against other contenders or
world title eliminators or potentially because this was

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for one of the WBC regional beltsa
is like their silver title, which in

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and of itself to me as a
fan, is meaningless, But for the

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boxer and his team, it's meaningful
because it will it will improve his ranking

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within the WBC and it puts him
on a path to a title eventual title

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opportunity in that organization. I think
he's the real deal. I mean,

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he's now sixteen and oh he's got
twelve knockouts, and I have seen several

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of his fights, and I mean
I can't say I've seen every single one

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of them, but I can't think
of a time where I've ever seen him

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in a fight where I didn't come
away from the fight thinking, well,

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that was that was pretty impressive,
like that was a good job, you

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know. And again, you have
to keep it in perspective of the kind

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of opponents he has been facing.
But I've always made the point that if

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you're fighting a certain guy that you're
supposed to be in a certain way,

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do it, you know, and
nobody can complain that if you're in with

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a guy that you are vastly better
than on paper anyway, show us and

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don't struggle and take him out of
there, and don't mess around and don't

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play with your food. And you
know what, Jose's Apeida was definitely the

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step up that he's been waiting for. And he didn't mess around, and

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he didn't play with his food,
and he didn't, you know, make

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us ask questions when it was over
where he got to win. Maybe with

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shaky maybe he wondered did he really
win? You know? Was it a

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controversial No, this was a man
who went in the ring with a good

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opponent and took him apart piece by
piece and knocked him out with a great

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body shot. And by the way, that was by far and away.

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I don't I kind of discount the
loss that Zapeida took years ago when he

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dislocated his shoulder in the second round. He didn't no idea what was happening

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in that fight. That was a
world title fight in the lightweight division against

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Terry Flanagan. But the other losses
besides that one that he has suffered,

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this was by far the most impressive
by the opponent. Jose Ramirez world championship

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fight. That was a fight a
lot of people thought's the paid a one.

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He lost the majority decision. Next
loss he had on his record was

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a eleventh round knockout to Regis Prograye
for you title and the WBC Vacant one

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forty title. And even though he
got stopped, that was a competitive,

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excellent fight up until that point.
So fight against Richardson Hitchins that was a

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twelfth to nothing shut out, but
that was a terrible and it was a

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good performance from Hitchins, boring but
good, But that was the kind of

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performance where Zepaida going into the fight
you knew this was the worst kind of

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matchup for him ever, and because
style wise, Hitchins was gonna just box

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his ears off, and that's exactly
what he did. Dalton Smith, though,

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to go in there and pound him
out the way he did. To

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me, that was even more impressive
than Hitchins scoring a twelve to nothing shut

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out, more impressive than Regis stopping
him in round eleven of a competitive fight

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at the you know, for a
world title, and certainly more impressive than

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Jose Ermirez being lucky as anything to
have gotten the hometown decision in Fresno in

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a majority decision to retain that title. And again I kind of not on

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disavowt, but I don't. I
can't really take much from a second round

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knocket that was due to specific a
shoulder injury where nothing had happened. So

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you could say that maybe Zapata was
a little bit on the downslide, that

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he that he'd seen better days and
he was a little bit older, and

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that's fair. But still he has
recent wins on his record that were pretty

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good and pretty solid, pretty impressive. You know, the Joe sway Vargas

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knockout in the first round in his
hometown as an underdog, the Baranchick fight

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of the year against a former world
champion in a just a wild and crazy

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fight. You know, he didn't
look great against say like a Hank Lundy,

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but he still got the job done
pretty handily on the cards, you

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know, like an eight to two
type of win. This was a tremendous

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performance from Dalton Smith. And the
other thing it does about it, TJ,

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if you're watching that match, it
makes you say to yourself, goddamn,

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I need to see Dalton Smith in
the ring again. Because that was

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exciting. Yeah, he really did
a good job and he had a crowd

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there and it was everything you could
have wanted. And by the way,

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I'm not going to use the explotis
because I'm not that guy. This is

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the fourth time that he's fought in
the last sixteen months now. He hadn't

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fought since last July. But we
fully expect we will probably see him this

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summer against somebody. Let's hear it
for activity. That's another reason why why

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why we like a Dalton Smith was
well. I think part of Smith's laugh

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I think partly was an injury that
he was dealing with, not one hundred

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percent of that, but it was
good to see him. I said it

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beforehand. I thought this was good
matchmaking. This was let's see what our

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man can do. We're putting him
in with a real guy. And let's

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just sayst test passed. It was
all right. So in the co feature

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we were handicapping these on the bet
Us Boxing Show, I did get the

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Smith ko so like cash that we
didn't get a whole lot else, right,

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And what a performance by Sandy Ryan. You and I both liked Terry

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Harper, the veteran, and Ryan
really overwhelmed her with bigger punches, and

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this one was over midway through.
I don't I don't know if Ryan had

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an injury. She's older, but
the corner stops the fight. Semis Harper,

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Harper, excuse me? Ryan retains
the title. She was very impressive.

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That's what that's me saying that I
was. I was surprised, obviously

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by this result. I had Harper
winning by decision, but Sandy Ryan deserves

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the credit in the co feature there
on the Matchroom show. Yes you look

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great. I can't. I can't
argue with what you said. I mean

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when I pick Harper on our bet
Us show. Part of the reason for

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the motivation, and that was the
the odds were so I felt very skewed

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in favor of Ryan. I thought
it was much more of a fifty to

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fifty kind of fight, and I
saw that. Plus, what did I

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always have fun with you? What
did I try to tell you? These

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odds makers build these billion dollar empowers
and casinos, and they entice us because

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if they put that fight as a
fifty to fifty fight, we probably don't

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touch it. But they put that
line out there, teasing you, teasing

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me. Take Terry Harper, the
veterans and TJ. I understand camp and

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we just took the bait right,
But you're missing the point though. I

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understand how odds making work. I
know, I felt like that was a

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radical error. I thought it was
a mistake to make Sandy Ryan that head

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of a favorite. And you know
what the odds makers and the casinos love

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is people thinking there's radical mistakes but
the odds, But no, most of

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the time that's not mine. In
this particular fight, I thought that was

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just an absolute mistake and so whatever. But the bottom line was in terms

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of forget about the big the gambling
aspect of it, just in terms of

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the way the fight went. It
wasn't competitive. Sandy Ryan went in there

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and beat the shit out of Terry
Harper and made her corner stop the fight

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after the fourth round. She did
a really good job, and she was

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hitting her with punches that were rocking
her, moving her, and good for

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her. It was a heck of
a performance. I mean, you know,

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Terry had been a champion at the
higher way class and at the lower

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way class, but she had come
down to this weight to try to win

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a title in a third division.
They both had a resumes with some decent

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wins on them before. I felt
like it's fifty to fifty on paper,

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they're both coming off draws against top
level opposition. But Sandy Ryan was in

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my mind, she was a lot
more ready for this fight than Terry Harper

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was. She seemed like she was
in better condition. And Terry's actually the

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younger woman. Terry is like twenty
seven, Sandy, with much with fewer

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fights, was already thirty. I
mean, not that that makes a huge

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difference, but it just was a
a little bit surprising. But I thought

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that Ryan looked like she was in
better shape. She carries a h I

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can't say like she didn't look like
a devastating puncher, but she definitely was

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hurting Harper with the right hands.
Like I felt like maybe the referee might

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have stopped it during the fourth round
before the corner stopped it at the end

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of that round. And it goes
to show you that this was one of

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those kinds of fights where if if
women's boxing matches had three minute rounds and

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Sandy Ryan had had an extra minute
to play within that fourth round, she

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might have got the stopage before the
corner took care of it. But all

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you can say is, hats off
Terry Sandy Ryan with a really good performance

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against you know, a good opponent
and Terry Harper. You know she just

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had her assy on a tour that
day. I mean the end of the

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story, yep, And sometimes that
happens. Welcome to the sport, Welcome

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to what we always say, right
then, Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes

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you're the book theater the unexpected too. Uh. Speaking of unexpected, Campbell

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Hatton beaten by decision of very competitive
brawl fight loses in the ten round decision

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to James Flint. All right,
so give me more on this one in

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one hundred and forty pound division because
it's a bit of a surprise in the

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recap mode real quick. Yeah,
I mean, obviously the Campbell hadn't team

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and his promotion at Matt Troom and
I think the fans, I mean,

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he was expected to win. But
that said, we talked about this in

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the preview. By far and away. This was the biggest step up in

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terms of the level of opponent that
Campbell had had faced, and there was

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a lot of conversation going into the
fight. They were fighting for the British

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Board has their area titles. They're
like regional belts of the Central Area,

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the Southern Area, etc. So
he was fighting for the Central Area title.

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Doesn't mean anything to the Americans,
but in Britain it's like one of

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those stepping stones on the way up. But the big kind of thing about

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it was his father, Ricky,
had had been the Central Area champion twenty

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five years ago, so he was
going after one of the belts that his

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dad had had, you know,
quite a bit of time ago. Obviously,

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Ricky his father was their ringside.
He's trained by his uncle Matthew.

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But James Flint to fight as did
Campbell. Look, he he lost the

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fight, and it was a fair
decision. It wasn't like he got h

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that that James Flinton got a gift. A lot of people who are so

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cynical as they should be. I
saw on social media as I was sort

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of following along, they're gonna give
it to Campbell Atten because he's got the

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name and his dad's Ricky, and
he's gonna, you know, gonna and

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escape by with us. Which decisions, which, by the way, that's

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a lot that's a logical thing to
think, but whoops, not right.

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The Judges got it right number one. But here's the thing that my takeaway

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was this, And and I have
a friend of mine, uh my man,

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Mark Stein, the long time basketball
guru writer who worked for a long

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time with me at ESPN, went
on to work at the New York Times,

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and that was like me doing our
own thing. He's got his basketball

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substack. I've got my boxing substack. But Mark's my boy. And Mark

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is a die hard pat and fan
and love is Ricky Hatton and has been

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following his son Campbell and was asking
me for updates and I'm texting you about

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the fight and this and that.
So I felt for him when the kid

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got the loss. But I told
him in our text exchange, I said,

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this is gonna make Campbell Hatten a
better fighter in the long run.

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If the end game was not just
to go as long as I can be

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undefeated and then give it up when
I lose, that would be the wrong

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attitude. The idea is it's a
marathon, not a sprint. So the

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kids got a loss, but he's
been improving in my opinion over the last

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few fights. This is the kind
of loss where you came up, you

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fought your ass off, it's like
Eddie Hearn said in the interview afterwards,

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he fought as good as he could
fight. He gave it everything he had,

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as did James Flint, and he
came up short. And he's gonna

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know what he's got to work on
when he goes back to the gym.

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He's still only twenty three years old. Maybe there's still a chance that he

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can develop into a higher level fighter. I'm not saying world champion necessarily,

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but certainly you know, British title
level that type of thing. With some

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more experience and in the long run
this may make him a better fighter.

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Show him things he needs to work
on. And the thing I like that

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Eddie Hearn said after the fight was
you know what, it was so such

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a good fight. The fans enjoyed
it. It was rousing entertainment value.

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Give the kid a chance to come
back, get you know, shake off

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the loss, get some confidence back, you know, put him in a

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regular fight and then do the rematch. That makes a lot of sense.

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I think that will happen. It'll
be a good payday for for Flint,

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who can probably go on and win
other and get other fights. But there's

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probably not anything financially going to be
as satisfying for him as a rematch with

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Campbell Hadden maybe sometimes near the end
of this year. So take the loss

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and stride for the young man,
but don't I hope it doesn't get him

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down and he comes back stronger.
And uh, you know, all you

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gotta do is take your hat off
to James Flint because these two guys fought

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a heck of a fight. But
I'm gonna tell you an other thing,

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DJ, if you just I know, this is not how you score boxing

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matches. You score it round by
round every three minutes. Who does you

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know the most in that three minutes. But if you just looked at the

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way the guys looked at the end
of the fight. Campbell hatt looked like

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he'd been like out for dinner at
a dinner party, and James Flint has

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face was all busted up, Yes
it was. He sort of looked like,

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it's a good point that you make. It's a good point that you

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can't just go by that. And
one more thing, you can use whatever

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cliche you want, and we do
all kinds of things in different sports.

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Adversity does not build character. I
love this, It reveals it so now

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we're gonna find out now that there's
some adversity for Campbell Hatten, what does

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he have, what does he have
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motivate him? What happens next,
We'll find all of that out. So

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Will said on that. All right, So there you go, the recap

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of the most prominent card. Again, that feels like kind of like an

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appetizer like next week's recap. We're
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I mean, we're gonna have a
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okay, so stand by for that. And by the way, I did

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We'll be on with that. So there's

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a little housekeeping, all right,
Let's move on to the news. Speaking

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of announcements. Interesting that in and
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Turkey Alashiki there with the Saudi Entertainment
Authority, and we already knew about this.

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You've been talking about this, you've
been reporting it on your substack.

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They made it official, they have. Now they're like, give it us

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breadcrumbs. Rayphiel here with the five
fight card with the Matchroom and the Queensberry

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Fighters, but they're not giving us
like the full meal. So give me

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the latest of what they were talking
about Saturday night in England. All right.

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So, I mean you've been following
along, you know that that in

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addition to the great fight between Arthur
Vetter BF and Dimitri Bibo that's gonna be

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coming up on June first, that
the undercart of that event is supposed to

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be what they're calling the Five on
Fire. It's gonna be five Matchroom fighters

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against five Queensberry fighters and they're going
to try to figure out what matches to

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make they got obviously picked the you
know, go through the team, you

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know, the rosters of each company
and figure out what they think can make

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the best and what weight classes.
So the way that Turkey Alshikhu's in charge

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of the whole thing came up with
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each promoter will pick a weight class
and then they'll draft their guy to do

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the fight. Obviously, they got
to talk to their teams, the fighters

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and make sure that they're amenable to
doing these matchups. So what they revealed

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was what the five weight classes will
be. They didn't now the fights will

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be announced I guess when they do
the press conference prior with the formal kickoff

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for the Better b of People fight, which they'll do a press conference in

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London like they've done for these other
big Saudi cars with the heavyweights. So

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what they did was they went through
the they made the announcement. He did

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like a video that Turkey and Frank
and eddiewhere in and so first they let

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Frank pick the first division. He
picked the heavyweights, so that's one weight

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class, so they'll come up with
heavyweights from their rosters. Then Eddie made

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the second pick. He felt like
he's strong that Matchroom in the featherweight division,

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so that'll be the second fight,
and then you have the third one,

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which went back to Frank to make
his pick. He picked the middleweight

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division, so he got a heavyweight, a featherweight, a middleweight. Eddie

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had the next pick. He went
with light heavyweights, which is good because

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that sort of dovetails with the main
event, which is obviously such a huge

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fight in that weight class. And
then Turkey had the right to pick the

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fifth division and he picked another heavyweight
fight. So the fights apparently the first

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four that we talked about will be
a Matchroom fighter against a Queensberry fighter for

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the Turkey heavyweight. That the that
the promoters can pick a they can go

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out and sign a wild card quote
unquote to fight somebody, and so that

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that kind of meshes with the word
on the street, if you will.

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Although not done yet despite some reporting
out there, they're talking about doing the

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Jang July fight against Deontay Wilder,
the co feature. That's obviously a very

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big heavyweight fight, despite the fact
that both of those guys are coming off

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losses, But that would fit the
that would fit the bills. Talking about

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a wildcard because Jang is with Frank
Warren, and obviously Deontay Wilder would come

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in as as as you know,
he'd be the wildcard, whereas Zang is

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with Queensberry. So that that's sort
of what they're looking at there. They

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haven't, I guess, figured out
every single matchup yet. And as Eddie

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was saying, and this is the
same thing I've heard for a while,

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is that when Frank and George Warren
who's Frank's son, and Eddie Hearn and

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their team and Turkey and they get
on the phone or they see each other,

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they literally talk about, you know, dozens of different permutations of fights.

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They've got all kinds of different matchups
that they can make. And so

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I don't I know for a fact
that the Deontay Wilder h Jang July fight

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is definitely being discussed, but by
no means is it a done deal yet.

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If it does get done, that's
a very good matchup and that would

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certainly be a tremendous co feature for
the Big Daddy Fight with the undisputed light

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heavyweight title for the main event between
Better BV and Bbele. But obviously they're

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they're not messing around with these five
on fives, And the other thing that

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was interesting that that Turkey said was
after these fights take place that they will

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look to do an event, not
in read, but to do a event

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that the Saudis are involved in,
but do the fight in England. He

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talked about doing something in Wembley,
which that sounds like to me if you

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mess it with the you know the
possibility of doing the rematch between Usik and

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Fury. Fury has stated on a
multitude of occasions, yes he's tied there

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for two fights, but he liked
the second fight to be in the UK.

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We'll see what happens with that,
but obviously it's a big deal.

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These are going to be big fights. They're not just going to look to

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match some random Queensberry with a random
matchup. They want to make quality matchups.

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And just for my benefit of everybody
else, what's the timeline on when

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we think this card will be?
What are they saying or what are you

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hearing in reports im about the five
on five? The five on five,

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Yes, it's going to be June
first as the undercard for as the okay,

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so we should win pretty soon.
Whenever they have that kick off press

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conference, what these are gonna be
exactly so the Vivo. My understanding is

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there's no issues and Bevo and Better
B is gonna happen, but they're still

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going through the process of getting the
better BF side of the paperwork squared away.

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Once everything is signed, sealed and
done with that, at that point,

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presumably they will announce the fight and
do a press conference and at that

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press cards they will reveal supposedly,
and Turkey actually in the video that they

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put on a matt Room Boxing put
up on that YouTube channel, it was

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kind of funny. Turkey was there
talking about he wants the fighters to come

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in like wearing masks so they can
do like a reveal at the press cards,

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so they don't know what the singer
now on Fox or you and I

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are pro wrestling people like the old
mass wrestlers being on Unknown apart from Parts

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Unknown, the heavyweight contender, I
love it. I love it. Uh

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working with that, Okay, So
that's good good bread crumbs there on that

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To connect for the Queensberry and match
Room, I'm just laughing because these guys

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at Hern and Frank Warren wanted nothing
to do with each other together, like

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they have infectious disease. And now
because there's money and the Saudis are in

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blah, oh, we'll do a
five fight card with you. Sure.

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And then, by the way,
there's no reason why they can't get along.

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They're both obviously, especially when there's
money. Especially when there's money,

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they're competitors. I mean, it's
a competitive business, and so you know.

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But now, whatever the whatever happens
in the long run with the Saudi

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situation, you know, you're nothing
like that lasts forever. But if the

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if, the if, the byproduct
of it can be that whatever it ceases,

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that it has made a relationship between
the Warrens and the Hearns. That

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not that they have to always be
best friends, but they're capable of sitting

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at a table and understanding where the
other is coming from and do a business

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deal to make a fight that is
beneficial for them, their company, their

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fighters, for the sport, and
for the fans. There's no reason why

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they shouldn't do that. And so
for that reason alone, this entire Saudi

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endeavor has been worthwhile. All Right, on to some broadcast news. We

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do have the first premiere Boxing Champions
Prime video pay per view coming this coming

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Saturday, March the thirtieth. You
are reporting the broadcast team. You but

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you were talking about this just briefly
on the preview podcast. You've continue to

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report it. Gee, the fight
is days away as we release this recap

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podcast. Tim Zuo Sebastian Fundora in
the fourth Championship fight card. All right,

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so give us a little more here
on what you found out and we'll

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and we'll add to it for the
broadcast team coming up Saturday night pay per

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view. So I won't surprise you, by the way, if somebody is

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listening to this this podcast, like
say later on Monday, or maybe they

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don't get to till Tuesday, like
obviously, they'll probably gonna make that announcement

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maybe Monday or Tuesday, of what
this lineup is going to be. But

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I've talked to several sources who are
definitely know what's happening here. So for

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the for the broadcast team that we'll
see for this pay per view, between

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Zoo and Fundora, you'll have a
lot of people that will look at and

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say, this is like very similar
to what the showtime team was. You

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know, this is no surprise.
Lennon is going to be the ring announcer.

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That he's already been doing work with
them for this event in terms of

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their press covers, but in terms
of the folks that will call the fights

406
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and do the broadcast, Brian Custer, who was obviously the outstanding host for

407
00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:14,960
a long time for Showtime Championship Boxing. He will be hosting this event.

408
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,519
That's not a surprise. He's back
to do that. Most role they're also

409
00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,599
going to have as the blow by
blow announcer is going to be Maro Ronaldo

410
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,440
obviously from Showtime, been there for
a long time with Showtime since like twenty

411
00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:30,759
twelve or whatever it's been, comes
over from that now defunct Showtime Sports.

412
00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:33,880
Joining him on the call will also
be his ringside colleague from Showtime who had

413
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,720
been the one of the analysts for
a number of years, and that's the

414
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,359
former world champion Abner Marris. And
then taking the place of the great Al

415
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,599
Bernstein in the role of the other
announcer will be Joe Goosen, who has

416
00:25:45,799 --> 00:25:48,920
vastly experienced as a broadcaster. Obviously, people know him most as a Hall

417
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,799
of Fame trainer. People who watch
PBC events know him as in that same

418
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,880
role for the several years that PBC
was doing events with Fox and with Fox

419
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,920
Sports one and so that's the deal. And so some might say, well,

420
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,240
why did they bring why didn't they
bring al Bernstein back? Also because

421
00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:08,440
Al is one of the best who
ever did it? Nothing against Joe.

422
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,039
My hand is up by the way, even though the audience can't see me

423
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:17,160
on this, So go ahead,
No, Al al is I mean,

424
00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:22,200
if you're creating like the mount Rushmore
of boxing broadcasters, al Bernstein is probably

425
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,680
on that, on that mountain because
as the analysts, yes Rushmore analysts,

426
00:26:27,759 --> 00:26:33,559
yes, well prepared, entertaining,
knowledgeable, even handed, you know,

427
00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:37,160
described by many people that have worked
with him as the glue to that team.

428
00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:42,039
Uh and a great guy on top
of that. And basically it really

429
00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:45,400
didn't come down to It's not like, you know, there was a problem.

430
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,359
You know, he doesn't get along
with people. He wants too much

431
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,400
money, he's no good, he's
too old, he's do this, who's

432
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,519
do that? We don't want to
be showtime two point zero. So they

433
00:26:56,519 --> 00:27:00,680
felt compelled to make at least one
change. And Joe Goosen, who's an

434
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:07,160
excellent broadcaster himself, has a familial
relationship with the PBC team because his brother

435
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,400
in law is Tom Brown who owns
TGV Promotions. They're the house promoter for

436
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,519
all of the PBC events, and
so Joe gets the gig. That's the

437
00:27:15,519 --> 00:27:18,799
bottom line. Not to say he's
not deserving of it, because like I

438
00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,720
said, Joe's a really good broadcaster
also, but you know, I love

439
00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:27,720
Al Bernstein also, So that's the
reason it seems to me and Al will

440
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,960
get other gigs, I'm sure,
as we're going to talk about in just

441
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,200
a minute, and that's the team. Now. One thing I want to

442
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,759
point out though, because it needs
to be made clear my reporting, in

443
00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:41,400
my understanding, is that this is
going to be the team for March thirtieth.

444
00:27:41,839 --> 00:27:44,480
It does not mean that these guys
are all signed on for the long

445
00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:48,039
term, will be the same folks
that we see that do the Canelo event

446
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,160
or that do whatever they're going to
do in June with you know, Tank

447
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,519
Davis and Benavide's and going forward or
whenever they start up in June their non

448
00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:57,279
pay per view events. I mean, I assume that some of them will

449
00:27:57,319 --> 00:28:00,680
still be involved, but it's not
This is not like we're doing this and

450
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,559
they're on long term contracts. Like
you know, it was showtime they were

451
00:28:03,559 --> 00:28:07,359
there for years and years and years. There could be some changes after this

452
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,000
first event, all right, in
a couple of things. This is me

453
00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:15,000
saying this my opinion, they are
worse off without al Bernstein on the contract

454
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,519
because he still got his fastball,
He's very insightful ahead of the fact,

455
00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:22,440
etc. I will go a step
further if we're doing an either or,

456
00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:26,400
I don't care who whose brother in
law is al Bernstein's better than Joe Goosen

457
00:28:26,559 --> 00:28:30,920
at broadcasting it. I understand the
politics of what's going on. So I'm

458
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:37,039
encouraged by what you're saying, which
is maybe they're evolving with trying different combinations.

459
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,240
Al might be on the Canelo pay
per view, for example, on

460
00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:42,440
the call we don't know down the
road. I was told I was in

461
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:47,039
Las Vegas last week and I was
around somebody and I know Al a little

462
00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:48,920
bit. I'm not friends with him. We've had him on this podcast,

463
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,480
we've interviewed him, but somebody that
does know him real well have been talking

464
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,119
to him and he said to me, Hey, he can't announce it or

465
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,319
talk about it, but he's going
to be on a disown broadcast. He

466
00:28:59,359 --> 00:29:03,240
announced me. And so now on
this was last week Rayfield. I was

467
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:07,039
there last week. When I was
there, I was told he's going to

468
00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:10,359
be on a dizone broadcast but he
can't talk about it yet because they haven't

469
00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:12,519
announced it. Well. Al started
talking about it on social media. He

470
00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:18,640
announced it on Saturday Night. Here's
hoping that he's involved somewhere with with Zone

471
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,039
or with PBC and Amazon coming up
later this year, because that would be

472
00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:27,680
a shame if not a great guy. Yeah, I want to I'll explain

473
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,799
to people what he's going to be
doing. So when he's he posted that

474
00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:34,440
he's gonna be involved in a boxing
event on his own this coming Saturday,

475
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,720
March thirtieth. The main fight card
that jumps out to you, that's the

476
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:45,000
one card. Their main card is
the fight that's between Gomarian defending the Cruiserweight

477
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:47,880
belt against Zerdo Ramirez the Golden Boys, right, But that is not the

478
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:48,759
card that Al is going to be
part of. What he's going to be

479
00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:52,400
part of is going to be a
card. And I don't know if he's

480
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:53,559
going to be on site or they're
doing it from a studio or whatever.

481
00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:59,119
But Epic Sports had made a deal
with his owne to do what was supposed

482
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,200
to be the WBA a regular heavyweight
title fight between Manuel Shar and Kubra that's

483
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,880
taking place in what in Pulev's hometown
of Sophia, Bulgaria. As I reported,

484
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,880
Shar dropped out because he had an
army at biceps injury, similar I

485
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,200
guess to what happened with Keith Thurman. He had surgery, so he's out

486
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,119
for three to six months. And
because Pulev was the one selling all the

487
00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:23,519
tickets and where it was his hometown, they're going forward with the show.

488
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,519
They've got a replacement opponent for him
in a name I'm not even gonna try

489
00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:30,799
to pronounce, God bless al.
If he can pronounce it, I hope

490
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:34,359
he gets some good analysis on how
to say the guy's name. In any

491
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,680
event, the main event will be
Kubrat Pulov against this other heavyweight, and

492
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,440
that's the card that I was gonna
work on. Hired by Epics to do

493
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:45,920
this event, which is going to
be broadcast on his own. I'm going

494
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:56,079
to try a chevin Zutskaya looks like
Ihre chevin Zutskaya. What I do is

495
00:30:56,119 --> 00:30:57,240
I got to make sure I spell
it right. In my stee. There's

496
00:30:57,279 --> 00:31:00,839
a lot of consonants in that name, other lot of consonants in that name.

497
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,759
So that's who's fighting pool Lev and
you're saying Al is part of that,

498
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:10,000
and again just a rapid here's hoping
he's involved somehow in a regular role,

499
00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:14,680
either with his own or with PBC
Bison and who knows somebody he should

500
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,599
be, all right, Dan,
standby while we're talking about it. Upcoming

501
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503
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514
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All right, some more news here
and then we'll get to some nostalgia

520
00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:01,160
and we are done. Tell me
more. I hear Shaquur Stevenson's fight card

521
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,640
in July. In fact, Top
Rank's got a couple of things that you're

522
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,119
reporting about Top Rank fight card in
July with Shakur. But also backing up,

523
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:15,559
you've got the rescheduled fight for Xander
Zaiez coming up as well. So

524
00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:17,759
what have you found out about these
two top ranked fight cards. Okay,

525
00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:21,640
so on the thing about Kishan is
this, and I reported this a while

526
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,160
ago, and now Shaquarze Stevenson has
been talking about a little bit on his

527
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:29,200
social media and things. So his
first defense of the WBC lightweight belt that

528
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,799
he won not that long ago,
is supposed to take place July sixth in

529
00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:36,319
his hometown of Newark, New Jersey. No opponent that's been announced or said

530
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,960
yet. Matter of fact, I
actually asked Shaqur the other night, I

531
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,759
said, do you have an opponent? He goes and they haven't told me

532
00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:45,319
anything yet. So no, But
in any event, the undercard fight is

533
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:47,480
going to be. Look, he's
very tight with Keishaan Davis, the younger

534
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,920
fighter coming up right, and you
know who's coming off a tremendous performance in

535
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,119
his last fight where he demolished Jose
Padraza. It was very reminiscent actually in

536
00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,440
him demolishing Padraza and making a statement
that I'm here, kind of like Dalton

537
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,720
Smith did in Zapeida. Similar kind
of veteran, you know, similar kind

538
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,839
of stage of their careers. But
any event, so that was the fight

539
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,639
where remember Keishin had come off the
suspension for the marijuana where he looked pretty

540
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,760
bad in the fight that turned into
a no contest that he originally had won

541
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,760
that took place last October. He
blows away Pedraza, and now his next

542
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,400
fight supposed to be back in July
on the undercard of of course fight that's

543
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,320
gonna be Newark. So that's my
reporting on that that he'll be on that

544
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,400
show. So good to see him
be back in the ring relatively quickly after,

545
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:32,199
you know, by far and away
his biggest victory, and hopefully Top

546
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,039
Rank will find him an opponent that
is a commensurate with that type of performance

547
00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:38,440
and they can step him up a
little bit more and keep him on that

548
00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:42,400
fast track. So that is what's
going on July to sixth, And I'm

549
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,239
thinking, you know what, I
may, I may, depending on what

550
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,039
else is going on in my life
that weekend, I may take a right

551
00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:52,079
up to Newark and cover that event
there we go about So the Top Rank

552
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,599
also has a schedule. It looks
like speaking of New York for June for

553
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,840
Xander Zaiaz, right, what do
you think? So okay? So when

554
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,199
so Shaky Foster had his defense at
the Madison Square Garden Theater in his you

555
00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:07,719
know, first fight with Top Rank, the undercard fight that was the fight

556
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,280
that he won against Abraham Nova.
The undercard fight for that was supposed to

557
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,360
originally be the co feature was supposed
to be Xander Zias against the former WBO

558
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:21,079
one fifty four tit hole there from
Brazil, Patrick Casita. Top Rank.

559
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,960
Xander pulled out of that fight.
Top Rank described, I asked the reason,

560
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,519
well why and they said he had
some nagging injuries. He wanted to

561
00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:30,840
rest and not know risk that.
So okay, so he withdrew from the

562
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:35,960
fight. But the plan from Top
Rank was always to reschedule about But rather

563
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,079
than make Patrick Desda wait. You
know, however, many months it was

564
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:43,239
going to be, his manager got
him a fight that was last week in

565
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,400
Brazil, just to stay busy,
you know. He knocked out a guy

566
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,880
in like the fourth or fifth round. And so now that he's safely through

567
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,960
that tune up fight, this fight
again, this has not been announced up

568
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:58,440
by Top Rank, but the plan
is to have now the rescheduled Zias versus

569
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,079
Cecida fight as the main event June
eighth, Madison Square Garden Theater. The

570
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:06,679
date obviously is significant because that is
the eve of the annual Puerto Rican Day

571
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,280
Parade in New York. Obviously,
he's anders Puerto Rican. He's the next

572
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:13,760
guy to see if he can step
up to that Puerto Rican star level to

573
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,719
start to headline these types of fights, and so that is the plan for

574
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,599
that and Top Rank will do what
it always does, They'll load up the

575
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:22,199
card with a lot of younger fighters
from the area who sell tickets. I

576
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:27,920
am told that the excellent featherweight up
and comer Bruce Shoeshoe Carrington, who was

577
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,039
so spectacular in that same February sixteenth
card with the knockout of Bernard Torres,

578
00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:36,280
he'll also be on that card.
I'm assumed. I don't know this for

579
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,480
sure, but I can't imagine that
he won't be part of the main card

580
00:36:38,519 --> 00:36:43,400
on ESPN. Given what he just
accomplished in the way Top Rank is pushing

581
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,400
him, he'll look to go to
twelve and zero. So that's sort of

582
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,719
if you're thinking about what's going on
Puerto Rican Day weekend, which is an

583
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,559
annual date that Top Rank typically would
do, you know, some type of

584
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,480
card in New York City. That's
where we're looking at the reschedule fight between

585
00:36:58,559 --> 00:37:01,519
Zias and tSida, as well as
having Shoe Shue Carrington on the card.

586
00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:07,000
All right, and one more bit
of news, and that is for the

587
00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:13,119
Canelo Jimi Mungia pay per view.
You have learned about one of the undercard

588
00:37:13,199 --> 00:37:16,000
fights, go ahead and give us
more about that form May fourth, right,

589
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:19,840
So obviously they're going to make a
pay per view undercards for that now.

590
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,119
So this is not a fight that
I can tell you is signed,

591
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:24,079
sealed and delivered at one hundred percent
official. But this is one of the

592
00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:28,719
fights and it sounds the way I
think about it, it makes sense.

593
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,639
It seems very doable both within the
matchup the money blah blah blah blah.

594
00:37:32,679 --> 00:37:37,360
And that is a fight between the
WBC's interim featherweight title holder Brandon Figueroa,

595
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,440
who has been off a little much
longer than he should have been, taken

596
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:45,599
on the former junior featherweight title holder
Jesse Magdaleno. It gives another good quality

597
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:51,840
Mexican undercard fight there Mexican Americans exciting
fighter. Figure is one of the most

598
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,280
exciting fighters in the sport, but
he's been off for a ridiculous amount of

599
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,639
time relatively speaking. I thought when
they started up with the Amazon. I

600
00:37:59,639 --> 00:38:01,840
figured he might be the first guy
out of the gate because when the when

601
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,239
the whole endeavor started. Remember back
at the end of the year last year,

602
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:07,920
a fight between him and ray Vargus
is a fight that we're talking about

603
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,840
for one of the showtime parts.
It didn't happen. Vargus ended up fighting

604
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,960
Nick Ball to a draw in Saudi
Arabia, and you know, now he's

605
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,840
looking to get back in business.
But now Magdaleno, you know, only

606
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,000
his only losses have been like reasonable
losses. He got stopped in a world

607
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:29,599
championship fight by the prime Isaac Dogbay
back several years ago. He did lose

608
00:38:29,639 --> 00:38:34,960
his last fight to Raymond Ford by
a decision that was competitive for in parts

609
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,920
of it. But that was a
rough style for Magdaleno and for a figure.

610
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,360
Oa about time he's back in the
ring. I mean, this guy

611
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,480
is just, you know, one
of the more fun fighters to watch you

612
00:38:44,519 --> 00:38:46,400
can think of. Now he has
not fought since March of last year.

613
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,920
He'll be coming off of what would
that be about a fifteen month layoff,

614
00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:52,639
right, and that was a big
win for him. You know, he

615
00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:57,199
had his only loss. He lost
a majority decision that was very arguable.

616
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,800
Everybody debated who really deserved to win. That was a fight against Stephen Fulton.

617
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,480
That was a high class two Belts
of the Year type fight. They

618
00:39:05,559 --> 00:39:09,159
brawled for twelve rounds. Yeah,
unification fight for the WBA or the WBO

619
00:39:09,159 --> 00:39:13,519
and the WBC. And he's won
two fights since, and he moved up

620
00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:15,280
after that fight to one twenty six. He's won both fights. Had a

621
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:21,079
really good solid win and knockout against
Carlos Castro in his only fight of twenty

622
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:24,519
twenty two, then was off until
March of twenty twenty three. He got

623
00:39:24,559 --> 00:39:29,639
another good quality win to win the
interim belt against Mark Macxio, who had

624
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:32,639
lost the featherweight belt to Gary Russell, or rather I mean who had lost

625
00:39:32,639 --> 00:39:35,679
the belt, not the Gary Russell. He had beaten Gary Russell. He

626
00:39:35,679 --> 00:39:40,960
had lost about to Ray Vargas.
But the point is he hadn't vondsince then.

627
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,920
Figueroa, so I think he'll he'll
wind as my sources tell me that

628
00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:50,000
he'll probably be on this card and
Magdaleno seems to be the opponent. That's

629
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,960
a good matchup. All right,
great news for this week. So now

630
00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:59,079
let's get a little nostalgia going.
It was twelve years ago today as we

631
00:39:59,199 --> 00:40:02,400
released this podcast. March twenty fourth, twenty twelve, Danny Garcia gets a

632
00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:08,840
decision win over Eric Morales to win
his first world title. You were there

633
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:14,119
for this. What do you remember
about Danny Garcia's first world title win?

634
00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:16,239
Well, it was it. It
was at the Reliant Arena in Houston.

635
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:22,199
What I remember more more about the
fight was really the the the raucousness of

636
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,519
the weigh in that they had at
a food court in a big mall in

637
00:40:24,639 --> 00:40:29,519
Houston. Uh. And Eric Rowse
didn't. I mean, what can I

638
00:40:29,519 --> 00:40:30,719
tell you? They were They were
hyping it up. Wait right right by

639
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,440
the Panda Express and the Sparrow and
the and the Chick fil A, and

640
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:37,920
Houston was going back pretty much pretty
much in the food court. Yeah.

641
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:42,320
Absolutely, Uh. You know,
you got to sell, sell, sell,

642
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,400
you go where the people are.
But anyway, this was this was

643
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,400
this was a big opportunity. Garcia
was a young fighter on the rise.

644
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,280
He'd been coming off some good wins
against guys named Nate Campbell, good champion

645
00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:55,679
Henda Holt, who was a formidable
opponent, and now he's stepping in to

646
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:59,280
fight Eric Morales, who was the
you know, maybe a little long in

647
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,239
the tooth, but still a good
fighter and had a world title. Eric

648
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,920
Morales did not make the weight,
did not try to lose the weight,

649
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:09,280
figured I'm going to just pay the
fine and not break my body down,

650
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,280
and you know, forget about the
title. So it became vacant. But

651
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,639
obviously Danny had the opportunity to win
the title, and he went out there

652
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:19,199
and he put on a great performance. He dropped Eric Morales, a guy

653
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,960
with a great chin, put him
down in round eleven, when when went

654
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,239
on to win the obvious decision and
got that world title, which he then

655
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:30,440
after that in his next fight was
able to unify with his superb knocked out

656
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,559
against Amir Khan, and of course
then he had the rematch with Eric Morales,

657
00:41:32,679 --> 00:41:36,440
which was mandated, and he spun
him like a top and knocked him

658
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,119
out with that massive left hook and
sent Eric into retirement. But the first

659
00:41:39,159 --> 00:41:43,480
win for him was a suite because
it got him the first world title of

660
00:41:43,639 --> 00:41:46,239
several that he won in his career. And you asked what I remember most

661
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:50,880
about the fight. I remember actually
more about the undercard fight, which was

662
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,119
a fight between James Kirkland, the
big puncher, and Carlos Molina, who

663
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:59,519
had been a he had been a
world title holder in our when I came.

664
00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:01,239
Heer if it was before or after, but he had hell they belt

665
00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:07,320
in that division. And he got
disqualified because the corner had entered the ring

666
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,199
thinking that the corner was over,
that the round was over. So Kirkland

667
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,000
got the win. But it was
very, very bullshit. It was.

668
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,519
It was one of those calls where
if you go by the letter of the

669
00:42:17,679 --> 00:42:22,000
law, yeah, you can disqualify
them, but the referees got the discretion.

670
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,320
It in no way impacted the fight. The guys were on the other

671
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,519
side of the ring. They literally
thought because they heard the cat the clapper

672
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,199
thought it was the bell. They
took like one step in the ring.

673
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,800
It didn't impact the event whatsoever.
And and they and they canceled, you

674
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,239
know, they called the fight.
And it's very unfortunate because, uh,

675
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:40,880
you know, Molina was probably on
his way to a victory because he was

676
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,199
way ahead on on at least one
of the scorecards. And uh, I

677
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,679
just remember going to the hotel afterwards, and and and I and I knew

678
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,679
some people on the Maliina team and
they were having like a like a pizza

679
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,159
party in like a room, and
it was like the most sad pizza party

680
00:42:54,159 --> 00:42:57,760
you ever saw, because like they
feel like they should have they got,

681
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,880
they got inappropriately disqualified from the sound
really bad for him. So I remember

682
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,800
that you would you would like to
confirm they did not have the post fight

683
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,159
stuff at the food court either.
Have you ever got have you ever had

684
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,639
Panda Express by the way you looked
at the light cross side? Yeah?

685
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:15,400
In your life at the food court? That seems to be a stable at

686
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:20,679
the food court. I mean that
subways borrow pizza. Those are always at

687
00:43:20,679 --> 00:43:24,280
the food court some point probably the
country, especially airports, airport food courts.

688
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:30,400
Okay, So, by the way, there's also our Turo Gotti nostalgia

689
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,679
as well, before we get a
little more nostalgic with the little eighties movies

690
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,159
and our youth, Our Turo Gotti. Twenty eight years ago, Saturday,

691
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:43,480
March twenty third, as we released
the podcast from this weekend Knocked Out Wilson

692
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:50,440
Rodriguez, Rayfield puts on his rundown
sheet here this is the best fight for

693
00:43:50,599 --> 00:43:53,559
Gotti not involving Mickey Ward. You
got that out there right away. About

694
00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:59,679
this fight twenty eight years ago with
thunder Gotti. This is such a sexsational

695
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,719
fight. I don't I mean,
I know it's a long time ago now,

696
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,840
so I'm me. I'm not sure
if our listeners and how many I've

697
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,920
seen it, but I know I
always say I urge you to go on

698
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,559
YouTube and watch the fight. I
truly urge you to go on YouTube and

699
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:12,440
watch this fight. Keep in mind, our Taro guy at this point is

700
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,760
a young fighter. He just won
the IBF one hundred and thirty pound title

701
00:44:16,119 --> 00:44:22,360
in December of nineteen ninety five in
a really good performatory Really he actually won

702
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,800
a decision, really in box his
way in many ways to the decision over

703
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:30,079
an excellent champion, Tracy Harris Patterson. Now he comes back. He's on

704
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,559
Boxing after Dark on HBO. It's
the second member. The first one we

705
00:44:32,639 --> 00:44:37,920
talked about this before. The first
main event was the phenomenal fight between Kennedy

706
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,440
McKinney and Marco Antonio Barrera. Right
now, this is the second Boxing after

707
00:44:42,559 --> 00:44:45,119
Dark main event, and you're thinking
we're gonna get obsolute classics every month,

708
00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:50,960
because now we get two in a
row. This was Gaddy in the main

709
00:44:51,039 --> 00:44:54,960
event. That night, they just
had a very classy undercard fight between Orlando

710
00:44:55,079 --> 00:45:00,320
Canizalis and Junior Jones in a bantamweight
title fight that was spect and now we

711
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:06,039
get the main event between Gaddy and
Wilson Rodriguez, and it had everything you

712
00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:07,880
want to see. It had huge
punching back and forth, ebb and flow,

713
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:14,400
a lot of drama. Goddy's eye
is swollen shut and they go to

714
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,920
the corner. The doctor does and
basically does the eye test like he's holding

715
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,719
up his fingers telling Gotty to guess. He's like, I know, don't

716
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:22,639
worry about it. He's like,
you better guess, or I'm gonna stop

717
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,719
the fight. He guesses, right, They let the fight go on,

718
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,440
and it's desperate times and our tur
turned around with the left hook from the

719
00:45:30,559 --> 00:45:36,880
gods that put this dude, Wilson
Reriguez tough his nails out in an absolutely

720
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,519
dramatic, like the kind of fight
where if you're watching, I don't care

721
00:45:39,519 --> 00:45:44,000
if you're a ringside or you're just
watching on TV, you're so enthralled in

722
00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:46,880
what's happening, the drama and the
action, that you're probably sweating yourself,

723
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,599
even not being in the Oracle and
I like to say, when that moment

724
00:45:51,679 --> 00:45:53,800
happens with a big punch like that, you belt out oh when you're out

725
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:59,000
of your chair, no matter where
you are ringside, Absolutely sensational. Yeah,

726
00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:02,719
I mean, and if you and
the call that the HBO broadcasters made,

727
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:07,760
which was Jim Lampley and Roy Jones
and Larry Merchant, made it even

728
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,199
that much more dramatic. I mean, they don't. You just don't get

729
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,920
better fights just for a pure fight. And going into the fight, I

730
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,599
don't think anybody had the expectation that
this is going to be like there's certain

731
00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:20,559
fights they make where like, oh
my god, that's going to be a

732
00:46:20,639 --> 00:46:22,960
war. I mean, you figured
it's going to be a good, exciting,

733
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:25,199
fun fight, But I don't think
anybody expected that there'd be a reason

734
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,480
for guys talking about it with such
a reverence twenty eight years later. And

735
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:32,079
so the truth of the matter is
it is, in my opinion, the

736
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:36,920
best Gaddy fight that was not involving
Mickey Ward. A few years ago,

737
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:42,320
when The Ring magazine did a special
addition about Gaddy and Ward in the trilogy

738
00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:45,880
largely about Gaddy, I was asked
to write one of the pieces, and

739
00:46:46,039 --> 00:46:50,679
the digist of the story from Doug
Fisher, who's the editor of Ring.

740
00:46:51,039 --> 00:46:53,599
He said, can you write me
a piece, you pick your top five

741
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:59,480
fights of Arturo Goddy's career, not
involving Mickey Ward. I said, no

742
00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:00,719
problem, and so when I went
to sit down and do it, it

743
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,760
was the easiest thing in the world. Now, putting them in order was

744
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,280
maybe a little bit more called beyond
number one, but picking number one was

745
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,960
really easy. This was definitely despite
because God, he's got a lot of

746
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,440
great fights, even fights he lost, but this one was fucking spectacular.

747
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,559
And again twenty eight years ago,
go relive at the ko of Wilson Rodriguez.

748
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,559
Love it one more bit of nostalgia, and then we got to get

749
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:29,239
out of here forty years ago on
Sunday, March twenty four, nineteen eighty

750
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,000
four. The reason we know this
is because it's the date put up on

751
00:47:32,119 --> 00:47:37,880
the screen in the movie Saturday Morning
Detention and the movie The Breakfast Club and

752
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,719
eighties Classic. And you and I
are contemporaries. We like a lot of

753
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,400
the same things. We are about
the same age. We are children of

754
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,320
the eighties, youth of the eighties. I got to point blank ask you

755
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,400
before we get into the movie nostalgia
in the fun did you ever have Saturday

756
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,400
detention? Did you ever get in
trouble? You were an angel? I

757
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:57,039
never had a kid engine either.
I never had Saturday detention either. So

758
00:47:57,119 --> 00:48:01,719
you and I vicariously through the movie
the Saturday Yeah, God, I never

759
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:07,280
had I never had Saturday detention.
I did have AFO. But you never

760
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:13,960
had to report Saturday morning at eight
a m. At the school. Like

761
00:48:14,079 --> 00:48:19,559
the characters played by what Judd Hirsch, Molly Ringwald, Amelia Judge Reinhold,

762
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:22,599
I'm sorry, not Judge Judge Hurst
from Taxi Judge you getting hold on,

763
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:28,480
hold on, Molly Ringwald, Emelio
s Judd Nelson, Judd Nelson, not

764
00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:31,400
Judge Reinhold. You're doing like you're
doing like Belly Hills. Judd Nelson is

765
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,000
the one that was in the in
the In the film all right, Judd

766
00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:39,360
Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Amelio,
Estevez, and uh Anthony Michael Hall and

767
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:44,840
Ali Sheety are the five members of
the breakfast Club Saturday Morning Detention. And

768
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:52,039
it's a tremendous cult classic movie.
We in my in my college, I

769
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:57,280
took a psychology class in college at
Memphis State we watched this movie and analyzed

770
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,119
it because the name of the class
was Theories of persuade Rayfield. Did you

771
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:07,320
know there's like over fifty examples in
this movie where somebody persuades somebody else to

772
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,480
do something for them or something that
they might not normally do. So there's

773
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:14,320
a lot of that. There's a
lot of peer pressure, yes, like

774
00:49:14,599 --> 00:49:16,639
try the marijuana, go take the
bolt out of the door, you know,

775
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,239
all the different things. Let's break
out of the room and go somewhere

776
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,960
else. There's all these different things
where one peer is persuading the other to

777
00:49:23,039 --> 00:49:27,960
go do something and misbehave while in
detention. That's the whole premise of the

778
00:49:28,039 --> 00:49:32,119
movie. So great, Great eighties. It is not the premise of the

779
00:49:32,199 --> 00:49:38,360
movie. The premise of the movie
is about different groups of a clicks in

780
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:43,079
your high school correct finding out that
everybody's dealing with the same problems, even

781
00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:45,760
if you're vastly different people. But
we also are. But think about all

782
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:51,119
the things where it's like Molly Ringwald
persuades Ali she to put the makeup,

783
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,719
they get the brain, to try
the joint, and all of these different

784
00:49:54,760 --> 00:50:00,280
things. That's the whole point.
Everybody comes together we're also forgetting the two

785
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:01,960
other stars of the movie. You
don't get the proper credit, and that

786
00:50:02,119 --> 00:50:08,599
is the legendary Hog Lison Yes as
as principal Richard Joe Dick some respect,

787
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:16,960
and also John Capelos as legendary janitor
Carl. Carl is like in many ways

788
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,000
the heart and soul of that Yes, no, no, no, I

789
00:50:21,119 --> 00:50:23,559
am the eyes and ears of this
institution, my friend, he says.

790
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:29,519
He says about knowing everything about everybody. So they have Saturday morning detention.

791
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,280
It's about the whole day and about
how they're supposed to be there, and

792
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:37,920
gets punishment and whatever, and then
Bender starts getting in trouble Judd Nelson's character

793
00:50:38,599 --> 00:50:45,119
where Yeah, the assistant principal says, you'll find out the answer to that

794
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,599
question next Saturday. Mister Bender gives
him another one, and then he says,

795
00:50:47,639 --> 00:50:50,519
you want another one? Yeah,
you want another one after that?

796
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,880
You know, does Barry Manilowe know
you rate his wardrobe? Listen? I

797
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:58,639
can just say this so good.
The date on the screen was March twenty

798
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,840
fourth, nineteen eighty four, nineteen
eighty four correct. The movie came out

799
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:06,639
in February of nineteen eighty five.
I saw this movie in the movie theaters.

800
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:12,519
I was fourteen years old, and
it is this seminal movie of my

801
00:51:12,679 --> 00:51:15,840
life. I mean, just is
the fact I've seen the movie a military

802
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:21,400
right. It just I was a
teenager at the time. I wasn't quite

803
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,960
as old as the kids that you
know, the characters were portrayed in the

804
00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:30,039
film. But to be like in
junior high you see it with your friends,

805
00:51:30,159 --> 00:51:34,320
you kind of it just made such
an impression that forty years later,

806
00:51:34,599 --> 00:51:37,039
Oh yeah, it's still in some
way, shape or form, a line

807
00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:39,360
comes out of my mouth to a
friend of mine or to my wife or

808
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,519
something that's from that movie. Yeah, forty years later, it's been like

809
00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:47,239
that my entire life. Okay.
And so these were the movies being made

810
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:52,599
in and around this time. The
Sixteenth Handles movie with Molly Rainwald. Anthony

811
00:51:52,679 --> 00:51:58,559
Michael Hall, who was in the
Vacation movie first of all with Chevy Chase,

812
00:51:58,599 --> 00:52:00,480
and he was really on a roll
kind of at this point doing this

813
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:06,519
movie. He was also in sixteen
Candles. He was also later in Weird

814
00:52:06,679 --> 00:52:09,599
Science. Emelio Estevez making two or
three movies in and around that time.

815
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:14,559
Ali Sheety the whole bit, but
we got to give props to the person

816
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:16,239
that that was the writer and director. All right, So here we go

817
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:20,760
John Hughes, who was tremendous,
as were all these films, Ferris Bueller's

818
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,519
Day Off, et cetera. Home
Alone with Us, all right, so

819
00:52:22,679 --> 00:52:24,960
home Alone movies? All right?
So are you ready for a couple of

820
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,880
trivia nuggets. I'm gonna hit you
with him. Let's see if you know

821
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:34,159
these answers. Okay, Shermer Illinois
exists or not? Come on, come

822
00:52:34,199 --> 00:52:37,000
on, we go does not exist? Fictitious? The high school they're showing

823
00:52:37,039 --> 00:52:39,480
you out front film that it was
a place in Chicago. Okay, hang

824
00:52:39,519 --> 00:52:43,840
on. The school they show you
is Glenn Brook North High School, real

825
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,079
live high school. That's a fairly
famous suburban Chicago. I got a tribute

826
00:52:46,119 --> 00:52:50,480
for you, all right, go
ahead. So I mentioned you that Carl,

827
00:52:50,559 --> 00:52:52,960
the eyes and ears of this institution, who was ahead of the janitorial

828
00:52:53,119 --> 00:52:59,480
sciences, played by the legendary John
Caplos, who was the actor that was

829
00:52:59,519 --> 00:53:01,880
originally supposed to play that role.
And I'm glad he did not that he's

830
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:06,239
a bad actor. But I can't
imagine anybody other than John Kapitlo's in that

831
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,079
role. I don't know who it
was. Who's the actor was supposed to

832
00:53:08,079 --> 00:53:14,760
be Rick moranis oh really? Yes? From a strange Brew and the Mackenzie

833
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,800
brothers and then eventually the honey I
shrunk the kids, all right, a

834
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:23,039
couple more, Uh, speaking of
the cameos, who drops Judd Nelson off

835
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:29,760
at the school? You just Judd
Nelson walked? He walked, Well,

836
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:34,079
who somebody else is dropping Ali sheety
off? I believe it is who it

837
00:53:34,159 --> 00:53:37,639
is? Yes, it was the
The person in the car was very it's

838
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:39,960
the it's John Hughes. No,
I know that. I was gonna say

839
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,239
it's the it's the cameo the way
Alfred Hitchcock used to always have a cameo

840
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:49,039
in his movies. That's right,
without really speaking, because bender bender walks

841
00:53:49,119 --> 00:53:52,000
by, and I think John Hughes
almost hits him with the car dropping Ali

842
00:53:52,039 --> 00:53:54,000
sheety off. That's the n Hughes
was the driver of that car. That's

843
00:53:54,039 --> 00:53:59,000
correct, Okay, true or false? There were actual actors, family members

844
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:05,800
dropping off off actors. Yes,
and that well, hold on Anthony Michael

845
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,239
Hall's character when he got out,
you know they were telling him, you

846
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:13,239
know this was uh, he played
a character named Brian Johnson, and the

847
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,400
and his mother and younger sister dropped
him off and she's telling him, you

848
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,920
know, you better not let this
happen again, young man, and the

849
00:54:20,119 --> 00:54:23,239
and the sisters like, yeah,
that woman and that little girl was his

850
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,360
real life mother and sister. That's
exactly right. She says, you better

851
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,360
make use of the time. He
says, mom, we're supposed to just

852
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:30,679
sit there, Well, you better
find a way to make use of the

853
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:37,639
time for your academics. And the
little girl, Yeah, just absolutely tremendous

854
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,679
on the breakfast. Got nothing to
do with boxing. But by the way,

855
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:44,280
because we're just so nostalgic, this
is the truth. The movie was

856
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,360
filmed in a condemned high school in
part that they were going to tear down,

857
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,880
and Hughes found out about it,
and that's why they had the free

858
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,960
run of the place. So all
that you saw is is an actual high

859
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,519
school that was about to be torn
down. Here's an arth thing that's really

860
00:54:57,559 --> 00:55:00,760
cool about the movie. There very
unusual when you're filming a Hollywood movie.

861
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:06,800
This movie was filmed sequentially. In
other words, they didn't film this scene

862
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,400
and then another scene. The first
scene they shot in the first day was

863
00:55:09,519 --> 00:55:13,719
the scene of them dropping the kids
off at school. Then they filmed the

864
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,199
next scene when they're in the school, et cetera. And then the last

865
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:19,079
scene they filmed were the scenes at
the end. So they did it all

866
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,760
sequentially, which I thought is really
cool. And you know, John Hughes

867
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,079
is one of the great filmmakers of
that time, a million classics, you

868
00:55:25,159 --> 00:55:29,400
know, he he he passed,
you know, several years ago. But

869
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,119
this is the legacy movie of Oli
Ray. The Breakfast Club tremendous and by

870
00:55:34,199 --> 00:55:37,480
the way, the great song from
Simple Minds, Yeah, don't You Forget

871
00:55:37,519 --> 00:55:42,519
About Me? And by the way, the library converted by the Hollywood pop

872
00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:45,199
makers. That's the gymnasium of the
Kendemned High School. They made it into

873
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:49,119
the library. That's why it was
so huge. Libraries aren't usually that big.

874
00:55:50,639 --> 00:55:52,719
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876
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880
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881
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